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The_whingnut
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fred69vert
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Location: Home of the US Navy Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, VA
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Right now I'm up to the Pierce and Buchanan administrations leading up to the War of Northern Aggression (what Yankees call the Civil War).
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Gary
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ScottK
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Location: Avilla America
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Right now I'm up to the Pierce and Buchanan administrations leading up to the War of Northern Aggression (what Yankees call the Civil War). |
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blankmange
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Location: Bloßer Stahl-preapocalyptic MidCoast
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Clive Barker's "Books of Blood" -- awesome horror....
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notchback
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Joined: December 16, 2003
Posts: 7024
Location: Behind the Zion Curtain
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My reading list for 2010. 68 books, 26,848 pages. Alphabetical by author's first name. Orson Scott Card was my author of choice for the year. Quite a bit of fiction this year. 
A Thousand Suns -- Alex Scarrow
Skinny Dip -- Carl Hiassen
The English Assassin -- Daniel Silva
The Marching Season -- Daniel Silva
The Unlikely Spy -- Daniel Silva
The Defector -- Daniel Silva
The Killing Zone -- Fredrick Downs
The Passing Of The Night -- General Robbie Risner
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission -- Hampton Sides
Abraham In Egypt -- Hugh Nibley
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J.K. Rowling
The Clan of the Cave Bear -- Jean Auel
The Valley Of The Horses -- Jean Auel
The Mammoth Hunters -- Jean Auel
The Plains Of Passage -- Jean Auel
The Shelters Of Stone -- Jean Auel
More Adventures of the Great Brain -- John D. Fitzgerald
The Great Brain Reforms -- John D. Fitzgerald
Rumpole's Return -- John Mortimer
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation -- Joseph J. Ellis
The Iron Men -- Leonard B. Scott
The DaVinci Legacy -- Lewis Perdue
The Haunted Mesa -- Louis L'Amour
Guns Of The Timberlands -- Louis L'Amour
Bendigo Shafter -- Louis L'Amour
Warrior In The Shadows -- Marcus Wynne
Nam -- Mark Barker
The First Patient -- Michael Palmer
The Second Opinion -- Michael Palmer
Saints -- Orson Scott Card
Shadow Of The Hegemon -- Orson Scott Card
Shadow Puppets -- Orson Scott Card
Shadow Of The Giant -- Orson Scott Card
Seventh Son -- Orson Scott Card
Treasure Box -- Orson Scott Card
Wyrms -- Orson Scott Card
The Memory Of Earth -- Orson Scott Card
The Call Of Earth -- Orson Scott Card
The Ships of Earth -- Orson Scott Card
Earthfall -- Orson Scott Card
Homebody -- Orson Scott Card
Red Prophet -- Orson Scott Card
Prentice Alvin -- Orson Scott Card
Alvin Journeyman -- Orson Scott Card
Heartfire -- Orson Scott Card
The Crystal City -- Orson Scott Card
Earthborn -- Orson Scott Card
Hart's Hope -- Orson Scott Card
Invasive Procedures -- Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
The Good Samaritan Strikes Again -- Patrick F. McManus
How I Got This Way -- Patrick F. McManus
Killer Weekend -- Ridley Pearson
No Witnesses -- Ridley Pearson
The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall -- Ridley Pearson
1,000 Dollars & An Idea -- Sam Wyly
Basher Five-Two -- Scott O'Grady
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 -- Stephen E. Ambrose
The Lieutenants -- W.E.B. Griffin
The Captains -- W.E.B. Griffin
The Majors -- W.E.B. Griffin
The Colonels -- W.E.B. Griffin
The Berets -- W.E.B. Griffin
The Generals -- W.E.B. Griffin
The New Breed -- W.E.B. Griffin
The Aviators -- W.E.B. Griffin
Special Ops -- W.E.B. Griffin
Sapphira and the Slave Girl -- Willa Cather
The Book of Mormon
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norcalmike
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^^^ you need to get out more  |
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kakarottt
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Location: Hazard county, Maryland
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Goal for the new year:
"The Complete Idiot's Guide To Starting Your Own Business" |
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lemke
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Location: Seattle
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I received a brand new book written by one of my favorite authors; the Autobiography of Mark Twain.
Samuel Clemens stipulated that his autobiography not be released until a century after his death. So this is previously unreleased - or NOS Twain. Pretty cool.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bo...80695.html |
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far rider 
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Location: Rutland, VT
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Just finished 'Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand who also wrote "Seabiscut".
Unbroken is the true story of Louis Zamperini's wild youth, Olympic greatness and WWII captivity. One tough MFer. Great read.
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lowbay
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Best thing I've read in a long time
Next on the list!
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69 Jim
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| ^^^ you need to get out more |
Damn, that's a no shitter! |
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Tram
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Location: Still Feelin' the Bern- Once you've felt it you can't un- feel it.
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Best thing I've read in a long time
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Hitchens is a pompous jerk.
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Tram
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Location: Still Feelin' the Bern- Once you've felt it you can't un- feel it.
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Just wrapping up "Modigliani: A Life" by Jeffrey Meyers. Very, very interesting. Am also in the middle of "The Wilson Years" by Josephus Daniels, a first edition hardback signed in fountain pen by the author that I found at our local library book sale last April. Hard to believe it's getting on 100 years since Woodrow Wilson and WW1!
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abgwin
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| lowbay wrote: |
Best thing I've read in a long time
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Hitchens is a pompous jerk. |
While that's true, doesn't make him inaccurate. I get lots of good advice from pompous jerks.
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Bart Dunn
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| far rider wrote: |
Just finished 'Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand who also wrote "Seabiscut".
Unbroken is the true story of Louis Zamperini's wild youth, Olympic greatness and WWII captivity. One tough MFer. Great read. |
I read that over the holidays. x2. There pretty much aren't tough guys like that anymore.
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Tram
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Location: Still Feelin' the Bern- Once you've felt it you can't un- feel it.
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| abgwin wrote: |
| Tram wrote: |
| lowbay wrote: |
Best thing I've read in a long time
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Hitchens is a pompous jerk. |
While that's true, doesn't make him inaccurate. I get lots of good advice from pompous jerks. |
It's his 'promoting tolerance through intolerance' approach that lost me.
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fred69vert
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Just finished it. Lots of cloak and dagger with our OSS and the Russians.
Started on:
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thext94
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| The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand |
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mslibertarian
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I'm in the middle of The Fountainhead too. So far Atlas Shrugged was the better book.
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