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05-03-2010, 12:51 PM #221
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05-03-2010 12:51 PM # ADS
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05-03-2010, 01:53 PM #222
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06-20-2010, 12:58 PM #223
Just finished: Man's Search for Meaning
I just remembered this thread and thought I would look for my next book.
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06-20-2010, 01:04 PM #224
just finished the sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind
"Idontgiveshitjustdothedew"
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06-20-2010, 05:09 PM #225
Finished Robinson Crusoe and The Hobbit. Reading Lord of the Rings.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, as vital to our lives and water and good bread
- Edward Abbey
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06-20-2010, 05:45 PM #226
Just finished The First Total War
Almost done with the Orson Scott Card - Ender's Saga and soon to be reading his version of the Book of Mormon and then on to
After the Reich
Tacoma Said - If Scott he asks you to go on a hike, ask careful questions like "Is it going to be on a trail?" "What are the chances it will kill me?" etc. Maybe "Will there be sack-biting ants along the way?"
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06-20-2010, 07:45 PM #227
[QUOTE=TooeleCherokee;400582]Just finished Over the edge of the world
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I just finished this.... great book, thanks for the recommendation.
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06-20-2010, 09:03 PM #228
Just finished The Hunger Games. Had a hard time putting it down...
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06-20-2010, 10:04 PM #229
Cool - My daughter (11) read this last year, and was very keen on it. I've since seen a lot of people that surprised me reading it, and everyone has had good things to say. I'll have to give it a whirl...
Perhaps after my current book: How The Mind Works, by Stephen Pinker
Just finished In Search of the Old Ones, by David Roberts. Thanks, denaliguide, for the point-out!
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06-21-2010, 04:35 AM #230
I haven't read that one, but I read Pinker's "Stuff of Thought", which used the structure of language to infer thngs about the way the mind works. I like his stuff. It's hard reading (at least 'Stuff' was), but very interesting. My favorite chapter was the discussion of swearing. I've run across a couple of essays on the internet by Pinker about swearing/cussing/etc. Enjoyed them a lot.
Deb
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06-21-2010, 05:53 AM #231
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06-21-2010, 07:50 AM #232
Currently reading these four:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Holy War by Karen Armstrong
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Lenin's Tomb 'last days of the Soviet Empire' by David Remnick
***still trying to finish these two - have 10 or 20 pages to go***
Tears of Blood 'a cry for Tibet' by Mary Craig
Einstein ' his life and universe' by Walter Isaacson
~I have a problem finishing books once I'm very near the end. It's weird. The Einstein book for instance is extremely fascinating, and well written. I've been a captive audience right up to the last 10 or so pages. This happens with 80% of the books I read. Perhaps it's because most of what I read is non-fiction & I already know the eventual outcome? Anyhow - I'll finish these up at some point just like I always do.~If the shoe fits ~ pretend it doesn
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06-21-2010, 07:53 AM #233
Hood by Stephen Lawhead.
IF YOU WON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM!!!!
2008 V2K Classic LT
2004 Toyota Tacoma
Schwinn Homegrown
CouchSurfing
Patriot Guard Riders
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06-21-2010, 08:42 AM #234
Cool - I enjoyed "Stuff of Thought" as well, which inspired me to buy "How The Mind Works". Like the former, this one is a bit of a tough read - I started it a while back, but it got sidelined as easier books came along... Now I'm right back into it, and it's very cool. Pinker has a way of mixing in research findings that are really fascinating.
Next time we have lunch at the Burr Trail Grill, we'll have to talk books!
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06-21-2010, 03:48 PM #235
You're on. I might be finished with my Oliver Cromwell biography by then - although I'm at the point where he's dead and buried, then dug up with his head on a spike, so maybe there's hope.
Next book on the list is called Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud. My son gave it to me to read. It should be very interesting.Deb
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06-21-2010, 05:41 PM #236
your welcome. another good one is "cowboys, cliffs and cave dwellers." fred blackburn is one ofthe authors. its about reverse archeaology and finding lost collections of the early archeaologists on cedar mesa.
my last book was "mogul" raiders of the north. sort of historical fiction about the afganistan, pakistan, india region in the years after genghis khan.But if I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.
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06-21-2010, 08:45 PM #237
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06-29-2010, 05:19 PM #238
The Last Season by Eric Blehm
Author chronicles the life of and search for backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson. This non-fiction book is engrossing as a good mystery, but it also is quite lyrical in its celebration of the Sierras. I've never been to Kings Canyon NP, but after reading this book, I definitely want to spend some time there.
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06-29-2010, 08:36 PM #239
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Okay, hardly a book, more of an essay but it feels like a book at the moment. Summer school sucks.
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07-13-2010, 12:51 PM #240
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