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Blak Smyth 12-01-2011 07:24 AM

Re: What are you reading?
 
Well I am not a reader but I almost picked up the audio book "The girl with the dragon tattoo", it is too expensive though. I listened to the audio book "Rant" pretty weird and interesting.

blugill 12-01-2011 12:05 PM

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Ready Player One is a fantastic and fun read!
The story is geared towards anyone who grew up around the pop culture of video games, arcades, the 80's, and geekdom!

It revolves around The Oasis, a MMORPG that has evolved more into a way of life. The real world is harsh, cold, and brutal in the future. The Oasis is the escape. You can go to public school through it, attend church, run a business, anything. The inventor dies one day and leaves a Easter Egg embedded in the game that contains his entire fortune and few clues.

That's the story and it's just a very engaging book that made me wish for another thousand pages in this universe!

Beagleone 12-01-2011 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DTM (Post 1483162)
11/22/63 - Stephen King

I picked this up through the Kindle app when it came out. So far, I am liking it. However I am taking my time to read since the last few books I plowed through too quickly.

Jasonw560 12-01-2011 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Starscream (Post 1481002)
The Unvanquished by Faulkner:tu:tu


Anything by Faulkner deserves at least two thumbs up.

Meh.

I'm not a fan of run-ons that are (at least) a page long. Stream-of-consciousness isn't my cup of tea.

Faulkner's characters families are a lot like my relatives in the South.

I've made it through Faulkner's books, except for "Absalom, Absalom". I literally got a headache reading it.

With that being said, Hemingway is more for me. I started "For Whom the Bell Tolls" again a few nights ago.

mastershogun 12-01-2011 09:10 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by paris1129 (Post 1489212)
Just a fantastic book. I finished this last week!!

Just finished the Hunger Games trilogy, this was also a really good set. Highly recommend!!

Wife has been trying to get me to read the hunger games trilogy... just haven't gotten around to make time

replicant_argent 12-07-2011 07:35 AM

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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

It will make you shudder a little bit.

hotreds 12-07-2011 08:08 AM

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Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? by Pat Buchanan

BeerAdvocate 12-07-2011 08:36 AM

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SEAL Team Six

James In NC 12-07-2011 08:38 AM

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WITH WINNING IN MIND by Lanny Bassham. Lanny was an Olympic Marksman and the book is on positive image and reinforcement as a training tool for success.

taltos 12-07-2011 04:00 PM

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Does the Noise in my Head Bother You? Steven Tyler

elderboy02 12-24-2011 08:37 AM

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I finished The Blind Side by Michael Lewis the other day. If you liked the movie, you will like the book.

Now I am starting Regis Philbin's book "How I Got This Way"

Chainsaw13 12-24-2011 08:48 AM

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Just finished Marshall Ulrich's book "Running on Empty". (Thanks goomer!) It's about his quest to break the transcontinental record for running across the USA. Inspirational read.

kelmac07 12-24-2011 08:59 AM

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Lee Childs "Enemy"

MedicCook 12-24-2011 09:05 AM

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Joe Hill's "Horns"

Eleven 12-24-2011 09:51 AM

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The Language of God (finished)

The Language of Science and Faith

kelmac07 12-24-2011 09:53 AM

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About to start Stephen Kings "Under The Dome"

rebelknight 12-24-2011 10:48 PM

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Sex, bombs and burgers. Got this for christmas and never heard of it but so far its really good

ApexAZ 12-24-2011 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by kelmac07 (Post 1511999)
About to start Stephen Kings "Under The Dome"

I loved that book. It's kind of cheesy, like in a The Tommyknockers kind of way, but still very engaging.

MedicCook 12-24-2011 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by kelmac07 (Post 1511999)
About to start Stephen Kings "Under The Dome"

Good book. For the size of it, it reads pretty fast.

Jasonw560 12-25-2011 12:52 PM

Re: What are you reading?
 
Got "Manvotinals" for Christmas. Reading that at present.

pnoon 12-25-2011 12:59 PM

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The Quickie. James Patterson.

jledou 12-26-2011 05:46 AM

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The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett.

DTM 12-29-2011 06:41 PM

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Just picked up Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

Moose6026 12-29-2011 07:40 PM

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, saw it never really gave it a second glance until I saw everyone on here saying how good it was. As an aside I just got a Kindle Touch for my b-day so now a new way to read for me.

taltos 12-30-2011 06:09 AM

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Mike Lawson, The Inside Ring.

ApexAZ 12-30-2011 10:16 AM

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Back to George R.R. Martin A Storm of Swords. I've read the first 3 books and couldn't get through book 4, A Feast For Crows. So much time had passed that when I finally picked it up, I had forgotten much of what went on. So now I'm halfway through book 3 in the series and don't plan to stop until I've read them all.

bigpedunn 12-30-2011 10:51 AM

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Bill Cosby , I didn"t ask to be born but I"m glad I was.

Steve 12-30-2011 11:00 AM

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A Good Life Wasted: or Twenty Years as a Fishing Guide

BSB 12-31-2011 11:07 AM

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"Deception" by Randy Alcorn. Almost done, good read. I'm looking at some of his other novels to buy.

qwerty1500 12-31-2011 12:08 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DTM (Post 1483162)
11/22/63 - Stephen King

Just started it.

Apoco 01-03-2012 07:14 AM

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I started up the hunger games last night.

I am kind of shocked - my kindle said that I am already 15% of the way through it. I'm a slow reader (or at least I used to be). I'm wondering if using a kindle instead of a book has sped me up. Being able to make the text larger is definitely helping - I always seemed to have trouble going down the next line before...but now the lines have more space in between them! :tu
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Dr Voss 01-03-2012 07:26 AM

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Started the One Year Bible. I have always wanted to read it from cover to cover but never taken the time so here goes.....

RevSmoke 01-03-2012 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr Voss (Post 1518911)
Started the One Year Bible. I have always wanted to read it from cover to cover but never taken the time so here goes.....

God's blessings on that.

Eleven 01-03-2012 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr Voss (Post 1518911)
Started the One Year Bible. I have always wanted to read it from cover to cover but never taken the time so here goes.....

Awesome!

I could never seem to get going with my bible, but last year I used my phone and the app "YouVersion" and got through the bible in 90 days.

I think I'm going to do it again this year, on a longer than 90 day, but shorter than 1 year plan.

goomer 01-03-2012 07:52 AM

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Currently reading Atlas Shrugged.

sevans105 01-05-2012 02:57 AM

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Just closed Executive Orders by Tom Clancy.

The man can tell a story.

taltos 01-05-2012 05:44 AM

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Blood Ties by Lori Armstrong.

Apoco 01-05-2012 06:12 AM

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Finished up the hunger games last night. Really enjoyable read - I'm gonna start on part 2 (Catching Fire) tonight. Already got the kindle loaded and ready to go :r
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kugie 01-05-2012 07:17 AM

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Gauntlgrym (Neverwinter Series Book 1)

Blak Smyth 01-05-2012 07:44 AM

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Ken, what are you reading?:r

BSB 01-05-2012 09:54 AM

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"Bel Aire Dead" by Stuart Woods
Doing the Bible in 1 year, too. Some Old and some New, each day.

SteelCityBoy 01-05-2012 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Blak Smyth (Post 1521184)
Ken, what are you reading?:r

Sex Zombies...got it from Shane! Said it was right up his ally! :r:r:r

Blak Smyth 01-05-2012 10:30 AM

Re: What are you reading?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by SteelCityBoy (Post 1521385)
Sex Zombies...got it from Shane! Said it was right up his ally! :r:r:r

Sex Zombies -True
got it from Shane -False


Review???

hotreds 01-05-2012 11:04 AM

Re: What are you reading?
 
After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn

Apoco 01-05-2012 11:23 AM

Re: What are you reading?
 
So...it has been a slow day at work. With my handy dandy kindle app on my phone I am 10% through the 2nd Hunger Games book Catching Fire already :r

Either I have picked up A LOT of reading speed since high school (the last time I really read very much) or this is just a very short/simple read.
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SteelCityBoy 01-05-2012 11:52 AM

Re: What are you reading?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Blak Smyth (Post 1521395)
Sex Zombies -True
got it from Shane -False


Review???

Ok, ok...so I didn't get it from you! :r:r:r but I will be sure you get a copy because I know you'll love it! :r

No review yet, I will reserve for final judgement upon completion! :D

jledou 01-06-2012 06:27 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kugie (Post 1521165)
Gauntlgrym (Neverwinter Series Book 1)

Almost done with the Ghost King and then this is next on the list.

LauraAnne 01-06-2012 07:39 PM

Re: What are you reading?
 
I am rereading ‘Crime and Punishment’ for about the 4th time.
No one does it like Dostoevsky! I am convinced we were married in a previous life….

heavyd 01-06-2012 08:19 PM

Re: What are you reading?
 
I'm reading "Emperors Don't Die In Bed" By Fik Meijer. It's a chronicle about the insanely interesting ways in which the Roman emperors met their fate :)

heavyd 01-06-2012 08:23 PM

Re: What are you reading?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Apoco (Post 1518905)
I started up the hunger games last night.

I am kind of shocked - my kindle said that I am already 15% of the way through it. I'm a slow reader (or at least I used to be). I'm wondering if using a kindle instead of a book has sped me up. Being able to make the text larger is definitely helping - I always seemed to have trouble going down the next line before...but now the lines have more space in between them! :tu
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books are much easier to read on Kindle. I think it has to do with deceased eye-strain. I used to fall asleep reading, but with Kindle I can read all night. I have to cut myself off...or sleep all day at work the next :)


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