Anyone Reading A Book This Summer?

Just finished 'Dies the Fire' by S.M. Stirling. Great read for blade nuts as the premise is that all electronics stop working (plausible, huge EMP would do it)and all firearms/explosives stop working (OK, you just have to bear with him on this one), so the survivors must resort to learning the use of medieval weapons. Well written despite the lack of explanation for no firearms.
 
Wow, some really lofty titles so far. So, doesn't anyone read lazy stuff like 42nd Street Trick, Killer Apes From Planet Hell, and The Best of The Far Side, vol. III (for the tenth time)?
 
komondor said:
Wow, some really lofty titles so far. So, doesn't anyone read lazy stuff like 42nd Street Trick, Killer Apes From Planet Hell, and The Best of The Far Side, vol. III (for the tenth time)?
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Begone, lowbrow peasant ... ;)

Actually I don't mind the occasional trashy novel, as long as it has plenty of gratuitous sex and violence.

On a completely different plane, I can recommend and EXTREMELY good book if historical novels are your thing.

An Instance of the Fingerpost
By Iain Pears.

You can find it here.
 
**A Dogs Best Friend
OK, I just gotta say it. With a name like Slaytanic, I would have expected you to be reading something much more sinister.**
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Actually, I was kidding! kinda sad because I don't even know how to read :(
Sinister? nahh, just a regular dude that loves crappy music ;)
 
Right now reading Two-Gun Cohen, a biography of an English born Canadian hustler who became a bodyguard to Sun Yat-sen and a general in the Chinese army. Also The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth Brandon. Next up is the Great Farini the high wire life of William Hunt by Shane Peacock. Then I go for in depth study of Arwrology by Gordon Perrigard and the Close Combat Files by Rex Applegate.
 
I just finished reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, and am about half-way through Ghosts of the Fireground: Echoes of the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Calling of a Wildland Firefighter by Peter Leschak. Both are quite compelling reads.

Reading this thread sure gives me an idea of what to look for to read next, great topic! :D
 
Slaytanic said:
Actually, I was kidding! kinda sad because I don't even know how to read :(
Sinister? nahh, just a regular dude that loves crappy music ;)
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So.....are you kidding here again re your illiteracy or in your profile re your profession.....engineering tech???:confused:


Inquiring sharp minds want to know???:D
 
I race to bed every night at 9:00 so I can stick my nose in this for a while before Craig Ferguson comes on. :D





It just hit the news stands. It's supposed to be the "Hot summer read!"

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**LarrySOriginally Posted by Slaytanic
Actually, I was kidding! kinda sad because I don't even know how to read
Sinister? nahh, just a regular dude that loves crappy music

So.....are you kidding here again re your illiteracy or in your profile re your profession.....engineering tech???


Inquiring sharp minds want to know???**
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Hi Larry, Ya i was still jackin' around :p and Yes I do actually work as an Eng.Tech at a Flexible circuit fab shop somewhere in Minnesota....
 
Just finished Peter Maas' "The Terrible Hours" very good I thought and am going to get the new Tom Clancey not sure of name maybe Netscape Cyberworld or something like that as it features an,IMO,esteemed knifemaker who was recently booted from here.I like Tom Clancey.
 
leatherbird said:
,IMO,esteemed knifemaker who was recently booted from here.
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Obviously up to you of course but, if you want a little free and friendly advice, don't go there. Let it drop.
 
I'm struggling with the choices but I've narrowed it down to one of these two....

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RWS said:
I'm struggling with the choices but I've narrowed it down to one of these two....

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OR

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Well, anyone with a brain would obviously choose the second one ....

What sensible person needs to know about up and down quarks and other such nonsense!



:)
 
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