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What are you reading, Chapter 2
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I have been using audible.com the last 4 books I read I follow along with whatever book I am reading. If I try to read the book myself my mind starts to wander and I have to go back a few chapters. If I listen to the narrator and read along I stay better focused. If I try to just listen to an audiobook my mind also starts to wander. I have to listen and read at the same time to enjoy the book. Did not want to start a new thread so this seemed the best place to post.
Just picked up Robopocalypse and Light on Life. I finished the first chapter of Robopocalypse in the store and, yes, I'm scared. 
The human race is doomed!
The human race is doomed!
Zen and the Art of Mixing, by Mixerman. Very informative for a complete mixing novice like myself before we attempt to produce our DIY album. Also a great read for those with experience, as he's a very entertaining writer.
Though the various online descriptions and user reviews leave me a bit dubious, I just requested this from the library.
Well, while I think she makes a good point (philosophically speaking, off course), she makes it about 4 times. When reading the book, around page 300, I was thinking to myself 'cool point, ok story'. But then she went on another 900-ish pages, hammering the point home again and again and again, while the story went from ok to bad to worse...
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King. His books have been a guilty pleasure since I was in high school. I've read far headier stuff since then, but nobody beats him for gory entertainment.
BTW, the best book I've read in recent years is The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. It's got the fantasy/whimsy/nonsense of Tom Robbins and Kurt Vonnegut, but with less humor and more noir and pathos. Murakami's definitely one of my top five authors now.
BTW, the best book I've read in recent years is The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. It's got the fantasy/whimsy/nonsense of Tom Robbins and Kurt Vonnegut, but with less humor and more noir and pathos. Murakami's definitely one of my top five authors now.
Last years Hugo Award winner: Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
First book is just over 600pages and the second isn't short either. Thankfully it's an easy read.
First book is just over 600pages and the second isn't short either. Thankfully it's an easy read.
Although I usually read s/f, I recently started reading "Gone with the Wind." I wasn't sure what to expect when I started it, but it is very well written. It does contain a word that is no longer used in "polite society" but it is used in what (in my opinion) seems to be the proper context for the story setting. After I finish the book, I plan on watching the movie to compare them.
"So it Goes - Kurt Vonnegut Biography" by Charles Shields. I'm only up to the part where he was in Dresden, cleaning up after the bombings. The book is decent enough, though I wish he was as witty as his subject.
"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" - Kurt Vonnegut - only a few pages into this one.
"Strongman: The Doug Hepburn Story" by Tom Thurston. While it was physically penned by Thurston, it is written in the first person, which makes it significantly more interesting. It is a great look into one of the strongest men of all time, who did all of it drug-free.
"The Mighty Atom: The Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein" - Ed Spielman. Greenstein was a Polish immigrant who overcame some significant adversity by training himself to become strong, and utilize the power of his mind. He was a strongman who was known for bending steel, breaking chains with his chest, and lifting things with his hair. A thoroughly awesome story and very inspirational.
"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" - Kurt Vonnegut - only a few pages into this one.
"Strongman: The Doug Hepburn Story" by Tom Thurston. While it was physically penned by Thurston, it is written in the first person, which makes it significantly more interesting. It is a great look into one of the strongest men of all time, who did all of it drug-free.
"The Mighty Atom: The Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein" - Ed Spielman. Greenstein was a Polish immigrant who overcame some significant adversity by training himself to become strong, and utilize the power of his mind. He was a strongman who was known for bending steel, breaking chains with his chest, and lifting things with his hair. A thoroughly awesome story and very inspirational.
finished Ham on Rye by Bukowski a week ago.
Been reading Michel Houellebecq "The Map and the Territory" and it's pretty amazing.
Been reading Michel Houellebecq "The Map and the Territory" and it's pretty amazing.
I spent a lot of time with Carl in Grad School. He was the favorite theoretician of my program director. I had to write on the Clausewitzian "trinity" and its relation to statecraft for one of my M.A. exams, WOW.
I read this, the new second book in Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy:
Overrated in its high-literary worth, but still extremely interesting and worthwhile as historical fiction.
Fascinating to language fans...tough slogging for those unable to cope with an amalgam of obsolete idioms of at least ten languages. Expert though he may think he is, he stumbled over one of those comical differences between American and British English that left me in such howling, uncontrollable laughter for so long that the cat thought I was dying.
Overrated in its high-literary worth, but still extremely interesting and worthwhile as historical fiction.
Fascinating to language fans...tough slogging for those unable to cope with an amalgam of obsolete idioms of at least ten languages. Expert though he may think he is, he stumbled over one of those comical differences between American and British English that left me in such howling, uncontrollable laughter for so long that the cat thought I was dying.
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