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kydsid 07-07-2010 08:20 AM

Re: What are you reading?
 
No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns ex ATF UC Officer


Good story. A little over the top maybe even if partially true but good read for a biography about UC work.

timj219 07-07-2010 10:27 AM

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Just finished "Parasite Rex" by Carl Zimmer. Fantastic book if a little creepy at times. Zimmer is an excellent science writer and this book about parasites (who apparently make up the majority of species) is written for the layman. The author has a blog I like and one of my favorite features is this. He asked one day in his blog if anyone had a science tattoo and the pictures started coming in so he set up a space for them and adds a new one every Friday.

Now I'm on to "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Pretty dark as you'd expect from him.

gettysburgfreak 07-07-2010 12:41 PM

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Picked up a book from the Alamo called 13 Days to Glory. So far its a pretty good read.

gettysburgfreak 07-07-2010 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by UFPowersmoker320 (Post 909278)
Reading James McPherson's Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Going off to Graduate school in History at Clemson and Ordeal by Fire is one of the preeminent Civil War works of the century so I figured I better read it :tu


Awesome book! I had the pleasure of meeting McPherson a few times and hes a really interesting guy to talk to.

Azaelius 07-07-2010 12:46 PM

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Courage and Honor, an Ultramarines novel by Graham Mcneill. Amazing writing, though a bit quiet compared to Storm of Iron, the last one I read, which was basically BATTLEBATTLEBATTLEBATTLEBATTLE the whole way through. The 40K universe makes for some good reading.

qwerty1500 07-07-2010 06:56 PM

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The Great Bridge by David McCullough. I wrote a term paper about the Brooklyn Bridge during a college urban history class. Now, I understand why the professor didn't seem all that impressed.

Volcodom 07-07-2010 10:53 PM

Re: What are you reading?
 
Right now I'm reading some of Edgar Allen Poe and a little H.P. Lovecraft. I also read lots of fan fiction, but honestly some of that barely gets past the third grade level, but it's an addiction

Emjaysmash 07-07-2010 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Volcodom (Post 910121)
Right now I'm reading some of Edgar Allen Poe and a little H.P. Lovecraft. I also read lots of fan fiction, but honestly some of that barely gets past the third grade level, but it's an addiction

I'm a fan of H.P. Lovecraft!

You play any of the RPG games?

Volcodom 07-07-2010 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Emjaysmash (Post 910146)
I'm a fan of H.P. Lovecraft!

You play any of the RPG games?

You mean any of the tabletop games for Lovecraft? I've seen a few, but I have never had the pleasure though I'm sure anything with shogoth in it would be a welcome change from D&D

White97Jimmy 07-08-2010 11:06 AM

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Currently reading "Never Tell Our Business To Strangers" by Jennifer Mascia.

Beginning was decent, but it's starting to drag out. Should be able to finish it off tonight though.

bsmokin 07-08-2010 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by timj219 (Post 909384)
Just finished "Parasite Rex" by Carl Zimmer. Fantastic book if a little creepy at times. Zimmer is an excellent science writer and this book about parasites (who apparently make up the majority of species) is written for the layman. The author has a blog I like and one of my favorite features is this. He asked one day in his blog if anyone had a science tattoo and the pictures started coming in so he set up a space for them and adds a new one every Friday.

Now I'm on to "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Pretty dark as you'd expect from him.

The Road is a good one... Read that a little while ago. A little slow, but I liked it. Never did see the movie...

bsmokin 07-08-2010 11:40 AM

Re: What are you reading?
 
I'm reading Magician: Apprentice (Riftwar Saga) by Raymond Feist

I do most of my reading while smoking cigars on the back deck. Doesn't get much better than that!

bsmokin 07-08-2010 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by bjones (Post 910502)
I'm reading Magician: Apprentice (Riftwar Saga) by Raymond Feist

I do most of my reading while smoking cigars on the back deck. Doesn't get much better than that!


I guess I should have mentioned that I like the book so far. I'm one who's been searching for something comparable to Tolkien for some time. This book tries... we'll see...

Starscream 07-08-2010 02:06 PM

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Rising Stars (Volumes I and II)

waffle 07-08-2010 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Volcodom (Post 910148)
You mean any of the tabletop games for Lovecraft? I've seen a few, but I have never had the pleasure though I'm sure anything with shogoth in it would be a welcome change from D&D

:tpd: However, now that I'm not doing ANY tabletop games, I'm missing them quite a bit...

holli4pirating 07-08-2010 06:25 PM

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I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo. Incidentally, I tend to have a cigar while I'm reading.

Mugen910 07-08-2010 06:30 PM

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Just finished Malcom Gladwell's Blink, Outliers, and Tipping Point.

Also The art of driving in the rain. :tu my fav so far.

Now it is The girl with the dragon tattoo.
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Rabidsquirrel 07-09-2010 07:32 PM

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The Runelord series.

BeerAdvocate 07-11-2010 07:33 PM

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Black by Ted Dekker

M1903A1 07-11-2010 08:01 PM

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"Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History" by Simon Winder. It has lots of lore and ancient history about Germany that I never knew before, and now some aspects of German culture (and certain events between the late 1800s and 1945) are beginning to fall into place.


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