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re: OT Book Readers...What's everybody reading right now?
Posted on 5/17/16 at 2:44 pm to Palo Gaucho
Posted on 5/17/16 at 2:44 pm to Palo Gaucho
About to start "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell and "The Road Less Traveled" by Scott Peck.
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Posted on 5/17/16 at 2:54 pm to TigerMond84
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Reading Jurassic Park for the first time, pretty great so far.
Sphere is his best. Congo also great.
Posted on 5/17/16 at 2:54 pm to The Seaward
I read nightingale and really enjoyed it
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:03 pm to cici
Just finished Shoe Dog which is a memoir by Phil Knight that was very interesting. Started IT for some reason last night even though I have never recovered from seeing the movie
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:05 pm to MSTiger33
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Another solid series. Does not disappoint.
There is a film in work for Wool. Same writer as Guardians of the Galaxy, and Ridley Scott to produce.
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:14 pm to Slim_Charles69
quote:. Great book, but scary as hell.
IT
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:16 pm to Palo Gaucho
Goodnight Moon
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:24 pm to Palo Gaucho
I also love history and historical fiction. My recent reads:
Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series- set in 9th century England during the Viking invasion. Awesome books.
Also Cornwell's Arthur series. Set in 5th or 6th century England about the Saxon invasion. He brilliantly weaves the grittiness of medieval warfare with some of the names from the Arthur legends, with just a light splash of magic.
Rodney Stark has some interesting history books. He has an overt un-PC viewpoint so it makes for a different perspective than the usual. His book on the Crusades is good as well as his "How the West Won" which does a compelling job of crediting western culture and even religion for the tremendous technological strides compared to the rest of the world. As a corollary he downplays the contributions of other societies particularly the Muslims which is in direct contravention with the espoused view that Islam was once the beacon of enlightenment. His arguments are solid and worth a read.
Zealot by Reza Aslan is an interesting look at the historical Jesus.
Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series- set in 9th century England during the Viking invasion. Awesome books.
Also Cornwell's Arthur series. Set in 5th or 6th century England about the Saxon invasion. He brilliantly weaves the grittiness of medieval warfare with some of the names from the Arthur legends, with just a light splash of magic.
Rodney Stark has some interesting history books. He has an overt un-PC viewpoint so it makes for a different perspective than the usual. His book on the Crusades is good as well as his "How the West Won" which does a compelling job of crediting western culture and even religion for the tremendous technological strides compared to the rest of the world. As a corollary he downplays the contributions of other societies particularly the Muslims which is in direct contravention with the espoused view that Islam was once the beacon of enlightenment. His arguments are solid and worth a read.
Zealot by Reza Aslan is an interesting look at the historical Jesus.
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:26 pm to Palo Gaucho
Currently reading SevenEves by Neal Stephenson.
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:27 pm to MountainTiger
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Currently reading SevenEves by Neal Stephenson.
Weird, I came in here to post this too..
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Weird, I came in here to post this too..
Well I won't include any spoilers then.
The premise is that for unknown reasons the Moon disintegrates into a bunch of pieces. Two years later many of these moon-chunks crash into Earth essentially setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying life. People saw this coming and created an environment in space for humanity to continue. Within a few years everybody in this environment dies except for 8 women, 7 of them able to bear children. Through artificial insemination, these seven Eves become the mothers of the 7 new races of humanity.
This post was edited on 5/17/16 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:37 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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Goodnight Moon
The sequel was shite though
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:38 pm to Palo Gaucho
Extreme Prey by John Sanford. Next up is Beyond the Ice Limit.
Posted on 5/17/16 at 3:40 pm to StringedInstruments
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About to start The Border Trilogy.
Do it
Cormac's review of Chipotle
SOMA - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
See that false burrito. See it swaddled in tinfoil on the desk in the bowels of that great tower, a bundle of meat and sauce in a place long ago ceded to silicone and copper. The stooped man eating that peasant food as if in consuming it he can escape to a farmfield in a verdant valley and look down and see blood running from his blisters and say, yes this is work. This is work. Instead his hands are clawlike and ruined by the keyboard and the mouse for he is a thing of bone and sinew in a sprawling contraption electric and of man’s creation but not of man at all. And were he to saw his breast open with that plastic knife and soak the carpet black with his hot blood and were he to look ceilingward like some stigmatic enraptured and with the bellows of his lungs let forth a soaring wail in that subbasement his screams would be swallowed by the acoustic panels and repulsed by the good steel door as if he had made no sound and spilled no blood at all.
Posted on 5/17/16 at 10:22 pm to MountainTiger
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Well I won't include any spoilers then
Frick, I just finished up the first part. Your non-spoiler contained spoilers!
It's a so so book thus far. Lots of people think Neal Stephenson the best but I've never really been enthralled by anything of his so far that I've read, Snowcrash is what's coming to mind.
Posted on 5/17/16 at 10:33 pm to ithad2bme
Posted on 5/17/16 at 11:32 pm to OldTigahFot
Just finished "The Old Man and the Boy" by Robert Ruark and "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Next up is undecided, probably go to B&N tomorrow on lunch and find something that looks interesting
This post was edited on 5/17/16 at 11:34 pm
Posted on 5/18/16 at 10:23 am to The Seaward
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How is "what if"? I have it on my to-read list.
It's incredibly entertaining. Obviously you have to be a certain level of nerd to enjoy it but if you are a regular with the comic it's a home run.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 10:45 am to Scooba
Boys in the Boat. 1936 Univ. of Wash. rowing team who embarressed Hitler at 36 Olympics. Very inspirational.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 10:49 am to Palo Gaucho
Almost done with Death of Kings (Bernard Cornwell).
Next up is The Ninth Step (Mark Dawson), the 8th book in the John Milton series.
Looking forward to next Tuesday's release of The City of Mirrors (Justin Cronin), the 3rd book in The Passage Trilogy.
Next up is The Ninth Step (Mark Dawson), the 8th book in the John Milton series.
Looking forward to next Tuesday's release of The City of Mirrors (Justin Cronin), the 3rd book in The Passage Trilogy.
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