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Lisey's Story by Steven King


This thing better get going soon. I think I'm about 100 pages in and it's been just about all character development.

 
I just finished A Clockwork Orange. I'd seen the movie, but the book is great. It explains a lot of the stuff in the movie. For one thing, the odd vernacular that the author made up is really interesting.
 
Originally posted by: dfdave12
Good lord. As much as the content of the Federalist Papers is fantastic, I can't take reading them for very long. Madison makes me go to sleep.
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I read them at night in bed when I'm trying to sleep. 😛
 
World at War (Amazing book)
Citizen Soldiers (the author has a dubious record, but I still enjoy his historical narratives)
Warhorse: Cavalry in Ancient Warfare (the Roman section has gotten kind of boring)
Warfare in the Medieval World (Been interesting, but it repeats what I already know about the Hundred Years War)
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Podkayne of Mars - R.A. Heinlein
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Is that similar to the John Carter of Mars books?
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I don't think it's related, since John Carter was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Podkayne of Mars is one of Heinlein's children's books. This one says it's meant for junior and senior high students and up, although Heinlein doesn't pull any punches in the vocabulary and concept department for his target audience. There's one part that's several pages long that describes how a space ship uses rotation and thrust coupled with parallel slanted decks to simulate gravity in one direction that I think would fly right over many adults heads.
 
Just finished 'Longitude' by Dava Sobel and 'The Victorian Internet' by Tom Standage.

Currently reading 'A History of the World in 6 Glasses' by Tom Standage.
 
Originally posted by: TehMac

Citizen Soldiers (the author has a dubious record, but I still enjoy his historical narratives)
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Stephen Ambrose? Yes, I've read his sources are a bit dodgy, but his books "D-Day" and "Band of Brothers" were brilliant I must say..
 
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz, next up I think I'll read some Jane Austen. I read P&P a few months ago, and have been wanting to check out something else by her, or maybe the Bronte sisters.
 
Just finished the last three Dune Books and now I cant get into any book I start. I have been rotating through the following:

Hagakure "The Book of the Samurai" - Yamamoto Tsuneotomo
Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Cambell
Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Obama's book
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
 
Originally posted by: Squisher
Lisey's Story by Steven King


This thing better get going soon. I think I'm about 100 pages in and it's been just about all character development.
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bleh. I got to page 135 before shelving that book.

I didn't think it was bad, perse, it just didn't really engage me in any kind of way.
 
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