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BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending?
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 2008-05-02 9:12 AM |
Extreme Veteran  395   Cincinnati |  Subject: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending?I'm about halfway through "The Terror" by Dan Simmons, and it is awesome. Historical fiction based on an actual Arctic expidition.... plus a mysterious beast that stalks the ships while they're frozen in for two winters. It is brutal -- spoiled food, endless nights, -65 degree temps, terrifying attacks. Simmons is very vivid in describing the conditions aboard the ships and on the ice. My timbers have been shivered. (I haven't finished it yet, so no spoilers if you've read it!) What are you recommending these days? |
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Expert 640 Montreal | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? " Concrete Construction and Blast effects" Hard to get interested in the reading, The story is just not developing fast enough for me. |
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Arch-Bishop of BT 10278 Pittsburgh | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? I'm reading The Butlerian Jihad by Herbert and Anderson... for those who enjoyed the Dune saga, this book by frank herbert's son from Frank's notes, is a look back at the beginnings of the Empire... nice story. well written. Brian Herbert is not his father, but tells a good story... I am also listening to The Aeneid, translated by Fagles... it is a GREAT story to listen to. And Simon Callow, the reader, is quite good. I almost picked up The Odyssey, also translated by Fagles, and read by Ian McKellan. And I do think these epics should be heard, not read... -Brian |
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Master 1292 Houston | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? This was a quick read but very entertaining: the Reluctant Tuscan, Phil Doran. He wrote and produced The Wonder Years and Who's the Boss? |
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| Champion 10668 Tacoma, Washington | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? I just started the second part of "His Dark Materials" (the first part is "The Golden Compass"  . Interesting stuff. Not exactly what I'd call a children's story... |
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| Veteran 172 Mansfield, TX | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? I've been devouring Vince Flynn's books lately. His stories about dealing with terrorism post 9/11 are the wet dreams of many of us conservative no-nonsense gun carrying Texans |
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| Champion 5345 Carlsbad, California | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? I just started a book that was recommended to me by a good friend. It's called "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson. "the first time you share tea, you are a stranger; the second time, you are an honored guest; and the third time, you become family." The book is about a mountain climber who wanders homeless through Pakistan after a failed attempt to climb K2. |
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Melon Presser 52116 | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? WaterDog66 - 2008-05-02 11:40 AM I just started a book that was recommended to me by a good friend. It's called "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson. "the first time you share tea, you are a stranger; the second time, you are an honored guest; and the third time, you become family." The book is about a mountain climber who wanders homeless through Pakistan after a failed attempt to climb K2. You and I are totally on the same wavelength ... I'm reading it for inspiration because he subsequently did something I really want to do ... |
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| Los Angeles, CA | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? I just finished Blood Meridien or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy. There is no denying McCarthy's wordcraft is spectacular, and his descriptions of the terrain are magnificent. This book is not for everyone, though, it's based on real events and describes the harrowing travels and trevails of a rag-tag army of scalphunters along the Texas/Mexico border in 1850. McCarthy achieves the goal of de-romanticizing the western expansion of the US, it was a brutal time in a brutal place and the west was won by a huge amount of bloodshed and the genocide of the indigenous population. My problem with the book ultimately was that McCarthy describes violent acts in vivid detail, but pays no mind to sensuality and emotion, and he writes about women as if they aren't people. It could have been a great book, but was only good.I wrote a longer review on Amazon. I've just begun reading The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, his take on what might have happened if Charles Lindbergh had been elected president in 1940. |
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| Member 212 Mt Pleasant, SC | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? I had to put down Blood Meridien a few times when I read it because the imagery was so intense. Now reading The Flower Wars by Tad Williams, but my roommate just bought the new Harlen Coben book and its just staring at me, saying read me, read me. |
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| Expert 2189 Dodge County, MN (out in the corn) | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? I recently read (and now am reading with my 11th graders) a book called While the Locust Slept by Peter Razor. It's his memoir focusing on his teen years in an Indian boarding school here in MN. Kind of shocking, but a very good read. I read Mortenson's book this winter and did some excerpts with my students. He came to do a presentation at my school and it was pretty inspirational. |
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| Master 1655 NJ | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? Just finished The Price of Privilege - great read on why giving our children everything they want and buying them out of any trouble they get into is doing them the biggest disservice ever. |
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| Champion 4902 Ottawa, Ontario | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? Just finished reading "The High Window" by Raymond Chandler and before that "St Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman" by Walter M. Miller Jr. ... Oh crap! Now I have to get a new book ... I'm all out! Maybe I should look for something by Dashiell Hammett for my next read. |
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| Master 2278 State of Confusion | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? I'm reading Holes by Louis Sachar with my son who is doing a book report on it. I'm also reading a book about central auditory processing disorder called When the Brain Can't Hear by Teri James Bellis, and at night when everyone is in bed I am reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, for pure escape.  |
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| Master 2278 State of Confusion | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? kristinc0916 - 2008-05-02 12:15 PM Just finished The Price of Privilege - great read on why giving our children everything they want and buying them out of any trouble they get into is doing them the biggest disservice ever. AMEN! |
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| Master 1967 | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? Just finished Kitchen Confidential by Tony Bourdain. Very entertaining read if you ever worked in the restaurant industry or just really appreciate cynics. Currently re-reading some Hunter Thompson I haven't picked up in a loooong time. As awesome as I remember it. At the same time I'm reading the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Ramen. |
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| Veteran 214 ohio | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? lvthgme - 2008-05-02 10:27 AM I'm three books into the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Meh. The first book was slow but the next two were okay. >I did all of them it gets really good, then a little weird (you will know when you get there) but overall I liked it a lot. |
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| Elite 2733 Venture Industries, | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? "To End All Wars" by Ernest Gordon. About his time in the japanese POW camps as a forced laborer. Very cool. |
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| Veteran 214 ohio | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? Spokes - 2008-05-02 12:45 PM "Invisible Prey" by John Sandford. I've read the entire Prey series of books. Lucas Davenport rawks! I have read 3-4 of the prey, i did like them, Lucas Davenport is a kick @ss guy. I liked the two with the profesional stripper/killer from St. Louis |
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| Champion 8903 | Subject: RE: BT Book Club -- What are you reading/recommending? "Ascent"...the history of climbing and the King of the Mountains in the Tour de France.
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