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xxxLinda

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #175 on: December 06, 2011, 06:05:24 PM »
Quote from: GHGut on December 02, 2011, 10:09:42 AM
If I may be self-serving, may I recommend one of my own books:

http://www.amazon.com/Eden-Tony-Monchinski/dp/1451646844/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322849333&sr=8-2


If you like action-horror/zombies/apocalyptic fiction this is right up your alley.

When I first posted about this as a self-published novel a few years ago I got flamed. Now it's got the Simon & Schuster imprint so hopefully will get into more people's hands.

Quote from: Nordic Beast on December 02, 2011, 10:46:16 AM
great book. It's got a sequel ya know?? Just read te second one.



Do you lot know what you're on about?  Obviously I shalln't be reading GH Gut's book any day soon, (unless you'd like to send me a signed first ed?)  Instead I'd like it if he were able to promote his writings with correct observations from the Getbig gallery.

Have you written a mega-million-seller sequel ?    Pray tell...


with mad love etc. & always
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #176 on: December 07, 2011, 05:35:23 AM »
tl:dr by page 3.  Cliffs?
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #177 on: December 07, 2011, 11:42:17 PM »
Quote from: xxxLinda on December 06, 2011, 05:27:33 PM
Art of Manliness?



I immediately had to have quickie look at that, I googled it, never do blue links - & thanks so much for making me giggle...

Think that one is a browser, not something you'd read cover to cover?



very funny, thanks
xLinda


funny?   >:( its good stuff..they also have good lists of different books
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #178 on: December 08, 2011, 02:58:22 PM »
Utterly fascinating...highly recommended.



From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Science journalist Skloot makes a remarkable debut with this multilayered story about faith, science, journalism, and grace. It is also a tale of medical wonders and medical arrogance, racism, poverty and the bond that grows, sometimes painfully, between two very different women—Skloot and Deborah Lacks—sharing an obsession to learn about Deborah's mother, Henrietta, and her magical, immortal cells. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her knowledge, doctors treating her at Johns Hopkins took tissue samples from her cervix for research. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously productive, cell line—known as HeLa. These cells have aided in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to AIDS treatments. What Skloot so poignantly portrays is the devastating impact Henrietta's death and the eventual importance of her cells had on her husband and children. Skloot's portraits of Deborah, her father and brothers are so vibrant and immediate they recall Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family. Writing in plain, clear prose, Skloot avoids melodrama and makes no judgments. Letting people and events speak for themselves, Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society's most vulnerable people. (Feb.)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m3JN8BZX5QTHYB/ref=ent_fb_link
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #179 on: December 13, 2011, 01:57:54 PM »





MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy New Year!
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #180 on: December 13, 2011, 11:07:04 PM »
Christmas cooking for dummies.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #181 on: December 14, 2011, 09:03:20 AM »
 ;D    next up death in the locker room book one and two.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #182 on: December 14, 2011, 10:17:01 AM »
Obviously I'm not reading this.  I read it once and that'll suffice.



This thread is truly hilarious.  Also your other one about Christmas music is hugely funny.


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merry everything and happy always
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #183 on: December 18, 2011, 06:17:10 AM »
Just finished 'Train Dreams' by Denis Johnson. Superior, with flashes of brilliance. Recommended.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #184 on: December 18, 2011, 08:16:47 AM »
The Rule of St. Benedict.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #185 on: December 18, 2011, 04:22:50 PM »
Christmas Hymns and Carols?


I'm re-reading and re-learning all of the lyrics to every christmas song ever written - including the funny and rude versions...

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #186 on: January 05, 2012, 09:06:06 AM »


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #187 on: January 05, 2012, 09:33:36 AM »
A collection of G.A. Cohen essays, a logic book, and about to start H.L.A. Hart's Concept of Law.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #188 on: January 05, 2012, 10:11:04 AM »
Quote from: B_B_C on January 05, 2012, 09:40:16 AM
but yould they like her views on sex and sexuality or even her sexual behavious?
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English, brother. I speak English.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #189 on: January 05, 2012, 10:25:27 AM »
Quote from: B_B_C on January 05, 2012, 10:20:35 AM
well bully for you, ask the teacher for a gold star
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I'm not so think as you drunk I am.   :P
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #190 on: January 11, 2012, 02:17:57 PM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #191 on: January 12, 2012, 03:30:29 AM »
Recently finished 'Young Stalin'. Very interesting as I had no idea about the guy before I started. He was a gangster and bank robber for a good spell. He also impregnated a 13 year old girl and then abandoned her. The more I read about world leaders the more I realize that they were simply the biggest and most successful thugs of their time.

Also finishing up Freethinkers, about American secularism. It's interesting to note the absolute denial of American history that predicate so many of the modern religious right's arguments. To a large degree, they've rewritten America's past and the separation of church and state. Not many people are looking closely is the main reason. I guess it just sounds good to some people to say this is a 'Christian Nation' and dump the 18th and 19th century.

Just started a bio on Ahmadinejad.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #192 on: January 12, 2012, 09:45:15 AM »
Quote from: B_B_C on January 11, 2012, 05:10:11 PM
Most recent

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Come What May (autobiography) by Dónal Óg Cusack
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden.
Read that one. Really liked it. Got a signed Brooklyn on the shelf, but haven't read it, tho.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #193 on: January 18, 2012, 06:52:24 PM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #194 on: January 19, 2012, 07:39:29 AM »
"Notes from a Turkish whorehouse"  by Philip Ó Ceallaigh
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #195 on: January 19, 2012, 03:21:11 PM »
Just finished Stephen King's '11/22/63.'  Unsatisfying. 
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #196 on: January 19, 2012, 03:27:05 PM »
Just finished Vince Flynn's series on the Mitch Rapp character.

...just started Micheal Crichton's ''Pirate Lattitudes"
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #197 on: January 21, 2012, 02:16:56 PM »
Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings.


....the whole series is awesome 8)
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #198 on: January 21, 2012, 02:20:40 PM »
Quote from: Andy Griffin on December 18, 2011, 08:16:47 AM
The Rule of St. Benedict.

Are you a Cistercian Monk?
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #199 on: January 23, 2012, 02:19:53 PM »
Nothing but Getbig.
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