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02-12-2010, 10:11 AM | #1246 |
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I ordered a nook yesterday. Now I gotta find things to populate it with.
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02-14-2010, 06:20 AM | #1247 |
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Finished James Rollins' Altar of Eden. I'd give it 3.5. It was great for a standalone book but the end finished somewhat lamely. The scientific material underlying the story was one of the more fascinating ones he's done. Sadly, he just didn't delve in as deep.
Now I'm into A Short History of Nearly Everything. Read the introduction last night but didn't want to get mid-chapter and go to bed.
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02-14-2010, 06:54 AM | #1248 |
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rereading Infinite Jest....loving it way more the 2nd time around...just a crushing read, after about 300 pages it hits a stride where everything is impossibly sad and simultaneously hilarious....very few books elicit this kind of physical reaction in me when reading...
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Great GREAT book. Covers a great breadth of how we came to know what we know from the accessible angle of the profound mistakes and personality quirks of the individuals who learned them.
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02-14-2010, 01:07 PM | #1251 |
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02-14-2010, 01:28 PM | #1252 |
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Has anyone made it through Stephen King's Under The Dome? I've gotten about half way through and keep wandering off to read other things. I was wondering if it was worth finishing?
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02-14-2010, 02:44 PM | #1253 |
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Starting on George Orwell's 1984
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02-15-2010, 12:42 PM | #1254 |
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02-15-2010, 02:04 PM | #1255 |
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(Also posted in the Epic Fail Thread, but thought I'd share it here too.)
If you can't find your book, you just might be in the:
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02-15-2010, 02:43 PM | #1256 |
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Better than Duma Key?
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02-15-2010, 02:46 PM | #1257 |
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So far I'm thinking it is. It reads more like the King of old (IT, Tommyknockers). I liked Duma Key well enough, but King has lost a step in my opinion over the years.
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Quote:
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02-16-2010, 03:00 PM | #1259 |
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Tommyknockers wasn't my favorite, but I think that style is more what I like from King. I like weaving a real story, not just cramming a bunch of bizarre plot into a fantasy storyline.
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02-16-2010, 03:03 PM | #1260 |
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OK, just finished another really good book, Just Americans. Very good book about how Japanese Americans helped win the war in WW2. Really interesting story about 442nd regimental combat team that was made up entirely of Japanese Americans.
One thing I found out that I never realized was that even though all Japanese Americans on the west coast were interned, none of them were that lived in the Hawaiian Islands, even though they were much closer to the American Military bases and such. I had always assumed because the west coast ones were that they were also, and it was reinforced by movies. Also they were the most decorated unit Infantry unit in the war, having fought in both Italy and the invasion of southern France (Operation Anvil). I highly recommend this book to even the casual reader or historian as the personal stories alone are well worth it. As is the story of how they rescued a "lost Battalion", in the Vosgas Mountains of southern France, and in the process were all but wiped. 2 thumbs up |
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