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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4766145" data-attributes="member: 54707"><p><strong>Non-fiction:</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Let the Dog Decide</em> - perhaps best training book on dogs I've ever read, and enormously helpful with my Saint Bernard/Great Dane sire and my Great Dane bitch. </p><p></p><p><em>The Intelligent Investor</em> - I'm rereading Benjamin Graham's great book every couple of years.</p><p></p><p><em>Human Anatomy: the Beauty of Form and Function</em> - a great lecture series on anatomy I just finished. I was using it as a lab reference for homeschooling the kids but liked it so well I listened to it myself. It was professor Young at Howard.</p><p></p><p><em>Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook </em>- I try to read at least one biogas every reading cycle. Biographies are invaluable reference sources for understanding human behavior, as well as history. This is a good one about Cook.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Fiction:</strong></p><p></p><p>I just finished Jim Butcher's<em> Fool Moon</em>. To me, and I like the Dresden books, it was his least interesting book, being little more than a "monster fight." No Dick work, no real magic, not much psychologically interesting. Instead it was little more than a stand-up slugfest. (Don't get me wrong, it was a good slugfest and I like an occasional slugfest.) So the book was his least interesting read, but, it was also one of the more viscerally exciting. Because the fights were something out of a comic book, beat the hell outta each other, get close to being killed several times, exhausted, think can't go on anymore, do so anyways. I like a guy who won't lay down even though he should be dead. It was not an interesting book, but it was very exciting.</p><p></p><p><em>The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard</em> - He was no Lovecraft when it came to horror but he could sometimes be just plain weird, creepy, and enjoyable to read. </p><p></p><p>For my literature reading I'm rereading <em><strong>The Idiot</strong></em>. I love reading Russian writers and poets, Tolstoy being my favorite, but I alos like Dostoevskii, Pushkin, Chekhov, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 4766145, member: 54707"] [B]Non-fiction:[/B] [I]Let the Dog Decide[/I] - perhaps best training book on dogs I've ever read, and enormously helpful with my Saint Bernard/Great Dane sire and my Great Dane bitch. [I]The Intelligent Investor[/I] - I'm rereading Benjamin Graham's great book every couple of years. [I]Human Anatomy: the Beauty of Form and Function[/I] - a great lecture series on anatomy I just finished. I was using it as a lab reference for homeschooling the kids but liked it so well I listened to it myself. It was professor Young at Howard. [I]Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook [/I]- I try to read at least one biogas every reading cycle. Biographies are invaluable reference sources for understanding human behavior, as well as history. This is a good one about Cook. [B]Fiction:[/B] I just finished Jim Butcher's[I] Fool Moon[/I]. To me, and I like the Dresden books, it was his least interesting book, being little more than a "monster fight." No Dick work, no real magic, not much psychologically interesting. Instead it was little more than a stand-up slugfest. (Don't get me wrong, it was a good slugfest and I like an occasional slugfest.) So the book was his least interesting read, but, it was also one of the more viscerally exciting. Because the fights were something out of a comic book, beat the hell outta each other, get close to being killed several times, exhausted, think can't go on anymore, do so anyways. I like a guy who won't lay down even though he should be dead. It was not an interesting book, but it was very exciting. [I]The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard[/I] - He was no Lovecraft when it came to horror but he could sometimes be just plain weird, creepy, and enjoyable to read. For my literature reading I'm rereading [I][B]The Idiot[/B][/I]. I love reading Russian writers and poets, Tolstoy being my favorite, but I alos like Dostoevskii, Pushkin, Chekhov, etc. [/QUOTE]
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