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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Fantastic book! Very well written, and I'm learning a lot. I have even more respect for Lincoln than I did before, and that was a lot.

    The only downside to it is that it weighs a freakin' ton, and with all my surgical scars it's hard to find a comfortable reading position :o
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    "Game of Shadows" by Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams


    I am HELLA excited to start reading this book!!!!
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    aNiMaL wrote:
    "Game of Shadows" by Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams


    I am HELLA excited to start reading this book!!!!

    "Hella" huh? When did you move to Northern Cali?? ;)




    I'm currently reading Night Draws Near (Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War) by Anthony Shadid. REALLY good read. It's not easy reading, though.

    http://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2005/09/shadid.html
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,218
    aNiMaL wrote:
    "Game of Shadows" by Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams


    I am HELLA excited to start reading this book!!!!
    is that the Barry Bonds steroids book?
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    I'm currently reading Night Draws Near (Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War) by Anthony Shadid. REALLY good read. It's not easy reading, though.

    http://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2005/09/shadid.html
    that looks really good but really depressing!!
    i've been sticking to fictional depression lately :) just finished jodi picoult's "tenth circle" this morning and am looking for something new...
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,218
    currently reading The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie...it's the standard for C programming - it might be a bit dull in comparison with other selections on here, but it never hurts to keep sharp as a programmer
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    soulsinging wrote:
    has anyone read "the average american male" by chad kultgen?

    no dice eh? fine, ill read it myself and tell all of you if it's any good ;)
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    that looks really good but really depressing!!
    i've been sticking to fictional depression lately :) just finished jodi picoult's "tenth circle" this morning and am looking for something new...

    You can borrow it when I'm done. :)

    I think the thing I like best about this book is the author portrays the Iraqis almost like they are real people with real emotions! :rolleyes:

    One of the captions on the back suggests W. and every member of Congress in support of the war read this.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Nora Roberts "The Donovan Legacy"
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    aNiMaL wrote:
    "Game of Shadows" by Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams


    I am HELLA excited to start reading this book!!!!

    I read that last year when it came out. If you have any doubt Bonds is on steroids (not that anyone does anymore), this will convince you. Really well done and interesting to see behind the scenes.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Conversations on Consciousness by Susan Blackmore

    The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick is in the mail.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Earthgirl
    Earthgirl Posts: 695
    just finished Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut, now reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I love his books. Im on a mission to read all of them.
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Earthgirl wrote:
    just finished Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut, now reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I love his books. Im on a mission to read all of them.

    I'm the same way with Jon Krakauer. I just love his writing style. He could write a book about grass growing and it would be fascinating.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Earthgirl
    Earthgirl Posts: 695
    AmentsChick wrote:
    I'm the same way with Jon Krakauer. I just love his writing style. He could write a book about grass growing and it would be fascinating.


    same with Kurt, he could write about dirt and I would love it.
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    AmentsChick wrote:
    "Hella" huh? When did you move to Northern Cali?? ;)
    We have been saying "hella" up here in the Pacific Northwest since the early to mid 80's!!! It is far from a new term up here. And no, it has nothing to do with northern California. :)
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    markymark550 wrote:
    is that the Barry Bonds steroids book?
    Yep.
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    rrivers wrote:
    I read that last year when it came out. If you have any doubt Bonds is on steroids (not that anyone does anymore), this will convince you. Really well done and interesting to see behind the scenes.
    Yeah, I am stoked to start reading it. I hate Barry Bonds....and this will just cement that feeling more, I have a feeling.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Yeah, I am stoked to start reading it. I hate Barry Bonds....and this will just cement that feeling more, I have a feeling.

    It will. I also hate him and thought I had reached max levels of hate and reading this book made me hate him even more.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

    recommended to me by someone on here :cool:
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    what's welsh for zen? - john cale. his autobiography.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say

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