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What book(s) are you currently reading?
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GrantMeThePower
Platinum Member
I dont know why but i've gotten on a sick reading binge over the past week.
I've read:
Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
The Five Fundamentals of a Modern Golf Swing by Ben Hogan
Missing Links by Rick Reilly
reread Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
and am just now finishing
The Game by Neil Strauss.
I would recommend all of them, but the Cornwell book is the third in a series and you would need to start with "the last kingdom" and the two golf books...well, you'd have to like golf, obviously.
I think a bunch of people on here would like the Game, but to me its a bit depressing.
I've read:
Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
The Five Fundamentals of a Modern Golf Swing by Ben Hogan
Missing Links by Rick Reilly
reread Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
and am just now finishing
The Game by Neil Strauss.
I would recommend all of them, but the Cornwell book is the third in a series and you would need to start with "the last kingdom" and the two golf books...well, you'd have to like golf, obviously.
I think a bunch of people on here would like the Game, but to me its a bit depressing.
crisscross
Golden Member
yem ayya bagu unnava?
thedarkwolf
Diamond Member
Read all those and they are all pretty good. Keene's zombies aren't the standard zombies but they are still cool. Might want to try Autumn next.
I just finished Martin's a Song of Ice and Fire series and am also getting ready to start the Dark Tower series. I read the first book about ten years ago and didn't like it but thought I should give it another chance.
alanalafriz
Member
ChooChooChooseMe
Platinum Member
Smiley's People
morkman100
Senior member
MikeyIs4Dcats
Lifer
The Hard Way by Lee Child
Gunslinger08
Lifer
Yep, I just read the entire series. It was pretty good. I liked the concept.
Gunslinger08
Lifer
I read the part that was available online, but I can't find the book anywhere for a non-ridiculous price. I hear it's being reprinted next month though.
crownjules
Diamond Member
A Game of Thrones, by George R R Martin, which is the first in A Song of Ice and Fire series. Great read so far.
Also The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders, by Jack Schwager. Provides great insights into the motiviations, beliefs, and stories some of the best market traders in the country. I was blown away by one story in particular were the guy had $3 BILLION on the line in foreign currency that was going against him badly, but he managed to escape only losing $17 million. That's amazing considering his first synopsis of the situation was that he was easily down $100 million.
Also The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders, by Jack Schwager. Provides great insights into the motiviations, beliefs, and stories some of the best market traders in the country. I was blown away by one story in particular were the guy had $3 BILLION on the line in foreign currency that was going against him badly, but he managed to escape only losing $17 million. That's amazing considering his first synopsis of the situation was that he was easily down $100 million.
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SlitheryDee
I've been on a Heinlein kick for the past year.
Books I've read in the past couple months:
Farnham's Freehold (good)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (wickedly stupendously good)
Starship Troopers (Way better than the movie. Powered armor kicks ass!)
Job: A Comedy of Justice (really good)
Expanded Universe (Lots of great short stories. Plus a look into the Cold War era from Heinlein's perspective)
I got into Heinlein while reading a short story anthology by Isaac Azimov. I noticed how he kept mentioning this Heinlein fellow with what sounded like to me like awe and immense respect. I've since found that Heinlein mentions Azimov quite a bit in his own writing (these old Sci Fi authors just loved patting each other on the back it seems). Eventually I decided to pick up a book by him. It's one of the better decisions I've made...
P.S. Did you know that Heinlein pretty much "invented" the water bed? He first introduced the concept in "Stranger in a Strange Land", where he described the bed and all of the parts required to make it work. Later when someone else came up with the idea to build a waterbed on their own and tried to patent the idea, they found it to be part of the public domain because it was essentially already "invented" in Heinlein's fiction. :laugh: (this is from "Expanded Universe")
Books I've read in the past couple months:
Farnham's Freehold (good)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (wickedly stupendously good)
Starship Troopers (Way better than the movie. Powered armor kicks ass!)
Job: A Comedy of Justice (really good)
Expanded Universe (Lots of great short stories. Plus a look into the Cold War era from Heinlein's perspective)
I got into Heinlein while reading a short story anthology by Isaac Azimov. I noticed how he kept mentioning this Heinlein fellow with what sounded like to me like awe and immense respect. I've since found that Heinlein mentions Azimov quite a bit in his own writing (these old Sci Fi authors just loved patting each other on the back it seems). Eventually I decided to pick up a book by him. It's one of the better decisions I've made...
P.S. Did you know that Heinlein pretty much "invented" the water bed? He first introduced the concept in "Stranger in a Strange Land", where he described the bed and all of the parts required to make it work. Later when someone else came up with the idea to build a waterbed on their own and tried to patent the idea, they found it to be part of the public domain because it was essentially already "invented" in Heinlein's fiction. :laugh: (this is from "Expanded Universe")
iamaelephant
Diamond Member
So did I (I was 19 at the time).
iamaelephant
Diamond Member
Oh and I'm currently reading Al Gore's Assault on Reason.
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