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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    I just started Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy. It's not new but a friend lent it to me, and, so far, it's pretty decent. It came highly recommended.
    I haven't read 'Blood Meridian' yet, but the book McCarthy published after that, 'All the Pretty Horses', is my favorite novel of all time. That was the first volume of his "Border Trilogy". The second book, 'The Crossing' is fine, too, if disturbing in spots, and the final volume, 'Cities of the Plain' I have been saving. Tried reading his first book, 'The Orchard Keeper', but couldn't get into it. I think the only other of his books that I've read is 'The Road' - undoubtedly one of the most depressing damned books ever written. Do check out 'All the Pretty Horses', though - it's an amazing book. (I used to own the "blood-stained" prison jacket that Matt Damon wore in the film version, but foolishly sold it before Damon became a big star.)
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    Bonhoeffer Abridged by Eric Metaxas
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    My most recent read has been Advertising $#@!s In Your Head by a collection of pseudonyms. It's an informative read about the history of a movement that aims to ban advertising and subverts existing corporate ad campaigns in the meanwhile. (Sample tidbit: this is the movement that started Occupy Wall Street!)
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    "The Yellow River" by I.P. Moore. --- Actually, I've been trying to catch up on academic papers and research stuff.
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    I've been thinking about a book that I read a few years ago, and it's making me crazy that I can't remember the name of it. It was a book about people in large urban areas who have taken dumpster-diving to a whole new level - creating whole communities, some literally underground, whose members survive by scavenging food and other things from the streets. There was also a chapter on one NYC municipal garbage collector's headquarters that has created a veritable museum of art objects, etc., found in the trash. Fascinating book. The title was just one word, as I recall, and it was a slang term for the activity that it describes. Ring any bells?
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    Ive been reading the Barry Eisler espionage series, this guy is good. Its set in the USA and Japan
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    I just cracked John Grisham's latest, The Whistler

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    After the Buckeyes got blown out, I haven't even brought myself to read the paper. I'm still in mourning.

    I am, however, reading The Appeal. I don't normally read fiction and I typically read WW2 books but one of my law partners gave this to me to read. We're involved in some litigation against a large chemical manufacturer and he thought that this hit home.

    http://www.jgrisham.com/the-appeal/
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    I wish I had an attention span for books, it's hard for me to read them without my mind wandering and forgetting the entire page I just read. But I did manage to keep attention with Chuck Palahniuk. "Survivor" and "Rant." They're awesome books.
    Faith can move mountains, but don't forget to bring your shovel.

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    Brad Taylor ~ The Widow's Strike

    The fourth installment in the Pike Logan series.

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