Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 9, 2019 11:51:56 GMT -5
Iowa Department of Transportation: Standard Specifications for Highway and Bridge Construction - Series 2012
1270 pages of small print, very little overall plot and 50% more legal speak.
At least I only had to really pound about about 120 pages centered around a potential lawsuit from a contractor.
God I'm a boring person.
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Rican
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Post by Rican on Dec 9, 2019 11:55:36 GMT -5
It has been far too long since I've actually read something, so I just started a book. The Devil in the White City, about the world's fair in Chicago and HH Holmes. Novelistic style, but historical non-fiction. It paints an incredibly vivid picture of Chicago in the 1890s. This is on my list. Probably gonna get it around the holidays. I just finished "Movies...and Other Things" by Shea Serrano. Very quick, entertaining read. If you love movies and laughing I highly recommend it. Right now I'm reading "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" and it is fascinating.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 19, 2019 4:34:26 GMT -5
ABout a 3rd of the way thru Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame the Tag Teams. As good as the other books in this series I have read.
Also partially thru some Louis Black Xmas book. Fairly funny but I read it a chapter every few days.
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Post by SmashTV on Dec 19, 2019 13:01:50 GMT -5
A Game of Thrones. I got the set for my birthday and I’m slowly - very slowly - working my way through them. I’m just starting A Clash of Kings, the second one.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 19, 2019 14:49:18 GMT -5
ABout a 3rd of the way thru Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame the Tag Teams. As good as the other books in this series I have read. Also partially thru some Louis Black Xmas book. Fairly funny but I read it a chapter every few days. What’s the Lewis Black book called? I read a couple of his. They were ok. I think the last one I read of his was Me of Little Faith. Or something close to that.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 19, 2019 14:55:21 GMT -5
ABout a 3rd of the way thru Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame the Tag Teams. As good as the other books in this series I have read. Also partially thru some Louis Black Xmas book. Fairly funny but I read it a chapter every few days. What’s the Lewis Black book called? I read a couple of his. They were ok. I think the last one I read of his was Me of Little Faith. Or something close to that. I will check next time I am in the room with it. Something Christmas I think? Found it,a Welcome Back Kotter novel and the large print paperback of Forest Gump at the local church ran thrift for cheap. First time I have read anything from Black and he is entertaining so far.
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Rave
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Post by Rave on Dec 19, 2019 15:21:35 GMT -5
I've been gradually tunnelling through the complete fiction of H.P. Lovecraft for quite a while now. Think the last story I finished was Shadow Over Innsmouth, and I've still got quite a bit left to go.
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Post by King Boo on Dec 19, 2019 15:43:33 GMT -5
I'm one of those people who flits from book to book depending on what I'm in the mood for, so I read a lot but take forever to finish anything.
However, lately I've really stuck with The Menendez Murders by Robert Rand. He's a journalist who has covered the story from before the brothers were even suspects until today. It's a fascinating book that's allowed someone like me - old enough to remember it happening but too young to actually know what it was truly about - to really learn more of the whole story.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 19, 2019 15:52:00 GMT -5
I'm one of those people who flits from book to book depending on what I'm in the mood for, so I read a lot but take forever to finish anything. However, lately I've really stuck with The Menendez Murders by Robert Rand. He's a journalist who has covered the story from before the brothers were even suspects until today. It's a fascinating book that's allowed someone like me - old enough to remember it happening but too young to actually know what it was truly about - to really learn more of the whole story. I am usually reading 4 or 5 books at once. Like "hey this book is the I read before bed each night" and "this is the book I keep on my tablet to read when stuck in a long line". Sometimes it has taken me years to finish a book.
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Post by King Boo on Dec 19, 2019 16:19:08 GMT -5
I'm one of those people who flits from book to book depending on what I'm in the mood for, so I read a lot but take forever to finish anything. However, lately I've really stuck with The Menendez Murders by Robert Rand. He's a journalist who has covered the story from before the brothers were even suspects until today. It's a fascinating book that's allowed someone like me - old enough to remember it happening but too young to actually know what it was truly about - to really learn more of the whole story. I am usually reading 4 or 5 books at once. Like "hey this book is the I read before bed each night" and "this is the book I keep on my tablet to read when stuck in a long line". Sometimes it has taken me years to finish a book. Same, only mine is more like "I'm in the mood for history today" and then "I feel like reading true crime" followed by "a biography sure sounds nice" haha
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 19, 2019 16:29:37 GMT -5
I am usually reading 4 or 5 books at once. Like "hey this book is the I read before bed each night" and "this is the book I keep on my tablet to read when stuck in a long line". Sometimes it has taken me years to finish a book. Same, only mine is more like "I'm in the mood for history today" and then "I feel like reading true crime" followed by "a biography sure sounds nice" haha I got those too lol. Which is why my bookbag always has at least 3 books and a few comics in it at all times.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Dec 19, 2019 16:34:56 GMT -5
The Beer Bible by Jeff Alworth
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 19, 2019 17:24:43 GMT -5
What’s the Lewis Black book called? I read a couple of his. They were ok. I think the last one I read of his was Me of Little Faith. Or something close to that. I will check next time I am in the room with it. Something Christmas I think? Found it,a Welcome Back Kotter novel and the large print paperback of Forest Gump at the local church ran thrift for cheap. First time I have read anything from Black and he is entertaining so far. I read the first two anyway. Probably a few more I never knew existed.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Dec 19, 2019 23:13:25 GMT -5
I've recently been making my way through Bradley Beaulieu's Song of Shattered Sands series. Just finished With Blood Upon the Sand, and am starting A Veil of Spears.
Also eagerly awaiting the release of Peace Talks, which I just found out will be July 14, 2020, the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Dresden Files.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Dec 20, 2019 7:16:10 GMT -5
It took me a full year, but I finally did a Col. Sheppard and plowed my way through Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Complicated book, but I think I managed to get the gist of the story he was telling.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Dec 20, 2019 7:39:44 GMT -5
Gravity Falls Journal 3
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on May 23, 2020 5:37:15 GMT -5
It took a while as I used it for bedtime reading, but I just wrapped up Tom Clancy's second novel Red Storm Rising, about World War 3.
About the same time I read the Trench; the second book in the Meg book series.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on May 23, 2020 6:21:07 GMT -5
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by the always outstanding Hanif Abdurraqib
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on May 23, 2020 15:38:33 GMT -5
It has been far too long since I've actually read something, so I just started a book. The Devil in the White City, about the world's fair in Chicago and HH Holmes. Novelistic style, but historical non-fiction. It paints an incredibly vivid picture of Chicago in the 1890s. Awesome book! Erik Larson’s whole bibliography is excellent but that’s probably his best.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 23, 2020 18:37:20 GMT -5
It has been far too long since I've actually read something, so I just started a book. The Devil in the White City, about the world's fair in Chicago and HH Holmes. Novelistic style, but historical non-fiction. It paints an incredibly vivid picture of Chicago in the 1890s. Awesome book! Erik Larson’s whole bibliography is excellent but that’s probably his best. GOnna be hard to top Savage Dragon Been reading the TPB collection of the 90s zine Reel Wild Cinema,no relation to the USA Network show of the same name. 6 issues were published and this TPB collects all of them. The zine was based in Australia. So it is neat to see how different the home video market in OZ was compared to NA back then.
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