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    Saddest/Most Depressing Novel You've Ever Read

    The Road by Cormac McCarthy The one word I would use to describe the book would be 'despair'.
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    Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns

    Excellent book. I'd place it just a tiny notch below The Kite Runner, which isn't a bad thing at all.
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    What are you paying for gas?

    $3.49 in metro Detroit yesterday ouch
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    Margaret Mitchell: Gone With The Wind

    I'm 100 pages in and am finding it difficult to continue. If I have more than 300 more pages to read before it gets good, I think it might be time to bail.
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    Carl Hiaasen

    Nature Girl was actually one of my least favorite Hiaasen novels. I'm not sure if it was due to a weaker story, or just the lack of compelling characters, but near the end I just wanted to get through it. And Mich Stranahan may be my favorite character of his as well. Skin Tight was better...
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    Carl Hiaasen

    Just finished Nature Girl. I've now read all of Hiaasen's fiction, and will have to patiently wait for more. After reading all of them, I think my favorite is still Lucky You. It may be because it was the first Hiaasen I read, but it just seemed to have the best story, the best...
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    Orson Scott Card

    There seems to be plenty of discussion of the Ender series in the sci-fi forum, but not much on the rest of his work. Since I'm nearing the end of the Ender series, I was wondering if any of his other stuff is worth reading, specifically the Alvin Maker series. Like most people on here...
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    Mystery/Thriller series with several main characters?

    It seems that most of your mystery/thriller series focus around one main character who carries over from book to book. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good series that has several main characters that interact throughout the books, yet can carry on their own storyline. Two of my favorite...
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    Sci-fi series

    Due to the rapid response, I have a couple more requests. These are from a football message board I frequent. "While we're on this subject, does anybody remember a series of books about a human that ended up in a robotic body, along with a bunch of other (aliens) as well? They all had...
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    Sci-fi series

    Bingo! I am extremely impressed. :D
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    Sci-fi series

    I have a very vague memory of a series of books I read a looong time ago that centered around a group of like 8-9 brothers and sisters that each ruled over a planet/country, and I guess their father died or something and they were all to jockey for interplanetary domination. That may not even be...
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    September Reads

    The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett - mediocre, forgetful American Gods by Neil Gaiman - great concept, well executed Shock Wave by Clive Cussler - same old Clive A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon - not half as good as The Curious Incident Xenocide by Orson Scott Card - big dropoff from Ender's...
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    August Reads

    Double Whammy - Carl Hiaasen Carl Hiaasen is great as always. Shogun - James Clavell Decent, but not as good as I expected or hoped for. Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card Even better than Ender's Game. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Better movie than book. Not a big fan of his style...
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    July Reads

    Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen Jack and Jill by James Patterson Sahara by Clive Cussler Freakonomics by Steven Levitt Children of God by Mary Doria Russell Zodiac by Neal Stephenson Cat and Mouse by James Patterson...
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    Christian Fantasy and Science Fiction

    The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow, in a nutshell, is about the discovery of a planet with sentient life, and the subsequent exploratory mission conducted by the Jesuit Society. The book raises some religious issues through different character's perspectives; the Jesuit priests...
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    Which is you favorite NFL team?

    Go Pack!!!
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    Work out?

    I've been addicted to team sports ever since I was a kid. Of course, certain parts of my body are paying for that now. Currently, the only activity I get is softball and some pilates. But I am giving my knee some time to recover from tendonitis, so this fall I should be able to ramp it back...
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    Baseball - Discussion (any team/any year)

    Tigers fan here as well! :) This year has been good to us (so far).
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    June 2006 Reads

    Russka - Edward Rutherfurd Dragon - Clive Cussler Kiss the Girls - James Patterson The Hummingbird's Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea Captain Alatriste - Arturo Perez-Reverte Triple - Ken Follett
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