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- Young Men and Fire (6)
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By Norman MacLean -
Abandoned on Mar 19, 2011 
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- A Life Like Other People's (22)
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By Alan Bennett -
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- Roughing It (50)
- The Works of Mark Twain
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By Mark Twain -
Started on May 15, 2009
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- A History of God (127)
- The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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By Karen Armstrong -
Abandoned on Nov 20, 2011
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- The Satanic Verses (284)
- A Novel
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By Salman Rushdie -
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- White Teeth (650)
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By Zadie Smith -
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I dropped the book after a few pages for her style resembled too much's that of Rushdie, and even Rushdie gets a bit on my nerves after 3-4 books (all those noises, smells, invented words, fun in the first book your read, tolerable in the second and tiresome in the remaining books). So I could not s ... (
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- Falling Angels (159)
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By Tracy Chevalier -
Started on Jan 25, 2003
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Young Men and Fire
I read the author's THE RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT which is pure poetry in prose form, but this was hard going, not only as it was read to me while cooking but the reader was also bored to death by the detailed descriptions of fire behavior in a specific situation. Not in the firefighting business the mi ... (continue)
I read the author's THE RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT which is pure poetry in prose form, but this was hard going, not only as it was read to me while cooking but the reader was also bored to death by the detailed descriptions of fire behavior in a specific situation. Not in the firefighting business the minutia collected about the historical fire described in the book is as dry as the grass burned in that occasion