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Title: So what books are you reading?
Post by: Yauch on May 20, 2007, 01:48:06 PM
By books I of course am referring to the elitist comic nerd terminology for comic book. I'm currently reading the Lucifer series put out by Vertigo. Vertigo is a spin off aimed at the older crowd which contain more violence, nudity and engaging plot lines. You know, stuff kids want. Lucifer is a spin off of Neil Gaimen's Sandman series, so if you haven't read it I'd suggest reading it first.

On the manga front I'm currently on the third book of the Buddha series written by the legendary Osamu Tezuka. When I was younger I never really cared for his character designs and I still think that they're fairly simplistic however they work to lighten up such a serious piece. I wish every major religion would but out a bunch of comic books about how they came to be. It'd go a long way to alleviate FUD between differing cultures.

I was reading Slam Dunk but I guess Rajin (the company that translated it and published it stateside) went out of business. If anyone finds some scanalations let me know. Otherwise I think the anime has been subbed by some fan subber group, so I'll probably just look for a torrent of that.
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Post by: Mithrandir_t00 on May 20, 2007, 02:11:19 PM
I've been slowly collecting all the volumes of Transmetropolitan. I think I'm up to 5 or 6, so I'm halfway there.
Also been re-reading The Watchmen after hearing the guy that did the movie for 300 is adapting it.
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Post by: Mr.Cactus on May 20, 2007, 03:02:27 PM
I'm currently reading richard scary's cars and trucks and things that go. A very advanced book.
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Post by: murd0c on May 20, 2007, 03:03:10 PM
I'm making my way through The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson, The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vangiem and Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman.
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Post by: frog on May 20, 2007, 05:00:48 PM
Bradford's Thermopylae: The Battle for the West and Tolkien's The Children of Húrin.
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Post by: splynt0r on May 21, 2007, 02:24:24 AM
Surfing on the internet by J.C. Herz ( bargain book , 50 ¢  ;D )
and I'm currently collecting the fabulous furry freak brothers comic series.
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Post by: Yauch on May 21, 2007, 07:44:22 AM
Murd0c: chuck Klosterman is great, he used to write this section in our local paper called the rage. It was all about music and interesting crap that pertains to us youngins. I remember that when the Foo Fighters first album came out and everyone was saying that they'd never go anywhere after they "use up all of Cobains leftovers" Chuck was one who expressed this band would be sticking around for a while. I'd say Chuck Klosterman is probably the 5th most noteworthy person to come out of ND.

Frog: That's the newly published Tolkien book,right? I'm assuming you've read the Similarion. Is it a hard to read as that? I've only read the original books and I thought those were a bitch to get through.

Mith: I too am excited for the movie adaption of the watchmen. I heard they're keeping it in the 80s so thats a step in the right direction. Hopefully it's more like V then swamp thing or league. I haven't read transmet but I remember coming across it when I was looking for the comic based on Neuromancer.   
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Post by: kelsokid18 on May 21, 2007, 09:58:55 AM
Ctrl+Alt+Del (http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com)  A webcomic, about gamers
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Post by: Tachyon on May 21, 2007, 10:28:04 AM

Mith: I too am excited for the movie adaption of the watchmen. I heard they're keeping it in the 80s so thats a step in the right direction.

I think I may skip it altogether. I'd hoped for years this wouldn't end up happening, but it looks like now it will...poor Alan Moore.
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Post by: samo on May 21, 2007, 02:05:38 PM
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. On the comics front, I just finished Earthboy Jacoubus, which was amazing.
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Post by: frog on May 21, 2007, 03:26:04 PM
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Frog: That's the newly published Tolkien book,right? I'm assuming you've read the Similarion. Is it a hard to read as that? I've only read the original books and I thought those were a bitch to get through.

It's Silmarillion. I don't know why everyone gets it wrong. I even got it wrong for a while.

No, it is nothing like his other post-humously published works. Getting through them is like chewing through rubber; Children of Húrin is amazingly well tempered--my favorite Tolkien work so far--and styled as a Norse saga. That is to say, it is written more or less simply, with priority placed on the story rather than the descriptions (which you may remember from other novels, he tends to go overboard with). Definitely check it out if, like me, you consider Tolkien a stronger imaginative than a writer.

Also, just finished Thermopylae. Now I'm reading From Armageddon to the Fall of Rome.
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Post by: theScatman on May 21, 2007, 06:24:09 PM
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I'm making my way through The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S Thompson is the man. His book on the Hells Angels is my personal favorite.

I'm reading Hacksaw by Edward R Jones. It's about a guy who escape from prison 14 times. Good read.
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Post by: jimb20 on May 22, 2007, 02:20:11 PM
I'm currently skipping around in George Carlin's Napalm and Silly Putty

its really good and hilarious

and also reading Love Hina
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Post by: kelsokid18 on May 22, 2007, 05:17:20 PM
Star Trek: TNG Technical Manual
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Post by: jimb20 on May 22, 2007, 05:55:14 PM
Star Trek: TNG Technical Manual

I have a copy of the Klingon Dictionary and English to Klingon translation and vice versa its pretty neat
Title: Re: So what books are you reading?
Post by: rbcp on May 22, 2007, 07:15:27 PM
I'm reading The Gilded Age by Mark Twain.  I'm 100 pages into it and I still don't know what it's about.  He keeps killing off main characters and switching into new storylines.
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Post by: Tachyon on May 22, 2007, 08:12:58 PM
Mark Twain was a genius, made piles of sense but was also hilarious.
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Post by: trevelyn on May 24, 2007, 08:29:32 PM
and he was good friends with the extreme genius in your avatar Tachyon.
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Post by: Tachyon on May 24, 2007, 09:22:27 PM
True dat, as I recall he had a rather interesting experience with a certain device against Tesla's advice and had some bowel malfunction as a result...
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Post by: trevelyn on May 25, 2007, 07:14:09 AM
i remember that it was a platform that just vibrated very fast that you could stand on.  Tesla was awseome you should read some of his books too.   well, like his bio and lifes work.
Title: Re: So what books are you reading?
Post by: Tachyon on May 25, 2007, 01:12:05 PM
I have, as well as a cool old copy of "My Inventions" collected from [some oldschool radio magazine].
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Post by: PHY-6 on January 01, 2008, 12:57:08 PM
Cheech Wizard (first two volumes) - Vaughn Bode
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Post by: ApprenticePhreak on January 08, 2008, 05:42:34 AM
I've read through Neuromancer countless times. I started reading it when I was only 11. I figured it as the greatest book ever written. A sci-fi world that's no inhabited by aliens who want to eat your skulls, or some exotic whore who wants to screw you or a space princess.

Many moons pass. I keep the same book and never actually bother to look it up on the net for any other of his writings. Don't ask why, I just didn't. A book that when I read it had come to a complete and total end turned out to be a three parter.

Recently I've read through William Gibson's Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. All three of which I suggest reading when given the chance. To this day I'm still heavily intrigued and amazed by the fact of how well Gibson wrote the net as a future every-man's thing. Everyone uses it now and it really doesn't show signs of ever leaving the radar. Very interesting books to say in the least.

Today however I'll be wandering around the sci-fi section and picking up a random book. Or maybe finally read some Philip K. Dick and see why he's the big gun of the old sci-fi world. Either way, I'm going to get my acne ridden geek on.
Title: Re: So what books are you reading?
Post by: Yauch on January 16, 2008, 09:11:40 AM
I'm going to have to chime in here and state for the record both Count Zero and Mono Lisa Overdrive are better then Neuromancer, however Neuromancer does have a better title.
Title: Re: So what books are you reading?
Post by: gangals on January 16, 2008, 10:40:36 AM
Wireless Crime and Forensic Investigation - G. Kipper.
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Post by: frog on January 22, 2008, 09:32:06 PM
The Poetic Edda, written billions of years BC by unknown Norse skalds.
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Post by: Nod on January 22, 2008, 10:05:23 PM
Stephen Colbert's "I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!)"
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Post by: Raptor on January 23, 2008, 01:37:01 PM
The onion's "Our Dumb World" (buy this)

Abbie Hoffman "Revolution for the Hell of it"

Richistan
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Post by: Mr.Cactus on January 23, 2008, 03:07:53 PM
Into teh wild
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Post by: M-26-7 on January 23, 2008, 04:06:39 PM
The onion's "Our Dumb World" (buy this)

Abbie Hoffman "Revolution for the Hell of it"

Richistan
Abbie Hoffman was a tool, you should know this by now Raptor. Him and his fucking yippies.
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Post by: Raptor on January 23, 2008, 05:57:34 PM
At least they weren't yuppies
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Post by: trevelyn on February 12, 2008, 09:21:08 AM
Black Seas of Infinity, by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Post by: Tachyon on February 12, 2008, 09:27:29 AM
Lovecraft ftw
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Post by: johnnyhacker on February 12, 2008, 10:53:14 AM
Lovecraft ftw

Crowley and Lovecraft conspired to make fake religions, for profit, sounds like today! Here' what i am reading.
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Post by: MIB on February 12, 2008, 03:44:07 PM
I just got done reading a book about embezzling money. I'm currently reading Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace.

MIB
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Post by: Tachyon on February 12, 2008, 05:00:03 PM
Did Lovecraft actually make a real religion for money? I wouldn't put it past Crowley, he needed SOME way to get his heroin (when his numerous sugar daddies/mommies were tired of his antics anyway).
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Post by: trevelyn on February 13, 2008, 01:08:36 PM
we cant say
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[b][color=red]My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.[/color][/b] anymoar its getting fucking annoying.
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Post by: Nod on February 13, 2008, 01:19:52 PM
I just finished Stephen Colbert's "I Am America (And So Can You!)" It was pretty freaking funny. It made me lul.
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Post by: Tachyon on February 15, 2008, 04:55:15 PM
I thought Watchers was pretty good when I read it back in the day but now I don't think Koontz is so good anymore.

Now I'm reading the Rum Diary, V for Vendetta again, the Blind Watchmaker, and Cyborg.
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Post by: s1acker on February 17, 2008, 09:13:12 AM
I like Dean Koontz the last book I read by him was Intensity. Reminds me of the movie High Tension.
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Post by: rbcp on February 17, 2008, 06:27:50 PM
I just finished the book Robbing Banks by L.R. Kirchner.  It's about my 5th bank robbery book in the past couple years.  I plan to spend my remaining years robbing banks.  Please don't tell anyone!
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Post by: trevelyn on February 24, 2008, 04:08:10 PM
I just finished the O'REILLY Sysadmin quick reference and now I'm starting Uprading and repairing PC's by scott meuller.
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Post by: Tachyon on February 24, 2008, 04:11:59 PM
I finished Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and recently re-read Getting Started in Electronics to brush up before making the control board for my CNC machine.
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Post by: s1acker on February 25, 2008, 10:58:49 AM
I finished Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and recently re-read Getting Started in Electronics to brush up before making the control board for my CNC machine.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is an awesome movie.
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Post by: N3gativ3sanity on February 25, 2008, 11:04:11 AM
I finished Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and recently re-read Getting Started in Electronics to brush up before making the control board for my CNC machine.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is an awesome movie.

If you like Fear and Loathing, you should watch Where the Buffalo Roam. It's all about Hunter S. Thompson's life, including what was in F & L.
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Post by: rogueclown on February 25, 2008, 01:18:48 PM
i need to read more HST...the only one of his books i've read so far is Hell's Angels.  i find outlaw motorcycle gangs fascinating, so i really enjoyed it.
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Post by: Tachyon on February 25, 2008, 02:08:51 PM
Yeah I quite enjoyed it. On a related HST note, last week Rolling Stone moved his columns back into the free section, I recommend the one about the flaming birds at Owl Farm. Also this documentary I found on BitTorrent called "Breakfast with Hunter", where they basically follow him around for a while. Johnny Depp guest stars, it's good stuff.
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Post by: ApprenticePhreak on March 29, 2008, 09:53:04 PM
Now reading Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. After that I've got Ender's Game (a friend of mine accidentally ordered double the amount of stuff on amazon and sent me the doubles to read) and the books after Ender's Game. I'm probably going to be reading Flow my tears, the policemen said after Altered Carbon.
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Post by: jammie on March 29, 2008, 10:39:17 PM
Now reading Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. After that I've got Ender's Game (a friend of mine accidentally ordered double the amount of stuff on amazon and sent me the doubles to read) and the books after Ender's Game. I'm probably going to be reading Flow my tears, the policemen said after Altered Carbon.

I actually don't read much Sci Fi, but a good friend of mine lent me Ender's Game and I couldn't put it down.  I really really really loved that book.

I just finished reading The Ruins since it got a nice endorsement from Stephen King and they're about to release a movie on it.  The book was... eh.  Guessing the movie will be just as eh.  I don't think Little Shop of Horrors will have to worry about being replaced by The Ruins as the top horror flicks about killer plants.
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Post by: Tachyon on March 30, 2008, 08:17:06 AM
Currently reading The Proud Highway, Turn on tune in drop out, and one flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Post by: rogueclown on March 30, 2008, 08:27:13 AM
i'm currently reading a ton of cases on federal jurisdiction.

/wrists
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Post by: Tachyon on March 30, 2008, 01:00:14 PM
Don't hack across state lines?
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Post by: rogueclown on March 30, 2008, 04:12:01 PM
hahaha...nah, not that kind of federal jurisdiction.  i wish.  stuff like standing and mootness and ripeness...stuff that you really don't care about unless you're a lawyer desperate to kick a case that's been brought against your client, or a judge desperate to avoid ruling on a case.

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Post by: Jay-D on April 07, 2008, 02:51:19 PM
Right now I'm reading "Messy Spirituality" by Mike Yaconelli  http://tinyurl.com/6zlorw

I don't go to church enough, I seldom pray. And sometimes when I'm on the road and pissed off, frustrated, lonely and missing my family or my late grandmother. My Christian faith gets me through. This is the book fo those who feel that they don't do Christianity right.



Another one I'm reading is "Project Beta: The Story Of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, And The Creation Of A Modern UFO Myth" by Gregory J. Bhishop-Hurley.     http://tinyurl.com/56maba

I love UFO and alien stuff and this book is very informative to say the least.

From Publishers Weekly
This allegedly true tale of government secrecy reads like the entire story arc of the X-Files. Covering topics like alien invasion, UFOs, paranoia, cover-ups and smear campaigns, this book has all the elements of a compelling-though not entirely believable-yarn, but the narrative never gels into such a tale. In a nutshell, Bishop's story centers around the now-deceased Paul Bennewitz, a hapless electrical physicist living near Kirtland Air Force Base outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bennewitz detected what he believed to be signs of alien contact and began to grow alarmed, even panicked, by his observations. The book contends that while Bennewitz inadvertently did get close to something top secret, various government agencies fed him lies and disinformation to keep him believing in an imminent alien invasion until he was completely discredited and utterly insane. Eventually, author and UFO researcher Bill Moore was recruited as a mole to help in the disinformation campaign against Bennewitz. While hardcore UFO aficionados will no doubt salivate over the accusations, details and techie tidbits contained herein, Bishop never conveys a real sense of Bennewitz's personality and motivations, and neither Bennewitz nor Moore emerge as fully fleshed out individuals. Instead, Bishop tells readers that Bennewitz was a "genius at figuring things out" and "his Achilles heel was his credulity." It would have been nice to understand the broken man at the center of it all, but as it is, Mulder and Scully seem more three dimensional than the players in this narrative.



Title: Re: So what books are you reading?
Post by: vixen on June 02, 2008, 11:53:47 AM
i'm reading this book called "Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.. you all should check it out.. it's pretty damn good. After that, I plan on reading some books that I recently purchased... The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau), 120 Days to Sodom, and Philosophies in the Bedroom.... by Marquis de Sade... if any of you know him you'll know i'm kind of messed up :) but seriously, check em out!
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Post by: Cazimere on June 02, 2008, 11:58:25 AM
I'm all about Holocaust type stories. The diary of Anne Frank and Night were some of the good 1's.
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Post by: vixen on June 02, 2008, 12:47:02 PM
I'm all about Holocaust type stories. The diary of Anne Frank and Night were some of the good 1's.


yeah I'm quite into Holocaust/German books, too. I have an obsession with Germany... and I speak German.. have you read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"? or "Mein Kampf"? Definitely worth checking out :)
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Post by: Cazimere on June 02, 2008, 12:57:38 PM
I'm all about Holocaust type stories. The diary of Anne Frank and Night were some of the good 1's.


yeah I'm quite into Holocaust/German books, too. I have an obsession with Germany... and I speak German.. have you read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"? or "Mein Kampf"? Definitely worth checking out :)

Mein Kampf. We have talked about that in school. I heard it is worth reading. I will pick up those books and check em out
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Post by: vixen on June 02, 2008, 01:08:32 PM
Definitely do so! Let me know what you think of them when you're done... (if we're both still around) haha!
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Post by: ApprenticePhreak on June 03, 2008, 09:09:49 AM
I'm all about Holocaust type stories. The diary of Anne Frank and Night were some of the good 1's.


yeah I'm quite into Holocaust/German books, too. I have an obsession with Germany... and I speak German.. have you read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"? or "Mein Kampf"? Definitely worth checking out :)

Mein Kampf. We have talked about that in school. I heard it is worth reading. I will pick up those books and check em out

Sad part is I'm curious about this book but I don't want to look like a pledging skinhead when I ask for it at Barnes and Noble. After all having a good book on your shelf lets people know what to expect when they walk in the house.
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Post by: vixen on June 03, 2008, 07:19:15 PM
well..do you *look* like a skinhead?  You could always buy it from amazon.com :P
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Post by: Yauch on June 03, 2008, 09:11:12 PM
currently reading the road by Cormac McCarthy. I dug the no country for old men movie so I figured it's be best to check out something by the author. The Road has a post-apocalyptic setting that's I'm definitely digging. Anyone else have any reccomendations for PA books?
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Post by: vixen on June 10, 2008, 06:20:26 AM
nice banana phone!
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Post by: ApprenticePhreak on June 11, 2008, 10:38:28 AM
currently reading the road by Cormac McCarthy. I dug the no country for old men movie so I figured it's be best to check out something by the author. The Road has a post-apocalyptic setting that's I'm definitely digging. Anyone else have any reccomendations for PA books?

Friend of mine read through, Lucifer's Hammer I believe it was called, and it was based something in or around L.A. about stuff and things. I don't remember diddly-squat about it. It's a read I'm curious about picking up my self after I polish off the 7 remaining books I have on my shelf. She seemed to throughly enjoy it; but I myself cannot make a claim to how well the book is.
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Post by: murd0c on June 12, 2008, 06:10:46 AM
I just picked up The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul at the airport giftshop. I hope to have it read before my plane touches down.
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Post by: Tachyon on June 12, 2008, 11:46:11 AM
The Revolution will be printed on paper!
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Post by: RTF on August 07, 2008, 03:36:37 AM
I just finished "From a Buick 8" by Stephen King, and am now starting Robin Cook's "Outbreak."

I also have a copy of "The Best of 2600" I randomly skim, but that book is too huge to actually carry around anywhere and read.
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Post by: rogueclown on August 07, 2008, 07:48:39 AM
I also have a copy of "The Best of 2600" I randomly skim, but that book is too huge to actually carry around anywhere and read.

no it's not.  i carry mine around in my tote bag everywhere.  :D
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Post by: RTF on August 08, 2008, 02:41:56 PM
I also have a copy of "The Best of 2600" I randomly skim, but that book is too huge to actually carry around anywhere and read.

no it's not.  i carry mine around in my tote bag everywhere.  :D
If I carried my reading material around in a tote bag, you'd have just totally skooled me.  But I'm limited to a paperback in my pocket.
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Post by: rogueclown on August 09, 2008, 01:40:33 PM
I also have a copy of "The Best of 2600" I randomly skim, but that book is too huge to actually carry around anywhere and read.

no it's not.  i carry mine around in my tote bag everywhere.  :D
If I carried my reading material around in a tote bag, you'd have just totally skooled me.  But I'm limited to a paperback in my pocket.

maybe you should start carrying around a tote bag.  ever think of that?

:D
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Post by: Tachyon on August 09, 2008, 02:52:21 PM
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA is pretty awesome. I've also got The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism and the Myth of Juvenile Delinquency.
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Post by: Nod on August 09, 2008, 10:38:12 PM
Daniel Silva's "Moscow Rules"

So far it's dragging a little. I have a feeling it will pick up soon though. Glenn Beck, whom I watch every chance I get, had the author on the show and both of them convinced me to give it a try.
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Post by: RTF on August 15, 2008, 02:57:27 AM
I just finished Robin Cook's "Outbreak."  It was a decent read right up until the last few pages, when it collapsed into the weakest goddamned ending possible.  It goes from seviceable corporate/medical thriller to Lifetime Original Movie in one chapter flat.
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Post by: Nod on August 15, 2008, 06:59:30 AM
Kind of like the end of Stephen King's Cell.
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Post by: Moose-Alini on August 30, 2008, 05:49:44 PM
Transmetropolitan was the only comic I really liked.

Real books:
Just finished Moscow 2042 (great), and am reading War Nerd, The Brothers Karamazov, and Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook. After I finish some of these I plan on finishing Paradise Lost, and all of kurt vonnegut's books.

The more you know!
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Post by: Tachyon on August 31, 2008, 12:47:51 AM
Transmetropolitan was the only comic I really liked.


I'm reading Doktor Sleepless now as it comes out, its by the same guy I think and its pretty cool.
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Post by: rogueclown on August 31, 2008, 01:33:41 AM
i'm reading the Linux Administration Guide now.  it's teaching this little Linux n00b a lot about computers...so it makes me happy.

i just finished a book called Spam Kings, which was about the pushing and pulling between spammers and anti-spammers in the early-to-mid aughts.  it was an interesting book...i, myself don't get too worked up about spam since spam blockers have gotten pretty good, but it was really fun to read about the fighting and the tactics used on both sides.
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Post by: Tachyon on August 31, 2008, 03:44:51 AM
I'm around a quarter through the CIA one and now also reading a book about the rise and activities of Blackwater.
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Post by: ApprenticePhreak on September 01, 2008, 08:40:33 AM
I'm going to be reading Babylon Babies/Babes/Whatever it's called so I can see if there's a real ending to the Babylon A.D. movie at all within the next month.
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Post by: Moose-Alini on September 02, 2008, 03:17:00 PM
I'm reading Doktor Sleepless now as it comes out, its by the same guy I think and its pretty cool.

Hmm, I'd like to check it out but I've been blacklisted at the local comic shops  8)
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Post by: Tachyon on September 02, 2008, 10:17:35 PM
I get all my comics shipped to me, comes to around three-fifty Canadian apiece I thnk.
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Post by: Moose-Alini on September 02, 2008, 10:49:38 PM
*was about to make a canadian dollar joke but then remembered the joke's on US*
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Post by: RTF on September 13, 2008, 10:29:52 PM
I'm currently rereading "Fletch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(novel))" by Gregory McDonald.  The gimmicky Chevy Chase movies from the 1980s were very loosely based on it, but the book is so much better than those, and so is the series that followed it.  Highly recommended if you're looking for a mystery series to get into.

I'm also just about finished with "Notes from Underground (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_from_Underground)," which was a gift from RogueClown.  It's classically angsty and awesome if you can grok a wordy 19th century Russian novel.
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Post by: Yauch on September 20, 2008, 12:00:33 AM
The people's history of American Empire. Nice comic that teaches you something. Especially relevant due to my current situation. Just met a dude from the Philippians and I was able to talk trash on Leonard Wood.
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Post by: Nod on September 20, 2008, 01:41:28 AM
The Last Days of Krypton by Kevin J. Anderson. It's the events leading up to Krypton's demise and sending Kal-El to Earth.
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Post by: Yauch on October 27, 2008, 06:33:37 PM
Right now I'm 3/4 the way through Evasion. It's great. All about scams, dumpster diving, squatting, hitchhiking, and shoplifting. It's also written by some vegan strait edge kid who loves bagels and carrot juice. For five bucks I highly recommend it. Arbie, you should read it to get further inspiration for the phonelosers book.
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Post by: Magus on October 27, 2008, 06:49:12 PM
Arbie, you should read it to get further inspiration for the phonelosers book.

Yeah, when the fuck is the next chapter coming out anyway?

http://www.phonelosers.com/book/
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Post by: ApprenticePhreak on October 27, 2008, 10:19:21 PM
Arbie, you should read it to get further inspiration for the phonelosers book.

Yeah, when the fuck is the next chapter coming out anyway?

http://www.phonelosers.com/book/

Believe it or not I'm actually interested in seeing some more of that book. I just figured Arbie got tired of it or lost all interest and figured that little snippet being the whole book. It's a shame. It seemed interesting to me.
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Post by: ravenmaddox on October 28, 2008, 01:31:16 AM
Im currently back and forth between 'Catch Me If You Can' and 'The Art of the Steal'
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Post by: rbcp on October 28, 2008, 02:54:57 PM
Believe it or not I'm actually interested in seeing some more of that book. I just figured Arbie got tired of it or lost all interest and figured that little snippet being the whole book. It's a shame. It seemed interesting to me.

There's actually a big chunk of that book that's sort of done.  I keep changing my mind between going with that original chapter or just making a big archive of all the PLA stuff.  Currently I'm working mostly on the original chapter idea.  Each year I fail my goal of having it finished up by the end of the year.  I really do still work on it when I have the time, though.
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Post by: ApprenticePhreak on October 28, 2008, 06:01:27 PM
Believe it or not I'm actually interested in seeing some more of that book. I just figured Arbie got tired of it or lost all interest and figured that little snippet being the whole book. It's a shame. It seemed interesting to me.

There's actually a big chunk of that book that's sort of done.  I keep changing my mind between going with that original chapter or just making a big archive of all the PLA stuff.  Currently I'm working mostly on the original chapter idea.  Each year I fail my goal of having it finished up by the end of the year.  I really do still work on it when I have the time, though.

Is there any chance you could possibly upload them some where in a zip file so those of us with a genuine interest can have a read? Because I'd download it and take up precious bandwidth on your server just to show my gratitude.
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Post by: Magus on October 30, 2008, 05:18:41 PM
Believe it or not I'm actually interested in seeing some more of that book. I just figured Arbie got tired of it or lost all interest and figured that little snippet being the whole book. It's a shame. It seemed interesting to me.

There's actually a big chunk of that book that's sort of done.  I keep changing my mind between going with that original chapter or just making a big archive of all the PLA stuff.  Currently I'm working mostly on the original chapter idea.  Each year I fail my goal of having it finished up by the end of the year.  I really do still work on it when I have the time, though.

Is there any chance you could possibly upload them some where in a zip file so those of us with a genuine interest can have a read? Because I'd download it and take up precious bandwidth on your server just to show my gratitude.

Yeah, I would love to read some more even if it's just random chapters in no particular order. You actually inspired me to write my own book, although I've been working on it off and on for months and still haven't got to the second chapter. ;D

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Im currently back and forth between 'Catch Me If You Can' and 'The Art of the Steal'

Catch Me If You Can is great, although the killjoys over at Snopes said some of it was made-up. My favorite chapter was when he gets locked up in French prison.