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I liked Bleak House a lot. It's not one of the Dickens book one hears about very much and as such was a pleasant surprise.

Several years after I read it, I saw a the "top five" Dickens books as picked by literary experts and saw Bleak House on almost all of their lists, so I guess I'm not the only person to like it. I'd be interested to know what you think when you're finished.

Another "undiscovered" Dickens gem is Our Mutual Friend, which I like even more than Bleak House.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman. I've seen mixed reviews on it, but I love it.
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Millionaire by Dayal Madan
About the Book:

Billions of people, with zillions of dreams. Dreams that say I want to be rich, I want to see my favorite car in the garage of my beach-house, I want to have everything I want. Its true that money cant buy happiness, cause it is happiness. But do dreams really turn into reality? Can an ordinary life be deciphered to extra-ordinary?

Bank balance of hundreds of millions, colossal apartment, resplendent black car, and retirement in the early twenties; he had everything. But it all appeared void to him. He was incomplete without his first and very last vish. The happiness couldn't buy him his vish. Can love be ever so strong that it can overshadow all the luxuries? Is the love he lost ever coming back? What about the promises he made? When he had nothing, he wanted everything. When he had everything, he felt nothing. He was Dev Arora, a multi-millionaire.

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Dayal Madan, twenty-two, currently single and straight, graduated from Dehradun Institute of Technology Dehradun, works in finance domain. He was born in a small town of Nainital district. After spending twenty-one years of his life living ordinary, he decided to come up with something new, and opened up a publishing house along with Gurinder Arora. He also loves to play poker and write raps.
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I am currently reading a christian book that i bought in Finland at http://www.sacrum.fi/ and this book is really something nice cause i feel i learn a lot.
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I am reading my second non-fiction about China: Modern China, Jonathan D. Spence, which I balance with OBakerkline. Also enjoyed Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld. Best fiction lately was Island Beneath the Sea by Isabella Allende. Just found nice used copies of Shogun and Passage to India. They will be cozy friends this winter. (I am rectifying my total lack of knowledge about China via American education despite being a teacher of social studies for many years.)
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Somebody else's mind. So far, it's proven to be rather easy.
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I just started reading a non-fiction book titled Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills. So far the book has been fantastic. If you like to do things yourself, live off the land and being green, you'll like this book. I found my copy on Amazon.
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ― David Brinkley

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Close To the Machine: Technophilia and It's Discontents by Ellen Ullman, rather introspective autobio, well written, but I think I prefer her fiction.
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The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane. I enjoy books about walking as meditation and pilgrimage. I walk for walking's sake or for my spirit's sake, I'm not sure which, but I don't wear headphones or walk in company. I walk for silence and to see what rises up as I cover terrain getting tired and hungry -- and sometimes not noticing that I'm tired and hungry -- those times are rare though.

I just started reading Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson for the Non-fiction forum to see how he deals with 6 months alone by Lake Baikal.
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