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Locked. No further comments permitted.A thread for nerds: What are you reading?
Jul 26 2019 10:32AM more by DeLaine
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Display your books so I can judge you! No just kidding, I just need suggestions mostly. Okay and some judgement, why lie.


Just finished: The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (again)
In the middle of: A Storm of Swords, George RR Martin (for the 8th time); The Pagan Lord, Bernard Cornwell; Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi
Starting: Mindhunter, John Douglas; Blackwater, Jeremy Scahill; The Bang Bang Club, Greg Marinovich/Joao Silva
      
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DeLaine
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Jul 26 2019 11:52AM     link to this





those ones I actually AM reading tho lol
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Jul 26 2019 12:06PM     link to this

The back of the box of the frozen pizza I'm about to cook for lunch
DeLaine
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Jul 26 2019 01:09PM     link to this

I am disappointed in this thread
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Jul 26 2019 01:27PM     link to this

Current:

The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich

The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent by Larry Correia

The Solar War (The Long Winter Trilogy Book 2) by AG Riddle


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Jul 26 2019 01:41PM     link to this

Cheri magazine it got some articlesđź‘Ť
huuuge
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Jul 26 2019 01:44PM     link to this

Vice started out as a magazine(skateboarding,graffiti) some music, or l.a. weekly (free publication)

Stuff I used to read
loucfirr1
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Jul 26 2019 01:54PM     link to this

Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A comprehensive Guide. (Michael J. Knowles)
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Jul 26 2019 01:54PM     link to this

Currently:

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (for millionth time)
The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (10th or 20th time)
Gilgamesh the King - Robert Silverberg
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching - Thich Nhat Hanh
Advanced Structural Systems - Dr. Russell Peters
The Adventures of Sherlock Holms - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Just finished:
Nemesis Games - James S.A. Corey
The Burning Land - Bernard Cornwell
The Robots of Dawn - Issac Assimov (for the 100th time)
The River Why - David James Duncan (7th or 8th time)
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey (also for 100th time)

If you have any suggestions for new ones to read - LET ME KNOW!!!
I'm running out of books to read.

Atticus Finch
huuuge
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Jul 26 2019 02:05PM     link to this

Earth by Barbara marciniak

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

anything written by Jordan Maxwell
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Jul 26 2019 02:12PM     link to this

Just finished a few current books.
Where the Crawdads Sing by Owens
City of Girls by Gilbert and
Killing Commendatore by Murakami.
Enjoy_it
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Jul 26 2019 02:30PM     link to this

Can I just visit and have you read to me?
Eyshinta
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Jul 26 2019 03:33PM     link to this

The Economist
DeLaine
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Jul 26 2019 04:11PM     link to this

Can I just visit and have you read to me?

Yep.



@Atticus_Finch
Based off of your other choices I think you might enjoy these - nonfiction:
Sam Harris, Free Will
From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel Dennett


@IngloriousB
Youtube is actually an amazing source of lectures, debates & intellectual content (surprisingly lol). Some fascinating talks on there if you take the time to look around. Check out the Intelligence Squared (or IQ2) series too if you haven't already, they have some fun ones on there.



I'm going down all these lists and picking some of these out btw. My brain needs new reading materials
mjcjmjcj
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Jul 26 2019 04:13PM     link to this

Hit me up if you want to know what brand of frozen pizza I bought so you can get the correct box.
DeLaine
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Jul 26 2019 05:44PM     link to this

I don't think that technically qualifies as food
huuuge
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Jul 26 2019 05:54PM     link to this

Popular mechanics ....raw story is a decent outlet lots of interesting content
mjcjmjcj
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Jul 26 2019 05:57PM     link to this

My digestive system agrees with you. In fact I don't think it even qualified as pizza
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Jul 26 2019 06:37PM     link to this

I did a bunch of Lovecraft-based novellas and now I'm probably going to read some textbooks on Human Resources and some Gibson novels on cyberpunk.
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Jul 26 2019 07:06PM     link to this

Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Far North
One of my favorite novelists and winner of the 2014 Booker Prize

Can't recommend it enough but you better have a strong stomach - it chronicles how Australian POWs during WWII were forced to build the "Railway of Death" linking Burma and Siam.

artnjazz
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Jul 26 2019 07:17PM     link to this

UNFU*K YOURSELF

Get out of your head and into your life

By Gary John Bishop

mistabeo
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Jul 26 2019 07:42PM     link to this

Still stuck at halfway through Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life right now.
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Jul 26 2019 09:16PM     link to this

On AMAZON: "THE BOOK EMERGENCY EVOLUTION" BY A LORDESS OF EVOLUTION
Attached Links
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Emergency-books-Lordess-Evolution/dp/198090149X
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Jul 26 2019 09:16PM     link to this

Takes thirty minutes to read. Please read it
billinirvine
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Jul 26 2019 09:46PM     link to this

Watchmaking, George Daniels
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Jul 27 2019 12:59AM     link to this

The Gone World by Tom Sweterlisch is amazing. I need to read it again. Its a great mystery-thriller-sci-fi story.
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Jul 27 2019 09:03AM     link to this

I'm a big fan of Richard Preston, picking up his latest today.
"Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come".

His past non fiction
"The Hot Zone", "Demon in the Freezer".
And it's beginning to be a bit dated , but still good fiction smattered with non fiction, "The Cobra Event".

Just read Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
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I guess I am a nerd, I am reading: "Handbook of Sleep Disorders in Medical Conditions" by Josee Savard.
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Jul 27 2019 11:08AM     link to this

About 3/4 of the way thru WAR OF THE WOLF by Bernard Cornwell (latest in his 'Saxon Tales' series).
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Jul 27 2019 12:11PM     link to this

"A Man Called Ove."
DeLaine
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Jul 27 2019 12:57PM     link to this

I kinda got burnt on the Saxon Tales Too much plot armor I liked the first couple but I haven't been able to keep slogging my way through.
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Jul 27 2019 01:48PM     link to this

Reading: 'The Clockwork Universe'. It sets the scientific work of Issac Newton and others in the 1600's in context.

Rereading: 'Steaming to Bambooa'l by Christopher Buckley; and amusing tale of the US merchant marine.
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Jul 27 2019 01:57PM     link to this

Bernard Cornwell is quite the literary con artist. Each series contains iterations of the same novel with only the slightest tweaks in plot to keep you on the hook.

I figured this out as I was into my fourth or fifth Sharpe novel and said, "wait a minute, I know exactly what's going to happen next. Sharpe will run up against an officer who looks down on him for his lowly origins but he'll eventually turn the tables and..."

Ruined all of his books for me.



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Jul 27 2019 07:27PM     link to this

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith.

Yes, that book.

Not Tony “bullshit yourself until you make it happen” Robbins, but the actual financial analyst that helped turn on the modern economy.
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Best book of all time, "Dune" by Frank Herbert.
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Jul 28 2019 09:19AM     link to this

I just finished reading "Bitch bedda have my money" by Jmac.
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