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Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption - Laura Hillenbrand

That's on my list of "want to reads"

I just started reading Dog On It by Spencer Quinn.

http://www.amazon.com/Dog-Chet-Bernie-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1416585842/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325887520&sr=1-1

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Also, going through George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire', before season 2 of Game of Thrones airs in April!

Abraham Lincoln by M. Burlingame
http://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Lincoln-Life-Michael-Burlingame/dp/0801889936/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327200428&sr=1-1

Snap Philip.
Just started reading "A Song of Fre and Ice" Vol1 over the weekend.

Snap Philip.
Just started reading "A Song of Fre and Ice" Vol1 over the weekend.

Excellent! You'll fly through it. It's easy to read and very exciting! I've just started 'A Clash of Kings', the second installment! Now it gets really interesting reading ahead of the TV show!

Just started Norwegian Wood. Mixed expectations. Time will tell.

Going back and rereading some older stuff.

"The Illustrated Man" by Bradbury reminds me why his stories have always been special to me.

As a kid growing up in the late 50's and early 60's, I couldn't get enough stories about space travel,
but he took just a little bit different slant on the subject.

So many books, so little time...

"COLLAPSE: How Societies choose to fail or succeed" by Jared Diamond
Per a suggestion from 3alarmer from a P&R thread
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.....and "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Per a suggestion from a friend who is just a bit more of an average 'high-functioning' lunatic than me.....
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Both are excellent!

Maxwell's 'The Folded Leaf'. A great book from an American writer under-appreciated alongside the likes of Updike, Salinger, Kerouac etc...

Just finished "The diving bell and the Butterfly" - a memoir written by a French journalist who had a stroke and woke up with "locked in syndrome". He could only move his left eyelid and wrote the memoir by blinking to indicate which letter he wanted to an assistant who then wrote it down.
Amazingly upbeat given the guy went from being healthy and successful to paralysed except for the use of one eye.

Just started All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell
Powell actually writes in a very engaging manner, and his "Thirteen Rules" should replace the "Golden Rule" as a guide for interacting with your fellow man.
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We Can All Do Better by Bill Bradley
Again, Bradley writes in a very engaging manner, and his take on the role of money in politics, and what we need to do to restore American policies and to return to a position as a world leader are spot on.
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Emotional Equations (http://emotionalequations.com/) by Chip Conley

Recently finished: "The Big Burn" by Timothy Egan
Got 6% through: "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace
Before getting distractted by: "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome

reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card was picked for a sci fi book group. three chapters in. brutality is expected as Ender is being honed into a general for the earth defensive force against the Bugger alien invaders. supposed to be a classic.

started Major abook about african american cyclist of same nom de bike.
also started something by about floyd landis

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http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Ultra-Rejecting-Becoming-Discovering/dp/0307952193/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344271626&sr=8-1&keywords=finding+ultra (http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Ultra-Rejecting-Becoming-Discovering/dp/0307952193/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344271626&sr=8-1&keywords=finding+ultra)

Just started Game of Thrones this weekend. Pretty good so far although he throws a ton of characters at you right from the get go. Makes it a little tough to keep them all straight initially.

rereading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett

I'm reading two, The wizard in the glass/Dark Tower Series The Stand both by Stephen King...I can't believe I've never read them before!

Wuthering Heights - talk about dysfunctional families - and I thought P&R was dysfunctional.

Finished Game of Thrones and jumped right into A Clash of Kings.1800 pages of medieval intrigues between the two. Whew think I might take a break after this one for awhile - thought it is entertaining

Nikolai Gogol, "The Mantle and other stories". Funny stuff!

" The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood " by James Gleick.

A little bit of everything on the subject. Enjoy reading about those who think outside the "Box"...

This lead to the purchase of " The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation " by Jon Gertner

Currently reading Autobiography of Henry Ford...finished the original Frankenstein by Mary Shelley prior to that.

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Currently reading Autobiography of Henry Ford...finished the original Frankenstein by Mary Shelley prior to that.

good stuff-a fave. has anyone else come across an older novel using the literary device of starting a novel off with the ending?
i haven't and wondering if mary shelley essentially invented it.

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Reading that and The Shining...just finished The Stand.

both ends here: Gilgamesh and My Life as a White Trash Zombie (urban fantasy)

Was bored and the local library didnt have anything new in to read...rereading the Icewind Dale trilogy by RA Salvatore

Just started A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin

The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse

A history of Quantum Physics

Finished The Shining...great book!

Still working on the Dark Tower Series, looking for something else to read as well.

Game Of Thrones 2. Started reading 1 in August 'cause it was lying around and I was deep under the influence of concussion and percocet. They are definitely readable but I don't love'em. Blurbs comparing it to other fantasy-type books entirely unjustified.

In between the 2 GoT books I read Jar City (http://www.amazon.com/Jar-City-A-Reykjavi%C2%ADk-Thriller/dp/0312426380) a detective story set in Reykjavik, a city we were going to visit until my concussion/percocet event cost that vacation. It's a good Scandi-Noir thing. Pieces are as gruesome (anatomcally or emotionally) as the Stieg Larsson books but it's just a crime story, no supervillains or conspiracies or asperger geniuses. It does tie in to my professional interests so that made it a little more interesting, and I didn't know about that heading into it. At the end of the book it came to be built around this project (http://www.decode.com/company/), including actual specific people working on it, but it changed the names and genders of everything. That was some additional entertainment.

Finished The Shining...great book!

Still working on the Dark Tower Series, looking for something else to read as well.

Dark Tower series is the only SK washout for me. Maybe I was reading it at the wrong time in my own life.

Dark Tower series is the only SK washout for me. Maybe I was reading it at the wrong time in my own life.

It's the last of his book series I've tried to read, like you at any other time I wasn't ready for it. I read the first two books with a fever and stalled on the third...not gonna give up though.

rereading the ecology of fear: los angeles and the imagination of disaster by mike davis.

Game Of Thrones 2. Started reading 1 in August 'cause it was lying around and I was deep under the influence of concussion and percocet. They are definitely readable but I don't love'em. Blurbs comparing it to other fantasy-type books entirely unjustified.

I've been working my way through them and agree with you. I do like most of them but there are some plot lines that are just a drag to get through.

John Irving - Cider House Rules

Just started A Dance With Dragons

just started Game of Thrones too early in the book to tell if I like it or not, or
how it differs from the HBO series.

Just got my hands on the Shimano 2013 Bicycle Components catalog, Shimano Wheel Systems 2013 catalog and Shimano Genuine Parts Catalogue 2013 ....

Right now I am ready a couple books. One is a comic Locke&Key vol 2 head games And I am reading the Collection of Little House on the Prairie. I know, weird variety

Finally finished Infinte Jest, which enjoyable tho' it was, I'm relieved to be through with, except that I'm not...

This winter I want to read some huge Russian classic, but only after I'm more of the way through Bill Bryson's, At Home: A Short History of Private Life.

Generation A by Douglas Coupland. An OK read without much point.

Well I can honestly say that the HBO series follows the book Game of Thrones exactly.
3/4 of the way through it and I see no major differences except maybe some gratuitous
nudity that HBO throws into all their miniseries.

Well I can honestly say that the HBO series follows the book Game of Thrones exactly.
3/4 of the way through it and I see no major differences except maybe some gratuitous
nudity that HBO throws into all their miniseries.

I'm just starting book 4 more out of OCD than pure reading pleasure and there has been stuff every step of the way that I don't think I want to see on TV so I'm not following along that line.

John Irving - Cider House RulesI love this book!!! I read Irving's In One Person recently, it's odd, but a good book. The characters in this book reminded me of the wild characters in The World According to Garp.