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Picked up the books of Jenn Bennett's Arcadia Bell Series (Kindling the Moon, Summoning the Night, Leashing the Tempest and Banishing the Dark)
And they are pretty solid, the characters are all interesting and the story has some nice touches
If you aren't into the Urban Fantasy Genre it probably won't convert you but it is worth reading if do enjoy those kinds of stories

I am currently reading This Case Is Gonna Kill Me by Philippa Bornikova
It is a little slow, but interesting enough that I will keep reading til the end
 
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Part one in Remembrance of Things Past.

This is the perfect book if you suffer from insomnia and don't respond to strong medication. The story... it has no story. Not really. It's about neurotic hang-ups of the nobility ca 1910. The most banal things becomes a convoluted struggle and intricate politics. The book goes nowhere and wants nothing.

It's still worth reading because it is a masterpiece. It's well written. Very well written. Well known as one of the best written books ever. If you like well crafted sentences and well used metaphors, this is the book for you. But I do not recommend you to read it straight like I did. It's better to just randomly open the book anywhere and start reading a few pages. Feel ecstatic about how well written it is and put it down before you... inevitably... become bored with the story.
 
Finally finished Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near and have now started Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Domurat Dreger, which was sent to me by a friend. Hopefully, I can get through this one more quickly. I'm also thinking of finally getting started on the Harry Potter series.
 
A biop about a high class hooker titled Mattress Actress. There's little sordid porn accounts in it. It's about her life from as young as she can remember to the present day. Of course she came from a broken family. Don't they all!
 
I'm currently reading From Hell, a nice big fat graphic novel from Alan Moore about Jack the Ripper with the story centering around how it was all about a conspiracy to cover up an illegitimate child an heir to the British throne had with a prostitute. I'm about three quarters way through. Great read so far.
 
As I read only non fiction, I'm at present reading a short booklet on my kindle about the Muslim Brotherhoods infiltration of the Obama White house.
It's chock full of evidence and the authors opinion that it's islam's way of slowly but surely taking over the West.
 
angelo said:
As I read only non fiction, I'm at present reading a short booklet on my kindle about the Muslim Brotherhoods infiltration of the Obama White house.
It's chock full of evidence and the authors opinion that it's islam's way of slowly but surely taking over the West.
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Sorry, but it can't be both. Either you only read non-fiction; OR you are at present reading a short booklet on your kindle about the Muslim Brotherhoods infiltration of the Obama White house.

Make up your mind...
 
The authors opinion is just that. The fact that Obama has either deliberately or unintended hired people that are in some way associated with the Brotherhood is not in dispute.
 
angelo said:
The authors opinion is just that. The fact that Obama has either deliberately or unintended hired people that are in some way associated with the Brotherhood is not in dispute.
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"Obama has either deliberately or unintended hired people that are in some way associated with the Brotherhood" is a VERY long way short of "the Muslim Brotherhoods infiltration of the Obama White house".

Everyone on the planet is "in some way associated with" the Muslim Brotherhood.
 
You are aware that it sponsors terrorism and islamism? The Egyptians learned that not long after making the gross mistake of electing them to power.
 
angelo said:
You are aware that it sponsors terrorism and islamism? The Egyptians learned that not long after making the gross mistake of electing them to power.
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What has that got to do with whether or not they have infiltrated The Whitehouse?

I know what the Muslim Brotherhood is. I just don't see any reason to imagine that a story about them infiltrating Obama's Whitehouse is any less fictional than The Hunt for Red October (in which a Russian Naval Captain with an unexplained Scottish accent steals a nuclear missile submarine and defects to the USA).

Did they use any fancy gadgets hidden in apparently normal everyday items such as watches and cameras? Did they have a spunky female sidekick who looks stunning in a lycra body suit, and a charismatic leader who spends a lot of time with his shirt off to reveal his rock-hard abs? Was the cover a picture of the Whitehouse with a nuclear mushroom cloud superimposed on it? Was there at least one car chase?
 
angelo said:
As I read only non fiction, I'm at present reading a short booklet on my kindle about the Muslim Brotherhoods infiltration of the Obama White house.
It's chock full of evidence and the authors opinion that it's islam's way of slowly but surely taking over the West.
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Are they in league with the lizard people?
 
bilby said:
angelo said:
You are aware that it sponsors terrorism and islamism? The Egyptians learned that not long after making the gross mistake of electing them to power.
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What has that got to do with whether or not they have infiltrated The Whitehouse?

I know what the Muslim Brotherhood is. I just don't see any reason to imagine that a story about them infiltrating Obama's Whitehouse is any less fictional than The Hunt for Red October (in which a Russian Naval Captain with an unexplained Scottish accent steals a nuclear missile submarine and defects to the USA).

Did they use any fancy gadgets hidden in apparently normal everyday items such as watches and cameras? Did they have a spunky female sidekick who looks stunning in a lycra body suit, and a charismatic leader who spends a lot of time with his shirt off to reveal his rock-hard abs? Was the cover a picture of the Whitehouse with a nuclear mushroom cloud superimposed on it? Was there at least one car chase?
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https://www.google.se/search?q=the+...8TD7tOAyAIVwxByCh3Hwga6#imgrc=zj2uQokZoGxICM:
 
DrZoidberg said:
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C Clarke

Incredibly dry and slow, but really exciting anyway. The characters are paper thin, but I love it anyway. Weird. I think it's the mystery of Rama that keeps me awake. Good book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama
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I remember it only passingly, but recall that I enjoyed the whole series. Clarke is an excellent writer, IMHO.

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angelo said:
The authors opinion is just that. The fact that Obama has either deliberately or unintended hired people that are in some way associated with the Brotherhood is not in dispute.
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And opinions are not necessarily fact. Thus it's dubious, or at least questionable, to call that text a work of non-fiction.
 
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