Official Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related (merged)

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checkerboard_charly said:
Finished "The Talisman" by King and Straub. Excellent.

Now reading "Fellowship of the Ring". Amazing how much stuff they left out in the movie. Those movies could have been 9 hours each.
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The Talisman is a good book. I'm surprised it wasn't made into a miniseries. Agree about The LOTR books, a lot of things were left out or were altogether different.
 
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#278
I'm reading Manhunt The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson. It's about John Wilkes Booth and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Very cool narration of the whole thing.
 
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#280
About halfway through Afghanistan: A military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Taliban. I also just started Three Cups of Tea.

There is also a response to Nickel and Dimed in America. It is called Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the American Dream written by Adam Shepard. It will definitely be at the top of my list of books to read next.
 
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I recently finished John Adams by David Mccullough - outstanding

I also recently finished a book called The Shack by William P. Young. It is about a man who spends a weekend at a shack with the holy trinity after going through a pretty horrific ordeal. Interesting. TheShackBook.com

I am currently reading "The Gospel According to Star Wars". It is a look at the Star Wars movies and their morality through the eyes of a theologian, John C McDowell. It is not a light read. Before you give me too much hell, it was a gift.
 
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therealUT said:
About halfway through Afghanistan: A military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Taliban. I also just started Three Cups of Tea.

There is also a response to Nickel and Dimed in America. It is called Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the American Dream written by Adam Shepard. It will definitely be at the top of my list of books to read next.
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Thanks for the heads up about that - I doubt it will make all the Freshman university student reading lists the way Nickel and Dimed did...
 
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therealUT said:
About halfway through Afghanistan: A military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Taliban. I also just started Three Cups of Tea.

There is also a response to Nickel and Dimed in America. It is called Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the American Dream written by Adam Shepard. It will definitely be at the top of my list of books to read next.
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Have you read The Afghan Campaign by Stephen Pressfeild? It's a great book about Alexanders campaign through Afghanistan as viewed by one of his soldiers.
 
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therealUT said:
Fictional, yet prophetic.

Rand's characters have a way of sticking with her readers, which is probably why most leftist, socialist have no idea of "who is John Galt?"

Also, as we are using great literature to discuss the current situation, always remember: "Two legs bad. Four legs good."
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I love the Animal Farm reference. I don't know if it was just where I was personally at the time, but I found "Atlas Shrugged" to be ponderous and hard to get through. It kind of lost me when they got to the utopia where all the brilliant scientists and engineers were living in the community tending their gardens.

Maybe I should give Ayn Rand another chance.
 
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vader said:
I love the Animal Farm reference. I don't know if it was just where I was personally at the time, but I found "Atlas Shrugged" to be ponderous and hard to get through. It kind of lost me when they got to the utopia where all the brilliant scientists and engineers were living in the community tending their gardens.

Maybe I should give Ayn Rand another chance.
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Start with Anthem and then read The Fountainhead. I found Atlas Shrugged to be her hardest read. However, all of her books contain the same underlying theme of rugged individualism and objectivism.
 
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therealUT said:
Start with Anthem and then read The Fountainhead. I found Atlas Shrugged to be her hardest read. However, all of her books contain the same underlying theme of rugged individualism and objectivism.
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I can appreciate that. Thanks for the recommendations.
 
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vader said:
I can appreciate that. Thanks for the recommendations.
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Also started on Dixieland Delight (five minutes ago, just finished the introduction). So far, pretty good. I enjoy this little gem:

Wrestling fans across the country hypothesized about what exactly the DDT stood for until Jake "The Snake" Roberts famously replied "The end". At age ten, I considered the DDT to be the greatest thing on earth. Now that I'm older, I can honestly say it is the third best thing on earth. The first two are sex and SEC football.
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My breadth of reading material has been more narrow than I would like to admit. I am doing a little catch up reading. I assume you are not a fan. I am going to sic OWH on you.
 
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vader said:
My breadth of reading material has been more narrow than I would like to admit. I am doing a little catch up reading. I assume you are not a fan. I am going to sic OWH on you.
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get yourself a Vogue magazine or something.
 
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#298
went and bought 'the road' yesterday and started reading it. i've only got about 80 pages left...

one of the most depressing things i've ever read, but i like the style that he uses to write. i'll finish it today at work.
 
#299
#299
anybody read Kill bin Laden

a delta commander's account of the hunt for bin laden in tora bora
 
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