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    How To Be A Gentleman. I got it at Jos. A Bank. Apperantly, I'm not a Gentleman. The whole thing about not 'using my horn indiscriminately' sort of DQ's me from it, though it could be argued that i use it to 'avert disaster'
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    Recently finished up...

    The Lonesome Dove series of books
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
    Understanding Exposure
    The Digital Photography Book Vol.1 and 2

    Now up, Hard Landing.

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    currently i am reading the electric koolaid acid test and also The Hunter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jminnich500 View Post
    currently i am reading the electric koolaid acid test and also The Hunter
    ah, good ole Ken Kessey and the Merry Pranksters. Awesome read.
    Mama said a lot of things and be thankful was the one she never minded saying twice

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    Quote Originally Posted by slcraiders View Post
    ah, good ole Ken Kessey and the Merry Pranksters. Awesome read.
    its my 2nd time reading it, it was kind of disturbing the first time i read it though.almost as bad as born on the fourth of july...two very good books though

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    Goldfinger
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    On vacation sitting next to the pool I read:

    Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
    The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
    Books of Blood by Clive Barker
    did some crossword puzzles too.

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    Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart pretty good book so far. It was written by Neil Peart, the drummer from Rush. It's about the transcontinental motorcycle ride he took after his wife and daughter died.

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    Just finished Kite Runner, now reading The Templars

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eville View Post
    Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart pretty good book so far. It was written by Neil Peart, the drummer from Rush. It's about the transcontinental motorcycle ride he took after his wife and daughter died.
    Amazing book. Really cool too because I drive some of the roads he talks about in Saskatchewan and Northern Alberta.

    Not a bad drummer either.
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    just finished Straight from the gut, by Jack Welch. Recommended by my father. Good book, I learned lots until the end when you find out what his retirement package was when he left GE. What a criminal!
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    Of Human Bondage ~ W Somerset Maugham

    Reading it outloud helps me follow it better, and seems to sooth the savage beast, that is my 1 year old daughter.

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    I am just about finished with The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. I realize this book is dated (in terms of Internet and globalization) but he sounds oddly and childishly fascinated with rather mundane tasks such as e-mail and where all the different parts of his laptop comes from. I just think he had his mind made up about several issues before he researched them, and spends the rest of the time of the book trying to convince himself that he's right. I'm on the last chapter, and it's worth finishing just because it's a long book.

    I'm also reading This Incomplete One: Words Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person, editied by Michael D. Bush. This is a collection of eulogies and sermons given in light of death's of young people. A very close friend of mine passed away just before Christmas, and a family friend gave me this book.

    Up Next: The Second World by Parag Khanna and I've been meaning to reread Shakespeare's Hamlet.


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    After I finished Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk my wife handed me Duma Key while she works on You Suck by Christopher Moore.

    I really enjoy Moore's stuff, but it's more light and funny then Chuck's stuff.
    Just a stay at home dad (retired until I choose otherwise, thanks Canadian Army medical pension) hanging out and enjoying the good life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Corvin View Post
    After I finished Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
    What did you think of Fight Club? I like the story, but the book didn't read very well (to me). I think he writes like a 5th grader.


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    Quote Originally Posted by mrtr33 View Post
    What did you think of Fight Club? I like the story, but the book didn't read very well (to me). I think he writes like a 5th grader.
    It was a good read, nothing spectacular, but a good read. It is an easy writing style, but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say he writes like a 5th grader. He has gotten to be a better writer though, Fight Club was his first.
    Just a stay at home dad (retired until I choose otherwise, thanks Canadian Army medical pension) hanging out and enjoying the good life.

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    Matter by I.M.Banks, SF as usual. For the above I have enjoyed C Palahniuk in the past and think that his disjointed style fits his subject matter.
    I thought it was a tampon joke!

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    New Testament. Just finished Matthew and about to move on to Mark. I have never actually sat down and read a gospel from start to finish. When I can block out all the chaos and house noise- Powerful stuff!
    Mama said a lot of things and be thankful was the one she never minded saying twice

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    just finished" Midnight Express " by Billy Hayes pretty Heavy stuff but a lot different then the movie

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    I've been trying to find an old copy of The Art of War around here to read, but it seems like any bookstore I go to is either out, doesn't carry it, or in a few cases have never even heard of it. I'll have to check a couple of stores back home this weekend.

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