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Offline mitlen

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #500: October 07, 2013, 04:52:51 PM »
they should say abridged or unabridged

Thanks HS

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #501: October 07, 2013, 05:03:32 PM »
DPMO I just read your response.  Sorry if my question came across dickish.  It was late and what I meant to ask was if audio books do a good job of setting scena and detailing characters like a book does or of you lose some of that on audio books as if you were watching a movie with your eyes closed.  In that scenario you lose out on a lot of things your eyes would clue you in on. 
Honestly, this is my first foray into audio books.  For HP, there are a couple of audio book versions out there.  Stephen Fry is reading the one I'm listening to and I've enjoyed how he does it.  He has a nice pace to it, does a good job of distinguishing between character voices and I haven't had a hard time visualizing scenes or anything.  There's not any music or anything like that, just him reading.  The other version, I'm told, does have some dramatic music at parts, but I really like the one I've been listening to.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #502: October 07, 2013, 05:20:23 PM »
Question about books on tape:    Is it the exact book or do they leave things out?
Sometimes they'll even add stuff. I have friends who say David Sedaris and Tina Fey are way funnier in the audio version.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #503: October 07, 2013, 05:22:30 PM »
Honestly, this is my first foray into audio books.  For HP, there are a couple of audio book versions out there.  Stephen Fry is reading the one I'm listening to and I've enjoyed how he does it.  He has a nice pace to it, does a good job of distinguishing between character voices and I haven't had a hard time visualizing scenes or anything.  There's not any music or anything like that, just him reading.  The other version, I'm told, does have some dramatic music at parts, but I really like the one I've been listening to.

You made the correct choice.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #504: October 07, 2013, 05:24:33 PM »
You made the correct choice.
He does a brilliant job with it.  I wish I could take credit for it, though. I'm borrowing them from my brother.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #505: October 07, 2013, 07:53:42 PM »
Next on the reading list?


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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #506: October 07, 2013, 07:56:20 PM »
Next on the reading list?

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Omg the Amazon reviews

1 star. Misleading title!
Despite being called "The Jewish-Japanese Sex and Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves" this book features no useful advice on any of these subjects. I have no particular interest in furthering my education on wolf rearing as I mastered this at a young age when visiting my uncle in Jamaica.

As a Japanese Jew who likes sex and cooking I thought this book would be insightful and similar to the one I am currently writing called "Cooking and sex for Japanese Jews" but alas, it is no such thing.

2 stars. no jewish cookbook
I ordered this book thinking that is was a jewish cookbook. But I am verry sorry that it is story and no a jewish cookbook. That is the reason I returned the book.

http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Japanese-Cook-Book-Raise-Wolves/dp/0399110437

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #507: October 07, 2013, 08:11:18 PM »
The best part is being a tatty hardcover published by Putnam...perfect decor for the Barnard or Holyoke dorm room, or perhaps the summer cabin on Lake Winnepasaukee

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #508: October 10, 2013, 10:16:58 AM »
Alice Munro  :clap:

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #509: October 14, 2013, 03:07:18 PM »
Reading: American Sniper...

Enjoying it thoroughly.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #510: October 14, 2013, 10:17:01 PM »
Reading: American Sniper...

Enjoying it thoroughly.

About John Allen Mohammed?

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #511: October 15, 2013, 08:37:44 AM »
About John Allen Mohammed?


NO!! Chris Kyle.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #512: October 15, 2013, 09:59:32 AM »

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #513: October 15, 2013, 12:27:25 PM »
If you have audible The Things They Carried is available read by Bryan Cranston (Walter on Breaking Bad)- I wouldn't normally get a book like this in audible (it just doesn't seem appropriate read with a fake british accent like most audio books), but this version is really good

http://www.audible.com/mt/Playtone?source_code=AUDOR9740EM100413&serial=

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #514: October 15, 2013, 12:35:42 PM »
About John Allen Mohammed?

There's a difference between a sniper and some jerk plugging freakers at 100 ft

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #515: October 15, 2013, 02:19:00 PM »
If you have audible The Things They Carried is available read by Bryan Cranston (Walter on Breaking Bad)- I wouldn't normally get a book like this in audible (it just doesn't seem appropriate read with a fake british accent like most audio books), but this version is really good

http://www.audible.com/mt/Playtone?source_code=AUDOR9740EM100413&serial=
That is a damn good book and I might get that Cranston narration to "reread" it. My copy of the book is signed by the author; I met him back in '07 at a talk on how he writes and how he thinks about storytelling.

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Offline DPMOmaha

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #517: October 16, 2013, 09:42:10 AM »
Finished the fourth in the HP series.  Couldn't stop once I got to the third task.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #518: November 11, 2013, 07:26:13 PM »
My church's pastor's new book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GCRGDL0?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links




If nothing else,  great title

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #519: March 05, 2014, 06:29:52 PM »
Dirk Hayhurst has a new book out. It's called Bigger Than The Game, and talks about life as an injured player. I've really enjoyed it so far.


http://dirkhayhurst.com/books/bigger-than-the-game/

His other books are fantastic as well.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #520: March 11, 2014, 02:09:50 AM »


book 2 in a modern fantasy epic.

fantastic book. stayed up all night reading the whole thing in one sitting the day it came out, last week.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #521: March 20, 2014, 04:36:41 PM »
A friend at work knows Brandon Sanderson.  I still haven't finished reading the Wheel of Time series she recommended yet.

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #522: March 21, 2014, 07:31:15 PM »
Bought it. My guess is 100 foreskins refers to 100 converts.
My church's pastor's new book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GCRGDL0?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links


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If nothing else,  great title

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #523: March 21, 2014, 07:49:13 PM »
Bought it. My guess is 100 foreskins refers to 100 converts.

Nope, its how david was to prove he killed 100 philistines (not too many conversions in the old testament). If you like his writing, his blog is the tamed cynic http://tamedcynic.org

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Re: Buk Reedin' Thred (Book Thread)
« Reply #524: March 21, 2014, 07:52:37 PM »
Nope, its how david was to prove he killed 100 philistines (not too many conversions in the old testament). If you like his writing, his blog is the tamed cynic http://tamedcynic.org

I'm just so new-testament, huh? :D