What Are You Reading Now?

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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    DAR has inspired me to start reading the Dark Tower series. But since I don't have time to read anymore, it's SLOWWWWWW going.
     
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    Originally Posted By JenniBarra

    >>Woot, Jenni, you will love it!<<

    Actually, I whipped through that pretty quickly and now I'm onto to You Suck. : ) Christopher Moore is great...
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    I've been reading "Authority" graphic novels.
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    ^^^Loved the Authority
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Re: The Authority. I read a few of them a while back. This week I discovered that my local public library has several volumes, so I've been getting caught up again.
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    I'm trying to think who wrote the series Warren Ellis, Mark Millar and Grant Morrison, anyone else.
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    The other regular writer was Ed Brubaker (after Millar and before Morrison). According to Wiki, there've also been guest scripts from Robbie Morrison, Tom Peyer, Garth Ennis, John Ridley, and Keith Giffen & Steven Grant. That's a lot of different writers for a series that's been around for less than 10 years. :)
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    Did you ever read Stormwatch which was the series before the Authority?
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Re: Stormwatch. I've read a few of the graphic novels and liked them, but didn't follow it regularly. Pretty much the same for the rest of the Wildstorm universe (Monarchy, Stormwatch, Wildcats, Planetary) as well.
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    Planetary was another great one.
     
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    Originally Posted By Chedstro

    Help my reading friends, please. I am starting to read a book titled, "The Adept" Seems to be the starter for a series. Any opinions? Oh sorry, the authors are Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris.

    Thanks in advance,

    Cindy
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    Alex's thread has led me to pull out my old Stormwatch trades.
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    Thread?? I meant post.
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    Fables:1001 Nights of Snowfall.
     
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    Originally Posted By MissCandice

    I tore through several pulp mysteries I found in one of my boxes, some old "Fletch" books by Ross McDonald (I think?). Now I can donate those to my local hospital.

    I don't know what I'll be reading next.
     
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    Originally Posted By threeundertwo

    Candice, I think you'd enjoy "The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. It's the first of a series and they're pretty funny.

    I just finished "1000 White Women" which a friend loaned me. Amazingly engrossing. Now I've started the sequel, "The Wild Girl".
     
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    Originally Posted By MissCandice

    Hey, 3U2, thanks for the suggestion. Oddly enough I own that book already but have not read it. And, even better, it's already unpacked so I know where it is!
     
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    Originally Posted By threeundertwo

    yeah! hope you like it!
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Chedstro: Any word on "The Adept"? I've looked at it once or twice, but it didn't grab me enough to make me want to start a whole series.

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    I've gotten myself into the middle of three different books. Oopsie. So now I'm reading: A.L. Kroeber, "Handbook of the Indians of California"; Eric Schlosser, "Fast Food Nation"; and, Perri O'Shaughnessy, "Keeper of the Keys."
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    I whipped through Fables 1001 Nights of Snowfall, just incredible. Tonight I'm going to pick up a few of the other trades and start reading it.
     

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