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Are there any bookworms on here? I've recently got on a reading kick, and am currently reading the "Sword of Shannara" trilogy hardcover (all 3 books in 1), by Terry Brooks. I'm hoping to blast through this easy reading before I go to Minneapolis for a couple weeks of work, where I can start on some other book series, since I'll be bored in the evenings.
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moby dick. i don't have a lot of free time to read, so it's taking a while. i'm 81% of the way through with it, according to the kindle.
before that is was a couple of terry pratchett's discworld books.
before that i re-read hucklberry finn and the last harry potter book.
before that it was some ray bradbury, some edgar allen poe, some douglas adams, some isaac asimov, and some emily dickinson.
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re-reading "Deathly Hallows", prior read Drew Brees's autobiography and the "Blind Side" book. Book is better than the movie.
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The Scarlet Letter and the Environmental Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam. I'll begin reading some of Hemingway's works once I'm done with those 2 books.
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Reading Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase.
And a book about the history of the Fort Worth Cats.
Re-read a lot of the Second Jungle Book over the last few days.
Read The Girl I Left Behind by Shusaku Endo not long ago.
Last week I finished a book by Garrison Keillor.
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inudesu
Murakami's awesome. Have you read "The End of the World and the Hard-Boiled Wonderland" by him? I think the English-translated versions of his book capture his writing style pretty decently too. I'd probably jump back to one of those if I wasn't on a nerdy fantasy book kick right now...
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BB&B
Damn! You beat me to it!
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I'm hooked on Nelson Demille. Charm School blew me away. He wrote it 25 years ago and the stuff he wrote about is all over the news these days. His John Corey series is great too. Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston write a good series and individually they do great work too. I like James Rollins a lot. Both of those are in the thriller genre but you have to suspend your disbelief just a tad. Fun adventure stuff though.
I've read all of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor but fighting muslim terrorist plots tend to get a little repetitive. I didn't think I'd like Lee Child but those books are infectious too. I've read most of them. Clive Cussler's solo books are terrific. When he started writing with his son though, they took a nosedive.
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Ktulu7
Murakami's awesome. Have you read "The End of the World and the Hard-Boiled Wonderland" by him? I think the English-translated versions of his book capture his writing style pretty decently too. I'd probably jump back to one of those if I wasn't on a nerdy fantasy book kick right now...
This is my first Murakami. I probably picked up Norwegian Wood a hundred times from the bookstore when I lived in Japan, but never bought it.
Have you ever read any Yoshikawa Eiji? It's historical fiction. Good stuff.
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arkansasbob
moby dick. i don't have a lot of free time to read, so it's taking a while. i'm 81% of the way through with it, according to the kindle.
before that is was a couple of terry pratchett's discworld books.
before that i re-read hucklberry finn and the last harry potter book.
before that it was some ray bradbury, some edgar allen poe, some douglas adams, some isaac asimov, and some emily dickinson.
Nerd.
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Almost always historical stuff. Reading a book about the beginnings of the Manhattan Project right now, but its slanted more towards the personalities involved than the science. You forget this was a bunch of 23/24 year olds putting this thing together. Stories about wild parties, swinging, etc. Still see some of these people around town when I'm up there and its pretty cool.
Also reading a lot of Linux stuff in prep for my Red Hat certification.
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CChandler
Almost always historical stuff. Reading a book about the beginnings of the Manhattan Project right now, but its slanted more towards the personalities involved than the science. You forget this was a bunch of 23/24 year olds putting this thing together. Stories about wild parties, swinging, etc. Still see some of these people around town when I'm up there and its pretty cool.
Also reading a lot of Linux stuff in prep for my Red Hat certification.
:thumbsup:
Love linux.
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inudesu
This is my first Murakami. I probably picked up Norwegian Wood a hundred times from the bookstore when I lived in Japan, but never bought it.
Have you ever read any Yoshikawa Eiji? It's historical fiction. Good stuff.
I have not. Is there a particular book you'd recommend? Do you read his stuff in Japanese or in English?
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Ktulu7
I have not. Is there a particular book you'd recommend? Do you read his stuff in Japanese or in English?
Only in English. I don't read very well in Japanese (kanji nanbo yattemo wakarahen wa).
I think my favorite one was Taiko about Toyotomi Hideyoshi. I liked his version of the Heike story, especially the parts set around what is now Kobe.
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I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy about a month ago. It was an interesting series. Our students will read the first part this year, and a movie is being made. I wanted to be up to date.
I am about to read "On the Road" again or something by Cormac McCarthy.
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I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy about a month ago. It was an interesting series. Our students will read the first part this year, and a movie is being made. I wanted to be up to date.
I am about to read "On the Road" again or something by Cormac McCarthy.
I haven't read Hunger Games, but I think I saw that a former classmate/current fantasy football league member of mine was cast as a bad guy in the movie versions.
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inudesu
I haven't read Hunger Games, but I think I saw that a former classmate/current fantasy football league member of mine was cast as a bad guy in the movie versions.
That would be interesting. There isn't a bad guy per say other than the President Snow character. Do you know any more details? That's intriguing me now.
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Reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas again. After this thread, I might go back and pick up my Kerouacs again
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inudesu
I haven't read Hunger Games, but I think I saw that a former classmate/current fantasy football league member of mine was cast as a bad guy in the movie versions.
texastina loves the hunger games series. i may read it next. she convinced me to read harry potter, which was good, but she also talked me into trying twilight, which was ... not so much... so i'm not sure what to think about this one.
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Nerd.
... says the man reading japanese historical fiction...
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The Scarlet Letter and the Environmental Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam. I'll begin reading some of Hemingway's works once I'm done with those 2 books.
Good luck on the exam.
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rockdog
That would be interesting. There isn't a bad guy per say other than the President Snow character. Do you know any more details? That's intriguing me now.
Seneca Crane apparently.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movi...er-games-.html
This article doesn't say he is a bad guy, but I think the place that I first saw this implied it.
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Cool. You know Wes Bentley. My wife and I are fans of his. His part isn't that large in the book, but it is rather essential. I was happy with his casting. I actual like the casting of most of the parts thus far.
I can recommend the first book without much hesitation. It is an easy read. I don't know if it was essential made for a younger audience, but it is rather good. The next two books in the series just don't flow as well. The pacing problems that book one has a little of are more evident and frequent in books 2 and 3. That's just my two cents. It is rather original and interesting though.
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Started reading The Grapes of Wrath by Roger Steinbeck became depressed, so went back to reading Dean Koontz The Husband.
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Started reading The Grapes of Wrath by Roger Steinbeck became depressed, so went back to reading Dean Koontz The Husband.
i like the one by john steinbeck better. :icon_wink:
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my wife said he's a bad guy.
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i like the one by john steinbeck better. :icon_wink:
:o:laugh: I dont know why i confuse john steinbeck and Roger Staubach.
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my wife said he's a bad guy.
Have you (or the missus) read The Magicians? I mentioned it on a thread like this a while back.
I think y'all would find it interesting. Sequel coming out pretty soon (if it wasn't released this week).
It's a kind of "grown up" or psychological riff on Narnia/Harry Potter/The Once and Future King where he tries to kind of delve into some of the details of that kind of world. It's a little bleak, and doesn't really stand up to the works it's clearly based on, but it's still a different take on things. And the story is still really engrossing. Look it up.
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rockdog
I am about to read "On the Road" again or something by Cormac McCarthy.
The Road is brutal. It's absolutely brilliant and deserves all the awards and all, but it ain't exactly light reading.
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I'm still nerding along in my fantasy series, a little ways through the second book in the Sword of Shannara trilogy. I'm finding it to be an interesting escape from the daily grind, and I like the pacing Terry Brooks has so far in what I've read. The second book has a good bit more description of places and things in general than the first book had, which is nice. I've chewed through books so much lately that my wife's getting a little annoyed, so I may have to throttle it back a bit, haha!
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Just finished Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker of Jesse Stone fame. Good light read with great characters that leaves you longing for more Gus and Lonesome Dove.
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inudesu
Have you (or the missus) read The Magicians? I mentioned it on a
thread like this a while back.
I think y'all would find it interesting. Sequel coming out pretty soon (if it wasn't released this week).
It's a kind of "grown up" or psychological riff on Narnia/Harry Potter/The Once and Future King where he tries to kind of delve into some of the details of that kind of world. It's a little bleak, and doesn't really stand up to the works it's clearly based on, but it's still a different take on things. And the story is still really engrossing. Look it up.
i remember the recommendation. she didn't like it. i may try it if i get around to it.
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Edwin Edwards
Damn, Jimmy Carter is an idiot
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Last night I read "Oh The Thinks You Can Think" by Dr. Seuss for the 927-935 times to my 20 month old.
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moby dick.
a masterpiece. extremely long, but not a word wasted.
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arkansasbob
a masterpiece. extremely long, but not a word wasted.
Read it again last summer,great book
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inudesu
The Road is brutal. It's absolutely brilliant and deserves all the awards and all, but it ain't exactly light reading.
I may actually check out a novel by Banana Yoshimoto I found in the Japanese language section at the downtown library here in San Antonio. I was very surprised not to see a single novel by Murakami in Japanese here. They actually were selling a copy of "War and Peace" translated into Japanese here, in the bookstore they have in the basement.
I'm now on the 3rd book in the fantasy trilogy I'm grinding through... I'm trying to finish it this week, so I can return it to the library before my work trip to Minneapolis.
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still reading BB&B. Damn, this is a good book. :)
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arkansasbob
a masterpiece. extremely long, but not a word wasted.
You ever get around to reading The Man Who was Thursday? I think you'd like it, if you haven't already read it. Not nearly as strong a recommendation as the Hitchhiker's Guide (which I knew you would love) but still seems like something you'd enjoy.
I started the Hunger Games. Not bad so far. Premise kind of reminds me of The Long Walk.
Picked up The Great Gatsby off the bookshelf the other day on my way to the, um, "reading room." I probably liked it better than when I had to read it in high school and I can probably appreciate the writing more now, but it's never going to be one of my favorites.
Still working on the Fort Worth Cats history. The general stuff about how the minor leagues worked back in the old days and the Texas League and all that are pretty interesting. Cool picture of the Cats and Travs before a Dixie Series in 1920 in there. But all the details about who was the manager in a given year or how many RBIs the best player had or even the team's record get a little boring.
I also picked up a book I've had for a while about starting schools in Pakistan called Three Cups of Tea.
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just finished Foreign Influence (Brad Thor). About to start American Assassin (Vince Flynn).
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...I don't read...just look at the pictures!
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DogtorEvil
just finished Foreign Influence (Brad Thor). About to start American Assassin (Vince Flynn).
both are excellent. I still like Flynn a little better than Thor. They flow a little bit better to me. I'm waiting on Full Black from the library. If you like them, check out The Gray Man by Mark Greaney. Similar stuff.
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both are excellent. I still like Flynn a little better than Thor. They flow a little bit better to me. I'm waiting on Full Black from the library. If you like them, check out The Gray Man by Mark Greaney. Similar stuff.
Thanks. I also like Flynn a tad better then Orr. After AA, I'm going to read the Athena Project by Orr and was then trying to figure what series I was going to go to next.
I just ordered The Gray Man and On Target. Thanks again.
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inudesu
You ever get around to reading
The Man Who was Thursday? I think you'd like it, if you haven't already read it. Not nearly as strong a recommendation as the Hitchhiker's Guide (which I knew you would love) but still seems like something you'd enjoy.
I started the Hunger Games. Not bad so far. Premise kind of reminds me of
The Long Walk.
Picked up The Great Gatsby off the bookshelf the other day on my way to the, um, "reading room." I probably liked it better than when I had to read it in high school and I can probably appreciate the writing more now, but it's never going to be one of my favorites.
Still working on the Fort Worth Cats history. The general stuff about how the minor leagues worked back in the old days and the Texas League and all that are pretty interesting. Cool picture of the Cats and Travs before a Dixie Series in 1920 in there. But all the details about who was the manager in a given year or how many RBIs the best player had or even the team's record get a little boring.
I also picked up a book I've had for a while about starting schools in Pakistan called
Three Cups of Tea.
i read the man who was thursday a while back. it was pretty good. well worth reading.
the hunger games is a much faster read than melville, obviously, but it's not bad for a YA novel, so far. the story is good and the style is tolerable. it's no harry potter, but it's at least three infinities better than twilight.
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Ktulu7
Are there any bookworms on here? I've recently got on a reading kick, and am currently reading the "Sword of Shannara" trilogy hardcover (all 3 books in 1), by Terry Brooks. I'm hoping to blast through this easy reading before I go to Minneapolis for a couple weeks of work, where I can start on some other book series, since I'll be bored in the evenings.
I read that trilogy when I was like, 13, I believe. It was a good series. If I'm not mistaken, as least one more trilogy was added, The Elfstones of Shannara, unless they were included in the Sword. I don't think so, though. There might have been a third trilogy as well. It's been so long I can't remember. If you really like Sci Fi Fantasy novels, you should read all of the Eternal Champion series of books by Michael Moorcock. Basically it's a large volume of different book series about different "Champions" who are incarnations of each other in different times and places. The Elric of Melnibone series was the most prolific of all the Eternal Champion series. He was the first "anti-hero" in Sci Fi Fantasy that I know. Haven't read much earlier of the genre than that. In fact, I read all of the Menzoberanzen (sp?) books about Drizzt Do'Urden, a dark elf, who was an very close imitation to Elric except that Elric isn't an elf and is an albino. Anyway, just going on a memory trip. I do highly recommend those series, though.
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Gonna start reading Mere Christianity by Lewis tonight. I read The Great Divorce a few years ago and liked it so I will probably read that again next.
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Gonna start reading Mere Christianity by Lewis tonight. I read The Great Divorce a few years ago and liked it so I will probably read that again next.
mere christianity is excellent. i never finished the great divorce -- i need to read that next.
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If you like mystery/thrillers, check out Linwood Barclay. I got one off the drug store rack and read it in two days and just started a second one today and read almost half in one sitting. Good stuff. Also reading one of Dave Barry's collections. Always a gem
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the hunger games is a much faster read than melville, obviously, but it's not bad for a YA novel, so far. the story is good and the style is tolerable. it's no harry potter, but it's at least three infinities better than twilight.
yikes! i might have spoken too soon. the second book of the series is all love-triangle-twilight-y so far (about 1/4 of the way through). yuck. never trust a female author with a female protagonist. they will always trend toward romance no matter how hard they try to avoid it.
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yikes! i might have spoken too soon. the second book of the series is all love-triangle-twilight-y so far (about 1/4 of the way through). yuck. never trust a female author with a female protagonist. they will always trend toward romance no matter how hard they try to avoid it.
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I was just going to comment about how I enjoyed the first one (finished it yesterday) and planned to order the second from the library today. I wasn't crazy about all that "feelings" junk in the first book (and was worried that we were headed down that path).
Disappointing.
I'll still read it though.
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inudesu
:angry:
I was just going to comment about how I enjoyed the first one (finished it yesterday) and planned to order the second from the library today. I wasn't crazy about all that "feelings" junk in the first book (and was worried that we were headed down that path).
Disappointing.
I'll still read it though.
When I searched for it on the Fort Worth Library website the Spanish version came up as well. In English the title is "Catching Fire" but in Spanish it's En Llamas. Are there going to be llamas in this book? Because that might make it awesome.
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Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva currently.
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Gonna start reading Mere Christianity by Lewis tonight. I read The Great Divorce a few years ago and liked it so I will probably read that again next.
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mere christianity is excellent. i never finished the great divorce -- i need to read that next.
I actually liked the great divorce better than mere christianity. I really liked the screwtape letters.
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I actually liked the great divorce better than mere christianity. I really liked the screwtape letters.
Mere Christianity is my favorite of those. I love Screwtape, too. Great Divorce was good, but not on the same level.
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I'm currently almost halfway through volume one of David Eddings' "The Belgariad." The first volume has the first 3 books combined, and the second volume has the last 2 books in it.
Has anyone read any Orson Scott Card or Kurt Vonnegut that can comment on either one? I've read "Cat's Cradle," by Kurt Vonnegut and it was decent.
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I'm currently almost halfway through volume one of David Eddings' "The Belgariad." The first volume has the first 3 books combined, and the second volume has the last 2 books in it.
Has anyone read any Orson Scott Card or Kurt Vonnegut that can comment on either one? I've read "Cat's Cradle," by Kurt Vonnegut and it was decent.
ender's game by orson scott card was pretty good. i haven't read any vonnegut.
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I'm currently almost halfway through volume one of David Eddings' "The Belgariad." The first volume has the first 3 books combined, and the second volume has the last 2 books in it.
Has anyone read any Orson Scott Card or Kurt Vonnegut that can comment on either one? I've read "Cat's Cradle," by Kurt Vonnegut and it was decent.
I liked Ender's Game. But I never read any of the sequels. I want to say I read something else by him recently about Norse gods in hiding in modern times. Book One of an on-going series. It was not as good as Ender's Game, but not bad either.
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 is probably worth the acclaim it generally gets. Wasn't blown away by the other stuff by him I've read (which may be just Cat's Cradle).
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I liked Ender's Game. But I never read any of the sequels. I want to say I read something else by him recently about Norse gods in hiding in modern times. Book One of an on-going series. It was not as good as Ender's Game, but not bad either.
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 is probably worth the acclaim it generally gets. Wasn't blown away by the other stuff by him I've read (which may be just Cat's Cradle).
speaking of norse gods hiding in modern times, i thought the long, dark tea-time of the soul was pretty good.
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now offering my musical sommelier services (recommending the best music to go along with the various book series selections on the menu):
lord of the rings -- led zeppelin
the magicians -- jethro tull or raconteurs
hunger games -- muse
twilight -- sonny and cher or creed
hitchhiker's guide -- queen
narnia -- the beatles
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yikes! i might have spoken too soon. the second book of the series is all love-triangle-twilight-y so far (about 1/4 of the way through). yuck. never trust a female author with a female protagonist. they will always trend toward romance no matter how hard they try to avoid it.
I'm only a couple of chapters into Catching Fire and yeah, the ratio of "feelings" to "running through the woods shooting arrows at bad guys" is trending in the wrong direction so far.
And no llamas yet. :(
I'm tearing through a re-read (for the no telling how manyth time) of The Silver Chair. For my 5th or 6th favorite book in the series, it's very awesome.
Haven't made much progress in Three Cups of Tea. I'm about halfway through a book about Ranavalona. It's called Female Caligula:Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar and thus far I think the title is pretty spot on. File this one under "absolute power corrupts absolutely." I'd never even heard of her (this was one of those deals where the book just kind of jumped off the library shelf at random).
I'm also near the end of Go Down Moses. I read this book years and years ago (early jr high maybe) and I think I'm liking it a lot more now. Homeboy can be a slog to read sometimes, but he's got skills.
I've got a Richard Foster book on Christian traditions on deck (Celebration of Discipline is great, so I'm looking forward to seeing what else that wacky Quaker has to say). And I think the sequel to The Magicians has arrived for me at the library.
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I'm only a couple of chapters into Catching Fire and yeah, the ratio of "feelings" to "running through the woods shooting arrows at bad guys" is trending in the wrong direction so far.
And no llamas yet. :(
I'm tearing through a re-read (for the no telling how manyth time) of The Silver Chair. For my 5th or 6th favorite book in the series, it's very awesome.
Haven't made much progress in Three Cups of Tea. I'm about halfway through a book about
Ranavalona. It's called
Female Caligula:Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar and thus far I think the title is pretty spot on. File this one under "absolute power corrupts absolutely." I'd never even heard of her (this was one of those deals where the book just kind of jumped off the library shelf at random).
I'm also near the end of
Go Down Moses. I read this book years and years ago (early jr high maybe) and I think I'm liking it a lot more now. Homeboy can be a slog to read sometimes, but he's got skills.
I've got a
Richard Foster book on Christian traditions on deck (Celebration of Discipline is great, so I'm looking forward to seeing what else that wacky Quaker has to say). And I think the
sequel to The Magicians has arrived for me at the library.
i was about to comment about how many books you've got going at once, until i thought about my own situation. just finished the last of the hunger games series and read the magicians, then i picked up not even wrong by peter woit (it's about string theory) of which i read roughly half about three years ago. after that, i plan to finish atlas shrugged, which i left off last year about 100 pages in. at some point i need to finish plato's republic, which i'm about halfway through.
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Is there any bookworms here? I recently went to a shot of reading, and am currently reading the "Sword of Shannara" trilogy hardcover (all 3 books in 1) by Terry Brooks. I'm hoping to end this easy reading before going to Minneapolis for a couple of weeks of work, where you can start in some other book series, and I'll be bored in the evenings.
By golly, I do believe I hear an echo echo echo... BOT!
Anyway, I'm still reading The Belgariad, by David Eddings. I'm halfway through what would be the third book at the moment. Reading has slowed down 'cause I've been ridiculously busy lately, which annoys me, 'cause I have a huge pile of books to chew through and I've been almost addicted to it lately, haha.
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yikes! i might have spoken too soon. the second book of the series is all love-triangle-twilight-y so far (about 1/4 of the way through). yuck. never trust a female author with a female protagonist. they will always trend toward romance no matter how hard they try to avoid it.
Started poorly, but it got better.
Not a single dang llama, though. Killer monkeys? Yes. Llamas? No.
Why did the Spanish title of this book lie to me?
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Has anyone read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell?
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Has anyone read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell?
It's good. If you liked his other stuff, you'll like it.
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Angela's Ashes. It's very sad and funny at the same time. I'm only halfway through it, but I'm getting to his teenage years, and it's cracking me up.
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read the magicians
If you liked it, you'll like the sequel. If you didn't, you won't.
It's mostly more of the same. Julia's story. More Fillory. Almost no Brakebills.
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If you liked it, you'll like the sequel. If you didn't, you won't.
It's mostly more of the same. Julia's story. More Fillory. Almost no Brakebills.
i figured julia would get pulled back into it at some point. i think i'm next in line for it from the library.
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i figured julia would get pulled back into it at some point. i think i'm next in line for it from the library.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/lev-g...-series,62942/
They're going to try to make it into a tv series.
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Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand
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still reading BB&B. Damn, this is a good book. :)
How does it end?!?!
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Just finished this book about WW2 vet. A truly remarkable story about his life. Highly recommend if you enjoy history from this time period and can appreciate the true grit and the peaks and valley's of a truely remarkable life. Well written.
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Just finished this book about WW2 vet. A truly remarkable story about his life. Highly recommend if you enjoy history from this time period and can appreciate the true grit and the peaks and valley's of a truely remarkable life. Well written.
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Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand
Great book - read it last winter. Also Highly recommend - Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing
and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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I too have read Lone Survivor and it too is very,very good.
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I just finished Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and really liked it. I had read a couple of other books by John le Carre and while they had their moments I kind of wondered how he got such a strong reputation. This one crushed the other two. Really strong spy novel, and the movie just came out (book was written in the 70s I think).
http://www.avclub.com/articles/tinke...ier-spy,58355/
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Just picked up John Grisham's The Litigators. I will start reading next week. I'm a huge Grisham fan.
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Just bought the latest two Dirk Pitt novels from Clive Cussler. Hope they're as entertaining as most of his earlier books.
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I just started on "Elantris" by Brandon Sanderson. I blew through the first 90 pages in what seemed like about 20 minutes, because it was that interesting. I'm really likin' it thus far.
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Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey. Fantastic.
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inudesu
I haven't read Hunger Games, but I think I saw that a former classmate/current fantasy football league member of mine was cast as a bad guy in the movie versions.
http://youtu.be/4S9a5V9ODuY
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I just started on "Elantris" by Brandon Sanderson. I blew through the first 90 pages in what seemed like about 20 minutes, because it was that interesting. I'm really likin' it thus far.
Try Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Sanderson is finishing it off since the author died. He gave Sanderson all his notes and audio recording to finish the series.
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Try Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Sanderson is finishing it off since the author died. He gave Sanderson all his notes and audio recording to finish the series.
I made it through 5 or 6 of those back in the day, but it just got too soap-operaish for me (from what I remember).
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Trying to read the (Pulitzer prize winning!?!?) A Confederacy of Dunces right now. It's not quite living up to its reputation of being hilarious (or funny at all).
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Trying to read the (Pulitzer prize winning!?!?)
A Confederacy of Dunces right now. It's not quite living up to its reputation of being hilarious (or funny at all).
according to wikipedia, it was written by a toole and published by lsu. what did you expect?
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Screw it, Lets Just Do It - Sir Richard Branson
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Trying to read the (Pulitzer prize winning!?!?)
A Confederacy of Dunces right now. It's not quite living up to its reputation of being hilarious (or funny at all).
Finally finished this. It wasn't very good.
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Just finished The Long Walk about some guys who escaped from a Siberian prison camp in the 40s and walked to India (across Siberia, Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, and the Himalayas). Apparently there have been a lot of questions about the veracity of the story through the years, but it's still a pretty interesting story.
They just made a movie based on it with Ed Harris and Colin Farrell (which I haven't seen yet, but heard good things about).
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Bill O’Reilly’s book “Killing Lincoln,” about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was a good read. I'd recommend it.
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I just blew through "Elantris" and "Warbreaker," both by Brandon Sanderson, and I highly recommend them. It's "fantasy," in that it kinda has its own world, but the stories have some really interesting political twists that happen. The characters are very believable, and the stories aren't terribly predictable, especially "Warbreaker." My wife got me the huge, hardcover of Terry Brooks' "Heritage of Shannara" 4-book series, so I may start that next... Still deciding...
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"The Art Of War" by Sun Tzu.
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Read Drew Brees' autobiography "Coming Back Strong" very good read.
Drive by Daniel Pink
Drive (9 ways to motivate your kids) Walker
Goal Setting: 13 Secrets of World Class Achievers by Vic Johnson
What can I say, I got a kindle for Christmas
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Well, forget just reading... I've begun to write! It will probably be a loooooong time before I finish my project, but we'll see how it goes. I've got a few random scenes fleshed out and written, and a huge plot summary and some characters created. I'm starting to see how possible it may just be to write a novel. It's just a fun hobby for now though, to stack on top of all my other fun hobbies!
This week, I've been writing about 1000 words per evening, and it hasn't taken much time actually...
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Any Chuck Palahniuk fans out there? I'm thinking about reading some of his stuff and I'm interested in the book Lullaby.