Finished this the other day.
Interesting take on distopian society.
Not a huge fan of the way its written.
Does anybody read [books] anymore?
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Finished this the other day.
Interesting take on distopian society.
Not a huge fan of the way its written.
I typically like Tolkien (LOVED Hobbit/LOTR and have read multiple times), but I just didn't love this one. Maybe I should re-read at some point...Started this yesterday:
I've read the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings probably half a dozen times but never picked up the Silmarillion or Children of Hurin before.
Goodly amount of microbiology so far, but certainly interesting and easy enough to understand...
I picked up from the library today the wolf of wall street.
so. damn. good.
changed my life
changed my life
My book about the best bicycle adventure of the 20th Century will be out soon, I'm told around the end of September.
The book covers about 20 years between 1970 when I took up bicycling, and 1990, when I left the bike business. In the early '70s I had a roommate named Gary Fisher, and we had a goofy hobby of modifying old bikes for off-road. Then I started putting on races for these bikes, which led to building bikes from scratch, which led to Gary and me renting a garage and starting a company we called "MountainBikes." Then I started a little newsletter that grew into the first mountain bike magazine, the Fat Tire Flyer. Then some of us got together to form a sanctioning body for racing, that we called "NORBA (National Off-Road Bicycling Association). Along the way I had adventures in Crested Butte, and I went to the Giro d'Italia.
Since I was a rock band roadie at the time, there's Grateful Dead stuff in there too. Very few people had as much fun for those two decades as I did, and these adventures led to everything this board and discussion group is about.
The book covers about 20 years between 1970 when I took up bicycling, and 1990, when I left the bike business. In the early '70s I had a roommate named Gary Fisher, and we had a goofy hobby of modifying old bikes for off-road. Then I started putting on races for these bikes, which led to building bikes from scratch, which led to Gary and me renting a garage and starting a company we called "MountainBikes." Then I started a little newsletter that grew into the first mountain bike magazine, the Fat Tire Flyer. Then some of us got together to form a sanctioning body for racing, that we called "NORBA (National Off-Road Bicycling Association). Along the way I had adventures in Crested Butte, and I went to the Giro d'Italia.
Since I was a rock band roadie at the time, there's Grateful Dead stuff in there too. Very few people had as much fun for those two decades as I did, and these adventures led to everything this board and discussion group is about.
Go to the Facebook page. There is a button for pre-order. 30% off if you buy before it's out.
https://www.facebook.com/FatTireFlyer
Re-read this.
3 for the price of 1. Whoa, that's good value.
The Pacific in 1944...not what you want.
Thanks for suggesting this, I'm about halfway through it and loving it!Just finished it. A really great story. Wonder if anything like it will be true in the future and I don't mean the 80s trivia craze.
The history nerd in me is reading "The Last Stand" by Nathan Philbrick, all about Manifest Destiny™ and Custer getting his ass fed to him (Literally, they fed him his ass before he died. Fact.) at the Little Bighorn. What an ass he was. Want to walk the battle field someday soon.
Thinking about only coming around here when I have something to shill tho...
Thinking about only coming around here when I have something to shill tho...
All 5 available Game of Thrones book. --oh... that's where my summer went.... 
A giant arrogant ass. Battle field is a great place to go once. Not a lot else to see in that part of the world. Kind of depressing country actually. Conditions have not improved much for the natives since Little Bighorn.
the first four were a joy.....fuck book five....still haven't finished it.All 5 available Game of Thrones book. --oh... that's where my summer went....
i've been listening to books since my peepers started betraying me.
shameless plug for a college buddy, Tony Doerr. His short stories are awesome. His new novel, All the Light We Cannot See, has been on the best seller list since it came out in May (and just made the shortlist for the national book award). We just commissioned him to write a new short story to accompany a show where I work. More: www.anthonydoerr.com
cheers
cheers
(not really)
plz, plz do not let my 9yo son ever see those...
I just picked this up at Powell's last night for my flight.
These were all interesting reads:
Reading "The Art of Raising a Puppy." Interesting take on dog training/raising by the Monks of New Skete...
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
One of my favs.....
i'm reading the Going Clear book now, which is about Scientology.
@narlus emerges! I thought for sure you'd be posting in @jonKranked's thread with your "putting dimples in the baby's head as it emerged" story.
i never finished reading it......need to dedicate time to listening to all the audio books back to back...
i don't know how to tag people....Toshi, i can't remember the baby dimple head meme... what was that all about?
hahaha, now i remember.
in other news, i still haven't completed Going Clear.
in other news, i still haven't completed Going Clear.
I just finished reading this.
Ho-Lee-Shit...
Ho-Lee-Shit...
I honestly cannot recall enjoying a book this much...simply outstanding
