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Hex
Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 10:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Right now I'm reading a great dialog between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman. These two great minds come lovingly together to discuss all human emotions and their Eastern and Western philosophical similarities. To me, the dialog of these two septuagenarians (50 cents please) is truly fascinating, insightful, compassionate, no BS cut through the mud, awesome. Highly recommended!

http://www.emotionalawareness.net/

What are you reading? Any genre, any subject.
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Spiderman
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

it was a few months ago, but other than 10 comics a week it was the last 'book' I read.

It was written by a goalie friend of mine.

From Ashes Rise

http://www.amazon.com/Ashes-Rise-Novel-Michigan/dp /1419688316/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264830 044&sr=8-3



It was excellent! I read it in two days, I couldn't put it down. It has made it's way around to 5 family members already.
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Drkside79
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 01:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just finished Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton it was worth reading and am in the middle of Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
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Niceguyeddy
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 01:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just finished Christine, next is Thinner. I've read a lot of heavy stuff in this life...now for sheer entertainment.
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Mikef5000
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 01:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I finished "Into The Wild" a little while ago. It was entertaining. Now I'm reading "Scenic Driving In Alaska" and "Alaska For Dummy's" and "Motorcycle Camping Made Easy" and "Adventures in Alaska".
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Mr_grumpy
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 03:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Neil Gaiman - American Gods. (fiction)

I love his writing, the book gets a bit heavy going at times but it's well worth persevering with.
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Reindog
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 03:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"The Americano"
"Shakey" (Biography of Neil Young).
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.
"Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brian.
"Post Captain" by O'Brian.
"HMS Surprise" by O'Brian.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. (GREAT BOOK)
"The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman.
"Band of Brothers" by Ambrose.
"Adventures of Tintin" (various) by Herge.
"Dispatches" by Michael Herr.
"Programming in PERL"
"Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles"
"Arguing With Idiots" by Glenn Beck.
"The World of Charles Adams".
"Liberty and Tyranny" by the great Marc Levin.
"Common Sense" by Glenn Beck.
"The Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking.

(Message edited by reindog on January 30, 2010)
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Acgwolfe
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 10:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Born Fighting by James Webb
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Brumbear
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 10:42 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The lost Symbol
Dan Brown
Panzer Acea
Franz Kurowski
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Sifo
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 10:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Signing Their Lives Away

It's a great book. It has about a 3-5 page biography on each of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Gives some great insights into what was going on in the years surrounding the American revolution.

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Methed
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 10:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Searching for God Knows What
Donald Miller

(for about the fifth time.)
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Johnnylunchbox
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"World War Z" by Max Brooks

http://maxbrooks.com/books-wwz.php
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Jstfrfun
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 11:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Consent to Kill, Vince Flynn
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Endoman33
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 11:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sportbike Riding Techniques by Nick Ienatsch, great read tons of great info for both track and street
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Buellhusker
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 05:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I listen to audio books while riding or driving and while working in my shop. So far I have completed close to 500 books in the past 8 years some as short as 4 hours long and some of them up to 18 hours long. Currently I have 7 books loaded on my MP3 player.
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Dentguy
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 05:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Last book I read was "Wayne Rainey: His Own Story". For the second time.
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Mikej
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 08:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Currently skimming the highlights of this one off and on:
Investigative Data Mining ...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html/ref=redir_mdp_m obile/189-7625253-0154009?a=0750676132

Will be re-reading The Nuer Dillemas and parallel to that will be Ethnography Of Reading.

Then there's the old classic
Bike Tripping by the bedside from several decades ago.

I'll probably get out Isaac Walton's The Complete Angler in a month or two.

Intermixed with that will find me scowering indeed.com
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Bobbuell1961
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 09:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just picked up a interesting book,25 years of Buell, forgot who wrote it, good read though
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Hex
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 09:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Great plug!
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46champ
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 10:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Volumes 1 thru 5 of the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell
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Whatever
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 10:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"Under The Banner of Heaven" Jon Krakauer
"Generation Kill" Evan Wright
"Packing Inferno" Tyler E Boudreau
"Detective" Kathy Burke

Although the last three are about Iraq War, Iraq War and NYPD Police... all very interesting reads... the creepiest by far is Krakauers book...

"Under The Banner of Heaven"... history of the Mormon Church... LDS and Fundamentalist LDS and the 1984 double murder of an innocent woman and her baby...

(Message edited by Whatever on January 30, 2010)
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4_pete_sake
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 07:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"Way of the Peaceful Warrior" - Dan Millman
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Slaughter
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 08:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Going through a Middle East war background reading phase:

T. E. Lawrence: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Peter Lance: 1000 Years for Revenge

If you think the Middle east is a simple problem, solved by "our" versions of warfare - read these two books (authored about 80 years apart)
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 09:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Dama u Cobachka

Lady with the Pet dog, Pushkin Cyrillic

New Economic Policy, Lenin.
In English.... I figure I should reread the play book for what the current administration is up to.
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Hughlysses
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 09:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm re-reading S. M. Stirling's "change" series.



"Dies the Fire" is the first in the series. Due to a mysterious instantaneous event, the laws of physics on Earth are changed. Electrical devices no longer work, explosions don't happen, and compressed gases (like air and steam) don't work like they used to. (People in the books jokingly speculate the event was caused by alien space bats.) Civilization collapses almost overnight. The books are about the survivors in this changed world.

Stirling is known for his vivid and technically accurate descriptions of battle scenes, which in this case are pretty gruesome with medieval type weaponry. I find the descriptions of how they employ and adapt the technology that still does work very interesting.
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Mr_grumpy
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 09:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, again & again.
My copies are all dog-eared I've read them so many times, they're like old friends & I always find something I missed before when I re-read them.
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99savage
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 09:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The recently retired XO of my son's Reserve unit C has a self published book I enjoyed.
Don't Clean The Tables With A Floor Mop
and other important lessons from the Global War on Terror

by: CMDR David R. Wood
ISBM 978-1440493980
Kind'a overage, Naval Reserve communications xprt gets put on active duty, trained by the Army & sent to Afghanistan to help train the Afghans. They have been practicing war craft since Alexander & not much we can teach them about that but staying healthy enough to fight is another matter.
He went about his duty w/ good humor & professionalism & wrote a pretty book reminding us that wars are not always won @ the point of the spear. Disease has killed more warriors than the bullets ever will.
The guy loves motorcycles (Triumph is his mount of choice) & likes motorcyclists. While in the mountains of Afghanistan he managed up occasion to conjure up bikes & bikers (after a fashion anyway).
I do not personally know the guy, tho my son liked him & he does not like anybody.
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Pkforbes87
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:31 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

My second time reading it. Great book to be read only with an open mind.

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Bjbauer
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 02:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just started The Bhagavad Gita translation by Paramahansa Yogananda. In the middle of a biography on Padre Pio and reading the Handbook of Bird Biology for a correspondence course I'm taking through Cornell. I don't read much fiction anymore.
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Mbsween
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 02:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

This one is a light read, from a dogs perspective, and yeah it's about cars, but a good read nonetheless

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Racing-Rain-Garth-Stein/ dp/0061537934#reader_0061537934
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