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jk the sooner fan

7/9/2007, 04:41 PM

i just finished this:

http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1069-1/%7B7951AFB3-BFA8-43E0-B602-EE5802008069%7DImg100.jpg

and i'm about to start this (http://www.amazon.com/Lone-Survivor-Eyewitness-Account-Operation/dp/0316067598)

my summer long book i've been working on is
http://www.audiobooksonline.com/shopsite/media/Team_of_Rivals_Political_Genius_of_Abraham_Lincoln _Doris_Kearns_Goodwin_abridged_compact_discs.jpg

thenotman

7/9/2007, 04:42 PM

This thread

critical_phil

7/9/2007, 04:43 PM

http://www.springerpub.com/images/covers/9780826157942.jpg

jk the sooner fan

7/9/2007, 04:48 PM

cp - are you in that field? the respect i gained for the hospice/geriatric nurses during my grandmothers final days cant adequately be described in words...they were just awesome

Chuck Bao

7/9/2007, 04:50 PM

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FwLxwd-pL._AA240_.jpg

I wasn't quite satisfied with the story, so I started reading this one again.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J5PMHHYFL._AA240_.jpg

critical_phil

7/9/2007, 04:51 PM

cp - are you in that field? the respect i gained for the hospice/geriatric nurses during my grandmothers final days cant adequately be described in words...they were just awesome

well i didn't get the moniker Hiney Wiper just for my foreplay with Howzit.....

and yes, i'm in that field.

SoonerProphet

7/9/2007, 04:52 PM

http://www.hfcsd.org/ww2/recommended%20reading/oldbreed.jpg

Harry Beanbag

7/9/2007, 04:52 PM

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EJ3BX2K8L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1555612415/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-8925662-2882033#reader-link)

snp

7/9/2007, 04:53 PM

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/ac/200px-Naked_mailer.jpg

Started it today when I went to donate blood.

Harry Beanbag

7/9/2007, 04:53 PM

http://www.hfcsd.org/ww2/recommended%20reading/oldbreed.jpg

I read this last summer, it's excellent.

JohnnyMack

7/9/2007, 04:54 PM

my summer long book i've been working on is
http://www.audiobooksonline.com/shopsite/media/Team_of_Rivals_Political_Genius_of_Abraham_Lincoln _Doris_Kearns_Goodwin_abridged_compact_discs.jpg

You're just trying to **** fan off, aren't you. ;)

hurricane'bone

7/9/2007, 04:56 PM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1591391865.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fDp-FJL3L._SS500_.jpg

and I'm obviously just waiting around for this to come out:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qTZcMasSL._SS400_.jpg

SoonerProphet

7/9/2007, 04:57 PM

I read this last summer, it's excellent.

Yep, almost done here and it has been a great read.

Jimminy Crimson

7/9/2007, 05:25 PM

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/shopsite/media/Team_of_Rivals_Political_Genius_of_Abraham_Lincoln _Doris_Kearns_Goodwin_abridged_compact_discs.jpg

Good book. DKG is teh win!

jk the sooner fan

7/9/2007, 05:27 PM

You're just trying to **** fan off, aren't you. ;)

heh, i dont much care! :)

royalfan5

7/9/2007, 05:33 PM

I'm halfway through Fatherland by Robert Harris, and then I am going to read the Dark Trade by Donald McRae.

Pricetag

7/9/2007, 05:36 PM

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~cepheid/media_library/covers/book/book314.jpg
I love reading novels after I've already seen the movie. It does nothing but enrich the story.

reevie

7/9/2007, 06:06 PM

I'm halfway through Fatherland by Robert Harris, and then I am going to read the Dark Trade by Donald McRae.

I read Fatherland a long time ago. It's pretty good.

reevie

7/9/2007, 06:14 PM

I'm reading 100 Bullets and it's awesome.

PrideTrombone

7/9/2007, 06:36 PM

Just finished...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385333498.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

GottaHavePride

7/9/2007, 07:21 PM

That's a good one. I'm trying to figure out how to pass the next two weeks until Harry Potter 7 comes out.

C&CDean

7/9/2007, 07:22 PM

That's a good one. I'm trying to figure out how to pass the next two weeks until Harry Potter 7 comes out.

Do like me, re-read HBP. Again.

sanantoniosooner

7/9/2007, 07:25 PM

For some reason it cracks me up that Dean is a HP fan.

It just seems out of place.

Phil

7/9/2007, 07:36 PM

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/511ZWWQQ5FL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Good stuff. Already preordered his new one about the Italian campaign - coming out October 2.

Jimminy Crimson

7/9/2007, 07:38 PM

Busting Vegas

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JY54BNBWL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Soonerfan88

7/9/2007, 07:44 PM

I just started an Atkinson book.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZK3W9TKHL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

BigRedJed

7/9/2007, 08:40 PM

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q2HAX185L._SS500_.jpg (http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/05/21/underhill/index.html)

KC//CRIMSON

7/9/2007, 08:47 PM

Busting Vegas

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JY54BNBWL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Saw a documentry on those nerds. Some of them are still doing it.

crawfish

7/9/2007, 08:52 PM

http://www.farsector.com/pix2006/rainbowsend.jpg

The guy's predictive power in this near-future story is incredible. He talks of technology that's not only possible, but probable.

jk the sooner fan

7/9/2007, 09:01 PM

JohnnyMack

7/9/2007, 09:05 PM

Do like me, re-read HBP. Again.

Phag.

Went to a cool bar in Fells Point called Max's. Great beers.

Jimminy Crimson

7/9/2007, 09:14 PM

Saw a documentry on those nerds. Some of them are still doing it.

I enjoyed Bringing Down the House, I decided to pick up Busting Vegas.

I'll have to find that documentary...

C&CDean

7/9/2007, 09:14 PM

Phag.

Went to a cool bar in Fells Point called Max's. Great beers.

Did you try the James Joyce? Where in FP is Max's? I'm up there right now.

And me digging Harry Potter does not make me a homo. Taking it in the pooper would make me a homo. I thought you knew that.

BigRedJed

7/9/2007, 09:16 PM

Heh.

AllAboutThe'O'

7/9/2007, 09:23 PM

I'm through 100 pages right now of "The Big Bam," a biography of Babe Ruth. Written by Leigh Montville, who did a similar biography on Ted Williams a few years back.

JohnnyMack

7/9/2007, 10:21 PM

Did you try the James Joyce? Where in FP is Max's? I'm up there right now.

And me digging Harry Potter does not make me a homo. Taking it in the pooper would make me a homo. I thought you knew that.

737 S. Broadway

http://www.maxs.com/

Average food. TERRIFIC beer selection.

JohnnyMack

7/9/2007, 10:22 PM

Did you try the James Joyce? Where in FP is Max's? I'm up there right now.

And me digging Harry Potter does not make me a homo. Riding around on a scooter would make me a homo. I thought you knew that.

Damn. You cold.

mikeelikee

7/9/2007, 10:28 PM

I recently finished "Epicenter", by Joel Rosenberg. It's about the simmering cauldron that is the Middle East, with Israel as the epicenter. Pretty interesting stuff.

Octavian

7/9/2007, 10:32 PM

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/6811/511u1rahxglss500jo1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

a really quick and pretty funny (and sad) read just finished

and rereading this one thats an awesome view of Cold War society

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1880/simgtosimgto0375707379jho6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Ike

7/9/2007, 11:14 PM

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/410K8R9Q3ZL._AA240_.jpg

GottaHavePride

7/9/2007, 11:17 PM

Did you try the James Joyce? Where in FP is Max's? I'm up there right now.

And me digging Harry Potter does not make me a homo. Taking it in the pooper would make me a homo. I thought you knew that.

Dean, I just put up vBookie bets that should let you unleash your inner HP geek. ;)

Frozen Sooner

7/9/2007, 11:28 PM

I just finished Soon, I Will Be Invincible, which I highly recommend.

OU4LIFE

7/10/2007, 07:08 AM

OU4LIFE

8/7/2007, 08:51 AM

finished the third one, Brother Odd, last night. Better than the second one it was. The first one was the best one IMO. Needs to be a fourth as well.

Don't know what i'll read now.

Howzit

8/7/2007, 09:10 AM

Judas Unchained - Peter F Hamilton

Hardcore sci-fi, but if you like that genre, Hamilton has some entertaining storylines. I enjoyed his Reality Dysfunction series.

OU4LIFE

8/7/2007, 09:23 AM

asphinctersayswha?

dolemitesooner

8/7/2007, 09:36 AM

Ender's game -Orson Scott Card

StuIsTheMan

8/7/2007, 09:41 AM

I only read while I am going poop...Paper, Magazine(Playboy), or the bible...I read specks all day so I can't sit down and read a book on a regular basis...I think I got 3 going now that I have never finished...ADD, maybe...

hey look a ball:D

soonerbrat

8/7/2007, 09:45 AM

Playboy or the Bible. Interesting.

soonerbrat

8/7/2007, 09:47 AM

Oh, right now I"m reading a book that a friend of mine gave me for my birthday..I can't remember the name of it but it is a murder mystery...also this summer i've read "Barefoot", "Secret Smile", "Love at first Site", "Four Blind Mice" "Cross Bones" and one other one.

I need to read my kids' summer reading books as well...my son's is "Purple Hibiscus" I think and my daughter has 2 she's reading and writing reports on.

Howzit

8/7/2007, 09:47 AM

asphinctersayswha?

wha?

StuIsTheMan

8/7/2007, 09:49 AM

Playboy is more of an analogy...could of been a hustler or two in there too:D

soonerbrat

8/7/2007, 09:53 AM

Pr0n or the Bible then.

jk the sooner fan

8/7/2007, 09:55 AM

its good to have both right next to each other

Scott D

8/7/2007, 09:56 AM

working on Nerilka's Tale at the moment, Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern is next.

StuIsTheMan

8/7/2007, 10:18 AM

its good to have both right next to each other

yin and yang...keeps my Karma even:rolleyes:

OU4LIFE

8/7/2007, 10:24 AM

its good to have both right next to each other

Biblical pr0n would be even better.

StuIsTheMan

8/7/2007, 10:25 AM

Biblical pr0n would be even better.

It's in there...just need the right translation is all:D
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/sex/long.htm

Hamhock

8/7/2007, 10:31 AM

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JRQ5FXJ7L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

StuIsTheMan

8/7/2007, 10:35 AM

is this gonna turn into a "Save Stu's Soul" thread?:pop:

dolemitesooner

8/7/2007, 12:14 PM

Biblical pr0n would be even better.
That would be awesome....I mean I would love to see tapes of jesus pounding away at some prostitiute

OU4LIFE

8/7/2007, 12:48 PM

you would...

dolemitesooner

8/7/2007, 12:49 PM

you would...
:D

Pfunk

8/7/2007, 01:00 PM

Ender's game -Orson Scott Card
One of my favorite books.

dolemitesooner

8/7/2007, 01:01 PM

One of my favorite books.
Is the rest of the series good

Scott D

8/7/2007, 02:54 PM

Is the rest of the series good

not really, the rest of the series is a convoluted religious epiphany.

royalfan5

8/16/2007, 11:23 AM

I'm working on Coast of Dreams by Kevin Starr, about California between 1990-2003. Next up is the official history text of the Latter Day Saints that I borrowed from my officemate, and after that I will be reading The Balkans:Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers 1804-1999 by Misha Glenny. However, my discovery of Nip/Tuck has really cut down on my reading while I work through Season 1.

rd280z

8/16/2007, 11:56 AM

The Creature From Jekyll Island - A second look at the Federal Reserve
Actually a good read about the corruption of our banking system.

Boarder

8/16/2007, 12:13 PM

They Like Jesus But Hate The Church - Dan Kimball

SoonerBOI

8/16/2007, 12:14 PM

The Bible...:D

TMcGee86

8/16/2007, 12:30 PM

http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/484fa70d/books_readings-26190.jpeg

Edmond Sooner

8/16/2007, 01:38 PM

"Boudica: The Life of Britain's Legendary Warrior Queen."--but I'm cheering for the Romans.

Frozen Sooner

8/16/2007, 01:44 PM

Rereading the Wheel of Time series.

LosAngelesSooner

8/16/2007, 03:00 PM

I am just finishing "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart D. Ehrman. I'm still pouring through "Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never Ending Rememberance" as well as "Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe", "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Travelling Music," by Neil Peart.

I usually read about 4-5 books at the same time.

LosAngelesSooner

8/16/2007, 03:01 PM

Rereading the Wheel of Time series. DOOD...when is the next installment of that opus coming out?!

soonerbrat

8/16/2007, 03:09 PM

I need a new book. I've read all the ones I bought earlier this summer

Scott D

8/16/2007, 03:10 PM

DOOD...when is the next installment of that opus coming out?!

I think it's somewhat indefinitely on hold due to the health and home issues that Robert Jordan has had over the past two years.

I take that back, he's looking at a 2009 release for the book with a timeline of final submission to his publisher in 2008.

critical_phil

8/16/2007, 03:22 PM

I just finished the first book in the Odd Thomas series by Koontz. I got all three for Christmas and decided I better start on them. I'll start the second one, Forever Odd today.

just cause I knew you wanted to know.

a month into the first Odd and i'm just now to the point where he meets Elvis.

i need to step up the pace a little.

SicEmBaylor

8/16/2007, 03:32 PM

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TPGTT5F3L._SS500_.jpg

Frozen Sooner

8/16/2007, 03:43 PM

I think it's somewhat indefinitely on hold due to the health and home issues that Robert Jordan has had over the past two years.

I take that back, he's looking at a 2009 release for the book with a timeline of final submission to his publisher in 2008.

Didn't know he had any home issues on top of his declining health. He's promised that Memory of Light will be the last one and he's trying to get everything wrapped up so that people won't have to worry about him passing on in the middle of another one. I guess he's REALLY not doing well.

LosAngelesSooner

8/16/2007, 03:55 PM

Scott D

8/16/2007, 06:00 PM

Didn't know he had any home issues on top of his declining health. He's promised that Memory of Light will be the last one and he's trying to get everything wrapped up so that people won't have to worry about him passing on in the middle of another one. I guess he's REALLY not doing well.

Well Amyloidosis can be pretty severe from what I read, although he's been somewhat mum about what motor functions it's been affecting.

The home matter could be another author. I have trouble keeping some of them straight, I thought they had a second home in either Ireland or Wales that was having some major problems also, but that could have been another author.

Scott D

8/16/2007, 06:04 PM

Yikes! I didn't know he was having home OR health issues! Could you imagine the FUROR if he DID pass away before finishing this series?!?!?!

Oh...my...lord...

So the next one is going to be the last one? And it's going to be called Memory of Light? And it's coming out 2009 sometime?!?!

the health issues have been ongoing since at least 2005 I believe. He's in the care of the Mayo Clinic so, if there's anything to be done it's being done. According to his cousin who has been updating his blog for him there has been improvement in the last 6 months, but he's not out of the woods (nor does it sound like he ever will be).

The sad part really is that he has enough for a 12th book, but like Mike said, out of fears that he won't live long enough to write at least two more books after Memory of Light, he's making it a lot larger of a book than he would have otherwise to make sure the series has been completed before he dies. That's why a book that was suppossed to be released in the fall of 2006 has now been pushed back to late spring of 2009, well that and the health issues.

Chuck Bao

8/25/2007, 01:59 AM

I finally found “The King Never Smiles” when I was in Hong Kong last weekend. So far (and I’m only one-third through the book), it’s the best non-fiction book I’ve read in a very long time.

This book will probably never been sold in Thailand and that’s a great pity because if Thais would read it they’d learn so much about their own history and themselves. This is the first time I’ve read an unvarnished version of modern Thai history and it’s fascinating.

The author, Paul Handley, can never return to Thailand and he had to mention in his preface that he couldn’t name his sources as they would be in as much trouble as he is. The book doesn’t even have a picture of the author or really much background except a sentence or two. Still, he was the only foreigner who I ever felt worth reading about Thailand when he was the stringer for Far Eastern Economic Review.

This book is very timely because it puts last year’s coup, the palace support for the coup, all-out persecution and demonization of the previous administration and drafting of the new constitution in context of a very turbulent history. Apparently, we have been through all of this before. Who knew?

http://www.amazon.com/King-Never-Smiles-Biography-Thailands/dp/0300106823/ref=sr_1_1/103-6715480-9461429?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188024752&sr=8-1

Edmond Sooner

8/25/2007, 03:34 PM

Well, I wrapped up the fascinating story of Queen Boudica and the Battle of Watling Street, and have now started Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War by Howard Jones.

Since JFK, for all intents and purposes, initiated the actual combat phase of the Vietnam War, I am dubious of the author's stated premise. But we shall see.

Great thread.

proud gonzo

8/25/2007, 04:36 PM

for my journalism class:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0061142026.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://www.bookreporter.com/art/covers/140w/0440122147.jpg http://www.2millionbooks.com/04/april/tale.jpg

and I just ordered:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0440238609.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

and

http://www.thisnext.com/media/230x230/The-Wind-Up-Bird-Chronicle-A_7A727909.jpg

SicEmBaylor

8/25/2007, 04:39 PM

Right now, I'm reading my class syllabus.

OU4LIFE

8/27/2007, 07:20 AM

a month into the first Odd and i'm just now to the point where he meets Elvis.

i need to step up the pace a little.

yes, yes you do. I've already ran through all 3 of those. The first one is by far the best IMO, the second pales and the third was better.

I'm reading Stephen King - Cell right now. it's aight.