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Mass Effect: Revelations (Drew Karpyshyn) - Jan 5th

Seemed like we could use a thread like this in here. Reading is fun.

1-8-11 - "Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times and Tragic End of Dimebag Darrell Abbott" by Zac Crain

This was a really good book. Its not just about Dimebag's death but just a general biography of the guy. He was good at guitar from a very young age and just created his own style. He was a professional drinker too, getting drunk pretty much every single night of his adult life. I don't know how a person can function like that but he did it. Everyone had a story about drinking with Dimebag. And everyone always mentioned how he was very humble and hung out with fans and was the nicest guy. Just made it an even sadder ending. Great book though for any Pantera fans.

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A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin - Jan. 11
A Feast for Crows - George RR Martin - Jan. 29
1984 - George Orwell - March 1
The Hedge Knight - George RR Martin - March 13
The Sworn Sword - George RR Martin - April 3
American Gods - Neil Gaiman - George RR Martin - April 20
A Dance With Dragons - George RR Martin - July 23
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman - August 5
Hyperion - Dan Simmons - August 15
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins - August 17

I'm reaching the halfway point now. Whenever I tell my friends where I'm at, they make faces and try to hide their excitement. Apparently awesome things are coming.

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Your mind will be blown.

I can't stop thinking about it. The character development that happens in this book is amazing. Where characters were when you first met them, and where they are now is so crazy.

1. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)

Boom, first book of the year finished.

Now join us and read A Game of Thrones.

Ehh, I'm reading Northlanders right now.

A bit slow an uninteresting at first, but I thoroughly enjoyed the latter half. Jaime becomes one of the most interesting characters of the series in this book. Now I just have to wait for the next one....

Also, I can't wait for one of you dudes to finish the books so I can share this essay I just read...

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?
Polar Bear Polar Beat What Do You Hear?
In A People House
Giraffes Can't Dance
If You Give A Pig A Pancake
Little Bunny Bobkin
I Don't Want To Go To Bed

All of these about daily. Hahahahahaha.

Hahahahahahahaha! Nice!

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http://www.amazon.com/Art-Manliness-Classic-Skills-Manners/dp/1600614620/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296658489&sr=1-1

Finally finished this book over the weekend. It's a pretty good read. Entertaining while insightful. Every guy should give this a read. There aren't enough men in the world now a days. Just a sea of boys.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

Real men don't need no stinkin' manual.

I disagree, real men acknowledges his weaknesses and works on them while the rest goes off pretending like they know what they're doing.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

Better than that se-of-men on your face!

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

I already read the most manly book ever written, so I don't need to read another one.

http://www.amazon.com/Alphabet-Manlines ... 738&sr=1-1

just finished the millenium series AKA the girl with the dragon tattoo books. it was a pretty good series and focuses on crimes against women. the main character, lisbeth salander, is pretty good and always interesting when she's up to something. the other main character, mickael blomkvist, is also very entertaining. i feel like the first book is its own thing in a way, and the second two are basically one big story that has little to do vanger storyline from the first one. i also found that all of them got a little slow in the middle. i felt like the wheels were just spinning a bit and kid of retreading old material over and over again. however, in the last quarter of each book always turned into a page turner.

im looking forward to the fincher adaption of the first book.

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Working through more Star Wars books. New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines 1 and 2, plus about 5 others. Also read the newest Fate of the Jedi: Vortex. These damn books are taking up Kindle space.

Glad to see there's another Drew Karpyshyn fan. He wrote KOTOR for the X-Box.

I like this thread.

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2-19-11 - "I'm in the Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie" by Sean Yseult

Pretty good shit for a fan of White Zombie. Its a bunch of tour diaries with photos and other stuff she has collected over the years. With short paragraphs describing each and other people contributed some stories. It really sheds some light on her relationship with Rob Zombie. He was pretty much a douche and didn't talk to anyone in the final years before the break up. Halfway through the book he just stopped appearing in photos altogether. During the tour for their last album, he had a separate bus to travel in and all that Lead Singer Syndrome type shit. Anyway, its a cool collection for a fan like myself.

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Loved it! Always wanted to read this and finally got around to it.

I don't have dates but so far this year I've finished about half of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, World War Z, Rant (Palahniuk) and something else that I can't remember.

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An interesting collection of memoirs and short stories. He basically walked away from TNG when he was still a kid for a lot of immature, egotistical reasons. Then he spent the next 10 years regretting it and struggling to get back into acting. There are some great stories about Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner and J Frakes in there too. Theres plenty of non star trek related stuff in there too, just about his life and being a struggling ex-child actor in Hollywood.

A shorter story by George RR Martin that also takes place in Westeros. I think it takes place 89 years before the main series, and it follows a hedge knight seeking entrance into a tournament. There's a lot of the big families at the tournament that anyone that read the main series will recognize, namely the Targaryens. It was only 160 pages, but I liked it a lot. There's 2 more little books following the two main characters, but I'm not really sure how to get my hands on them...

Essential reading for anyone who creates web sites or online content.