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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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twenex
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Jan 30 18:15 UTC 2007 |
Re: #8. What a koinkidink! I have that edition of that book. It's dog-eared
pages usually lie abandoned (but much-loved, all the same) on my Computing
Bookshelf.
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twenex
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Jan 30 18:16 UTC 2007 |
Re: #3. My mum got that book for Xmas.
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slynne
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response 16 of 58:
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Jan 30 19:47 UTC 2007 |
resp:3 I enjoyed that book a lot. If you want to know what they did
wrong with the dog, get Cesar's Way (also a good read).
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bru
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Jan 30 19:48 UTC 2007 |
I am curently reading "Beka Cooper, Terrier" by Tamora Pierce. It is an
interesting novel about a young girl who decides to become a member of the
watch in an alternate medeviel setting. They call the law enforcement "dogs"
and she earns the appelation of terrier because of her persistence.
The setting is well constructed, and the story line interesting even if you
do have to get past the archaic words she uses all you mots, coves, and
gixies need to read this novel.
Also I am about to start on "Good Omens" by Pratchett and Gaiman.
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mcnally
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Jan 30 19:57 UTC 2007 |
I recently re-read "Good Omens".. I had it in a stack of paperbacks I'd
bought from the library for $0.50 and set aside for when I ran out of
other books and the weekend before this last one I was too sick to go to
the library and pick out some new reading material so I dipped into the
paperback pile. It didn't seem as funny as the first time I read it,
years ago, but it's still quite entertaining.
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edina
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response 19 of 58:
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Jan 30 20:02 UTC 2007 |
There was talk of making it into a movie, with Terry Gilliam at the
helm, but I think it's been pushed to the back of the shelf. Pity.
That's a combination (Pratchett/Gaiman/Gilliam) that would be a lot of
fun to watch.
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tod
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response 20 of 58:
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Jan 30 20:06 UTC 2007 |
I'm 1/4 of the way through "My Life" by Prez Clinton. I recently read:
"The evil that men do: FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood's journey into the minds
of sexual predators" by Stephen G. Michaud with Roy Hazelwood
and "Made in Detroit: a south of 8 Mile memoir" by Paul Clemens
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twenex
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response 21 of 58:
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Jan 30 21:06 UTC 2007 |
Re: #20. How would Gaiman (I presume of the Neil variety) fit in?
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jadecat
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response 22 of 58:
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Jan 30 21:47 UTC 2007 |
resp:7 Sounds interesting. I'll have to see about getting it from the
library.
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mcnally
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Jan 30 21:47 UTC 2007 |
re #21: he probably wouldn't fit in with the Clinton biography,
the Detroit memoir, or the sexual predator profiles. Assuming
that you meant to refer to #19, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
wrote "Good Omens" together, relatively early in both their
careers.
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jep
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Jan 30 21:56 UTC 2007 |
re resp:13: I liked "The Drawing Of The Dark" pretty well but haven't
read a lot of other books by Powers.
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twenex
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response 25 of 58:
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Jan 30 22:02 UTC 2007 |
Re: #23. Hahah, yes quite right. I must have been thinking of some other
Pratchett book, then, because (a) I thought he was sole author and (b) I have
not read any co-authored by him.
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tod
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response 26 of 58:
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Jan 30 22:48 UTC 2007 |
re #23
LOL
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mary
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response 27 of 58:
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Jan 30 22:58 UTC 2007 |
_Mountains Beyond Mountains_, by Tracy Kidder is my current read. It's
this month's book club choice. It's also the 2007 Ann Arbor Reads
selection. The author was in town last week and gave a talk about writing
this book and his relationship with Dr. Paul Farmer, the person behind the
highly successful world-wide Partners in Health medical outreach program,
and the subject of _M B M_. It's fascinating look at a brilliant man and
the global problem of providing health care for all.
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mcnally
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Jan 30 23:24 UTC 2007 |
re #24: Try "The Anubis Gates" if you can find a copy. Or, if you like
pirates, "On Stranger Tides" is really good, too, though hard to find.
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tod
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Jan 30 23:29 UTC 2007 |
re #27
The audio version is actually in my county library queue. It will be a
welcome 4 discs compared to the 42 discs for the Clinton book.
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twenex
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response 30 of 58:
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Jan 30 23:53 UTC 2007 |
Re: #27. I have read Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine," about Data
General's attempt to build a competitor to Digital Equipment Corporation's
VAX, which I enjoyed immensely. Another of those "dry, factual" books which
turns out to be rather a good read. It is also (as of the published date of
the blurb on my copy) the only book about computers ever to win a Pulitzer
Prize. I would be interested to know whether MBM matches up (if you have read
both).
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slynne
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response 31 of 58:
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Jan 31 00:24 UTC 2007 |
I got a couple of good finds from the free book room at work today. I
havent read them yet but probably will this weekend:
_Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish
Speaking United States_ by Hector Tobar. The blurb on the back of the
book says "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar takes us on
the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States -- a parallel
USA. 40 million strong, that is transforming the American Dream,
reinventing the American community, and redefining the experience of
American immigrant in unprecedented and unexpected ways. Translation
Nation rises, brilliantly, to meet one of the most profound shifts in
American identity in the last two hundred years."
_Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American
in Iran_ by Azadeh Moaveni. I dont have time to copy the blurb on the
back of this one because it is longer. It looks like there will be some
discussion about feminism in Iran though which is a subject I find
interesting.
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mary
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Jan 31 14:58 UTC 2007 |
Re: #30 The only other Kidder book I've read is _House_, which I remember
enjoying quite a bit. So I can't make that comparison, sorry.
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