Nr1Humanoid
Hank Scorpio
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Mar 21, 2019 15:33:56 GMT -5
I just finished 3001 the Final Odyssey, finally wrapping up the Arthur C. Clarke quatrilogy.
I expected a heavily technological and techno babble filled experience and was pleasantly surprised with what an easy read it was. The author has a brilliant mind to say the least. He writes some difficult concepts, yet you're never really at a loss to what he's talking about. Can't wait to dig in to the rest of his work.
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Paul
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Post by Paul on Mar 21, 2019 15:36:24 GMT -5
"The Little House Cookbook". It's a cookbook of recipes inspired by foods from The Little House On The Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It's pretty interesting if you've read the books.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 21, 2019 16:22:32 GMT -5
Pimp by Iceberg Slim American Psycho And Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 16:52:39 GMT -5
I am reading Good Omens right now.
Just finished The Book of Joe
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Mar 21, 2019 17:08:27 GMT -5
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep I find myself constantly going back to reread A Scanner Darkly, but I've never revisited Do Androids Dream. I should. I finished Children of Dune a couple weeks ago, and am now halfway through God Emperor Of Dune. About every decade or so, I reread the original six Dune books, and it never fails that I understand more and more with each read.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Mar 21, 2019 17:33:49 GMT -5
Currently moving to finally cross a big one off the bucket list by reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I had started reading it, but lost interest; this time, I did some research and found a much better and critically-acclaimed English translation (the Moss Roberts translation). This made all the difference, because I’m really enjoying it now.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 21, 2019 17:46:58 GMT -5
Last couple I read were Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini, Before You Know It by John Bargh, and Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett.
I'm currently reading The Charisma Myth by Olivia Cabane, Mort by Terry Pratchett, and Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. The latter being a part of a book club I'm doing with my girlfriend reading through the entire series.
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Perd
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Leslie needs to butt out for fear of receiving The Bunghole Buster
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Post by Perd on Mar 21, 2019 18:17:09 GMT -5
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King:
It won a Pulitzer Prizeqme I can understand why. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. It tells the story of Thurgood Marshall and his defense of four African American men who are falsely accused of rape, in Florida, in 1949. It’s an absolutely hartbreaking book. It deals with a level of evil and hatred, that thankfully, I could never understand. It’s an example of how far we’ve come and how far we still have left to go.
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Post by Gremlin on Mar 21, 2019 18:51:59 GMT -5
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel. A 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning collection of interviews of people for all around the world told in first person perspective. It was great.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 18:52:14 GMT -5
To Kill A Mockingbird.
It was pretty good, but after that I think I'm burned out on classic literature for awhile.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 21, 2019 19:03:30 GMT -5
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep I find myself constantly going back to reread A Scanner Darkly, but I've never revisited Do Androids Dream. I should. I finished Children of Dune a couple weeks ago, and am now halfway through God Emperor Of Dune. About every decade or so, I reread the original six Dune books, and it never fails that I understand more and more with each read. I re read DADoES once a year. Need to read Scanner Darkly again. Read it in the early 90s.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Mar 21, 2019 19:45:20 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Fire and Blood, because as much as I gripe about George RR Martin's release schedule, I'm a sucker for anything ASOIAF.
Previously just finished reading The Skybound Sea by Sam Sykes. I had accidentally read his Bring Down Heaven trilogy without realizing that the Aeon's Gate trilogy came first, so I obviously had to rectify that.
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jagilki
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Post by jagilki on Mar 21, 2019 22:05:27 GMT -5
I'm about 80-90% done with The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft. Third book in his The Books of Babel series.
Blurb for book 1 (as blurb for books 2 / 3 would kind of give away some things.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 22:50:08 GMT -5
Reading a poetry book by an old professor of mine called On Distance.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Mar 21, 2019 23:07:15 GMT -5
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Mar 21, 2019 23:44:08 GMT -5
I find myself constantly going back to reread A Scanner Darkly, but I've never revisited Do Androids Dream. I should. I finished Children of Dune a couple weeks ago, and am now halfway through God Emperor Of Dune. About every decade or so, I reread the original six Dune books, and it never fails that I understand more and more with each read. I re read DADoES once a year. Need to read Scanner Darkly again. Read it in the early 90s. Watching the Scanner Darkly movie is also acceptable. Awesome adaptation.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 22, 2019 0:03:32 GMT -5
I re read DADoES once a year. Need to read Scanner Darkly again. Read it in the early 90s. Watching the Scanner Darkly movie is also acceptable. Awesome adaptation. Love the film. Wish Dick had lived long enough to see it.
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ayumidah
Wade Wilson
Don't bother pretending I seem fine, I like that I'm a mess
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Post by ayumidah on Mar 22, 2019 0:36:58 GMT -5
The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. It was ok, a little dry but makes sense with the narrative of the book.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Mar 22, 2019 2:16:13 GMT -5
Marching Powder by Rusty Young
A bio on Thomas McFadden’s time in one of Bolivia’s infamous prisons. A prison that is like town, you have buy your own cell, and Thomas became a tour guide while imprisioned there.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Mar 22, 2019 3:34:56 GMT -5
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware. It’s okay. I expected something more supernatural, but got a psychological thriller instead.
It does feature a ringing endorsement from Reese Witherspoon on the front cover, so there’s that.
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