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  1. saliotthomas

    Dan Simmons

    I read last week Children of the night by Dan Simmons and i must admit that's another bad one.I wonder if he does have a ghostwriter,The terror, Carrion confort,Hyperion,and olympos are exellent and sometime he drops some dung worth of the other Dan. Badly written,unimaginative,caricatural...
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    I'm a cab driver in New York and a lot of wise guys wanted to put a end to my life.The probleme is i have absolutly no idea why. Donald Westlake-Somebody owes me money
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    Marooned on a Californian beach at night with a rock band and groupies.They are trying to attrack life guards by waving the roach of their joints. It worked... Thomas Pynchon-Cry of the lot 49
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Bombay,(Mumbai)slowly dieing. The death of Vishnu-by Manil Suri
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    Swine Flu Concerns?

    It scarres the shite out of the Muslims over here(Morocco).Swine flew does not sound to good to them....
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    On my way to Ispahan and met a very interesting man Hassan Sabbah ,the future fonder of the Assassins secte. Samarcande by Amin Maalouf
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Roumania,i adopted the 6 month old heir of the dracul familly.By mistake. Dan Simmons-Children of the night
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    what's everyone up to today?

    I'm in Paris for a few days.Meeting with galleries,eating delicious food and drinking likewise wines.But the weather in Northern Europe is a disgrace,would be nice for November,not Juin.
  9. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Salzbourg ,Austria,I studied 15 years along with a friend to become a virtuoso pianists, then we met and heard Glenn Gould. I gave my piano and he sold his...we never played again. Thomas Bernard -The Looser
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    Current Non-Fiction reads

    Frank Cullotta:The Las Vegas Mobster who turned Government witness As far as i can remember,i always wanted to be a ganster....The goodfellaws
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    Her brothers Raouf Oufkir live in the house next door to us since few month.He wrote a book les invités(the guests),about the same ordeal their familly went through but more on the political side.I'll get it soon.
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In a suburbe of Paris,after the news that my parent have been slaughtered in a small Algerian village by Islamistes,i discover some papers that make meunderstand why my father,German came to live in this lost place after WWII.It's not an happy revelation... The village of the German(le...
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    Books about drug addiction

    A million little pieces by James Frey About drug and rehab.
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    Which Books Did You Read In May?

    Joane Didion-The year of magical thinking 5/5 Norman Mailer--The castel in the forest 3/5 Andrei makine-Confessiion of a fallen standard bearer 4/5 Ricahrd Stark-the sour lemon 4/5 Menis Koumandareas-La verrerie 3/5 Alberto Moravia-Two-a phallic novel 4/5 Eric emmanuel Schmitt-Ulysse from...
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Leningrad during the siege playing the Three musketeers with Minus 10 c in the theaters,starved and with the clapping of the puplic mufelded by there gloves.But hey,i'm in love. The story of un unknown man by Andrei makine
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Russia,i just killed my husband lover and cut her in two for carrying(i'm a weak woman). The flood by Evgeni Zamiatine
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    Thomas Pynchon

    Were i a fish and you a fisherman BG i would be resting in the frying pan right now.
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    What books have you hated?

    I hated Cocaine Night by JG Ballard,but read Drown world after his recent death and liked it. Now on a different scale i deeply dispised Ulysse from Bagdad by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt,klenexx literature.Some sort of a light tale about an epic trip from Bagdad to London by a young Iraky,so light as...
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Belgium talking to my music maestro while his wife is hidding under the sheets. David Mitchell-Cloud atlas.
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In the Artic looking for a boat with Inouit art objects. Jean Echenoz-I'm going
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