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Post  Super Mega King on 29th November 2010, 10:03 am

Since School started this year, I haven't had much time for books.

Reading list from August to now:

My Ántonia by Willa Cather - First book I've read for English class this year tells a boy who befriends a Bohemian girl in rural Nebraska in the late 1800s. It's good, but a little hard to get into.

One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko - It's an anthology of works from Pullitzer prize winning columinst Mike Royko. He's hilarious and a big advocate of the little guy.

Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy - Robert Kennedy's memoir about the Cuban Missle Crisis. It's factual and interesting. It tells the Cuban Missile Crisis from his and President Kennedy's eyes.

Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas - Historical fiction about an old storyteller in a mining town during the Depression who befriends a new resident. The story is told in present and past: the old storyteller, Hennie Comfort, tells her stories to the young woman. It's a good book. I was recommended this book and I read it for a competition, but I recommend it nonetheless.

1945 by Robert Conroy - It's historical fiction again: what if the Japs hadn't surrendered in WWII and the Americans kept fighting on the Pacific front? Really interesting book, I recommend it.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Second book I've read for English. It's a story about a modest-living Nick Carraway who befriends rich Gatsby and Gatsby's romance with Nick's cousin. I've been told it's one of the great American classics. It was pretty good; I don't have any complaints.

Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman - I'm reading this right now. It's a book about Charles Darwin's life with emphasis on his wife and the doubts that they shared as Darwin was skeptical of God and Emma was a devout Christian.

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Re: Whats good with reading UX!?

Post  BLACK SNOW 13 on 29th November 2010, 10:09 am

Right now I'm reading Child 44. Its about life in the Soviet Union after WWII. So far I read two kids dieing horribly and a man on the run from the MGB

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Post  DeadApe on 29th November 2010, 12:33 pm

The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil - How human technology will transcend human biology.

Journey To The West: Monkey by some Chinese dude - Basically the story which Dragonball Z was based on. Fun book.

Limits to Growth by several authors - About the imminent collapse of the world economy because of our ecological footprint.


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Post  Slacker Hero on 29th November 2010, 12:53 pm

The Stand. I haven't really read it in a while but I hope I'll have some time to start it soon.

For Christmas I'm getting a ton of books including two by Hunter S. Thompson. I've always wanted to read his book Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs where he went undercover as a biker to write a piece for a magazine.

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Post  Tophat 44 on 29th November 2010, 1:15 pm

im getting this for X-mas i read the first book too and its pretty good.

Thunder and Ashes: The Morningstar Strain by Z. A. Recht

first book
Plague of The Dead: The Morningstar Strain by Z. A. Recht

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Post  oO Coggy Oo on 29th November 2010, 1:54 pm

I've just finished reading, "To Kill a Mockingbird." It's a good read and quite interesting.

It's basically about a black man accused of raping a white girl, and racial inequality in the South during the Great Depression.


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Post  Flasktoss55 on 29th November 2010, 2:09 pm

DeadApe wrote:
Journey To The West: Monkey by some Chinese dude - Basically the story which Dragonball Z was based on. Fun book.


Yeah, it did inspire DragonBall (mostly in the very earliest of stories), but it's also considered one of the great classical novels of China. Just saying.

Anyway, right now I'm in-between books. I just finished "Escape From Hell", which is a sequel to "Inferno". They are a sort of sci-fi take on Dante's Inferno by two great sci-fi authors. I think I'm in the mood for some Stephen King next, possibly some of his short story collections. My other option right now would be "Perdido Street Station". And I still want to read the "A Song of Fire and Ice" series sometime. AND I still have to complete the Discworld series. So many books...mind asplode.


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Post  Slacker Hero on 29th November 2010, 2:56 pm

Flasktoss55 wrote:
DeadApe wrote:
Journey To The West: Monkey by some Chinese dude - Basically the story which Dragonball Z was based on. Fun book.


Yeah, it did inspire DragonBall (mostly in the very earliest of stories), but it's also considered one of the great classical novels of China. Just saying.

Anyway, right now I'm in-between books. I just finished "Escape From Hell", which is a sequel to "Inferno". They are a sort of sci-fi take on Dante's Inferno by two great sci-fi authors. I think I'm in the mood for some Stephen King next, possibly some of his short story collections. My other option right now would be "Perdido Street Station". And I still want to read the "A Song of Fire and Ice" series sometime. AND I still have to complete the Discworld series. So many books...mind asplode.



I hear A Song Of Ice And Fire is pretty good, it's getting made into an HBO series, I think. I've also always wanted to read Discoworld I've only heard good things about Terry Pratchet.

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Post  eaustinn36 on 29th November 2010, 3:00 pm

Im reading these posts right now

No but in all seriousness, aside from the morning Newspaper occasionally or online articles, pretty much nothing. Haven't had the free time to really tackle a book in awhile unfortunately.

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Post  NegativeHUNTER on 29th November 2010, 8:56 pm

Well I've recently read Night by Ellie Wiesel,Raisin In the Sun I forgot who its by and I also read The Perks of Being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky I reccomend the first and latter. Oh Ive also been looking for the latest " The Walking Dead "
I cant seem to find it anywhere.

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Post  Bladewind23 on 29th November 2010, 9:55 pm

Re-Reading Metro 2033 for about the fifth time.
Its so difficult to keep up with everything in it.

Going to try and pick up Metro 2034


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Post  Flasktoss55 on 29th November 2010, 10:40 pm

Slacker Hero wrote:
I hear A Song Of Ice And Fire is pretty good, it's getting made into an HBO series, I think. I've also always wanted to read Discoworld I've only heard good things about Terry Pratchet.


Yeah, Discworld is a great series. There are quite a few books in the series, though.

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Post  Slacker Hero on 29th November 2010, 11:51 pm

NegativeHUNTER wrote:Well I've recently read Night by Ellie Wiesel,Raisin In the Sun I forgot who its by and I also read The Perks of Being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky I reccomend the first and latter. Oh Ive also been looking for the latest " The Walking Dead "
I cant seem to find it anywhere.


Amazon dude.

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Post  Pwnisher James on 30th November 2010, 3:16 pm

oO Coggy Oo wrote:I've just finished reading, "To Kill a Mockingbird." It's a good read and quite interesting.


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Post  oO Coggy Oo on 30th November 2010, 5:03 pm

What you talkin' 'bout?

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