Kid Cid Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Picked this up at the library about a year ago. Not bad, but nothing spectacular either. Just finished rereading the Ender Trilogy by Orson Scott Card and am currently going thru the Ender's Shadow series. I'll probably jump back into the Harry Potter series after that. Should be able to finish it up in time for the new one. I barely made it through Speaker for the Dead. The first book was pretty cool, but I thought it went downhill pretty quickly from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhousekey Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 (edited) He has a new book out about professional golf. The title has Q School in it. Heard him talking about it on the radio the other day. I was actually looking at that book the other day and will probably add it to my list of books to read at some point... It's called: Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major by John Feinstein Edit: although after reading some of the book reviews on amazon I may have to think twice now about picking this one up. Not getting very high reviews. Edited May 16, 2007 by myhousekey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylive5 Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 John Sanford? I thought Fred's son's name was Lamont ... LOL Names have never been my long suit....... John Sandford. What's a D here or there? *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonKnight Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 (edited) I just started "It Cant Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis. From the back of the book: A cautionary tale about the fragility of Democracy, it is an alarmingly, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written durring the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitlers aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with thee chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. Called "a message to America" by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935. Modern day Nostradamus it seems. Edited May 16, 2007 by DemonKnight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffeeman Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 There are things to read other than the Tailgate during the offseason? Hmm, interesting concept.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameltosis Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Which of the two? Oops, The Historian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Irish Doggy Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 (edited) Just finished rereading the Ender Trilogy by Orson Scott Card and am currently going thru the Ender's Shadow series. I barely made it through Speaker for the Dead. The first book was pretty cool, but I thought it went downhill pretty quickly from there. Ender's Game is probably a top 5 sci-fi/fantasy book for me, but the last 3 books were not great. Speaker and Xenocide as a set up to Children of the Mind, which was good, were just too freaking long. I think I only read them because I read Ender's Shadow series in between and really enjoyed it. Edited May 16, 2007 by The Irish Doggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexgaddis Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Everything You Know is Wrong ok, I am not actually reading it but it's a great coffee table book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMikeinNY Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Harriet the Spy (with my 4th graders) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 Cadillac Desert Love this book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 Read All You Can Do is All You Can Do by Art Williams yesterday - motivational guru stuff; doesn't tell you anything any one of 500 other books wouldn't. Read Devil in the White City today; fascinating book. I had no idea about some of the stuff in there. Looks like an architectural tour of downtown Chicago just got onto my to-do list. Will be starting The Swarm by Frank Schatzing tonight or tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PantherDave Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 (edited) I'll finish up book 2 of the Sword of Truth-The Stone of Tears, by Goodkind in a day or two, then I'll start Marvel Essentials- Tomb of Dracula, Volume 3 next. Edited May 21, 2007 by PantherDave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Read All You Can Do is All You Can Do by Art Williams yesterday - motivational guru stuff; doesn't tell you anything any one of 500 other books wouldn't. Read Devil in the White City today; fascinating book. I had no idea about some of the stuff in there. Looks like an architectural tour of downtown Chicago just got onto my to-do list. Will be starting The Swarm by Frank Schatzing tonight or tomorrow. What are you? Some kind of robotic speed reader? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 What are you? Some kind of robotic speed reader? Actually, I got ahead of myself - The Swarm is terrific but is nigh 900 pages, and I held off on it until I went up north last weekend. Making some headway on it now - it might be a bit to, um, "tree-huggerish" for some of you, but it's a terrific piece of writing nonetheless. Though between my post and starting The Swarm I did crack open Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt for a few hundred pages to fill the gap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmypg Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I got talked into reading the Harry Potter books. I just finished the first & I'm waiting to borrow the second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb ...if you haven't read Taleb's first book, get it...Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and the Markets...it's a great book and should probably be read first to give you a context for some of his thinking; The Black Swan is more dense than FbR. Make sure you get the second edition of FbR... ...mine is making me a little. Taking the grey matter out for a little exercise from time to time can be a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godtomsatan Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I'm reading Handicapping by Example by Dr. William Quirin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiley Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I think Paolini wrote a decent Eragon, but Eldest was much better IMO. And yes, the movie was gawd-awful. I just started Eldest. I haven't read Eragon but it was the movie that made me give Eldest a try. I didn't think the movie was bad but after reading the synopsis of Eragon in Eldest I can see why it wasn't looked highly upon. Seems to me they changed quite a bit in the movie to move along the plot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Cadillac Desert Great book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I just started Eldest. I haven't read Eragon but it was the movie that made me give Eldest a try. I didn't think the movie was bad but after reading the synopsis of Eragon in Eldest I can see why it wasn't looked highly upon. Seems to me they changed quite a bit in the movie to move along the plot. both are ok and the movie was freaken bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffraff Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I just started Eldest. I haven't read Eragon but it was the movie that made me give Eldest a try. I didn't think the movie was bad but after reading the synopsis of Eragon in Eldest I can see why it wasn't looked highly upon. Seems to me they changed quite a bit in the movie to move along the plot. Words can't describe how bad the movie was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Appraisal: Residential Report Writing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhousekey Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Just finished "There's This River..Grand Canyon Boatman Stories" by Christa Sadler and am currently reading "The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons" by John Wesley Powell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Just finished Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop. It is the first installment of a dark fantasy trilogy. I absolutely loved it, and will be going out either today or tomorrow to buy the other two books in the series. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys fantasy. It is different than most fantasy books, as there really aren't many good guys so to speak, some are just less bad than others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonehand Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Power of the Dog by Don Winslow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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