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Reply #300 on: August 08, 2015, 12:42:22 AM
Just read Humber Boy B by Ruth Dugdall... fascinating story about a probation officer...

It's worth a read...

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Reply #301 on: August 08, 2015, 04:37:40 AM
Currently reading:

The Kid by Dan Savage. It's a book he wrote about him and his boyfriend's (now husband) experience of adopting a baby. Great laughs and good insights.

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk, a fascinating psychology book on the effects of trauma on the body and chronic health.

You by Caroline Kepnes. Supposedly an erotic thriller. Fascinating and sexy, but not very erotic or exceptionally thrilling.

Yes, I like to have a few books going at the same time.


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Reply #302 on: August 08, 2015, 04:52:23 AM
...all these eloquent books and I just re-read the Bloom County anthologies in honor of it coming back (albeit on FB).

I haven't read much lately as I have been too busy writing. Currently on book 3 of a fiction series and just tripped writing page 1,050 of this particular one in Word with about 1/3rd to go. I should probably reign it in as it's a little longer than the first two (640 and 918 pages respectively). Scary enough, I have book 4 in mind for it but it wouldn't be as long. I hope...

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Reply #303 on: August 08, 2015, 05:01:47 AM
Quote from: Dgan on August 08, 2015, 04:52:23 AM
...all these eloquent books and I just re-read the Bloom County anthologies in honor of it coming back (albeit on FB).

Had to Google Bloom County and must say it looks like something I'd be into! Shame I'm allergic to Facebook...


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Reply #304 on: August 08, 2015, 05:12:52 AM
Calvin and Hobbs........
My parents swear that the author based his stories on my life.
(I was that bad of a child?).....
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Reply #305 on: August 08, 2015, 05:34:58 AM
Technically, I hardly read anything anymore, but I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Truck driving, you know. I just finished Dave Barry's Money Secrets this morning, and I'm maybe a third of the way through The Atrocity Archive by Charles Stross. I figure the Laundry Files should keep me going at least till the end of next week. After that, I'm not sure what I'll listen to next. Maybe go through my H Beam Piper collection again, or maybe some Lovecraft. I'll just have to go through the list when the time comes, and see what sounds good.

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Reply #306 on: August 10, 2015, 08:18:00 PM
Quote from: Elizabeth on August 08, 2015, 05:12:52 AM
Calvin and Hobbs........
My parents swear that the author based his stories on my life.
(I was that bad of a child?).....
 :D
Love,
Liz

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Reply #307 on: August 31, 2015, 08:17:39 AM
Fall of the Dynasties by Edmond Taylor. It's nonfiction about how WWI led to the collapse of the; German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires and that caused the rise of; Nazism/Fascism, WWII, and the Cold War. I know, real exciting stuff.

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Reply #308 on: August 31, 2015, 04:46:14 PM
Quote from: tagjohnson on August 31, 2015, 08:17:39 AM

Fall of the Dynasties by Edmond Taylor. It's nonfiction about how WWI led to the collapse of the; German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires and that caused the rise of; Nazism/Fascism, WWII, and the Cold War. I know, real exciting stuff.


That DOES sound exciting to me. I just added it to my reading list.

Thanks for the recommendation!






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Reply #309 on: August 31, 2015, 05:36:37 PM
Quote from: tagjohnson on August 31, 2015, 08:17:39 AM
Fall of the Dynasties by Edmond Taylor. It's nonfiction about how WWI led to the collapse of the; German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires and that caused the rise of; Nazism/Fascism, WWII, and the Cold War. I know, real exciting stuff.

Sounds similar to a book called Wilson's War, also an excellent work.


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Reply #310 on: September 06, 2015, 01:58:52 AM
Thank you Miss Barbara and Taxman (and thanks for the tip Taxman) Either of you two or any other of my fellow history nerds you might like The Thirteenth, The Greatest of Centuries by John  Walsh.

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Reply #311 on: September 06, 2015, 03:11:39 AM
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Reply #312 on: September 07, 2015, 06:15:10 AM

Still trying to find the rest of Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series (I'd started re-reading them last September...), as well as a handful of urban fantasy books by Rachel Caine, Katie MacAlister, Kim Harrison, Cara Lockwood and Keri Arthur that I just picked up today to continue on with various series.  :D

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Reply #313 on: September 07, 2015, 06:19:15 AM
I think I know the Rachael Caine series that you are talking about, I didn't like it. If you like urban fantasy, I suggest the Dresden Files by Butcher.


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Reply #314 on: September 09, 2015, 03:10:35 AM
Chasers of the Light by Tyler Knott Gregson.

It's very...emotional stuff, but it's almost identical to how I write. What I wouldn't give to have someone write so beautifully about me...he/she would own my heart.

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Reply #315 on: September 09, 2015, 03:11:37 AM
Quote from: thetaxmancometh on September 07, 2015, 06:19:15 AM
I think I know the Rachael Caine series that you are talking about, I didn't like it. If you like urban fantasy, I suggest the Dresden Files by Butcher.

I second The Dresden Files.

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Reply #316 on: September 09, 2015, 04:50:18 AM
Quote from: RopeFiend on September 07, 2015, 06:15:10 AM

Still trying to find the rest of Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series (I'd started re-reading them last September...), as well as a handful of urban fantasy books by Rachel Caine, Katie MacAlister, Kim Harrison, Cara Lockwood and Keri Arthur that I just picked up today to continue on with various series.  :D

Abe Book Search is good for finding old books.
Try that.
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Reply #317 on: September 09, 2015, 08:02:18 AM

Abe Books and I are dear old friends.  :emot_kiss:  I had to find SOMEONE when I told Amazon to kiss my ass.

I'd had an Amazon account for YEARS.  I'd bought quite literally THOUSANDS of dollars worth of books through them, maybe tens of thousands.  I buy a fuckload of books.  At one point Amazon refused my credit card, and told me that I had to give them access to my main bank account.  I told them that they could go piss up a rope, and I'd take my future THOUSANDS of dollars worth of business elsewhere.  I've never gone back.

Sadly, a friend gave me an Amazon gift card last year, not knowing how much I hate Amazon.  I tried to use it a few months ago, and FUCKING WELL COULDN'T.  Here I have a  plastic card that someone paid Amazon UP FRONT for, and Amazon refuses to honor it (place any kind of order whatsoever) UNLESS I GIVE THEM MY CREDIT CARD INFO.  You can jolly well bet that I'm NEVER going to give Amazon access to any of my accounts ever again.  The $25 gift card is now totally useless.  Since I've 'redeemed' it, I can't give the money to anyone else, and I can't use it myself without giving a dishonest company my credit info.  Not a fucking chance.

So, I wrote off the $25 and told my friend thanks, but please don't ever give me another gift card to a company that I flat won't ever do business with again.  That latest stunt (requiring CC info for a GIFT CARD) absolutely pisses me off to the point that I'll happily bad-mouth Amazon FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.

Hi, Abe.  Here's my CC#.  Please send me the books I've asked for.  Done!  Thanks!


Quote from: thetaxmancometh on September 07, 2015, 06:19:15 AM
I think I know the Rachael Caine series that you are talking about, I didn't like it. If you like urban fantasy, I suggest the Dresden Files by Butcher.

Already read that whole series.  ;D
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Reply #318 on: September 09, 2015, 09:12:40 AM
Hmmm, then another urban fantasy series you might like is Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International series. That one is quite good and doesn't take itself too seriously. I call it "gun porn" since there is a lot of focus on guns in it.

Bartimaeus series by Stroud is good too

Those are the only other 2 urban fantasy series I can think of. I have a book called "Urban Shaman" that was recommended to me but I havnt gotten around to reading it yet.


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Reply #319 on: September 16, 2015, 03:59:31 AM
I'm currently reading City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. Why the hell can't I find any fantasy fiction anymore that isn't targeted at 14-year-old girls?


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