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Old 03-11-2006, 10:37 PM  
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Ok for the high brow crowd what books you are reading
I'm reading The New American Revolution by tammy bruce. She is a great thinker and funny.
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Old 03-02-2014, 09:00 PM   #2176
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Old 03-02-2014, 09:52 PM   #2177
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Old 04-05-2014, 08:54 PM   #2178
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Oscar Wao is ****ing excellent.
Turned out better than it started. Good read.

Let's see...I just finished the following:

Carolyn See's "Golden Days"
- Absolute garbage. One of, if not the worst book I've ever read. I don't really know how I ended up with this book. Thought it was a loaner from a friend, and figured I'd read it and give it back. It wasn't. Tragically. Based on mid-80's California before/during/after a nuclear war. Characters are poorly fleshed out and utterly unbelievable. I seriously could not finish this book fast enough.

Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken"
- Pretty good, quick read from the author of "Seabiscuit." Story about Louie Zamperini, a former Olympic runner and WWII POW. Well written with good flow. The one thing is, she picked a guy who's story was already told a number of times and was extremely well documented. That doesn't discount the quality of her writing, which is very good, but it was a very easy book to research in terms of a biographical novel.

Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael"
- The philosophical musings and teachings of the potential destruction or salvation of the planet by a sentient gorilla to an inquisitive 20-something aspiring writer looking for the meaning of life. Brings up some interesting, but basic societal mores relating to the human race and it's global impact. The plot becomes quite repetitious and a bit annoying due to that until the very end. Spurred me to once again pick up J.M. Roberts "A Short History of the World," which I'm currently about 1/4 of the way through.
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Old 04-05-2014, 08:57 PM   #2179
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The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840, by Daniel Feller
American Slavery 1619-1877, by Peter Kolchin
A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837, by Paul E. Johnson
Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination, by Robert Abzug
The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (with a new Afterword!), by Charles E. Rosenberg

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Old 04-06-2014, 12:22 AM   #2180
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Old 04-06-2014, 01:43 AM   #2181
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Read "The Twelve" which is the sequel to "The Passage."

If you've read "The Passage" you know what to expect, as the book is more of the same post-apocalyptic vampire fiction. Really enjoyable, quick read, though Cronin's prose gets strained at times as he attempts to be "literary." It's still much better than the massive amounts of shit that has flooded this genre over the last 5 years or so.
I recently listened to the audiobooks on both of those recently while getting some exercise and they were really enjoyable in that format.
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Old 04-06-2014, 01:51 AM   #2182
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Oscar Wao is ****ing excellent.
Adding this to the top of the queue.

Next up I have been reading good things about is The Martian by Andy Weir.
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Old 04-07-2014, 10:21 AM   #2183
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I just finished two rock and roll memoirs that I really enjoyed.

The first was Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) of the Eels. The second was It's So Easy... And Other Lies by Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver among others. Both were fairly easy reads but surprisingly well written. Both guys led pretty fascinating lives and experienced great tragedy. They don't have a lot in common beyond the fact that each of them moved to LA with almost nothing but he clothes on their back and a car to make the trip in but somehow found a way to make a living by making music. One guy came from a highly dysfunctional family while the other came from a tight-knit, supportive one. One guy largely left drink and drug behind as he got into music while the other developed some serious substance abuse problems as he found more and more musical success. One guy was a loner while the other guy was very social and made friends easily.

Both are worth the read if you have any interest in this kind of thing.
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Old 04-07-2014, 10:25 AM   #2184
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I just finished two rock and roll memoirs that I really enjoyed.

The first was Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) of the Eels. The second was It's So Easy... And Other Lies by Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver among others. Both were fairly easy reads but surprisingly well written. Both guys led pretty fascinating lives and experienced great tragedy. They don't have a lot in common beyond the fact that each of them moved to LA with almost nothing but he clothes on their back and a car to make the trip in but somehow found a way to make a living by making music. One guy came from a highly dysfunctional family while the other came from a tight-knit, supportive one. One guy largely left drink and drug behind as he got into music while the other developed some serious substance abuse problems as he found more and more musical success. One guy was a loner while the other guy was very social and made friends easily.

Both are worth the read if you have any interest in this kind of thing.
I heard McKagan on Jim Rome a year or so ago and he was pretty engaging. It's kind of funny because athletes say almost nothing in interviews, but McKagan was just kind of like, "I'll talk about anything. I don't care."
He was an interesting interview.
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Old 04-07-2014, 10:28 AM   #2185
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Old 04-07-2014, 11:09 AM   #2186
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Currently reading Run by Blake Crouch
I liked Run a lot; I've liked most of Crouchs work that I've read. I have book 3 of the Wayward Pines series on pre-order. The pines series is coming to TV on Fox soon.. I'm sure they'll muck it up.

I just finished reading A.G. Riddle's Atlantis Plague. It's the second book in this series (and his career I believe). I liked the books quite a bit. It showed up in my "You might be interested in" area on Amazon and had a lot of positive reviews for somebody I'd never heard of so I gave it a shot.

Reading Dr. Sleep by King about 350ish pages in. Pretty good so far
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Old 05-24-2014, 05:39 PM   #2188
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Still reading the Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.

These are some long books...
Still still reading them. Yep. Long books.
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Old 05-24-2014, 05:45 PM   #2189
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Old 06-07-2014, 12:23 AM   #2190
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I liked Run a lot; I've liked most of Crouchs work that I've read. I have book 3 of the Wayward Pines series on pre-order. The pines series is coming to TV on Fox soon.. I'm sure they'll muck it up.

I just finished reading A.G. Riddle's Atlantis Plague. It's the second book in this series (and his career I believe). I liked the books quite a bit. It showed up in my "You might be interested in" area on Amazon and had a lot of positive reviews for somebody I'd never heard of so I gave it a shot.

Reading Dr. Sleep by King about 350ish pages in. Pretty good so far
Yeah I liked it. Haven't started the Pines series yet but will soon.
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