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Been on a bit of a Chernobyl kick lately.

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It's interesting how many of the characters from this made it into the recent tv show...the wife of the firefighter, the guys brought in to kill the animals etc
 
Journey with an outlaw - Hussein fatal. From 2pac's group The outlawz. He died a few years ago but his book that he was writing just got released.

Keefe D - Compton street legend.

In a bit of a hip hop phrase atm
 
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I just bought the hunt for red October, haven’t started it yet tho.

I usually read fantasy type books, like LotR type stuff, I’m pretty excited to start this one tho!
 
just finished The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

just started:
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about to finish:
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a staggering piece of literature. like holy smokes. this would probably go right towards the very top of the list of “top 5 best masterpieces i never heard of.” i’d even put it right in the top 3 of greatest unfinished novels alongside In Search of Lost Time & The Man Without Qualities.
 
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Dexter series. Currently on Dexter in the Dark.
 
Got some things squared away in the last couple weeks.

Recreational reading is back on the agenda.

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Finally gonna get around to this one:

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starting The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard now. a friend let me borrow it. apparently the proto Crash ideas about car crash fetishism first originated in this novel.
 
I'm reading some of the classics I missed. I read 'Flowers in the Attic' in a day last week. It was ok, but once I found out the author wrote other stories with simila premises it really cheapened the book quite a bit. Still was ok.

I just got 'The Tommyknockers' and 'The Shining,' which I have never read. Somebody can have an impact on my real life telling me which one I should read first.
 
Simian Raticus said:
Got some things squared away in the last couple weeks.

Recreational reading is back on the agenda.

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Finally gonna get around to this one:

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same here. winter is a slower season at my job, so i’ve been making use of the downtime to finally get back to consistent recreational reading. been spilling over into my free time once i get home from the office too, which is nice.
 
Amerikuracana said:
I'm reading some of the classics I missed. I read 'Flowers in the Attic' in a day last week. It was ok, but once I found out the author wrote other stories with simila premises it really cheapened the book quite a bit. Still was ok.

I just got 'The Tommyknockers' and 'The Shining,' which I have never read. Somebody can have an impact on my real life telling me which one I should read first.
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I’d skip The Tommy Knockers but haven’t read The Shining.

Finished The Endurance and Convict Conditioning this week. Endurance was recommended in this thread and came across the convict book while researching calisthenics.

Endurance was a great story but a kind of boring writer imo. Good read but not nearly as good as it could have been.

Convict was full of useful content and kind of makes you question modern exercise practices. Built like a Greek god is a saying for a reason and they didn’t lift any weights.

What’s more impressive, going from a back bend into a hand stand for pushups or squatting 315? I know what I’d choose.
 
Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
MoneyGun said:
Endurance was a great story but a kind of boring writer imo. Good read but not nearly as good as it could have been.
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I recc'd that one, cool that you read it. That's actually the most exciting read in my little library of polar exploration...their voyage on the James Caird to South Georgia was edge-of-the-seat for me.

I recently finished In The Kingdom of Ice, another polar survival story, but it basically goes from boring to depressing as most of the crew dies long, slow, painful deaths.

I'm waiting on a biography of Captain Cook to arrive, re-reading Flatland by Edwin Abbot in the meantime.
 
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A Little Hatred, the new book in Joe Abercrombie’s First Law series.
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How was it? I read all the books he had out around 5-6 years ago and liked all of them. Kind of forgot about him though.

I’m halfway through the second storm light archives book now. I’m going to be pretty disappointed when I catch up to the author. There’s only 3 books out right now in a planned 10 book series and so far I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the series
 
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I recc'd that one, cool that you read it. That's actually the most exciting read in my little library of polar exploration...their voyage on the James Caird to South Georgia was edge-of-the-seat for me.

I recently finished In The Kingdom of Ice, another polar survival story, but it basically goes from boring to depressing as most of the crew dies long, slow, painful deaths.

I'm waiting on a biography of Captain Cook to arrive, re-reading Flatland by Edwin Abbot in the meantime.
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I’m gonna try a book on the subject from another author but very good story none the less. I plug it often, but Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is the benchmark for me and oceanic tales.

I’d recommend that and any book on the USS Indianapolis. Worst naval loss of life in history and the back story of Quints removed tattoo in Jaws.
 
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