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Post by Buckeye Dave on Jan 18, 2008 12:07:18 GMT -5
"Foley Is Good" by Mick Foley is just as good as his first book. It's mainly stories from the road. Like the time they accidentally went sunbathing on a gay beach or the infamous "Penis Suplex" where Al Snow "came out" of his pants during a match. This is the only book that had me belly laughing out loud while I read it. I highly advise it.
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Post by loadtoad on Jan 18, 2008 12:16:00 GMT -5
I especially like the ones where things pop up as you turn the pages. You know you just don't see that many of those anymore. That is what we should invent...A porn book with pop ups. Haven't read the rest of the posts yet, but I was at Barnes & Noble last night and there actually was a pop-up sex book. Might have even been a Karma Sutra version. All I know is I put it down after a 6 year old boy and his MILF mother caught me pulling the little tab and making the girl go berzeerk reverse cowgirl. I think any chance I had with her was gone at that moment.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2008 13:45:24 GMT -5
I have to agree w/ everyone that said "Angels and Demons" was a great read... I just finished "Into the Wild" (I know it's been out for a long time, but I wanted to read the book before I saw the movie)... I couldn't put it down...
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Post by redstick13 on Jan 18, 2008 14:08:38 GMT -5
Redstick, If you have anything by RA Salvatore, Margaret Weise, Tracy Hickman, Ed Cook, Hell I could go on and on. I am a Fantasy Buff. I like the Lord of the Rings style stuff. So if youhave anything like that lety me know. I just might. What about Arthur C. Clarke?
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Post by redstick13 on Jan 18, 2008 14:11:32 GMT -5
Anyone wanna bet BED has read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis?
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Post by goirish on Jan 18, 2008 14:25:12 GMT -5
I have to agree w/ everyone that said "Angels and Demons" was a great read... I just finished "Into the Wild" (I know it's been out for a long time, but I wanted to read the book before I saw the movie)... I couldn't put it down... I finished that about a month ago, it was a good book and now its a movie.
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Post by Buckeye Dave on Jan 22, 2008 16:03:11 GMT -5
Anyone wanna bet BED has read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis? No, I haven't. Should I read it? Not a big reader, but I seem to go through phases where I read quite a bit, mostly in the shitter (i.e.: the "library" also known as the "study"), which is the only room of my house I can be sure one wife and two daughters won't follow me in to. Right now I'm reading "The Mist" (Steven King).
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Post by eyeofthetiger on Jan 24, 2008 22:12:29 GMT -5
Never read a Dirk Pitt novel by Clive Cussler that I havent liked. Mostly into books about success. Anybody read "Who Moved My Cheese"?
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Post by wvumountaineer on Feb 3, 2008 22:48:50 GMT -5
Anyone wanna bet BED has read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis? Is it what the movie is based on. Movie was good imo. Sick but good. BTW Irish ive been reading Angels & Demons in my spare great read so far. Im on chapter 30 something.
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Post by raleighrebel on Feb 13, 2008 8:12:58 GMT -5
you all would hate my books. i get too much education at work and in class so i read mindless action books like stuff by vince flynn
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Post by akbuckeye on Feb 13, 2008 9:20:01 GMT -5
Never read a Dirk Pitt novel by Clive Cussler that I havent liked. Mostly into books about success. Anybody read "Who Moved My Cheese"? I agree Clive Cussler novels are good. His non fiction stuff is interesting too. If anyone likes historical novels I would recommend the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. www.amazon.com/Richard-Sharpe-Chronological-Order/lm/2919MH58TWLC8
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Post by redstick13 on Feb 13, 2008 19:37:31 GMT -5
Anyone wanna bet BED has read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis? Is it what the movie is based on. Movie was good imo. Sick but good. BTW Irish ive been reading Angels & Demons in my spare great read so far. Im on chapter 30 something. The movie was only moderately sick compared to the book.
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Post by redstick13 on Feb 13, 2008 19:39:07 GMT -5
Never read a Dirk Pitt novel by Clive Cussler that I havent liked. Mostly into books about success. Anybody read "Who Moved My Cheese"? I agree Clive Cussler novels are good. His non fiction stuff is interesting too. If anyone likes historical novels I would recommend the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. www.amazon.com/Richard-Sharpe-Chronological-Order/lm/2919MH58TWLC8Have you read any Wilbur Smith? I just picked up my first novel of his and I like it. More accurate and believable than Cussler but historically based just the same.
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Post by redstick13 on Feb 13, 2008 19:39:40 GMT -5
Anyone wanna bet BED has read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis? No, I haven't. Should I read it? Not a big reader, but I seem to go through phases where I read quite a bit, mostly in the shitter (i.e.: the "library" also known as the "study"), which is the only room of my house I can be sure one wife and two daughters won't follow me in to. Right now I'm reading "The Mist" (Steven King). Yes you should read it. I think you'd like it.
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Post by redstick13 on Feb 13, 2008 19:41:24 GMT -5
For anyone who's never read any of the books starting with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy you're really missing out on a treat.
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Post by NCBulldawg on Feb 15, 2008 1:02:10 GMT -5
Something about the folks I read might not translate well with our crowd... okay, here are a couple of names: Jim Harrison, Thomas McGuane and an American "poet" of sorts, Richard Brautigan, and can add William Hjortsberg to the list... great American icons within the literary world, okay, maybe not Hjortsberg as much, but nonetheless, equally revered American literary folks. Not so much mainstream..... ie. Dean Koontz, but he certainly can pass time in an airplane/airport... yeah, I enjoy that "crap" too!
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Post by wvuchihuahua on Feb 15, 2008 16:55:20 GMT -5
I just bought several books by Glen Cook. The guy is a good sci-fi / fantasy writer.
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Post by Velocity on Feb 15, 2008 18:48:53 GMT -5
Any John Grisham fan (or a sports novel fan) should definitely pick up Playing for Pizza. Great book, and a helluva lot better than Grisham's last foray into sports fiction (Bleachers, quite possibly the worst sports book ever).
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Post by bcsbbad on Feb 15, 2008 19:00:31 GMT -5
NCB said "ie. Dean Koontz, but he certainly can pass time in an airplane/airport... yeah, I enjoy that "crap" too! "
So many airplane/airport novelist - I enjoy them all - just a sample of my "travel" book auhors -
Dean Koontz, Stephen King - Michael Crichton - Ken Follett - Robin Cook - Tami Hoag - W.E.B. Griffin - John Saul - Cussler - Cornwell - Nelson DeMille - John Sandford - Clancy - Jack Higgins - Stephen Coonts - Steve Martini - Stuart Woods - John Sandford - Michael Palmer - Dale Brown - Harold Coyle - Phillip Margolin - David Baldacci - and so many many more -
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Post by Velocity on Feb 15, 2008 19:02:20 GMT -5
Ahh, Michael Crichton is excellent. What's your favorite of his works?
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Post by bcsbbad on Feb 15, 2008 19:05:54 GMT -5
OSC - I'll have to go back to the first one by "Crichton" I "saw" before I read it - "Andromeda Strain" - fucking awesome -
Of course I'm old and the special effects weren't all that great - but one hell of a movie -
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Post by Velocity on Feb 15, 2008 19:08:21 GMT -5
Oddly enough, I think the first book I ever really read by Crichton was The Andromeda Strain. I'd never read Jurassic Park or his others, but TAS was the first and it got me hooked. That was eighth grade.
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Post by bcsbbad on Feb 15, 2008 19:18:49 GMT -5
My parents joined me in the "Youth Book Club" back in the day - 50 something years ago - I remember "Black Beauty" - and the spy stuff or maybe SciFi Fantasy - ERB (that Edgar Rice Dude) - all "Ian Fleming" - Mark "the bastard" Bolan - the guy that "Dean Martin" played - can't remember his name - Matt Helm maybe -
I just remember reading when I could just enjoy and not write a report - those were the good old days -
Not sure if there is a WWII book that I haven't read -
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Post by redstick13 on Feb 15, 2008 22:57:42 GMT -5
I'm down to my last few chapters in my Wilbur Smith novel Quest. Good book by the way. Once I finish it up I'm planning on taking on a monster book, Atlas Shrugged. That will be my work entertainment for a little while.
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Post by Life's too short. on Feb 17, 2008 23:44:56 GMT -5
Reno, you might want to speak to Bizboo45 over at CBS. He has a book deal in the works right now I believe. Also, I'm looking for copies of "The Girls Of LOWRIDER Magazine", contemporary, anything 2000 forward. My sister was a hood model in a one time deal in Lowrider, but that was well, well before 2000. There's probably visitors here that weren't born when that happened. Right out of highschool her and her friends used to hit the car shows with their buddies pretty regularly. She was asked to do pics and thought it would be fun. If you saw her now, you'd realize that ship has sailed.
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Post by Life's too short. on Feb 17, 2008 23:49:02 GMT -5
Never read a Dirk Pitt novel by Clive Cussler that I havent liked. Mostly into books about success. Anybody read "Who Moved My Cheese"? I think I've got every one of those. I think I read the first one around 1978 or 1979 and have continued ever since. Just read the latest one in the last month or so. Like most of my books, I get them in hardback and collect them, so sending them out isn't going to work. Just finished Stephen King's newest, Duma Key, it's pretty interesting. I'm on the last pages of The Eagle Has Flown right now. It's the sequel to The Eagle Has Landed. I just ran across it in hardback in the bargain clearance bin at Borders. When I was commuting by train, I could kill a couple books a week and the main Los Angeles library was right across the street from the office. Talk about convenient.
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Post by USCGamecocks on Feb 18, 2008 11:06:52 GMT -5
Speaking of Wilbur Smith The River God is fantastic as is Monsoon.
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Post by redstick13 on Feb 18, 2008 14:21:41 GMT -5
Speaking of Wilbur Smith The River God is fantastic as is Monsoon. Have you read all of his novels USGC? I was impressed with Quest.
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Post by Buckeye Dave on Feb 18, 2008 15:02:02 GMT -5
I just started the new Steven King novel "Blaze". Anyone read it yet?
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Post by erock72 on Feb 18, 2008 18:26:33 GMT -5
bcsbad...love robin cook....have read many of his novels...not many i havent liked
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