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General Category => Comic Books/Graphic Novels => Topic started by: Maudibe on January 22, 2014, 08:39:29 AM

Title: What are you reading these days?
Post by: Maudibe on January 22, 2014, 08:39:29 AM
I've decided to go back to the start of marvel's silver age so these days it's SM,FF,DD,IM,Thor,Avengers and Hulk in reading order. Daunting but fun. in the early 70's now. Will soon have to add SSM to the list. Still deciding if I should include The Defenders
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Post by: Beatrix on January 22, 2014, 04:56:34 PM
Biology and Philosophy.  Some Faust, (more for learning German, it's got English and German versions of every page of the book.  On each page are explanations, I love the book) and books on children.  Know any?
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Post by: Maudibe on January 22, 2014, 05:05:44 PM
Other than Doctor Spock no
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Post by: dweez on January 23, 2014, 12:17:26 AM
Biology and Philosophy.  Some Faust, (more for learning German, it's got English and German versions of every page of the book.  On each page are explanations, I love the book) and books on children.  Know any?

Just this one.

(http://darlingcollections.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/v-day-book-on-head.jpg)
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Post by: townie2 on February 03, 2014, 03:38:42 PM
the Game of Thrones books, sometimes it's tempting to just watch the tv series  ;D
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Post by: Beatrix on February 04, 2014, 12:10:36 AM
 ;D
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Post by: Maudibe on February 04, 2014, 06:57:31 AM
I refuse to play (read or watch) until GRRM finishes the damned series.

I'm worried that he may do a Jordan and die on us.
That is a very real possibility.
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Post by: dweez on February 04, 2014, 07:24:37 AM
I figured that about Stephen King and the Dark Tower series.  Then he knocks out the last 3 in record time...and made me wish he had died instead.
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Post by: Maudibe on February 04, 2014, 07:31:08 AM
I figured that about Stephen King and the Dark Tower series.  Then he knocks out the last 3 in record time...and made me wish he had died instead.
I know exactly what you mean. Worst conclusion ever
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Post by: dweez on February 04, 2014, 04:12:22 PM
Hehe, I enjoy Haven as well.  I attribute the decline in his writing to his becoming sober.  Good for him, yes, but, IMO, his writing took a hit.
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Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 14, 2014, 08:20:51 AM
At the moment
lone survivor Marcus Luttrell.
Fancied a easy read.

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Post by: 6pairsofshoes on October 26, 2014, 12:31:40 AM
Two things:
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy
and Elizabeth George, Careless in Red (an Inspector Lynley novel).   The latter is pretty disappointing so far.  Machiavelli, however, is certainly worth a read.
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Post by: goldshirt*9 on October 26, 2014, 01:17:04 AM
Colm Toibin - Nora Webster
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Post by: tarascon on October 26, 2014, 01:28:51 PM
Discovery of Middle Earth by Graham Robb

Not Tolkien; it's about the Celtic world.
[From the link below] His engaging new book, “The Discovery of Middle Earth,” which combines travelogue and historical detective story, is the work of a man to whom the past is vividly present. As he was planning a cycling trip in southern France, he tells us, he began hearing “the comprehensible whisperings of a vanished civilization.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/books/review/graham-robbs-discovery-of-middle-earth.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/books/review/graham-robbs-discovery-of-middle-earth.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)


Oh, yeah. I am also reading the History of Middle-earth, ed, C. Tolkien.  ;)
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Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 04, 2015, 12:51:29 AM
Interesting Harper Lee to publish a follow up to
To Kill a  Mocking Bird  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31118355 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31118355)
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Post by: tarascon on February 04, 2015, 05:01:52 AM
The Science and Fiction of Autism by Laura Schreibman

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938932/ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938932/)
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Post by: smokester on February 06, 2015, 10:56:47 AM
Reading Charlotte's Web to my daughter.
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Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 07, 2015, 01:11:58 AM
Still plodding on through the Anthony Riches Empire books. Ok a easy read
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Post by: 6pairsofshoes on April 21, 2015, 02:58:40 AM
Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Vergil's Aeneid.

It's pretty compelling.  Road trip.  Trojan War from the perspective of the losers.  Bad, bad Greeks!

Whoops.  Not exactly a comic book, but then again, you don't know my imagination.
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Post by: goldshirt*9 on April 21, 2015, 10:21:13 AM
Keane's Company - Napoleonic romp