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Shooter said:
Well I finished my book on stoicism after a brief foray into a book on personalites. I stumbled upon a personality test...

https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

And after taking it and reading through the 6 or 7 pages of detailes on my personality I became enthralled with learning more.

So I picked up

"The INTP" by Dr. A.J Drenth.

What a mind blowing loom at yourself when you study your own personality. It's like looking into a mirror. I highly reccomend taking that test (they do shill you at the end to buy a further detailed description) but all that can be found on the net.

It was a gripping few days of reading and I will have to go back and read it again.

Anyway enjoy that link and be sure and read through the descriptions.

I have no idea what is on tap next.
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It sounds interesting to me, too. I've started to go down that road. Once I discovered some of my personal delusions I started to look at more general ones, too. Like my misconceptions concerning reality. :P
 
The fam got me a Kindle for my birthday, so I've been trying to get used to it. I'm still not totally sold on it, but I figure I'll work on a book or two with it before I give up. On the Kindle, I just started the new Clive Cussler book, "The Emperor's Revenge".

I just finished up "The Overlook" (Harry Bosch series) from John Connelly, and will resume the series as soon as I finish up the Cussler book on the Kindle.
 
I was the same way... The weirdness will fade. Trust me.
 
I'm loving Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong. I now have to see the movie, John Dies at the End by the same. Funny and exciting as well as well written.
 
Shooter said:
I was the same way... The weirdness will fade. Trust me.
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Yeah, I'm in love with this thing now. Kind of like a GPS, I don't know how I lived without one for so long. I still love having actual deadwood books around, but the convenience of the Kindle is hands-down absolutely worth the price of admission. Only problem is that I'm spending all my cigar money on e-books since it's instant satisfaction when I hit the "buy" button, rather than having to wait two weeks to get them from Amazon...
 
If I bought all the books I've read I'd have over 4000 books. The library is my only realistic option.
 
vortex said:
If I bought all the books I've read I'd have over 4000 books. The library is my only realistic option.
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My wife is a teacher with a degree in reading. We spend a lot of time at the library. I'm a physical book person, so I love it. They never say a word about the books smelling like cigar when they're returned either.

Currently reading Ready Player One on Breedy's suggestion. Excellent book.
 
Been on a non-fiction ride lately, and a Secret Service/Government kick at that. I've recently read:

-"Within Arm's Length", Dan Emmett (Excellent autobio of a SS Agent)
-"Crisis of Character", Gary J. Byrne (Unmitigated Crap)
-"24 Hours Inside the President's Bunker", Robert J. Darling (Great read that brings back memories of 9/11)
-"Angel is Airborne", Garrett M. Graff (Amazing history of the Air Force One flight home after the Kennedy assassination)

*EDIT* I should say that one of my guys is a retired Secret Service agent who has been on PPD for two presidents. He speaks highly of Emmett's book, and doesn't have enough bad words in his vocabulary for Byrne.

Also:

-"As You Do", Richard Hammond (I'm a Top Gear nut, so I had to give it a read -- 3/5 Stars from me)
-"On The Edge", Richard Hammond (Hamster's autobio about his jet dragster crash and recovery -- I literally cried at times because aside from the memory loss, I lived almost exactly what he went through as far as a physical and mental recovery)
-"Flat Out, Flat Broke: The Original Stig", Perry McCarthy (Ehhhh... 4/5 Stars, but not enough TG content)
-"And On That Bombshell", Richard Porter (Must Read for any Top Gear fan)
-"BEAST", Jade Gurss (5/5 Stars. Excellent account of the secret Ilmor-Mercedes engine built for the 1993 Indy 500)
 
I just walked down memory lane with a couple of adolescent novels by Isaac Asimov from his Lucky Star adventure series. Literary works they are not but interesting. Written in the mid-fifties, he got the ion drive correct! He was always excellent at planetary knowledge, although some is now disproved. Orbital mechanics were good, of course. As of the publication of this edition Asimov had 440 books published. Most likely still the US record. He could crank out one of these in less than a week! ;) I don't recommend except for nostalgic reasons.

I just returned from the Library where two dated books by Antony C. Sutton were on hold for me. From 1979, *Energy, the Created Crisis" and from 1983, "America's Secret Establishment". I guess I'm in a nostalgic mood? :)
In the fiction category, I got two PKDs, "Counter-Clock World"(1967) and "Clans of the Alphane Moon"(1964)
 
Here's one I heartily recommend! "Creole Belle" by James Lee Burke. A rollercoaster ride you don't want to end and can barely stand to "watch". This guy is the Hemingway of crime novels.
Features two dark heroes, a drunk and an ex-drunk. They should make a movie of this but it would be too long.
 
Just finished "Black Rain." It's a semi futuristic story wherein the human race has developed a race of synthetic humans to be used for whatever we don't want to do. It was a good story, but predictable. An easy read for travelling.

On a separate note, I visited my dad this past weekend and he mentioned a book he read called "The Hab Theory." He said it was a mind bender. Has anybody read this? What are your thoughts?
 
Currently reading the OG Tarzan.....great book
 
Undegreed said:
Just finished "Black Rain." It's a semi futuristic story wherein the human race has developed a race of synthetic humans to be used for whatever we don't want to do. It was a good story, but predictable. An easy read for travelling.

On a separate note, I visited my dad this past weekend and he mentioned a book he read called "The Hab Theory." He said it was a mind bender. Has anybody read this? What are your thoughts?
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I'll have to check out Hab Theory. Love the older Sci-fi! Thank your Dad for me. :)
 
Here's what Wiki says about "The Hab Theory."

The HAB Theory is a 1976 science fiction novel by American author Allan W. Eckert. The novel is from the apocalyptic fiction subgenre. Eckert believed that the real-world facts and conclusions he quoted in the novel, were worthy of further exploration. One such conclusion was that hyper-specialization in the physical sciences was a big problem and that more interactions between hyper-specialists was overdue. He wove facts and concepts into the novel form, then his 17th book, to get more minds considering them. The book explores a version of pole shift hypothesis postulated by Professor Charles Hapgood in two volumes, plus the 1967 book Cataclysms of the Earth by Hugh Auchincloss Brown.
 
The Cobra Event
Richard Preston

A fiction book written about non-fiction bio-warfare. Took three yrs to write. A little over descriptive and I tend to gloss over many paragraphs in a row to get to some more plot enhancing text. Overall a 6 and just average. Would not recommend unless your just intrigued with Bio-warfare.
 
The past year or so, when I go to the library, I've been trying to get an author that is new to me every visit. It's hit and miss but worth it. Last time, Charlotte Rogan's "Now and Again" was a hit.

unusual style of realistic narrative of thoughts of "typical" Americans. These were people from various classes but not very skilled at critical thinking or informed about the terrain of their lives. But they learn and are helped by their own intuition. Significantly, they also show courage when finally forced to confront the facts. An interesting take and well executed. You could call it the stream of consciousness, American style genre.
Verisimilitude in spades!
 
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