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Dragonlily wrote:Does that apply to the story you are writing, Michael?
The U-Boat book did. :D
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The Portable Nietzsche.
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Patrick O´Brian - Master and Commander
Another time (the 3.?) the serie of great novels of ships (even great for landlubber like me :D ) and the friendship between captain Jack Aubrey and his shipmedecine Stephen Maturin
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, for a seminar on Tuesday. This beats last week's Surfacing by Margaret Atwood on account of it being enjoyable to read.
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Grace Slick's 1998 memoir SOMEBODY TO LOVE? I wanted some human background for the collection of Jefferson Airplane facts in TAKE ME TO A CIRCUS TENT.

Now back to TACONI AND CLAUDE, the adventures of an aborigine boy and his cockatoo on an Outback cattle station. Charming -- I'm hoping the author will sign with us.
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I'm working on the Tolkien Reader that was a gift for a birthday a few years back. Yay for readng off of my "must-read stack!"
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Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die, and occasional bits of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince (which I've been reading on and off for at least a year, despite it being only a tiny book)
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The book of the Courtier. by Count Baledessar Castillio. Interesting book on how to be a courtier translated into English in 1561 and widely read in Elisabethan England.
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Astronomy Today.
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I finished CINCO DE MAYO: WHAT IS EVERYBODY CELEBRATING? An excellent history of Mexico's war against French invaders in the 1860's. The author saved himself trauma by going to a small press, which means readers have to track it down on the net, but it's worth the tracking.

Haven't yet started JADE TIGER, a fantasy about a female martial artist.

I only have 4 books left in my review stack. It will ease my life when those are done, but on the other hand, I won't be getting free introductions to new writers anymore.
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Reading The Templar Legacy (or something like that...nothing spectacular...spawed by the Da Vinci Code etc. You know the type. ;)

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I'm reading Nabokov's autobiography, Speak, Memory.
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Today, i decided i am going to re-read all of Ian Fleming's 007 novels.

I began Casino Royale today.
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The last of Conn Igulden's Emperor series about Julius Ceasar, Gods of War.

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I'm finishing Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka. It was brilliant.
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Damelon wrote:I'm reading Nabokov's autobiography, Speak, Memory.
I'm going to have to get my wallet out when I go to the library. I forgot that it was due Thursday. :)

It is an interesting autobiography though.
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.
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Shadow of the Hegemon : Orson Scott Card.
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in the middle of Spiderman 3 by Peter David.

Ok, ok, it's a movie knock off... but it's a GOOD movie knock off...
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon.
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