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Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond

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Originally posted by elohiym chanan
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
Is that book as interesting as it looks or should I not waste my time?

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I just started it. It sounds like a good read, but it's too early to tell. I'll give you an update in a couple of days if you want...

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Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNab

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"Galileo's Finger: The 10 Great Ideas of Science" by Peter Atkins.

Eloquently written, broad sweep, quite challenging.

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Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnow
Is that book as interesting as it looks or should I not waste my time?
You won't be wasting your time in the slightest.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
You won't be wasting your time in the slightest.
Yawn

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Originally posted by phil nutley
Yawn
Parp parp.

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O'Reilly's CSS Pocket Reference.

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I wasted a thread kill on keeping this thread alive, I will not see it beaten by What Are You Listening To? so easily.

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me, not you

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The Two Swords: "the Hunter's Blades Trilogy, Book III, by R. A. Salvatore.

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Originally posted by Fat mans revenge
I'm reading a different classic by Huxley. A Brave New World

I love his interpretation on the future, which he believed us to be almost at the present.
I am also reading Brave New World.

Right now though, I am reading this thread, nyuk nyuk.

- An unfunny masochistic a$$hole that is into watersports.

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Recently I read "the Master & the Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov a really fasinating compelling book with more unexpected twists than a rollercoaster in a tornado. Because I enjoyed it so much I'm currently reading another book by the same author called "The White Guard", its not quite in the same league as the Master & the Margarita, but is still enjoyable even if it is a bit of a slower read.

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I just finished reading "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" by Aron Ralston, the guy who had to amputate his right hand to save his life back in May of 2003. I had listened to an abridged version on CD read by the author earlier this summer and wanted to compare the two experiences. The book was definitely better because it gave more background into what caused Aron to be where he was when the accident happened. It is intriguing reading (did the 360+ pages in two days).

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I looked over the books stored out of the way in the hallway closet, and picked out 'Stories My Mother Never Told Me,' being a collection of horror stories chosen by Alfred Hitchcock. My grandmother's signature is on the book jacket, though I no longer remember exactly how it was decided that it would pass down to me. It was printed about the time a new musical group called 'the Beatles' was creating a stir on the Ed Sullivan Show stateside. Only one of the stories so far brought back a clear memory of my having read it decades earlier.

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