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Hungry Lightning by Pei-Lin Yu...... it's a diary of a woman anthropologist doing research with the Pume of Venezuela for 2 years. I really, really like it, but I also have a hard-on for anthropology 
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Moderator Thief River Falls, MN United States |
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Recently the last two books I have read/reading are:

I finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, I really enjoyed this, it isnt quite as good as American Gods but I was pleased with it. There were some very likable and dislikable characters in the novel, which is always good. It also seems to be a mini-series, and there is a film coming out in 2009 that is rumored. Information about it found here: http://books.google.com/books?id=saCZRfN-FloC (this site will also let you read a few pages of the novel)
But it reads:
Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her - and the life he knows vanishes like smoke. Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won't stop for him, his landlord rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness - to a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere. For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family's slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door's entourage in their determined - and possibly fatal - quest. For the dread journey ever-downward - through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time - is Richard's final hope, his last road back to a "real" world that is growing disturbingly less real by the minute.
I am currently reading Battle Royale

I REALLY enjoy this novel. It is a little gorey, but it is well written, i really enjoy it. I cant really find a back read that will tell about the story without revealing important details. i wouldnt suggest wiki because i just looked at it, and it ruined a bit of the book for me =/
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Autumn said:i just finished twilight by stephanie meyer, and now i am reading new moon. i will probably finish her series. and i cant wait to start pandora by anne rice. also, i have started world war z and time travelers wife, but they are both hard to follow and i always find myself getting off track and not paying attention when i read them
i just bought twilight and plan on starting it this weekend....what kind of reading level is it?? i know its young adult, but is it like Harry Potter young adultish? More advanced? Less? I just dont want to get into it and then say fuck this baby noise.

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Raeli said:Autumn said:i just finished twilight by stephanie meyer, and now i am reading new moon. i will probably finish her series. and i cant wait to start pandora by anne rice. also, i have started world war z and time travelers wife, but they are both hard to follow and i always find myself getting off track and not paying attention when i read them i just bought twilight and plan on starting it this weekend....what kind of reading level is it?? i know its young adult, but is it like Harry Potter young adultish? More advanced? Less? I just dont want to get into it and then say fuck this baby noise. 
i hate harry potter, so i dont know how i would compare it. stephanie meyers is an amazing writer! the way she describes things and goes into detail is so awesome. but it is made for teens to read, so i dont get the sexual and sensual feel like i would with anne rice and her vampire books... i wish that it was more on a sexual level, it would have made the book even more amazing, but like i said, it was made for teens to read... annnnnd the writer went to BYU so she is mormon |
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