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:tu:tu

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Hour game

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Duff McKagan-It's so Easy

Doesn't seem to be as good of a start as Slash's book, bu still good nonetheless. I have Adler's book on the way.

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For some reason that book took me two weeks to finish.


Starting Mortal by Dekker/Lee today.

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Very cool :tu Adler's I am very interested in.

I just started Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg

That was a good, quick read. That same author (Hugh Howey) released a new short story called "The Plagiarist" about 3 months ago - it is worth a read as well. Be warned - I read it in about 2 hours...so I'm not kidding when I say "short" ;)

I'm now 1 month into Lord of the Rings. The storyline is fantastic - but Tolkein gives so. much. detail. I'm only like 40% of the way through the trilogy...
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Thanks Alex I will take a look at it.

I just read The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury this week on at "quick" trip to China.

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What did you think of the book? It took me a while to read as well.

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I can't really figure out why it took me about 2x as long to read, I liked it a lot. I think that maybe during the first half, I wasn't reading as much as I usually do each night. After I hit around 60% (Kindle version, I love seeing percentages and not page numbers!) it flew by.

There were 2 parts in the book where my heart rate was actually going nuts, like I was there, feeling the adrenaline.

So many authors use extreme details in their books, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but in this case I think it helped put you into the action instead of just bombarding you with useless minutiae like what kind of shoelaces people were wearing. The very detailed descriptions of weapons and clothing helped paint an amazing picture in my head of what was going on.

Stephen Lawhead does the same thing in "The Skin Map" and "The Bone House" but not nearly as effective as Bracken does.

I'm juggling a couple trilogies right now, after Mortal I think I'll get Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista and read it. I like allowing books time to sink in before I hop into the next one in a series.

Thanks for the heads up on this one Dan, I've already recommended it to another friend who's into the espionage genre.

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Very cool! My adrenaline was flowing too in a couple places. I also think it took a while to read b/c I didn't read enough each night. I love reading with the Kindle app on the iPad b/c the percentages help :tu

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1493
Charles Mann's followup to 1491. Covers the effects seen even today of the Columbian revolution that intertwined Europe with America, China, and Africa. About half way through and excellent so far.

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The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. I am on book 4 of 7 now. I never thought i would like it but a freind of mine kept bugging me to read it so I finally tried it out. I will say this is a fantastic series!

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Dean Koontz Odd Apocalypse -- the latest in his Odd Thomas series

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Watchmen. From what I've seen so far they did a fantastic job with the movie

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Just finished A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens. Really good book, though on occasion his writing style is hard to follow.

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Just finished "The Heart and the Fist" -- impressive book

"The Very Best Men" -- Early CIA days. Post WW II through Kennedy admin.

"The Mick" -- Mantle's autobio

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Finished Mortal last night. I'm not sure that I'm a fan of reading a series before they are all published :)

This is the second series that I'm now waiting on the next book to be published...

Dan have you read the second Enemies book by Matthew Bracken? I'm considering getting that one next...

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I finished off Duff's and it was pretty good, but not as good as Slash's. I've started Adler's book. It's interesting to read how he and slash were friends at such a young age.

The other book I picked up and will start on is Brian "Head" Welch's book.

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The Man who quit money = this book will make you think!!!

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Killing Floor by Lee Child

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Reading???

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Just picked up Siddhartha off my shelf. Haven't read it in probably 10 years.

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You are a better man than I. Could not finish it. Granted this was a number of years ago, but I have no desire to try again...

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I breezed through it in a few days the first time I read it. But I was young and full of idealogical values at the time, along with an open mind towards exploring different religions. Figured it would be interesting to see how my view has changed after years of cynicism and the "real world" have taken their toll. Some books can totally change depending on what path you're on.

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11/22/63

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Side Jobs (Stories From The Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher

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I don't think I've ever posted in this thread.

I recently finished up the Hunger Games trilogy, A Study in Scarlet, and The Sign of the Four.

I am currently reading The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, and Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson.

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Just finished "The Prodigal Hour" by Will Entrekin...was a free ebook on Amazon...I probably would not have spent money on it, but it wasn't a bad read.

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How is this one?

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Ghost Story A Dresden Files Novel by Jim Butcher

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I finished Fellowship of the Ring last night. The funniest line was "So _____ and _____ continued on the final leg of the journey"

...there's still two books to go...is this really the "final leg"...?

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I am in the beginning of 2 books,

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand... Would LOVE to find it in print as I am reading it in PDF and it is rather cumbersome, Willing to pay if anyone has a copy they wouldn't mind selling...

and

1984 by Georage Orwell...

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Duty, Honor, Planet by Rick Partlow (A Kindle Book [Short Story])

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Started "Piercing The Darkness" by Frank Peretti a day or so ago.

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Reading The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

Really really interesting book about how epidemics start (both disease and social related).

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Finished reading Mansfield Park over the weekend, about to start up Fahrenheit 451.

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The complete life's little instruction book. Just a page or two a day of this
storm of swords. Not that far yet but i have a good feeling about it. It seems to get right into all the action of clash of kings

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Just finished Fahrenheit 451.... now to hit up the book store to buy some new ones.

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Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly

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"You Must Be New Around Here" by Dick Pitman. An intriguing first-hand account of a British journalist's experiences living in the embattled African nation of Rhodesia at the end of the Bush War in the late 1970s.

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I've gotten into audio books. Been making good use of my 1 hour a day of commute to/from work.

I've already listened to Ender's Shadow (takes place at the same time as Ender's Game but from the point of view of a different character). I"m now working on Shadow of the Hegemon which takes place right after Ender's Shadow.

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D-Days in the Pacific by Donald L. Miller

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Neuromancing the Stone by Lish McBride

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Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs

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"Lone Survivors: How we came to be the only humans on earth" by Chris Stringer an anthropologist/paleontologist from England's Natural History museum. The latest developments in the study of human evolution. Written for the layman it seems pretty good so far though I'm only about 1/4 through.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway. It's the first book of his that I've ever read, and even though I'm only a hundred pages in I'm falling in love with it. Definitely going to read more of his stuff after this one is finished.

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The Bride Wore Black Leather (a Nightside Novel) by Simon R. Green

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The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson. It's a beast but a fairly well written one. Not as good as Cryptonomicon or Snow Crash, but pretty decent.

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Winter of the World by Ken Follett.