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Old 08-05-11, 05:41 PM
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Summer reading = The Book Thief and Why Europe?
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Currently reading G R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series (HBO series is titled "Game of Thrones"). Bought the first four books in a Costco pack 2-3 weeks ago, the fifth one yesterday. I'm on the fourth one now, and my GRE studying definitely got pushed aside... I'm sad that the series isn't finished (2 books remain to be published), as I really don't like waiting, but I'm lucky that Branden Sanderson is finishing off The Wheel of Time for Robert Jordan!
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I wasn't crazy about "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," but I'm really liking the first half of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay" so far. Pittsburgh was fine, but very clearly a first book.

"What is the What" was really good, I think it might be my favorite of Eggers' books.
I finally got through "What is the What". The parts in Africa are great. The parts in the USA are less so.

Currently reading his book "Zeitoun". So far I am liking it a lot.
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Just finished "Ancient Rome" by Simon Baker; just started "The Extraordinary Leader" by John Zenger and Joseph Folkman.
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I'm reading "Poorly Made in China".

It's a pretty accurate depiction of Chinese manufacturing/business culture.
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Working my way through (well, in and out) this:



It's a collection of annotated letters, articles, sketches, lecture transcripts, and unstructured notes. It's awesome.
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Old 08-06-11, 06:45 PM
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The Help, Ender's Game, Warbreaker, and Mistborn so far this summer.
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Just finished Dennis Lehane's Moonlight Mile. I have a love hate relationship with Lehane. Love his work. Hate that I burn through them so quickly.
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The Wave by Susan Casey. And people think we're nuts..
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Im still planning to read 'The Rider'...

but has anyone read 'the Belgian Hammer'?
anyone? bueller?
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I keep books with me. They're in separate rooms and at work so I read a lot of different ones. Currently, I'm reading 4 books - slowly.

The God Delusion
The Screwtape Letters
The Courage to Change (AA, NA support devotional)
The Dawkins Delusion

I'm a scatterbrain and this probably isn't good for someone with a short attention span but that's what I have to do to keep me interested.
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Re-reading a bunch of books. I situate them all around the house, had about 7-8-9-10 going at a time.

Rain assassin series by Barry Ei-something, one at a time. Just finished the 5th? The Requiem one.

Rider by Krabbe (at about km 110 or so). That's on the table with Breaking the Chain, Tales from the Bike Shop. 23 Days of July, Lance's War (best writer, very very good), Lance to Landis. It's interesting to see different viewpoints on, say, Carmichael, or the different "facts" as to why this or that happened; it adds a bit of guilt to me clicking on the velonews bookmark in the browswer.

Pale Horse Riding, Stephen something. Hunter? Bob Lee Swagger writer. Read a few others in last month, Point of Impact, Time to Hunt. Okay two others, not "a few".

Also just finished a few tech drama type things, the "Tom Clancy" like books. Bio terrorism, nuclear terrorism. I was switching between them and getting them mixed up. T-Rex is in one, Takagi in another. Bedroom.

Read for the first time "In the Cut". Depressing.

How to Drive Your Porsche, Vic Elford. I reread the "how to drive your car" books every now and then. There's one I like better but Elford, he got to race the Porsche 917s. He talks about smoothness, balance, stuff like that, versus pure cornering lines. It's good. Also good for a new (say less than 5 or 10 years experience) driver.
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Originally Posted by PharmD
The Help, Ender's Game, Warbreaker, and Mistborn so far this summer.
I very much enjoyed Ender's Game.

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Old 08-08-11, 05:03 PM
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anyone read any of these and are they any good?

On Tour
by Bradley Wiggins (Paperback)





In Pursuit of Glory
by Bradley Wiggins (Paperback)



Racing Through the Dark
by David Millar (Hardcover)
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Old 08-08-11, 11:05 PM
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Outliers. Opens with a great sports example, invokes the 10,000 hour rule, pokes holes in the idea of talent, lots of great anecdotes and quasi-stats.
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finishing this:



then



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Thanks for letting us know, Mr. Cole.
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Outliers. Opens with a great sports example, invokes the 10,000 hour rule, pokes holes in the idea of talent, lots of great anecdotes and quasi-stats.
Playing devil's advocate:

https://www.sportsscientists.com/2011...e-secrets.html
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100 Years of Solitude. Started it some time ago and ended up getting distracted and not finishing it. Starting over.
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I finally got through "What is the What". The parts in Africa are great. The parts in the USA are less so.
Good read. I went through a lot of African literature last year. Been reading a lot of Chandler/Hammit/Cain detective fiction. Great writing and exceptional dialogue.

Recommend:


Highly:



Incredible story.

Really liked this...if you're a training/coaching wonk it will resonate:

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Originally Posted by pjcampbell
anyone read any of these and are they any good?
Browsed through Wiggans latest. Synopsis:

"Hey, I'm a Brit! Buy this!"

Millar's book has some excerpts in the latest Procycling...haven't gotten to it yet.

The Fignon bio is worth picking up. I liked "Larry". His passing so young was quite sad.
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Ender's Game is great.

My first ever Stephen King book was the unabridged version (i.e. second release) of The Stand. I tried to read it through a few times, giving up on a lot on the fire guy's travels across the country. Finally got an abridged version (the original) maybe 5-10 years later. Read it. Then started the full version and read it straight through. It had to take me 10 years to finally read the book.

Finished pretty much all the books I was working on above except The Rider. Poking around for more. Looked at and rejected The Race / The Tour / Perfect Circles (too dramatic, kind of fake); all my WW2 panzer/strategy books; Tour books.

Found an old paper I wrote (for myself and a friend) about my cross-country trip. I started typing it out (I found a hard copy and want to preserve it electronically - I'd been combing my electronic archives specifically for this paper for a few months). I skipped a LOT of stuff in the paper, since I was sending it to a friend. I realized it'll be 30-50 pages by the time I finish it. As it is it's 18 pages, small font to make it fit, etc. The first few paragraphs turned into a few hours of typing then my brain frazzled.
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Originally Posted by carpediemracing
Ender's Game is great.

My first ever Stephen King book was the unabridged version (i.e. second release) of The Stand. I tried to read it through a few times, giving up on a lot on the fire guy's travels across the country. Finally got an abridged version (the original) maybe 5-10 years later. Read it. Then started the full version and read it straight through. It had to take me 10 years to finally read the book.

Finished pretty much all the books I was working on above except The Rider. Poking around for more. Looked at and rejected The Race / The Tour / Perfect Circles (too dramatic, kind of fake); all my WW2 panzer/strategy books; Tour books.

Found an old paper I wrote (for myself and a friend) about my cross-country trip. I started typing it out (I found a hard copy and want to preserve it electronically - I'd been combing my electronic archives specifically for this paper for a few months). I skipped a LOT of stuff in the paper, since I was sending it to a friend. I realized it'll be 30-50 pages by the time I finish it. As it is it's 18 pages, small font to make it fit, etc. The first few paragraphs turned into a few hours of typing then my brain frazzled.
That's the only King book I've ever read. Think I've read it twice, first time i was in 8th? grade, give or take a year. Definitely didn't understand a lot of what was going on there. Read it again later and marveled at how much i'd missed.
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