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Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
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06-11-2008, 11:43 AM
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I picked up a great book for a friend, but I think I'm going to keep it myself now  , since I lost my own copy- I forgot who borrowed it, and it hasnt come back 
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06-11-2008, 12:25 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading?
I've started The reluctant fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid.
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06-11-2008, 12:30 PM
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Asalaamualaikum,
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I picked up a great book for a friend, but I think I'm going to keep it myself now , since I lost my own copy- I forgot who borrowed it, and it hasnt come back
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That's a good book, but i wish it was more detailed. It's only short glimpses of the Sahabah in action, and I would love to know more about such sahabah as Al-Qaqa, and others who were praised for their courage and described as 1000 men by themselves. Subhanallah 
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Bid'aat ka Shari'i post-mortem by Mufti Ahmed bin Hajr.
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06-12-2008, 10:23 AM
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Asalamu Alaykum,
The Amulet of Samarkand. First from the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Extremely funny, I was surprised I liked it so much.
I recommend it to fans of Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia etc. Its more of an young adult reading material, but a very funny fantasy book. 
FI AmanAllah
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The Wretched of the Earth
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06-12-2008, 10:58 AM
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"The Lovely Bones" has just arrived. I want to read the book before the movie comes out.
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06-12-2008, 02:39 PM
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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
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06-13-2008, 05:47 AM
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enlightenment for idiots
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06-14-2008, 01:36 AM
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"The Good Fight" by Ralph Nader
"The Kingdom of God is Within You" by Leo Tolstoy
"The Left Hand of God" by Michael Lerner
reprints of old DC Comics (The Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Justice League)
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
a fascinating sociological look at institutionalized racism in the inner city and the drug underworld in East Harlem. the author spent several years living in a tenement apartment in "El Barrio", befriending crack dealers and learning their stories. |
^by the way, this book was incredible. it's written in a lively tone and the subject itself is fascinating. i highly recommend it.
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a study of street vendors and homeless people in NY's Greenwich Village. it stopped being interesting after about 100 pages, and now im just trying to finish it for the sake of finishing it.
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Does anyone have a good suggestion as to what I should read next?
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Well, what kinda stuff do you like to read? Fiction, non-fiction, history, politics, social commentary, religion, literature, etc?
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reading "Orlando" by virginia woolf for school...never in a million years would i have chosen to read this RANDOM book about sex change 
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