Which book are you currently reading?

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I found it to be a pretty good read for a formula one fan. I will say this with the caveat that I wasn't watching forumla 1 back when Senna and Prost were racing and this is the first book I've read about either. It seems to me like the author is biased towards Prost. Don't get me wrong it still a great read for any Forumula 1 fan but it's almost like the author made it a novel about the struggle between good and evil. It seems like the author let his opinion dictate his writing way too much.
 
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Oh look, I'm stillogoing :lol:.

Restarted from the beginning since I haddlet it sit for six monthseor more. Just passed the halfway mark... so only 490 more pages to go. It's finally comingrtogether.
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Before this,tIhre-readeGreat Gatsby (read it at the beginning ofdevery summer, it seems),eandcdid This Side of Paradiseajust before that. Oh,dand this, because it's always good for a chuckle:

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Artemis Fowl series by Eoin (Owen) Colfer.

this series is probably intended for the 11-15 year old demograhpic, and I'm 20. Still a great read, and my favourite books from my teen years.
 
^ I have read one from each of them. Richard Hammond's was about his accident, so his wife wrote most of it, (4/10), and Clarkson and May's books were a collection of news articles they had written. from 1990ish to 2003 maybe. I read these in 08
 
If you don't mind used books, I use thriftbooks.com. I don't know if they ship out of the US or not.

$2.99 for shipping! Awesome site FK, and since they're books I don't have to pay for import tax. 👍
 
It was nice to visit Dexter's world again. 👍


I'm now back to the Millenium series:

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Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played With Fire



After this, I'll go directly to #3, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.
 
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^ I have read one from each of them. Richard Hammond's was about his accident, so his wife wrote most of it, (4/10), and Clarkson and May's books were a collection of news articles they had written. from 1990ish to 2003 maybe. I read these in 08

Accident?
 
I just finished the Art Of Racing In The Rain, it was excellent. A recommend it to anyone who loves dogs, cars, or just motorsports in general.
 
Tolkien's Silmarillion. For the second time. I find it fascinating. However, I've never managed to properly get into either the Hobbit or LotR, but I'm gonna give them another try next, so I'm going through the whole saga kind of in chronological order.

STRONG RECOMMENDATION TO RACING FANS: Crashed And Byrned.
 
Decided to read George Orwell - 1984

That was the first book that I read cover to cover. I had to read it in high school and I had a day left to read it. :scared:
Started in the morning and finished in the evening. Sorry to say, I still procrastinate. :indiff:


Currently reading Brian Greene's new book, The Hidden Reality.
 
For the first time in my life, reading a book by Stephen King: Salem's Lot.

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And now I wonder why I have waited so very long to read a book by King. It is just wonderful! :)
 
I'm currently reading Diablo: The Sin Wars 1 - Birthright by Richard A. Knaak.

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A bit geeky, I know, but I liked the WarCraft books he wrote, so, I thought I'd pick this one up, and it's actually a pretty decent read, so far. I'm usually not the kind of guy who gets into fantasy all that much, let alone long-winding trilogies and stuff (didn't manage to read through The Lord of the Rings, for example. I put it away after reading "And the sun rose into a pale morning" for what felt liike the fiftieth time).
But if I'm somewhat familiar with the lore behind the story, thanks to the games, the books begin to really grip me... Might be down to Knaak's writing style, though.

It surely is by no means classy literature, but then again, I can always fall back onto the excuse of not being a native English speaker :lol:
 
Human Growth and Development

Introduction to Sport Psychology

And Human Anatomy and Physiology.


I'm about 2 chapters in through each. School reading is just fantastically griping that I often fall asleep with the lights on....

Those will be the 3 I'm reading until my Muscular Systems Manual textbook arrives from Amazon. Then those 4 until December :)
 
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That was the first book that I read cover to cover. I had to read it in high school and I had a day left to read it. :scared:
Started in the morning and finished in the evening. Sorry to say, I still procrastinate. :indiff:

Haha, it's been a while since I've read a book properly...
 
Anyone have an recommendations for a good novel about cars or Motorsports? fiction or non-fiction.
 
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The Passage-Justin Cronin

Very good read. If your into a good Zombie/Vampire book than this is a good one to pick up. And surprise surprise, it actually has a story unlike a lot of other zombies literature. It's not just a find the best place to hide and live it out kind of thing, it's actually got good thinking behind it. I would recommend this book, and if you care about your wallet, it just got released in paper back. 👍👍

Plus I think they'll make a movie about it!
 
Currently reading:

>Insight and Psychosis
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2004 Edit, the other edition is too damn old.

>The Hippocampus Book
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Some information I need about experimentation and information about the Hippocampus area.

I don't think they do a movie about those.
 
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The Bridge: Janine Ellen Young, 2000

Ten years after 9/11, it's interesting to read a book that mentions and features the World Trade Center as part of its futuristic backdrop.

Basically, this is a novel about a bridge between worlds. Aliens create a device that can send packets on a one-way trip to distant locations light-years away. Within these packets are bound messages in the form of a virus (the aliens communicate through chromatic and viral means) which will give any aliens on the other side the knowledge needed to build a portal on their side, thus creating a bridge between worlds.

Unfortunately, this brain-altering virus has a devastating effect on the human species... killing off over five billion people and leaving ninety percent of the survivors half-insane from the alien thoughts fizzling in their heads. As society tries to rebuild, there are those who seek to build the alien bridge, and those who seek to stop them.

It's an interesting book, though the jumps in time and between characters leaves it feeling unbalanced, much like Gibson's "Difference Engine". While there are glimpses of future technology that seem reasonably prescient (the i-Dik, written about ten years before the i-Pad!), the writer seems more concerned with following general sociological trends in fashion, social and meta-politics. While other writers have and do note changes in fashion and customs, they manage to do this without sacrificing other aspects... and aside from a few innovations, the future culture seems relatively sketchy and lopsided.

And then there's the plot. There's not much suspense near the end. Not much danger that the heroes will not fulfill their destiny. No face-to-face confrontation with their nameless foes... nothing.

A good casual read, with lots of interesting ideas, some interesting characters and a real feel for some of the locations used (Varanasi in India, New York), but with the lack of a truly global focus, combined with jarring shifts in perspective as characters pop out of the background and fade into it again, and the lack of any true physical challenge, it's not high lit.
 
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