Have you read this book?!

[floridaorange]

The idea of this thread is intended to provide feedback on a book you want to read, and give feedback on a book you have recently read:

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Have you read? "The Power of the Subconscious Mind?" I overheard an old man from NYC in a wheel chair boasting about this book at a GNC recently... he was boasting about all of his successes in business and attributed much of it to this book, which kind of sparked my interest.


I Just Read: "Stella Adler - The Art of Acting" - it was excellent! Anyone interested in acting or currently doing so, this book is among my favorite!

[nick007]

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read the piece of shit "you been warned" by james Patterson - should have heeded the title
Busy reading "Spud - the madness continues" by John van de Ruit - local SA writer - very funny

[trick12]

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just read the "alchemist" for the first time, what a gem

currently reading "the great shark hunt" funny book....

[Jenks]

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currently reading, Anthony Bourdain's Nasty Bits

just finished Viktor Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning <highly recommended.

[tiddles]

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finished Thomas Pynchon's Vineland.

that guy is a trip.

also read the 4-hour workweek again. I think iIve read it 4 or 5 times since january. it's good lifestyle design info if anyone's into that...

anyone read the new book by the 37 systems people? Rework or something like that? I bought a copy but kinda forgot about it

[GregWhelan]

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Just read Cormac McCarthy-The Road. Not one of these people who are saying its amazing but it was ok, nothing more.

Wanna read Robert Ludlum 'The Bourne Ultimatum/Supremacy' next as well as Ian Fleming 'For Your Eyes Only. Working my way through Bond and Ludlum, quality writing

[feather]

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I'm currently re-reading William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.

Does anyone read science fiction/fantasy? There's a lot of stuff I want to read but no access to the books in Shanghai. Seriously thinking about an ereader.

I recently came across Leadership and the New Science by Margaret J Wheatley, sounds interesting. Anyone read it? It's an old book. Also Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, that's been on the radar for a while but just never got around to it.

[stencil_cp]

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just finished Viktor Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning <highly recommended.

i just started this book. initially i wasn't into the idea of the concentration camp experience book, but this is less horror emphasis and more insight into the way our minds work in terrible situations... amazing insight... much easier read than i'd expected and +1 recommended...

[simonr]

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currently reading, Anthony Bourdain's Nasty Bits

just finished Viktor Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning <highly recommended.

I've read Bourdain's (now classic) Kitchen Confidential, A Cooks Tour and 'Bone In The Throat' + have his Les Halles Cookbook which is great for french food.

Defo need to check out his more recent work.

[xellsys]

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i have just read "let the right one in" by Lindqvist, really great book. and the movie is one of the greatest adaptations i know.

now i started readig "crime and punishment" by Dostoevsky. like it quite a lot

[Dzone]

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Reading now "The Ghost War"

[Shpira]

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currently reading, Anthony Bourdain's Nasty Bits

just finished Viktor Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning <highly recommended.

such a coincidence I finished reading that about a week ago or so...i always read two books at a time...a serious one and a funny one...that was a serious one as you might have guessed....now I'm reading fear and loathing on the campaign trail by HST and An Introduction to Global Financial Markets by Stephen Valdez

[res0nat0r]

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currently reading, Anthony Bourdain's Nasty Bits

how is this? i want to pick it up. i'm going to see him speak here in town with Eric Ripert next month, should be a good time.

[Jenks]

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how is this? i want to pick it up. i'm going to see him speak here in town with Eric Ripert next month, should be a good time.

I love it. I'm a foodie and an avid at home chef and love the way the guy writes, it's a win for me. He's going to be speaking here in St. Louis next month, but having read most of his books, watched all of No Reservations, plus watched the first season on travel channel (which was basically A Cook's Tour on film)...the wife and i decided not to spend $100 to go hear him speak when i don't really think he'll say anything i haven't already heard.

If you like food books, pick up Heat - by Bill Burford, which is about Mario Batali. Great read.

[threehills]

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Just read Frank Hebert's Dune. I'm not really into science fiction, but this was an excellent book that I couldn't put down.

Anyone read the rest of the series?

Just picked up The Road as mentioned above.