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The Friday Question - Reading

Started by Mike Olbinski · 10 months ago

Reading is one of my favorite things to do. If I can find a book that sucks me in, I like nothing better than to curl up on the couch, sit outside, or read in my bed until the wee hours of the morning.

And lately I've expanded from not just "books" but to also graphic novels a ... Continue reading »

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  • Jason

    1 year ago

    I just finished reading Angels & Demons and am currently reading Building Harlequin's Moon<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=jasonaclarkco-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;"> by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper.

    I wasn't crazy about Angels & Demons. Building Harlequin's Moon started off slow, but is starting to get pretty good. I almost always like Larry Niven's stuff.</img>
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    I think I read Angels & Demons, but can't remember...I know I grabbed a few of Dan Brown's stuff, like Digital Fortress and 1 or 2 others.

    What's Moon about?
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  • Jason

    1 year ago

    It's a tale of a 60,000-year layover in space, in which physical challenges of world building are matched by social challenges of collaboration among disparate groups. After arriving in an inhospitable solar system, the Earth Born, colonists on an interstellar journey, need to refuel their ship, John Glenn, with antimatter. Since they lack laborers, the Earth Born construct a moon where they can build a particle collider and raise a work force, the Moon Born. Destined to be abandoned, the Moon Born struggle to gain as much knowledge and technology as they can before the Earth Born depart. Some of the technology includes artificial intelligences, whose unrestricted use caused the Earth Born to flee Earth in the first place.
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  • jina

    1 year ago

    I'm reading the Friday Night Knitting Club. Okay... you can start the jokes... now...
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Last weekend I read Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng. Good autobiography about a woman (Cheng) who grew up in Shanghai during Mao Zedong's communist rule. She spent six and a half years in prison, falsely accused of being an "imperialist spy." Really good story, about 535 pages long, blew through it in a day and a half. :)

    Currently I'm reading Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton. So far, so good, but definitely a much more difficult read than an autobiography.

    The Trousered Apes last blog post..Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Parts 5 thru 10 of 10 with Dr. Craig
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    Wow Jason, that sounds nerdy...and kind of cool.

    Jina...your book is so completely opposite of Jason's, I don't know where to begin.
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    That's "white and nerdy" to you mister!

    The Trousered Apes last blog post..Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Parts 5 thru 10 of 10 with Dr. Craig
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  • Richard

    1 year ago

    Wow. I've really been slacking off. I don't think I even realized it until I tried to answer this question...

    The last graphic novel was "WWH - Incredible Herc" which I grabbed last week. I've been wanting to pick up the Fred Van Lente run of "Incredible Hercules" - I'm a big fan of Lente from his "Action Philosophers" series - and figured I should start with this book which is the handoff from Pak. Really good, but, you know, just a lot of Hulk Smash! That's not a *book*.

    About a month ago I read the first act of "Waiting for Godot" and then got distracted by something shiny...

    And quite a while before that a P.G. Wodehouse, I think it was "Carry on, Jeeves".

    I really haven't been reading much at all. :(

    Richards last blog post..FSW: Bob's Knob Shop
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  • Cap'n Schwartz

    1 year ago

    @Mike Maybe Jina's graphic novel is about Nancy who is the master of needlepoint and throws out deadly knitting needlesin mid air leaps with such speed and accuracy it could penetrate a force field... or maybe thats the novel i want to be reading...

    Jasons sounds interesting as well...

    Ape you read way to fast bro... I need to hire you out to read some of my work documents so you can give me highlights of what it says =)

    Richard...coolsies!! If you read through World War Hulk, you might have missed some side sotries that get integrated in other issues. Did you read the preface to WWH , Planet Hulk? thats actually the last graphic novel I've read, gives some great detail and lead up to World War Hulk...
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  • Jason

    1 year ago

    I normally read two or three books at a time, but a little something called Pop Critics has me kind of tied up. I've been trying to read one at a time lately.
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    I just ordered a big shipment from Amazon with my $50 HD-DVD credit...the next 3 books in Y: The Last Man, Batman: Year One and Kingdom Come.

    Looking forward to them!
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  • Kory

    1 year ago

    Just finished The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx. Book was truly insane as it tracks his extreme cocaine/heroin addiction from Dec '86 through Dec '87. Amazingly enough he kept diaries during this time and used dialog from himself, band members and friends to fill in the gaps and tie the story together.
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  • Kory

    1 year ago

    However, I am pretty sure The Heroin Diaries is not as enticing as the Friday Night Knitting Club!
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  • Richard

    1 year ago

    @Cap'n, I didn't read "Planet Hulk". I'm kind of lukewarm on the Hulk in general, but I've heard nothing but great things about the Incredible Hercules run and wanted to try that out.

    Though the hints about WWH I got out of this book make it sound pretty awesome. I might go back and catch up.

    Richards last blog post..FSW: Bob's Knob Shop
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Bad Mike - isn't that $50 supposed to be used on Blu? Your assimilation to the other side is not progressing as quickly as we would like. Looks like we will need to engage in another round of shock therapy...

    The Trousered Apes last blog post..Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Parts 5 thru 10 of 10 with Dr. Craig
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  • jina

    1 year ago

    Cap'n - that's totally what the book is about. You've read it too, haven't you?
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    @ Ape- I think I'm blue about Blu
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  • Jason

    1 year ago

    I never knew there was a book called The Friday Night Knitting Club. I'll have to bring it up tonight...in my knitting club.
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  • Princess Ana

    1 year ago

    Jason wrote: I normally read two or three books at a time, but a little something called Pop Critics has me kind of tied up. I’ve been trying to read one at a time lately.

    Ana writes:Plus there's a thing called FATHERHOOD! :)

    I'm currently reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yeah, it's an old one but I've been wanting to read it for a while...and it's taking me a while too. I like to be able to spend time in the book, but I get distracted by the one year old ruling our house. :)
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  • jina

    1 year ago

    Jason, I'll send you some yarn.
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  • Princess Ana

    1 year ago

    Whoo hoo! He'll be so excited! :)
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  • Scotty Dub

    1 year ago

    I just finished Simple Genius by David Baldacci, whose work I really like. Over vacation I'll be starting Invisible Prey, the latest Prey novel by John Sandford. I also have the 'I am legend' short story to work on a couple of others...it's good to have options. Sorry no graphic novels or knitting books at the moment, but you never know.

    Scotty Dubs last blog post..Casual Dress Friday: My Summer Vacation
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  • Richard

    1 year ago

    I'm thinking of picking up "Tale of the Stitch" by Nitwan Purltoo.

    Richards last blog post..FSW: Bob's Knob Shop
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Poor Mike - blue about Blu...That's ok, I'm helping you to be more blu - check your gmail account.

    The Trousered Apes last blog post..Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Parts 5 thru 10 of 10 with Dr. Craig
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    @ Richard - classic!

    The Trousered Apes last blog post..Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Parts 5 thru 10 of 10 with Dr. Craig
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  • Nicky

    1 year ago

    @ Kory- Nikki Sixx, as in the hair band Poison? haha.
    @ Ana- I read that last year, I loved it!
    I'm currently reading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Very classic and very long. But I love old books so I'm in my element.

    Nickys last blog post..Update from my bed.
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  • Kory

    1 year ago

    @ Nicky - Not quite. The hair band as in Motley Crue!
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  • Nicky

    1 year ago

    oh yeah! i always get those two messed up. bret and vince looked similar to me as a 5th grader.

    Nickys last blog post..Update from my bed.
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    Nicky! Tolstoy??? Wow...that's a big task :)
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Oh - I missed that. I haven't read any Tolstoy yet, and I've got a few Dostoyevsky books sitting on the shelf that I have been dieing to start, just haven't had the time.

    If you like old, classics, have you ever read Victor Hugo's Les Misérables? That is an awesome story!

    The Trousered Apes last blog post..Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Parts 5 thru 10 of 10 with Dr. Craig
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  • Nicky

    1 year ago

    Les Mis is one of my favorite books ever! I even braved the unabridged version, it's longer than the bible!

    Nickys last blog post..Update from my bed.
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Yeah - that's the only version I've read (twice...). I've read the Bible several times through. Les Mis is a much more arduous task.

    The Trousered Apes last blog post..Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Parts 5 thru 10 of 10 with Dr. Craig
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  • D.L. White

    1 year ago

    Last book I read was "20th Century Ghosts" by Joe Hill - a collection of horror short stories. They were awesome. He is a horror author, but also writes a comic called "Locke & Key" with artist Gabriel Rodriguez, that I have yet to read. But it's on my list, along with his first novel "Heart-Shaped Box".
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  • R.A. Porter

    1 year ago

    @D.L., Joe Hill's dad dabbles in writing a little as well. He's not very prolific, though.
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  • D.L. White

    1 year ago

    Ha ha. Very funny. His dad is the "King" of horror. I've got his stuff memorized...
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    @ Porter - "not very prolific" - rotfl

    We know who he is, but that is still a pretty funny comment.
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