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Post by Broadsword on Jan 28, 2006 9:12:31 GMT -5
I don't read as much as I would like to. Right now I work 60 + hours per week so only so much time for any thing. Right now I am reading The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam then 1776 by David McCullough.
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Post by Unsavory on Jan 30, 2006 2:59:31 GMT -5
I'm (kinda) reading a visual guide to the universe. Unsavory like pictures. I'm one of those dopes who's fascinated with the whole scope of everything. When you realize how insignificant life on Earth really is, it makes banning people at random as a way to pass time seem more justifiable.
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Jan 31, 2006 14:38:22 GMT -5
I'm (kinda) reading a visual guide to the universe. Unsavory like pictures. I'm one of those dopes who's fascinated with the whole scope of everything. When you realize how insignificant life on Earth really is, it makes banning people at random as a way to pass time seem more justifiable. Not that you need to justify it. Just that it's handy in case you're ever asked, eh? Ended up not having much time to look when I was at the libo last Saturday. I did manage to grab a book called The Mammoth book of locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes edited by Mike Ashley. I like mammoth books. Not books about mammoths, necessarily--but big ol' honking short story anthologies. Locked-room mysteries are usually "cozy" type mysteries, not so much in the "hard-boiled" or "psychological" genre which I don't personally care for.
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Post by CBG on Jan 31, 2006 17:49:36 GMT -5
The Koran (Qu'ran) The Book of Mormon
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Post by Sheik Yerbouti on Mar 7, 2006 18:20:10 GMT -5
Gonna bump this. So sue me.
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Post by losingmydignity on Mar 7, 2006 18:24:43 GMT -5
Gonna bump this. So sue me. Yeah, but what are you reading? I started Charles Baxter's "Feast of Love" And I'm reading the text book I have to use in class. It's sooooo PC and not very good to boot.
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Post by MSTJedi on Mar 7, 2006 19:10:44 GMT -5
Bram Stoker's Dracula. Rented the movie recently and I must say I prefer the book. I just can't take Keanu Reeves seriously.
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Post by tomservo92 on Mar 7, 2006 19:38:50 GMT -5
I'm reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series for the umpteenth time.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Mar 7, 2006 19:40:35 GMT -5
I just went to the library the other day and checked out a crapload of books, half of which I've plowed through already. Oops. At the moment I'm engrossed in "Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation," which is actually a book on evolutionary biology and sexual selection, but cleverly written as though it were a sex advice column for various obscure species. It's wildly entertaining, plus very informative (did you know that there is a species of fly who manufactures a sperm so large that the equivalent would be a human male producing a sperm as large as a blue whale? Whee!).
Next up is another non-fiction book about the quest to find one of Caravaggio's lost paintings.
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Post by Chuck on Mar 7, 2006 21:28:25 GMT -5
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
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Post by spacechief on Mar 8, 2006 3:21:33 GMT -5
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. But once I'm through with that it's back to the mass collection of Deep Space Nine books I haven't read yet. Plus I'm also working on the Foundation series by Asimov. I read a lot.
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Post by CBG on Mar 8, 2006 9:00:55 GMT -5
Currently... "A New Earth : Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" - Eckhart Tolle Do yourself a favor...do the world a favor...read this book!
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Post by losingmydignity on Mar 8, 2006 14:30:34 GMT -5
Currently... "A New Earth : Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" - Eckhart Tolle Do yourself a favor...do the world a favor...read this book! Sounds like a book that's going to teach me how to eat soy and tofu!
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Post by wedestroymyths on Mar 9, 2006 1:22:40 GMT -5
i'm jealous of everyone. I'm face deep in a research project for school on post-september 11 literature. It's a lot of great reading, but I've been working on it for so long that I'm ready to finish the new Rushdie novel (which I started reading in December).
Anyway, I've been reading tons of Zizek, Baudrillard, Derrida, Acker theory and theory and more theory.
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Post by Chuck on Mar 9, 2006 8:09:50 GMT -5
Bram Stoker's Dracula. Rented the movie recently and I must say I prefer the book. I just can't take Keanu Reeves seriously. Poor KR was soooooooooooo miscast. The book is a favorite of mine, though.
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