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Post by Tweed Pants on Jun 17, 2006 12:07:59 GMT -5
Glad i could improve your range of insults.
I've been reading Jack the Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation by Trevor Marriot. I didn't mind the movie version, it wasn't bad.
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Post by Aerie on Aug 18, 2006 21:03:44 GMT -5
I'm anticipating by Brian Greene, PhD.
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Post by dzero on Aug 18, 2006 21:26:40 GMT -5
^^ Once you've read it, could you explain it to those of us that took the short bus to school? ;D ;D
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Post by Aerie on Aug 22, 2006 10:10:09 GMT -5
dzero, remember when we saw Brian, I mean Dr. Greene, when he was on Letterman. He makes the subject so easy to understand. Happy 86th Birthday to Ray Bradbury.
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Post by Tweed Pants on Aug 22, 2006 11:24:11 GMT -5
I've been trying to read Idlewild by Mark Lawson but i'm having a bit of trouble getting into it.
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Post by Aerie on Aug 22, 2006 11:56:33 GMT -5
A friend read it all the way through to the end and said, "Next time I'll poke out my right eye with a dull stick. This is the worst book I've ever read." Well, he's American, what can I say.
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Post by Tweed Pants on Aug 22, 2006 12:28:11 GMT -5
A friend read it all the way through to the end and said, "Next time I'll poke out my right eye with a dull stick. This is the worst book I've ever read." Well, he's American, what can I say. I keep reading a chapter and thinking 'how did this get published?' it's not exactly well written - i'm still waiting for it to get good.
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Post by mari on Aug 22, 2006 19:01:01 GMT -5
Happy 86th Birthday to Ray Bradbury. He’s still alive? I read some short-stories of him after stumbling over a quote of his in a DA fanfiction. ;D Totally can’t remember which one it was right now, but am pretty sure that I read it in winter 2003… Somehow I assumed Bradbury was dead because – most stupid reason ever – the book looked so old and worn…
I'm anticipating by Brian Greene, PhD. Respect, Aerie ;D I started Stephen Hawkings “The Universe in a Nutshell” some years ago … and never got past the first ten pages… But very interesting without a doubt, so I kept it for the case I come down with a sudden case of boredom… ;D “Was” by Geoff Ryman is a very twisted but interesting version of “The Wizard of Oz”.
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Post by Aerie on Jan 15, 2007 20:14:01 GMT -5
Hawkings “ The Universe in a Nutshell" is a tough read. I had to read it for a class or I wouldn't have stuck with it. Now Brian Green is a very different kind of Physicist. He is cute, has a great sense of humor, and is the only man I could ever marry. ;D I got this book for Christmas. I haven't started it yet. I'm anticipating. ;D
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Post by Mia22 on Jan 15, 2007 20:39:12 GMT -5
We were assigned parts of Sagan’s, “The Demon-Haunted World” for a philosophy class. It was really good, not only did I actually read those assigned chapters I finished the book. According to Wikipedia it’s “intended to explain the scientific method to laypersons, and to encourage people to learn critical or skeptical thinking.” However it was really much more interesting than that just sounded.
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Post by dzero on Jan 15, 2007 22:47:51 GMT -5
Last book I bought was Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran I got it right before Christmas and when things got busy with the holidays I forgot about it . So now I've got to actually find it and then read it. Posting this to say thanks for bringing back this thread and reminding me that books do exist and how lazy I am for not reading more of them .
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Post by Aerie on May 10, 2008 13:16:38 GMT -5
I just bought the latest book by one of my favorite authors, John Sandford. This is his 18th in his Prey series. Rules of Prey Shadow Prey Eyes of Prey Silent Prey Winter Prey Night Prey Mind Prey Sudden Prey Secret Prey Certain Prey Easy Prey Chosen Prey Mortal Prey Naked Prey Hidden Prey Broken Prey Invisible Prey
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Post by Mr.Clark on Aug 17, 2008 1:27:22 GMT -5
Wasn't sure where to post this but after some digging I've determined this is as good a place as any. Picked up a new toy today, an E-Reader, specifically This E-Reader, and I have to say its pretty freakin brilliant. For Starters its small, light, can hold a ton of books and other documents, has great battery life and best of all a screen that wont do your head/eyes in after hours of reading, it looks just like print on paper. I guess the way it works is the the screens made up of thousands of tiny little balls that have a black side and a white side and when you change pages a tiny bit of juice is used to flip them properly after which none is expended so the battery life supposedly (haven't tested this yet) will last for several thousand page turns, not minutes or hours. Picked up about a dozen books from Sony's online store, its got an iTune's like program/interface, there DRM'd but there very small files and most books range from 8-12USD. File sizes range from 700kbs to 3.5mb I believe its got 160mb internal memory but you can also pop in an SD or Memory stick pro duo in for a lot more storage. So far the one knock I have on it is that the library isn't complete several of my favorite authors aren't listed. But its a very easy to use bit of kit, it will also apparently play MP3's and let you view pictures (in black and white) qualities not perfect but I've seen worse. Another cool thing is that you can put un-secured text files on it as well like Adobe or Word docs, I'm thinking about getting together some of my favorite fan fiction together and sticking it in a word doc and saving it on. Only problem is that will be tedious as hell as most of my favorite FF is long chapter fics and i'll most likely have to copy/paste it into word. Just imagine going chapter by chapter copy/pasting Reaching for Moon into a word doc. Also they've got a promotion where i can get 100 Classics free, stuff like Shakespeare, HG Wells, James Joyce, Mark Twain type stuff. I picked up a few of those, as well as a few other newer titles. All in all it may not seem like great value but for anyone who does a fair bit of traveling its pretty great, or just someone that likes reading.
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Post by shywriter on Aug 17, 2008 22:20:33 GMT -5
Wasn't sure where to post this but after some digging I've determined this is as good a place as any. Picked up a new toy today, an E-Reader, specifically This E-Reader, and I have to say its pretty freakin brilliant. Thanks for this info! (and looks like a great place for your post.) I love this sort of gadget and, especially after lugging my large laptop around an airport a couple days ago, have given some thought to getting one. The fact that you can load it with fic and other text goodies is something I didn't know, and adds to its allure. However, can you load books only from their manufacturer's library? In other words, can you load your Sony with Kindle books from Amazon, for example, and can a Kindle user load from Sony? Since none of the online descriptions I've seen so far say that they can cross libraries, I wasn't sure if it was because they can't, or because they just wanted to avoid advertising for their competitor. Looks like fun! Thanks again for your review!
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Post by Mr.Clark on Aug 18, 2008 2:10:19 GMT -5
Wasn't sure where to post this but after some digging I've determined this is as good a place as any. Picked up a new toy today, an E-Reader, specifically This E-Reader, and I have to say its pretty freakin brilliant. Thanks for this info! (and looks like a great place for your post.) I love this sort of gadget and, especially after lugging my large laptop around an airport a couple days ago, have given some thought to getting one. The fact that you can load it with fic and other text goodies is something I didn't know, and adds to its allure. However, can you load books only from their manufacturer's library? In other words, can you load your Sony with Kindle books from Amazon, for example, and can a Kindle user load from Sony? Since none of the online descriptions I've seen so far say that they can cross libraries, I wasn't sure if it was because they can't, or because they just wanted to avoid advertising for their competitor. Looks like fun! Thanks again for your review! Honestly, I can't say for sure. I do know that both companies books are DRM'ed so presumably neither will work with the other. The sony guy said that the books you get from Sony are unlikely to work on anything else. One big plus for the Sony tho is the puchase system, its modeled on iTunes and while its still a bit buggy it works well. When you purchase a book you store it on your computer and you own it much like a song you buy off iTunes. With Kindle when you download a book (you dont use a computer at all with Kindle so far as i know) you can only keep what you can store on the Kindle itself so once you delete a book you cant get it back. Where as with the Sony were to download a book once i was done with it I could put it on a flash drive and sell it to you or give it to you and you could load it onto your PC then onto your reader. My favorite parts of this product tho are the battery life, I've left mine on for over 24 hours and it still says the bettery is full, it literally only uses the slightest drop of juice to turn a page after which no electricity is used so according to Sony you could read War and Peace three or four times on a single charge. The second thing I love is the screen, it looks just like a printed copy and its so easy to read you could read for 3 or 4 hours straight without discomfort. So far I've got from the Sony Library Body of Lies by David Ignatious which has been made into a film to be released this fall. Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden Killing Che by Chuck Pfarrer Generation Kill by Evan Wright, already have a hard cover copy but just wanted to have it to reread. Through the promotion of "100 Free Sony Classics" I got The Republic by Plato The Invisible Man by HG Wells The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Dubliners by James Joyce Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes all for free, and I'll probably pick up more soon.
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