Saw the movies first, kinda upsetting. I like the storyline in the book so much better, and the way the story connects much better from book to book. And the action parts. My mind goes like a thousand times faster when I'm reading it, rather than watching someone else's vision of it on a screen.

I have read it several times, it is a very good book.
I like Umberto Eco.

Started with this one last night:
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Will be the second time to read it for me. Tolstoy is one my favorite writers.

I don't read much anymore, but I'm trying to get back into it... Just read this:

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CS Lewis is so good.

Currently, and slowly...

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How is this one? I may have to pick it up.....

My favorite comics currently are:

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and

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and the ****ing classic:
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If you've never read 100 bullets.....do it!

lol

that dog has a strange resemblance to your avatar.....

Timeline by Michael Crichton.

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I'm through book 1, it's real, real good, pausing before getting into the next two books because I don't want to rush something this good.

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Anne of Green Gables (canadian fiction class)
Washington Rules- Bacevich
From Colony to Superpower-Herring

And later in the semester, another three thousand pages, more or less. Being a history major has its disadvantages, such as replacing all the time I would have spent reading for pleasure with reading for class/research papers.

Read this as part of my research for a paper two years ago. It's pretty good. Major Taylor was a very interesting historical figure in my opinion.

Anything by Eco is worth reading, IMHO. Foucault's Pendulum is like a "Davinci Code" for smart people (N.B. -- it came out years before Davinci Code).

Currently reading "How the Hippies Saved Physics"

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I hear that a lot of the humor/cynicism is lost through translation. I guess a lot of words he uses in Italian can't be correctly translated to English.

hm.

He is.

Finished the book for the 2nd time last night, and am going to start reading this for the 2nd time:

Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell

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Good story and sure to be more to follow.

"El Borbah" oversize compilation and Zappulla's translation of Dante's "Inferno" that i've been wanting to try out. online used book shopping is evil....

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Sorry, I just immediately focused on the cover art.

Biggly Puff - Make sure you don't make the same mistake as me. Read Ultimatum before Supremacy :roflmao2: Was so confused until I read about 100 pages.

Feist is one of my all time favorite authors. Just finished the Empire trilogy.

Now reading Game of Thrones and it is great. Can't wait for the second series on TV in April IIRC.

Finished 1Q84 recently. Didn't think it was one of Murakami's best. Seems like it needed an editor, longer than it needed to be and lacked the freshness in writing of his better stuff. Could have been a better book if they had tightened it up .

Also the new Neal Stephenson Reamde thoroughly enjoyable but lacking the inventiveness of Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon also longer than it needed to be.

Distrust that Particular Flavor- William Gibson's non-fiction collection was really good. Elaborates on some of the interesting quirky stuff that makes it into the novels. Reminded me why I like him.

Always find it ironic that people put picture of the covers of books in this thread. What are you reading, oh let me show you a photo of that...

Worst book I've ever read.-

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Ugh. This "Women in Literature" class is making me read the most mind-numbingly boring books. I get about 4 pages in, and then say **** it and read the sparknotes for the book. :lol:

I'm currently reading A Feast For Crows. I'm halfway through and I gotta say that its pretty ******** to base a show on a series of novels that's not even done yet. This book is underwhelming compared to the first three.

I finished this on Saturday.

Pros:
- VERY, VERY insightful. This book has permanently changed the way that I eat. My diet for myself and my child will be dramatically and permanently changed. I can say this book changed my life.
- If you ever wonder why America is fat, your friend is fat, you are fat...this book will help you understand. This helped me understand why even though I trained hard 6 days a week (2 of those days had morning AND afternoon workouts) and was still overweight.
- It's not a fad diet...but it explains the basis of fad diets (the ones that are effective and the ones that are not).

Cons:
- It's sort of a dry read. But, unfortunately, it has to be. Gary Taubes makes some bold assertions and points and has to back them up with proof and inline citations. Otherwise, he'd be dismissed as writing BS. I skipped and skimmed over the really, really boring parts.


I have already incorporated several of the points in the book and my body fat % has gone down and I'm stronger. The strength is due to weight training, though. But, it's no more weight training than I've done over the past 3 years. Same training but now it's more effective. The only change was my diet.

Whoops. Looks like I'm going to be lost soonish.

Just finished up Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling, as well as A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

Rereading Sandman

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