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Posted: Mon Jul 27th, 2009 04:09 pm |
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I'm nervous as a cat right now...too much pent up energy, so I thought I'd start a new thread.
What book(s) are you reading now? What is your favorite book? What book would you recommend?
I'll start.
I'm reading The Source of My Strength by Charles Stanley...Description: For those who grieve, He offers comfort. For those who struggle, He offers rest. For those overcome by pain, He offers hope and healing. To those who carry emotional burdens too large for them bear, Christ offers His strength. In this book, Dr. Charles Stanley talks honestly about his own journey through emotional pain and points readers toward the wellspring of strength. He shares his own experiences with grief and shows readers how to overcome the pain, understand the burdens, confront memories, and discover the courage and strength to live freely in God's love for them. Written from the heart, this book is one of Dr. Stanley's most personal and triumphant books.
My fav book? The Bible (of course)
My recommendation? The Bible (of course) 
Ok, your turn.
Love, Gayle
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Posted: Mon Jul 27th, 2009 04:25 pm |
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Gayle wrote: I'm nervous as a cat right now...too much pent up energy, so I thought I'd start a new thread.
What book(s) are you reading now? What is your favorite book? What book would you recommend?
I'll start.
I'm reading The Source of My Strength by Charles Stanley...Description: For those who grieve, He offers comfort. For those who struggle, He offers rest. For those overcome by pain, He offers hope and healing. To those who carry emotional burdens too large for them bear, Christ offers His strength. In this book, Dr. Charles Stanley talks honestly about his own journey through emotional pain and points readers toward the wellspring of strength. He shares his own experiences with grief and shows readers how to overcome the pain, understand the burdens, confront memories, and discover the courage and strength to live freely in God's love for them. Written from the heart, this book is one of Dr. Stanley's most personal and triumphant books.
My fav book? The Bible (of course)
My recommendation? The Bible (of course)
Ok, your turn.
Love, Gayle
Okay...
I'm reading Can We Live Forever?: A Sociological and Moral Inquiry by Bryan S. Turner. It's a little dry, but surprisingly good. I recently finished Christopher Moore's Blood Sucking Fiends, which was a very amusing, silly piece of vampire fiction.
Naming a "favorite book" is almost impossible. I re-read Ender's Game a few weeks ago, and that book just never fails to blow my mind. Also a great book is Rand's The Fountainhead, even if I disagree with its underlying message.
My recommendation... huh. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stevenson. That could also go in my "favorite book" category. It's a piece of historical fiction about the importance of cryptographers during World War 2. Required reading for anyone who wants to call themselves a nerd. Which is no one. But it's still great.
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Gayle
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Posted: Mon Jul 27th, 2009 04:42 pm |
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AyHyperbole wrote: Gayle wrote: I'm nervous as a cat right now...too much pent up energy, so I thought I'd start a new thread.
What book(s) are you reading now? What is your favorite book? What book would you recommend?
I'll start.
I'm reading The Source of My Strength by Charles Stanley...Description: For those who grieve, He offers comfort. For those who struggle, He offers rest. For those overcome by pain, He offers hope and healing. To those who carry emotional burdens too large for them bear, Christ offers His strength. In this book, Dr. Charles Stanley talks honestly about his own journey through emotional pain and points readers toward the wellspring of strength. He shares his own experiences with grief and shows readers how to overcome the pain, understand the burdens, confront memories, and discover the courage and strength to live freely in God's love for them. Written from the heart, this book is one of Dr. Stanley's most personal and triumphant books.
My fav book? The Bible (of course)
My recommendation? The Bible (of course)
Ok, your turn.
Love, Gayle
Okay...
I'm reading Can We Live Forever?: A Sociological and Moral Inquiry by Bryan S. Turner. It's a little dry, but surprisingly good. I recently finished Christopher Moore's Blood Sucking Fiends, which was a very amusing, silly piece of vampire fiction.
Naming a "favorite book" is almost impossible. I re-read Ender's Game a few weeks ago, and that book just never fails to blow my mind. Also a great book is Rand's The Fountainhead, even if I disagree with its underlying message.
My recommendation... huh. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stevenson. That could also go in my "favorite book" category. It's a piece of historical fiction about the importance of cryptographers during World War 2. Required reading for anyone who wants to call themselves a nerd. Which is no one. But it's still great.
Thanks for your list! You sound VERY smart just by what you read!! That Cryptonomicon sounds like a book that my hubby would LOVE. He is a huge nerd, loves reading books on WWI and WWII all the time...among other nerdy books. LOL. I think I'll order that on Amazon for him today. Thanks!
Love, Gayle
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
do not depend on your own understanding.
Seek his will in all you do,
and he will show you which path to take.
Prov 3:5-6 NLT
I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm 119:11
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 02:27 am |
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Marion Zimmer Bradley's A Flame in Hali.
In the past week I've read about 2500 pages of her Darkover novels.
I have way too much free time on my hands.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 02:50 am |
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I'm currently reading the Harry Potter series again (what with the new movie and all, I needed to catch up!  )
My last read was World War Z, which freaked the crap out of me, to be honest...
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 03:20 am |
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I'm eagerly awaiting the last book in the Codex Alera series. The first is Furies of Calderon for those interested in starting up. It's Jim Butcher who also does the Harry Dresden series.
I always enjoy rereading some of Terry Pratchett's discworld series.
I recently reread Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenkov. It's about Others (people with magic powers) on the side of Good or Evil who have a treaty keeping each other from using their magic to upset the balance of good and evil in humanity. Humanity has to choose for themselves.
I used to like Laurel K Hamilton, until her books all devolved into bad porn. And, I don't mean it's blatant porn. I mean the porn is so poorly written it could make me lose a hardon while recieving oral sex.
I recently read NorseCODE, which is a nice litte book based on the Norse gods preparing for Ragnarok in part by using genetic screening to search for Odin's decendants in order to find them and kill them in the hopes that they die propperly so as to go to Valhalla.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 04:02 am |
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Gayle wrote: I'm nervous as a cat right now...too much pent up energy, so I thought I'd start a new thread.
What book(s) are you reading now? What is your favorite book? What book would you recommend?
I recommend The Original Roadkill Cookbook,
....a good companion to The Original Roadkill Haberdashery.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 04:12 am |
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Son of Hiram wrote:
Gayle wrote: I'm nervous as a cat right now...too much pent up energy, so I thought I'd start a new thread.
What book(s) are you reading now? What is your favorite book? What book would you recommend?
I recommend The Original Roadkill Cookbook,
....a good companion to The Original Roadkill Haberdashery.
There's a restaurant near my house called the Texas Roadhouse. One of it's entrie on the menue is called road kill. It's a hamburger steak.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 04:22 am |
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It's Jim Butcher who also does the Harry Dresden series.
Cool...I'll have to look those up. I really enjoyed about the first three or four HD novels. I found the last few a bit repetitive, but I'd love reading a new "world" of his; I love Butcher's writing style.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 04:23 am |
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Aldaron wrote: It's Jim Butcher who also does the Harry Dresden series.
Cool...I'll have to look those up. I really enjoyed about the first three or four HD novels. I found the last few a bit repetitive, but I'd love reading a new "world" of his; I love Butcher's writing style.
Everybody I know who I've managed to get to give the first book a try has really gotten into it. I've got a few friends who twitching along with me waiting to slap our skin, expose a vein, and inject First Lord's Fury.
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Arthur Two Sheds Gumby
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 05:13 am |
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Currently, I'm reading The Spider: Robot Titans of Gotham, a reprinting of a couple of classic pulp novels from the 1930s.
BTW, as to the other books mentioned here:
I have a copy of Cryptonomicon and I've read several Neal Stephenson's books, they're great. Especially Snow Crash and the Diamond Age. This one looks a bit dense, though, which is probably why I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but I will.
I've read the first Dresden Files novel, and have more, as soon as I get around to them. I also love the Discworld books..I haven't read them all, but I do have them all, and read one as often as possible.
Oh and WB: I recently picked up Norse Code, but haven't read it yet. It does look good!
-- A2SG, you really should see my to be read pile sometime.....
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 05:43 am |
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Arthur Two Sheds Gumby wrote: I have a copy of Cryptonomicon and I've read several Neal Stephenson's books, they're great. Especially Snow Crash and the Diamond Age. This one looks a bit dense, though, which is probably why I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but I will.
READ IT. Cryptonomicon is much better than Snow Crash, which, though fun, was a little bit silly. It's really suprisingly fast and enjoyable reading, too.
Now Anathem, on the other hand... I got about 30 pages into it until I thought, "Okay, reading this is a project. Reading this book is probably as hard as writing a book."
I haven't read The Diamond Age. Should I?
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 05:51 am |
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AyHyperbole wrote: Arthur Two Sheds Gumby wrote: I have a copy of Cryptonomicon and I've read several Neal Stephenson's books, they're great. Especially Snow Crash and the Diamond Age. This one looks a bit dense, though, which is probably why I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but I will.
READ IT. Cryptonomicon is much better than Snow Crash, which, though fun, was a little bit silly. It's really suprisingly fast and enjoyable reading, too.
Now Anathem, on the other hand... I got about 30 pages into it until I thought, "Okay, reading this is a project. Reading this book is probably as hard as writing a book."
I haven't read The Diamond Age. Should I?
I liked it. It almost seems steampunkish, but it's actually considered post-cyberpunk, using a pseudo-victorian society in the future.
-- A2SG, will pull Cryptonomicon up from the depths of the to be read pile, though....
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 06:56 am |
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Posted: Tue Jul 28th, 2009 01:18 pm |
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I'm on the third book of a trilogy called The Age of the Five by Trudi Canavan. It's pretty decent fantasy, but not in my top 10 by any means.
I recently read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and that was VERY good. I'm with WingedBeast and waiting on the next book in the Codex Alera series to come out; I've enjoyed everything else in that series so far. I'm also very eagerly anticipating Robin Hobb's new book that's due to come out at the end of the month, but in order to read that one you need to read the other three trilogies that take place in that world-- the Assassin trilogy, the Liveship traders, and the third trilogy whose name escapes me right now. They are really good books.
Outside of the fantasy genre, I like Bernard Cornwell for historical fiction (he has a few thrillers that are good, too). Khaled Housseini's two books, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns were excellent. My favorite author is Chaim Potok, though. You can't go wrong with anything he's written.
So many good books, so little time.
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Posted: Thu Jul 30th, 2009 12:58 am |
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AyHyperbole wrote: Arthur Two Sheds Gumby wrote: I have a copy of Cryptonomicon and I've read several Neal Stephenson's books, they're great. Especially Snow Crash and the Diamond Age. This one looks a bit dense, though, which is probably why I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but I will.
READ IT. Cryptonomicon is much better than Snow Crash, which, though fun, was a little bit silly. It's really suprisingly fast and enjoyable reading, too.
Now Anathem, on the other hand... I got about 30 pages into it until I thought, "Okay, reading this is a project. Reading this book is probably as hard as writing a book."
I haven't read The Diamond Age. Should I?
The Diamond age is probably the most relistic Sci-fi book writen about Nano technology, but it is also anti-Singularity.
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Posted: Sat Aug 8th, 2009 09:31 am |
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I'm reading The Shining... Scary!
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