What are you reading?

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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Chanchu on Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:40 pm

The Ravens by by Christopher Robbins*
Story of FAC's in Laos- unreal story- you can not make up a tale as good as this- no way..
Most highly recommended to military history buffs- and those who want to know what people who are doing the job in the military- think about REMF'S.
You could make 20 good movies out of this book...

* Dumb @ss error correction here-- thanks to Chud ;D
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby shawnsegler on Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:43 pm

One I haven't read for awhile. BARD by Keith Taylor. The first one is the only good one, but it's real good.

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Re: What are you reading?

Postby baguamen22 on Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:26 pm

I'm reading a few things right now, some of them text books, some of them not so much;

Star Wars: Coruscant Nights: Street of Shadows

Business in Action (school)

NSCA's Essentials of Personal Training (school/work)

Various medical/science journals (school)

Just read Two Treatises of Civil Government by John Locke (school)

Effortless Combat Throws by Tim Cartmell (if I have time)

Subtle Wisdom by Chan Master Sheng-yen (if I have time)
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby fuga on Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:13 am

I just finished Black Flies, a novel about an ambulance driver in NYC, and am now reading the Female Brain at the urging of my wife.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby ParryPerson on Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:10 pm

Last book I read was House of Leaves, a little interesting, to say the least.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby chud on Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:34 pm

Chanchu wrote:The Ravens by Chris Moore


Chanchu, do you mean The Ravens by Christopher Robbins?
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Chanchu on Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:42 pm

Damn I do! what a dumb @$$ I is
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby fuga on Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:43 am

Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison - the basis for the movie Soylent Green!
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Michael on Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:58 pm

I just read H.G. Wells' "Time Machine" and it feels like the perfect allegory for life in Guangzhou, China. For example, in the book there's a scene where an Eloi named Weena is bathing in a river with other Eloi, she gets pulled into the river by a mild current, and none of the others show any concern at all for helping her.

Now I'm in the middle of Wells' "The Invisible Man."
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Bär on Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:53 pm

I can tell you what I'm NOT reading...those damned interminable political threads with the same 10 posters. Blech.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby fuga on Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:38 pm

Me neither. -loco-
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby fuga on Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:37 am

"The World of Mexican Migrants" by Judith Hellman
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby fuga on Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:42 am

"The Blue Hammer" by Ross MacDonald, no relation to Ronald
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby shawnsegler on Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:19 am

Wells' "The Invisible Man."


I'm currently rereading Alan Moores League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Bad things happen to that invisible man.

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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Chris Fleming on Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:38 pm

Price of Honor.

A book about women in Islamic countries. Some shocking shit.
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