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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 19, 2006 1:11:37 GMT -5
I know what you're thinking, Slim can read? Yep, all indications to the contrary, I am a literate dude- it's not just a pretty face. Reading is Fundamental as we all know and I cut my teeth learning by watching Spidey Super Stories on the Electric Company, which of course cemented my lifelong fandom of the wallcrawler and made me consider superhero as a career choice--seriously when I was four my two major job options were a) palentologist or b) Spider-man. While I'm speaking highly of the Electric Company, best PBS show EVER by the way, Reading Rainbow was also the ginchiest, and had one of the catchiest theme songs as well. But enough about my formative years, the question I put forth to you guys and dames is, whatcha currently reading? Me, I tend to read a whole of stuff concurrently, so as of this week it's
-Finishing the last 100 or so pages of Atlas Shrugged, I gave it a break for a couple months before coming back to it. Good stuff.
-If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B movie Actor, Bruce Campbell's autobiograhpy
-Moby Dick, I never have read the full version, had a real watered down one as a kid, and I found the whole thing at Hasting's for five bucks, so..
-Teen Titans, the Judas Contract. Wolfman/Perez goodness, and probably the finest arc in that series to my mind.
What about ya'll?
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KLRA
El Dandy
Halt. I am Reptar.
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Post by KLRA on Dec 19, 2006 1:12:21 GMT -5
The WrestleCrap Forums.
*rimshot*
I haven't had the time to actually sit down and read for a while. I'm having a hard enough time keeping up with the comics that I read (I'm about two issues behind on Daredevil right now, which is just..sad).
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Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 19, 2006 1:12:35 GMT -5
Dumbolgy-- Science
Just a little history on bad science of the past....
also have Holy Blood and the Holy Grail on tap.
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Nekron has risen aka Gamera...
Don Corleone
Yep, The Black Lantern Corps have the Superman of Earth-2 as a member...... We're f*****d!!!!
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Post by Nekron has risen aka Gamera... on Dec 19, 2006 1:33:49 GMT -5
I'm reading about five books right now.... 1. The Lord of the Rings 2.The Chronicles of Amber Vol.1 3.Star Wars:The Dark Nest Trilogy 4.Angels and Demons 5.Republic Commando:Triple Zero
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erisi236
Fry's dog Seymour
... enjoys the rich, smooth taste of Camels.
Not good! Not good! Not good!
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Post by erisi236 on Dec 19, 2006 1:43:16 GMT -5
I'm 60 odd pages into Dark Horse by Mary Herbert. I love those old TSR fantasy books
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TuneinTokyo
Hank Scorpio
The Mountain from Stone Mountain
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Dec 19, 2006 1:56:40 GMT -5
Gambling websites.
I'm goin' to Vegas Friday.
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MCP Hates You
Hank Scorpio
Wonders "Why in the world am I so fired?"
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Post by MCP Hates You on Dec 19, 2006 2:07:25 GMT -5
Well, I read an entire book about Theravada Buddhism on Saturday and Sunday if that counts, along with various other textbooks. Yay reading period!
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Post by 'Sweet n' Sour' A. A. Estrada on Dec 19, 2006 2:11:41 GMT -5
Kushiel's Scion, fourth book in the series.
It's pretty much exactly the same thing as the first three.
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Dec 19, 2006 2:28:21 GMT -5
Harley Race's Book
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Ace Diamond
Patti Mayonnaise
Believes in Adrian Veidt, as Should We All.
mmm...flavor text
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Post by Ace Diamond on Dec 19, 2006 2:54:35 GMT -5
"Have a Nice Day!" by Mick Foley. Best $1 I ever spent at a used book sale.
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Post by Topher is Human on Dec 19, 2006 2:57:16 GMT -5
Brave New World and Lord of the Flies
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 19, 2006 2:59:13 GMT -5
Now I'm currently read the 'Seven Wonders Of The Industrial World' by Deborah Cadbury.
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H-Fist
Hank Scorpio
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Post by H-Fist on Dec 19, 2006 4:06:15 GMT -5
"If Chins Could Kill" is great. I read it a while ago...for researhc, no less, checked out of the U of Illinois library's main stacks. I'm curently catching up on the last few months of National Geographic, and am 3/4 done with Stephen Jay Gould's "Eight Little Piggies," a collection of the paleontologist's essays on natural history. I also am reading "Steppenwolf" by Herrmann Hesse and "Zen and the Birds of Appetite" by Thomas Merton.
Gould is one of my favorite writers. Evolutionary theory is one of my favorte topics. I think those two statements have bolstered each other's strength for me. Hesse is a great writer, and the books are quick reads when in the right mood. Unfortunately, between 6 hours/day as a line cook, 3 hours/day at the gym + getting to/from the gym, and 2 hours/day cooking healthy food, I don't have the same time for reading that I did back when I was a lazy bum working a shit job 42 hours a week and drinking the rest of the time.
A handful of books I have going but haven't picked up in 6+ weeks are "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain, "The Voyage of the Beagle" by Charles Darwin, "Kurosawa" by East Asian/film scholar Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, "A Salty Piece of Land" by Jimmy Buffett (yeah, yeah...he can actually write well if you want light-hearted), "The Histories" by Herodotus (kinda painful), and "Science and Human Behavior" by BF Skinner (behaviorism: it's not just for hungry mice anymore!).
Yeah. I'm a nerd. And no, I don't get out much except to my beautiful bar with bartender friends.
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Dec 19, 2006 4:14:13 GMT -5
I'm currently reading IT by stephen king and I'm almost done with part 1 (yeah I know I suck).
But I should probably say that while I was trying to read IT I was also reading one flew over the cuckoos nest at the same time and that's a much more easier book to finish due to it not being over 1 thousand pages.
I want to get some more horror books but when I go to boarders all the horror books seem to be about vampires and warewolves. Now to me those seem like fantasy books and the horror I really want to get into is a bunch of people getting chopped up by some raving lunatic wondering around the streets. maybe I'm looking in the wrong section or something.
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Post by Baixo Astral on Dec 19, 2006 5:42:42 GMT -5
-Teen Titans, the Judas Contract. Wolfman/Perez goodness, and probably the finest arc in that series to my mind.What about ya'll? I'd say so, although the search for the Doom Patrol was pretty sweet too. I'm reading: - The Grifters, by Jim Thompson - No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South, by Gary Younge - Flophouse, by David Isay and Stacy Abramson (not reading, as such, as it's mainly illustrated, but I'm dipping into it from time to time)
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MiLB Fan
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by MiLB Fan on Dec 19, 2006 8:36:06 GMT -5
I just finished "I Heard You Paint Houses"
So now I'm reading Flags of Our Fathers. This is the book that inspired the Clint Eastwood movie.
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bigHEADinc
El Dandy
Wanted Conway Twitty as a special title.
lest we forget...
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Post by bigHEADinc on Dec 19, 2006 10:44:15 GMT -5
I just recently finished "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk... I'm not really reading a book right now, but I do have Chuck Palahniuk's "Survivor" by the toilet and I tend to read a few pages a day...
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KLRA
El Dandy
Halt. I am Reptar.
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Post by KLRA on Dec 19, 2006 10:52:45 GMT -5
I just finished "I Heard You Paint Houses" So now I'm reading Flags of Our Fathers. This is the book that inspired the Clint Eastwood movie. I actually picked that upin the airport about three months ago and I read it during the flight. Pretty awesome book. Then again I'm a sucker for war books.
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Post by "Sweet & Sour" ImSoFudginGreat on Dec 19, 2006 10:52:55 GMT -5
Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind, pretty good so far
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therob
Hank Scorpio
Mcginley to Slim's O'neil
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Post by therob on Dec 19, 2006 10:54:43 GMT -5
as of right now nothing really. My two last books though were.
The Zombie Survival Handbook
Everything you Know is Wrong
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