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Have you read any good books lately?
Posted: 14 October 2009 01:28 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 51 ]
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Anyone read Lost Symbol yet?  I picked it up the day it was released and still haven’t finished it, mostly because it’s really failed to draw my interest.  Enjoyed almost every other Dan Brown except for Deception Point.

Its boring. Dont bother. I read it, and then looked at it again recently thinking “hey!”  Oh. Ive read it, what was it about again? bleh.

seriously… i still enjoyed some of the books but every one of his books - including the ones where Robert Langdon isn’t the protagonist - can be summarized as following.  just switch the variables as needed.

Robert Langdon is called to famous location X for reasons he doesn’t know.
Oh no, a prominent person is dead!
Robert Langdon must solve the mystery, which appears to involve Secret Society.
But Director So-in-So in charge of the investigation is skeptical and appears to be undermining.  So-in-So can’t be trusted?
Let us seek the assistance of Helpful Friend then…
Wait it wasn’t Secret Society after all and Helpful Friend was behind it all along!

You forgot the part about the much younger, attractive, female companion. Oh, and the zealot trying to derail his effort.

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Posted: 14 October 2009 03:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 52 ]
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Ahh yes, the Zealot… who of course never realizes he was actually working for the Helpful Friend!

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Posted: 24 October 2009 02:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 53 ]
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One Shot from Lee Child

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Posted: 26 October 2009 02:12 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 54 ]
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The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga.
(Fiction) Starts in rural India, weaves the atrocities farmers and the people of low caste face in a story that ends in Banglore.

Enough: Why the world’s poorest starve in the age of plenty.
(Non-fiction) A very informative book about poverty in Africa, and of course about Norman Borlaug’s miracles that helped Asia.

Tried reading Kamila Shamsie’s “Burnt Shadows” but got bored.

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Posted: 29 October 2009 10:10 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 55 ]
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If you haven’t found any good Books lately you’ve probably been going to the….


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Posted: 30 October 2009 01:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 56 ]
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Peter knows this because that’s where he learned how to read and write!

Prof, back me up!

PeterUK - 30 October 2009 05:10 AM

If you haven’t found any good Books lately you’ve probably been going to the….


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Posted: 01 November 2009 12:10 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 57 ]
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Interestingly, Peter seems to have gotten an incomplete education as he is unable
to read the bill when the waiter brings it to the table.  raspberry

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Posted: 01 November 2009 01:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 58 ]
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profette - 01 November 2009 08:10 PM

Interestingly, Peter seems to have gotten an incomplete education as he is unable
to read the bill when the waiter brings it to the table.  raspberry

That’s because I’m trying to get you in a Headlock so you can’t escape grin

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