what books are you reading?

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The History of Everything by Bill Bryson
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Bryson never disappoints. Too bad he's retired from writing

I'm reading the latest Jack Reacher book, they really are not as good since he started writing with his brother.

Solzhenitsyn -- The Red Wheel, March 1917 - Node III book 1

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Sun Tzu - The Art of War

Eat to Beat Disease by Dr. William Li
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The Art of War is interesting.
Which translation - and accordingly, which annotations you get - make a HUGE difference with this book.

Without the context, it reads like it was written by Captain Obvious.
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you are absolutely correct and to be more clear it is the book

Sun Tzu's Art of War for Traders and Investors
by Dean Lundell

I have the book for about 20 years and read it every 1-2 years since then.

I was just introduced to "General Relativity for babies".
Big chuckle. Apparently it is part of a series.

A German company just published an oversized book that contains not only Fantastic Four 1-20, but also reprints much of the artwork
in the original black and white. It's a monster of a book, approx. 20X 14, roughly twice the size of a comic book so the art is twice the size and jumps off the page. It weighs 12 pounds, so if you are looking for a coffee table, you might consider it.
It's the third in a series that is reprinting early Marvel comics. The first two they did were Spider-man and The Avengers.
They retail for over $200 but Amazon usually has them at discounts.

Just started "Bloodless" by Preston & Child.

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I'm reading the latest Jack Reacher book, they really are not as good since he started writing with his brother.
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I've read every previous Reacher book but skipped this one because the reviews were terrible. I did pick up a copy in a store and read part of a random page and it did not read well.

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I'm reading the latest Jack Reacher book, they really are not as good since he started writing with his brother.
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I've read every previous Reacher book but skipped this one because the reviews were terrible. I did pick up a copy in a store and read part of a random page and it did not read well.
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I was actually reading the one before the last one, Better Off Dead. It was awful, the worst Reacher book I ever read. It was in the first person which always sucks anyway, but it just didn't seem like Jack Reacher. And the story was boring as crap it had a terrible ending. I heard the last book is even worse so I'm not even going to order it until it's really cheap in paperback.

You people are making me feel guilty. i rarely read books anymore when home. I will read books when on an airplane or a beach but I don't know if I have read more than two books in the last five years while at home.