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What is the Rant reading these days? (Book Thread)
Posted on 8/5/16 at 6:44 am
Posted on 8/5/16 at 6:44 am
I tried to find the other book thread we had and couldn't. 
I just started up American Gods by Neil Gaiman and I'm getting pretty sucked in about 40 pages in. Given some of the casting news that's come out about the upcoming Starz series based on the book, Mr. Wednesday is going to be absolutely perfect. I've wanted to pick up some other books, but with classes coming up I didn't know how much time I'd have to really read more than one right now.
So what's on your reading list?
Oh and you non-readers? Readers live longer. DWI:
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I just started up American Gods by Neil Gaiman and I'm getting pretty sucked in about 40 pages in. Given some of the casting news that's come out about the upcoming Starz series based on the book, Mr. Wednesday is going to be absolutely perfect. I've wanted to pick up some other books, but with classes coming up I didn't know how much time I'd have to really read more than one right now.
So what's on your reading list?
Oh and you non-readers? Readers live longer. DWI:
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Compared with those who did not read books, those who read for up to three and a half hours a week were 17 percent less likely to die over 12 years of follow-up, and those who read more than that were 23 percent less likely to die. Book readers lived an average of almost two years longer than those who did not read at all.
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Posted on 8/5/16 at 6:54 am to BluegrassBelle
Textbooks
Posted on 8/5/16 at 7:15 am to BluegrassBelle
I'm planning on getting the Martian on audio book later this month.
Right now I'm listening to Hardcore History podcasts by Dan Carlin.
Right now I'm listening to Hardcore History podcasts by Dan Carlin.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 7:16 am to BluegrassBelle
American Gods is a great book.
Right now I am reading
The Tigers by Marc Alan Edelheit (Free with Prime)
Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey (GRRM's assistants)
Armada by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One)
Right now I am reading
The Tigers by Marc Alan Edelheit (Free with Prime)
Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey (GRRM's assistants)
Armada by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One)
Posted on 8/5/16 at 7:23 am to BluegrassBelle
I'm currently re-reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis. Read both years ago and saw them in the Kindle store for free so decided to read them again. The Jungle isn't as good as I remembered it, while Elmer Gantry is better than I remembered it.
Next on the shelf to read is Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This one's been on my list to read for a while and it always seems to get pushed aside.
Next on the shelf to read is Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This one's been on my list to read for a while and it always seems to get pushed aside.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 7:25 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Martian on audio book
Read it last fall. Then got 3 different people to read it. Its a very, very good book. I think engineers have a special appreciation for it.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 7:27 am to BluegrassBelle
Blood Brothers
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As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their Jewish neighbors. But early in 1947, their idyllic lifestyle was swept away as tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps. An exile in his native land, Elias began a years-long struggle with his love for the Jewish people and the world's misunderstanding of his own people, the Palestinians.
How was he to respond? He found his answer in the simple, haunting words of the Man of Galilee: "Blessed are the peacemakers." In Blood Brothers, Chacour blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the birth of modern Israel. He touches on controversial questions such as "What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the turmoil in the Middle East? ", "What does Bible prophecy really have to say? ", and "Can bitter enemies ever be reconciled? " Originally published by Chosen Books in 1984 and now expanded with a new introduction by the author, a new foreword by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and a "Since Then" epilogue by writer David Hazard, this compelling book offers readers hope-filled insight into living at peace in the most volatile region of the world.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 7:48 am to BlackPawnMartyr
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Read it last fall. Then got 3 different people to read it. Its a very, very good book. I think engineers have a special appreciation for it.
I've heard the same from the engineers I work with. Movie was great, but I can't wait to read/hear the book.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 7:53 am to TbirdSpur2010
Just finished this one.
Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles / Jon Wilkman.
If you guys are engineers you likely have read it. If you haven't you should.
Another great read is Two years before the mast : a personal narrative / Richard Henry Dana
This book is epic. Dana Point in CA is named after RHD and his story of sailing around the horn in 1840 is astounding. Men were really men back then.
Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles / Jon Wilkman.
If you guys are engineers you likely have read it. If you haven't you should.
Another great read is Two years before the mast : a personal narrative / Richard Henry Dana
This book is epic. Dana Point in CA is named after RHD and his story of sailing around the horn in 1840 is astounding. Men were really men back then.
This post was edited on 8/5/16 at 8:02 am
Posted on 8/5/16 at 7:56 am to Ridgewalker
Will have to check that out 
Posted on 8/5/16 at 8:04 am to BluegrassBelle
I recently took philosophy of sport and had to read "The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance" by David Epstein.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 8:24 am to BluegrassBelle
I read two at a time, one serious and the other light. Right now The Elegant Universe and Prospero Burns
Posted on 8/5/16 at 8:54 am to BluegrassBelle
Julian Comstock. The mrs got it for me and it's OK but not really my style. It's not keeping my interest. A tale of America 100 years from now from an autobiographical perspective of a childhood friend of the future president and their experiences together that helped form the man as we will have known him.
I'm more of a non fiction/history/biography kind of guy. I bought an Atlas of the World at War. Detailed maps of battle formations, accounts of how important battles throughout the world played out dating from Mesopotamia to today. That is good stuff with a glass of bourbon and a fire going by God.
I'm more of a non fiction/history/biography kind of guy. I bought an Atlas of the World at War. Detailed maps of battle formations, accounts of how important battles throughout the world played out dating from Mesopotamia to today. That is good stuff with a glass of bourbon and a fire going by God.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 10:13 am to BloodSweat&Beers
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Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey (GRRM's assistants)
The Expanse series is awesome. Have you watched the show on SYFY? It's good as well.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 10:46 am to Supravol22
Currently reading Danse Macabre by Stephen King. Just finished reading the Hannibal Lecter trilogy.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 11:49 am to pvilleguru
Reading First Family by David Baldacci. Not a lot of choices for me at the moment until I figure out how to get Amazon sent to me over here.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 12:21 pm to BluegrassBelle
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos,
by Brian Greene. Head banger.
by Brian Greene. Head banger.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 12:46 pm to BluegrassBelle
i used to be really good at updating that thread but let it slip.
i'm currently in a Lee Child's book, Make Me.
next is garden of beasts.
oh and i'm in a love hate relationship with S right now. love the concept but reading it is like beating my head against a wall.
i'm currently in a Lee Child's book, Make Me.
next is garden of beasts.
oh and i'm in a love hate relationship with S right now. love the concept but reading it is like beating my head against a wall.
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Posted on 8/5/16 at 1:06 pm to Kentucker
Brian Greene is great at explaining things to laymen, but he is also a humongous a-hole. 
Posted on 8/5/16 at 1:09 pm to BluegrassBelle
I just finished reading Mattie C's Boy by Don Keith. It is about the life of Birmingham, AL native, Shelley Stewart. It's one of the most tragic and inspirational stories I've ever read.
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