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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #725 on: May 14, 2013, 10:26:01 AM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #726 on: May 18, 2013, 07:18:30 AM »
Titan by R. Chernow

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #727 on: May 18, 2013, 12:42:06 PM »
Titan by R. Chernow
Bogged down at pg 295. Good luck!

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #728 on: May 18, 2013, 12:49:54 PM »
Bogged down at pg 295. Good luck!
Ernest Hemingway bio he had like 64 cats. I have been to his house/museum in the Florida keys very interesting it was.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #729 on: May 18, 2013, 01:10:43 PM »
Ernest Hemingway bio he had like 64 cats. I have been to his house/museum in the Florida keys very interesting it was.
A lot of them poly dactyl. Lucky you. I'd love to visit his house and then go have a booze-up at Sloppy Joe's.      :)

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #730 on: May 18, 2013, 01:34:05 PM »
A lot of them poly dactyl. Lucky you. I'd love to visit his house and then go have a booze-up at Sloppy Joe's.      :)
Oh yea Sloppy's was great was there as well, I got pic's from there somewhere it would take me 5 years to find them. Ha.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #731 on: May 18, 2013, 03:12:20 PM »
A lot of them poly dactyl. Lucky you. I'd love to visit his house and then go have a booze-up at Sloppy Joe's.      :)

Most of them are poly...lol,humans can't touch the furniture but the cats can go anywhere they please ..yes I wen't and drank at Sloppy Joes..I even did the tourist thing and bought a shirt :-[

Ben Kane,part two of his Spartacus series.

Terror Red by Colonel David Hunt and Christine Hunsinger...It was  about a terrorist attack in Boston and an ex special forces colonel who some how ends up with a female political hack trying to stop more attacks....the first 3/4 of the book was awesome.the female and the male would each write a chapter back and forth through their own perspective.susspence and funny with the mixed emotions of a female seeing death for the first time and a hardened soldier,,then it completely jumped the shark towards the end of the book :(

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #732 on: May 18, 2013, 03:37:01 PM »
Charles Bronson: SOLITARY FITNESS

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #733 on: May 19, 2013, 06:30:38 AM »
Most of them are poly...lol,humans can't touch the furniture but the cats can go anywhere they please ..yes I wen't and drank at Sloppy Joes..I even did the tourist thing and bought a shirt :-[

Ben Kane,part two of his Spartacus series.

Terror Red by Colonel David Hunt and Christine Hunsinger...It was  about a terrorist attack in Boston and an ex special forces colonel who some how ends up with a female political hack trying to stop more attacks....the first 3/4 of the book was awesome.the female and the male would each write a chapter back and forth through their own perspective.susspence and funny with the mixed emotions of a female seeing death for the first time and a hardened soldier,,then it completely jumped the shark towards the end of the book :(

Oh yea Sloppy's was great was there as well, I got pic's from there somewhere it would take me 5 years to find them. Ha.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #734 on: May 19, 2013, 11:43:21 AM »
South Bend's How to Run a Lathe

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #735 on: May 19, 2013, 01:49:51 PM »
What is Dan Brown's new book (Inferno) about?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #736 on: May 19, 2013, 01:56:23 PM »
Last Five=

(1) The Last Narco- By Malcolm Beith

(2) Superfreakanomics- By Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt

(3) Dark Market-By Misha Glenny

(4) The Road To Serfdom- F.A. Hayek

(5) One Nation Under Sex - By Larry Flynt, David Eisenbach

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #737 on: May 19, 2013, 02:32:00 PM »
Current = Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.   Read it 13 years ago, still hilarious and good.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #738 on: May 24, 2013, 03:07:14 PM »
The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon. Hemon is a jaw-dropping, award-winning fiction writer, but this book collects his non-fiction stuff, mostly discussing his strange arrival in the US - he was a Bosnian who was 'trapped' in Chicago when his Yugoslavia imploded. Most of the book I found repetitious and seemed like a slammed-together money grab, totally lacking in the Nabokov-like lightness of touch he usually  exhibits. That is, except for the last piece, 'The Aquarium,' which details his youngest daughter's death by hydroencephalitis. This is wrenching, master-class writing. Stunning. If you're interested in this guy, I'd start with the Lazarus Project and go from there.      

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #739 on: May 24, 2013, 04:20:53 PM »
Current = Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.   Read it 13 years ago, still hilarious and good.
Agree. I remember reading that and thinking at the time 'how can a book about such weird stuff be so long and yet I can't stop reading?' Super book. Bobby Shaftoe to the rescue!

/still haven't started the baroque cycle

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #741 on: May 24, 2013, 11:40:17 PM »
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would it be possible to get the same health benefit from alcohol free red wine?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #742 on: May 24, 2013, 11:41:07 PM »
The Post Office a excellent book.

can you recommend any other books by Bukowski?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #743 on: May 28, 2013, 05:34:52 AM »
can you recommend any other books by Bukowski?

Tales of ordinary madness (short-story collection)

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #744 on: May 28, 2013, 12:32:24 PM »
Tales of ordinary madness (short-story collection)
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #745 on: May 28, 2013, 12:48:01 PM »
Neil Strauss - The Game

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #746 on: May 29, 2013, 11:37:06 PM »
Figured it was time for a "What are you reading?" thread.

What's on your bookshelfs or kindleS?

Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites
PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition)

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #747 on: May 30, 2013, 08:03:22 AM »
Men On Strike by Helen Smith, a book about the negative effects of Feminism by a woman who "gets it".

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #748 on: June 02, 2013, 03:09:56 PM »
would it be possible to get the same health benefit from alcohol free red wine?

yes, as long as the grapes are grown under the proper conditions. he talks about a variety of sources, certain supplements as well. though legitimate supplements produced under the right conditions and approved by the appropriate governing boards are a lot more expensive than your typical GNC fodder.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #749 on: June 02, 2013, 04:45:21 PM »
Neil Strauss - The Game

Isn't that the title of the book in Seinfeld with the limo Nazis?