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Arikan
Expat Gone Native
Joined: Mon, Dec 05 2005, 10:46 AM
Posts: 1000
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I love The Turn of the Screw.
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| Thu, Oct 12 2006, 8:29 AM |
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geordiedave
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Joined: Mon, Aug 08 2005, 11:54 AM
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Location: Istanbul
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Got a good one yesterday and started called The Trouble With Islam Today http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Islam-Tod ... 25?ie=UTF8 from an English language bookshop (cant remember name) down road past the Galatasaray, surprised i seemed to have missed it before but has great selection on books on Turkey and the Middle East, a subject i am very interested in. It is refreshing in this book to have a Muslim looking at their own religion critically and dissecting it rather than sprouting meaningless battle calls of slogans.
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AlSF
Expat Gone Native
Joined: Sat, Jun 11 2005, 21:47 PM
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Location: 7 hills by the bay, ocean
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It ain't a book but I'm reading the California General Election Voter Information Guide. Man, there are so many propositions on the ballot that I have to vote for/against in two weeks' time! Yay! Hmmm. Gotta read up on Angelides VS the Governator as well.
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pollyanna
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Joined: Wed, Apr 06 2005, 9:57 AM
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Location: Some parallel universe
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Now reading BLINK: the power of thinking without thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell, author of THE TIPPING POINT (about how/when things reach critical mass to become trends)
Excellent so far, primarily since it supports my personal tendency to rely on instinct more than rational thought. 
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Sadie
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Joined: Sat, May 20 2006, 0:14 AM
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Location: US
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"Nature Via Nurture -- Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human" by Matt Ridley (author of "Genome")
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worldtraveler
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Now reading two books. The UFO crash at Roswell and The moral crisis of America
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| Tue, Dec 26 2006, 21:39 PM |
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Guest
Expat Drunk
Joined: Sat, Oct 08 2005, 16:17 PM
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Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers, a fine book sir, a stupendously good read, and if you'll dare to disagree I'll demand honour of you sir, HONOUR i SAY!
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banana
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Joined: Tue, Jun 14 2005, 17:31 PM
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Location: on top of a hill in asia
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shantaram - gregory david roberts
an amazing (and amazing HUGE) autobiography by a man who escaped from australian prison to India
his story is absolutely amazing! it sucks you in and you fall in love with the unlucky hero who doesnt even believe in himself
i swear to the goddesses... this book was stunning!!
the descriptions are so clear - you can smell, taste, feel his life
loved it!
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Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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Sadie
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Joined: Sat, May 20 2006, 0:14 AM
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Location: US
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Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren
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ch
Sycophancy hunter
Joined: Sun, Oct 30 2005, 19:27 PM
Posts: 836
Location: Datça, riding a donkey
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Frank Skinner's auto biography, quality stuff
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geordiedave
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Joined: Mon, Aug 08 2005, 11:54 AM
Posts: 394
Location: Istanbul
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Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence, great book, just the kind of reading for an Istanbul bus!
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AlSF
Expat Gone Native
Joined: Sat, Jun 11 2005, 21:47 PM
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Location: 7 hills by the bay, ocean
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So far, I've read the acknowledgements page of Caroline Finkel's Osman's Dream. I've been having trouble staying awake these days when I actually have the time to pick up book and read which isusually at the end of a long day. (Yawn)
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| Sat, May 05 2007, 9:49 AM |
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