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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1150 on: June 02, 2015, 12:22:18 PM »
now reading "The Girl on the Train"
I think what my friend Mitch is trying to say is that true love is blind.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1151 on: June 02, 2015, 12:44:20 PM »
do you dorks read anything but fantasy books?

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« Reply #1152 on: June 02, 2015, 12:46:26 PM »
do you dorks read anything but fantasy books?

yes. about one in every three books i read is fiction <--- word book people call "fantasy"
I think what my friend Mitch is trying to say is that true love is blind.

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« Reply #1153 on: June 02, 2015, 12:50:00 PM »
I only read fiction, but some of it is historical fiction - I don't consider that fantasy.

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« Reply #1154 on: June 02, 2015, 01:16:24 PM »
I'm going to read Lev Grossman's The Magicians next.  A trilogy.  Will report back.
Don't.  Finished the trilogy a while back.  The first book is intriguing.   Sucks super hard from then on.

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« Reply #1155 on: June 02, 2015, 01:53:32 PM »
do you dorks read anything but fantasy books?

You should read rick perlstein's book on reagan.

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« Reply #1156 on: June 02, 2015, 01:57:15 PM »
do you dorks read anything but fantasy books?

You should read rick perlstein's book on reagan.

it's on my list. I loved Nixonland.

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« Reply #1157 on: June 02, 2015, 02:23:43 PM »
reading IT.

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« Reply #1158 on: June 02, 2015, 02:32:29 PM »
Yeah.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1159 on: June 03, 2015, 07:31:08 AM »
I listened to a really interesting non-fiction book on audio last week, Colin Woodward's "American Nations."  It's about the cultural "nations" of America, how they formed, how they developed, and how they behave now.

Cool stuff.  We are from the "Midland" and "Yankee" nations.  Rusty lives in the "Left Coast" nation now.  Some of you Texas guys are in the Nation of "El Norte."

Bread might be a Borderlander, or might be a midlander. 

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1160 on: June 03, 2015, 07:47:45 AM »
going to start Seveneves soon. pretty excited.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1161 on: June 03, 2015, 07:48:51 AM »
Any official western kansas boundaries?
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« Reply #1162 on: June 03, 2015, 10:04:21 AM »

Any official western kansas boundaries?

Kansas is part "Far West" in the western part , and "Midlands" in the middle and east, and the south has some "El Norte."

The characteristics of Far West are interesting.  Elements of the "Border Lands" nation (think "Appalachian"), with some Midlands mixed in.  The Far West nation includes west KS, West NE, much of north and east Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, east Washington, East Oregon, non Mormon Utah, and Nevada. 

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1163 on: June 08, 2015, 02:06:08 PM »
I'm going to read Lev Grossman's The Magicians next.  A trilogy.  Will report back.
Don't.  Finished the trilogy a while back.  The first book is intriguing.   Sucks super hard from then on.

The first book was easily the worst of the three.  None were great. 
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« Reply #1164 on: June 08, 2015, 02:56:36 PM »
I listened to a really interesting non-fiction book on audio last week, Colin Woodward's "American Nations."  It's about the cultural "nations" of America, how they formed, how they developed, and how they behave now.

Cool stuff.  We are from the "Midland" and "Yankee" nations.  Rusty lives in the "Left Coast" nation now.  Some of you Texas guys are in the Nation of "El Norte."

Bread might be a Borderlander, or might be a midlander. 

Sys lives in Tide Water.



sys lives in far west. or did I miss something?

that book got a little silly toward the end.

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« Reply #1165 on: June 08, 2015, 08:01:50 PM »
I listened to a really interesting non-fiction book on audio last week, Colin Woodward's "American Nations."  It's about the cultural "nations" of America, how they formed, how they developed, and how they behave now.

Cool stuff.  We are from the "Midland" and "Yankee" nations.  Rusty lives in the "Left Coast" nation now.  Some of you Texas guys are in the Nation of "El Norte."

Bread might be a Borderlander, or might be a midlander. 

Sys lives in Tide Water.



sys lives in far west. or did I miss something?

that book got a little silly toward the end.

Whoops, I typed Sys but meant Dax.  Man, I will never hear the end of that from those two!  Ya, I totally agree about the end, I got fed up and turned it off toward the very end. 

Which one do you consider yourself?  I think I am a solid mix of Midland and Yankee. 

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« Reply #1166 on: June 08, 2015, 08:07:28 PM »
I listened to a really interesting non-fiction book on audio last week, Colin Woodward's "American Nations."  It's about the cultural "nations" of America, how they formed, how they developed, and how they behave now.

Cool stuff.  We are from the "Midland" and "Yankee" nations.  Rusty lives in the "Left Coast" nation now.  Some of you Texas guys are in the Nation of "El Norte."

Bread might be a Borderlander, or might be a midlander. 

Sys lives in Tide Water.



sys lives in far west. or did I miss something?

that book got a little silly toward the end.

Whoops, I typed Sys but meant Dax.  Man, I will never hear the end of that from those two!  Ya, I totally agree about the end, I got fed up and turned it off toward the very end. 

Which one do you consider yourself?  I think I am a solid mix of Midland and Yankee.
Probably what he describes Midlanders as but no longer is.

Also, I finally finished the Wool series. He seemed to be in a hurry to wrap things up.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1167 on: June 08, 2015, 08:20:26 PM »
I got stuck 1/4 though the last book and just wiki'ed the rest and read the last chapter instead. Didn't really like the end
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« Reply #1168 on: June 08, 2015, 08:32:51 PM »
I got stuck 1/4 though the last book and just wiki'ed the rest and read the last chapter instead. Didn't really like the end
The last book went really fast for me like they all did. It also didn't seem to have as much awful prose as the others.

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« Reply #1169 on: June 08, 2015, 09:33:32 PM »
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1170 on: June 08, 2015, 09:40:58 PM »
I think it could easily be a nice movie length

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« Reply #1171 on: June 09, 2015, 07:41:36 AM »
I read the first wool book and had zero interest in reading any more of them.  I didn't even care to wiki the ending. 
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« Reply #1172 on: June 09, 2015, 08:09:52 AM »
I think I liked Sand a little more than Wool.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1173 on: June 09, 2015, 11:40:28 AM »
Reading "A Terrible Glory"
About the buildup and the Battle of Little Bighorn. It would be easier to read if the Native Americans had actual American names and not those goofy ones. Very interesting book. Learning a great deal more than I did in elementary school about Custer, the 7th Calvary, and the Native Indians who came together in the Valley of the Greasy Grass.

Side note, at the Native American memorial at Little Bighorn, they had a list of names of the Native Americans who died at Little Bighorn. My two favorites: Tanned Nuts and Snatch Stealer.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1174 on: June 09, 2015, 01:23:15 PM »
I know what you mean, man.  It's "Adam and Eve," not "Adam and Runs with Opossums."