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Pirate Latitudes - Micheal Crichton
No mention of the Virgin Islands, but an interesting read.

Just finished reading "Someone Else's Daughter", great book, didn't see some of the things coming.

Now reading "Shattered Silence" about the Happy Face serial killer. His daughter wrote the book about how she came to terms with growing up and learning about her father.

The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. I bought it a long time ago but forgot that I had it! Found it on one of my bookcases yesterday.

I am reading The Queen Mother by William Shawcross right now.

While I have no real interest in the British Royal Family, from a history angle, the book is fascinating.

Fun read so far.

http://www.amazon.com/Embarrassment-Man ... 0767914023

I have about 2 feet worth of book right now that I need to read. the holiday reading bonanza hit me.

I'm plowing through Bill Simmons' The Basketball Book right now. I'm not a huge NBA fan, but have been a Simmons fan since he more or less revolutionized sports writing in about 1999. I've learned more about the NBA than I had ever wanted to.

Then, it's on to The Blind side, The Miracle of St Anthony's and, when I know I' have time to focus, Under the Dome. I'm tingly about that one but need to be ready to commit to 1000+ pages.

This says nothing of the time I need to spend cuddled up with my CIA Factbook that I got from a family member. MMMMMM...juicy and useless facts....

My last two months of reading include "John Adams", David McCullough and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and "God's Pocket", Philip K. Dick and "Jarhead", Anthony Swofford and "Salt", Mark Kurlansky and "Conversations With The Arch Druid", John McPhee.

Now I'm reading "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11", Lawrence Wright and re-reading "A Sand County Almanac", Aldo Leopold.

I finished King's new "Under the Dome". I was not impressed with the ending. I liked the journey there though so it was worth it.

Now reading David Sedaris' "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". REALLY good. REALLY funny. Almost as good as his "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" collection. These are his 2 most recent and they are definitely hitting my funny bone more than his older collections- although I have not read all of them.

I would pay big money to see him live. His spots on NPR leve me in tears I laugh so hard!

I got turned on to Sedaris early last year. I love him so far because many stories are set in Raleigh and they're utterly hysterical when you know the places he mentions.

Plus...The Rooster. I've seen his trucks around town!

Pip- Have you heard Sedaris?

If not, you MUST.

He has a very distinctive voice, a really talent for live story telling, pauses in all the right places, etc, etc.

Hearing him makes his already great stuff 100% better.

I just picked up Sedaris' audiobook Me Talk Pretty, he reads it.

Pip, I found Bill Simmons podcast by chance a couple months ago, he's awesome.

Wakey wrote:I just picked up Sedaris' audiobook Me Talk Pretty, he reads it.

Pip, I found Bill Simmons podcast by chance a couple months ago, he's awesome.

I think were I to listen to the audiobook, I'd respond as I did the first time I heard Eddie Murphy's standup....I'd pee myself laughing.

"Some people think they might can f with the rooster..."

Simmons has become a tad big for his britches in the past few years, but her really did revolutionize sportswriting 10 years ago. Deadspin may pretend to hate him, but without him, there would be no such thing as a sports blog.

pipanale wrote:

Wakey wrote:I just picked up Sedaris' audiobook Me Talk Pretty, he reads it.

I think were I to listen to the audiobook, I'd respond as I did the first time I heard Eddie Murphy's standup....I'd pee myself laughing.

"Some people think they might can f with the rooster..."

My local library has almost all of Sedaris's books on CD and yes, they are pee-inducing. There were times, the Roaster being on the the stories, where I had to pull off the road because I laughed so hard I couldn't catch me breath and had tears in my eyes.

lust4life wrote:Reading "The Art of Racing in the Rain", told from a dog's perspective. I'm about half way thru and looks like a tear jerker.

My opposable thumbs and I just finished this one. Gosh was it good!!!

Just finished "Heart Shaped Box" by Joe Hill.

Joe is Stephen King's son. Joe shares the writing talent and is less wordy that his father.

The book was really good.

High creepy factor. Really well developed characters. Fast read too.