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The Third Science Fiction Megapack: 26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Tales [Kindle Edition]

I love short stories and these Megapacks are great -- especially at 99 cents for nearly 600 pages.

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I started reading it and put it down when the gay cowboy thing started developing. I'll pick it up again when I'm not as bigoted.

Then I picked up Old Man's War by John Scalzi. You'd love it. I flew right through and and I'm tearing through Ghost Brigades, which is the next installment.
I thought I liked Heinlein, then I really liked Neal Stephenson, then Hugh Howey, but Scalzi I really enjoy. Light humor, moves along, great imagination, the stories never stall for a second.
It's gonna take me awhile to get through all his books, but I'm very much looking forward to it!!!

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Old Man's War was fantastic. Ghost brigades is sitting in my kindle library waiting for me to start chugging along through.

But I had a gauntlet thrown down that has side tracked me. I was scoffed at for having not read the harry potter books. Followed by "You just wouldn't get it" (sarcastically, of course). So now I'm reading it and giving them a 20 minute play-by-play every day of what I read the night before.

I ALWAYS get the last laugh :D

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I like Scalzi as well and have read several of his kindle books. Lots more to go :)

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You might want to check out Rick Partlow (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show...0.Rick_Partlow) he has two books out that are both pretty good.

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"The Warrior's Path"

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1984 by George Orwell

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Finished up Invincible by Troy Denning and Wintersmith by Terry Pratchet.

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American Sniper by Chris Kyle

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"Ride the River"

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I just finished Old Man's War, Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, and Android's Dream. I skipped Zoe's Tale(?), it's another Old Man's War book told from the kid's point of view.
I'm reading Fuzzy Nation right now and I love it.

I've been reading a book every couple days, I'm going broke. If you guys are on Kindle and want to swap some books, that'd be AWESOME!!! :)

How much of Tolkien have you read? It is full of names and information, so it is a little slow at the beginning until you get used to the names being thrown at you. It is not as intense as The Silmarillion but it does give great background to the Hobbit and Middle Earth Trilogy. I would say that I got hooked in by the 3rd chapter.
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Escape from Camp 14 - great fast read about the horrors of evil North Korea

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Running Blind by Lee Child

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The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack [Kindle Edition] (cost: 99 cents); includes:

Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads, by Mary A. Turzillo
Food for Friendship, by E.C. Tubb
The Life Work of Professor Muntz, by Murray Leinster
Beyond Lies the Wub, by Philip K. Dick
Pictures Don’t Lie, by Katherine MacLean
The Big Trip Up Yonder, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Storm Warning, by Donald A. Wollheim
The Application of Discipline, by Jason Andrew
Tom the Universe, by Larry Hodges
Wild Seed, by Carmelo Rafala
Tabula Rasa, by Ray Cluley
The Eyes of Thar, by Henry Kuttner
Regenesis, by Cynthia Ward
Not Omnipotent Enough, by George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt
Plato’s Bastards, by James C. Stewart
Pen Pal, by Milton Lesser
Living Under the Conditions, by James K. Moran
The Arbiter, by John Russell Fearn
The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy, by Marissa Lingen
Top Secret, by David Grinnell
Living Under the Conditions, by James K. Moran
Sense of Obligation, by Harry Harrison
Angel's Egg, by Edgar Pangborn
Youth, by Isaac Asimov
Anthem, by Ayn Rand

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Several books on jungian psychology and body language...very interesting!

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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss

Good read, slanted but interesting to think about.

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Still plugging thru the Sackett series, now reading "The Lonely Men"

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Two Graves-Preston and Child

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I finished Agent To The Stars - John Scalzi a little while back. It was fun. Scalzi really does a great job, unfortunately I'm running out of books he's authored.

I switched gears and I'm force-feeding myself Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe. I've been trying to get around to it for months. It's slow going, but I'll get it in me eventually. I kinda switched back to movies for a little bit.

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Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin. Third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. Basically the Game of Thrones series. Really good stuff.

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Darth Plageuis

good so far.

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Pete Dexters "Spooner".

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The Martian by Andy Weir and R. C. Bray

I have to say I was surprised at how good this book was. I could not put it down. The writing had a nice blend of technical details, plot, story and humor. I highly recommend it!

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Cross Country by James Patterson

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WIRED by Douglas E. Richards

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Point Your Face at This by Demetri Martin - really more viewing than reading but a book none the less
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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The O'Reilly factor

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A Feast for Crows (book 4 of a song of ice and fire) by George R.R. Martin

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Killing Floor by Lee Child and Trader of Secrets by Steve Madriani

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Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

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Damn Few/Making the Modern SEAL Warrior
by Rorke Denver and Ellis Henican. :tu

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The Remnant by William Giles. It's a apocolyptic fiction novel that had me hooked in the first chapter. Written by a local author and professionally printed by our company, one of the best independently published books I've seen. It is available on Amazon as an ebook or the author will sell direct.

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The Lords of Salem - Rob Zombie and B. K. Evenson

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Michael, I just dug this thread out to suggest The Martian to you, I finished it the other night. I knew you'd like it. And what's even crazier is that right now I'm reading Wired. What are the odds?
The sequel to Wired is Amped, looks like I'll read that. Right before The Martian I read Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson. Loved it. If you haven't read Snow Crash, you should check out the sample. Great book. I wish he wrote more sci-fi, but he only has one other title in that genre and it sounds sucky.

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I will have to check these out when I get back home. Thanks for the suggestions!

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The Human Division -John Scalzi is done now, Michael. It was one of those "chapter a week for $.99 each" deals they do. I'm pretty certain it's based on the Old Man's War series, which was EXCELLENT.
It's ready on the 14th of May, all collated into one book for $12.99.
Here's a link so you can check it out.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Human-Divi...I2FG3OMUVD0EU8

Here's a link to Scalzi's page at Amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/John-Scalzi/e/...751&sr=1-2-ent

(Sorry for not hyper linking. It's hell on my iPad.)

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Ender's Shadow. It's Ender's Game but Bean's view. Pretty cool idea and works really well, if you liked Ender's Game you'll really enjoy this.

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Jurassic Park
Daytripper

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Thanks for the info Scott -- I have started Human Division and really like it.

I just finished The Fifth Science Fiction Megapack -- short stories by:
Allen Steele
Jay Lake and Ken Scholes
Gardner Dozois
Avram Davidson
Carol Emshwiller
Charles L. Fontenay
Cory Doctorow
Pamela Sargent
George Zebrowski
Brenda W. Clough
Bruce Bethke
Everett B. Cole
Sterling E. Lanier
Keith Laumer
Grania Davis
Lawrence Watt-Evans
James C. Stewart
Alan E. Nourse
Frederik Pohl
Rick Raphael
Robert Sheckley
Walter J. Sheldon
Walter S. Tevis
Donald E. Westlake
Darrell Schweitzer

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Just finished Vol. 3 of Proust, and have started Cities Of The Plain . . . though how the translator got that from Marcel's title, Sodome et Gomorrhe, I'll never know. :confused:

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Just finished 1984. I must say, it was a fantastic read.

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A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius by John Joseph Adams.

Several entertaining short stories.

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Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles) by Robin Hobb

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Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi

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Hidden Prey by John Sandford

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How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story by John Scalzi

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Just finished an oldie but a goodie: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I've picked it up and read a little bit of it several times over the past decade, but never committed to reading it from cover to cover. What an amazing read, and very thought provoking. But, not an easy book to read. Anyone else who's read it will understand why...

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Yep.