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I'm reading fiction, Dean Koontz (Strangers, my third time) and non-fiction, two books about gladiators and the Roman games.
The book about gladiators is very good, especially when the writer discusses all the mistakes in Ridley Scott's movie. It's "Monty Python level", the way he corrects Scott.
I never go anywhere without a book, as I'm always on a bus or train...
And just finished a script myself, writing it yourself is even more fun.....
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"When things are at their darkest, it's a brave man that can kick back and party."Comment
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Just finished
influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert B Cialdini
It's something everyone should read, we get persuaded to do things because we're not thinking.
Also read:
How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
by Emilie Wapnick
This is where a book just intrigued by its cover and it was less than 200 pages, so I gave it a whirl. I found it enjoyable and credible, I'd recommend it if you have college aged kids who have trouble with what they want to be in life.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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We do a bedtime read at our house and I recently started pulling from a box of my childhood paperbacks. I picked up 'Sword and the Stone' and found this lovely coupon for a whole 7c off of delectable Cookie Crisp cereal dated 1978 that I must have used as a bookmark. sword stone cookie crisp.small.jpgComment
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Also read:
How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
by Emilie Wapnick
This is where a book just intrigued by its cover and it was less than 200 pages, so I gave it a whirl. I found it enjoyable and credible, I'd recommend it if you have college aged kids who have trouble with what they want to be in life.Last edited by Makernaut; Feb 13, '18, 10:25 AM.Comment
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Refuse to Choose! by Barbara Sher
A lot of people deem Sher the superior book on the subject but I'd have never even heard of it without the prior publication.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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Book-Wise: Reading Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry'
Comic-Wise: Reading TPB 'GodHead' (Green Lantern/New Gods).Everyone is Entitled to MY Opinion...Your's, not so much!Comment
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I just finished "How to fail at almost everything and still win big" by Scott Adams.
Really interesting read, hypnosis is my latest kick and some of his concepts resonated with me. Not all of it, mind you.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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Listened to Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. Humorous, engagingly written and most informative. Fascinatiing stuff.
My book reading is still mostly in the form of comix collections: I'm on the final volume of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man; finally made my way through the most of Grant Morrison's take on the Batman mythos (Spectacular stuff, man!); reread Miller and Darrow's Hard Boiled for the first time since the '90s; and I've been catching up on a South African cartoonist whom I managed to miss until recently - Joe Daly. More, I think, but I'll end my report here.>>> Looking for a few Bif Bang Pow! pretties. Please click to see if you can help!Comment
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I am a huge Koontz fan. He was my favorite author for many years. Midnight, Strangers, Watchers, Lighting, Twilight Eyes are some of my favorite books. Lately, Harlan Coben has become a must read for me. I just finished Stephen King's - The Stand, for the umpteenth time.Comment
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Listened to Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. Humorous, engagingly written and most informative. Fascinatiing stuff.
My book reading is still mostly in the form of comix collections: I'm on the final volume of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man; finally made my way through the most of Grant Morrison's take on the Batman mythos (Spectacular stuff, man!); reread Miller and Darrow's Hard Boiled for the first time since the '90s; and I've been catching up on a South African cartoonist whom I managed to miss until recently - Joe Daly. More, I think, but I'll end my report here.>>> Looking for a few Bif Bang Pow! pretties. Please click to see if you can help!Comment
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As a college professor I need to go from one book to another (history, anthropology, and economics), but sometimes I pick a book or two out of general interest. Right now I have Jimmy Connors' The Outsider here with me. What a fantastic book. And no matter what, Jimbo will always be the greatest and most spectacular tennis player to ever play the sport.
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It's interesting what you can learn from people's experiences. I should read more biographies.
Right now I'm reading "the Like Ability Factor" by Tim Sanders. It's taking a while to get there but i'll also probably finish it tonight, so I'm good with it.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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A little esoteric, but I am about halfway through "Only Death Is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost 1981–1985" in which author Tom Gabriel Fischer talks about his struggles with starting a metal band in Switzerland, first Hellhammer (a band almost universally ridiculed at the time but now considered very influential in the extreme metal genre) and then Celtic Frost (of which I am a big fan). A big hardcover with tons of rare photos, this is one of those books where I needed a physical copy rather than an e-book version. This weekend I picked up "New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB", so that one is next on deck.Comment
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