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Title: do any of you read books?
Post by: eKardz on May 09, 2005, 01:35:14 PM
just curious if any of you like to read, and what you are currently reading or what was the last book you read.

i am currently reading Orders To Kill by William Pepper, its about the conspiracy behind the martin luther king assassination, and its pretty damn interesting so far.  it wasnt james earl ray who killed the king, it was green berets working for the united states governement or something, this book is all backed up by facts, i am currently only an eighth the way through but its pretty interesting.

the last book i read was the autobiography of malcolm x....another great book, reading about icons, and other true novels are so much better than fiction books, although i read and enjoyed all lord of the rings and some harry potter lol, but true books are better because it is spreading knowledge. 

the next book im reading is called Cocaine Politics, and is about the governements involvement in the coke trade in the 1980's seems interesting, cant wait to finish the King book and start this...

please post any thoughts or opinions if you have read these books, or anything else....im just interested.
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Post by: Javier on May 09, 2005, 01:48:33 PM
Last book ive read for fun is Moneyball.  Basically on how the A's ran their team under Billy Beane as Gm and Paul Depodesta as Assitant GM
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Post by: J Bananas on May 09, 2005, 02:00:23 PM
I just read "The Alchemist" by Paul Coelho. Kind of a kids book but it's got some good life lessons in it.
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Post by: -Euthanasia- on May 09, 2005, 03:03:43 PM
do what to the who, now?
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Post by: Eddie G. on May 09, 2005, 03:14:09 PM
I don't read
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Post by: TuKer Says: Angeles Records is the truth!! on May 09, 2005, 03:24:01 PM
everyday im reading dubcc posts so thats about it
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Post by: Just Another Sunny day in California on May 09, 2005, 07:28:43 PM
"The Prince" by Machiavelli
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Post by: Acgrundy on May 09, 2005, 11:32:02 PM
Last book ive read for fun is Moneyball. Basically on how the A's ran their team under Billy Beane as Gm and Paul Depodesta as Assitant GM

I really wanna get that book.

last book I read was the one put out by the original winner of The Apprentice.  I was a really good book, good stuff in there.  I don't read much tho, just don't have time.
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Post by: bez on May 10, 2005, 04:35:14 AM
Last book I read was on holiday.  "Cocky", about Britians biggest Drug Dealer Curtis Warren.  The book I am reading now is called "Powder Wars" and its about all Britians drug gangs and shit.  Interesting.
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Post by: 'EclipZe on May 10, 2005, 12:46:02 PM
ive readed the lotr trilogy and that was 1/2 yrs ago  ::) readed all the books from that tolkien guy
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Post by: -Euthanasia- on May 10, 2005, 12:59:48 PM
i havent readeded since grade this many -->3
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Post by: Ðøšïå on May 10, 2005, 01:07:07 PM
last time i read a book would have to be the hobbit and the lord of the ringss books. prob was like 3-4 years ago.
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Post by: Don Seer on May 10, 2005, 01:54:36 PM
yeah...

the last book i read a few weeks ago was..

Bruce Sterling - Islands In The Net

shortly before that i read a story collection called Mirrorshades

look em up for why they're related..

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Post by: 7even on May 10, 2005, 02:44:55 PM
Last book: How to be good by Nick Hornby
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Post by: DAYUM on May 10, 2005, 02:46:37 PM
in school we are reading The Bean Trees right now

it fuckin sucks
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Post by: The Predator on May 10, 2005, 03:01:08 PM
You Got nothing coming - jimmy Lerner

Its story about a old jewish guy who ends in the pen a few years back surrounded by skinheads, chicano, black gangs, sadistic guards, a low life populatiion etc...One of the funniest n true potrayal of prison life books. Jimmy Lerners free now but that book he wrote of his experience was one of the best reads and will really make ya laugh.

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''You Got Nothing Coming, Jimmy A. Lerner's memoir of his first year (of a possible 12) as an inmate in a Nevada state prison, is a shocking, hilarious, and heartbreaking narrative of a world both parallel to and absolutely alien from the one most readers inhabit. With deft, economical prose, Lerner, a middle-aged former marketing director for a major corporation, introduces us to his fellow inmates--swastika-tattooed skinheads, Wiccans, methamphetamine addicts, and fashion-conscious prostitutes, among others--as well as a multitude of prisoner scams, nonexistent but on-the-books rehab programs, and the life-or-death intricacies of the convict code of etiquette. Lerner's ear for prison language is pitch-perfect, and much of what we learn comes directly from the mouths of the incarcerated. Lerner has, in effect, written a nonfiction novel, one artfully laced with mordant humor and by turns tender, caustic, insightful, and relentlessly candid. --H. O'Billovitch''
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Post by: Suga Foot on May 10, 2005, 03:02:21 PM
I pick through books, I don't ever read novels or anything.  But I like books on business and shit like that.  I've heard good things about "Geurilla Marketing", I'll pick that one up soon.
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Post by: Javier on May 10, 2005, 07:52:30 PM
Last book ive read for fun is Moneyball. Basically on how the A's ran their team under Billy Beane as Gm and Paul Depodesta as Assitant GM

I really wanna get that book.

last book I read was the one put out by the original winner of The Apprentice.  I was a really good book, good stuff in there.  I don't read much tho, just don't have time.


Yeah man, its  fucking dope
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Post by: davida.b. on May 10, 2005, 09:44:09 PM
I'm not a big reader, but right now I'm hooked on the Series Of Unfortunate Events books.
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Post by: Just Another Sunny day in California on May 10, 2005, 09:53:33 PM
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Post by: Low Key on May 10, 2005, 11:33:01 PM
I usually read Clancy books. Haven't for a couple years though.

I'm getting into magazines more. I usually read Maxim every month, and my friend just borrowed me a couple of his Fortean Times.

And actually, I'm about 1/4 through Mein Kampf. Hilter was a crazy fuck who couldn't write at all.