| | What book are you reading right now? Page 21 of 24 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24) | To anyone who likes a funny book, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is the original! For those who don't know there are 4 books and they are all good. Believe it or not, book 3 has one of the cutest love stories ever told.
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 9/27/2006 7:06:46 PM | Answering this will expose me for who I am but who cares right?
Think and Grow Rich,
Things Fall Apart,
and
Believing Christ (the parable of the bicycle and other good news)
Check back next week for an equally confusing list. I get bored reading just one book each week, I need variety. And dont judge my dating habits based on my reading habits. | |
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| ksue44
Posted: 9/27/2006 7:14:50 PM |
I read a lot of self development books, including:
"Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill
"The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson
"How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
"Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" by T. Harv Eker
"Millionaire Women Next Door" by Thomas J Stanley
Funny, I am reading one success book per week due to my line of work. I am currently reading Napoleon Hill as well as 'The Greatest Salesman in the World'
There is a fundamental success book that seems to have been lost to time that I ask people about frequently yet I always hear in reply, "Never heard of it" but it was everywhere when it was popular, anyone ever read "Richest Man in Babylon" ?? | |
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| ksue44
Posted: 9/28/2006 4:09:53 AM | ^
All the books you've mentioned are books I've either read or that are on my "book list" -- I actually keep a list given how many people recommend books. | |
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| ksue44
Posted: 9/28/2006 8:34:17 PM |
All the books you've mentioned are books I've either read or that are on my "book list" -- I actually keep a list given how many people recommend books.
Really? I'd love to hear it. That is a good way of keeping track of what to read next. I might have to copy that idea. (realize that copying something is different than stealing. stealing means that you do not have the original (here comes the off-topic rant) so how can there be a movement to teach people that copying is stealing?))
oh boy, there goes the troll in me. sorry ;)
anyway, I would love to check out the list. | |
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| ksue44
Posted: 9/29/2006 2:02:41 AM | AMERICAN VERTIGO by Bernard-Henri Levy
The follow up to frenchman Touqueville and his travel logue of America in the 19th century. Of course America was quite different 150 some odd years ago. Touqueville was much kinder to America.
Levy seems to concentrate on America's underbelly.
Levy's hypothesis is that "America is no France."
My thoughts... "Levy is no Touqueville." | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 9/29/2006 5:38:45 AM | I've just finished "Lon Chaney - the Man Behind the Thousand Faces" and "Dark Star - the story of the meteoric rise and fall of John Gilbert" (yeah, I like old Hollywood).
I've just started "The Time Traveler's Wife"; so far it's great. | |
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| ksue44
Posted: 9/29/2006 5:50:45 AM | | Send me your e-mail Holden, or mail me at sbauzys@comcast.net -- I'll give you a link to my list. I've only posted those I've read that I feel were interesting to myself. | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 9/30/2006 10:07:05 AM | I am reading the Alcoholics Anonymous Big book . . . interesting concepts and awesome excerpts... Crazeegyrl: 488
Read it more than 50 years ago when it was very young and so was I and my mother had just joined AA.
Today: Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 9/30/2006 10:12:11 AM | | I have that book too, but I've never read it. I figured since it's laying around I'd add it to my list since there are so many alcoholics in the world. Thankfully I'm not one of them! | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 9/30/2006 10:21:55 AM | I'm reading "Aztecs and conquistadores - The Spanish invasion & the collapse of the Aztec empire." By John Pohl & Charles M Robinson III.
"The Books of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi.
I love japanese culture.I read this book about the greatest swordsman who ever lived a long time ago.I feel like reading it again now.
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 9/30/2006 5:52:47 PM | perpetualmoribund
It's a good book. A Jeet Kune Do instructor recommended it to me, as well as "The Nobility of Failure" another great book on japanese history and the study of warriors. | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 9/30/2006 7:07:04 PM | | I'm rereading William Barrett's Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy and have just started rereading a collection of Flannery O'Connor's short stories. I've also been eyeballing a copy of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason that's been sitting on my shelf leaving me feeling intimidated for a couple of months now. | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 9/30/2006 8:55:46 PM | Ramses The Son of Light ~ Christian Jacq
Highly recommend this author if you have interests in the world of Ancient Egypt. | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 10/1/2006 8:29:22 PM | | Tandia by Bryce Courtenay, The sequel to The Power of One. I've been reading this on and off for months and I'm only a few chapters in. I just picked it up again last night, hopefully to finish it soon... my unread pile is getting kind of large. | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 10/2/2006 2:17:14 AM | | **Aussie Pilgrims Progress, same as the original book but in Australian slang, very good, going back for another read as theres alot to absorb!! | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 10/2/2006 9:54:32 AM | Just finished Voyage to the Edge of the World by Alan Edmonds. It's about an extensive Canadian scientific study (Hudson 70) in 1970, mainly aboard the specially-built research and ice-breaking ship Hudson. The study was for a full year and circumnavigated North America. Shows how nasty it was to do research around Cape Horn, Antarctica, and the Northwest Passage. I actually thought it might be boring, out of date, or too dryly scientific. Was wrong. Off the top of my head:
• The surface ocean currents (Gulf Stream) don't always match the deep ones.
• Chile has fjords.
• There's huge spikes coming up from the ocean floor in the Arctic Ocean that can rip open oil tankers.
• Huge icebergs rip 20-metre deep gouges across the ocean floor, which prevent pipelines from being laid there.
• The fertile fishing area off Newfoundland called the Grand Banks is (okay, was) so full of fish because a huge deep ocean current, rich with plankton, is forced to the surface there by the underwater geography.
• Geez, that's all I can remember right now?
The book made me wish that I was on a scientific ship somewhere, even if I was just a grunt hauling up test buoys and sifting through mud for little creatures that I know nothing about.
GE&H | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 10/2/2006 2:29:41 PM | The Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration (for the second time) By Jeffery Stevens
Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
I tend to read one fiction and one non fiction at the same time for some reason. | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 10/4/2006 8:04:20 PM | | I just got back into reading ;) I find it stimulates the mind ;) I have just gone through 3 of Tom Clancy's....Absolutely awesome reads, couldnt put them down. Rainbow Six is my fav so far ;) | |
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| What book are you reading right now?
Posted: 10/4/2006 10:11:34 PM | "New Rules" by Bill Maher
It's kind of like Dennis Miller's "Rants". Ludicrously clever, quotable and funny venting about things in the news...if you like that sort of thing.
"Book of Bad Songs" by Dave Barry
If you're between 35 and 55, you'll be annoyed because you'll get songs like Do That to Me One More Time by The Captain and Tennille stuck in your head.
GE&H | |
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