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I have been reading alot more lately and really enjoy it. This no TV deal is OK, pretty sure I have not missed much and if I did who cares:D
 

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Pitchers or no pitchers??:p
 

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Its been a couple months but I got 2 new hard backs for xmas I need to tear through soon.:cool:

I'm not a huge TV watcher I just don't have a ton of freetime once I get home....Pesky family and Projects take most of my freetime;):D
 

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I probably read 2-4 books a month based on how much travel I'm doing at any given time......although I buy all my book electronically these days and read them on my iPad, PC or BlackBerry with the Kindle app.

I never have to worry about having a book and if I'm halfway around the world and need another book I simply go on line and buy another.

I plan to start "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" on my 12 hour flight from London to LAX tomorrow after finishing up a new WEB Griffin book on the way over.

I also have the latest episodes (2) of Californication from Showtime downloaded to keep me busy as well.

last summer I read a bunch of books on the iPad while lounged on the boat in one cove or another.

Thanks to eReaders I have rediscovered books:D
 

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I probably read 2-4 books a month based on how much travel I'm doing at any given time......although I buy all my book electronically these days and read them on my iPad, PC or BlackBerry with the Kindle app.

I never have to worry about having a book and if I'm halfway around the world and need another book I simply go on line and buy another.

I plan to start "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" on my 12 hour flight from London to LAX tomorrow after finishing up a new WEB Griffin book on the way over.

I also have the latest episodes (2) of Californication from Showtime downloaded to keep me busy as well.

last summer I read a bunch of books on the iPad while lounged on the boat in one cove or another.

Thanks to eReaders I have rediscovered books:D

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A year or so i started reading Steven Colbert's "I am America,and so can you" I got about 5 pages in,then it became a beer coaster. Its been a great coaster.:D
 

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Just finished Rat Race by Dick Francis, headed to the store to pick up a new one as we speak:thumbsup
 

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A year or so i started reading Steven Colbert's "I am America,and so can you" I got about 5 pages in,then it became a beer coaster. Its been a great coaster.:D
I can;t believe you got that far.....Focking LIB!!!
 

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I received "The Anthem" by Ayn Rand for Christmas. Read it before the break was over. Very short read. I was a little disappointed. Half of the book was the same book with her hand written edits in it. Good story, just short.
 

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Thanks to some recommendations from RDPers I bought and started reading "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life & Times of Warren Zevon"

I started it but I'm not sure I'll finish it. Lots of detail but not enough of it is interesting (so far).
 

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I have been reading for as long as I can remember. My grandmother told me very early on that you can go anywhere or discover anything just by picking up a book and reading. I always have at least one book going
 

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Pitchers or no pitchers??:p

Do you read a lot of Baseball books or do you drink when you read?:D

I enjoy reading plus it helps me get to sleep, most the time I read a book then pick it up a year or 2 later and forget I read it until the 2nd chapter or so..:swear
 

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I have been reading for as long as I can remember. My grandmother told me very early on that you can go anywhere or discover anything just by picking up a book and reading. I always have at least one book going

My grandma got me into reading as well. I'll always be grateful.
 

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I received "The Anthem" by Ayn Rand for Christmas. Read it before the break was over. Very short read. I was a little disappointed. Half of the book was the same book with her hand written edits in it. Good story, just short.

Nice tried her years back. Atlas Shrugs? Way beyond my realm!
 

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I have been reading alot more lately and really enjoy it. This no TV deal is OK, pretty sure I have not missed much and if I did who cares:D

Oh and just this morning a finished a few pages in the library before work. The normal morning visit!
 

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I have been reading alot more lately and really enjoy it. This no TV deal is OK, pretty sure I have not missed much and if I did who cares:D

last time must have been in middle school. Reading isn't for me.
 

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I just read Sarah Palin's new book. It was a christmas gift. Not something I would have probably purchased. I learned that she is a pretty smart and well read person. I have much more respect for her than I did from watching her on T.V.

I purchased a cabin in the Hualapai mountains, for a weekend place, and refuse to have television there. Without T.V. I can get a tremendous amount of reading done. Going to Hastings in Havasu Sunday to stock up on a few books.

Guess I will have to modernize and purchase a Kindle or something like that.
 

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I read a book once. I think it was my junior year of high school.
 

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I was going to read the Rex marine catalog ... It never showed... :)


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I read all the time, you Ayn Rand folks can probably tell by my "location"
It all started for me when I was a kid in elementary school. I discovered the "Adventures of Tom Swift Jr" series, and I was hooked.
By the time I was about 12 I was into to the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Series, and when I was 13 I subcribed to Hot Rod Magazine. I still remember sending in my $3.95 for a one year subscription.
I have a limited edition Box Set of Henry Gregor Felson's works, if you were a kid who read in the late 50's-60's you remember "Street Rod", Road Rocket" and a couple of others.
I have all of Clancy's classics in Hardback, as well as Stephen King's majors.
So yeah I love to read, working my way through Vince Flynn's new one now, and about three other ones on my nightstand.
There is a great used paperback store in town Cindy and I both frequent, and I spend too much $ about twice a year at B&N down in Sacto.
 

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Any one else keep a copy of Catcher In The Rye on them at all times;)
 

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Boating forums have ruined my reading time. I used to read daily. I hardly find the time now.
 

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Any one else keep a copy of Catcher In The Rye on them at all times;)

Ugh! NO! I tried to read it years ago. Didn't get past the first chapter. I told some colleagues that and they suggested I pick it up again after a couple of years "now that I'm at a different place in my life." So I tried it. Didn't get past the first chapter.

I'm a big fan of most classic literature. Steinbeck is my favorite (see quote below). I've also read a lot of Stephen Ambrose as well.
 

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Finished my last book a couple of weeks ago and started on my current one last week. I finished grad school in April of last year and have read 11 books since.

I've been reading so much that I received a Kindle as a Christmas gift so now I just buy them from Amazon and download them. I finished two books between Christmas and New Years. It's great!

My dad is/was kind of surprised as my parents were worried I'd never be able to read because I had such problems with learning how to in grade school. But, as a testament to involved parents, they made me read every night before bed and now I enjoy it!
 

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Ugh! NO! I tried to read it years ago. Didn't get past the first chapter. I told some colleagues that and they suggested I pick it up again after a couple of years "now that I'm at a different place in my life." So I tried it. Didn't get past the first chapter.

I'm a big fan of most classic literature. Steinbeck is my favorite (see quote below). I've also read a lot of Stephen Ambrose as well.

Just a little demented humor, I have read it a few times at different stages in my life to see if I missed something regaurding all the controversy surrounding it . Didnt go all crazy n shit:D

Mark David Chapman's shooting of John Lennon (Chapman was arrested with his worn copy of the book, and inside, he had scribbled a note: This is my statement, From Holden Caufield.), John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, Robert John Bardo's shooting of Rebecca Schaeffer, and other murders have also been associated with the novel.

I used to really enjoy Damon Runyon's short stories, If you have never read them and like good pulp fiction its a must.
 

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i have enjoyed reading lately ... i have always liked charles bukowski and tucker max's books.

i really do enjoy reading autobiography's.
 

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I received "The Anthem" by Ayn Rand for Christmas. Read it before the break was over. Very short read. I was a little disappointed. Half of the book was the same book with her hand written edits in it. Good story, just short.

I am reading Atlas Shrugged right now.
 

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I really wish I was a reader because there's a lot of books I'd like to read, but for some reason I just lose it, concentration, fall asleep, ..... done a few books on tape though.
 

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Book.... What is this thing you speak of.....:D I haven't read a book since 1989.
 

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Actually just finishing up my ATP book.
 

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Any one else keep a copy of Catcher In The Rye on them at all times;)

lmao! :D

I'm pretty sure law enforcement is alerted each time a copy of that book is sold.

I haven't read a book for pleasure in a while. That's a shame. I miss it.

I did, however, watch 40 days and 40 nights a few years ago. Right now, I'm imagining you building a Revell model on the coffee table and cleaning the house within an inch of it's life.
 

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I am currently reading "Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10"

I just finished reading an ex-SEAL's gun show review.
 

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I am reading Atlas Shrugged right now.

Good for you! I went backwards, read Atlas, then Fountainhead, then Anthem. I really could see the progression of her thinking and how she was building Atlas while writing the other two books. Let us know what you think of it. I was angry and frustrated through much of the reading because the same crap happens daily and that's scary.
 

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Online forums have killed my reading habits! :p

I have every book by Stephen King, and there a few others i like as well.

Ever see the movie The Shawshank Redemption? That was based off a short story King wrote called Hope Springs Eterinal. Most people dont realize King is not all about horror stores.

If you wanna see what else he is capable of, pick up a book by him called Different Seasons. Its four short stories, all very different. Or try The Dark Tower Series if your into westerns at all. He is one of the best writers of our time.
 

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The last real good one I read was "The Hungry Ocean" by Linda Greenlaw. Great book about commercial swordfishing.
 

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i read as much as anyone I know because of forums.. I question the level of intelligence in the authorship sometimes. :D

I haven't read a book in a long time.. I might go pick up some JRR Tolken books.. Always liked those when i was young. :D

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I might go pick up some JRR Tolken books.. Always liked those when i was young. :D

Which would you rather do drunk, Dave: Read the JRR Tolkien library or watch the Lord of the Rings box set on a big screen while holding your wife's breasts that are just starting to swell before child delivery?
 

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Online forums have killed my reading habits! :p

I have every book by Stephen King, and there a few others i like as well.

Ever see the movie The Shawshank Redemption? That was based off a short story King wrote called Hope Springs Eterinal. Most people dont realize King is not all about horror stores.

If you wanna see what else he is capable of, pick up a book by him called Different Seasons. Its four short stories, all very different. Or try The Dark Tower Series if your into westerns at all. He is one of the best writers of our time.

I love the Dark Tower series. I wish he would write more of them. For some reason I always have visions of the lobsters eating my hands, lol.

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I like mysteries as much as I like westerns. Louis L'Amour books are great because I can usually read one in a single sitting or two. There are quick and easy.

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I'm reading BROKE by Glenn Beck now. Got it for Christmas good read and very informative.
 

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Good for you! I went backwards, read Atlas, then Fountainhead, then Anthem. I really could see the progression of her thinking and how she was building Atlas while writing the other two books. Let us know what you think of it. I was angry and frustrated through much of the reading because the same crap happens daily and that's scary.

Couldn't agree more. I read them in order about 10 year ago, and about a year ago I dug out Atlas again and was shocked by how it applies to the situation we find ourselves in now.
I have done alot of nonfiction reading by Howard Ruff and others, and have just dived back into some fiction works that speak to today but do not have happy endings.
Scary how completely founded in our real world they are..
 

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Couldn't agree more. I read them in order about 10 year ago, and about a year ago I dug out Atlas again and was shocked by how it applies to the situation we find ourselves in now.
I have done alot of nonfiction reading by Howard Ruff and others, and have just dived back into some fiction works that speak to today but do not have happy endings.
Scary how completely founded in our real world they are..

Atlas Shrugged should be a must read to be a citizen. I know that wont happen, but it is so current for an older book it is scary. But then I am almost thru The History of Rome (Durant) and the political and cultural issues of 165 BC are also "so today" it aint funny..
 
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