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    Sedatedfork Rip City Rhapsody

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    I really enjoyed Ready Player One. It was thoroughly entertaining and the 80s allusions were incredibly well done. I thought it was like DaVinci Code meets Matrix meets I Love the 80's
     
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    the cost of technical progress......??

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    Rules of the Road - Jack Kerouac

    Anything by Michael Crichton
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski
     
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    Just finished Lab Girl. Combo autobiography and botany. Going to see Macbeth next weekend so rereading the play.

    And yes, I read the Mueller Report.
     
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    Ah! A great play. I played Macbeth once.
    If it were done When tis done then twere well it were done quickly...
     
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    The Drifters...James Michener
     
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    Indeed, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

    Very apt to this day.
     
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    Does this mean you did not like the play?
     
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    No, just that I hear a lot of idiots
     
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    I loved Water for Elephants......my grandfather was a silversmith with Barnum and Bailey Circus his whole life and this painted a great picture of circus culture...great novel and I believe it was her first novel.
     
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    Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
     
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    The best dystopian book lately is The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

    Not into young adult fiction, but nothing beats Holden Caufield.
     
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    I always like a good trashy novel in the summer and am reading Valley of the Dolls. Highly entertaining!

    One of my faves otherwise is Confederacy of Dunces.
     
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    Aztec by Gary Jennings....epic take on a journey of a scribe back through time speckled with eroticisms...guy travels all the regions and always gets the girl
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Do any of you use audible?

    Amazons audio book service - for $14.99 a month you get 1 credit per month; which is good for the purchase of an audiobook.

    I registered in April but haven’t been using it much, had 3 credits and ended up using one of them on another one of Robert Kiyosaki’s books, the other two I used to get the Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers (Didn’t know what to get and LOTR was the first thing that came to mind).

    Would definitely recommend audible for anyone who likes audiobooks.
     
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    I recently listened to Dune and it's sequels on audible. Highly recommend.

    Also lots of libraries these days will rent audiobooks through apps for free of course, if anyone is looking to avoid paying another monthly subscription.
     
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    I have always disliked people reading to me and still do.
     
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    Its wierd huh?
     
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    The dragons eye by stephen king. one of his only fantasies and its pretty good.
     
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