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With the weather in one of those "snow-rain-heat-wind-snow rain-heat-etc." cycles, there's time for readin', ridin', and 'rithmetic (taxes - since I've been married, the only thing I seem to file on April 15th, is an extension...).
So, I'm curious, what's good (non-technical, more food for the soul type of) reading these days?
I'm reading "On the Road," by Jack Kerouac, with a "The Gift of the Jews" chaser by Thomas Cahill (the author of "How the Irish Saved Civilization" - a superb historian).
Beck - if you're reading this, the "Pacific Reporter 3d" doesn't count. Look forward to finally meeting you in a couple of weeks at the SWTF.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Dead tree media? That's sooooo last century...
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All of my neurosciences notes. And I hate 'em!!!
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I know you're looking for a serious response, but honestly I don't have the attention span for real books, so I read a lot of magazines. Lots of car/bike stuff, but lately I've been reading up on some woodworking stuff. Just got a pocket hole jig the other day  "Shop Notes" is a great mag, and even comes 3-hole punched for your convenience.
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Finished Dan Browns last book last week(wasnt that good), whent through a coupple of Swedish aoturs aswell last week being in bed sick and all..otherwise I always pack a good book when on the road..you know...find a nice creek, lake, nude beach or some other nice place and just lay against a tree for a while..lay in the sun reading..ahhh.
Worked from 09:00 saturday straight to 21:00 sunday this weekend(sunny btw) so not much reading or riding, typicaly this monday its raining...well feck it im putting on the GoreTex and heading out anyways..not like im made of sugar and will disolve from abit of rain.
have a good week all!
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a biograpgy of Alfred the Great.
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
944 pages, and wishing it didn't end...
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Like Benny, I really don't have the attention span for books. I read a lot of magazines. I can get through an article pretty quick and odnt have to remember the next day to read again or have to remember where I left off. I read a lot of BonnevilleAmerica.com too. Seems like when I was younger I read a lot of books. Maybe I just got tired of reading.
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these are what I have running right now...(A.D.D. so I tend to read several at a time)...
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance (reread)
The Last Templar
Shipwrecks of New England (PERFECT for us ADD types...many short stories)
Delivered from Distraction
THE VOICE OF REASON
per: Stewart
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"Mountain Biking-North Carolina"....trying to gear up for the summer; new downhill singletrack heaven!!
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Do non-fiction audio books count? I've got "The Millionaire Next Door" and "Freakonomics" queued up...
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Only if you can read the tape!
Thats kind of funny, my friend just got an insurance settlement and is now a millionaire. Still a biker with the same Hardley he always had just has some other cool toys too now.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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"Ines of My Soul", Isabel Allende, she's an excellent historical novelist from Chile.
I go on author binges.
"Let your soul shine,
It's better than sunshine,
It's better than moonshine,
****** sure better than rain."
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If I was to be serious I like Skeleton Crew by Steven King. Series of short stories some very good. The Mist is a story in that book and it's one of my favorite.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Bill - Do police reports count????!  Actually, when I read "for fun" its junk - don't want to have to think too hard, and if I put it down for a while, can still pick it up and finish it without having to reread it all. See you in a few weeks! Becky
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The Orvis Flyfishing Guide and Flyfisher' Guide to Utah. I recently got a new inflateable and new flyrod. Can't wait for the snow to melt in the Uintas. I have been fishing one time this year but have yet to bust out the inflateable. The rivers around here are WAY to high to do a drift.
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Just finished Amazing Grace, and I'll read anything by Terry Pratchett. No one and nothing is safe from him. Some of our British friends can probably tell you about his (extremely) warped view of the world.
Mike
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The town budget to figure out how to pay for this flooding. Well that and FEMA stuff.
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Last book was Douglas Brinckley's "Wheels For The World."
My current favorite periodical is "Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader."
Good stuff
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I read mostly for entertainment. Not much on TV. Just finished "the Assassin" by Andrew Britton and "Angels Fall" by Nora Roberts. Spy novel and murder mystery in that order.
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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Heretic (Mass Market Paperback) by Bernard Cornwell From Publishers Weekly Cornwell is a master of the historical action novel, and he outdoes himself again with this gripping third volume in his Grail Quest series, set during the bloody Hundred Years' War (The Archer's Tale; Vagabond). For years, English archer Thomas of Hookton has been searching for the Holy Grail. Thomas is not certain it ever existed, but obscure clues link his family to the mysterious vessel. In 1347, driven by his desire to plumb the truth of the Grail as well as to earn money from the plunder of French lands and property, Thomas and a small group of soldiers capture a castle in Gascony, the homeland of Thomas's father. Thomas hopes to hold the castle against the French, raid the countryside for loot and draw the attention of his evil cousin Guy Vexille, a French nobleman who murdered Thomas's father and who may have information about the Grail. Vexille appears, but so does the army of a local lord, sent to besiege the castle, and the vicious brother of a treacherous and cunning bishop who is determined to secure the Grail. Fighting honorably amid extreme brutality, Thomas is aided by loyal English archers, English and French men-at-arms, local bandits, a Scottish mercenary and a heretic girl with unusual powers. Outnumbered by his enemies, he faces the might of a huge cannon and the power of the Church's greed-not to mention the dreaded Black Death. Most daunting of all, however, is the decision Thomas must make when he finally discovers the truth about the Holy Grail. Graphic battlefield action, strong characters and sharp plotting are Cornwell's trademarks, and his fans will love this latest melee. Also read his Warlord Series which is an Arthurian chronicle without all the hocus-pocus you usually get in that legend. He approached it more from a historical perspective of how the power vacuum was filled when the Romans retreated from the Bristish Isle. Really interesting read from both storyline and historical perspectives. The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan ...OK, so I like reading a little every now and then. 
Ride On!
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The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery, A book on climate change.
Death Comes For The Archbishop - Willa Cather, Historical fiction about the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area.
Before The Dawn - Nicholas Wade, Views of prehistoric man.
Reread parts of Annals Of A Former World - John McPhee, Geology
I see Neil Peart has a new book; Roadshow : Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle
I'll have to pick that one up.
Cody
I was born a long ways from where I was supposed to be. - Bob Dylan
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I've read the Tony Hillerman, Navajo Indian police stories. Used to live in that country and worked with Navajo cowboys. I think he paints an accurate picture of the culture and landscape, not bad stories either.
John MacPhee is another good writer/chronicler of landscapes, overlain with societal pressure.
I need to read more...
jwh
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Playboy, for the articles.
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - Robert Heinlein
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The Cheater's Guide to Baseball by Derek Zumsteg. It's a fun read and its getting me all psyched up for baseball season (even more than I already was.)
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playgirl...for the articles
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playgirl...for the articles
Hustler has some good "Articles" too! 
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For all those here such as I with that short attention span syndrome, may I suggest you do what I do: Read the Sunday L.A. Times Book Review Section. Now I know what you're thinking here...that I'm "cheating" or maybe taking somebody else's word about the lastest books on the Best Sellers List. BUT, look at it this way...ALMOST without exception those reviews are written by what could be described as the "Intelligentsia" in this country(or the U.K.), who almost without exception are published authors themselves. So, the bottom-line here is that I save a heck of a lot of time and money by doing this, AND if I'm ever around people who STILL read, I can come off like I know a little somethin' about the subject at hand. (and besides...you people all know me by now...I KNOW EVERYTHING ALREADY ANYWAY, RIGHT?!...so what are those darn books gonna tell me that I don't already know, HUH?!!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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The Stand by Stephen King
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"Guns, Germs, and Steel", a history of human societies, by Jared Diamond.
I wouldn't have chosen it.
Got it for Christmas.
Laboring through it.
I'd like to read "On the Road", but it seems that copies are scarce & dear.
Said Molly to James, that's a fine motorbike.
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4th level nursing notes so tired of this crap ready to graduate and make money to spend on the Trump.
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Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie. Great book about the naval development during WW1
Crosley by David Stern, Michael Banks, and Rusty McClure Two Cincinnati brothers who were pioneers in early radio, built an early economy car, and owned the Cincinnati Reds.
Flying Through Midnight by John Halliday Inside look into life as a Vietnam era pilot.
Gerry
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Last 3 books "The naming of the Dead" Ian rankin (Excellent Police Procedural) "Heat - How to Stop The Planet from Burning" (worth reading but not compellingly good) "The God delusion" Richard Dawkins (not worth the time) Quote:
Crosley by David Stern, Michael Banks, and Rusty McClure Two Cincinnati brothers who were pioneers in early radio, built an early economy car, and owned the Cincinnati Reds.
I'll have to see if I can find this - that era is fascinating.
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The Orvis Flyfishing Guide and Flyfisher' Guide to Utah.
I'm from Manchester VT where the original Orvis is located, and my mom works at the American Museum of Fly Fishing which is right next door. If you're in the neighborhood, I can hook ya up with a tour
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Hmm... quite worryingly I've been reading my manual to find out how to take the front end of the 03 to peices...
However at work I've rereading the Harry Potter books in anticipation of the last one in July. Sad I know but I lead a sad life.
Gina
03 America - Pretty stock - except the TBS wheel...
06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel... 
09 America - It's very blue....
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Sad I know but I lead a sad life.
Got your baby back G, the last book I read was "H_E_L_L's Angels" by Hunter S Thompson and I think that was in the late 70s, These days I just cannot seem to take anything in..
Ray(UK)
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Just finishing up "Treason" by my hero, Ann Coulter.
A word to the wise is not necessary. It is the stupid ones who need the advice.
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"The Ransom of Black Stealth One" by Dean Ing.
If you're into 'airchines' or just a techno-freak, a must read. I know it's hard to believe, but he combines engineer and storyteller even better than Kevin Cameron.
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Keith- I love Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan!
I'm a little kooky for escaping into swords/sorcery fiction, occasional sci fi...
Anybody read read Tad Williams? His Otherland series had me only occasionally popping up for food and to care for my child. Very cool stuff, virtual realities, global conspiracies, artificial intelligence....
"Let your soul shine,
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Right now,
Duty Nobly Done by Sandy Antal and Kevin R. Shackleton. This is a history of the Canadian Essex-Kent Scottish Regiment.
Graphic novels, I just finished rereading V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd and Tales From The Farm by Jeff Lemire.
I also have plans to go back and reread George R.R. Martin's A Saga of Ice and Fire books before moving onto the next one. The same plan is for the Tom Clancy books.
John
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