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The Da Vinci Code Bloom County (re-read) Discuss amongst yerselves....
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Weber Carbs by Pat Braden
Great write up on Weber carbs in general and a great section on the IDA carbs.
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Double Indemnity Hello, He Lied The Kid Says in the Picture Final Cut Reading: Devil in the White City, Villa Incognito
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Just read The DaVinci Code. Fun, but kind of light weight. If you liked it, try Foucault's Pendulum.
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The Gold Plated Porsche
A Purpose Driven Life Troy
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Slouching Towards Gomorrah. Bork
A Republic Not An Empire. Buchanan Flags Of Our Fathers. Bradley Diplomacy. Kissinger Off with Their Heads. Morris Death of the West. Buchanan Guns, Freedom and Terrorism. LaPierre Reagan's War. Schweizer The Longest Day. The best book on D-Day written IMHO. Currently: The Art of War. Sun-tzu This is the fourth translation I've read, I'm still looking for the "best". |
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Churchill's "Great Contemporaries"
Pete, What are the variations that you've found in the translations? What are you looking for? Umberto Eco, isn't he the one who wrote "Name of the Rose"? |
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I'm working my way thru my classic sci-fi collection (again).
Just finished "Nightfall" (the novel based on A's short story) by Asimov and Silverberg and "The Ringworld Throne" by Niven (yes, I often read 2-3 books at once). Also "The Futurological Congress" and "His Master's Voice" by Stanislaw Lem. Right now, I'm embarrassed to admit, I'm reading "Caesar's Bicycle" by John Barnes but I'm countering that with "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. Bester's work sings.
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currently reading GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon.
Yes, I'm brave.
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Fast Food Nation - Stay away if you like fast food or cow.
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Currently re-reading "Sometimes a great notion" by Ken Kesey. Probably because it so accurately reflects life in Oregon during my formative years... Another I'd suggest? "Against the Gods, the remarkable story of risk" By Peter L. Bernstein. But only if market investing is your bag. It's probably a basic 1st grade text to many who post here...
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Read these last month for a Southwest Lit class. Good stuff.
Bless me Ultima Desert Reader Ceremony
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I've yet to finish "Gravity's Rainbow." I've decided to blame Pynchon's self-importance rather than my own reading abilities, though. Last thing I read was on Bosch Fuel Injection systems, but I'm in the middle "Small Town" by Larry Block. After that is the new Walter Mosely
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Recently:
Da Vinci Code The Fabulous Trash Wagon, by B.S. Levy Eddie Would Go, the story of Eddie Aikeu & I re-read Fire on the Mountain, by Steve McClean. It's the story of the 14 firefighters that died on Storm King Mountain in Colorado in 1994. Re-reading it every know and then keeps me from getting complacent. I'm now half way through "The Gold Plated Porsche" by S. Wilkenson. Last edited by makaio; 07-04-2004 at 06:34 PM.. |
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Very nice!!
There's some good readin'! Any more?
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Godel, Escher, Bach Chaos Under Control (in no particular order, kind of doing 'em all at once, a bit at a time).
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The Charles Probst book on Bosch Fuel Injection, (excellent text and helping me understand both of my cars), also I have been into biographies of great artists such as:
Divided Soul, The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz (excellent and heartbreaking), and "Q" the autobiography of Quincy Jones (excellent and uplifting), and Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens (good book for the Pelican OT brawler),  andJews Who Rock by Guy Oseary (amusing and informative register of the enourmous contribution of Jewish people to popular culture + my good friend wrote it). 
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It also isn't fair to feel bad about your reading abilities: When I admitted to a senior literature professor that I was finding GRAVITY'S RAINBOW difficult, his response was somewhere along the lines of, "there's no shame in that, most literary critics find GRAVITY'S RAINBOW to be difficult."
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Sinister Dove
Gemini Boomerang
Porsche 996 Turbo Convertible
996 Turbo
2007 Porsche Cayman S
The Viridian Falcon
SOLD! -- The Purple Pig
SOLD! -- Mighty Mouse
SOLD!! -- Alpine Wolf
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