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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-17-06 03:51 PM
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I highly recommend "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
by Jonathan Safran Foer.

My book club picked a great one this time.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0618711651

This book is sweet, touching, sad and magical. It's about a precocious 9 year old boy whose father died in the WTC on 9/11 and what he does to cope with it. There is a parallel sub=plot about his grandparents living in Dresden when it was bombed in WWII.

Time magazine recently did a story wondering "Who is the voice of this generation" and in online voting this author won.

He also wrote "Everything Is Illuminated" which I have not read.
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gberglund Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-17-06 04:11 PM
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1. "Scorpion's Gate" by Richard Clarke 
Hi, 
I'm new to DU. I've been thinking about reading Scorpion's
Gate. Anyone read it?
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:49 AM
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2. "Everything Is Illuminated" is a kick ass movie
Eugene Hutz, from the band Gogol Bordello, is fantastic as the tour guide.

Elijah Wood is also amazing.
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