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jep
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reading material
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Jan 30 16:09 UTC 2007 |
Have you read any good books lately?
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nharmon
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response 1 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:12 UTC 2007 |
Nope.
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mynxcat
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response 2 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:13 UTC 2007 |
The Josephine B Trilogy - Sandra Gulland. Fictional journal of Josephine
Bonaparte, faced on true facts.
Very interesting
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jep
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response 3 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:15 UTC 2007 |
I bought my wife a book for Christmas called "Marley & Me: Life and Love
with the World's Worst Dog" by John Grogan. My wife is not much of a
reader, but she loves dogs. She loved the book.
After she was done, I read it, too. It's a decent read, about the
author's 13 years with his incorrigible, hyperactive 100 lb yellow lab.
It's funny and pleasant. It's not greatly insightful or anything, but
it moves along.
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jep
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response 4 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:17 UTC 2007 |
I've just started Bill Cosby's "Fatherhood". I'm only 50-60 pages into
it. I was reading it in bed last night, and thought I was going to have
to go outside or something because I was having trouble controlling my
mirth. I think Cosby is the funniest man alive, and this book leaps
right into being hilarious. I have high expectations for the rest of it.
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mynxcat
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response 5 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:24 UTC 2007 |
Fatherhood is a great book! It kept me in splits. Especially the story of when
his mom told him to put his brains back in his head.
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rcurl
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response 6 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:26 UTC 2007 |
Join books. Help keep other conferences active. There are a couple of items
for recent reading.
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twenex
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response 7 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:46 UTC 2007 |
Perhaps we could link this item?
I am currently working my way through "The Winter War," by William Trotter,
a history of the 1939-40 Finnish-Soviet war. It sounds quite dry, but it's
actually rather amusing in most places - so far, anyway - mostly due to the
utter incompetence of the Soviet forces. You seriously wonder whether some
of the things in this book are just anti-Soviet propaganda, but it's funny
all the same.
I can't agree with Trotter's assessment of the Finnish language, though: I
think it's lovely.
Also took a sneak peak at ON THE EDGE: THE SPECTACULAR RISE AND FALL OF
COMMODORE, a birthday purchase.
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keesan
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response 8 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:58 UTC 2007 |
Running Linux 3rd Edition.
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nharmon
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response 9 of 58:
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Jan 30 17:18 UTC 2007 |
Trolling for Trouble, by Jim Daloonik
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mcnally
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response 10 of 58:
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Jan 30 17:42 UTC 2007 |
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rcurl
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response 11 of 58:
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Jan 30 17:46 UTC 2007 |
Agora Winter 2006/7, "reading material", has been liked to books 114.
Also in the books cf are several other "what I'm reading" type items,
including a general one, which has been all for fiction, and one specifically
for nonfiction. Come and browse in books.
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vivekm1234
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response 12 of 58:
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Jan 30 17:46 UTC 2007 |
The SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) Grand Masters - Vol 1/2.
I especially liked: All Cats are Gray, Serpent's Tooth, Fondly Farenheit
and well almost all of them (short stories).
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mcnally
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response 13 of 58:
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Jan 30 17:46 UTC 2007 |
I'm currently reading an interesting book by one of my favorite
authors, Tim Powers. Powers' books in recent years mostly tell
the stories of people who discover that a secret world of mystical
forces is operating behind the scenes of the modern-day world
they thought they knew.
His newest one, "Three Days to Never" improbably mixes a college
professor and his teenage daughter with secret agents, a malign
occult organization, a strange device with unrevealed powers over
the flow of time, and the legacies of Albert Einstein and Charlie
Chaplin. I think Powers is a fascinating storyteller and the
thing I love about his books is watching the progress, as the
book moves along, from "how is he ever going to tie all this
together, and what the heck is the deal with [X]" to "aha!" Not
all of his books manage to tie things up neatly at the end but
they're still usually a pleasure to read.
I also highly recommend his novel "Last Call", where a middle-aged
poker player finds out that a strange card game he played in a
dozen years ago had more significance than he ever suspected.
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