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Silencio wrote:deek - It's awesome, isn't it? I got a lot of my persistent ideas about the purpose of art from Gardner... that stuff really resonated with me.

He also taught me to describe art and music that doesn't illuminate but merely narrates as "dreary," and I thank him for that. :D
Very awesome...and another valuable perspective to my personal growth/art. Thanks again!
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If you are into medieval fantasy novels check out the song of Ice and Fire series great novels very fast paced and extremely well written I believe that four of the series have been released I personally have read the first two and plan to purchase them all in hardback The Author is George R.R. Martin It is hard for me to explain much of the series with out delving into detail and getting sidetracked but it should suffice to say that he is being called the American Tolkien.
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I've been reading more books by Russian authors lately. I LOVE Solzhenitsyn, namely One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Prose Poems and Short Stories, though Cancer Ward is good too. What a great classic author.... also, just getting into Turgenev.

Any Steinbeck book is worth re-reading, and as for more contemporary authors I like--

"Everything is Illuminated" by jonathan safran foer

"The time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger

and "Love is a Mix Tape" by Rob Sheffield
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The Liddell book sounds good. I read Couture's wrestling book and Bravo's Jiu-jitsu Unleashed and they were both phenomenal.

Right now I'm reading: Collapse of Complex Societies by Tainter, An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology by Layton, and Free the Animals by Newkirk.
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Just started reading "Paradise Lost" by Milton. I've heard a lot of good things about it, just haven't ever taken the time to pick it up.
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I'll be starting this one tonight.

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I just wrapped up, "Surely you Must be Joking, Mr. Feynman!". It's a biography of a physicist that lived a crazy life. Fun stuff.

Yesterday my girlfriend bought me 3 first editions of John Lange (Michael Crichton's pen name while in med school) books from Hyde Brothers, so I'm going to start reading those. I have too many books to read.
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I just finished what might be the fifth or sixth book I've read by Harlan Coben called "Promise Me." I'm always impressed by Coben's crime mystery suspense and I love the twists that his warped mind concocts. I'm particularly fond of the Myron Bolitar series as the characters are just so much fun. If you get a chance, pick up any of his books. They're witty, never stop moving, and (unfortunately) over way too soon.
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deek wrote:Just started reading "Paradise Lost" by Milton. I've heard a lot of good things about it, just haven't ever taken the time to pick it up.
I, too, have been meaning to read that! Let me know if it's amazing so that I can start it.

Feynman, eh? I always think about his low IQ scores (and his physicist success) when I feel low. Have you read any of his other stuff? Another good science autobiography is Edward O. Wilson's.
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