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what you got beside the bed or easy chair you're reading? gimme some ideas...

Right now open on the nightstand -
Aircraft Systems
The Parachute Manual
Robert Frost
DH Lawerence
Bucky Katts Big Book of Fun
Study Bible.
Scars remind us that the past is real

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The Dark Tower (Stephen King, last of the series) and I've been dragging it out for months. I must not want it to be over because I am enjoying the book and usually I have a hard time putting a good book down!

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Sure you want to know? :D

Right now:

  • Prevention (just finishing it up)
  • FitnessRX
  • Free for Women College and Training Money
  • Becoming a Personal Trainer for Dummies :D
  • The Body Sculpting Bible for Women

    In two weeks, I'll be reading:

  • Physics: A World View
  • Problem Solving for Physics: A World View
  • Quick Study Physics
    Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile.
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    Ok, I'll be the first one to post:

    I don't read. If it's not online or in a glossy magazine, I don't read it.

    The one exception would be that I read on commercial flights, but unless I'm on a string of them in a short period of time, I usually only get halfway through any one book.

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    Currently on my night stand:
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "Living to tell the tale"
    Albert Camus: "Le Premier Homme"
    History of the United States
    Isabelle Allende: "Daughter of Fortune"
    Some book about the 1st world war.
    And the latest issue of Skydiving Mag.:|

    "For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

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    Capitaes de Areia



    Wow, good for you, that's a fantastic book!
    It has been translated as 'Captains of the Sands' by Jorge Amado. Written in the 1930s in Salvador, Bahia Brazil, its stories about homeless street kids and gangs seems even more real today (only now they would be using guns[:/])

    Have you read 'Quincas Berro D'Agua' by Amado?
    Translated as 'The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell ', it is a very funny short novel also about lowlifes in Bahia in the 40s.....Highly recommended!

    Another Jorge Amado book worth reading and available on video is 'Tent of Miracles' (Tenda das Milagres)

    tudo de bom!
    Marc

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    They Made America.....from the pbs series about innovators in American History, from the steam engine to the search engine.

    Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin. Awesome book by an autistic woman who became one of the world's specialists on cattle and behavior. You can read the entire first chapter on NYTIMES.com in the book section. Just finished her book 'Thinking in Pictures' which talks more about autism.

    Just picked up a copy of 'Purpose Driven Life', and 'The Four Agreements' that everyone has been posting about here.

    Also have to catch up on the latest editions of tech stuff in my field, boring but necessary:
    Data Quality
    Data Mining Techiniques (2nd edition)
    OLAP Techiniques (2nd edition)
    Data Modeling Essentials (3rd edition)
    RFID

    wow, my ass hurts just thinking about all that sitting around![:/]

    marc

    "The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly." --GK Chesterton

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    I have several books that I am sort of half-reading right now (but most of my time goes to reading school books);

    "The Astonishing Hypothesis" by Francis Crick
    "Memnoch The Devil" by Anne Rice
    "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
    "Gorilla Monsoon" by John Long

    And last night I was thumbing through Anne Rice's "Exit to Eden" but I don't think I'll start reading it yet since I already have four other books to finish.

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  • Physics: A World View
  • Problem Solving for Physics: A World View
  • Quick Study Physics



  • I read those! Want me to tell you how they end?

    :D:D



    :D Please tell me it ends with a GPA for that class of at least 3.6 or higher. :D
    Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile.

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    The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense ... by Michael Shermer

    I HIGHLY recommend this book, not necessarily for the topics that Shermer discusses (although they are interesting), but for the approach that he takes when evaluating them. This book can do a great deal to turn a bright person into a logical person.

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    Books by my bed:

    Holy Bible, if you can believe it :S

    RCA Recieving Tube Manual RC-30

    Radiotron Designer's Handbook

    Radio Shack's Building Power Supplies

    Greg Short Hand

    Principles of Electric Circuits

    Calculus and Analytic Geometry

    And, my copy of the Skydiver's Handbook was last seen somewhere in that general vicinity ;)

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    Oh yea, I also have a two volume dictionary that I had for over ten years now, by my bed at the moment. It's my usual companion to the Handbook for Writer's which I have also had for ages. I usually keep those two by my computer. It's amazing how much I have learned from just those two books.

    Cheers

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