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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: LePaul on September 21, 2007, 01:27:16 AM
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Whatcha reading lately?
I just picked up "You: The owner's Manual" book writen by Dr Oz (he's on Oprah from time to time). Excellent read for us health nuts :)
I also found "Yeager" in paperback for $4.95. I remember reading it when it first came out ages ago and loved it. His second book, all about his fishing adventures, was a real snore.
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I'm reading "The Plague" again.
-Sik
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I'm reading a couple different books...
Shelby Foote's Civil War series, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol 3: Red River to Appomattox
Elmore Leonard, just finished "The Hot Kid", starting "KillShot"
also reading(skimming) The World War 2 Desk Reference, picked it up a Half Price book store for $3.00
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I think most AH'ers only pickup books with big pictures in em...
I'm just finishing "Losing Bin Laden" about the failures of the Clinton admin and the many chances they were given to remove Bin Laden but chose not to.
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"Gettysburg: Battle & Battlefield"
Very few pictures.
Easy read.
68ROX
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Yesterday I picked up "Lone Survivor." Was done with it before bedtime. It was awesome.
Also, reading "Here is your war" again by Ernie Pyle
Also, "Galileo's Daughter" Dava Sobel ~ which is really good. Problem on that is that I skip around too much within the book. I think I'd enjoy it more if I started at the beginning & went all the way through. "Longitude" by her is a wonderful book as well.
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Just finished book 16 of the Aubrey & Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien (re-reading the whole series for a third time, it's that good). If you recall the movie "Master & Commander"... this is the book series the movie was loosely based on. EXCELLENT reading.
Today I'm going to pick up the Zombie Survivial Manual, because I'll be damned if I'm going to be caught unprepared.
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Environmental Regulation--by a bunch of boring guys
Trademarks and Unfair Competition--by a bunch of boring guys
Basic Federal Income Tax Law--by a bunch of boring guys
Agency, Partnership and Limited Liability Entities--by a bunch of boring guys.
Pretty heavy, pretty dense stuff. Pretty light on plot but oh the detail... The excrutiating detail. A little on the pricey side.
I wish I had a bullet and a gun to load it into.
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Darwin's Black Box and Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome
The system of the world
I'll be ordering a lot of this list over the coming months (http://www.kimini.com/Reference/index.html)
Haven't had much time to read recently... Otherwise I'd have these too:
Barsoom series
All the Clarke stuff I haven't read yet, incl. Rama, Childhood's end
The Hitchhiker series
Book of skulls and Time of changes - Silverberg
Iain Banks' stuff at random (recommended as great)
Finishing Catch22 (hoping there's a good syntaxical end to the endless nonsense)
Random stuff by Hume, Locke, Liebniz, Feynman, and others I can't recall off hand
All the obscure references I picked up on this forum, others, and in everyday conversations
Atlas Shrugged
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I mostly spend my time reading up on space and science on the internet, it's a PITA to be reading a good book, only to have to put it down.
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i just got finished reading "NIGHT" by Elie Wiezel. Its a very good book. But it is only 120 pages, only about 4 hours of reading but I would still recommend it.
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Turner Diaries never gets old.
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I read a lot, maybe 3-4 books a week sometimes. Right now, I'm re-reading Crazy Ivan by Craig & William Reed. It's about the life of a sub-diver in the cold war, non-fiction.
To air is human, to HeO2 is divine.
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Just recently finished the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien.
Now reading "Every Man Will Do His Duty - An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts From The Age of Nelson 1793 - 1815" by Dean King and "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. Mann.
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Books are so exci...zzzzZZZzzzzZzzzz
j/k
Reading one now called Wonderboy
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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
Just recently finished the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien.
ChickenHawk,
It's one of my favorite series, but I'm feeling the itch to try something new in the same vein. Any recommendations? The only other Royal Navy novels I've heard of are the Horatio Hornblower ones.
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Originally posted by LePaul
Whatcha reading lately?
I just picked up "You: The owner's Manual" book writen by Dr Oz (he's on Oprah from time to time). Excellent read for us health nuts :)
Does your husband read also?
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I'm currently reading Heretics of Dune, I've finished all the previous ones so far.
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I'm waiting for the next book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. That jerk really needs to speed up the rate at which he kicks those books out. One every 3 years just doesnt cut it!! :furious
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Anything by the great Dr. Hunter S. Thompson(I'm a big fan obviously) , I'm sure you all know his most famous book, "Fear & loathing in Las Vegas" which is a true story about himself. Some other great books by him are "The Rum Diary", "Hell's Angles", and "The Great Shark Hunt". All great books, I suggest reading "The Rum Diary", or reading or watching the movie "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas".
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I'm a constant reader. Books are an addiction.
Just re-read William Manchester's "Goodbye Darkness" about his WW2 Marine days. An immensely powerful book. Not sure I've read any wartime memiors that are better.
Just before that was "Crazy 08" by Cait Murphy. It's about the 1908 National League pennant race (I love baseball history too) Wonderful book right up there with Robert Creamer's "Baseball in 41" and David Halberstam's "Summer of 49"
I usually have a couple of books going at a time not including all the WW2 unit histories I usually have open for one reason or another.
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Picked up the last DUNE book. SANDWORMS OF DUNE
I cried. I really cried.
Its incredible how Frank Herbert's son turned his father's masterpiece into such a pile of steaming crap.
I stomached the other books he wrote because allegedly he was following his dad's notes on what was to happen.. the writing style, plot development and characters were patheticly done but I read them just to get an idea of where Frank Herbert was taking the story to.
But this last book... It hurt to read past the first chapter. It is obvious he slapped together and rushed towards the end. The ending itself, the very last chapter should've been an entire book on its own but this guy just summarized the thing into 5 pages.
horrible.. simply horrible.
The only thing I like of the book was that back in college (before herbert's son started writing the dune books) I wrote a thesis for my literature class about who the main character of the DUNE novels was and why. My teacher, also an avid dune fan, argued with me about it for hours and ended giving me a not very high grade (the wench!!!) for it.
But I WAS RIGHT! Mwahahah! The main character is NOT any of the Atreides! Oooh im going to find her and rub it on her nose until i see the back of her neck.
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Originally posted by texasmom
Also, "Galileo's Daughter" Dava Sobel ~ which is really good. Problem on that is that I skip around too much within the book. I think I'd enjoy it more if I started at the beginning & went all the way through. "Longitude" by her is a wonderful book as well.
Tachus, are you out there? I meant to recommend those both to you. They're awesome, and I think they're right up your alley.
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I just read "State of Denial" by Woodward. Great book on the way post invasion Iraq was managed (or more precisely, not managed). I'll do a synopsis when I get some time. Good book about the Bush administration (primarily the cabinet) in particular and how the sausage is made in Washington bureaucracies in general.
Charon
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Just re-read William Manchester's "Goodbye Darkness" about his WW2 Marine days. An immensely powerful book. Not sure I've read any wartime memiors that are better.
I read that too Guppy, and I have to admit to being less than impressed. Factually it was a bit sloppy with the background history, and I'm not a huge fan of his writing style and the literary devices he used related to his "return trip" seemed a bit forced. His personal elitism also shines though, IMO. YMMV of course, since it is a subjective thing.
Charon
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Books on DVD:D
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Principles of Population - Thomas Malthus
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Hitler's War Aims - Norman Rich
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Originally posted by Yknurd
Does your husband read also?
Oh the wit. You're an FDB, so your reading requires what, you to wear a clean "pull up" and a book involving a man with a yellow hat? :p
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Originally posted by Tac
But I WAS RIGHT! Mwahahah! The main character is NOT any of the Atreides!
Hmmmm... The Fremen, then? The spice?
I do agree that Herbert's son absolutely butchered the series. He should be ashamed.
Much like Peter Jackson butchered Tolkien for no logical reason. :)
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Just finished "June 6, 1944. The Voices of D-Day"
Good book once you get past the first half which seems to be nothing more then introducing and giving a complete background history on everyone even remotely mentioned in the second half.
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Currently on "The Places in Between" by Rory Stewart.
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Originally posted by Engine
ChickenHawk,
It's one of my favorite series, but I'm feeling the itch to try something new in the same vein. Any recommendations? The only other Royal Navy novels I've heard of are the Horatio Hornblower ones.
C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series is a must read for anyone interested in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. Though I rate O'Brien's series a tiny, tiny bit better, I highly recommend them and own them all.
Edit: A&E also did a Hornblower miniseries for TV that you can find on seven DVD's. Though they don't follow the books, they are quite enjoyable and everyone I show them to gets hooked.
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Originally posted by Elfie
I'm waiting for the next book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. That jerk really needs to speed up the rate at which he kicks those books out. One every 3 years just doesnt cut it!! :furious
I guess you haven't heard the sad news. (http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=215353)
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Originally posted by Elfie
I'm waiting for the next book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. That jerk really needs to speed up the rate at which he kicks those books out. One every 3 years just doesnt cut it!! :furious
hate to say this but robert jordan is KIA
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i read the bible
but other than that Robert E Howard, is my fav.
ive read so many books i cant begin to list the authors mostly fantasy and sword and sorcery type works.
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you have some cool tattoos.
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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series is a must read for anyone interested in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. Though I rate O'Brien's series a tiny, tiny bit better, I highly recommend them and own them all.
Edit: A&E also did a Hornblower miniseries for TV that you can find on seven DVD's. Though they don't follow the books, they are quite enjoyable and everyone I show them to gets hooked.
I didn't read the books. My Mom did, and she loved them. I bought the mini-series, which was wonderful.
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I'm about half way through "World War: Turning the balance" by Harry Turtledove. it's good read for anybody into sci-fi/ alternative history. He does alot of Alternative history books.
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Just finished "In the Company of Soldiers" by Rick Atkinson.
All of Atkinson's stuff I've read is top notch.
Now reading "MacArthur's Victory, the war in New Guinea 1943-1944" by Harry Gailey
The normal dry, war history read. The only thing that keeps me reading is that I know little of this campaign.
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about to start the da-da-de-da-da code.
finished the carpet people by terry pratchet a few days ago.
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Catch-22, one of best ever. I've read it more times than I can count already and I never get tired of it. It still makes me laugh and stop to ponder. Absurdity that is completely true to life than any logic, absurdly.
Alice in woderland & Through the looking glass. If ever there was a book not for children, but pretending to be - this is it. Lewis Carrol is a linguistic juggler.
I recently finished "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. I picked it up at an airport to kill some time since all the other books were friggin' Dan Brown or Harry Potter. Interesting read.
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Ai Yori Aoshi volume 8
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FINAL ACCOUNTING
Ambition, greed, and the fall of Arthur Andersen (lol)
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"The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer
"Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
"Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors" by James Hornfischer
"The Blond Knight Of Germany" by By Raymond F. Toliver, Trevor J. Constable
The Ringworld series by Larry Niven
anything else by Larry Niven
anything by David Gemmell
anything with Calvin and Hobbs :)
The real Clive Cussler books (before he had the audacity to get too old)
old stuff by Gordon R. Dickson
The Stainless Steel Rat series by Keith Laumer
The Deathworld series by Keith Laumer
various woodworking and handloading books
and in a class by itself: "Armor" by John Steakly
...and someday, "Where Troy Once Stood" by Iman Wilkens, which currently sells for as little as $190 and up to $500, used.
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Varieties of Religous Experience by William James
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This year I read
Six Frigates (The epic history of the Founding of the US navy) Ian Toll
Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
One Sqaure mile of Hell (The Battle for Tarawa) John Wukovits
Given up For Dead (America's heroic stand at Wake Island) Bill Sloan
Charlie Wilson's War, George Crile
Blind Man's Bluff (The untold Story of American Subarine Espionage) Chris Drew
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Amazing story of kids surviving a sometimes charming but ultimately dysfunctional family.
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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
I guess you haven't heard the sad news. (http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=215353)
Well doesn't that just suck 20 day old dog turds. :cry
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The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio. Possibly the best book I have ever read as far as immersion goes.
Anything written by Peter Hathaway Capstick. I have read everyone that I can get my hands on.
I recently read Unintended Consequences by John Ross. The book was suggested here on the BBS by Laz. Great book and hard to put down.
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Someone recently recommended The Prize by Daniel Yergin and I thought I'd pick it up today. Anyone read it?
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Currently rereading "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling. I've just started "Enemy at the Gates" by William Craig. Also, I just got "Crossing the Rubicon" by Michael Ruppert, and will be starting that shortly.
I was half way through "Use of Weapons" by Ian Banks, but found it poorly written and boring. It may be time to reread the Rama or Ringworld series.
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Originally posted by Engine
Hmmmm... The Fremen, then? The spice?
I do agree that Herbert's son absolutely butchered the series. He should be ashamed.
Much like Peter Jackson butchered Tolkien for no logical reason. :)
check your PM's.
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Originally posted by LePaul
Oh the wit. You're an FDB, so your reading requires what, you to wear a clean "pull up" and a book involving a man with a yellow hat? :p
Aaaahhhh, I'm being insulted by a man chooses his 'literature' from Oprah's book club, builds an R2 in his basement and looses bladder control when talking to strippers on a BBS.
Peer critique, I think not.
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I constantly read the 1632 set by Eric Flint et al.... mostly because I write in that universe. My wife and I write as a team, our first short story came out in Grantville Gazette 13 (shamless plug) (for sale from Baen books webscriptions) so far we have sold them about 60,000 word this year with the first 18,000 already in publication and the rest scheduled.
Sooo I am not reading but writing, currently half finished are 3 more short stories and 5 "fact" articles for the Gazette, the first two chapters of a novel, and a short about a dragon powered steam engine. (techno fantasy) The pay is good, .06 cents a word, one cent more than pro rate....
Other than that I read anything by Baen, they have the Electronic Advance Reader Copies available (EARCs) and I am 8 months ahead on many authors.....
last one was David Drakes "When the Tide Rises" scheduled publication date March 2008
Regards,
Kevin
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Originally posted by gunnss
"so far we have sold them about 60,000 word this year..."
"The pay is good, .06 cents a word..."
Kevin
That's $36. Don't you mean 6 cents per word? :O
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Great Physicists - From Galileo to Hawking - W. Cropper
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Ach! ya got me, 6 cents a word it is.
We average about 250.00 an article/story, not nearly as much as I make at work, but it pays for our convention schedule. BTW the next Con we are going to is "losCon 34" in LA Thanksgiving weekend. We are going by train, it costs less round trip then it would cost to drive one way.
Kevin
Originally posted by Rolex
That's $36. Don't you mean 6 cents per word? :O
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
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what's a book? :confused:
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Well, Drunky, I guess everyone else has opted to partake in the discussion.
Shouldnt you be back at the FDB BBS bragging about the wedgies you got in high school?
Thanks for trying to participate. Swing and miss.
As for the Oprah list, didnt know it was there. Just knew the Dr had been featured on the show a few times. Pity you are so afraid to educate yourself.