Does anyone on here read?

Bob Sacamano

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books that is

any voracious readers in here? me, I gobble books up, just finished reading American Brutus, about John Wilkes Booth and the assisination, pretty fascinating, I'm more of a non-fiction guy myself, any other fellow bookworms?
 

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I am into Mysteries. I also enjoy legal thrillers, especially John Grisham's novels. I can finish his books within a week. He has a non-fiction book out called The Innocent Man, I have heard it is good, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Other than that I can't help recommend any non-fiction books because I don't read many from that genre.
 

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I wouldn't say I "gooble books up", but I read a few here and there. I just finished reading "Last American Man". Very interesting read, to say the least. I'm more into non fiction these days too, but when I was younger I loved reading anything. Mary Stewart's interpretation of the Arthurian Legend was amazing. I loved those. Spy novels were favorites too.
 

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DallasFanSince86;2726331 said:
I am into Mysteries. I also enjoy legal thrillers, especially John Grisham's novels. I can finish his books within a week. He has a non-fiction book out called The Innocent Man, I have heard it is good, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Other than that I can't help recommend any non-fiction books because I don't read many from that genre.

Just got a copy of The Innocent Man. I'll probably crack it open tomorrow.
 

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I don't read as much as I'd like to.

My favorites are anything by Philip K Dick, especially Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, VALIS, and the Divine Invasion, and the Redwall series (AWESOME).

I'm trying to read "Corporate Warriors" by PW Singer but it's dense as hell and I'm moving slowly. Fascinating stuff, though.
 

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I read too much at work to enjoy reading outside of work.
 

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Does "Penthouse Forum" count?

Honestly, I only read for news and information, not recreation. Haven't read anything fictional since college.
 

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I read and reread everything I have. I've been an avid reader since I was a kid. I tore through so many books that I found laying around and checked out from the library. The first book I'd read might have been To Kill a Mockingbird and I loved it.

The most nonfiction I'd read has been true crime, but I do prefer fiction and classics.

I'm a big fan of Anthony Burgess and can read anything he'd put out and enjoy it. That guys genius with languages, while telling a compelling story is awesome.
 

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Right now, I'm reading the "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. Luttrell is a Navy Seal who wrote about their Mission in Northern Afghanistan to find, kill a notorious Al-Qaeda leader. In less than 24 hours, all of his teammates are dead. He wrote the book in honor of his lost team memebers. So far, it's a pretty good read.

Whats interesting is, he was given a dog (yellow lab) as part of his rehabilitation when he returned home to Texas. A group of punks entered his property in the middle of the night just recently, and shot his dog for no reason. Marcus doesn't sleep at night, heard the shots, grabbed his gun, and went after them. He belly crawled along the treeline, and into a ditch where they were. They jumped in a car, and took off. He chased them through 4 counties while on the phone with police, who finally caught them. While they were taking the thugs away, one of them said that he better watch it, they will come back for him, and that he doesn't know who he is messing with. I found that funny, and stupid because these punks have no idea who they were messing with, and lucky, he did not torture, and kill them.

Here is the video of Marcus describing the situation about his dog. I hope the punks that did this get the maximum sentence.

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The Autobiography of Quincy Jones was the last book I read.

good stuff.
 

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at the moment i'm reading a book by a bbc presenter called adrian chiles called "we don't know what we're doing". the title comes from a chant that is often directed at the manager of a struggling football team - you don't know what you're doing - and is about in his words "the extra-ordinary story of supporters of an ordinary football club" it delves into the obsession supporters have for the team that they support.
as far as fiction goes my favourite author is bernard cornwell. he's done a lot of different series of fictional novels based on historical events. the ones i have read are series on the search for the holy grail, his take on the king arthur legend, the sharpe series based on a soldier in the napoleonic war, one about the viking invasion of britain and also a series on the american civil war.
 

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I'm mostly into nonfiction myself--mostly historical narratives. The last really, really great one I read was about the influenza pandemic of 1918, which I followed with one about the Paris conference in 1919. Really interesting dove-tail of world events and a very interesting foundation for a lot of things happening today.

I love Shelby Foote's Civil War books, and Simon Schama's series about the history of Britain. I still read and re-read the classics I liked (mostly French/Russian lit from Dumas/Tolstoy era).

When I was younger, I read more mystery/thriller/sci-fi, but I'm less interested in those than I used to be, unless it's re-reading something Stephen King.

I'll have to check out that Booth book--sounds like something I'd enjoy.
 

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theogt;2726452 said:
I read too much at work to enjoy reading outside of work.

I've been in same boat at for a while, i have had too much required reading to do so i haven't done as much recreational reading as i would like .

It was published a while ago (1980 i think) but i absolutely love this book and recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it already.

'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole

Never has a character in a book taken me through a range of emotions within the same page.



Also,

'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien
 

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based on the responses to most posts i would say that not many read.....
ohhh you meant books.
i read a lot. mystery, spy, police novels, my always ready to read louis lamour
stories, the occasional educational type books.
reading is FUNdamental.
 

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JerryAdvocate;2725604 said:
books that is

any voracious readers in here? me, I gobble books up, just finished reading American Brutus, about John Wilkes Booth and the assisination, pretty fascinating, I'm more of a non-fiction guy myself, any other fellow bookworms?

Fantasy books myself a little of the other side of the SCIFI

Some history books
 

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Just finished reading "I Am Legend" for the first time ever. So much better then the films that it spawned.
 

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I love it. Haven't read as much this year as I'd like, but in the last 3-4 months have read:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Crime and Punishment by Dostoeyevsky, Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Monteforio (highly recommended) and am now working on Homicide: A Year on The Killing Streets by David Simon.

All-time favourites include:

Europa by Tim Parks (my favourite author), What A Carve Up by Jonathan Coe, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler, A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 

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jem88;2726892 said:
I love it. Haven't read as much this year as I'd like, but in the last 3-4 months have read:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Crime and Punishment by Dostoeyevsky, Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Monteforio (highly recommended) and am now working on Homicide: A Year on The Killing Streets by David Simon.

All-time favourites include:

Europa by Tim Parks (my favourite author), What A Carve Up by Jonathan Coe, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler, A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Road was fantastic, one of the best books that I've read in a long time. Judging from the other books you like, I'd recommend "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Mirukami.
 
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