This is my all time favorite book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance...Three_Kingdoms
the Brewitt-Taylor translation is the vastly superior one.

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Czar of the 26th Ward.

Looks interesting. I'll check it out. I'm going back to school at the end of March, but I'll see when I can fit it in.

I love book suggestions.

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I used to love William Gibson (esp. Burning Chrome) and I used to devour Tom Robbins! I was just thinking the other day about how Tom Robbins had such a strong influence on me. This inspires me to revisit his books soon!

Right now, I'm re-reading J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians because it's just gorgeous writing.

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see, Gmonkey, i wasn't a big fan of Born Standing Up. I was bored with it. ShopGirl, on the other hand, was good.

More recently, I read and adored The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer - a beautifully written memoir.

Also just finished Until I Find You by John Irving. Could be my favorite Irving ever. As always, he left me missing the characters when the book finished. I wanted more, and it was already 890 pages , roughly...and like size 10 font.

I was just given The Moviegoer by a good pal and look forward to giving it some attention.

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...I'm currently reading (well, starting to read) Pillars of the Earth, the book Oprah chose as her darling of the year. So far I find it somewhat plodding, but should pick up in the next 100 pages or so---its about 970 pages, so 100 is no big deal.

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“Man who run in front of car get tired.”

Well...I have to admit that Born Standing Up is one of the few books on CD I've ever read (listened to). It's narrated by Steve Martin, and I was on a 12 hour car trip. I was a pretty captive audience and I have an unnatural affection for Steve Martin, so I probably am not the most fair and balanced reviewer of his books.

I'll have to check out the John Irving book. I also want to read Richard Russo's most recent, which I haven't had the chance to pick up, yet.

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Sounds interesting. I'm gonna check this out.

I'm going to try and read all the books suggested here in the order that they were posted...except for maybe the political book, sorry Adam! haha. Let's see how many I get through.

BNW is one of my fave's. I haven't read it since high school but I think I should revisit it. I never get sick of Stephen King's older stuff. I hated one of his recent books, Cell. Thought it was really half-assed.

I saw that movie with Elijah Wood, I thought it was really good. Which means the book is probably great. Lovely bones was a great book, too, but I thought they were making a movie of that? Did it ever happen? I hardly ever get to the movies anymore and what I see is on Cable.

Yeah, I haven't read Gibson in a while but I thought it was interesting sci-fi. Sometimes I need to reread books because I find I get something different out of them at different times of my life.

Tom Robbins: Oh my god, the first book I read by him was Still Life With Woodpecker while I was a sophmore in college. I couldn't believe it. It totally influenced me, too, and I actually went out to buy a pack of camel cigarettes to study them while I was reading the book. Then when I finished I needed more of him and bought every book he had written to date. His last 2-3 books weren't my faves though. I should reread SLWW or Jitterbug Perfume.

Haha! And I bought those Camels in order to smoke them while reading Still Life!

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Heh! I smoked 'em, too, but I remember I kept the box for a looong time after I finished smoking them...even after I finished reading the book because I kept thinking about all the stuff he said about the camel box and I didn't want to part with it.

My introduction to William Gibson came from an ex boyfriend. He started me out on Mona Lisa Overdrive and Neuromancer and I thought they were great but I really can't remember much from them (probably because I blocked it out after we split, haha) although I know they left a big impression on me in a visual/imagery sense.

Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for World Dominance

Very eye-opening...