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01-27-2012, 02:00 AM
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Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 323
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Originally Posted by supahman
And get ready to say WTF at least 5 times..
I started book 5 today.. finally.. till now the weight was the only thing putting me off.. finally decided.. i need to lose some.. so better carry some.
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Yeah I was stunned throughout "Blood and Gold" and at times cursing George RR Martin. Currently 3/4 of the way through "A Feast of Crows".
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02-18-2012, 02:10 AM
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#482
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Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 8,648
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The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley
Written in 1919, this is the first appearance of Zorro, later republished as The Mark of Zorro. It's available as a series of Librivox podcasts on iTunes, so I've been listening to and from work. I wasn't expecting much, but the story is pretty good.
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02-18-2012, 02:17 AM
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#483
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The Beast
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Hawai'i Island
Posts: 1,033
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Finished the first book of the Hunger Games. Wanted to get it out of the way before the movie came out
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02-25-2012, 10:39 PM
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#484
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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Lago, Hell
Posts: 1,912
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Ready Player One.
Is everyone ready to live in an MMORPG in the next 30 years?
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02-27-2012, 04:22 AM
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#485
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I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Land of sweat
Posts: 2,504
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Originally Posted by twoferflinchin
Horns by Joe Hill. Mr. King's son is a hell of a writer. Great stuff.
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Picked this up..
however i'm still reading at lunch- Dance with dragons.. in parallel, m reading on my Phone ( using Aldiko on my Galaxy Nexus ) Prince of Ayodhya by Ashok Banker. it's retelling of the famous Indian epic; Ramayana, but written kinda like LOTR.
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03-03-2012, 08:59 PM
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#486
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Birdman
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: NYC
Posts: 376
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I'm reading "Unorthodox: The scandalous rejection of my hasidic roots" by Deborah Feldman. Basically, this woman wrote this exposing what goes on inside the hasidic community in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
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03-03-2012, 11:20 PM
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#487
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Art of Mod
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Melbourne, Aust
Posts: 63,785
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Originally Posted by J Storm
I'm reading "Unorthodox: The scandalous rejection of my hasidic roots" by Deborah Feldman. Basically, this woman wrote this exposing what goes on inside the hasidic community in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
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I was channel surfing the other day and saw her on The View promoting this. Normally I wouldn't spend more than five seconds on The View, but for some reason I listened to her and ending up watching the whole interview! Fascinating stuff that has made me want to pick up the book too! Let me know what you think of it Ant!
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03-05-2012, 05:48 PM
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#488
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Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 8,648
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The Worm Ouroboros, by ER Eddison
First published in 1922, this is an obvious inspiration for The Lord of The Rings. I got it as a Librivox public domain download from iTunes. They don't have it in e-book format, but the podcasts are okay with me.
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03-05-2012, 06:43 PM
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#489
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Kindly Asked To Leave
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Coast
Posts: 24,710
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Heinrich Himmler: A Life
Basically it's the biography of the "man" who was in charge of Hitler's Gestapo and SS.
The book's incredibly informative and engrossing (with a huge referenced bibliography); shows how this creature goes from being raised in a Catholic family, his father being a school teacher, to the dark days of his adulthood, and how that process took place... all the way through to his death. Currently I'm knee-deep in the WW II portion.
A very grim book, with lots of photographs. I'm a huge History buff, and an even bigger World War II buff, so I love it.. but it's as dire as it is entertaining.
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03-07-2012, 09:36 PM
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#490
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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Lago, Hell
Posts: 1,912
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Originally Posted by Argonus
Heinrich Himmler: A Life
Basically it's the biography of the "man" who was in charge of Hitler's Gestapo and SS.
The book's incredibly informative and engrossing (with a huge referenced bibliography); shows how this creature goes from being raised in a Catholic family, his father being a school teacher, to the dark days of his adulthood, and how that process took place... all the way through to his death. Currently I'm knee-deep in the WW II portion.
A very grim book, with lots of photographs. I'm a huge History buff, and an even bigger World War II buff, so I love it.. but it's as dire as it is entertaining.
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Sweet! I am contemplating The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or Atlas Shrugged for my next read. You recommendation may have swayed my choice.
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