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THE WORLD WITHOUT US ......its like it says its about how and wot the world will be like when we are gone and its quite mad ..
its mad how much damage we have done to the planet and its mad that apart from a few things nature will end up rebuilding the planet ....tis a good read that makes you think
The story of how, in the darkest days of the Second World War, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met over Christmas in Washington and launched their grand strategy to defeat the Axis powers.
By Christmas Eve, 1941, the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. Barely three weeks earlier the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and a week before Christmas the Italian navy penetrated Alexandria harbour in Egypt and sank the British battleships Queen Elizabeth and Valiant.
The full story of how Churchill and Roosevelt spent three weeks charting the future strategy of the Allies has now been pieced together for the first time. One Christmas in Washington shows how two very different nations learned to work together and how two super-egos were joined by a common purpose - to win the war.
This sounds interesting... I may have to try it (unless you get through it & say it's awful).
I just finished The Social Animal, a fairly technical book about human behaviors. Now I'm jumping into the new Harlan Coben, Six Years.
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Had this one in my pile for a long time and wanted to get to it before the mini-series starts. Used to be an SK freak but relaxed some on him. This started off pretty strong:
It's a great book! Really reminds me of some of his earlier work. Hope you enjoy it!
They're making a mini series of Under the Dome?? When?? I loved that book!
im reading
THE WORLD WITHOUT US ......its like it says its about how and wot the world will be like when we are gone and its quite mad ..
its mad how much damage we have done to the planet and its mad that apart from a few things nature will end up rebuilding the planet ....tis a good read that makes you think
I've just ordered this book.
its really fascinating and disturbing at the same time old son im looking at every thing in a different light although i realise i/we cant do anything to change things ......hope you injoy it old son
Just finished Gone Girl by Gillian-something. (Sorry-on my phone and cant look it up.)
It held my attention, for sure, but I was a little annoyed when it was over. It ended in a strange place.
Wasn't the ending awful? I hated it. You should check out The Dinner by Herman Koch. Kind of odd, but good.
Definitely smell a sequal. Thanks for the reccomendation.
the ending of gone girl made me angry.. however I know there are crazy bitches out there totally capable of what amy did so I was okay with it. and yeah the book ending in a weird place but...
*SPOILER ALERT*
...amy got what she wanted. and that was the whole point i thought. she felt trapped in missouri and so she set out to trap nick. she basically terrorised him with her absence and then when she could see it was to her advantage she terrorised him with her presence. she played out the ultimate gotcha!
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Just got done reading David Balducci's "The Innocent". Was okay.
A quick read, action packed....but terrible dialog and average writing. Would def make a bad Hollywood action movie.
I may read the next one....
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Anyone else hate it when a friend recommends a book and then BRINGS THE BOOK for you? You can't refuse it, and you have to read it quickly because they're going to be asking you if you liked it soon and you can't NOT read it.
It's nice and all, but it really fucks up my personal book-reading queue...hahahaha...
Here's what has been recommended and given to me, which I'm starting today:
1998-06-30 Minneapolis
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2 2018-06-18 London 1 2018-08-18 Wrigley 1 2018-08-20 Wrigley 2 2022-09-16 Nashville 2023-08-31 St. Paul 2023-09-02 St. Paul 2023-09-05 Chicago 1 2024-08-31 Wrigley 2 2024-09-15 Fenway 1 2024-09-27 Ohana 1 2024-09-29 Ohana 2
im reading
THE WORLD WITHOUT US ......its like it says its about how and wot the world will be like when we are gone and its quite mad ..
its mad how much damage we have done to the planet and its mad that apart from a few things nature will end up rebuilding the planet ....tis a good read that makes you think
I've just ordered this book.
Great book. I found the book to be slightly scary/hopeful in its descriptions at how the world can erase our presence ...
Just about to finish the trilogy by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr tonight. Three good quick reads if you like Hard Boiled Crime stories. I find it funny as Ken Bruen inserts himself in a small bit part in the third book. The best part of the whole series is how sometimes people believe they are more than they are, and sometimes it is true, but because of their own doing, but because of out of proportion stories they get attached to. Each character sees how each other are full of hot air but that doesn't stop them from inflating their own egos in their own minds. Meanwhile the regular characters are either frustrated beyond belief or shaking their heads laughing. This really becomes more prominent during the 3rd book, amazing what drugs can do to one's mind!
Starting Ghostman by Roger Hobbs, read decent reviews on Amazon.com so I'm hoping it's a good read. Got it pretty cheap through the marketplace so I figured why not!
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2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Once I finish this last paper of the semester tonight, starting this. Have never read it before.
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13 Books of wasted time. I read most of this last book Tuesday night, but guessed where it's heading and have delayed reading the ending. Maybe I'll feel better about it once I've finished. However, I think I'll avoid series books from now on.
Anyone else hate it when a friend recommends a book and then BRINGS THE BOOK for you? You can't refuse it, and you have to read it quickly because they're going to be asking you if you liked it soon and you can't NOT read it.
It's nice and all, but it really fucks up my personal book-reading queue...hahahaha...
Here's what has been recommended and given to me, which I'm starting today:
I LOVED this book, but tigers are my most favorite non-domesticated animal, so...
Once I finish this last paper of the semester tonight, starting this. Have never read it before.
Of Mice and Men is awesome... I should pick this up too.
Yes it is. I read that in one night when we read it junior year of high school. Once I started, I couldn't put it down.
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
"The Fall of Paris" tells the story of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/1, the Prussian siege and conquest of Paris, the establishment of the Commune and the subsequent civil war and violent supression of it by the French government.
In 1870, Paris was the center of Europe, the font of culture, fashion, and invention. Ten months later Paris had been broken by a long Prussian siege, its starving citizens reduced to eating dogs, cats, and rats, and France had been forced to accept the humiliating surrender terms dictated by the Iron Chancellor Bismarck. To many, the fall of Paris seemed to be the fall of civilization itself. Alistair Horne's history of the Siege and its aftermath is a tour de force of military and social history, rendered with the sweep and color of a great novel.
Just finished Gone Girl by Gillian-something. (Sorry-on my phone and cant look it up.)
It held my attention, for sure, but I was a little annoyed when it was over. It ended in a strange place.
I was annoyed by the ending. Have you read Sharp Objects (also Gillian Flynn)? It's one of the fastest and creepiest books I've ever read.
Yes, read it right after Gone Girl. It was a fast read and had me guessing more than once. I'm almost finished with Dark Places and it is BY FAR my favorite of the 3. So far. It might have an ending that annoys me... I hope not!
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I've just ordered this book.
This sounds interesting... I may have to try it (unless you get through it & say it's awful).
I just finished The Social Animal, a fairly technical book about human behaviors. Now I'm jumping into the new Harlan Coben, Six Years.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
its really fascinating and disturbing at the same time old son im looking at every thing in a different light although i realise i/we cant do anything to change things ......hope you injoy it old son
It held my attention, for sure, but I was a little annoyed when it was over. It ended in a strange place.
Wasn't the ending awful? I hated it. You should check out The Dinner by Herman Koch. Kind of odd, but good.
Definitely smell a sequal. Thanks for the reccomendation.
the ending of gone girl made me angry.. however I know there are crazy bitches out there totally capable of what amy did so I was okay with it. and yeah the book ending in a weird place but...
*SPOILER ALERT*
...amy got what she wanted. and that was the whole point i thought. she felt trapped in missouri and so she set out to trap nick. she basically terrorised him with her absence and then when she could see it was to her advantage she terrorised him with her presence. she played out the ultimate gotcha!
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
A quick read, action packed....but terrible dialog and average writing. Would def make a bad Hollywood action movie.
I may read the next one....
Read The Plague next. Great book.
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2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
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2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
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2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
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2023-09-02 St. Paul
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2024-09-27 Ohana 1
2024-09-29 Ohana 2
It's nice and all, but it really fucks up my personal book-reading queue...hahahaha...
Here's what has been recommended and given to me, which I'm starting today:
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
2018-06-18 London 1
2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
2022-09-16 Nashville
2023-08-31 St. Paul
2023-09-02 St. Paul
2023-09-05 Chicago 1
2024-08-31 Wrigley 2
2024-09-15 Fenway 1
2024-09-27 Ohana 1
2024-09-29 Ohana 2
Great book. I found the book to be slightly scary/hopeful in its descriptions at how the world can erase our presence ...
"Let's check Idaho."
Every night. It never gets old.
I was annoyed by the ending. Have you read Sharp Objects (also Gillian Flynn)? It's one of the fastest and creepiest books I've ever read.
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Starting Ghostman by Roger Hobbs, read decent reviews on Amazon.com so I'm hoping it's a good read. Got it pretty cheap through the marketplace so I figured why not!
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
13 Books of wasted time. I read most of this last book Tuesday night, but guessed where it's heading and have delayed reading the ending. Maybe I'll feel better about it once I've finished. However, I think I'll avoid series books from now on.
I LOVED this book, but tigers are my most favorite non-domesticated animal, so...
I hope you enjoy it.
Of Mice and Men is awesome... I should pick this up too.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
"The Fall of Paris" tells the story of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/1, the Prussian siege and conquest of Paris, the establishment of the Commune and the subsequent civil war and violent supression of it by the French government.
In 1870, Paris was the center of Europe, the font of culture, fashion, and invention. Ten months later Paris had been broken by a long Prussian siege, its starving citizens reduced to eating dogs, cats, and rats, and France had been forced to accept the humiliating surrender terms dictated by the Iron Chancellor Bismarck. To many, the fall of Paris seemed to be the fall of civilization itself. Alistair Horne's history of the Siege and its aftermath is a tour de force of military and social history, rendered with the sweep and color of a great novel.
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
I think I'm going to start this next....
Yes, read it right after Gone Girl. It was a fast read and had me guessing more than once. I'm almost finished with Dark Places and it is BY FAR my favorite of the 3. So far. It might have an ending that annoys me... I hope not!
Geek Love is a desert island book for me.