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« on: January 12, 2006, 04:58:02 PM »
I'm looking for some new stuff.

Last book I finished was The Passion of Artemisia, about Artemisia Gentileschi, a painter during the Rennaisance and the first women accepted by the Academy of Art in Florence. Very good book!

Currently, I'm trying to read the Fall of the Ottoman Empire. I've been on page 3 for a week. Not so good.
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« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2006, 05:27:18 PM »
Even though College was out - I still kept up and read College Material for Spring Semester. I have the books so why not?
 Of course there was...

Nelson DeMille. Marathon...
I like his works, I re-read " Plumb Island" "The Talbot Odessey" , "Charm School", "Cathedral", 'Up Country" and "Night Fall".

Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" for the umpteenth time.
Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" for the umpteenth time.

[I am going to blow the spelling big time next up]

I was starting Alexander Solginetzen "Gulag Arhipelgo" ( warned you)
but I lost the book just as I started. I left it at the Cancer treatment place, someone picked it up...maybe it was to be. Those folks need...I can get another copy. I read it so long ago and was looking forward to a re-read.

Does the EZ puzzle books count?  I went thru a slew of those. About one per two days.

*somebody*  made me feel really stupid with a game online called Sudoku.  At least the answers are in the back of these el cheapo puzzle books ( large print too) if I get stumped.  Tongue

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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2006, 05:46:48 PM »
"The Alchemist", loaned by a fellow APS member, esheato.
Captivating book, uses allegory to bring to conscious understanding much of that which we know in our 'knower'.
Will do a better review when completed and time allows.

Thanks Ed!
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2006, 05:53:50 PM »
Pfaaagghh  on all that highbrow stuff.  I'm reading murder mysteries and other assorted trash novels.  I have enough reality to deal with 1st hand, to have toread about it too.  Maybe next month I'll be back on a reality kick.
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« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2006, 05:57:22 PM »
A friend gave us a copy  of The Alchemist as a gift several years ago. Good book.

Lately I've been ripping through Harry Turtledove's books. Currently on Days of Infamy.  Yeah, it's a very guilty pleasure.  

Where's that copy of Analects anyway?

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« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2006, 06:08:26 PM »
Just finished Mote in God'e Eye.  

Getting ready to start State of Fear.  It's now available in paperback.
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« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2006, 06:13:49 PM »
The Custom Revolver, Hamilton S. Bowen.

I normally can't stand non-fiction, but once every year or two, I buy something merely factual.
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« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2006, 06:16:52 PM »
I read Arthur C. Clark's Childhood's End today in its entirety. Pretty good.
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« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2006, 06:19:24 PM »
Reading a lovely complete collection of E.A. Poe that my sister got me for Christmas. I love Poe. Re-reading murders in the rue morgue at the moment.
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« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2006, 06:22:14 PM »
Recently finished Seven Days of Freedom, by Noel Barber.  A facsinating and well-written history of the 1956 Hungarian uprising.

Just began 1776.  Excellent so far, about 100 pages in.
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« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2006, 06:48:39 PM »
Working my way through Band of Brothers right now.
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« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2006, 06:53:36 PM »
Reading book 2 of David Edding's Belgariad series
looking forward to Asimov's Black Widow Mysteries, a bunch of murder shorts based on a dinner club of married men
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« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2006, 07:00:39 PM »
All Things Wise And Wonderful by James Herriot
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« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2006, 07:23:29 PM »
Wading through The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond.

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« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2006, 08:03:49 PM »
I stopped by Barnes & Noble today after getting the oil changed in the car.  Picked up the following:

1. Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Unleashed - SAMS: Firewall stuff when I reconfig the home network in the next few weeks.

2. Switching to VOIP, 1st Edition - O'Reilly: I now nada about VOIP, gotta start someplace.

3. Homeward Bound - Harry Turtledove: Fiction. Next book in his alternate history where reptile aliens invade Earth expecting primative savages, find themselves in the middle of WWII.  Now, the Big Uglies (humans) are gonna visit THEIR home planet.

Old Favorites rereading

4. She Is The Darkness - Glen Cook: Fiction, Sword & Sorcery from the view of a ground pounder.

5. Sweet Silver Blues/Bitter Gold Hearts/Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook: Fiction Collection.  Sam Spade meets Lord of The Rings.
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« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2006, 09:03:26 PM »
Millionare Next Door
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« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2006, 09:03:38 PM »
No spoliers, please, on Homeward Bound.  Picking it up this weekend.

Cheesy
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« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2006, 10:26:48 PM »
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No spoliers, please, on Homeward Bound.  Picking it up this weekend.
Well, first there is this....  Cheesy

You've read the rest of the tale I take it? [interrogative cough]  I did also see (but not yet buy) In The Presence of Mine Enemies, which I thought was just a short story by Turtledove, but apparently not.
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« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2006, 12:18:03 AM »
Am on my fifth book by Christopher Moore

http://www.chrismoore.com/books.asp

I can't decide which is my favorite so far, Island of the Sequined Love Nun or Lamb.
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« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2006, 03:08:52 AM »
I'm reading Lord Hornblower by C. S. Forester.  

I love historical fiction, especially Napoleonic war-based fiction and nautical-themed historical fiction.  I'm just sad that I'm almost finished with the Horatio Hornblower series (it's book 8 of 9 in the series).
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« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2006, 03:21:54 AM »
I recently finished "A Canticle For Leibowitz" and am now beginning "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. I love my job (I get to stay up late, read books and surf the net).
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« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2006, 03:28:18 AM »
Dancing Wu Li Masters.

It's about quantum physics but written for non-physicist. It's better than I make it sound. It borders on philosophy at times because subatomic particles force a re-think of what reality means.
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« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2006, 03:35:39 AM »
"Exploring Stone Walls" Robert Thorsen - Local stone wall expert and "The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China" Comments by Ralph Sawyer. Both going kind of slow actually. Been on the "Classics" for a while. Not much of a plot in either book. That'll slow you down.

I've read "Gulag Archipelago", very good book. Another good one by him (I won't attempt to spell his name) is "Cancer Ward". Great author IMHO.

Here, I picked this off of a search page - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
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« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2006, 04:16:57 AM »
Just finished Marine Sniper....

Decided to take the plunge and start working through Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.....
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« Reply #24 on: January 13, 2006, 04:51:31 AM »
I just recently read "Marine Sniper". Struck me as a sad story. I also read "Marine!" The story of Chesty Puller right afterward. Made me wish I was 30 years younger so I could join the Marines...

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