I gotta admit to failure in pushing on the bounds of illiteracy and ignorance lately.
My nearest success in the last month was when I stopped at yard sale a couple of weeks back and found three books I wanted to read. Was standing in line to pay for them when the woman running the sale was rude to a mexican woman ahead of me in the line. I uttered someting of protest, turned, dropped the books in the box I'd gotten them from, and left.
Posted by BuyTex on :
glass: I kinda meant for enlightment, not *pure* fun, lol... I'm sure the "Three Position Step Control Algorithm" is boundless joy... **** Beedge...I wouldn't let numbskulls dictate my reading pleasure
What you and I should do is meet up at the Half-Price Bookstore at Ridgmar some weekend...great deals!
Posted by bdgee on :
Great Idea.....love the place....but I have to be careful in book stores....I'm like a drunk invited in to look over the selection.....
Posted by BuyTex on :
my son and I go regularly...I get mostly books, "we" get movies...and "fight" over music!
love that store, best in the chain, I think...
Posted by Upside on :
Re-reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. And the manuals to our new dishwasher and refrigerator.
Posted by BuyTex on :
quote:Originally posted by Upside: Re-reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
I *really* enjoyed that one...thanks for reminding.
Provocative, given the "gray flannel" times...
nice "pick," lol
Posted by jordanreed on :
trying to read all of louis L'amour... not all at once tho
Posted by LEO on :
Got about half way through Freakonomics when I got side-tracked by 8 college textbooks. If my synapses aren't fried by spring break I'll finish it then (may even get around to writing some kind of book report/review on it). As of half way through, good read so far...
Posted by glassman on :
whoever wrote that manual was a sadist
Posted by Laktu on :
Underboss, about Sammy the Bull, Gotti's right hand man. Highly recommended. After reading this I'm thinking of turning to loan sharking, anyone need a float??
Posted by BuyTex on :
good stuff...
Posted by profitmaker on :
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Posted by BuyTex on :
quote:Originally posted by glassman: whoever wrote that manual was a sadist
Try the manual for the Yamaha AWG, sometime...
lol, it's marketed for newbs to record live? then burn to CD? all-in-one...Tom Dowd is spinning in is his grave...
Posted by BigJohn on :
Saucer, Stephen Coonts' sort of lame
Recently finished: Blue Gold, Clive Cussler - more mind numbing save the world shoot the bad guys
Eagle Song, James Houston - good read, real events based on a journal written by a young blacksmith captured by Norhwest natives in the 1800's
favorites - anything by Tony Hillerman, Dan Brown, James Doss
Posted by BuyTex on :
nice list...
Hillerman quite enjoyable, have several of his.
The blacksmith journal sounds intriguing...
Dan Brown rings a bell--refresh my memory?
Posted by BigJohn on :
I normaly don't chase the best sellers, but I came across a copy of The Da Vinci Code in a second hand store and picked it up, started reading and couldn't put it down.
I'v also read Angels & Demons, Deception Point, Digital Fortress all by Dan Brown
You might have hard time finding the one by James Houston, I found it at a library book sale, it's worth looking for though.
Posted by BuyTex on :
Oh, yeah, *that* Dan Brown...liked the plot ideas in A & D, racing aound Rome to "connect the dots," but the Hardy Boys' tone was too much to persuade me into the "Code." Prolly make a good movie, though.
Ever try Grisham? His plots hold up pretty well...