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Old 03-07-2012, 10:51 PM   #491
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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.
I've never read "Atlas Shrugged", if memory serves, but I read Rand's "The Fountainhead" and "Anthem" waaay back in High School English. Deep stuff.

I've read "Rise and Fall..." though, and that's excellent; a thorough examination of Hitler's machinations, some of which comes straight from men that were close to his inner circle. You could stop a bullet with this book, though.

Himmler's a great read so far.
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Old 03-08-2012, 12:12 PM   #492
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I downloaded Never Let Me Go off iTunes and am enjoying it (as much as you can "enjoy" a story like this). I usually want to read the book after watching the movie so I don't unfairly compare the two but I wish I read this book first.
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Old 03-12-2012, 09:40 AM   #493
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The Man Who Would Be King (1888), by Rudyard Kipling. It's actually a novella, so I finished it in one evening. Pretty good story, especially having read up on the historical aspects of it. Now to rent the movie.
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Old 03-12-2012, 01:23 PM   #494
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Ok, reading Catching fire first, and then going to John Carter of Mars's first book, Princess of Mars.
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Old 03-12-2012, 06:15 PM   #495
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getting ready to start The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones
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Old 03-12-2012, 09:04 PM   #496
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Started Atlas Shrugged today.
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Old 03-20-2012, 08:45 AM   #497
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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (1913), by Sax Rohmer

This is the first novel in the Fu Manchu series. Yet another public domain audiobook from Librivox, available in free podcasts through iTunes.
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Old 03-20-2012, 09:35 AM   #498
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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
Same here read it in two days I loved it now i'm starting Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter today.
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Old 03-20-2012, 08:56 PM   #499
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Ok, reading Catching fire first, and then going to John Carter of Mars's first book, Princess of Mars.
Burroughs Mars work is amazing. He did an incredible job of world building. Not Tolkien or Herbert, but still a very rich tapestry.
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Old 03-20-2012, 09:02 PM   #500
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I'm about to reread George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" yet again. My favorite book of all time.
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