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Robert Kowalewski II
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11/22/63 by Stephen King, I'm about 2/3rds through this and really liking it so far.  Here's hoping it has a better ending than Under the Dome...
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Reading The Hunter and loving it.
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 Robert Kowalewski II wrote:
11/22/63 by Stephen King, I'm about 2/3rds through this and really liking it so far.  Here's hoping it has a better ending than Under the Dome...

More and more I find that that's King's biggest stumbling block.  He has great setups, fantastic middles, but he just can't seem to wrap them up in a satisfying manner.  I've taken a break from reading him for just that very reason.  
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 Just finished UNBROKEN by Laura Hillenbrand. Its the story of a WWII bombardier who's plane crashes into the Pacific and survives 40+ days in a raft only to be picked up by the Japanese and spend 2 years in a prison camp. An amazing tale of survival.

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HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE.  Continuing my trip through JB's work I've finished the 1st 4 MAN OF STEEL volumes reprinting his and Marv Wolfman's Superman stories.  Great stuff.
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Brian Burnham
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Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales

So far I find interesting.
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Just finishing up In God We Trust; All Others Pay Cash.  I'm not sure where I'm heading next.
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Michael Cross
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The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose
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30 pages into READY PLAYER ONE.  It's taking awhile to set up the world and I'm a little annoyed at the constant 80s references that are coming off more as fanfic than anything else, but it's got a compelling enough premise that I'm willing to stick with it to see where the story goes.
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Robopocalypse ,Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, and Back to Work.

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I have friends that read multiple books at a time.  Three, four, even five by their nightstand.  For the life of me, I could never do that.  I've tried it several times with just two books and what inevitably happens is that I end up not finishing the first book I started because I become engrossed in the second.  I rarely ever go back to that original book which, to me, is a sign that it's just not my cuppa.
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I could never read two novels simultaneously, but I do frequently alternate between a novel and a non-fiction book. 

I'm currently reading both Dark Angel, by Sally Beauman, which is one of my favorite novels, as well as Cleopatra by Stacey Schiff.  I'm only a few chapters into the later, but Schiff has an energetic writing style that makes the book feel more like a novel than a scholarly biography.
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