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[Chespirito]

THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot......

[GL1]

Great book called Armageddon by Max Hastings. It is about the assault on Germany in late 1944-45. Very well researched and written. A good read for WWII buffs.

[Blasted-Heath-migration]

Soon I Will Be Invincible

 

The novel is told through two alternating first person narratives of the characters Dr. Impossible and Fatale.

Dr. Impossible is a self-proclaimed supervillain of the mad genius variety, who suffers from Malign Hypercognition Disorder

("evil genius" syndrome). Fatale is a female cyborg who is called up to join the superhero group The Champions

(a Justice League of America/Avengers-style team) in the wake of the disappearance of the superhero CoreFire.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soon_I_Will_Be_Invincible

 

http://sooniwillbeinvincible.com/

 

[mysterio]

Robopocalypse, a novel about a robot uprising written as a memoir similar to World War Z that was recommended on the boards. Good book so far.

[davidpg]

Just finished Anthem, and am pRt way through Atlas Shrugged.

 

On an Ayn Rand kick...truly great stuff. Everyone who isn't a socialist should really read Anthem

[cpannell]

Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O'Connor. Fabulous and famous short stories.

 

Just the classicks ma'am . . .

[Jeffro.]

Just finished Anthem, and am pRt way through Atlas Shrugged.

 

On an Ayn Rand kick...truly great stuff. Everyone who isn't a socialist should really read Anthem

 

Anthem is a great book. (thumbs u

[COMICKINGS]

I never knew how much Led Zeppelin stole from the old blues players.

 

[jimjum12]

I never knew how much Led Zeppelin stole from the old blues players.   

  :cloud9: :cloud9: LED ZEPPELIN......GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

[underthebigw]

Ok, you guys are driving me freakin' crazy with jealousy. I haven't had time to read in almost 10 years (job, business, 3 young kids, etc.). How the heck do you find the time to read, on top of your hobbies, and family life?

[paperheart]

London Boulevard by Ken Bruen

[Baron]

Just finished the Zombie book, Day-by-Day Armageddon.

[delekkerste]

Currently reading:

 

Around the World on $80 - Robert Christopher (a book from the '50s written by an American who traveled around the world post-WWII on the cheap - so far, it's very interesting, though I think the book is long out of print)

 

Finished the above book (a very interesting read on global culture, politics and tourism in the early 1950s) and am now 100 pages deep into Elizabeth Kostova's 2005 vampire novel "The Historian".

[ComicConnoisseur]

Two pretty interesting books about the art market that fascinated me.

 

 

[Stevenrams]

John Steinbeck's Cannery Row! He's one of my favorite writers and more profound than most people give him credit for. I wrote my undergraduate Honors Thesis on his 1930s California fiction. I read his books over and over!

 

SLR

[HouseofComics.Com]

Reading The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow. 1871 NY crime with a touch of science/horror. All very refined, of course.

[Whizzer]

John Steinbeck's Cannery Row! He's one of my favorite writers and more profound than most people give him credit for. I wrote my undergraduate Honors Thesis on his 1930s California fiction. I read his books over and over!

 

SLR

 

We read Mice and Men at school when I was 14 or so, and I loved it. Read all of his books since. One of the few authors that I can read over and over again.

 

I really like his non fiction too. Travels with Charley

[Whizzer]

Ok, you guys are driving me freakin' crazy with jealousy. I haven't had time to read in almost 10 years (job, business, 3 young kids, etc.). How the heck do you find the time to read, on top of your hobbies, and family life?

 

 

On the can

 

[Stevenrams]

John Steinbeck's Cannery Row! He's one of my favorite writers and more profound than most people give him credit for. I wrote my undergraduate Honors Thesis on his 1930s California fiction. I read his books over and over!

 

SLR

 

We read Mice and Men at school when I was 14 or so, and I loved it. Read all of his books since. One of the few authors that I can read over and over again.

 

I really like his non fiction too. Travels with Charley

 

Agreed!! TWC is a great travelogue. One of the best ever written!! For me, there is always a tinge of sadness when I read Steinbeck. My thesis advisor, Dr. Louis Owens, who was an internationally renowned Steinbeck scholar, took his own life back in 2002. I was devestated when I heard about it. He was teaching at UC Davis at the time and had just been invited to be a scholar in residence at Harvard. To this day no one knows why. You can google his name and read more about him. There is always a place in my heart for him.

 

SLR

Edited October 12, 2011 by Stevenrams

[mikenyc]

Ok, you guys are driving me freakin' crazy with jealousy. I haven't had time to read in almost 10 years (job, business, 3 young kids, etc.). How the heck do you find the time to read, on top of your hobbies, and family life?

 

 

On the can

 

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+1....the family man's library.