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Title: Best Book You Read in 2008?
Post by: SkinnyBenny on January 04, 2009, 12:45:24 PM
All the illiterate haterz can git out.

I'm saying Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer.  Followed closely by The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz.
Title: Re: Best Book You Read in 2008?
Post by: Kat Kid on January 04, 2009, 12:47:58 PM
Nixonland
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Post by: doom on January 04, 2009, 12:58:20 PM
Who reads books? 
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Post by: SkinnyBenny on January 04, 2009, 02:56:34 PM
Gotta have something to do when you can't find the 'mote, bro.
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Post by: Thin Blue Line on January 04, 2009, 05:55:24 PM
Penthouse. Pick your own month.
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Post by: Lurker on January 04, 2009, 06:04:40 PM
Tsar by Ted Bell
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Post by: SkinnyBenny on January 04, 2009, 08:51:29 PM
Who in the hell still reads hard copies of Penthouse? 

www.it'scalledtheinternetd00d.com
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Post by: Thin Blue Line on January 04, 2009, 09:07:25 PM
Quote from: SkinnyBenny on January 04, 2009, 08:51:29 PM
Who in the hell still reads hard copies of Penthouse? 

www.it'scalledtheinternetd00d.com

Touche, skinnybenny, touche.
Title: Re: Best Book You Read in 2008?
Post by: mirakulous on January 04, 2009, 09:38:46 PM
The Road by Cormack McCarthy
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Post by: AzCat on January 04, 2009, 11:08:56 PM
Too many good ones to choose just one but I enjoyed:

The Forgotten Man - Amity Schlaes
The Story of Civilization - Will & Ariel Durant
The Discoverers - Daniel Boorstin
The Landmark Herodotus - (duh)

A couple not new to me but which I re-read as they seemed quite relevant again:

The Future and Its Enemies - Virginia Postrel
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand


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Post by: jeffy on January 04, 2009, 11:20:52 PM
Left Behind
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Post by: greasd up deaf guy on January 05, 2009, 11:30:18 AM
Tie:

Don DeLillo's White Noise and Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder.
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Post by: steve dave on January 05, 2009, 12:03:18 PM
Fiction:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518RSEK-BrL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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Post by: Pete on January 05, 2009, 12:14:17 PM
Quote from: jeffy on January 04, 2009, 11:20:52 PM
Left Behind

How's it end?
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Post by: jeffy on January 05, 2009, 01:01:11 PM
Quote from: Pete on January 05, 2009, 12:14:17 PM
Quote from: jeffy on January 04, 2009, 11:20:52 PM
Left Behind

How's it end?

The good guys win.
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Post by: KSt8er on January 05, 2009, 03:18:48 PM
Pillars of the Earth - OPRAH recommendation!
Or The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
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Post by: ksuno1stunner on January 06, 2009, 02:31:27 AM
f*ck, i prob didn't even read a single book other than textbooks

 :users:
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Post by: ednksu on January 06, 2009, 05:12:37 AM
The Strongest Tribe by Bing West

(about the insurgency in Iraq)
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Post by: cireksu on January 06, 2009, 06:56:59 AM
I read pillars this summer.  pretty good.

i need to read more.
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Post by: SkinnyBenny on January 06, 2009, 08:01:43 AM
No better time than the present, my friend.
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Post by: bigDcat on January 07, 2009, 03:19:28 AM
Lonesome Dove........all 900 pages of it.