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robsta
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Topic: Books. What are you reading or what have you read-Posted: Jul/27/2012 at 9:49pm |
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61 hours by Lee Child was pretty dang good. |
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woodhomie1996
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Posted: Jul/28/2012 at 7:50am |
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Re-reading The Road
Great book good movie! |
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getkong
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I thought Into Thin Air was actually a bit dry. I found the story to be amazing, but the writing wasnt my favorite.
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snowboardinrox357
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Posted: Jul/28/2012 at 1:49pm |
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To Kill A Mockingbird was a good book :)
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woodhomie1996
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Posted: Jul/29/2012 at 12:14pm |
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Just bought "The Hunger Games"
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soxfan47104
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Posted: Jul/30/2012 at 2:36pm |
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The Odyssey is a great book!
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snowboardinrox357
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Posted: Jul/30/2012 at 3:07pm |
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I liked reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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woodhomie1996
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Posted: Aug/12/2012 at 11:48am |
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Finished "The Hunger Games" a few days ago.
Starting "Catching Fire" now. |
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getkong
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Posted: Aug/12/2012 at 12:36pm |
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Finally decided to read the lord of the rings trilogy. Will probably start after finishing A Storm of Swords.
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Posted: Aug/12/2012 at 3:27pm |
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Just finished WAR by Sebastian Junger, and also watched Restrepo.
Now onto Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent. |
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Posted: Aug/12/2012 at 3:34pm |
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I almost finished reading "The Host" by Stephanie Meyer, same author of Twilight, but lost the book, couldn't be arsed to get another one. It was a decent read, probably easier to relate with for female teens and tweens. Apparently it's being made into a movie soon.
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steezemisterr
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Posted: Aug/12/2012 at 4:12pm |
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Just finished the final book in the Harry Potter series. Too bad I already watched the movies but the books were way better.
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snowboardinrox357
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Posted: Aug/12/2012 at 5:32pm |
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^Most books are better than the movies. I finished reading the Bourne series.
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getkong
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Posted: Aug/13/2012 at 9:09am |
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would you recommend them? i thoroughly enjoyed the movies, but none of my friends have read them, so i'm not sure if i want to add it to my long list of books to read.
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Posted: Aug/13/2012 at 9:50am |
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I'm reading The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, and I'm really liking it. It gives you a new way of looking at everyday life.
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RastaRider
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Posted: Aug/13/2012 at 8:34pm |
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Picked up The Hunger Games earlier, gonna see what the hype is all about. Wanted to get Ender's Game too since it seems to be popular in this thread but they didn't have any copies.
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snowboardinrox357
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Posted: Aug/14/2012 at 2:58pm |
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The Ender's Game is a pretty good book.
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JoeRocket1212
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i just figured out how to upload a book onto my kindle from personal library... i feel so empowered. like my library has just expanded by a million books!
anyone know of a good site to download ebooks?
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snowboardinrox357
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Posted: Aug/16/2012 at 11:30pm |
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Just finished reading the Da Vinci Code.
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woodhomie1996
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Posted: Aug/17/2012 at 5:31am |
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How did you like it, I heard it was really good. |
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ctoma
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Posted: Aug/17/2012 at 5:38am |
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The Da Vinci Code was pretty good although Dan Brown's Angels and Demons was better (the first of the Robert Langdon [main character in the Da Vinci Code] trilogy). |
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^It was exciting. I've also read and watched the movie for Angels and Demons.
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ctoma
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^ I couldn't watch either movie, Tom Hanks would be my last choice to play Robert Langdon.
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woodhomie1996
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Posted: Aug/18/2012 at 10:33am |
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Almost done with "Catching Fire" going to start "Sharpe Objects" soon
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woodhomie1996
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Changed my mind going to start the third book "Mockingjay"
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ctoma
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Posted: Aug/21/2012 at 6:35am |
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You considered not finishing the trilogy? You gotta read the last book! |
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Posted: Aug/21/2012 at 7:00am |
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Currently reading The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, this dood was pretty freakin amazing.
I highly recommend this if you are into history
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Posted: Aug/21/2012 at 7:14am |
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Finally started reading bedtime stories to my little one.
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is it just me? or is common sense not that common.
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Posted: Aug/21/2012 at 8:52am |
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Lance Armstrongs Biography
LET HIM RACE IN THE IRONMAN CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!!!!!! |
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getkong
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Posted: Aug/21/2012 at 10:02am |
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especially since they're just easy reads. i just finished a storm of swords, and was originally going to move onto lord of the rings (& the hobbit), but went right into a feast for crows. damn long books...
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Posted: Aug/21/2012 at 10:46am |
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Anyone read John Irving's books? My friend left one of his books at my house so I'm thinking of reading it.
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woodhomie1996
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Posted: Aug/22/2012 at 11:32am |
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They are easy reads! I was going to start something else but figured since they first 2 were fresh in my mind I might as well finish the trilogy.
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snowboardinrox357
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Posted: Aug/22/2012 at 3:13pm |
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Finished reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
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Posted: Aug/23/2012 at 6:27am |
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Not a book, but I just watched the hunger games and was disappointed. Its so hard to make a good book into a good movie.
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woodhomie1996
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Posted: Aug/23/2012 at 6:40am |
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Agreed, I liked the movie but the book was way better! |
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Posted: Aug/23/2012 at 11:00am |
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It's a great movie. You just can fit all the context and details of a book into a movie, and sometimes necessity requires some changes.
If anyone hasn't read the book, they'll tell you it is a good movie. I think they did some things really well, from the casting to the end scene. |
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I love the non-fiction/history recommendation Diviesti.
Any good non-fiction recommendations about the New Deal/Great Depression era stuff, anyone?
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getkong
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Posted: Aug/24/2012 at 9:39am |
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grapes of wrath? it's a novel, but it's a good one.
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Posted: Aug/24/2012 at 9:51am |
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I'm finally getting around to reading the hunger games
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Posted: Aug/25/2012 at 12:46pm |
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Has anyone read The Dream Team, by Jack McCallum? Thinking about picking it up but haven't heard a lot about it.
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snowboardinrox357
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Posted: Aug/26/2012 at 5:07pm |
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Read The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
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Reading the book thief. An interesting set up considering that 'death' is the narrator
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Does anybody know any good books to read?
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Posted: Aug/27/2012 at 2:52pm |
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i hate reading
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butt it makes yor brian big!
I haven't gotten into this thread yet. Has Freakonomics been mentioned? What a great book. I wouldn't rely on it as an info bible, but it is still quite informative and entertaining. Along the same lines: Outliers by Malcom Gladwell ![]() It's a book you would expect yourself to get hooked into, but once you start don't expect to put it down anytime soon. It looks at if/why successful people (not necessarily financially, two examples are Canadian Hockey players and chess masters) are given an advantage from the start and what really sets them apart. Makes you think about what your advantage in life is. :)
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^^^ Outliers is excellent. I read it a couple years ago.
I plan on reading Freakanomics in the future.
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http://www.gutenberg.org/ if you are looking for classics |
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snowboardinrox357
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Finished reading White Fang by Jack London.
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woodhomie1996
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Still haven't gotten through "Mocking Jay" yet. Been super busy and I don't find it as entertaining as the other 2 books.
But I am ready for a new book soon. |
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Ive got till Tuesday to finish reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley for school and I'm only on the second chapter, oh boy.
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