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I thought I'd start a thread dedicated to what books we're reading etc. I am currently reading...

Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause - a great memoir/making-of book on Rebel Without a Cause. This thing has more juice and drama in it than any soap opera on the air today.

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Who wrote it? When was it published? Who published it? Did you buy it? What did you pay for it? Where did you buy it?

I'm not reading anything right now, but have on my coffeetable to read Dan Brown's Angels & Demons in a special illustrated edition that my granddaughter gave me for my birthday. I've not started it because my CD player is missing the tray and I cannot find it anywhere and listening to music goes with reading in my mode.

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I love action/adventure books....Clive Cussler, James Rollins, Jack DuBrul, Matt Reilly to name a few. Edgar Rice Burroughs was my all time favorite author. Chespeake by James A. Michener is my all time favorite novel. Extreme Denial by David Morrell, is my all time favorite intrigue/romance novel. I love Janet Evanovich...too funny. Dick Francis is my favorite author when I want to read something intriguing that will leave me with a warm feeling and Danielle Steel is my favorite romance author for the same reason.

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Here is the correct link (you left out the g in young)

http://www.livefastdieyoungbook.com/

It looks great. I'll check the library for it when I do. I would love to read about the making of Rebel Without a Cause.

My first husband thought of himself as James Dean and his motto was live fast, die young and leave beautiful memories....he died at 36. We weren't married then but I think he approved.

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I'm reading Waiting for Snow in Havana. It's a memoir by Yale Professor Carlos Eire. Eire was one of thousands of children exiled to the US from Cuba when Fidel Castro took power in 1959. The memoir is mostly regarding his childhood and the loss of paradise when Castro changed everything.

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I've been reading some contemporary novels...I'm reading one now called Something That Lasts...it's about a pastor who faces tragedy that rips not only his family apart but the family of a church member who accuses him of having an affair with his wife, as well.

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NY Times Best Sellers

Fixtion Popular

1. Twelve Sharp, Janet Evanovich.

2. Dense Macabre, Laurell K. Hamilton

3. Coming Out, Danielle Steel

4. Beach Road, James Patterson

5. The Husband, Dean Koontz

6. Cover of Night, Linda Howard

7. Black Order, James Rollins (I'm plugging his books...read him from book #1 love his style)

8. The Book of the Dead, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

9. Sandcastles, Luanne Rice

10. At Risk, Patricia Cornwll

11.Terrorist, John Updike

12. Baby Proof, Emily Giffin

13. The Cold Moon, Jeffery Deaver

14. Blue Screen, Robert B. Parker

15. Outsider, Diana Palmer

16. The Rapture, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

17. Water For Elephants, Sara Gruen

18. Captive Of My Desires, Johanna Lindsey

19. Suite Francaise, Irlene Nemirovsky

20. The Saboterus, W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV

21. Digging To America, Anne Tyler

22. Dead Watch, John Sanford

23. The Traitor, Stephen Coonts

24. The WRong Hostage, Elizabeth Lowell

25. Telegraph Days, Larry McMurty

26. The Hard Day, Lee Child

27. Swapping Lives, Jane Green

28. The Dark Side Of The Moon, Sherrilyn Kenyon

29. Proof Positive, Phillip Margolin

30. Betrayal, Aaron Allston

31. The Poe Shadow, Matthew Pearl

32. The Foreign Correspondent, Alan Furst

33. Two Little Girls in Blue, Mary Higgins Clark

34.Calder Storm, Janet Dailey

35. Killer Dreams, Iris Johansen

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/books/be...amp;oref=slogin

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