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03 Jun 2013, 10:01 am

I'm reading 'Henry's Demons' by Patrick and Henry Cockburn, it's a father and son memoir of Schizophrenia.

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04 Jun 2013, 9:53 am

I saw the movie a few years ago and was fascinated by its strangeness. My own copy at least!

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04 Jun 2013, 5:15 pm

Rereading A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn.

How could a book with a title so wrong, be so right? :lol:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767 ... ted_States

Quote:

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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04 Jun 2013, 10:49 pm

Bill Cosby did a new book, called something like "Why Was I Born" and I perused through it this morning. Truly did not think much of it.

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13 Jun 2013, 3:04 pm

Ender's Game. Great so far

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13 Jun 2013, 5:57 pm

I liked Ender's Game as well!

I currently am reading "The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simison and think it is incredibly funny.

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14 Jun 2013, 1:47 pm

Predictably Irrational
-Dan Ariely

This one is helping me to understand an awful lot of confusing things about humanity.

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14 Jun 2013, 5:17 pm

Three Sheets To The Wind: One Man's Quest for the Meaning of Beer - Pete Brown

Funny, interesting beer culture/travelogue 'quest' by one of my favourite beer writers. :drunken:

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14 Jun 2013, 10:45 pm

Speaker for the dead, just finished it (dem long bus trips lol) and I am almost finished with grounding of metaphysics of morals too.

Yes managertina, those books were great

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15 Jun 2013, 6:08 pm

The Ultimate Athlete by George Leonard.

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15 Jun 2013, 6:23 pm

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16 Jun 2013, 2:01 pm

Xenocide

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17 Jun 2013, 11:05 am

Reading the July/August 2013 Analog Science Fiction and Fact

I honestly think I like reading short stories better than slogging through novels.

Also trying to get through A Feast for Crows. I think there was a reason I stopped reading it a while back.

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21 Jun 2013, 10:04 pm

Someone loaned me a book by James Patterson. It's ridiculous plot by numbers drivel, but I'll finish it pretty quick. Stephen King for tonight.

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21 Jun 2013, 10:24 pm

Winter In The Blood, by James Welch
Winter In The Blood
It was recently made into a movie, but I haven't seen it yet.
Winter In The Blood movie trailer

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21 Jun 2013, 11:09 pm

Party of the People: A History of the Democrats.

The companion book that I read regarding the history of the Republicans was better than this, but both books are very... biased. For instance. Eisenhower, who most people consider a moderate Republican, is thought to be extreme in the Republican version. Nothing too bad in this book so far, except the fact it does not start in 1832, when the Democratic party came into existence.

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