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[I]The Diamond Cutter[/I] by Geshe Michael Roach. The Buddah on Managing Your Business and Your Life.

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[quote=SmootSmack;557295]Parts of it were a bit slow, but overall yeah it was quite good. Columbine was my first experience with a major news story (from the perspective of being part of the media) and I must say what we thought we knew...we had no idea.[/quote]


Ok thank you I will give it a shot.

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[quote=djnemo65;557305]Read it. Reading Underworld by Don DeLillo now. Don't know if you saw but they have a "debate" between Gladwell and Bill Simmons up on ESPN (although they don't seem to disagree with each other about much).[/quote]

Gladwell was here last week to speak, I'm kind of bummed I missed him. I did get to meet Spike Lee though...that was an experience.

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I just started MEG last night. It is about a jurassic shark, it is a easy read and it will be a movie in 2010. check it out.

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[quote=SmootSmack;556648]Just finished up Columbine by John Cullen

[B]Reading House of Cards (about Bear Stearns now)[/B][/quote]

Is that by David Faber? I saw his House of Cards special on CNBC a few months ago. It was excellent.

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[quote=GMScud;557433]Is that by David Faber? I saw his House of Cards special on CNBC a few months ago. It was excellent.[/quote]

by William Cohan

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Shogun....again.

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[quote=RobH4413;453707]I'm about a quarter of the way through "The Political Brain".

It's kind of interesting... but he is really left leaning. Still... neat read so far.

[I]"The Political Brain[/I] is a ground-breaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation by Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University. Westen shows how politicians can capture the hearts and minds of the electorate through examples of what candidates have said—or could have said—in debates, speeches, and ads.

[I]The Political Brain[/I] shows how a different view of the mind and brain leads to a different way of talking with voters about issues that have tied the tongues of Democrats for much of forty years—such as abortion, guns, taxes, and race. You can’t change the structure of the brain. But you [I]can[/I] change the way you appeal to it."[/quote]

I love how all these deep thinkers bend over backwards to try to explain to the unwashed masses why vacuuming an unborn baby out of a woman's cooch is okay. Maybe the reason Democratic tongues have been tied is that abortion is wrong. I guess if we could just reach their level we would get it.

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[quote=70Chip;558197]I love how all these deep thinkers bend over backwards to try to explain to the unwashed masses why vacuuming an unborn baby out of a woman's cooch is okay. Maybe the reason Democratic tongues have been tied is that abortion is wrong. I guess if we could just reach their level we would get it.[/quote]

Unfortunately, the more the "wrong" thing is done today, the more "right" it becomes----just ask our moral leaders...............in Hollywood

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going non political here, I've read the first 5 Carlos Castaneda books over the last couple months including:

The Teachings of don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with don Juan
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of don Juan
Tales of Power
The Second Ring of Power
The Eagle's Gift

I just started The Eagle's Gift yesterday. I also have a copy of "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" that I was asked to read and try to explain the last chapter.

I've checked out some of Castaneda's Tensegrity stuff, and it seems a little gay to me, but his books are very interesting and entertaining if you get past his aloof attitude in the books, which can be very unnerving.

Anyone else read this stuff?

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Reading a good book right now: A New Earth/Eckhart Tolle

For anyone interested in a semi-practical guide to Zen Buddhism, it's a great read. Apparently it's #2 in a series, with The Power of Now preceeding it. I haven't read that one yet, but it'll probably be next.

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[quote=GhettoDogAllStars;559122]Reading a good book right now: A New Earth/Eckhart Tolle

For anyone interested in a semi-practical guide to Zen Buddhism, it's a great read. Apparently it's #2 in a series, with The Power of Now preceeding it. I haven't read that one yet, but it'll probably be next.[/quote]Zen Buddhism, eh? I'm still trying to figure out what the dog says when he barks.

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Right now I'm reading "The Vick Factor" by Diehard Skinfan.

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Phenomenal article about the future of the books from a career publisher. A little long, but you're a group of readers so I'm sure you have the attention span to handle it.

[url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090608/sifton?rel=emailNation]The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes[/url]

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[quote=djnemo65;559837]Phenomenal article about the future of the books from a career publisher. A little long, but you're a group of readers so I'm sure you have the attention span to handle it.

[url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090608/sifton?rel=emailNation]The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes[/url][/quote]

Good read. As much as I love emerging technologies, such as a Kindle, or Kindle like tools...nothing compares to curling up with a good book in my opinion.

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[quote=SmootSmack;61347]So right now I'm reading this book, recommended to me by our very own NY_Skinsfan, called [I][URL=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Wl5QPeWA6A&isbn=0066211735&itm=1]Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terryfing Circumnavigation of the Globe[/URL][/I]

I'm about 200 pages in and it's great so far. Real-life adventure with a lot of first-person accounts. If you read one book this year about Ferdinand Magellan, make it this one.

So anyway, I thought I'd start this thread to see what other people are reading and maybe get an idea of what I should read next[/quote]

I'm actually re-reading the book that started this thread

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^ SS I finished Columbine, pretty good read it was like 350 pages and seriously he could have done it in 150 maybe 200. At times I felt the dead horse was beaten one two many times.

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[quote=mredskins;559870]^ SS I finished Columbine, pretty good read it was like 350 pages and seriously he could have done it in 150 maybe 200. At times I felt the dead horse was beaten one two many times.[/quote]

I just ordered that Columbine book so I'm disappointed to hear that.

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[quote=mredskins;559870]^ SS I finished Columbine, pretty good read it was like 350 pages and seriously he could have done it in 150 maybe 200. At times I felt the dead horse was beaten one two many times.[/quote]

Yeah, it is a bit long. I didn't realize it was that long though. Truth is, I listened to the book on my ipod while driving to work (I read two books at a time, one I "read" in the car, and the other I actually read at home). So it was like 10 hours worth, but when you drive 2.5 hours a day lengthy books are great.

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[quote=djnemo65;559872]I just ordered that Columbine book so I'm disappointed to hear that.[/quote]


It is not that bad. You will still enjoy it.

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Just finished this book, definitely recommend it

[url=http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/1400052173/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268529433&sr=1-1]Amazon.com: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (9781400052172): Rebecca Skloot: Books[/url]

From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories?

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"Open" by Andre Agassi.

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I am reading Under the Dome by King I started in January I am on page 300 something, really page turn, LOL! Honestly my reading bug comes and goes, sometimes I am knocking books out left and right and then I just stop reading for a bit.

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In the past 2 weeks I've probably actually read about 10 novels.

I can't even begin to name them, a few by Michael Connely, one by Lisa Unger, one by Dan Brown, and several others.

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I just picked up [URL="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0891419063/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0195067142&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0RVAED3CYP0Y4EHHV3NY"]With The Old Breed[/URL] but I haven't started reading it yet. It's memoir of Eugene Sledge and is one of the books that The Pacific on HBO is based on. For those who watched the premier on Sunday, Sledge is the kid in AL who's father wouldn't let him join the USMC because of his heart. From what I've heard this is supposed to be one of the best books written about WWII from a soldier's POV.
I'm in the middle of reading another book now and I want to watch all of The Pacific before I start reading but I am really looking forward to this one.

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I finished reading "Next" by Michael Crichton. He was probably my favorite writer -- his books kept me hooked from beginning to end.

Such a bummer that he passed away.

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I finally started reading The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I used to play the Nintendo game for days on end when I was in high school. Just saw the movie Red Cliff a month or so ago, which depicts the final battle of the book.

If anyone is interested in some easy-reading historical fiction, I recommend Conn Iggulden's Emperor series. He tells the story of Julius Caesar (with some acknowledges embellishment.) He also has a series about Genghis Khan which is pretty good.

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I just picked up "Superman: Red Son" graphic novel. I think that I am the only one on here that admits to reading graphic novels, but anyhow this seems interesting in that it tells the story of Superman for the perspective that what would happen if he landed in the USSR rather than in the USA...

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Just started reading "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible" by Arthur C. Clarke.

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[quote=tryfuhl;674810]In the past 2 weeks I've probably actually read about 10 novels.

I can't even begin to name them, a few by Michael Connely, one by Lisa Unger, one by Dan Brown, and several others.[/quote]

10 books in 2 weeks?? Wow. You on vacation?

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Thomas Paine - Common Sense. its not a book,rather a pamphlet.
its for all americans, for all time.

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[quote=Redskins8588;675002]I just picked up "Superman: Red Son" graphic novel. I think that I am the only one on here that admits to reading graphic novels, but anyhow this seems interesting in that it tells the story of Superman for the perspective that what would happen if he landed in the USSR rather than in the USA...[/quote]

sounds interesting

I've never been a superhero type guy though

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[quote=GMScud;675024]10 books in 2 weeks?? Wow. You on vacation?[/quote]

I'm a quick reader. Takes about an evening to finish a book, been replacing online and TV time with reading.

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[quote=johno;675026]Thomas Paine - Common Sense. its not a book,rather a pamphlet.
its for all americans, for all time.[/quote]
ahh yes a favorite of mine

society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness

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Not a huge reader, but did read The Road recently. I haven't seen the movie but plan to. It's a good book.

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[quote=redsk1;675098]Not a huge reader, but did read The Road recently. I haven't seen the movie but plan to. It's a good book.[/quote]

Great book. I love Cormac...

I recently read Nudge. Pretty freaking cool book. Makes a lot of sense.

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It is summer time so nothing like picking up some "junk food" books to fill up the hot and haze summer afternoons.

I have been reading a lot of Vince Flynn this summer, great author.

Also I read this book 1 of 3 to come, excellent read.

[url=http://www.amazon.com/Strain-Trilogy-Guillermo-Del-Toro/dp/0061558249/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279630652&sr=1-2]Amazon.com: The Strain (The Strain Trilogy) (9780061558245): Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan: Books[/url]

Anybody else have any recommendations for "junk food" books?

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[quote=mredskins;713195]It is summer time so nothing like picking up some "junk food" books to fill up the hot and haze summer afternoons.

I have been reading a lot of Vince Flynn this summer, great author.

Also I read this book 1 of 3 to come, excellent read.

[url=http://www.amazon.com/Strain-Trilogy-Guillermo-Del-Toro/dp/0061558249/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279630652&sr=1-2]Amazon.com: The Strain (The Strain Trilogy) (9780061558245): Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan: Books[/url]

Anybody else have any recommendations for "junk food" books?[/quote]I'm reading "In The Woods" by Tana French. It's okay: a great premise but the book itself isn't quite what I was expecting as far as being a hard boiled detective novel. I'll finish it up later this week and then make up my mind I guess.

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I'm reading "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" by EB Sledge. Started reading it when The Pacific was on but I've gotten away from it. The show kinda wore me out.

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I'm reading a biography of Nelson Mandela...at least I'm trying. There haven't been enough hours in the day for me to read recently