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 Suzie-Q   Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3371 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 
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For This We Left Egypt?: A Passover Haggadah for Jews and Those Who Love Them I'm not Jewish, but I'm a Dave Barry fan. ~Sue~ 
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Pierre A Renaud  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 
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Having read Message from the stars (one of the many essays included in Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus), you can now count me amongst them. Gee, I don't have enough lives to live up to my reading ambitions. For This We Left Egypt?: A Passover Haggadah for Jews and Those Who Love Them |
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Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3371 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1
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Pierre: Here is a Dave Barry Fan group I created on Facebook. (Be prepared for weird and funny people.) https://www.facebook.com/groups/Dave.Barry.Fans/ ~Sue~
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Admiral Gloval  Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21577 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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Reading around 6 to 12 different manga. Just have to wait until the next chapter is available to continue reading. Just have to keep all of that straight in my head. It is somewhat easy. Just like keeeping tv shows separate in your memory. The only hard part is the waiting for the next chapter.  
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Advent42  Send message Joined: 23 Mar 17 Posts: 175 Credit: 4,015,683 RAC: 0 
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I am actually reading about 3 books at the moment...."one is by Ben Miller called "The Aliens Are Coming" Another is called..."Parallel Worlds" by Michio Kaku".... and another by Michio Kaku, called "Physics of the Impossible" |
Gordon Lowe  Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0
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Just started reading Roadside Picnic, a Russian science fiction novel, translated in to English, about the events following an alien visitation on earth.  The mind is a weird and mysterious place
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Jim Martin  Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2483 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0
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"The New Russia", Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0
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What are people's favorite books from childhood? Do you still have them? The mind is a weird and mysterious place
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Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3371 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1
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What are people's favorite books from childhood? Do you still have them? I'm sorry to say that I didn't like to read when I was young. My parents never read to me so I never got into that habit. It's a shame. Parents - Read to your children!!!!! It's important. ~Sue~
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21577 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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Oh My Goddess! (Japanese: ã‚ã‚ã£å¥³ç¥žã•ã¾ã£ Hepburn: Aa! Megami-sama?), or Ah! My Goddess! in some releases, is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by KÅsuke Fujishima. It has been serialized in Afternoon since September 1988; the individual chapters are being published in tankÅbon by Kodansha, with the first released on August 23, 1989; the final volume of the manga series, volume 48, was released on July 23, 2014, marking nearly 26 years of publication. The series follows college sophomore Keiichi Morisato and the goddess Belldandy who moves in with him in a Buddhist temple; after Belldandy's sisters Urd and Skuld move in with them, they encounter gods, demons and other supernatural entities as Keiichi develops his relationship with Belldandy.
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John McCallum  Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 879 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 
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Ahhh! what am I reading 2 books by Steven Erikson The Crippled God(fantasy) The Wilful Child(EBook)(space opera) and by Peter F. Hamilton The Great North Road(SF) Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 37388 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2483 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0
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"The Glass Castle", by Jeannette Halls. A sad story, even though childhood adversity was overcome. |
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Ed Moran Send message Joined: 25 Jan 02 Posts: 174 Credit: 721,503 RAC: 0
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"How Bad Writing Destroyed the World" by Adam Weiner Yup.. it's about Ayn Rand. It's a fairly exhaustive analysis of Ayn and her background, culminating with her writings, her subsequent followers (esp. Alan Greenspan) and the economic chaos that ensued. I'm in the second chapter, after reading about the history of early development of rational egoism, starting with Chernychevsky's "What is to be Done", hailed by critics at the time as "the most atrocious example of Russian Literature ever written", its influence on Dostoyevsky and the Petachevsky circle, and it's refinement by Lenin and the communist party. Ayn was a child in St. Petersburg at the time, and played with the children of Nabokov, an early communist theoretician in Soviet Russia. Promises to be a good one, it's well researched, written with a thick slice of wry, and is merciless in his pursuit of Ayn. I recommend it. |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2483 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0
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"no one cares about crazy people", by Ron Powers. |
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Snagletooth Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 22 Credit: 196,934 RAC: 0 |
"The Empathy Exams" by Leslie Jamison |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2483 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0
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"Homo Deus", by Yuval Noah Harari. A Brief History of Tomorrow. Very enlightening, and Yuval has a great sense of humor. |
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Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
As long time Science Fiction reader I finally ran out of "new" Space Opera (Neal Asher et all) and bought the original 3 novels of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series (on Kindle). For some reason, Tom Swift isn't as much fun to read as it was when I was 10.... I have recently bought some RA Heinlein juveniles again like "Double Star" and "Between Planets." Poul Anderson's Polytechnic League. Pip and Flinx (Alan Dean Foster) Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liaden universe novels/short stories Found some Andre Norton that I hadn't read (the follow on to the Forerunner Foray). And on and on. Tom Miller A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
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Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
Just started reading Roadside Picnic, a Russian science fiction novel, translated in to English, about the events following an alien visitation on earth. How about "Picnic on Nearside" by John Varléy? It is a SF Short story. Part of a series he wrote. A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
rob smith    Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22676 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
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Another clutch of airport novels - can't recall any of the titles (which is normal), the plots are all about the same, but some had "quite innovative" ways of killing people, and some very improbable escapes from death by the hero. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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