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Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
I know this is obvious, but I've been doing more audio books and I just don't absorb it as much. You get a few random "aha!" facts out of it, but you miss a ton of the book. Just ordered 3 paperbacks off thriftbooks so I can get back to ACTUAL READING.
IMO, your hierarchy of "How to read" should look something like this:

1. Reading a tangible book you hold in your hands.

2. Reading on a tablet or a smartphone.

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3. Anything else.
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Originally Posted By DolphinPilot⏩
I finished Nietzsche's Thus Spoke(/Spake) Zarathustra. It was good, but kind of hard to follow a lot of the time. You can still glean a good deal from it if you want.

I started reading The Earth Has A Soul by Meredith Sabini. Subtitle: CG Jung on Nature, Technology, and Modern Life. It's a collection of works by Jung on the topic of.... pretty much what the title indicatesIt's a great book so far, talks about man's primitive nature, how modern man has essentially lost it or outright rejects it, needs to reconnect with nature to reinvigorate the spirit and learn more about themselves and their place in the world. He is a big proponent of the idea that too much science and too much rationality has corrupted a lot of us in modern days. A healthy balance needs to be achieved.
I'll second the other recommendation and offer another follow up for an author who I think develops much more intricate and nuanced theories of the pre and sub-conscious than Jung. It's because psychoanalysis has a bad rap in Western academia.


That author is Jean Gebser and he wrote a famous book called The Ever Present Origin, about how consciousness actually exists in different degrees or structures, and how ours is the most developed. It's the most developed in that it has the most degrees of freedom in its perspective, i.e 3 degrees and one of time, but it comes at the cost of one degree of remove from the source or origin.



There are more primordial structures of consciousness like mythical or magical where the distinction between yourself, others, and nature is less pronounced. I gave a talk at a conference last year on how this stuff might well serve some contemporary discussions in cognitive science and it was well received.
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Started Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin. Arnold's story and it's effect on the American revolution are fascinating.

Spoiler!

1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown

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Best fantasy book trilogy I've read in a long time. Has a unique approach to the magic system. The main character is a psychic thief who is blessed with psychometry. She can read the past of anything she touches. The scale of power is immense also. It scales high quickly in the second book and to an immense level on the third book. Creating a lot of suspense.
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Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
I know this is obvious, but I've been doing more audio books and I just don't absorb it as much. You get a few random "aha!" facts out of it, but you miss a ton of the book. Just ordered 3 paperbacks off thriftbooks so I can get back to ACTUAL READING.
I agree. I find myself hitting "Rewind 15 Seconds" quite a bit. Lately though, I've been doing a bit of both: Reading at home in the morning, lunch, and evenings when I can and listening in my car (thank you LIBBY!) to and from work.
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Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
I know this is obvious, but I've been doing more audio books and I just don't absorb it as much. You get a few random "aha!" facts out of it, but you miss a ton of the book. Just ordered 3 paperbacks off thriftbooks so I can get back to ACTUAL READING.
I have the same issue with audio. I have found I can listen to more recent audiobooks based on current political events without missing much because the events are fresh in my mind and it ends up being more like listening to a podcast, but when I tried to listen to Road to Serfdom, for instance, I had bail on the audio.
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Wtf just read Cormac McCarthy diedI just started getting into his work. I don't know if I posted it itt but I read No Country For Old Men and I thought it was better than the film. RIP

I was going to check out The Road and Blood Meridian, which I heard a few say is their favorite book of all time.
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Originally Posted By DolphinPilot⏩
Wtf just read Cormac McCarthy diedI just started getting into his work. I don't know if I posted it itt but I read No Country For Old Men and I thought it was better than the film. RIP

I was going to check out The Road and Blood Meridian, which I heard a few say is their favorite book of all time.
That sucks. I vaguely remember that he was supposed to have some kind of sci-fi book or something he was working on. I might be remembering the details wrong but there were a lot of fans anticipating something big from him before he died.

I've read some of his older and less popular books and they are really good also.

Edit: I believe this is the book I was thinking

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#39 wrapped up the Red Rising Trilogy with Morning Star by Pierce Brown.

all 3 were awesome. Fast pace, great characters, a lot of the futuristic tech was badass. Tons of tension, and damn some of the betrayals rivaled the red wedding.


Spoiler!

1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
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Originally Posted By Bodhy⏩
IMO, your hierarchy of "How to read" should look something like this:

1. Reading a tangible book you hold in your hands.

2. Reading on a tablet or a smartphone.

3. Anything else.
I agree. Been cruising through the first paperback I ordered and absorbing it like crazy.

Been listening to "a walk in the woods" by bill Bryson.... A decent listener, but again I'm missing a lot.
Originally Posted By semenreleaser⏩
I have the same issue with audio. I have found I can listen to more recent audiobooks based on current political events without missing much because the events are fresh in my mind and it ends up being more like listening to a podcast, but when I tried to listen to Road to Serfdom, for instance, I had bail on the audio.
Yeah podcasts are good for listening because they're 45 minutes, you get the whole interview or whatever in one view. Books are more complicated than that, and it's harder to follow a storyline.
Originally Posted By DolphinPilot⏩
Wtf just read Cormac McCarthy diedI just started getting into his work. I don't know if I posted it itt but I read No Country For Old Men and I thought it was better than the film. RIP

I was going to check out The Road and Blood Meridian, which I heard a few say is their favorite book of all time.
The book no country for old men is basically a movie script tho. It isn't really written to be read, as much as it was written to be made into a movie. I did enjoy the lengthier reminiscences from the sheriff in the book version, though.
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Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
Been listening to "a walk in the woods" by bill Bryson.... A decent listener, but again I'm missing a lot.
I enjoy that book and Bryson in general quite a bit but the audiobook fell a bit flat for me. I agree they are harder to digest but there really is just something missing between reading and comprehending vs listening and I guess trying not to be distracted? Maybe the term I'm reaching for is active listening? I like audiobooks but it's just not the same as holding a book or even a tablet and focusing on that.
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Read a few books since last posting... finished:
Richard dawkins - flights of fancy
David hume - dialogues and natural history of religion
Cicero - the nature of the Gods
Anthony Gottleib - the dream of enlightenment

Currently reading:
Franz kafka - the castle
Norman Cantor - Alexander

Spoiler!

1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle (in progress)
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander (in progress)
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Started re-reading "shop class as soulcraft", this time a paperback copy, underlining & bookmarking the good stuff.

Also re-reading "West of Rome", specifically the novella "My Dog Stupid". Easily the funniest short story ever written.
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Finishing up Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh. it's extremely good!!! Cavanagh duped me good, and I can't wait to go back to see how he handled the misdirection.

10/10
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I started reading 100 Years of Solitude as I had it recommended. Good book, a bit different, but I can't stand how almost all the male characters have identical names. Damn hard to keep track of who is who.
Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
The book no country for old men is basically a movie script tho. It isn't really written to be read, as much as it was written to be made into a movie.I did enjoy the lengthier reminiscences from the sheriff in the book version, though.
Which is why I enjoyed it a bit more and ok a different level than the film. The book also has a few additions and changes to the story. Nothing major, but the book is worth a read anyways.
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Just finished 100 Years of Solitude and it's great. The last chapter especially ties things up very well, all satisfactory-like. I did enjoy the style, particularly. It's hard to explain, like when he describes how someone was feeling or how something happened, but it has this kind of soulful depth to it that works well. Would definitely recommend, regardless if it's considered "Book of the Century" or not.
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40, 41 and 42 done.
All 3 were standalones by Joe Abercrombie in the same world as his First Law Trilogy. All were fantastic reads, Joe has become one of my favorite writers. his characters are fantastic, and all 3 standalones had some crossover characters both from the original trilogy and with each other.
Best Served Cold was my favorite of the 3, I loved the revenge storyline.

The Heroes was different than anything I'd read before: it covered a 3 day battle for a hill with focus on each side and the captains on either side. It was a great to experience a battle that way.

Red Country had a western vibe to it, but swords and bows instead of six shooters. Some great returning characters in this one along with a few new ones.

I have Abercrombie's latest trilogy in queue but I'm going to take a break and read some other stuff first. Reading some more Christopher Buehlman to start, I'm a big fan of his after reading Between Two Fires earlier this year.

Well on my way to accomplishing 52 this year!



Spoiler!

1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
40. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
41. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
42. Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
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Anyone read Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky?

It's scifi with a lot of interesting takes on terraforming, evolution via viruses, interstellar travel within the confines of believable human limits (no FTL travel, etc.). I don't want to say too much in case I might spoil something.

I started it yesterday and brb can't put it down (read close to 20% in one sitting). This will probably be one of my favorite books I've read in the past 10 years.
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43 done, Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman. Horror story set in the deep south during the Great Depression. A war vet and his new wife move to Georgia into a house he inherited from his aunt. One of his ancestors had a plantation across the river from town back in the 1800s and was a brutal slave owner. His slaves ended up revolting and killing him.

Phenomenal book, I burned right through it. I read one of his other novels earlier this year, Between Two Fires, and it was the same thing, I couldn't put the damn thing down.
Those Across the River was his first book. very well done. LOL'd at some of the reviews claiming it was racist for the treatment of black people in the book. Well, it was the deep south in the 1800s and 1930s, that's realistic writing. Don't think the story would have been the same if there were BLM flags and green haired college girls yelling about it at the general store when Frank and Eudora get to town


Diving right into another one of his books: Suicide Motor Club

Spoiler!

1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
40. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
41. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
42. Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
43. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman

Originally Posted By jreacher⏩
Anyone read Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky?

It's scifi with a lot of interesting takes on terraforming, evolution via viruses, interstellar travel within the confines of believable human limits (no FTL travel, etc.). I don't want to say too much in case I might spoil something.

I started it yesterday and brb can't put it down (read close to 20% in one sitting). This will probably be one of my favorite books I've read in the past 10 years.
I've been curious about that one, I might pick up a copy and give it a go. Are you planning on reading the rest of the series? I believe it was this series that I saw a review saying that the first one is great but the rest of the series falls a bit flat.
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Originally Posted By Woody-5⏩
I've been curious about that one, I might pick up a copy and give it a go. Are you planning on reading the rest of the series? I believe it was this series that I saw a review saying that the first one is great but the rest of the series falls a bit flat.
I'm not sure. I have no problem not finishing a series if the reviews for other books in the series are bad. But I haven't checked out the other reviews yet.
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#44 complete: Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman

Nice little horror story involving muscle cars and Route 66 in the late 60s. I enjoyed the other two of his books that I've read a bit more (Between Two Fires & Those Across the River), but this was still a fun ride.

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1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
40. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
41. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
42. Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
43. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
44. Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman
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Originally Posted By jreacher⏩
Anyone read Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky?
This book ended up being a 4/5 for me. Very memorable and entertaining, but ultimately I didn't really like any of the characters. I won't read any further in the series.
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Wrapped up a few and about to start Alone Against the North by Adam Shoalts. I've enjoyed a few of his other books and forgot I had this one sitting on my kindle till the other day. Going on vacation in a week or so and hoping to get some time to read then.

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1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
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3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese

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Just did this. I always thought psychoanalysis was a load of BS but I'm always a fan of anything on complexity or systems theory, and I'm definitely on board with the idea that cognition is when a system strikes the perfect balance between chaos and order.


Made me a bit more hospitable to psychoanalysis.
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Don't forget it's Prime Day.

Just got a new Kindle Paperwhite. On sale for about $90 (with ads) USA. Got one without lock screen ads for about $63 doing the below trade-in.

Trade in your old Kindle with their trade-in program:

https://www.amazon.com/l/9187220011

When you trade in: Get $20 or more gift card + 20% (or more? Think you can qualify for 25%) off a new Kindle + 6% cash back for using Amazon credit card (usually only 5%).

I believe you can also trade in other Amazon devices for the discount.
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Finishing up Only the Dead by Jack Carr. Might be his best one yet... really well done. Switching back to a different style for my next one which will be Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Dr. Peter Attia. I understand he read Four Thousand Weeks and spoke with Oliver Burkeman as some reference material (which was another phenomenal book recommended here), so I've got high hopes for it.
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Originally Posted By xxAchillesxx⏩
Finishing up Only the Dead by Jack Carr. Might be his best one yet... really well done. Switching back to a different style for my next one which will be Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Dr. Peter Attia. I understand he read Four Thousand Weeks and spoke with Oliver Burkeman as some reference material (which was another phenomenal book recommended here), so I've got high hopes for it.
Huberman interviewed Attia on his podcast awhile back about Outlive and it was fantastic, it's on my list when I make the jump back to non-fiction.

4000 weeks was great. The Comfort Crisis, 4000 Weeks and Untethered Soul were all winter reads for me, and they complimented each other so well despite being by different authors.
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Originally Posted By Woody-5⏩
Huberman interviewed Attia on his podcast awhile back about Outlive and it was fantastic, it's on my list when I make the jump back to non-fiction.

4000 weeks was great. The Comfort Crisis, 4000 Weeks and Untethered Soul were all winter reads for me, and they complimented each other so well despite being by different authors.
Good stuff guys. I like Attia's work. Huberman sometimes goes over my head, and I'm rarely interested in the depth that he goes into, but he's a quality researcher IMO.

I'm on the list for the Outlive book from my library, and I just bought the audio version of 4,000 Weeks to read on a bro-trip with my 23 year old son this weekend.
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Originally Posted By Payton1221⏩
Good stuff guys. I like Attia's work. Huberman sometimes goes over my head, and I'm rarely interested in the depth that he goes into, but he's a quality researcher IMO.
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Agreed, he has great stuff, but 2+ hours of in depth talk usually has me checked out. I find the most interesting stuff is when he has a guest on and they can go back and forth. The one with Attia was fantastic as was the one with Anna Lembke about her book, Dopamine Nation (which is also on my short list of non fiction to be read)
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5. Apprentice in Death(book 43) by JD Robb
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7. Secrets in Death (book 45) by JD Robb
8. Dark in Death (book 46) by JD Robb
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10. Connections in Death (book 48) by JD Robb
11. Vendetta in Death (book 49) by JD Robb
12. Golden in Death (book 50) by JD Robb
13. Shadows in Death (book 51) by JD Robb
14. Faithless in Death (book 52) by JD Robb
15. Forgotten in Death (book 53) by JD Robb
16. Abandoned in Death (book 54) by JD Robb
17. Desperation in Death (book 55) by JD Robb
18. Encore in Death (book 56) by JD Robb
19. I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
20. The Cornwalls Vanish by James Patterson
21. Countdown by James Patterson
22. Identity by Nora Roberts
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