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Read anything good lately? Post your book recommendations here, erotica or otherwise 
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Just finished "Life of Pi" - Mann Booker prize winner 5 years ago. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Halfway through "Like the Flowing River" - Paulo Coelho. A collection of his short stories and newspaper column. Have to say it's rather too "Christian" and preachy for my liking.
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A few weeks ago I read "Memoirs of a Geisha" and found it compulsive. Not until the end did I discover it was a novel. Beautifully written and very descriptive of pre WWII Japan.
Now re-reading for the third time, SHOGUN by James Clavell. Wonderful stuff.
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Sami wrote:A few weeks ago I read "Memoirs of a Geish" and found it compulsive. Not until the end did I discover it was a novel. Beautifully written and very descriptive of pre WWII Japan.
Now re-reading for the third time, SHOGUN by James Clavell. Wonderful stuff. I liked the movie of Memoirs. And remember seeing the TV series of Shogun when I was v young. Showing my age now  I've started reading Bill Bryson's "A short history of nearly everything" - pretty heavy going but extremely interesting.
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I love reading; the first book that made me cry, though, was The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. It's a rather moving novel, in my opinion. Paradise Lost by John Milton's a good read too. :)
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Oh, and if it's autobiographical books you're into, Stephen Fry's Moab Is My Washpot should definitely be on your list! :D
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Thanks AutumnNymph, and welcome to the site 
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i was reading "motor mouth" the other day (it's the sequel to "metro girl" by janet evanovich, who writes the stephanie plum novels)... it made me howl with laughter but i wanted more smut, lol.
if anyone is into graphic novels, they should pick up neil gaiman's "sandman" books... they are absolutely fabulous.
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Anyone know of a good book that i can read?
I just finished a series by Jeanne DuPrau
First book was city of embers, the second was the people of sparks.
Now i need a good book/series of books to read. Any ideas?
If you have nothing worth dying for... then u dont have anything worth living for.
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What genre are you interested in Joj?
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I read it all pretty much.
From sci-fi, to realistic fiction, to horror, to mysteries, historical fiction, and poetry. I like it all.
But my favorites would have to be fiction stories about midieval times.
If you have nothing worth dying for... then u dont have anything worth living for.
Alex
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Imagica by Clive Barker. My favorite is one I can't even classify. Sci/fi-fantasy, some eroticism and it sometimes seems as a female and male version of the story told at the same time in the same book. Just my favorite read.
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