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It's a fast read-very entertaining.

I finally finished New York and half way through The War that Killed Achilles but I had a yen for something fluffy so I am reading Four to Score-Stephanie Plum.

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Who's Your Caddy - Rick Reilly

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Gai-Jin by James Clavell

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Took a brief respite from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series after I finished book 6, and read Jim Butcher's Turn Coat (Dresden Files series) -- a good read.

Now I am on to book 7 of the Wheel of Time :)

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The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov.

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I read the first chapter of Sarum (the part with Hwll the caveman) my freshman year in high school and hated it, probably because it was for a class I hated. Along the way I picked up a used copy of the full book, and about a year ago I sat down to read it. I loved it.

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The Christmas Sweater - Glenn Beck

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2009 is over and I finished off the year with 72 books. Still shy of my goal of 100. The last book completed was The Golden City by John Twelve Hawkes completing his series of the Travelers. Good series but the last one was disappointing. I was looking through the list and thought I would post the stand outs for this year.

The best books for 2009

Drood, by Dan Simmons
I was fascinated by this book and it sparked an interest(or renewed interest) in Dickens and Victorian detective stories. It was one of four books that received the top 5 star rating on my list.

The other three books are by the same author
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
What a shame this author passed away after writing this series. The best mystery series I have ever read. If you haven't read them, please do. The titles are funky but the content is excellent.

Close runner up with four and a half stars
Darkness Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
I love it when I find a new author. When I started with Lehane I couldn't stop and read all his books but one. I haven't read Shutter Island because when i do I won't have anymore to read...wah!

There were a few stinkers-books that got only two stars, but one book stands out with only one star...The Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris Elliott. Worse book I finished this year.

On to 2010. The fist book is Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell-almost done with this one-very entertaining writer. The book is about Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley.

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Just finished Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

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"Blink" by Malcom Gladwell. I'm about 50 pages into it and it has kept my attention so far.

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The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley.

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Men in Black by Mark Levin

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Just finished reading 'Manulife' and starting to read snowball, the autobiography of warren buffet

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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob owned Cuba and then lost it to the Revolution by T.J. English

http://www.amazon.com/Havana-Nocturn.../dp/0061147710

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I am reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. It is historical fiction about Thomas Cromwell, assisstant to Wolsey and Chancellor after Thomas More. The writing style is very intriguing. This book has won a lot of awards and critical praise. i am enjoying it so far. It is a period of English history I love to read about.

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Yeager autobiography.

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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome -- Anthony Everitt. (sort of rough going so far, though interesting at points)

Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy. (Pevear and Volokhonsky translation -- smooth as a Davidoff.)

the Heart of Shobogenzo -- Dogen. Very challenging. I think I understand about half of this, and that half I think I need to re-read.

Holiday airplane reading: Somebody Owes Me Money -- Donald Westlake. Breezy and funny, but not the best Westlake on the shelf.

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Reading a few autobiographies and biographies right now. Two about poker people.

Just finished up Check-raising the Devil which is Mike Matusow's autobiography. It was a quick read, but it provided a lot of insight into what he's been through, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Just started One of a Kind, which is the story of Stuey Ungar, also eye opening and a very interesting read.

And the third one that I am reading is General Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography I Could Never be so Lucky Again, which is a great read as well.

Definitely keeping myself busy reading lately.

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Letters on Freemasonry written by John Quincy Adams

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Picked up A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick. It was recommended as a Hitchcock type work. Only a few pages into it ... this guy can write some terrific prose.

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Superfreakonomics

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I just ordered a copy of this. Sounds very interesting! Thanks!

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My current fun reading is Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt. Very affecting and troublesome, but a fantastic piece of journalism.

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Just started Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Book One. A Christmas gift from my father-in-law to be.

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Dances with Trout by John Geirach

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Just finished "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer. I didn't completely agree with all of his premises and conclusions (as it's over fifty years old and new information has since come to light), but it was very interesting and eye-opening nonetheless.

Also finished reading Sarah Palin's autobiography "Going Rogue". Think what you may of her politics, I found her personal story quite charming.

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Good series with an interesting twist.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy.

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Just started "Under the Dome" by Stephen King.

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This was the first series I read with an "anti-hero". I hope you enjoy this!

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Just started rereading The Chronicles of the Necromancer again so I can read the newest book.

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Going to start The Inferno by Dante Alighieri soon

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The Good Cigar by H. Paul Jeffers & Kevin Gordon. Not a bad book considering the copyright is 1996. Fun to read how much some things have changed in the world of cigars.:ss

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Just finished The Lost Symbol - could not put it down
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Just finished Day by Day Armageddon, fast read as I couldn't put it down, now reading South.

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Great book....:tu

If you enjoy it and want to give a few of his other books a try. I just dug out "Where the Trout are All as Long as Your Leg" "Dances with Trout" & "Sex, Death & Flyfishing."

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Hot Six by Janet Evanovich

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Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Little over halfway and love this book. Just checked out The Grapes of Wrath from the library today. I need to read quicker.:)

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Read it last summer and seem to find examples from it in the news nearly every day.

Currently reading The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffery Toobin. Really don't care for the author's political commentary. Nevertheless, it's a fascinating description of the Justices, the process and the deliberations.

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It's been a while since I read this, but the details that stick in my memory are his description of Rehnquist's poker games and the friendship between Scalia and Ginsburg. Political commentary is almost unavoidable with cases like Bush v. Gore, but the fact that Ginsburg and Scalia are socially very close says a lot about the nature of the court. A good read.

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The True Story of the Bilderberg Group

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Read that when it was all posted online in early 2005. Been waiting or the sequel ever since. :( Sposda be out this summer, let's hope so. Just finished re-reading WWZ, as well as a couple other zombie novels.

Just started reading the Bible. Gonna take awhile.

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Persuasion by Jane Austen

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We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick O'Donnell

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Just finished it the other day - an interesting read. Not as profound as I had heard it described, but not bad.

I'm onto "The Last Lion" right now, part I of a 2-part biography of Churchill. This one is going to take some time.

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George R.R. Martins A Game Of Thrones
Book one of A Song of Ice and Fire

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Great book and looking forward to part 2.It took so long because the author J.L. Bourne is active duty.

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Just finished reading The Poet and just started Blood Work, both by Michael Connelly.