CALIgula Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 At OMB...definitely a great read. It's crazy how much of a 180 degree he did after getting locked up. But it wasn't until his trip abroad until he recognized that the NOI's take on Islam was skewed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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misteraven Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Shelter for Now (The Infected Dead #5) by Bob Howard https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37313926-shelter-for-now *fucking love zombie books from unknown authors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 **Clearly I have very sophisticated taste in literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggity Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 just catching up here after long time away. dont think ive every posted to book threads.. mostly fantasy shit. holler if you have any suggestions. i'm due for something new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggity Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 this one isnt so much a story as a compilation of various artists/writers/musicians daily schedules and routines. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15799151-daily-rituals 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 @diggity not sure if your into post apocalyptic fiction but some of it borders on fantasy. If so I have a bunch of suggestions you might enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 After reading a handful of reviews I was excited to dig into this book, but ultimately felt it went nowhere. I kept hoping to get pulled in but it never happened. A few friends have read and said they loved it, so it must be me. One review I read compared to Ready Player One and Armada but I didn’t think so. Interesting read, for sure, just not the action packed sci-fi I was looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 @Joker so by that did you read “Ready Player One”? Saw the movie, was decent, but whole time I kept thinking it was probably a great book. Review from anyone that read it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 (edited) Dude on my twitter feed that I respect recommends this book. It's about human augmentation, robotics, machine learning and the ethics of, etc. etc. It's funny, a large amount of the work I do in my day job is on futures forecasting but instead of reading books like this and The Punch Escrow I find myself reading about history instead. Weird. Edited June 5, 2018 by Guest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Dude on my twitter feed that I respect recommends this book. It's about human augmentation, robotics, machine learning and the ethics of, etc. etc. [ATTACH=full]246677[/ATTACH] It's funny, a large amount of the work I do in my day job is on futures forecasting but instead of reading books like this and The Punch Escrow I find myself reading about history instead. Weird. Futures forecasting? Can you explain a bit more about that and what you do, not to derail the topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClownPrince Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 (edited) I have two out from the library in hopes to establish a working routine for myself to overcome a lot of self-doubt and improve my productivity. Picked up 'Daily Rituals' from the post above. Dig that it's an easy, casual read. Going to get into this this week, see what I can't pull from it. These kind of go hand-in-hand with the social media thread; evaluating how I spend my time and how to get shit done like a normal functioning person. Otherwise been reading some Kurt Vonnegut for leisure. Edited June 11, 2018 by ClownPrince 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Interesting to see how varied the responses have been. Feel like I’ve been in a rut regarding my book reading lately. Am I the only one that seems to fall into a cycle of a few great books in a row followed by a few you just never seem to be able to get into? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 ^glad you got around to reading it. i'm taking a break from autobiographies...just finished reading this one last night: The Power of Habit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Is embedding images not working for some reason? regardless, I put the link up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 6 hours ago, CALIgula said: ^glad you got around to reading it. Long walk to freedom, long read to an ending! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 8 hours ago, CALIgula said: ^glad you got around to reading it. i'm taking a break from autobiographies...just finished reading this one last night: The Power of Habit https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1366758683l/12609433.jpg Ive disabled image embeds. Too many complaints from other sites and too many broken images. But going to look into an option for it. For now we have huge attachment space for members and unlimited for VIP. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Just finished... Zombie Road IV: Road to Redemption - https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Road-IV-Redemption-ebook/dp/B07D3JVKGR/ Such a fun read... Part zombie, part road warrior. @diggityyou should give this series a read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 38 minutes ago, misteraven said: Ive disabled image embeds. Too many complaints from other sites and too many broken images. But going to look into an option for it. For now we have huge attachment space for members and unlimited for VIP. Is that why the animated gif I tried to drag & drop into another thread didn't play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Animated .gif files should play fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggity Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 8 hours ago, misteraven said: Just finished... Zombie Road IV: Road to Redemption - https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Road-IV-Redemption-ebook/dp/B07D3JVKGR/ Such a fun read... Part zombie, part road warrior. @diggityyou should give this series a read. @misteravenstart with this one or at the beginning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 @diggitystart with the first one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 How was it? More into amateur, straight to kindle, post apocalyptic sci-fi, but that seems interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) On 5/30/2018 at 8:15 PM, diggity said: just catching up here after long time away. dont think ive every posted to book threads.. mostly fantasy shit. holler if you have any suggestions. i'm due for something new. If you're into fantasy and you haven't read the Malazan series I suggest checking that out. Edited July 12, 2018 by metronome Am a dumb. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggity Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 @metronome ill take a look, I've got a road trip on saturday, if i can find the audio for this, i'll give it a while. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggity Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 (edited) @metronomejust did a little research on it. looks like this is going to be a really deep dive. I'll give it a shot though. I only made it through 6-7 of the wheel of time books. one day I'm going to try to pick that back up. @misteraven- I found Zombie Road on Audiobook. I'll try starting it first. Edited July 13, 2018 by diggity 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 @diggityI read the entire WoT series on some serious sunken cost fallacy business. I don't know why I bothered, I think it sucked and even the Sanderson written books couldn't save it. The Malazan series has some of the best world building I've encountered and the biggest criticism of it is that the author plunks you down into the middle of some stuff in book 1 so it's a little overwhelming at first but its worth getting past that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 16 minutes ago, diggity said: @misteraven- I found Zombie Road on Audiobook. I'll try starting it first. Yeah, let me know if you get into it. We’ll start a book club group and discuss the literary nuance chapter by chapter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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