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Post by Warkitty on Nov 25, 2009 20:22:49 GMT -5
I've not OKZ, but I'll try to remember to look him up.
I've interrupted "Nature Girl" for "Dragon Avenger" by E. E. Knight. I'll get back to Hiassen later. Dragons.
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Post by Warkitty on Dec 1, 2009 20:59:55 GMT -5
I'm burning through books at an alarming rate. Finished Dragon Avenger, the Tim Dosey and Carl Hiassen, gaimen's Anansi Boys, a Glen Cook and now a Tony Hillerman. I've added a "People Of..." novel (there are many, written by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear), American Gods and some book titled Rune Warriors that I picked up for a few bucks out of curiosity. Problem is, I'm about done with this reading frenzy and ready for another distraction.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Dec 1, 2009 22:58:18 GMT -5
WK, whether you are done with your reading frenzy or not, when you start American Gods there is a good chance you literally won't set it down until you finish it.
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Post by Warkitty on Dec 5, 2009 17:49:19 GMT -5
Oh, I set it down. Had work to do. It was a good read though!
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Post by Justin Thyme on Dec 5, 2009 19:12:01 GMT -5
Did any of the settings surprise you?
I walked into a used bookstore in Columbia, SC this past week and told the lady there that I was looking for a fun, light read. I walked out with Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. So far it is exactly what I was looking for.
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Post by el Gusano on Dec 8, 2009 13:35:43 GMT -5
Not that I have any intentions of reading Jane Austen, but someone has made it a bit more interesting by modifying her books, such as "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" and "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies".
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Post by Justin Thyme on Dec 13, 2009 18:12:48 GMT -5
Stuart Woods' Beverly Hills Dead. It's about the movie industry, organized crime's involvement in some of the entertainment industry unions and the House UnAmerican Activites Committee. So far its an excellent book.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Dec 14, 2009 9:45:10 GMT -5
"My Father's Gun" by Brian McDonald....it's about three generations all working for the NYPD. So far it is interesting. Covers a period of around 100 years.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Dec 15, 2009 7:09:50 GMT -5
Woke up at 2am this morning and couldn't go back to sleep for a while. I picked up Carl Haasen's Skinny Dip off the stack and started reading it. I think I'll like it.
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Post by Warkitty on Dec 15, 2009 9:19:05 GMT -5
Oh I liked that one:-D
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Post by Warkitty on Dec 17, 2009 23:02:49 GMT -5
A little light reading, Runewarriors by James jennewein and Tom S. Parker. Seems well geared towards younger readers, but I'm having fun with it anyway.
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Post by Conservator on Dec 17, 2009 23:29:02 GMT -5
the CMF... and it's quite good. at times.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Dec 26, 2009 21:55:28 GMT -5
Skinny Dip was a very fun read after I got rid some distractions and was able to read. I'm starting Terry Pratchett's Fifth Elephant.
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Post by daworm on Dec 27, 2009 11:11:34 GMT -5
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun - Not a dense as I feared it would be.
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Post by pictureman on Dec 27, 2009 19:49:03 GMT -5
Valley of the Mules, by Pete Chaney (Chattanooga writer), www.valleyofthemules.com. A historical novel involving the interaction of two fictional families with the founders of Chattanooga: John Ross, etc., and others. A good, quickly-moving story.
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Post by el Gusano on Jan 10, 2010 3:49:40 GMT -5
Finished "God, Guns, and Rock 'n' Roll" by Ted Nugent this morning, read the Reader's Digest condensed version of "Road to Serfdom", with "The Intellectuals and Socialism" (Hayek approved of the RD version), and have now begun "Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality" by Thomas Sowell.
"The Road to Serfdom" should be required reading for all high school students.
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Post by daworm on Feb 8, 2010 23:49:03 GMT -5
Just finished this one. Great read. The cheap bookstore at Northgate has it for about $7 in hardback. Makes a good companion to this series as well.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 21, 2010 20:43:28 GMT -5
Tim Dorsey's Atomic Lobster in e-book form was free on B&N's website so I downloaded it. I am about 2/5 of the way through it and have been ROFLMAO through the entire read.
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Post by daworm on Feb 21, 2010 22:59:08 GMT -5
Bit over halfway through the second Tom Holt Omnibus. Who's Afraid of Beowulf was good, My Hero I'm having a hard time getting into.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 27, 2010 17:44:12 GMT -5
Starting a book by Karen Slaughter called TripTych. I don't know a thing about it other than it is set in Atlanta and Stychen highly recommended it. I usually enjoy a book better knowing little about it when I start it.
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Post by Dragonlily on Feb 28, 2010 19:02:07 GMT -5
@justin Thyme, after reading your comment on Atomic Lobster, I found a free download for it for my Kindle. I am looking forward to reading it! Must finish the current stuff first.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Mar 1, 2010 9:14:32 GMT -5
Dragonlily, I hope you like it. It was a thoroughly enjoyable read for me. I continued laughing all the way to the end. I have one more of his books in my reading stack that I'm anxious to get to. After I read that one I'll be looking for more I'm sure.
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Post by el Gusano on Mar 1, 2010 13:33:51 GMT -5
Just finished "Persecution" by David Limbaugh, "The Seduction of Christianity" by Dave Hunt, and a series of booklets on "Union Monopoly Linked to Lower Purchasing Power".
Just began "The Roving Mind" by Isaac Asimov, "Good Feelings" by Julian Simon, and "The Parabolic Teachings of Scriptures" by G. H. Lang.
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Post by davrik on Mar 1, 2010 16:41:53 GMT -5
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol
Great book! Hard to stop reading.
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Post by pictureman on Mar 1, 2010 18:30:43 GMT -5
Just started In the Shadow of the Swastika, by Hermann Wygoda, a deceased Chattanooga contractor who was a Jewish Polish resistance fighter during WWII. Great story.
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Post by Dragonlily on Mar 2, 2010 0:08:40 GMT -5
Justin, I am looking forward to the read, it sounds really humorous and that's what I like. Is one of the other books you have by Dorsey Gator A Go Go? I was wondering about that one also. I have to finish reading my current Gaiman and Sedaris stuff, then I am going to check it out. Thanks!
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Post by Justin Thyme on Mar 2, 2010 8:39:27 GMT -5
Florida Radkill is the next Dorsey book I have on my stack. I love Gaiman. Which of his books are you currently reading? I've gone through American Gods, Anansi Boys and Neverwhere and loved all three. Right now M Is For Magic, a collection of short stories by Gaimen, is in my computer bag for those times I'm stuck waiting.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Mar 6, 2010 19:40:49 GMT -5
I just finished Triptych by Karen Slaughter this morning. If you like odd twists in murder mystery then I can't recommend Triptych highly enough.
I'm starting a book Warkitty gave me, The Sword-Edged Blonde by Alex Bledsoe. Just twenty pages into it but I think I'm going to like it.
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Post by Dana on Mar 8, 2010 15:25:25 GMT -5
The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters...
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Post by Police Moderator on Mar 9, 2010 17:37:44 GMT -5
"Capture" by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Another in the Butch Karp series (21st, I think)
Pretty good, easy reading with many deadly plots, twists, betrayals and evil schemes which kinda reminds me of work or my first marriage.
At least, as in most of Tanenbaum's books, the good guys win.
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