Does anyone here read for entertainment?

Just wondering if I'm alone in this, I know Von Milash is reading the Bible, I'm reading Book 3 of His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. Other books I've read this year are Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), His Dark Materials books 1 and 2 (The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife also by Pullman of course), The Silmarillion (JRR Tolkien), Invisible Monsters (Chuck Palahniuk), The Art of War (Sun Tzu), The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli), The Illuminatis! Trilogy (Robert Shea and Robert Anton) and some random secret society books earlier in the year.

Anyone else?

Interestingly, I have the entire Art Of War posted on my gyms website

Free forum : FIST

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Interestingly, I have the entire Art Of War posted on my gyms website

Free forum : FIST

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Cool man, I try and read that one and The Prince at least once a year. I've had two copies of the Art of War that ended up missing, I'll keep that link in case my current copy dissappears.

Im into a Time life book "wings of war" series : Samurai

And you can not go wrong with a Current or older copy of the World Almanac.

I read head stones in grave yards .

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I read head stones in grave yards .

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Why?
Their usually pretty repetitive
Sort of like most sitcoms, but with a corpse 6 feet down

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I read head stones in grave yards .

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Why?
Their usually pretty repetitive
Sort of like most sitcoms, but with a corpse 6 feet down

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Yes well each to their own i guess ;D

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I read head stones in grave yards .

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Why?
Their usually pretty repetitive
Sort of like most sitcoms, but with a corpse 6 feet down

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Yes well each to their own i guess ;D

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is it me or do i only see u hear at night:confused:

I like to read for pleasure, but havent read so much this year.

Ive just got myself a copy of "Kerouac: Selected letters volume 2: 1957-1969". I have the first edition which I bought years ago. And it just seemed like a good idea to continue the journey and read the follow up too. Im an admirer of Kerouac, the writer. And you cant help but be captivated by what happened in the final dozen years. Kerouac became so well known, and yet in just over a decade it had all ended so messily.

Should be interesting reading.

At the moment I am reading

The Rough Guide To Conspiracy Theories Book 1

Amazon.com: The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories 1 (Rough Guide Reference): James McConnachie, Robin Tudge: Books

FYI I say book one because the updated edition comes out soon, but it isn't really a "new" book. I am reading the original.

I like to read too.. I can't get myself to read in Fiction as I find it easier to just watch movies for that type of entertainment. However the times I have read fiction I get very engrossed in it all. I just don't have the time to bury myself in a fictional story these days.. I also have a habbit of only get a few chapters into books, or maybe 3/4 of the way through one if I really really like it. I rarely finish books.

Two of my favourites that i've read lately is Gandhi which is just brilliant. Some of his wording and sentences are amazing that you need to read them over 3 or 4 times to get their full scope.. I didn't get to finishing that one but i'm wanting to get back into it sometime and finish it off... Also one that I did finish actually quite easily was Richard Branson's Biography "losing my virginity". That was one of the better reads of my life and it read as fast paced as any fiction book i've read... A real page turner..

Mostly the books I read though are investment, real estate, and self development stuff... I also like to read books that teach things like about Anatomy, History, Hypnosis etc. Just interesting stuff about the world we live..

Yep, sure do. About 1 or 2 a week, depending upon how thick they are.

The last book I finished was "John Dies at the End". It'd be really hard to get it now, I think as it is out of print until the new publisher puts out a new edition sometime next year. Before that I read "World War Z". I haven't been doing a great deal of reading because I'm trying to write my own shiat. I have a short story that's going to be in an anthology in about a year. I have some other stuff under consideration and I'm working on my novel.

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The last book I finished was "John Dies at the End". It'd be really hard to get it now, I think as it is out of print until the new publisher puts out a new edition sometime next year. Before that I read "World War Z". I haven't been doing a great deal of reading because I'm trying to write my own shiat. I have a short story that's going to be in an anthology in about a year. I have some other stuff under consideration and I'm working on my novel.

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I read World War Z as well, I guess Brad Pitt's company is getting ready to make it into a movie, don't know how I feel about that. I'd be interested to read your stuff, if you feel like sharing.

Actually I read quite a bit...Just finished North and South....I read 2 of Mick Foleys books this year, Ric Flairs, Page Falkenbergs....

(I Know pro wrestling but it is really interesting all the behind the scenes shit and finding out some of those fuckers are nuts).....Besides I know Mick (He owns a house about 2 blocks from my ex-inlaws...would run into him often cool guy)

Joyce Carol Oates.....Read a book last week called "The Prizefighters" short read good stuff....I reccomend it to anyone