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Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread. 
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Just got a package from my sister:

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Both are exactly as awesome as they look. :isay:

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http://bettermyths.com/beowulf-eats-nap ... ks-part-1/

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Fuck me, that's hilarious. :lol:

I just finished this this morning:
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I like this guy. I need the rest of his stuff. (I have two others.) I've been reading a shedload of this detective/thriller stuff lately. It goes quickly.

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One of the cooler looking cookbooks i have met:

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The layout of it is awesome. No photos, just these awesome black and white graphic design studies built out of pasta shapes.

Like this:
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Just got these. I actually forgot i even ordered them.

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I am a fucking nerd.

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you, sir, have an axe issue.

Was thinking of picking this one up... the one to the left of the star wars books.

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I would totally snag that. And possibly the two to the left of it as well, depending on content. :nods:

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This is pretty fantastic. It's a mystery set in an alternate world where the American Revolution (and thus the French and Russian Revolutions, the World Wars, etc.) never happened.

I like a good bit of Turtledove's stuff- at least, the Southern Victory series (I own the whole damn thing- it is a fascinating if sprawling work) and a few of his one-offs (Ruled Brittania was particularly good). He's a much better fake-history writer than a sci-fi or fantasy writer, though. That being said, I found this at a thrift store near my work for a whopping $1, in hardcover and in perfect shape. It's pretty good. A bit fluffier than his heavier stuff- and with a wonderful Richard Nixon cameo. I've been on a nonfiction kick for a bit, so back to fiction for a bit, methinks.

Also, Jess got me a Nook for :krampus: . I've been reading a ton of Mark Twain lately on that.

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I love turning the pages on an alalog book, but the ease of carrying an electronic reader and saving space really is a no brainer. I have a Kindle HD and an iPad which I use both for reading. Love them. Being able to read in the dark is a plus also.

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A lot of the out-of-copyright shit from way back is available digitally fo free.

I do DL them just to see which ones are bast. But for a lot of them(like the Audels guides, the Mechanical Dictionaries, etc) it is weird in digi form, and i have to go buy the hardcopy reprints for full effect.

It is too bad, actually, because i think i would prefer the efficiency of just having them all well-stored in a tiny device. I am getting to the point, er, have already gotten to the point, where moving from this space will be a huge and difficult process, due to all of my favorite collected things, like the actual books and whatnot. And that is not even beginning to think of all of the tools and instruments. Fuck.

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The Stand. I find it hard to get into a book when reading it on my phone though so I'm gonna actually buy a real life copy I think.


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Loved reading The Stand. Never came across in the movie (or series was it?) like it should have.

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As a textbook for a required course, to boot. I approve of this professor quite strongly.

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I still haven't read that one all through, just bunches of sections of it. I really should make more of an effort than i have to get a copy and do the whole thing.

I visited my sister last weekend, and that usually means some new bookacquisition.

And so it came to pass that i have barely started this one:

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GF got me this for my birthday :love: :love: :love:

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I still haven't read that one all through, just bunches of sections of it. I really should make more of an effort than i have to get a copy and do the whole thing.


I can send you my copy when the semester's over.

I'm rather curious about this one:
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In 1910, the United States—its population exploding, its frontier all but exhausted—was in the throes of a serious meat shortage. But a small and industrious group of thinkers stepped forward with an answer, a bold idea being endorsed by the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and The New York Times. Their plan: to import hippopotamuses to the swamps of Louisiana and convince Americans to eat them.

The only thing stranger than the hippo idea itself was the partnership promoting it. At its center were two hard-bitten spies: Frederick Russell Burnham, a superhumanly competent frontiersman, freelance adventurer, and fervent optimist about America’s future—Burnham would be the inspiration for both the Boy Scouts and Indiana Jones—and Fritz Duquesne, a.k.a. the Black Panther, a virtuoso con man and cynical saboteur who believed only in his own glorification and revenge. Burnham and Duquesne had very recently been sworn enemies under orders to assassinate each other. They’d soon be enemies again. But for one brief and shining moment they joined behind a common cause: transforming America into a nation of hippopotamus ranchers.


It's nonfiction, seriously.

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