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12-12-2009, 10:12 PM | #1156 |
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Just picked up the following:
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Approximately 1500 pages should keep me busy over winter break. |
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12-12-2009, 10:31 PM | #1157 |
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Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified.
I already know all the cocktail party stuff about relativity, but this delves deeper into philosophical issues of space and time.
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12-12-2009, 11:06 PM | #1158 | |
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12-14-2009, 11:54 AM | #1159 | |
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12-14-2009, 11:57 AM | #1160 |
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12-17-2009, 08:56 AM | #1161 |
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Reading The Magicians by Lev Grossman. Really, really enjoying it so far. The premise sounds a little juvenile or simplistic, but it's really good.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...103670_pf.html Below is a good review of the book, but it does offer some details on the book's premise. Not anything out of the ordinary for a book, but if you like to be totally surprised, don't read it. I'll just say that the book involves a brilliant high school senior mildly obsessed with a book series called the Fillory novels (somewhat analagous to the Narnia books). He's about to head off to an Ivy league school when he finds out that magic is real and he's been accepted into a college of magic. It then turns into a sort of grown up Harry Potter series.
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12-17-2009, 10:49 AM | #1162 |
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IN-N-OUT BURGER: A behind-the-counter look at the fast-food chain that breaks all the rules By Stacy Perman.
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12-17-2009, 11:09 AM | #1163 |
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Over the Christmas break, I'm hoping to find time to read the final installment of the Underworld USA trillogy, "Blood's a Rover" by James Ellroy.
Kind of surprised no one else has mentioned it in this thread. |
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12-22-2009, 10:59 AM | #1164 |
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B. Dalton is going out of business, so everything was 40% off. For $35, I picked up
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - H.W. Brands The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 - Lawrence Wright The Odyssey - Homer, translated by Robert bundle of sticksles Poetics - Aristotle, translated by Malcolm Heath The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois |
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12-22-2009, 11:02 AM | #1165 |
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Finished The China Study and now quickly reading Grisham's Ford County before picking out a more substantial read.
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12-22-2009, 11:09 AM | #1166 | |
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12-22-2009, 11:15 AM | #1167 |
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Has anyone read Tad William's Otherland series? I'm halfway through the first one (City of Golden Shadow) and it's pretty good cyber sci fi so far.
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12-22-2009, 11:17 AM | #1168 |
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Currently "Chancellorsville" by Stephen Sears. Just finished Landscape Turned Red, about Antietam, by the same author.
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12-22-2009, 11:30 PM | #1169 |
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I have. However, it has been a while and I don't remember a lot of it. I do remember it was pretty good but very long.
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12-29-2009, 11:15 AM | #1170 |
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