Just finished reading 'Prepare for War' by Rebecca Brown.

The book is about how Satan can bring destruction to peoples lives and how one could best equip themselves and 'Prepare for War'

Fascinating!!!


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I'm currently reading

Robert Greene - The 48 Laws Of Power
Hodos/Jerison/Masteron - Evolution,Brain,and Behavior: Persistent Problems

Stephen Covey - The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People
Napoleon Hill - Think And Grow Rich

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown - Angels and Demons

The Greater Key of Solomon <--haven't really started yet.

I read a couple pages everyday of each. But I'm really into the 48 laws of power almost done with it. I would recommend it you folks. Somebody said that this is the book president Bush is reading.

The Intuitionist : A Novel by Colson Whitehead

The New York Times Book Review, Gary Krist
Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, but ... Colson Whitehead's should be heading toward the upper floors.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Mark Rozzo
This brainy thriller diverts more than it excites, but Colson Whitehead masterfully evokes a grey mid-century city that could have been torn from a Ben Katchor comic strip.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Ecstatic : A Novel by Victor Lavalle.



Review
“LaValle’s hero barrels through his comic novel attending beauty pageants, writing horror flicks, corresponding with a political prisoner, and dealing with his super-dysfunctional family. We get everything from this novel—Gogol as well as Biggie Smalls. His characters remind one of Chester Himes and Charles Wright, but LaValle is special.� —Ishmael Re

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat.

“Ms. Danticat’s most persuasive, organic performance yet. . . . Each tale in The Dew Breaker could stand on its own as a beautifully made story, but they come together like jigsaw-puzzle pieces to create a picture of this man's terrible history and his and his victims' afterlife.� —The New York Times

“A devastating story of love, delusion, and history.� —O, The Oprah Magazine


“Breathtaking . . . With terrifying wit and flowered pungency, Edwidge Danticat has managed over the past 10 years to portray the torment of the Haitian people . . . In The Dew Breaker, Danticat has written a Haitian truth: prisoners all, even the jailers.� –The New York Times Book Review

“Thrillingly topical . . . [The Dew Breaker] shines. . . . Danticat leads her readers into the underworld. It’s furnished like home.� –Los Angeles Times Book Review


“[The Dew Breaker]is, most profoundly, about love’s healing powers. From its marvelous descriptions of place to the gentle opening up of characters, this is a book that engages the imagination.� –Elle

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Last year I watched the film, and recently brought the book..... its a MUST, the book is 10x better for those who have watched the extraordinary film.

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Happy Reading

I'm half way through The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. A very fine novel indeed

Maya Angelou... Gather together in my name.

Just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - one of the best books I have read in a long time. Had to jump on the bandwagon; just started The De Vinci Code by Dan Brown - i'm about hundred pages deep-bad ass book!

@Numair , I'm reading 'The Da Vinci Code' also. I'mabout half way through, So far I think its a good read, but I'm not sure what all the hype was about!

I'm still reading 'Beloved' which is not flowing for me, its a very hard read. This suprised me as I really liked 'The Bluest Eye' also by Toni Morrison,but for some reason Beloved has me struggling. Also I have made the fatal mistake of reading two books at the same time. Not good

100 facts of the negro - J.A rodgers

soul survivors....

a collection of narratives of female slaves, edited by Marcia Williams

it includes accounts from Sylvia Dubois -- the slave who whipped her mistress

and --- incidents in the life of a slave girl by Linda Brent

also reading sheer abandon --- new novel from Penny Vincenzi

The light of other days by Arthur C Clarke& Stephen Baxter

Its set about 30 years from now. A sort of Rupert Murdoch figure reveals his wormcam technology which allowsvisualsto travelby tiny wormholes so instant communications are allowed which lets his media group always be the first to the story. They can see anywhere on earthinstantly with this device and eventually realise that it can also see in time. So they start watching all the events in history...Jesus,Carthage etc etc

Am about halfway through now and so far it seems like a version of Issac Asimov's short story "the dead past" where scientists have a machine that sees thepast butuseit to see the present and become voyuers threatening the fabric of society. Everyone is peeping constantly on everyone else.

This story has similar implications andit is good reading so far. Also there is a sub plot that the main character a female reporterfamous for discovering a asteroid which will destroy earth in 500 years... How that affects the human condition on the planet is amusing as well. Oh yeah they called the asteroid "wormwood" LOL

Its a good book if you like sci fi like I do, Arthur C Clarke is one of the daddys of the genre and its a good book from him.