So What Are You Reading Now? (Page 4 of 71)
| A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin. If you have any interest in the Apollo Program, you won't be able to put this one down. |
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Bill Hicks "Love All The People" We need to bring him back to life somehow, he understood how fucked our government is 20 years ago...  |
"Is there as yet any hard evidence that @piersmorgan doesn't have uncalloused. creamy-soft, lady-like palms?" Adam Baldwin
"I wasn't born, they found me in a Wonder Bread wrapper." Aimless
"I wasn't born, they found me in a Wonder Bread wrapper." Aimless
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"Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats" (http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B00804L7L4&qid=1359173709&sr=1-1) I drive a lot and listen to books. This is written and narrated by Kristen Iversen. I'm 80% through it and STRONGLY recommend it in whatever form is convenient. |
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A few days ago I finished Benjamin Roth's, The Great Depression: A Diary. Anybody interested in seeing how the depression affected people and society as well as investments should read this book. Like in Germany, many people were convinced that the bottom had been reached and invested in stocks or real property only to see them drop further. This happened several times from 1931 to 1940.
Now I'm going over Ernesto Bagnasco's book, The Littorio Class Battleships. They were sure handsome ships. |
Just started this one It's a real interesting look at a world full of intellectual and non-intellectual robots. It reminds of a lot of Issac Asamov's stuff except easier and funner to read. |
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Originally Posted By Reservist:
Just started this one http://tonyballantyne.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/twisted_metal_fc.jpg It's a real interesting look at a world full of intellectual and non-intellectual robots. It reminds of a lot of Issac Asamov's stuff except easier and funner to read. almost makes me think of the shrike from Hyperion but less sharp and a bit more streamlined 
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Originally Posted By ch3no2: Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America by Brigitte Gabriel. She grew up in Lebanon before and during the Lebanese civil war. Spooky sh*t, I'm tellin' ya Good book. Makes you appreciate the USA. Finishing up Bourne Identity. Not bad. |
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| I am currently reading the Complete Sherlock Holmes collection. It was free on Amazon for Kindle. |
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Originally Posted By Ciraxis:
Originally Posted By Reservist:
Just started this one http://tonyballantyne.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/twisted_metal_fc.jpg It's a real interesting look at a world full of intellectual and non-intellectual robots. It reminds of a lot of Issac Asamov's stuff except easier and funner to read. almost makes me think of the shrike from Hyperion but less sharp and a bit more streamlined Finished Dan Simmons' Hyperion a few days ago, am on The Fall of Hyperion now. I read Endymion and The Rise of Endymion a few months ago, so I know how it ends, now I get all the backstory. Next up is Ender's Game. |
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Originally Posted By LoathsomeDove: Originally Posted By Ciraxis: Originally Posted By Reservist: Just started this one http://tonyballantyne.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/twisted_metal_fc.jpg It's a real interesting look at a world full of intellectual and non-intellectual robots. It reminds of a lot of Issac Asamov's stuff except easier and funner to read. almost makes me think of the shrike from Hyperion but less sharp and a bit more streamlined Finished Dan Simmons' Hyperion a few days ago, am on The Fall of Hyperion now. I read Endymion and The Rise of Endymion a few months ago, so I know how it ends, now I get all the backstory. Next up is Ender's Game. All great books. I've been contemplating re-reading the Hyperion series. I'm about to start Children of the Sky, the sequel to Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.
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Originally Posted By USMC_JA:
Red Country - Joe Abercrombie. “You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.” I'm well into Last Argument of Kings. This series has redefined swords & sorcery for me to a great extent. |
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Originally Posted By Jarhead_22:
Originally Posted By USMC_JA:
Red Country - Joe Abercrombie. “You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.” I'm well into Last Argument of Kings. This series has redefined swords & sorcery for me to a great extent. You are not kidding. I dd not really like fantasy. Yet, Abercrombie's stuff is must read for me. Dark, violent, and intelligent. I heartily recommend to all. |
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Originally Posted By USMC_JA:
Originally Posted By Jarhead_22:
Originally Posted By USMC_JA:
Red Country - Joe Abercrombie. “You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.” I'm well into Last Argument of Kings. This series has redefined swords & sorcery for me to a great extent. You are not kidding. I dd not really like fantasy. Yet, Abercrombie's stuff is must read for me. Dark, violent, and intelligent. I heartily recommend to all. And a sense of humor without being silly or farcical. Really good stuff. "Click, tap, pain..." |
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Just started Because I found the Kindle app for my PC that I mentioned in the other thread.... And it's $2.99  http://www.amazon.com/Benghazi-The-Definitive-Report-ebook/dp/B00AHCRRJS/ref=la_B00501K130_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1360998222&sr=1-3 |
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Originally Posted By DesertGuns:
almost makes me think of the shrike from Hyperion but less sharp and a bit more streamlined Ah. Hyperion...those were the good ol' days of sci-fi. two of my favorite sci fi books. I still haven't read the last two. I just felt content with the first two that there was no reason to finish. |
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Burned through the Hard Magic series for the third time. Then went to the sequel of twisted metal. |
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Originally Posted By Stiles1410: Old school. Haven't read that since 7th grade.LOTR  |
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I finished "SEAL Target Geronimo" the other day. It had some interesting background info on the WOT but some of it left me with serious doubts about it's accuracy. Not to mention the account of the UBL raid is completely different from the one in "No Easy Day." |
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Originally Posted By Reservist: I did like the Dan MacGregor novel of the same name.Burned through the Hard Magic series for the third time. Then went to the sequel of twisted metal. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qd5OTrNlYAY/TduiYritl8I/AAAAAAAACGs/wIJZYwfsFnY/s1600/blood-and-iron.jpg China Marine name of Levi Rankin around 1900.  |
Deej86: "Piss off."
Mazeman: "I don't let my daughter watch the Smurfs because she's such a whore."
VictorUnit: "Bitterly I cling."
Mazeman: "I don't let my daughter watch the Smurfs because she's such a whore."
VictorUnit: "Bitterly I cling."
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Once a Legend: Red Mike Edson of the Marine Raiders
The writing is a little dry, but a good read overall. |
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Originally Posted By RVwannaB:
Yellow Green Beret, part I, by Chester Wong SF officer writes short stories about his career. Pretty funny book, I'll be reading part 2. Next up: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. I've read that, it's a very interesting book. Just finished reading both Shifty's War and American Sniper last week. This week I'm reading Machiavelli's The Prince and Surette's Media, Crime and Criminal Justice. |
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