06-30-2009, 02:52 PM
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In Your MCP
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Watching Hot Dog Hans
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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
I heard an interview with Tucker, and he claims the stories are all true...
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Read that last week. It's hilarious, but there's now way it's all true. I'm pretty sure the places he went were for the most part true, but he more or less made up his own commentary when he wrote out what was said.
The only thing I found to be hilarious was his time in Texas. He was carrying the voice recorder at this point, and you'll notice it wasn't him that was being funny. It was the rednecks.
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06-30-2009, 03:59 PM
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#223
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Powerplay Quarterback
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The Baroque cycle (massive trilogy) and\or Anathema by Neal Stephenson. Unbelievable reads. They'll keep you busy all summer.
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06-30-2009, 04:06 PM
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#224
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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Originally Posted by zuluking
The Baroque cycle (massive trilogy) and\or Anathema by Neal Stephenson. Unbelievable reads. They'll keep you busy all summer.
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I'm waiting for that to come out in paper-back.
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06-30-2009, 04:53 PM
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#225
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Franchise Player
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Just started to read Grisham's, The Associate.
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06-30-2009, 08:00 PM
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#226
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Threadkiller
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: 51.0544° N, 114.0669° W
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Just finished "Collapse" by Jared Diamond and am now reading "Your World Is About To Get A Lot Smaller" by Jeff Rubin
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06-30-2009, 09:49 PM
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#227
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In Your MCP
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Watching Hot Dog Hans
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I also read "crazy for the storm" by Norman Olestad. It was actually pretty good, considering I wasn't expecting a whole lot. I'd recommend it to anyone who, like me, enjoys real life survival novels.
Currently reading "in defense of food" by Michael Pollan. Interesting, but man o man is it ever hard to get through.
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06-30-2009, 11:02 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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I'm half way through:
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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07-01-2009, 02:23 AM
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#230
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First Line Centre
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"Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life."
Dr. Wayne Dyer
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Bleeding the Flaming C!!!
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10-10-2013, 07:09 PM
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#231
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First Line Centre
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MEGA BUMP!!
Tom Clancy's passing has got me thinking as to who is his 'successor' - I'm really interested in some CIA type spy espionage - black ops type fiction. Any recommendations for something somewhat new?
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10-10-2013, 07:39 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary
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I'm currently reading Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. (Or Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)
I picked it up because I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi and both men are tied pretty heavily to George R.R. Martin and I won't lie, the book has been absolutely fantastic so far. I haven't been able to put the book down. Just ordered the next 2 books of Amazon too.
Edit: Missed the mega bump. I guess everyone stopped reading!
Last edited by Super-Rye; 10-10-2013 at 07:41 PM.
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10-10-2013, 09:00 PM
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#233
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by MisterJoji
Johnny eats garbage and isn’t 100% committed.
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10-10-2013, 09:08 PM
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On Hiatus
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Calgary Alberta Canada
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The Hobbit
I find it odd so far that the book and the first part of the movie are so different.
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10-11-2013, 06:46 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Super-Rye
I'm currently reading Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. (Or Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)
I picked it up because I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi and both men are tied pretty heavily to George R.R. Martin and I won't lie, the book has been absolutely fantastic so far. I haven't been able to put the book down. Just ordered the next 2 books of Amazon too.
Edit: Missed the mega bump. I guess everyone stopped reading!
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I finished that book about a month ago. I thought it was pretty good but it was my first sci-fi book and I found some of the concepts a bit difficult to grasp (i.e. changes in gravity, sizes of ships, etc.). I probably should have started with an easier sci-fi book.
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10-11-2013, 07:17 AM
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#236
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Violator
The Hobbit
I find it odd so far that the book and the first part of the movie are so different.
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1 1/2-ish hours worth of movie in the book...
6 hours of movie on the screen...
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10-11-2013, 08:56 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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Very interesting read, and already knowing about him, I'm fully expecting a Shakespearean tragedy finish. Especially for the time, he included a surprising amount of emotion in his logs during his journeys.
Amazing how much he kept trying to convince himself (and Spain) of having found the east coast of Asia despite increasing inner doubts, that he really had no idea how much of a larger and more important discovery he had actually made.
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10-11-2013, 09:12 AM
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#238
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Re-reading the entire Dune series.
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10-11-2013, 09:20 AM
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#239
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Franchise Player
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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Good stuff.
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10-11-2013, 09:50 AM
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#240
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Good stuff.
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Loved that book. I've picked up The Wise Man's Fear as well, but haven't started it yet. I'm not sure if I want to wait for the third book or not at this point. Also, Rothfuss looks like a serial killer, which often makes for a good fantasy writer.
I've been reading Rowena Cory Daniels' Outcast Chronicles series lately. Just finished Besieged, and I really like it. It is a strange book though in that I can't understand why I like it. There are so many instances where something happens that points to grave consequences or a change in allegiance of a character, and then they just snap right back into the path they were on before as if nothing happened. Usually logic/plot holes like that make me give up on a story, but this one kept me going anyway.
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