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8trackdisco
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10 years ago

#221

Finishing up The Racketeer by John Grisham.

Have read four or five of his books. This is the least of them so far.

riverdog
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10 years ago

#222

"The Redbreast", Volume three of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series (yeah that's really the characters name) 🙂

delta1
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10 years ago

#223

I read The Snowman, a Harry Hole novel by Nesbo a couple of years ago...good read.

Just finished Genghis Khan, by Jack Weatherford. Author is an anthropology professor at a university in Minnesota. He makes a case that Khan's empire, which connected and blended the best of cultures in China, India, Europe and the middle East, was the most influential event leading to the modern world.

MACS
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10 years ago

#224

Wake up to Hope - Joel Osteen

Daily devotional type deal.

riverdog
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10 years ago

#225

I read The Snowman, a Harry Hole novel by Nesbo a couple of years ago...good read. .

delta1 wrote:

Yeah, I picked up a Nesbo book, "The Son", on vacation and have enjoyed everything of his I've read. Can never have too many authors I like.🌫 Seems my favorites keep dying on me.

8trackdisco
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9 years ago

#226

Die Trying- Lee Child.

I nearly died Trying to finish it.

It was as bad as his first book was good.

Onto something non-fiction.

dkeage
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9 years ago

#227

Redemption Road. John Hart. The second book of his I've read. I will read others..

riverdog
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9 years ago

#228

Jo Nesbo - "Nemesis"

delta1
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9 years ago

#229

Die Trying- Lee Child.

I nearly died Trying to finish it.

It was as bad as his first book was good.

Onto something non-fiction.

8trackdisco wrote:

Yah, the latest Jack Reacher novels I've read: Make Me and Worth Dying For, were less satisfying than his earlier ones.

riverdog
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9 years ago

#230

Yah, the latest Jack Reacher novels I've read: Make Me and Worth Dying For, were less satisfying than his earlier ones.

delta1 wrote:

Yup, Nesbo has been getting my time when I'm in the mood for crime drama.

Mikekoz13
Connoisseur

9 years ago

#231

"Lessons My Father Taught Me" by Michael Reagan

8trackdisco
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9 years ago

#232

Outlaw Platoon- Sean Parnell.

Non fiction work about an Army infantry unit on the edge of the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan.

Have never read anything like it. I've always had an appreciation for the people in the military and the price they pay for our freedoms. This is a deeper dive. The price these people pay during and well after their tours has shaken me.

I'm certainly not "enjoying" the book. It feels the smallest bit like a year long deployment.

-I looked forward to it.
-A third of the way through, I wondered what I got myself into.
-As disturbing as it is, I need to just put my head down and power through to the end.

My understanding of PTSD is greatly increased.

Still, I'm sure I don't even remotely have a clue.

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Plowboy221
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9 years ago

#233

The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan

MACS
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9 years ago

#234

Just finished "The Warded Man" by Peter Brett. This book was so good I powered through 450 pages in a week.

Currently reading "Brayan's Gold/The Great Bazaar" by Brett. Two short stories, already done with the first.

On tap: "The Desert Spear" by Brett. On my night stand, waiting in line...

riverdog
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9 years ago

#235

Just finished "Grapes of Wrath" for the first time. Never read it in school. What a powerful, powerful book. I'd of grown up even more of a commie, red, pinko libtard than I already am if I'd read it in my formative years.;-o

jjanecka
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9 years ago

#236

I liked that flowers for Algernon story alot. It was about this big retarded mutant that they performed brain surgery on who became a genius and then later on in a race for time he becomes a retard again. Kinda reminds me of that point in my life right before I started drinking.

frankj1
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9 years ago

#237

riverdog wrote:

well I read it in school and I'm...

never mind.

rumraider
Aficionado

9 years ago

#238

Fahrenheit 451.

About halfway home; reading the book and seeing many similarities to what Bradbury predicted in 1953.

8trackdisco wrote:

If you havent read "Brave New World" by Huxley, it's worth the time. The first 25 pages or so are tough to get through but then it takes off and you're hooked. It's amazing that he predicted stuff so long ago that we still are watching to see if it comes true. Just the theme of the rise of technology and the question of whether it is better to have little control over your decisions and be happy vs self determnation and being able to make yourself miserable with bad decisions is worth pondering

drnos
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9 years ago

#239

riverdog wrote:

Great book!

I did read it in high school, but there's no way any 16 year old can grasp the pathos. I got so much more out of re-reading it last year.

I'm now re- reading Two Years Before the Mast for its description of 1830s California.

KingoftheCove
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9 years ago

#240

Just finished "No Country For Old Men".......in a day......great read.
Kinda glad I saw the movie first..........the other way around?.....I woulda been bummed about the movie.

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