What are you reading right now?

'Lunatics' by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. It starts with a girl's soccer game and ends with the accidental hijacking of a nudist cruise. Also involved: a lemur tazing a police officer and a naked nun.

'Openly Straight' by Bill Konigsberg. Openly gay kid decides to go to an all-boys boarding school and simply not tell anyone about his sexuality so he won't be known as 'that gay guy'.

'One Summer: America 1927' by Bill Bryson. EVERYTHING that happened between May and September of 1927, which is actually an awful fucking lot.

'The Reluctant Communist' by Charles Robert Jenkins. The memoir of one of only a handful of known American servicemen to defect across the DMZ into North Korea, detailing forty years of imprisonment in the most secretive country on earth.
 
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I don't know if you young uns' have heard of this, but I am reading Emperor Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations."


Marcus Aurelius was the Roman emperor played by Richard Harris in "Gladiator." He seems to be an unusually kind and humane man for his time ( a time and place where very few people would be considered "good" by todays standards.)

It's pretty much just a guidebook for being a kind, unruffled benevolent person. If only more people followed his advice for the next 2000 years (stress sigh.)
 
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Tonight I will finally finish Metro 2033. Then I will move on to either "City of Thieves" by David Benioff, or "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy.
 
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"Clickers" by JF Gonzalez.

I'm also reading "Fire Caste" by Peter Fehervari. One of these days I will convince a girl to pick up and read a Warhammer 40k novel....but it hasn't happened yet *SIGH* .
 
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I'm reading Con. Law, Crim. Law, Property Law, Contracts Law, Civil Procedure, and Legal Research and Writing. Like one-hundred pages a day.

I love you all.

(Yeah, I know I'm being a little facetious).
 
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Travels, a kind of self biography by Michael Crichton, the dude who wrote Jurassic Park, and ER, and about other 3-4 90's movies. He's kind of an insufferable asshole, and I'm in fact surprised by how much I am disliking him as a person despite how much I like all of his novels. Dude also believed global warming is a hoax, so it's kind of all coming together now. Still entertaining; because of his height one time a whole marketplace of people in Asia laughed at him. For all Chris whines, he's never had 500+ people in person laughing and pointing at him.
 
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Love in the Time of Chlorea. I have to read it for my English 116 class. Have to find some quotes that fit under historicism, feminist, and psychoanalytic literary criticism but only for the first chapter for now.
 
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Ron_Swanson said:
Travels, a kind of self biography by Michael Crichton, the dude who wrote Jurassic Park, and ER, and about other 3-4 90's movies. He's kind of an insufferable asshole, and I'm in fact surprised by how much I am disliking him as a person despite how much I like all of his novels. Dude also believed global warming is a hoax, so it's kind of all coming together now. Still entertaining; because of his height one time a whole marketplace of people in Asia laughed at him. For all Chris whines, he's never had 500+ people in person laughing and pointing at him.
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I'll tell you how his story ends

He's dead :arrow:

But in all seriousness, he was an asshole who overstated his own work. I've read Jurassic Park and it's actually incredibly boring.
 
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A-Stump said:
I'll tell you how his story ends

He's dead :arrow:

But in all seriousness, he was an asshole who overstated his own work. I've read Jurassic Park and it's actually incredibly boring.
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Oh I knew he passed away like 3 years ago from throat cancer (he smoked and he believed you could cause your own illnesses with weird mental processes, so I bet he was able to take his own illness real well..

And yeah, he was kind of a massive butthole and if it wasn't for nostalgia I'd have noticed that a lot of his books are quite similar, it's a sort of Dan Brown effect. But still, I grew up reading the guy, so I have a soft spot. And for me this is the first time I find out one of the people I used to idolize isn't neither perfect nor even too good, so that's kind of a valuable experience too.
 
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Baneblade by Guy Haley

This weekend I also want to read one of the old Captain Hammer novels by David Drake and Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams.

For some reason, I've become obsessed with sci-fi tank stories.
 
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