Weapon X Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Wuddup, wuddup. I’m sure it’s not too early, seeing as most of the 12oz peeps are on summer vacation, avid readers, or will probably make some free time for themselves to flip through pages in the beautiful summer weather. I just got back from the library with a couple of books. The fiction book I’m reading is W.E.B. Griffin’s The Secret Warriors. It’s book two in his Men At War series. The first one left me hanging, and I can’t wait to rip through this paperback. It’s pretty neat how it goes from the Pacific Theatre to places like Germany, France, Morocco, and Washington DC. A fictional tale about clandestine operations, the beginning of the OSS. The non-fiction book I’m going to start is called A Soldier’s Story, Victory At Falaise; The Defeat of the German Army in Normandy – August 1944.. It’s written by Brigadier-General Denis Whitaker, his wife, Shelagh Whitaker, and Terry Copp. From the inside of the book jacket, I’m in for very well written accounts from all sorts of parties involved in that part of the Second World War. So, what book are you planning on checking out while sipping on Coronas on the patio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 my roomate got "the tesseract" the other day. i'm planning on reading that when i get a bit of free time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I just copped Clive Cussler's latest, "Trojan Odyssey". This will be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Well I've already mentioned this book in another thread. But, I just finished Resource Wars by Michael T. Klare.... That has got to be scarier than the motherfucking necronomicon. If you care about anything at all, read this book. I also finished my pirate book. Pirate Utopias by Peter Lamborn Wilson (which is another pen name for Hakim Bey). Veeerryy Interesting. Well that's about it right now.... I'm trying to focus my efforts more. I'm like halfway through about 10 other books. Haha... Mostly news stuffs too... this article BROWNer posted up is very interesting to me at this point in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 i have this problem folks, i was just wondering if it affects anyone else: i can't just read a book bit by bit over the period of weeks/months like some people. if i'm going to read a book i will sit down and plough from cover to cover within one or two days, no fucking around. if i read bit by bit on the train or here and there i lose interest after a couple of chapters and can't finish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 Ignorance is bliss, villain. Why you trying to scare a motherfucker? By the way, I still have those suggestions you made to me last time written down. I hope to go through some of those, especially Red Cell by Ludlum, this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 blaazed Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 i haven't read that many books in my life.Some of the only ones i can remeber are like THE OUTSIDERS. and MANIAC MAGEE. All when i was young and what not. Recently i have read a tom clancy novel...and a few graff books.But the one book i have read in my life and realy enjoyed the most....i believe the title was something like "ARE YOU THERE GOD" OR "WHERE ARE YOU GOD" OR SOMETHING FOR THAT MATTER.it was many ages ago when i read it....It was written by a nun who ran a shelter for run-away or homeless kids...and it was all about the kind of kids who came threw her doors...it was some of the craziest storys i have ever heard...there where two of them...if anyone can help me out with some information on the book such as the exact title..so i can see if like amazon.com or b&n has it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 2BLAZZED, what Clancy novel? If you liked it, read him some more. His style is easy, and every book I’ve read of his has been gold, or near gold. ABC, I’m sort of the opposite. I never make time for myself to sit for hours and read a book, even though that is the best way to read, in my opinion. The only time I do that these days is when I’m waiting for my name to be called in court. I mostly read bit by bit. Transit, and before I go to bed, mostly. It’s different on those summer days, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Originally posted by 2BLAZZED i haven't read that many books in my life.Some of the only ones i can remeber are like THE OUTSIDERS required reading for any teenager i think. rumble fish was good too from what i can remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Weapon X: Richard Marcinko wrote Red Cell... Robert Ludlum is a spy novelist... one of his books was recently made into a movie I have yet to see... "The Bourne Identity". If ignorance is bliss, that's why you're all blistered... Jeru the Damaja You should check em out. It's good stuff. Mr. Abracadabra: I don't necessarily see that as a problem. I never read rumble fish... but I read catcher in the rye... also good disgruntled teen reading. Anybody remember that Rumble Fish song by the Goats? "Rumble Fish, it's the Rumble Fish, you better drop quick when you hear that click..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 Oh, my bad, my bad. I guess I’ll be reading the Marcinko first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Check this guy out ! Badass... "Sometimes good guys don't wear white".... *NOTE* His books are so controversial they were forced to be published as fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 Whoah – I had no clue. The covers are kind of weird, though. Well, I won’t have to worry about whether the author really knows what he’s talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabo 2 Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 dune heretic by frank herbert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski Mask Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 just finished Nausea by Sarte. No idea whats next...I tend to grab whatever catches my eye at the used bookstore down the street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLAYTONCROWN Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I cant read one book at a time. Right now im reading: Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut The Sacred Balance - David Suzuki Hagakure: book of the samurai - yamamoto tsunetomo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIPHER_one Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Last Exit To Brooklyn...I'm about 50 pages in and I'm about to return it. It's written really nicely, but the story is just so damn boring. Waiting on Stranger Than Ficiton by Chucky P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dELiSs Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I seem unable to get into this book "The Dante Club" I bought. I've read the first page at least 3 times. Once I get into it I'll just reaad it straight through in one day. I'm sort of saving it for a day at the beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 The action/adventure guide to the idiot girl (or something along the lines of that) bo some lady. yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
test pattern Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 watership down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChupacabra Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 currently nothing. I have been too lazy to go pick up some books but i sure as hell have a big list of books to check out. edit: 2k...wooo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 Er…congratulations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behemoth Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 The life of elizabeth 1 by allison weir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfreshsushi Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805054642.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg'> this book rules. philip k. dick was out of his fucking mind. uber-recommend to anyone who likes his stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Originally posted by test pattern watership down what a book, I read that when I was around 11 and it was extremely heavy... I read it again later and saw the film but sometimes I still have the original dreams that book inspired... Ok, I get the feeling that I read a lot faster, or more (at least) than a bunch of you... I go through a book a week at least... but... in the last month: The Looking Glass War-- LeCarre (re-read, I love LeCarre) Blood Work- Angel's Flight- The Last Coyote - Michael Connoley (decent stuff, kept me reading but some weakness) Gone Fishin' - Walter Mosley (really cool, a flashback in the Easy Rawlins series) Coyote Waits- Sacred Clowns - Tony Hillerman (possibly the best I've read in a while. His books are SO short and he says SO much, it's truly monumental prose) Cast in stone- G.M. Ford (I hear that's REALLY his name) (Decent, kept me turning pages, nice Seattle take) Dead Horse Paint Company - Earl Emerson (interesting, murder mystery from the arson investigator's viewpoint) Booked to Die - John Dunning (still reading, not bad, mystery with an eye to the book collecting world) If I could recommend, or SERIOUSLY, SOMEBODY! Read one of these books by one of these authors : Killing Mr. Watson - OR - At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Mathiessen (both are trick reads but APitFotL is probably easier) ((for 6th graders plus is the Snow Leopard, a true story, as well) Louisiana Power & Light -John Dufresne (more great storytelling) The Deep Blue Goodbye -John D. MacDonald (Please, SOMEONE, pick up this Travis McGee series and read it all, there are a ton of books and wealth of knowledge, it's easy reading but WELL worth it) A Confederacy of Dunces -John Kennedy Toole (Read this book!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Stalingrad Berlin the downfall 1945 both by Anthony Beevor full of cool historical references and well backed up facts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385720009.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg'> about the race from france, around antartica and back to france, solo, non-stop and in the roughest waters on the planet. Wheeeee! It's a great combination of sailing lore, nautical science and personal limits. It's not uncommon for racers to just 'disappear' and never be seen again. It happend to a Canadian guy, and that's the focus of the book. yeah... just to illustrate how far these guys go away from the livable world.... http://www.hrh.ch/52/vendee_map.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinchedWaist Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 just started reading this http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/1010000/1015456.gif'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzy maid Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 im reading "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser the last book i read was a Charles Bukowski book. I cant remember which one. i've read a lot of his.. Women is a good book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanity Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 hot ta def w/ pasta breaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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