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

[firestorm]

There is a non fictional book I can't recall the name of. I think it was about achieving goals in working out, or achieving goals. From what I recall this was organized yearly as I recall you would read August 12 for August 12, March 3 for March 3, etc.
I'll have to search for it at Barnes and Noble along with looking on the inside to find out if it's the one I'm looking for.

 

[YankeeVol]

There is a non fictional book I can't recall the name of. I think it was above achieving goals in working out, or achieving goals. From what I recall this was organized yearly as I recall you would read August 12 for August 12, March 3 for March 3, etc.
I'll have to search for it at Barnes and Noble along with looking on the inside to find out if it's the one I'm looking for.

 

[MphsBlues]

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer

Really enjoyed the book.

Yeah, but the movie version could very well be the worst thing that ever happened to Abe Lincoln in a theater..

 

[Minibull]

I'm not usually into reading zombie survival stories, but I just finished the first season of the Gameland series by Saul Tanpepper. The writing was decent, keeping me interested in finishing the books. The best things about the books was the realistic world he created and is the pseudo-scientific basis he used to explain the outbreak. Both made sense to me, which is unusual as I'm a biochemical engineer and I tend to nitpick books in this genre to death. I will warn anyone that Saul wrote each book as an 'episode' so it suffers from cliff-hanger-itis at the end of each book. A good bit of enjoyable fluff.

 

[firestorm]

I seriously want to find this freakin book, and what you just posted is utter garbage.

Quit being a negative shadow to me. If you aren't going to say something constructive or helpful then don't say a damn thing.

 

[OrangeWayOfLife]

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence by Joseph J. Ellis

How was this book?

 

[JohnMarxism]

surely we have more avid book readers than this...

 

[YankeeVol]

Killing Patton. I think I'm going to pick up the other ones he's written.

 

[PKT_VOL]

surely we have more avid book readers than this...

Just terrible at updating.

 

[YankeeVol]

I go through phases. I'll read everything I can as soon as I can, and then there's times I won't pick a book up for months.

 

[SamRebel35]

Been re-reading my Michael Crichton collection. Recently read Great Train Robbery, Congo, Jurassic Park, and Timeline. Love his books. Wish he was still around.

 

[JohnMarxism]

Just terrible at updating.

That was my guess.

Currently re-reading "A Dance with Dragons"

 

[VOLatile]

Still reading Love and Math, as well as Sapiens: A Brief History of Humans. Both are relatively difficult. I think I need to set them down and pick up a fiction book.

 

[rs16]

"My Brief History" and "A Brief History of Time" on the planes between the USA and Italy.

 

[barknoxbrawler]

Killing Patton. I think I'm going to pick up the other ones he's written.

Great book. All of them are worth reading Yank. Killing Kennedy was my favorite as I had no experience or knee much history at all about him or his family. All of them place a new perspective on the stories.

 

[gcbvol]

Slowly reading Infinite Jest and about to finish Doctor Sleep.

 

[barknoxbrawler]

Finished American Sniper today. Easy read and worth every second.

 

[wildnkrazykat]

Slowly reading Infinite Jest and about to finish Doctor Sleep.

Man I got 100 some pages into ij and quit it

 

[gcbvol]

Man I got 100 some pages into ij and quit it

I understand, Kat. It can be laborious at times but I'm still engaged. I have a somewhat methodical reading style as it is, so this one is a marathon.

 

[RikidyBones]

5th book of Game of Thrones. Its actually an audio book, does that count?

 

[JohnMarxism]

5th book of Game of Thrones. Its actually an audio book, does that count?

of course it does. I'm roughly halfway through the same exact book.

 

[n_huffhines]

I've been really slacking on reading this year. Currently reading:

Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff (libertarian manifesto)
2312 (Sci fi novel)

Both good so far. I read Fight Club recently. I liked it a lot. It was almost exactly the movie, but the last 1/5 of it was very different.

 

[YankeeVol]

Animal Farm. It was the first Orwell book I've read

 

[SamRebel35]

Animal Farm. It was the first Orwell book I've read

I enjoyed that one, but 1984 is definitely the one to read, imo.

 

[SamRebel35]

Almost finished with "picture of Dorian Gray". Haunting and very interesting. Oscar Wilde is quite the wordsmith.