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oxymoron
Join Date: Feb 2001
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I do count audiobooks as 'reading', and this year they made the great majority of my reading list (about 70-30 audio versus paper). Want to do more print in 2011. And less video games. If I'd get off my computer more, I'd probably read 200 books a year (in print). |
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#1547 |
Keepin it Real
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Oklahoma
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Halfway through "the Pacific" this book is good. I recieved "With the Old Breed" from my fiance for xmas. I am pretty pumped about reading it.
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#1548 |
Keep 'er Movin'
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. First book I've read of his, decent entertainment.
Also took in Joe Abercrombie's stand-alone novel Best Served Cold. Enjoyed it, and genuinely laughed out loud a couple times at the dark humor of it (which made me feel a bit more twisted than normal). I feel like he explored the same concepts he did in the First Law Trilogy without taking them all that much further though.
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sorta mod-ish
Join Date: Jan 2004
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The Abercrombie book sounds like something I've been in the mood to read lately. |
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#1550 |
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2007
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I picked up Tokyo Vice yesterday. So far it's a pretty cool True Crime book. Author is from Missouri and was a crime beat writer for a Japanese newspaper. He apparently got wrapped up in some info that the Yakuza didn't like. And you know how much they don't like stuff like that!
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#1551 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
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Christmas presents!
Quotidiana - Essays by Patrick Madden Neck Deep and Other Predicaments by Ander Monson Vanishing Point: Not A Memoir by Ander Monson Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting Elegies for the Brokenhearted by Christie Hodgen |
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#1552 |
Most things I worry about…
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Under Pressure
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how to dress like gumby's ho/Reaper16
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#1553 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
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Who sent that to you, Stevie?
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#1554 |
Keep 'er Movin'
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Pretty much. I enjoyed the premise more than the execution.
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Certified Bourbon taster
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Shawnee KS
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Just bought myself 'Thieves Like Us' by Edward Anderson, for my Kindle.
Finished Black Hole by Charles Burns last night. Kind of weird, but impressive in it's own way.
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#1556 |
Captain Kick Ass
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Kansas
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Just finished The Athena Project by Brad Thor - basically a team of special ops bitches that go around the world kicking ass.
Just started the Hunger Games. |
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#1557 |
oxymoron
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: OP/KC/Whatever
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I'm making another attempt to slog through Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. I picked it up about a year ago, and while the idea of the monomyth grabs my imagination, the book itself clearly did not; I couldn't make it more than a couple of pages on my initial effort.
(It's better than Tylenol PM if any of you ever have problems sleeping.) But I've managed to make it through Chapter 1 this time around, and I'm going to keep soldiering on. |
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#1558 |
El' Barto
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Cody, WY / Tucson AZ
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#1559 |
MVP
Join Date: Jan 2001
Casino cash: $7774831
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I'm about half way through "The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy" by Bill Carter. So far it's pretty good. A good look into the whole Conan/Leno Tonight Show fiasco.
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#1560 |
MVP
Join Date: Aug 2000
Casino cash: $10004900
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Just finished Street Player My Chicago Story by Danny Serephine pretty good inside information on the Group Chicago
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