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What are you reading? (September 2010)
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Christoff Yurievich
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Finished it yesterday and man, that ending. Let's haveBruceLeeRoy said:
a trial where we never find out the why's, what's, or anything else!
Maklershed
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The image is blocked here at work but I'll assume its American Gods.Karakand said:
Literally the worst book I have ever read.
HarryHengst
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Same for me. Waiting with finishing it for Amazon to deliver the second one, because i get the feeling i want to continue reading right after this one.Carlisle said:
Amazing so far. Can't put it down.
Really cool story so far, although i'm getting a bit confused with so many names to remember. :lol
It's The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen.Maklershed said:
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The Plague is great! I don't think nearly as many people read it as they do his other works. I personally love the way he writes.
Aruarian Reflection
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Can anybody recommend non-fiction works that are easily accessible and likely to appeal to nerdy males? I'm talking books like "Prisoner of Trebekistan", which is a Jeopardy champion's account of his Jeopardy adventures, and "American Shaolin", about an American who travels to China to study with the Shaolin monks.
Guileless
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SnowWolf, I haven't read the books you mentioned. But I have read a few with concepts similar to the shaolin book where guy goes around the world to immerse himself in a fascinating and contrarian subculture. I thoroughly enjoyed Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall.
Also consider Among the Thugs by Bill Buford. An American (who edited a literary magazine, natch) insinuates himself into a firm of football hooligans in the UK. I'm not sure how much of it is true, but it's entertaining. Unless you're from the UK, in which case you would hate it.
Also consider Among the Thugs by Bill Buford. An American (who edited a literary magazine, natch) insinuates himself into a firm of football hooligans in the UK. I'm not sure how much of it is true, but it's entertaining. Unless you're from the UK, in which case you would hate it.
HarryHengst
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Well, look at that. How useful!Helmholtz said:
nakedsushi
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Finished reading Warrior. It was decent as far as paranormal romance goes. Lots of of NC-17 action as well as an almost wild-west adventure. I liked the historical fiction aspects of it, especially the parts about Genghis Khan. Probably won't read the rest of the series till later. I have issues with leading female characters being powerful and spunky, but still written to be not as strong or good at fighting than the tall, dark, muscular men who save them from peril.
On that note, heading back to the Vorkosigan Saga and starting:
I like that it starts right where Shards of Honor left off. I hate it when there are useless pages wasted on a recap. Not too happy about the baby development though. I hate babies.
On that note, heading back to the Vorkosigan Saga and starting:
I like that it starts right where Shards of Honor left off. I hate it when there are useless pages wasted on a recap. Not too happy about the baby development though. I hate babies.
I just shot John O'Hara's rare Lovey Childs - a Philadelphian's Story and The Instrument for 4 at a fleamarket. They were only once published in german. With absolutely ridiculous titles: these tender, wild years and thanks for nothing respectively
Reading the first one at the moment and it's top stuff. Lovey is the daughter of a philadelphian socialite that brings home a friend from school over christmas. Your not expecting anything and than BAM, the friend has pretty graphic girl on women intercourse with Lovey's mother!! John O'Hara is steadily becoming my favourite author next to Anton Chekhov.
Reading the first one at the moment and it's top stuff. Lovey is the daughter of a philadelphian socialite that brings home a friend from school over christmas. Your not expecting anything and than BAM, the friend has pretty graphic girl on women intercourse with Lovey's mother!! John O'Hara is steadily becoming my favourite author next to Anton Chekhov.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Finally got my hands on A Game of Thrones. Too early to give any real thoughts on (I really just started the book), but I'm liking the style and I'm glad to finally get to read the book after hearing so many good things about the series.
I read Small Gods at the end of last year which is supposed to be one of his best books, but my feelings are similar to yours. I enjoyed reading it, but I expected something more after all of the praise I've heard about Pratchet. I 've also got Printing Money and The Truth by him, but I haven't read these books yet.Jarlaxle said:
Just finished this. I thought I would enjoy it more than I did. I've heard tons of praise for Pratchett and his humor but for my money I'd take Douglas Adam's anytime. Although, I did read a bunch of reviews on amazon that say that this is one of the weaker Discworld books even though it is the first. I might give another one a try at some point since they are so short but it won't be anytime soon.
My biggest problem with Small Gods was actually the lack of chapters. Sounds stupid, but I'm used to read chapter wise. Without them I'm missing "orientation" or something.
adamsappel
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I was drinking with some friends in a hotel bar in DC tonight. Two guys and a girl sat down at a table a few yards away from us. I leaned over to a friend and said, "Man, that guy looks like Jonathan Franzen! Hey, remember when Oprah was going to have The Corrections be part of her book club, and he made fun of her and she took it back? :lol "eznark said:
Suddenly, I notice there's someone standing beside me. "Hi, I couldn't help overhearing you. I'm Jonathan Franzen."
D'oh!
He said that wasn't what really happened. I told him that was the perception. He said he felt bad about that. I told him I'd listened to his Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross on NPR the other day. We talked for a few more minutes and he was actually very nice.
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Karakand said:
Yeah, I'm with Myers on this one.
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Guileless said:
demon said:
Thanks for the recs, I'm going to look into these. I couldn't think of a good way to describe what I'm looking for other than "easily accessible, likely to appeal to nerdy males", but "insider exposé of popular culture" is a better description. In case anybody else has similar interests to mine, I recently came across "Shooting in the Wild", which is about how wildlife documentaries are filmed, the tricks they use to produce the footage, and other insights to these films.
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adamsappel said:
Awesome story! Now go read Freedom, his latest. It's really very good.
Guileless
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Picked up for cheap and finished More than a Game: The Glorious Present and Uncertain Future of the NFL by Brian Billick. He was the coach of Baltimore when it won the Super Bowl. He's a sharp guy, not your stereotypical football coach, and it's an insightful read. The best line is when some anonymous league official tells him that in the old days, the owners' priority was to do what's good for the game and then try to make money off of it. Now the priority is to maximize revenue first and then try to figure out how to make it work with the game second. That sums up the NFL nowadays I think.
Snowwolf, you should check out Moneyball. It was a bestseller so you can surely get a copy at the library or a score a cheap used one.
Snowwolf, you should check out Moneyball. It was a bestseller so you can surely get a copy at the library or a score a cheap used one.
Just finished:
Not her best work by any means, but a pretty good read. The standout short stories for me include "Newton's Sleep", "The Rock That Changed Things", "The Shoby's Story", and The Fisherman of the Inland Sea". So.. most of the book. :lol Familiarity with her Hainish Universe is required for the last two stories though.
8/10.
Not her best work by any means, but a pretty good read. The standout short stories for me include "Newton's Sleep", "The Rock That Changed Things", "The Shoby's Story", and The Fisherman of the Inland Sea". So.. most of the book. :lol Familiarity with her Hainish Universe is required for the last two stories though.
8/10.
Pretty bored with fiction lately, finished Kitchen Confidential last week and moved on to the super-horrendous Suck It Wonder Woman by Olivia Munn, hoping for some sort of a guilty pleasure Chelsea Handler vibe but getting only guilty. Started in on I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max only to realize I cannot handle more than 100 pages of stories about a douchebag drinking and getting with chicks, and dropped that one. Also recently enjoyed Surely You're Joking by the titular Dr. Feynman on recommendation, a really entertaining series of life stories from an interesting physicist.
Before that, finished the epic-length Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons, and now getting back to Bourdain with his newest one Medium Raw which is pretty great so far.
Any other interesting and entertaining non-fiction recommendations?
Before that, finished the epic-length Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons, and now getting back to Bourdain with his newest one Medium Raw which is pretty great so far.
Any other interesting and entertaining non-fiction recommendations?
lobdale said:
Rubicon, by Tom Holland.
http://www.amazon.com/Rubicon-Last-Years-Roman-Republic/dp/1400078970
wrowa said:
It's funny because now that I'm reading something else, one of the first things I said was, "Thank God this book has chapters." It wasn't that it needed chapters so bad because it was only 200 pages but it would've helped in the cohesion of the story I felt. The ideas kind of get intermingled without them.
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Very funny, but it's the last time I read a spanish translation from an english book, it's terrible at times and throws you out of the whole atmosphere of the story.
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I just started it and it's a long book (for my standards) so I think it will take me a good month to finish it. Has anyone read it here? What's your opinion?
Arcane Hayter
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Just started the Wheel of Time series. Halfway into the first book, so far so good.
Aquavelvaman
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MustacheBandit_
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^that was a good book. I did find however, the Buddhist themes got a little overwhelming at times. A great introduction to Beatnik culture though.
Aquavelvaman
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The Buddhism that they practice is all over the map, and not particularly valuable in my opinion. Especially after working through Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End as a companion which is a lot more singular and thoughtful. Definitely an interesting look at Beat counterculture, though. Gotta love Kerouac's "spontaneous prose" too.KingOfKong said:
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