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

#803
#803
GonzoforCuonzo said:
About a third of the way into Game of Thrones
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I have been stuck on the 4th book for 6 months now. I just cant make myself pay 25 dollars for a hardcover. Cmon paperback! P.S. Best fantasy series I have ever read..and as much as I love Tolkein, that is saying a lot. But dang it is a depressing story.
 
#804
#804
Ulysees E. McGill said:
I have been stuck on the 4th book for 6 months now. I just cant make myself pay 25 dollars for a hardcover. Cmon paperback! P.S. Best fantasy series I have ever read..and as much as I love Tolkein, that is saying a lot. But dang it is a depressing story.
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I haven't read enough to know but I have been warned that everybody dies.
 
#805
#805
Ulysees E. McGill said:
I have been stuck on the 4th book for 6 months now. I just cant make myself pay 25 dollars for a hardcover. Cmon paperback! P.S. Best fantasy series I have ever read..and as much as I love Tolkein, that is saying a lot. But dang it is a depressing story.
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I'd send you my hardcover book 5, but son will be reading it pretty soon.
 
#806
#806
Am trying to read 2 books: Elric: the Stealer of Souls (but as fantasy heroes go, he's kinda pouty) and Old English and Its Closest Relatives (but this is kinda slow going).
 
#807
#807
VolFan32 said:
Next on my list.
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It was good, not great, but good. I'd rank it about 3rd out of the 4 Robert Langdon books. It seemed to keep you in the dark longer than his other books, which I didn't care for, but the the twist in this book might have been his best yet.
 
#808
#808
chatsworth_vol said:
It was good, not great, but good. I'd rank it about 3rd out of the 4 Robert Langdon books. It seemed to keep you in the dark longer than his other books, which I didn't care for, but the the twist in this book might have been his best yet.
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Last sentence makes me want to stop the book I'm reading now.
 
#811
#811
Just finished "The Turbulent Universe" by Paul Kurtz (one of the foremost Humanist)

It is an easy book to read for anyone interested in Humanism.
 
#812
#812
I'm reading "A Tiger Walk through History,The complete History of Auburn football from 1892 to the Tommy Tuberville era". Interesting reading
 
#815
#815
Just finished Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption and just started Cold-Case Christianity.
 
#816
#816
for all the book readers...when your done with them yo should donate them to a VA hospital if you have one around your area

my PSA for the day
 
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#817
#817
orangebloodgmc said:
Vol. 3 is finally out?! I really enjoyed the first two on N.Africa and Italian campaigns. Damn fine writer.
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Yeah, its been out about a month now! I think I now own all of his books. The Long Gray Line is the only one I haven't read yet. I really liked his Gulf War book Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War.
 
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#818
#818
I just finished 11/22/63. Really, really, good. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes suspense novels. I realize the first thought most people have when they think of Stephen King is horror, but this one's more Green Mile than Shining.
 
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#819
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orangesox said:
I just finished 11/22/63. Really, really, good. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes suspense novels. I realize the first thought most people have when they think of Stephen King is horror, but this one's more Green Mile than Shining.
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I agree. An excellent read (even at 900 pages). Very well done. I'm on my 2nd time around with that book.
 
#821
#821
Read "24 Days" which is about the 24 days between Enrons Q3 2001 earnings release, and the day the filed an 8K with the SEC significantly restating their historical financials. It's told from the perspective of two WSJ reporters who covered it. Great business read.
 
#822
#822
orangesox said:
Next up is Widow of the South. Couldn't resist a novel based in my old hometown of Franklin.
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Great book! :good!:

If you want a non-fictional one on the Battle of Franklin I highly recommend....
For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair At Spring Hill & the Battle of Franklin
by Eric A. Jacobson
 
#823
#823
We were discussing Freakonomics in a random thread... Really wanting to read it. It was a summer reading assignment for an incoming freshman class the year before mine after i graduated high school.

Just started The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver a couple nights ago. Haven't been able to fully dive in yet.
 
#825
#825
Dan Brown?

I've never read those books.

And Burger just mentioned Adam Smith in the RF... somehow my school library didn't have those or I would have checked them out for break.
 
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