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Do you read?
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06/13/18 03:27 PM
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swalker9513
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Re: Do you read?
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#12790518
06/13/18 03:31 PM
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I'm The Dude
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Currently reading "The Prize" by Daniel Yergin
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Re: Do you read?
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#12790575
06/13/18 04:54 PM
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DCmac
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Project Gutenberg (Australia and Canada as well as Great Old USA) among my most-visited and -used websites.
Fishing, a man knows a serenity of soul and peace of mind that he finds in doing nothing else, and it makes no difference whether or not he catches anything. The mind of a true fisherman is not on petty subjects.
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Re: Do you read?
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#12790578
06/13/18 04:55 PM
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SgtDag
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Wife reads on average 2-3 books a week. Me...Im illiterate
"If you're going through hell keep going." Winston Churchill I open mouth kiss my sisters
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Re: Do you read?
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06/13/18 05:00 PM
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UGLYSHCTICK
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Wife reads on average 2-3 books a week. Me...Im illiterate my wife too, I read 2-3 books a life
Just want to make folks smile, and spit coffee on their keyboard.
If you put beans in your chili, you don't know beans about chili.
God doesn't create temporary people, you will spend eternity somewhere. Choose wisely.
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Re: Do you read?
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06/13/18 05:10 PM
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Hard Rain
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These days mostly John Sandford or Ken Follet books. Go a bit burned out on James Patterson books.
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Re: Do you read?
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06/13/18 05:38 PM
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retdbasser
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Just downloaded Kindle app to android tablet to get off books. Like to read Westerns, Bios, fiction and non-fiction and read about 4 per week. Love books based on real events. Favorite author is W.E.B. Griffin's war stories.
Prepare for the future-it will be here tomorrow. Personal Best Large Mouth Bass 9 lbs. 12 oz 5/13/19. Herb Stein, who famously reminded us that “if something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”
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Re: Do you read?
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#12790657
06/13/18 05:54 PM
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CrankAddict
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There are usually at least 6 books on my nightstand all in various stages of completion. Which one I pick up depends on the mood I'm in. Listen to tons of audio books and podcasts too. Mostly non-fiction.
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Re: Do you read?
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06/13/18 05:58 PM
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Kattelyn
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I have my physical library for reference materials and a few old favorites. One room of the house is nothing but bookshelves pretty much, and the paperbacks are double stacked. Kindle is for my "mind candy" fiction... the stuff I'll finish in a day or two at most. Audible is kind of a mix of both but I don't tend to listen to a bunch of fiction.
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Re: Do you read?
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#12790696
06/13/18 06:27 PM
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RO519
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I just finished "The Subtle Art of not giving a F***" by Mark Manson. Very interesting read
Fightin' Texas Aggie '14
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Re: Do you read?
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06/13/18 06:34 PM
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Floon Swenson
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I'm not certain that anybody in the OT actually fishes, but for those that do, and read, pick up something by John Gierach if you've never given him a go. He's the next best thing to being on the water.
His books (and there are many) all read quick and are just about impossible to put down.
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Re: Do you read?
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06/13/18 07:27 PM
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RATZ
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does listening to books on Audible count? I go through about one a month on it.
In college is when I started to read some and Kinky Friedman has some funny stuff. Now days it's almost all non-fiction.
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Re: Do you read?
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06/13/18 07:41 PM
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Bass Bug
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i read Satan is Real the biography of The Louvin Brothers
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Re: Do you read?
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06/13/18 08:01 PM
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Jpurdue
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At any given time I have a good half dozen going. Currently sitting on my night stand: 1. Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink 2. Why we sleep - Matthew Walker 3. The subtle art of not giving a F* Mark Manson 4. Enlightenment now - Steven Pinker 5. Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet -Jesse Itzler 6. We Learn Nothing - Tim Kreider
Depending on my mood I pick up one every night for about an hour before bed. I finish a couple per month.
My favorite book of all time is Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. It's the most incredible survival story I've ever read. If you read it two things happen. 1. You can't complain for a good month. 2. You come to the realization the generations before us had so much grit as compared to today they almost seem like a different species.
"Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley." -A.L. www.LunkerLore.com
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