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What kind of books do you like to read?
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The Bible and Christian books here. Mostly on my computer and iPad these days as I can make the text larger. Eyes not what they were when I was 15! 
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I like to read real books.
My favorite book is "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
I like to read real books.
My favorite book is "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
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I doubt that I have read two "real" books since I got my first iPad.
Really like the availability and easy access to eBooks. I tend to buy most of my books from the Kindle Store (Amazon) and it is really nice to read about a book, navigate to the store and download a sample, try it out and decide to go with it, total elapsed time generally under 10 minutes.
Really like the availability and easy access to eBooks. I tend to buy most of my books from the Kindle Store (Amazon) and it is really nice to read about a book, navigate to the store and download a sample, try it out and decide to go with it, total elapsed time generally under 10 minutes.
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The Bible and Christian books here. Mostly on my computer and iPad these days as I can make the text larger. Eyes not what they were when I was 15!
Same here Dennis. These old eyes still test at 20 - 20 but my arms aren't long enough to get a good focus on the print. ;D
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Survival/Preparedness how-to books. Lots to learn, so little time. I like a good Tom Clancy, Alistair MacLean or Clive Cussler book as well, but I've read them all so most of those are re-reads. Reading "Lights Out" right now.
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what are you testing for?
I'm studying for my Six Sigma Green Belt and Safety Auditor certifications.
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I've read Erewhon and 1984. What else is on your Dystopian list?
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Thus far, Handmaid's Tale and Never Let Me Go.
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I'll add Handmaid's Tale to my list of "Books I Really Ought to Read Someday", I've heard of it but never got around to it.
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Ooooo
Then you need to read...
oh heck, let me put together a list...
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Brave New World - Aldus Huxley
It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
If This Goes On - Robert Heinlein
Ok, that'll get ya started
Then you need to read...
oh heck, let me put together a list...
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Brave New World - Aldus Huxley
It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
If This Goes On - Robert Heinlein
Ok, that'll get ya started
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Have read Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 and If This Goes On (and anything Heinlein wrote before and including Stranger in a Strange Land)Ooooo
Then you need to read...
oh heck, let me put together a list...
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Brave New World - Aldus Huxley
It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
If This Goes On - Robert Heinlein
Ok, that'll get ya started
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"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"
Animal Farm - George Orwell
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Eh, only thinly veiled fiction.. right down to Napoleon knocking off Trotsky.. I mean Snowball after he fled the revolution
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I'm not a big reader at all, never have been, and really have never enjoyed fiction at all.
I much prefer auto biographies/biographies, or factual books about serial killers.
Currently I am reading Chris Evans auto-biography (he's a DJ for those who don't know).
I much prefer auto biographies/biographies, or factual books about serial killers.
Currently I am reading Chris Evans auto-biography (he's a DJ for those who don't know).
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Yes yes and yes . . . .. 2 great books and one I'm looking at on my shelf right now.
Future Shock - Alvin Toffler
Thanks for that list and making look at my bookcase. Might start reading Future Shock tonight. Did start once before then came my baby boy . . Then again i could always do with reading Nineteen Eighty Four again .
Might lol
Ginger Chris and such a funny man. I liked listening to him and what was it TFI Friday he hosted ??
You might like Preacher of Death then Kev written about the Waco siege. David Koresh was a evil evil man !!!!!!
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Yes, TFI, you got that there? Cool!
I would like that for sure, I always think that one person's ability to brainwash a mulititude to be fascinating, though more fool them, and especially as, once again, religion is at the root of that evil.
I would like that for sure, I always think that one person's ability to brainwash a mulititude to be fascinating, though more fool them, and especially as, once again, religion is at the root of that evil.
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