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« Reply #601 on: January 11, 2013, 08:17:36 PM » |
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The Koran, because it's the one true path to eternal life.
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« Reply #602 on: January 11, 2013, 08:19:16 PM » |
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The Koran, because it's the one true path to eternal life.
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« Reply #603 on: January 12, 2013, 09:23:45 PM » |
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« Reply #604 on: January 18, 2013, 07:53:26 AM » |
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Finally got around to Marry Karr's memoir of growing up poor, trashy, in Texas oil-field territory, The Liar's Club. Detailing an upbringing with a roughneck father and alcoholic mother, the book is both kinda sad and uproariously funny - not an easy thing to carry off. I have the feeling that she over-massaged the past to both favour and savage herself, but that's a quibble and one not uncommon to the memoir genre. Apparently, this book was on the NYT's best books list for a year and a I can see why. Very enjoyable.
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« Reply #605 on: January 18, 2013, 08:19:01 AM » |
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Lol,you woudn't believe all the books I've read lately.
...just started the Cornwell "1356"
my dad is reading the saxon stories and really likes them.
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« Reply #606 on: January 18, 2013, 08:32:18 AM » |
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Lol,you woudn't believe all the books I've read lately.
...just started the Cornwell "1356"
my dad is reading the saxon stories and really likes them.
Funny you said that. I just got a link/interview about him this week. Cool stuff about battlefields. (scroll down) http://shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=162#m3117 |
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« Reply #607 on: January 18, 2013, 09:40:03 AM » |
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« Reply #608 on: January 18, 2013, 04:43:26 PM » |
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« Reply #609 on: January 19, 2013, 04:39:39 AM » |
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I rarely read fiction, but this was exceptional. Best new fiction I've read since 'Up in the Air'.
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« Reply #610 on: January 19, 2013, 04:41:19 AM » |
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An awesome exit by the master.
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« Reply #611 on: January 19, 2013, 03:39:56 PM » |
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« Reply #612 on: January 19, 2013, 11:58:56 PM » |
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An awesome exit by the master.
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« Reply #613 on: January 20, 2013, 05:59:47 AM » |
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Occasionally brilliant, but generally speaking, an alcoholic asshole.
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« Reply #614 on: January 20, 2013, 08:18:45 AM » |
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that's what I like about him
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« Reply #615 on: January 20, 2013, 08:28:29 AM » |
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interesting qualities to admire in a man swing by my neighborhood bar, garebear, and you likely would not want to leave Haha. Well, most alcoholics are boring and pathetic, but history has produced some brilliant ones. |
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« Reply #617 on: January 22, 2013, 05:40:47 AM » |
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« Reply #618 on: January 22, 2013, 07:17:02 AM » |
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George, Nicolas, and Wilhem: Three Royal Cousins and the road to World War One.
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« Reply #619 on: January 22, 2013, 12:51:30 PM » |
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George, Nicolas, and Wilhem: Three Royal Cousins and the road to World War One.
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« Reply #620 on: January 23, 2013, 12:45:13 AM » |
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I didn't read one page of the last book I had sitting by my bed, so I have decided to read one by Lynda La Plante because I love her books and I know I won't be able to put it down for hours. I could read one I already have or purchase a new one, will look in the book stores tomorrow.
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« Reply #621 on: January 23, 2013, 06:20:11 AM » |
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I just read Shades of xxxLinda
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« Reply #622 on: January 27, 2013, 10:28:25 AM » |
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just finished rereading Gideon's Trumpet- by Anthony Lewis
now I'm reading Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May-September 1787- by Catherine Bowen
and I'm reading Law, Liberty, and Morality- by H.l.a. Hart
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« Reply #623 on: January 27, 2013, 11:08:40 AM » |
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The hardcover edition of Michio Kaku's "Hyperspace" makes an excellent vial storage unit once one cuts out a rectangular portion of the middle chapters.
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« Reply #624 on: January 27, 2013, 02:15:06 PM » |
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The hardcover edition of Michio Kaku's "Hyperspace" makes an excellent vial storage unit once one cuts out a rectangular portion of the middle chapters. I've had great results with Gould's The Structure of Evolutionary Theory when trafficking striped Asians* across APEC shipping ports. Wolfram's A New Kind of Science is also great in a pinch. * |
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