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EPCOT Explorer

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GoCamels said:
Finished "John Adams" by David McCullough last week...just started re-reading "You Gotta Play Hurt" by Dan Jenkins...think I may start re-reading the Jack Ryan series from Tom Clancy again...did that over the span of 6-months a few years ago...think I may do it again.
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Great Author, Great Book, Great Man.:king:

Pongo said:
Aside from copious amounts of books for school (The Dharma Bums by Kerouac, Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard, The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram, The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday, A collection of poems by Gary Snyder, Nature/Walking by Emerson/Thoreau... All since the beginning of the semester, and for the same class!), I'm currently reading Light Action in the Caribbean by Barry Lopez -- for said class. I recently finished Winter by Rick Bass (nice and light), and half-heartedly began Camus's The Stranger. I only got into one chapter before my course load picked up again. C'est la vie.

Hopefully I'll finish Camus over Thanksgiving break, then I plan on starting Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The General in His Labyrinth after finals.

So many books, so little time!
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Read that last year for AP...Hated it, I am ashamed to say. I can see why it's regarded so highly, but I could not stand Kerouac's work. On the Road is tedious.:brick:


Agree with the last statement, though. :lol: Can never read too much.


Phonedave said:
Just fininshed The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum. Why? My friend and I trade paperbacks. Every so often we drop off 15-20 books at each others house, and basicly I read though the pile, no matter what is in there.

Found some gems that way (The whole Discworld series) and some clunkers.

Currently reading Trounce by George Beck. The author is cop in the next town over. This is his first book. He was at one of my Rotary Club's meetings to talk about the book, and about illegal immigrants in the area. He was a good speaker, so I bought his book. So far it's pretty good.


Trounce is the story of two very unlikely heroes crossing paths: a handsome Salvadorian illegal who has taken the arduous overland journey into Arizona to save the life of his critically ill mother, and an alluring American woman involved in a plot by Mexican terrorists to cause havoc in the Los Angeles subway system. The two meet by chance on the streets of Phoenix. From that moment on, this thrilling tale tracks their increasingly difficult struggle to understand, and love, each other. Will they survive—or will they be crushed like ants by any one of the lethal opponents ranged against them: a psychopathic killer, the terrorists she has betrayed, and the vast resources of Homeland security out to hunt them down?
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Those are great! :lol: Definitely some funny moments, but they do get repetitive.
 
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popsicletrees said:
The Bible - in order. I've never read it the whole way through before. I hope to start World War Z soon.
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That's an interesting way to read the Bible! Good luck with Judges!

EPCOT Explorer said:
Read that last year for AP...Hated it, I am ashamed to say. I can see why it's regarded so highly, but I could not stand Kerouac's work. On the Road is tedious.:brick:
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I actually enjoyed it well enough. Is it my new favorite? No. I also can't really see why it would become such the classic that it did (aside from Kerouac being the author... I've never read On the Road, but I've heard that it's similar, and Kerouac's writing style lacks something, IMO, but his ideas seem to be good... that was a terrible sentence). But regardless, I liked it. Even thought I really don't understand the Beat thing. Whatever.
 
diddy_mouse

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I've been on a history kick lately. Just about finished with The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw and getting ready to start When Harlem was In Vogue by David Levering Lewis. (I love 1920s history.)
 
heartodisney

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Finished Jimmy Buffetts' ..."Swine Not"...Finished Star Wars .."The Force Unleashed"..Star Wars.."Darth Maul, Shadow Hunter"...Celebrations September/October Mag and just starting Brian Herbert and Kevin L Anderson .."The Winds of Dune"...man..I need to go back the bookstore in the morning..Ha ha!
 
rsoxguy

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"George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolution" by Robert Leckie. Love early American history; its the hidden Bostonian in me.
 
Phonedave

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EPCOT Explorer said:
Those are great! :lol: Definitely some funny moments, but they do get repetitive.
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I use them as "breaks" somtimes. They are all quite short. If I am reading something 'heavy' and at some point just want to relax, I pick one it. A day or two and then it's back to whatever I was reading before. It keeps them fresher that way.

It's sort of like reading Heinlein. If you read more than 2 of his books back to back, they all start to meld (at least to me) in a giant mess of opressed people, misunderstanding societies, and sexual frustration.

-dave
 
Phonedave

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heartodisney said:
Finished Jimmy Buffetts' ..."Swine Not"...Finished Star Wars .."The Force Unleashed"..Star Wars.."Darth Maul, Shadow Hunter"...Celebrations September/October Mag and just starting Brian Herbert and Kevin L Anderson .."The Winds of Dune"...man..I need to go back the bookstore in the morning..Ha ha!
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Yeah, I have to pick that up.

I have read every freaking book in the Dune saga, and because I had started in the middle, I stopped and re-started from the beginning, so I read many of the 2 or 3 times. Not the beginning as in Dune, the beginning as in The Butlerian Jihad (or whatever one is first) and then through all the "House" books House Atraides, House Harkkonnen etc. So I guess I ought to finish out the series :)

-dave
 
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Phonedave said:
I use them as "breaks" somtimes. They are all quite short. If I am reading something 'heavy' and at some point just want to relax, I pick one it. A day or two and then it's back to whatever I was reading before. It keeps them fresher that way.

It's sort of like reading Heinlein. If you read more than 2 of his books back to back, they all start to meld (at least to me) in a giant mess of opressed people, misunderstanding societies, and sexual frustration.

-dave
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:lol::lol:


I suppose so. Reminds me of Koontz.

Happy person > Supernatural Problem > Meet someone S ex Y who can help > Chase scene > Se X scene > Death of minor, but lovable character > Finale > Happy ending. :lol:
 
Mr.EPCOT

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heartodisney

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Phonedave said:
Yeah, I have to pick that up.

I have read every freaking book in the Dune saga, and because I had started in the middle, I stopped and re-started from the beginning, so I read many of the 2 or 3 times. Not the beginning as in Dune, the beginning as in The Butlerian Jihad (or whatever one is first) and then through all the "House" books House Atraides, House Harkkonnen etc. So I guess I ought to finish out the series :)

-dave
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You will enjoy all, these books will fill in so much! Too bad Syfi could not have gone on with the books in their "made for tv" program, it was ok, I just hated the way they pronounced "Harkonen"..and the way they had Sadikaur dressed..they looked like the Popes personal medievel homeboys! :lol:
 
Phonedave

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heartodisney said:
You will enjoy all, these books will fill in so much! Too bad Syfi could not have gone on with the books in their "made for tv" program, it was ok, I just hated the way they pronounced "Harkonen"..and the way they had Sadikaur dressed..they looked like the Popes personal medievel homeboys! :lol:
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I think you misunderstood. I HAVE read them all. The only one I have not are the new ones comming out, so I guess I have an obligation to read those now. :)

I have not seen any of the SciFi adaptations of the books.



-dave
 
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