Whatcha reading redux.

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Rich
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Received Ringo's Hot Gate yesterday, and in preparation have been rereading Live Free or Die (finished yesterday evening) and Citadel (started yesterday evening).

That is all.
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Still working through "The Diamond Age." My reading time is cut drastically short lately by making preps to move. I am, however, anxiously awaiting an E-ARC release of Monster Hunter Alpha. :twisted:
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Finished Hard Magic yesterday evening.
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Between my GF, (a long-haired, red-headed belly-dancer), work and back to college, have about zero time to read.

I have taken to getting the books on Audiobooks so I can listen while doing other stuff. Currently listening to the first part of Larry Correias Monster Hunter: Vendetta.
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Finishing up the biography of Richard Francis Burton. Next will be either Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence, or Field Guide to Meteorites by Norton. Er, if I don't pick up some trashy novel or something first. :P
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Must be missing law school - back on egg head stuff...

Civil Disobedience is excellent.

Trying to still work my way through the introductions to "The Republic" and "Ethics"... Frankly, if "The Republic" is how the introducer makes it out, Plato was a juvenile, passive-aggressive idiot - need to wait until I actually read the Plato bits.
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Denis
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Just finished Carl Sagan's "Cosmos". A good read, especially since I never saw the TV series.

I will ask Mr Kindle what's next ... :)
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Right now in the middle of A Mighty Fortress by Weber and Feet of Clay by Pratchet.
No non fiction at the moment.
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I'm trying to read "Dune". I keep on starting it, and I've never made it the whole way through.
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JAG2955 wrote:I'm trying to read "Dune". I keep on starting it, and I've never made it the whole way through.
I know what you mean. Took me forever to finish the first book (and I am a fast reader) and the other books in the series I did not even finish. Quite frankly I don't get all the hooplah about the Dune books.
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