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"A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson."

I've also read this book.

In the 1980s, I hiked the entire Appalachian trail in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. (about 290 miles) (in ~ 10 hikes)

Hey, Congratulations on finishing up work on your Associates Degree.

Re-reading the Bible. Still on the Old Testament. Lots & lots of God-approved killing. Kinda surprised.

It's funny how the birth of a child can change a being.

Pastor I have a book The Greatest Book Ever Written,which you might like to read. It deals with the The Old Testament books and references events and prophecy references to the coming of The Savior and events to which were to happen in His life. Very interesting and easy to read adds historical findings and insights to comfirm events in Old Testament.

I have a book called "The Story", that the Bible and lays the Bible out in chronological order. (The Gospels are combined into one chapter, for example) I have not yet read it in depth, but I will when I get all the way through the Bible. It looks like a well laid out book from what I have read of it.

I just finished the original Jason Bourne Trilogy. There's a bunch more, but I don't know what the movies were based on, because it wasn't the original Bourne character.

Thank you. I don't know if I'll find much of a career upgrade with it, but it's accomplishment nonetheless. I'm through the first three chapters and really like the book already. I've had a few genuine laughs, mostly to do with Bryson inviting a guy I'm imagining looking like John Candy with a mustache awkwardly trolling through the woods with him. Not sure if the fellow will make it.

I'm a fair way in on the Dresden files. Midway through approx book 8 or something. Easy reading, good characters and humour.

Started that wheel of time series. Only read first book.
Finding hard to find time lately to read between work, study and family. Have started Neil Gaimans graphic novel, The Sandman series.

I've recently read Aziz Ansari's book on modern day romance. It was pretty amazing and gave me a bunch of new tips for Tinder

Just finished the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series.

Just finishing-up:

LIFE an autobiogaphy by Keith Richards

Leaves me wondering: HOW IS THIS GUY STILL ALIVE?

stoned, drunk, wasted, high, strung-out , blitzed, snookered, laced, tanked, under the influence, glazed, inebriated, liquored up, tipsy, crocked, plastered, feeling no pain, boozed up, three sheets to the wind, under the table, totaled, stewed, seeing double, lit, sloshed, buzzed, flying, flushed, buzzed

That's just the Preface.

I still have a "contact high".

The Apocalypse by Peter Meredith. Can't get enough of those zombies.

Currently reading about a half dozen white paper specifications on the ANT+ protocol, device pairing, and the vagaries of creating a receiver implementation in C#.

You probably don't have trouble sleeping, do you?

If he's like me, he probably does. You read that stuff and your mind just gets going in million directions about how to do this or that. Hell, I probably dream about work at least once a week....

I just got done reading a book on Franz Ferdinand. It was actually a pretty good read.

I also read Back in Action, true story about a guy who was the first commander to go into a warzone as an amputee in Iraq.

Currently almost done with Unbroken. Story about a guy who was olympic athlete, lost out on that due to the war. Gets shot down, survives 46 days at sea, ends up captured by the Japanese and stuck in POW camps... great read. I've started watching the movie as well but its not anywhere near as good.

Hey! I've been doing alot of programmer reading too

I'm currently reading "The Art of Concurrency" and got done reading "Real Time Rendering." Alot of my work the last 2 years or so has been distributing jobs across threads both in CPU and GPU land. It's fun stuff but you need to ascribe to good practices or else your code becomes undebuggable.

Gee, most bands don't get books written about them. They must be really special!

dawgtalkers

Just finished two books by Roger Hobbs: Ghostman and Vanishing Games. Outstanding if you like fictional mystery/crime novels...

My son and I went on a road trip and before we left he asked me what book I was listening to. I told him it was about Franz Ferdinand and that was his reaction. He's like I mean their one song is OK but why would someone write a book about them? I just chuckled...

I stopped reading him a long time ago as I was disappointed in a lot of his endings. I felt that after investing all that time in reading the books, and enjoying them immensely, the ending would often feel like a let down. Kind of like he realized he needed to wrap things up so he just threw something out there. I remember feeling that way with It, which was great up until the end. I do remember the Stand, Misery and Gerald's Game as having good endings, but drawing a blank on which ones disappointed me. Been a long time. Maybe time enough to try him again.

Excellent!

48 laws of power.

All Shostakovich, all the time.

We 'Musos' tend to become a little obsessive-compulsive just before The Big Gig.

Prose is for pussies... at least until Saturday night.

How did you like it?

I was bowled over by "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"... just floored.


Dude's prose flows like a Mozart Symphony. Unbelievable.

Wow. Really?

Son... it's time to add to your personal library!

There's a whole lot of cool stuff just awaiting your exploration.

Have another thick paperback you may be interested in entitled "I,Judas" dealing with Judas life and interactions with the disciples,Christ and the Sanhedrin as written by Judas,but hidden in monasatories by monks due to the controversties which it would cause after being dicovered by an Egyptian Christian monk,Iberias. The previous mentioned book I mentioned to Pastor Marc is loaned to the Pastor of my church. If you would like to read either or both let me know as we reside near each other. Just finished another very interesting book,Davy Crockett As Written by Himself. Was fascinated that there was no mention of his sidekick in the Disney Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier series,Geore E. Russell(portrayed by Buddy Ebsen).

I just finished "Plunder and Deceit" and plan to pick up the "Wright Brothers" over the weekend.

Let me know what you think of it. I've been considering this one as well...

If you don't mind my asking, is this something that's real or is it just a book someone put out there with "Judas" on it to sell? Is there anyway to tell? I tend to stay away from books that were said to be part of the biblical books but were dropped or left out because the monks didn't want to offend anyone. I'm very interested in biblical times, but don't want to be reading anything that might not be pleasing to God, if that makes sense.

It appears that there are 2 novels out there with this title. Both are identified as novels, which would indicate a fictional account.

I have bought probably 25 books at Ollies. lol

I bought a book that I am starting next, called "Has God Spoken", by Hank Hanegraaff. (The Bible Answer Man) It looks interesting, and I got it for $3.99.

Thanks, I'll check it out. Guess I'll have to dig a little and find out about this I, judas thing and see what it is.

'The Bone Tree' by Greg Iles. Follow up to 'Natchez Burning', book 2 of a planned trilogy.

Good stuff. Murder, conspiracy, suspense. Bounces back & forth between present and past/civil-rights era Louisiana and Mississippi. Involves the KKK, FBI & corrupt cops. Some pretty scary bad guys. So far leading the reader to suspect it all links to the Big-3 American assassinations of the 60s (duh) . . .

Learned not too long ago that it will be adapted to a TV Series for Amazon Studios.

Too many words?

I'm reading PCI DSS 3.1 right now. It's absolutely electrifying.

The info I can give is the authors are Taylor Caldwell and Jess Stern coyright 1977,first published by Atheneum Publishers Inc in hardback then in paperback by Signet August 1978. The manuscript,written in Greek,is said to found at the Alexandria Library by a monk named Iberias who hid the manuscript in monastaries until it was found in the possession of a German family descendants of a bishop.

I finally have started American Sniper. I've been looking forward to this book for quite some time.

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I actually did a search for the word "reading" being in the topic and no results came up? Hmm. Nevertheless, thanks ref!

Great book..last one I read and will read again on my flight back home.

http://stephenhalbrook.com/gun_control.html

I love this kind of stuff.

You Have A Brain: A Teen Guide To T.H.I.N.K. B.I.G by Dr. Ben Carson, MD

My son and I are reading this book together. Great read if you have teenagers.

Daniel Palmer "Constant Fear"

Just finished up with all the Bourne books.