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March 10, 2012
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@Myro, if you have an I-phone, the first five books are on iBook for free.

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Vampyrist said

@Myro, if you have an I-phone, the first five books are on iBook for free.

Sadly, no. I'm an Android guy, so unless Amazon is making the same offer (which I doubt) for use on Kindle, I'm afraid that's not any help to me.

Also, I've already got the book, I just need to crack it open. I still like having actual paper books over e-books. So it doesn't make sense to get digital copies online when I can just read the book.

Still pretty amped, though.

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April 19, 2012
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I must recommend Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles. Fantasy for the reader who sees poetry potential in physics, even if he doesn't GET physics. I do, but I wouldn't NEED to. The Dresden Files leaned that way a little, too.

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Has anyone read The Passage by Justin Cronin? The second book is due out in August, fantastic Post-Apocalyptic VampireIsPlague type set up, very hard to put down.

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I'm on a Shakespeare streak. I just read Henry V and saw Throne of Blood(Kurosawa's Macbeth) , and now I'm going to read the Merchant of Venice.

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June 4, 2012
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I am currently reading Ordermaster by L.E. Modesitt Jr

Quote: "People once believed, that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens, that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes the crow could bring that soul back to put the wrong things right." . ~~ Opening Narration from "The Crow" ~~
July 14, 2012
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Just finished "Ready Player One" by Ernest Kline, and I'm going back to read it again. It's described as "Willy Wonka meets The Matrix", and I think that's fairly accurate, if Willy Wonka was an 80s geek and The Matrix was created by him as a computer game… Cool

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Just finished The Physics of Superheroes by physics professor and comic book fan James Kakalios. There's a great section about how Seigel's gravity-based explanation for Superman's superstrength can only work if Krypton was actually a dead neutron star. Even though the existence of neutron stars was first proposed in 1934, it's seems unlikely Seigel would have known about or understood them when he started developing Superman. Great intuition Jerry.

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Right now, I'm splitting my time between 3 books, if only because different spirits move at different times.

Tank Men by Robert Kershaw is about armored warfare from World War I and II as seen by the tankers themselves. There's little varnish and the interviewees come across with a lot of emotion, good and bad, and as real people instead of cardboard caricatures.
The Most Powerful Idea In The World by William Rosen. The story of the invention of the steam engine (the machine itself, not necessarily the choo-choo sort), and the understanding of Steam Itself. While steampunk seems to have been beaten to death as of late, it's interesting focusing on that word's first syllable.
You Never Give Me Your Money – The Battle For The Soul Of The Beatles by Peter Doggett. The Fab Four after Brian Epstein's death and the upheavals involved, from the Apple Corps debacle, Yoko Ono, the Allen Klein/Eastman management battle, and they fought to be four individuals instead of one group.

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i just finished song of fire and ice series (game of thrones) for the third time. now im re-reading american gods by neil gaiman and the princess bride. also just started cryotnomicon by neil stephenson.

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Reading "Eldest", second in Christopher Paolini's Inheritence Cycle, for the first time in years. Takes time to read, but I'm roughly halfway through it.

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January 8, 2013
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I just finished reading a great trilogy Written by Joseph R Lallo called "The Book of Deacon" very good fantasy story that I highly recommend. If you buy the Kindle versions of the book the first one is free and the other two are only $2.99 each.

Quote: "People once believed, that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens, that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes the crow could bring that soul back to put the wrong things right." . ~~ Opening Narration from "The Crow" ~~
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Oh, and for any fans of the Wheel of Time series I just learned that the 14th and final book "A Memory of Light" has gone on sale as of today.

Quote: "People once believed, that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens, that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes the crow could bring that soul back to put the wrong things right." . ~~ Opening Narration from "The Crow" ~~
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