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03-07-2012, 10:51 PM
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#491
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Kindly Asked To Leave
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Coast
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Originally Posted by dccowen
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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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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03-08-2012, 12:12 PM
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#492
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Fantomah
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 6,229
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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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03-12-2012, 09:40 AM
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#493
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Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 8,648
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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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03-12-2012, 01:23 PM
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#494
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Galactus
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Farmers Branch
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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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03-12-2012, 06:15 PM
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#495
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The Flash
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: PB/CFB -take your pick :D (GB to some ;P)
Posts: 17,064
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getting ready to start The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones
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03-12-2012, 09:04 PM
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#496
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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Lago, Hell
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Started Atlas Shrugged today.
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03-20-2012, 08:45 AM
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#497
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Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 8,648
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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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03-20-2012, 09:35 AM
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#498
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Yeah, I spend WAY too much time here!
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: ASGARD
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Originally Posted by BobbyW
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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03-20-2012, 08:56 PM
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#499
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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Lago, Hell
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bat_collector
Ok, reading Catching fire first, and then going to John Carter of Mars's first book, Princess of Mars.
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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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03-20-2012, 09:02 PM
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#500
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Yeah, I spend WAY too much time here!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Alabama
Posts: 23,187
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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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