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Nocturnal by Scott Sigler. I read a couple of his other novels and he is definitely the king of high concept sci-fi horror right now.

Super bad ass.
 
Drop city

It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier—the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska—in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of “Drop City” arrive in the wilderness of Alaska.
 
I severely envy avid readers...especially because I am a writer. I always read 3 chapters of a book and no matter how much I like it, I never pick it up again...I have done this with seemingly every classic novel ever written. I spend all my free time with my headphones on digging for music, maybe that's why.

But I must say, as someone who makes a living in sales, I am perpetually reading my bible, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

I know the title is off-putting and sounds manipulative, but it's not like that at all. It was written in 1937, before these so-called "self help" books existed. It is a fantastic book for anyone who wants to be a better communicator. It has made my life better, and happier. And I give it as a gift to friends and loved ones all the time. I cannot recommend it enough.
 
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks. OK I guess... not as good as his older 'culture' novels imho.
 
Dubulous. said:
... "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

...And I give it as a gift to friends and loved ones all the time. ...
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lol - I hope you include the explanation you did in your post. They might get the wrong impression from the title.
 
Wizard and Glass, the 4th book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I have already read the whole series years back, but since he released another book that fits into the series I thought I better read through them again. It's an epic tale, inspired in sort by Lord of the Rings, but only in the fact that there's a quest and magical things can happen in the worlds he creates. It centers on The Gunslinger, a cross between a knight of the round table and Clint Eastwood, in a world that vaguely resembled medieval England, but it's turning into the Wild West, as the unseen forces that hold this world and possibly all worlds together are starting to unravel, at the heart of all these worlds lays the Dark Tower and it is this place that The Gunslinger has sworn to reach to stop the collapse of his world and every other in existence.
 
CrayZ said:
lol - I hope you include the explanation you did in your post. They might get the wrong impression from the title.
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Always do. It has a VERY misleading title indeed. At first that bothered me quite a bit, because it's just such a perfect book....then in time I came to actually like that fact, because I find that the people who are too stubborn to believe me when I tell them how misleading the title is, and refuse to believe that it's actually an amazing book....well those people don't really deserve such a great experience anyway, right?

That's my philosophy anyway!
 
now reading:

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about half way through and it's excellent.

alasdair
 
1. Having a hard time finishing this book although I immensely enjoy reading it:

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2. picked this up doesn't suck me in like Marquez other works:

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Started banging out another book in the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn. I'm on Protect and Defend now.

Also reading Stephen King's Gunslinger, book one of the Dark Tower series.
 
Some book about dreams.

Tomorrow, I mean later today, I'm heading over to the library and borrowing out all of Hunter S Thompson's books, if they have 'em.
 
The seven sermons to the dead - C. G. Jung

Pretty intense, but definitely helping with my feelings of worthlessness as of late, knowing kindred souls in the past have also traversed this complete dissolution of the ego, and were similarly faced with something that is both a boundless void and a cornucopia; 'Nothingness is the same as fullness, in infinity full is no better than empty."

Just before reading this I was thinking about how there is a certain ultimate freedom in complete hopelessness, there are no longer any sub-consciously imposed self-restraints, and the mind is open to taking any pilgrimage into the unknown it wishes. I am yet to see whether this will lead to insanity, but it's surely the spring that all wanderers and members of The League have drunken from.
 
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