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

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Maze Runner #1. My friend has been begging me to read it so she can discuss it with me. It's pretty entertaining and a quick read.

Up next is The Things They Carried for a book club. I'm not too excited about it. Not a fan of war books, and certainly not of Vietnam. I never finished The Sorrow of War, either.
 
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Finished Mere Christianity. Good book. Ended up picking up The Screwtape Letters as well.

Currently reading Sharp Objects.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
Introduction to Objectivism by Ann Rand

I thought her epistemology of concept formation to be pretty lucid and probably correct. However, the book and the printed discussion did very little to actually address the topic of objectivism verse subjectivism. Very disappointing. I never read (nor have any interest in reading) Atlas Shrugged. Maybe those that have and are big fans can get more out of this that I did.

Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly

Solid book. I thought it was equal to Killing Lincoln. Very fast read and well-written.
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Surprised you would read Bill O'Reilly...and enjoy it.
 
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A heads up you might want to check your local Walmart for a discounted book display. Can't remember all the titles but probably 6 or 8 different ones and all Walmarts might have something different? All titles were $5.97

I picked up The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper (a 600+ page book based on the soldiers at Combat Outpost Keating along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border by Former ABC now CNN reporter Jake Tapper.)

I also got The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer (I have a number of his books and all are very fun to read.)
 
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PKT_VOL said:
Why?
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Not that O'Reilly can't do something good, but you are a pretty reasoned person and that's not a word I'd use to describe O'Reilly. Even back in the day when I mostly agreed with him, I thought he was a hack.

That doesn't mean the books aren't good, it just means I didn't think you would be interested.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Not that O'Reilly can't do something good, but you are a pretty reasoned person and that's not a word I'd use to describe O'Reilly. Even back in the day when I mostly agreed with him, I thought he was a hack.

That doesn't mean the books aren't good, it just means I didn't think you would be interested.
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Ditto. The guy will do or say anything for a buck.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Not that O'Reilly can't do something good, but you are a pretty reasoned person and that's not a word I'd use to describe O'Reilly. Even back in the day when I mostly agreed with him, I thought he was a hack.

That doesn't mean the books aren't good, it just means I didn't think you would be interested.
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VOLatile said:
Ditto. The guy will do or say anything for a buck.
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Gotcha. Well, it isn't his politics and they were free. As for the money from the books, I think he donates all the royalties (his share) to charity.
 
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Just finished "A Visit From the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan. I had to read it a few years ago in a class, but reading it again just for enjoyment made it so much better. It's a collection of linked short stories that tells a pretty depressing, yet brutally honest, overarching story by having minor characters in previous stories be main characters in others.

The last few chapters were as sad, yet real, as I've read in a long time.

If I had to describe it in one sentence, it'd be simply "Time's a Goon."
 
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Fourth Down in Dunbar by David Dorsey.

Really enjoying it. Talks about a bad area around Ft Myers, FL and how they pump out high level football talent but few escape it and make it big. Most fall through the cracks.
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
I like it so far
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Enjoyable for someone with little interest in military conflict? I liked The Sorrow of War, which is a tale of Vietnam from a North Vietnamese perspective, but I didn't finish it. I have 7 days to start and read The Things They Carried.
 
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VOLatile said:
Enjoyable for someone with little interest in military conflict? I liked The Sorrow of War, which is a tale of Vietnam from a North Vietnamese perspective, but I didn't finish it. I have 7 days to start and read The Things They Carried.
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I would say so.
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
I would say so.
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Good to hear.

I downloaded the wrong copy like an idiot, so I've put it off again. Book club doesn't meet until 2/8 now anyways.

Currently reading The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Fascinating so far. It's listed as one of the best science books of 2014.
 
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Also I'm reading Deadly Duos Partners in their crime and addiction to murder.

Very disturbing how one group of killers was responsible for killing people then giving the bodies to a medical college for the purpose to make money.
 
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firestorm said:
Also I'm reading Deadly Duos Partners in their crime and addiction to murder.

Very disturbing how one group of killers was responsible for killing people then giving the bodies to a medical college for the purpose to make money.
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Does it reference Dr. H.H. Holmes from the Chicago world's fair era?
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Does it reference Dr. H.H. Holmes from the Chicago world's fair era?
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So far no it hasnt.

I think I saw some blog or website suggesting Holmes could also be Jack the Ripper.

It had a refrence to the infamous fictional murderer norman bates in the intro.
 
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firestorm said:
So far no it hasnt.

I think I saw some blog or website suggesting Holmes could also be Jack the Ripper.

It had a refrence to the infamous fictional murderer norman bates in the intro.
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Jack the Ripper was in London while HH Holmes was in Chicago... I think they missed that big detail.
 
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VOLatile said:
Jack the Ripper was in London while HH Holmes was in Chicago... I think they missed that big detail.
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It's possible Ripper had a accomplice but doubtul its H H Holmes.



Till Death Do Us Part
Bonnie and Clyde

Thats where I'm at. It would have been utterly shocking not to have bonnie and clyde.
They are A listers of illicit murderous deadly duos.
 
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