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Old 07-07-2010, 08:20 AM   #981
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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.
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Old 07-07-2010, 10:27 AM   #982
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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.
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Old 07-07-2010, 12:41 PM   #983
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Picked up a book from the Alamo called 13 Days to Glory. So far its a pretty good read.
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Old 07-07-2010, 12:44 PM   #984
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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

Awesome book! I had the pleasure of meeting McPherson a few times and hes a really interesting guy to talk to.
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Old 07-07-2010, 12:46 PM   #985
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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.
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:56 PM   #986
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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.
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Old 07-07-2010, 10:53 PM   #987
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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
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Old 07-07-2010, 11:28 PM   #988
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I'm a fan of H.P. Lovecraft!

You play any of the RPG games?
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Old 07-07-2010, 11:39 PM   #989
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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
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Old 07-08-2010, 11:06 AM   #990
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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.
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Old 07-08-2010, 11:38 AM   #991
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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.
The Road is a good one... Read that a little while ago. A little slow, but I liked it. Never did see the movie...
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Old 07-08-2010, 11:40 AM   #992
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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!
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Old 07-08-2010, 11:41 AM   #993
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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...
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Old 07-08-2010, 02:06 PM   #994
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Old 07-08-2010, 02:25 PM   #995
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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
However, now that I'm not doing ANY tabletop games, I'm missing them quite a bit...
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Old 07-08-2010, 06:25 PM   #996
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I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo. Incidentally, I tend to have a cigar while I'm reading.
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Old 07-08-2010, 06:30 PM   #997
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Just finished Malcom Gladwell's Blink, Outliers, and Tipping Point.

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

Now it is The girl with the dragon tattoo.
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Old 07-09-2010, 07:32 PM   #998
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The Runelord series.
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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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