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Heinlein is a freak. It's sad how often science fiction is used as a vehicle for an author's sick fantasies.
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Heinlein is a freak. It's sad how often science fiction is used as a vehicle for an author's sick fantasies.
Heinlein WAS a freak. He's been worm food for a long time now. Just the same, his science fiction wasn't great but it wasn't bad either.
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Just started Stephen Hunter's "The Third Bullet", I'm 100 pages in and I didn't want to put it down tonight. Can't wait til tomorrow to get back at it. Bob Lee Swagger is one of my favorite characters of all time.
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Just finished "Ender's Game" in preparation for the movie coming out.
I can't believe I made it this far into adult geekhood without having read it before. I am seriously looking forward to reading the other books in the quintology now.
I also just purchased two coloring books for the coffee table: "Unicorn's are Jerks: a coloring book exposing the cold, hard, sparkly truth", and "Gangsta Rap Coloring Book".
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I might have to look into that coming up.
I am halfway through the 14th and final book of the Wheel of Time series. It has been such a great series, I really don't want it to end. I did the whole series via Audio Books and they had Kate Reading & Michael Kramer duel read each book the entire series. They both are very good and are talented Narrators.
My next book will be The Third Kingdom which is the 2nd book in the Omen Machine series, or the 15th book in the Sword of Truth Series depending on how you look at it. It came out in August but I was waiting for me to finish the Wheel of Time.
After that I will be looking for a book to read. Ender's Game seems like a good series to start on.
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I don't have a lot of time to read, so I listen to books in the car. I love it.
I am on the third book in the Game of Throne series. Each one is about 40 hours long, but I'm totally engrossed.
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Books on tapes/CD, do they read with actor type voices, or is just straight narrative reading?
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Most of them that I've listened to, it's been one narrator, but he/she changes his/her voice for different characters. You'd think it'd be annoying, but you get used to it pretty quickly.
I listened to the 21-part Aubrey/Maturin series, and I think they had a couple different people do voices in that.
Non-fiction books I've listened to, though, the narrators don't change their voices.
It takes a little getting used to, but as long as the narrator is good, you catch on quick.
There have been a couple books, though, that the narrator has been awful, and it makes the book seem pretty bad, too.
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Books on tapes/CD, do they read with actor type voices, or is just straight narrative reading?
It depends, some read with a straight voice, I can't listen to that. However I listened to the Sword of Truth series read by a guy named Nick Sullivan. He was amazing. He did different voices, dialects and would carry on a conversion back and forth and you would swear they were different voice actors.
I also listened to the Harry Potter Series and now the Wheel of Time series and the Narrators were also good and did different voices.
I tried a few others where the narrator was more straight voice and I didn't like it.
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--Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time: The New Behavioral Activation Approach to Getting Your Life Back
--Depression 101 A practical Guide to Treatments, Self-Help Strategies, and Preventing Relapse.
and next is,
--Unmasking Male Depression
This has been the longest, roughest, and damn near deadly year for me.
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--Depression 101 A practical Guide to Treatments, Self-Help Strategies, and Preventing Relapse.
and next is,
--Unmasking Male Depression
This has been the longest, roughest, and damn near deadly year for me.
Might I suggest borrowing a copy of what GM is reading 
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Two most recent books I've read are :
Smart Money by Michael Konik - A book about sports betting -- Anyone who has any interest in sports betting should check it out, it has a lot of good info.
And I read Matthew Berry's Fantasy Life -- Really interesting story. Even if you're not a fantasy football player, the guy has an awesome story about how he got to where he is. I'm not even a big fantasy sports guy, but I really enjoyed his book.
I already have Colin' Cowherd's 'You Herd Me' pre-ordered, so I'll be reading it next.
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--Depression 101 A practical Guide to Treatments, Self-Help Strategies, and Preventing Relapse.
and next is,
--Unmasking Male Depression
This has been the longest, roughest, and damn near deadly year for me.
If I understand your message, I hope that you have someone to talk to, and who can help.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
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--Depression 101 A practical Guide to Treatments, Self-Help Strategies, and Preventing Relapse.
and next is,
--Unmasking Male Depression
This has been the longest, roughest, and damn near deadly year for me.
I have large bottle of Wellbutrin XL. If you want them, PM me.
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*Gives bluecollar a kick in the ass, pat on the back, hand up, and a hug.*
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Just finished " To the Sea " by Miles. Its about Sherman's march across Georgia. Those Ohio boys were a bunch of badasses. The Rebs were afraid of us. They liked fighting the Army of the Potomac who were a all hairdressers and vegetarians
If you ever get a chance read about Shiloh.
Right now I'm on a waiting list to read Killing Jesus. The library says there are 280 people ahead of me. I may have to suck it up and buy it.
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I just finished "Speaker for the Dead", the second book in the Ender's Game series and have the third book "Xenocide" on the way already.
It's been a while since a book series has captured me the way this one has, and I'm looking forward to seeing the movie soon.
Oh, and I bought a copy of "Cooking with Coolio".... it won't be long and I'll be making some Soul Rolls and Bro-ghetti.
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Anyone else reading or read the Game of Thrones books? I'm about 1/4 of the way through "A Dance with Dragons."
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Not, yet, but it is on my list of series to read. I just started book 5 in the Ender quintet, and next on deck is Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
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Right now I'm on a waiting list to read Killing Jesus. The library says there are 280 people ahead of me. I may have to suck it up and buy it.
I just got this for Christmas. I loved Killing Lincoln, and Killing Kennedy.
Right now I'm reading Into The Deep, by Robert Rogers. He spoke at our church Sunday. His story.......wow. To paraphrase it: He,his wife and 4 kids were driving home in an area they weren't super familiar with, in a terrible flash flood causing storm. His wife was driving.......they were following other vehicles.......going across a bridge, they got stuck in the flash flood. It flipped the van over, into a river. He was thrown out and survived. 3 kids were stuck in their car seats, his other kid was thrown out, as well as his wife. They found the van a mile and a half from the bridge.
He's the only one that survived.
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Anyone else reading or read the Game of Thrones books? I'm about 1/4 of the way through "A Dance with Dragons."
I finished ADWD about a year or two ago. An awful choice considering since then I find myself randomly checking for A Winds of Winter release date.
Right now I'm reading Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin. It's pretty decent, the minimal style is somewhat appealing after reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
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Just started The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. Love his books and his writing style and I'm slightly disappointed in myself that I haven't gotten to this book sooner.
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Just starting "Mo' Meta Blues" by Questlove.
"too many notes, not enough music-"
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Have about an hour and half left of listening to Dance with Dragons. Quite a few jaw dropping moments in that one.
Next up on the iPod are "The Devil's Gold", a short story by Steve Berry. Then going to listen to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe.
I know a few of you have read that. You like it or not?
On hold I have:
- The Wolf of Wall Street (what movie is based on);
- Takedown Twenty (Book 20 in the Stephanie Plum series);
- Never Go Back (next book in Jack Reacher series);
- Catch 22 (one of my favorite books, figured I will listen to it again);
- Lone Survivor (what the movie is about); and
- King & Maxwell (next one by Baldacci in that series)
Any other suggestions? I'm a big fan of series since I really get into the characters (still hate that I have to wait so long between John Corey books by Nelson Demille).
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Mark Berent has a 5 book series about fighter pilots in Vietnam. Not sure of the order but here they are, I absolutely loved them, at the time I was reading them I was in the Army and doing the MIA/POW search missions in Vietnam so alot of the stuff I was reading about I was really where some of it took place.
Rolling Thunder
Steel Tiger
Phantom Leader
Eagle Station
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Michael Connelly has a real good book series with Harry Bosch:
Harry Bosch Series:
Harry Bosch Background: Born in 1950 in Los Angeles to Marjorie Phillips Lowe. He was named Hieronymus Bosch after the 15th century Dutch artist and nicknamed “Harry.” He became an orphan at 11 when his mother, a prostitute, was murdered. He grew up living in a youth hall and foster homes. He joined the army and did two tours in Vietnam. Harry returned to Los Angeles and joined the LAPD in 1972. He became a detective after five years in patrol.
Books in published order:
The Black Echo (1992)
The Black Ice (1993)
The Concrete Blonde (1994)
The Last Coyote (1995)
Trunk Music (1997)
Angels Flight (1999)
A Darkness More Than Night (2001)
City Of Bones (2002)
Lost Light (2003)
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The Closers (2005)
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The Overlook (2007)
The Brass Verdict (2008)
Nine Dragons (2009)
The Reversal (2010)
The Fifth Witness (2011) (one page brief appearance)
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Those sound really good. I love pretty much every book I've ever read from authors that served in Viet Nam. "Charlie Company: What Vietname did to Us" is one of my all-time favorites. There was another whose name I cannot recall that was written by an Air Cav pilot that takes you through flight school (including great descriptions on how to fly a Huey) and then through his Tour over there. Absolutely great reads.
I just finished the 5th Ender's Game book and have moved onto a book titled "This Album Full of Angles". The author is a school classmate and old friend of mine. I haven't made it very far into it, yet, but I'm really looking forward to it. It's gotten a ton of good reviews, and has been billed as "a very ambitious first novel".
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I'm in the middle of Tom Clancy's Threat Vector
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The book I'm reading right now is titled, "Unbroken," subtitled, 'A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption,' by Laura Hillenbrand. (Nonfiction... that's all I pretty much like.) It was a # 1 New York Times bestseller. (She also wrote 'Seabiscuit,' if that helps...) Someone spoke about this book on the comments section of CNN or Yahoo - can't remember what one - when that guy a week or two ago was stranded out at sea for a long, long time. So I thought to myself, "Hmmmmmm...That book may be interesting." The man the book is about - Louis Zamperini....  ....was in the Olympics.... Or was it training for the Olympics? I think IN the Olympics.... Anyhow, he was stranded out at sea on a life raft during the war (haven't gotten that far into it yet though). Long book, it's gonna take me awhile to read it all. Pretty good so far. He was a real devil when he was a kid, and I mean that in a bad way.
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I Read That And Loved It. Loved it.
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Looks interesting. I'll keep checking to see when the audiobook comes out. I don't have time at home to read, so I try to knock books out in the car.
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And it's books like that and the Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang that make me say "I wish we had dropped a couple more A bombs on Japan."
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A really great, and thought-provoking, read! Favorite authors are Michael Connelly, Johnathon Kellerman, Karin Slaughter, Baldacci, and others of the ilk...
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my favorite book of all time, though i have read he hobbit and the trilogy over 20 times.. Right now I am reading " The Last Cry" by Robert Ghostwolf and the Book of Enoch (a book that missed the cut for the Bible).
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Right now reading the newest John Wells book, the Counterfeit Agent. Wells is a CIA counterterrorism agent. Alex Berenson is the author.
I like the Harry Bosch books, which were mentioned. I also like the Jack Reacher books, the Scot Harvath books, the "Prey" and Virgil Flowers series by John Sandford, Baldacci's books.
I just found that one of my favorite authors, Vince Flynn, passed away last summer. In his 40s, it was prostrate cancer. His Mitch Rapp character was a serious bad ass. A counter-terrorism agent. His death saddened me.
Found some things on this thread that I will look into. Thanks
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The book I'm reading right now is titled, "Unbroken," subtitled, 'A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption,' by Laura Hillenbrand. (Nonfiction... that's all I pretty much like.) It was a # 1 New York Times bestseller. (She also wrote 'Seabiscuit,' if that helps...)
Someone spoke about this book on the comments section of CNN or Yahoo - can't remember what one - when that guy a week or two ago was stranded out at sea for a long, long time. So I thought to myself, "Hmmmmmm...That book may be interesting."
The man the book is about - Louis Zamperini....
....was in the Olympics.... Or was it training for the Olympics? I think IN the Olympics.... Anyhow, he was stranded out at sea on a life raft during the war (haven't gotten that far into it yet though).
Long book, it's gonna take me awhile to read it all. Pretty good so far. He was a real devil when he was a kid, and I mean that in a bad way.
James Whitmore would have been a shoe in if they ever did a movie of this guys life
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Wow, I didn't realize Vince Flynn had died. I really loved that Mitch Rapp series. Man, that's too bad.
I just recently finished a book called "Destiny of the Republic" by Candace Millard. It's about the assassination of James A. Garfield.
HIGHLY recommend. It's a part of American history that gets glossed over, but man was it a great story.
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