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The other books topic purged.

I'm finally going to go to the library on Friday. I had been spending most of my time working on drawings and I finished about 6 this year, should finish another by Friday. Will be a good point to delve back into literature.

I remember a few of you positively mentioning The Handmaid's Tale, so that will be one I pick up.
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We burn those here sir
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
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I reread all of Dresden Files and I'm currently rereading Wheel of Time. I can't remember if I've read anything else this year
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Currently slowly working on Malice by John Gwynne. I'm on a Witcher 3 kick so I'll probably start that series after Malice.

What's a book?
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Some books pertaining to the holocaust for a class. Right now I'm reading a book on the birth of modern physics, focusing on the Bohr and Einstein debate.
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DoctorVader posted...

What's a book?

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The Bible only.book worth reading

The Killing Joke, Half a King by Abercrombie, Second Foundation by Asimov and Skyward by Sanderson so far.
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boxington posted...

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

How did you find it? I've been curious about this one
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I ended up enjoying it.

the beginning was kinda hard to follow because there was a lot of stream of consciousness type of narrative going on, but after a bit, it was more conventional.

and all the stuff you wondered why they were brought up ended up tying together with the main plot, and nothing felt wasted.

I'm now waiting for book two.
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I've read 19 books this year.

Top 5 so far:
- The Red Queen (Ridley)
- Losing Ground (Murray)
- The 4-Hour Workweek (Ferriss)
- Man's Search for Meaning (Frankl)
- The Kingdom of God is Within You (Tolstoy)
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Books ive read this year

Five People You Meet in Heaven
Star Wars Lords of the Sith
Star Wars Coruscant Nights
Star Wars Coruscant Nights II Street of Shadows
Star Wars Coruscant Nights IV The Last Jedi
Star Wars Thrawn
Star Wars Alliances
Star Wars Dawn of the Jedi
Stephen King and Owen King's Sleeping Beauties
Star Wars New Hope
Star Wars Rebel Rising
Dean Koontz Frankenstein Books 1 and 2
Dean Koontz The Taking

Currently reading Star Wars Battlefront II Inferno Squad

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Secret Place by Tana French
The Trespasser by Tana French

and I think I read at least 1 or 2 others but I'm blanking

all were great but especially recommend Tana French if you like crime novels

currently residng Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
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a bunch of programming books
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Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
The Law of Human Nature by Robert Greene
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demon Haunted World: Science as Candle in The Dark by Carl Sagan

currently reading trough: The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Backlog:

Mistborn: Secret History
Elantris
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I don't think I've read a book in 2019

Just textbooks

Fucking waiting for new books turned me off reading
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Lets see: I read Barbara Ehrenreichs book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America which details the authors experiences working undercover as a waitress in Key West, a maid in Portland, Maine, and a Wal-Mart Associate in Minneapolis.

Then I read Voltaires Candide , which was thoroughly ridiculous but funny in an acidic kind of way.

The latest one I finished was The Bloody White Baron, a biography of Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, a prominent figure in the Russian Civil War. He was a White general who believed totally in the divine right of kings and was fascinated with Mongolia and Buddhism. He drove the Chinese from Outer Mongolia and restored the rule of the Bogd Khan with an eye towards launching a global counter-revolution, but was defeated by the Reds and turned over by his own soldiers, because he was, incidentally, a sadistic psychopathic monster.

Am currently reading A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, about how and why the British screwed the Middle East up so bad, before, during, and after the First World War.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Lets see: I read Barbara Ehrenreichs book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America which details the authors experiences working undercover as a waitress in Key West, a maid in Portland, Maine, and a Wal-Mart Associate in Minneapolis.

Then I read Voltaires Candide , which was thoroughly ridiculous but funny in an acidic kind of way.

The latest one I finished was The Bloody White Baron, a biography of Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, a prominent figure in the Russian Civil War. He was a White general who believed totally in the divine right of kings and was fascinated with Mongolia and Buddhism. He drove the Chinese from Outer Mongolia and restored the rule of the Bogd Khan with an eye towards launching a global counter-revolution, but was defeated by the Reds and turned over by his own soldiers, because he was, incidentally, a sadistic psychopathic monster.

Am currently reading A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, about how and why the British screwed the Middle East up so bad, before, during, and after the First World War.

Seems like you are an avid reader.
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I haven't really been keeping track, but I for sure read Japanese Destroyer Captain and Capturing Hill 70 this year.
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not as much as id like

finished a couple arthur c clark short story collections

wrapped up the southern reach triliogy

working on carrion comfort right now
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So far:
Finished up most of Brandon Sanderson's stuff -- most of it I read in 2018, Oathbringer and Arcanum Unbounded in 2019.
Read the entirety of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. (Definitely my favorite thing I've read recently.)
Charles Yu -- How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle
and currently, Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash. Just started it, already enjoying it.

These are all books that have been sitting on my bookshelf for a while -- just got serious about getting through them.
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Snow Crash is one I want to read
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ASOIAF books 4 and 5
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I'm currently reading "Rethinking Narcissism."

I've learned a lot, so far, and have had my views on what narcissism really means, changed.
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EscapeFromHell posted...

I'm currently reading "Rethinking Narcissism."

I've learned a lot, so far, and have had my views on what narcissism really means, changed.

Interesting
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I only read what I have too.

Besides, isn't extensive book reading kind of nerdy ?
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

I only read what I have too.

Besides, isn't extensive book reading kind of nerdy ?

Define "extensive." Also, "nerdy?" You do realize that word doesn't have the same connotation it used to, right?
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Mainly fiction with Mistborn series.

Opened up a few non-fiction stuff but I've been finding them a bit boring. I feel like a lot of these non-fiction books could be written as a long form article instead of a whole book
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