So. . . What Are You Reading? (2012 Edition)

Discussion in 'Books' started by Ismitje, Jan 1, 2012.

  1. spot

    spot Member+

    Nov 29, 1999
    Centennial
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [​IMG]Really enjoyed this. Several good insights.
     
  2. CrewArsenal

    CrewArsenal Member

    Feb 23, 2007
    Pickerington, Ohio
    Vacation reads:

    Falconer and the Death of Kings, by Ian Morson
    King Arthur: Dragon's Child, by M K Hume
    Gullhanger: or, How I Learned to Love Brighton & Hove Albion, by Mike Ward
    The Athena Project, by Brad Thor
    And Then There Were None, by Agatha Chriatie
     
  3. NER_MCFC

    NER_MCFC Member

    May 23, 2001
    Cambridge, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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    A Scattering of Jades by Alexander Irvine
    As many around here will know, the author is a long time Big Soccer poster. I came across this in a used book store and snapped it up. Enjoying it very much so far.
     
  4. Dills

    Dills Moderator
    Staff Member

    Philadelphia Union
    United States
    Jun 6, 2006
    Southampton|PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The Ten Shirt: How the United States Soccer Team [Might Have] Won the 1982 World Cup
    by Michael Maddox

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  5. Atouk

    Atouk BigSoccer Supporter

    DC United
    Apr 16, 2001
    Arlington, VA
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [​IMG]

    Louis L'Amour -- From The Listening Hills (short stories)
     
  6. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
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    My son and I are reading this one right now. Classic stuff. If you haven't read it previously, I guarantee you will remember the ending for the rest of your life.

    OK, we're going to need you to tell us how they might have won it all. Intriguing as a title, maybe the most I've seen for a soccer book in years, but I probably won't read it. But we'd love the cliffs notes version...
     
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  7. elfietsbel

    elfietsbel New Member

    May 9, 2012
    Club:
    2 de Mayo
    The first two books of harry potter! More to come
     
  8. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Welcome to BS! :thumbsup:

    You're not the first person in the last year to just in on the Potter series. As an avowed lover of the series, I can tell you that you've got a lot to look forward to, esp Prisoner of Azkaban, my favorite of the seven.
     
  9. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Might have....but they wouldn't let them carry guns....:)
     
  10. Dills

    Dills Moderator
    Staff Member

    Philadelphia Union
    United States
    Jun 6, 2006
    Southampton|PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Only a couple chapters in, and it's setting up the protagonists' backstories ... cocky kid (Leslie King) with tons of talent from Virginia Beach, poor kid (Billy Ford) from single parent household in West Philly who tries out for the Fury at age 14, etc.

    It's pretty much a what-if, alternate universe story where soccer is considered one of the major sports in the United States. There's a part of Ford's initial story talking about how Veterans' Stadium is being built as the home field for the Eagles and Fury, while the Phillies aren't popular enough and will play elsewhere. Detroit Chrysler FC is a big team in the United States; other teams such as the LA Aztecs, NY Cosmos, and NY Americans are considered hugely popular, globally supported clubs akin to Manchester United and Real Madrid.
     
  11. lemons

    lemons Member

    United States
    Nov 20, 2004
    Club:
    Atlanta United FC
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    Picked this up on Monday, finished it this morning. Thoroughly enjoyable.
     
  12. Atouk

    Atouk BigSoccer Supporter

    DC United
    Apr 16, 2001
    Arlington, VA
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [​IMG]

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
     
  13. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I finally got done grading research papers. And I've been reading, but I haven't figured out how to post images when I'm using an Ipad yet. So here are the last three books I've read all by the Chinese American Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan.

    I came across this guy's name when I read Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss

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    The Good Life. Interesting take from a Geographer's viewpoint. Focusing on space that makes life better or worse, Tuan offers up his idea. My favorite was his point that a certain degree of austerity is necessary for life to be good.

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    Who Am I?[/img]. Interesting enough. Far and away the best autobiography I've ever read by a Chinese American geographer.

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    Dear Colleague. A collection of aphoristic comments collected from letters he's been writing to a close circle of friends over the past 30 years. Funny: four friends of mine and I have been doing that for about 15 years. Maybe we ought to look into putting together our greatest hits.
     
  14. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    :thumbsup:
     
  15. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Picked up another Lee Child book yesterday. "Running Blind" Thought I'd read the opening chapter to see how it goes. Then 3 hours later, I'm well into the book and forgotten what I was 'supposed' to be doing. He does that to you.

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  16. HerthaBerwyn

    HerthaBerwyn Member+

    May 24, 2003
    Chicago
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    Henry VIII's advisor Thomas Cromwell as a cross between Niccolo Machiavelli and Karl Rove.
     
  17. malby

    malby Member+

    Liverpool FC
    Republic of Ireland
    May 11, 2004
    Rep of Ireland
    Club:
    Drogheda United
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Biggest load of shite ever
     
  18. StiltonFC

    StiltonFC He said to only look up -- Guster

    Mar 18, 2007
    SoCal
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    so, no ghost writer...
     
  19. monster

    monster Member

    Oct 19, 1999
    Hanover, PA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  20. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
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    The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard. He was a New York artist from 1960 until his AIDs-related death in the '90s. Very strange writing. His longest work is the weird experiment in autobiography called I Remeber, about 150 pages of one or two sentence lines, each of which starts with the phrase "I remember" and goes from there. Somehow, it works.
     
  21. Ismitje

    Ismitje Super Moderator

    Dec 30, 2000
    The Palouse
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Finished on the plane to DC:
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    Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, which continues his trend of less-funny and more-sophisticated stories over time.

    Next up: the very heavy Child 44 by Tim Rob Smith, which focuses on 1950s USSR.

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  22. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
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    About halfway through Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore. Interesting take on the French impressionist painters. Not as funny as Fool. Not yet anyway. Here's hoping I fall out of my chair at least once down the stretch.
     
  23. Atouk

    Atouk BigSoccer Supporter

    DC United
    Apr 16, 2001
    Arlington, VA
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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    William Faulkner -- The Town

    I'm only in the 3rd chapter, but it's really sucked me in.
     
  24. NER_MCFC

    NER_MCFC Member

    May 23, 2001
    Cambridge, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Have you read The Hamlet?
     

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