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What's the Last Book You Read?

May 8, 2014 5:05:24 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

We talk about movies and TV, so why not have a discussion about the books we read!  Let us know what's the last book you read, and feel free to recommend it or expand on what it's about.

I mostly read through my Kindle and get most of my eBooks through Amazon.

The book I recently finished was Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright Patterson.

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Reply #1 May 8, 2014 5:14:56 PM
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The Tarantula Keeper's Guide: Comprehensive Information on Care, Housing, and Feeding

This is an amazing book, whether you actually want a tarantula or are reading it for fun.

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Reply #2 May 8, 2014 5:37:34 PM
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The Quadrology ?? "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" by Douglas Adams  [e digicons]5*[/e] [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]  

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Reply #3 May 8, 2014 5:38:40 PM
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The book I recently finished was Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright Patterson.

Wow, sounds intriguing  [e digicons]:star:[/e]

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Reply #4 May 8, 2014 6:07:44 PM
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The Galaxy Primes by EE Doc Smith

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Reply #5 May 8, 2014 7:16:59 PM
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The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman.  [e digicons]5*[/e]   

Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright Patterson.[/quote]  ...I'll add that to my to read  list. It sounds interesting.  

 

Quoting neone6,
reply 2
"Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" by Douglas Adams
 I loved it! [e digicons]5*[/e]

 

[quote who="Polistes" reply="1" id="3465102"]This is an amazing book, whether you actually want a tarantula or are reading it for fun.

...I could add this too, for light reading !   [e digicons][/e]

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Reply #6 May 8, 2014 9:27:10 PM
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I believe it was "The Undead Pool" by Kim Harrison [e digicons]B)[/e]

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Reply #7 May 8, 2014 9:50:33 PM
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Carl Reiner: I Remember Me

 

last dead tree book:

Ben Rich: Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

 

The Carl Reiner book was decent. The Ben Rich book was phenomenal!

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Reply #8 May 9, 2014 1:16:19 AM
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chris mullin's 94-99 diary (uk labour party mp diary.. going to find the other 2 at some point)

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Reply #9 May 9, 2014 4:36:37 AM
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The users manual to my laptop count?  [e digicons]8|[/e]

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Reply #10 May 9, 2014 12:20:37 PM
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The Princess Bride.  Yes, finally read the book.  I know... 'inconceivable!' 

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Reply #11 May 9, 2014 12:38:48 PM
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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower

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Reply #12 May 9, 2014 12:41:18 PM
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Quoting ElanaAhova,
reply 10

The Princess Bride.  Yes, finally read the book.  I know... 'inconceivable!' 

There's a booK?

[e digicons]:moo:[/e]

I kid, I kid!  Haven't read the book though...

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Reply #13 May 9, 2014 1:40:13 PM
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Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

 

Serious weirdness by a master of the form.

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Reply #14 May 9, 2014 2:11:44 PM
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    Just finished Aloha From Hell -- 3rd book in Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim series.

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Reply #15 May 9, 2014 4:56:52 PM
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I remember reading a book I think, but I cannot remember the title as it was back in the 1970's.  [e digicons]:S[/e]

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Reply #16 May 9, 2014 11:05:26 PM
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An article in a Science mag at the dentist that changed history re the Wright Brothers....they were NOT the first...and the Smithsonian has perpetuated the fraud contractually with them....something quite reprehensible.

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Reply #17 May 10, 2014 1:10:57 AM
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http://www.amazon.com/Battletech-01-Way-Clans-Bk/dp/0451451015

 

First of a trilogy - my first battletech (mechwarriors) novel and it is a cracker - it also well written and a good page turner

 

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Reply #18 May 10, 2014 10:27:02 AM
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Quoting tjashen,
reply 12


Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 10
The Princess Bride.  Yes, finally read the book.  I know... 'inconceivable!' 

There's a booK?



I kid, I kid!  Haven't read the book though...

 

I know, I know, but its true.  The book is better than the movie. 

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Reply #19 May 10, 2014 10:29:13 AM
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Quoting LightStar,
reply 15

I remember reading a book I think, but I cannot remember the title as it was back in the 1970's. 

 

Yes, the fire department has saved us.  It has gotten rid of all those antiquated artifacts from a darker time.  Protocol F451 has been a bright and shining success.   

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Reply #20 May 10, 2014 10:29:40 AM
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Recently finished The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and am reading the second one called The Wise Man's Fear.  Trouble is, the third one isn't out yet, and I'm going to get all sorts of agitated waiting... ugh, I hate waiting...

http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/content/books.asp

 

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Reply #21 May 10, 2014 10:29:49 AM
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Quoting Jafo,
reply 16

An article in a Science mag at the dentist that changed history re the Wright Brothers....they were NOT the first...and the Smithsonian has perpetuated the fraud contractually with them....something quite reprehensible.

 

The winners write the history books

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Reply #22 May 10, 2014 10:35:05 AM
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Quoting Jafo,
reply 16
An article in a Science mag at the dentist that changed history re the Wright Brothers....they were NOT the first...and the Smithsonian has perpetuated the fraud contractually with them....something quite reprehensible.

 

 

Icarus flew first....     

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Reply #23 May 10, 2014 11:49:04 AM
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A Memory of Light, the last book in the Wheel of Time series. It did a fine job with tying up all the major plotlines, I think. I only wish that it had been more imaginative - there really were no surprises to speak of except what the crystal sword was really for. Also, it treated much of the story like the ending was a foregone conclusion, and I didn't particularly like that. Too many busy plotting what would happen after the "big end". That in itself created a lot of threads of story that we will now never know more about. It could have much benefited from an "anthology" of the years after the book.

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Reply #24 May 10, 2014 11:52:05 AM
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Quoting Heavenfall,
reply 23
A Memory of Light, the last book in the Wheel of Time series.

OK well this is embarrassing but i'm currently reading the first book in the series.

[e digicons]:blush:[/e]

(thanks for using the spoiler even though i'm another 13 books away from it)

 

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Reply #25 May 10, 2014 1:02:15 PM
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Quoting Heavenfall,
reply 23
A Memory of Light, the last book in the Wheel of Time series
 ...my son did some freelance paintings for "The Wheel of Time CCG Promo cards" ....  http://wotccg.mahasamatman.com/Promo/  ... Chris Arneson....and that was many many years ago. 

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