So...what are you reading (Vol VI)

Discussion in 'Books' started by chazsoccer, Feb 20, 2009.

  1. malby

    malby Member+

    Liverpool FC
    Republic of Ireland
    May 11, 2004
    Rep of Ireland
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    Drogheda United
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    Ireland Republic
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    Great so far.
     
  2. nicodemus

    nicodemus Member+

    Sep 3, 2001
    Cidade Mágica
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    PAOK Saloniki
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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    The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes by Carl Hoffman
     
  3. Black.White&Red

    Sep 9, 2009
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    DC United
  4. 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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    Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
     
  5. monster

    monster Member

    Oct 19, 1999
    Hanover, PA
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    DC United
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    United States
  6. Black.White&Red

    Sep 9, 2009
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    DC United
  7. SoccerPrime

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    All of them
    Apr 14, 2003
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Real quick, would anyone agree with this list and that A Game of Thrones is the best fantasy novel ever?

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  8. Ian Lozada

    Ian Lozada Member

    May 29, 2001
    The Pick Four Pool
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    Arsenal FC
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    United States
    Interestingly enough, I love Tolkien (especially The Silmarillion), but I have no time for the rest of the genre.
     
  9. fischerw

    fischerw Member+

    Sep 15, 2004
    Joplin, MO
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
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    United States
    Fantasy is not a genre I've read a lot of, so perhaps I'm not entirely qualified.

    But I thought A Game of Thrones was just "pretty good". There were some good characters and some good battles, but the book also engaged in needlessly pornographic scenes involving a 13-year-old (I'm no prude, but some things just seem entirely gratuitous). I will probably read the next novel in the series eventually. But right now I'm reading Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind (#3 on this list) and I like it better than the Martin book.

    I also enjoyed The Lord of the Rings better than the Martin.
     
  10. SoccerPrime

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    All of them
    Apr 14, 2003
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    Real Salt Lake
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    United States
    I personally haven't read it but after reading the Top 25 on that website I was curious what some of you thought. Probably not for me thanks.
    PS Tolkien is still the king. Did you like the expanded Children of Hurin?
     
  11. Ian Lozada

    Ian Lozada Member

    May 29, 2001
    The Pick Four Pool
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I have to admit, with all the Lost Tales type books, I've read so many versions of that tale that they all blur together after awhile. Same for Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin.
     
  12. Black.White&Red

    Sep 9, 2009
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    DC United
  13. nicodemus

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    Sep 3, 2001
    Cidade Mágica
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    PAOK Saloniki
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    United States
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    Love is a Mixtape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield
     
  14. Bonnie Lass

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    Lyon
    Norway
    Oct 20, 2000
    Up top
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    Olympique Lyonnais
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    This Song is You

    Just downloaded to my iPod (thanks to monster's recommendation) and will be reading it during my 6 hour layover in ATL tomorrow morning. It'll be the first time I'll be reading a Kindle book for longer than an hour or two in one sitting. We'll see how it works out.
     
  15. fischerw

    fischerw Member+

    Sep 15, 2004
    Joplin, MO
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    Colorado Rapids
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    United States
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    Killing Pablo, by Mark Bowden.

    I actually listened to this as an audiobook. My first audiobook ever, in fact.

    I really enjoyed listening to it-- a pretty great procedural yarn. It would make a good movie-- which it supposedly is going to be soon.

    The author makes the point that while untold millions were being spent to kill Pablo Escobar, cocaine imports to the US from Colombia just grew more and more.
     
  16. prowazekii

    prowazekii Member

    Jun 21, 2008
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Finished a few more Discworld novels Guards, Guards, Sourcery, The Color of Magi, and The Light Fantastic. Now I am reading:

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    Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston. It is pretty good so far.
     
  17. Bass0r

    Bass0r Member

    Jan 18, 2009
    Tokyo/N. Velidhoo
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    Urawa RD
    Nat'l Team:
    Australia
    Sounds like an interesting read. Would you recommend or forget?
     
  18. nicodemus

    nicodemus Member+

    Sep 3, 2001
    Cidade Mágica
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    PAOK Saloniki
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm about half way through it and would definitely recommend it if you're obsessive about music. I like it enough that when I finish it, I plan on picking up his newest book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.
     
  19. monster

    monster Member

    Oct 19, 1999
    Hanover, PA
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    DC United
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    United States
    The mix tape book is non-fiction, correct? I think I have seen it before, but haven't read it.
     
  20. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    That would be shorter than a haiku if I'd written that one.
     
  21. nicodemus

    nicodemus Member+

    Sep 3, 2001
    Cidade Mágica
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    PAOK Saloniki
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah. It's mostly a memoir about his relationship with his late wife (she died at age 30) told through the mixtapes they made for each other.

    :D

    It's about all sorts of 80s music actually. I think that just made for a catchy title.
     
  22. Bass0r

    Bass0r Member

    Jan 18, 2009
    Tokyo/N. Velidhoo
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    Urawa RD
    Nat'l Team:
    Australia
    Awesome, another on my "To Read" list. Should keep me busy for a while.

    Currently reading:

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    Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay (aka Jeffry P. Freundlich)

    It's the fifth book in the series and so far it's a step up from the last two books, which weren't nearly as well-written or thought out as the second book, Dearly Devoted Dexter.
     
  23. frasermc

    frasermc Take your flunky and dangle

    Celtic
    Scotland
    Jul 28, 2006
    Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
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    Celtic FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Scotland
  24. Black.White&Red

    Sep 9, 2009
    Club:
    DC United

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