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Old 03-05-2013, 01:24 PM   #2401
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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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Old 03-05-2013, 06:50 PM   #2402
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I just finished The Runner by WJ Davies. It's a good read but their are some inconsistencies with the main Silo story. I don't want to go into them here because it might give too much away. For 99 cents you can't go wrong
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 03-05-2013, 07:00 PM   #2403
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Then I picked up Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
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.

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Old 03-05-2013, 08:07 PM   #2404
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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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Old 03-06-2013, 08:58 AM   #2405
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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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Old 03-06-2013, 09:56 AM   #2406
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"The Warrior's Path"
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Old 03-13-2013, 03:28 PM   #2408
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Finished up Invincible by Troy Denning and Wintersmith by Terry Pratchet.
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Old 03-13-2013, 04:13 PM   #2410
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Old 03-14-2013, 04:29 PM   #2411
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I like Scalzi as well and have read several of his kindle books. Lots more to go
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!!!
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Is it any good? I've been meaning to get to it.
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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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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