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The Official HH Book Club List

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  • ThomasFremontThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
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    89ute said:

    How are all these books getting reading by poasters who poast in every fucking thread on HH?

    UW academis. Duh.
  • BleachedAnusDawgBleachedAnusDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 10,379
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    89ute said:

    How are all these books getting reading by poasters who poast in every fucking thread on HH?

    My thought as well. I haven't read a book in a few years. No tim.
  • LebamDawgLebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,510
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    Damn - doesn't anyone other than @Doog_de_Jour read trashy books?

    How about Lee Child and the Jack Reacher series that doesn't star Tom Cruise? good quick reads.
    Steve Berry books featuring super spy Cotton Mather
    James Rollins books with super spy fighting agency SIGMA

    most of my porn collection is by anonymous so can't really recommend them
  • CFetters_Nacho_LoverCFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 28,704
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    Working through 32 hours of this


    Quite good.

    This sounds like a @CFetters_Nacho_Lover autobiography
    I see what you did there.
  • MeekMeek Member Posts: 7,031
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    89ute said:

    How are all these books getting reading by poasters who poast in every fucking thread on HH?

    Libby dude.

    Get the app (assuming you have a library card) and then you can use it to borrow e-books from your regional library by searching the app, then click on a book you like and it instantly opens Amazon and asks you if you want to transfer it to your Kindle -> transfer it, read it, then use the app to return it within 3 weeks. Free, easy, and amazing.
  • GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,480
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    Meek said:

    89ute said:

    How are all these books getting reading by poasters who poast in every fucking thread on HH?

    Libby dude.

    Get the app (assuming you have a library card) and then you can use it to borrow e-books from your regional library by searching the app, then click on a book you like and it instantly opens Amazon and asks you if you want to transfer it to your Kindle -> transfer it, read it, then use the app to return it within 3 weeks. Free, easy, and amazing.
    It's teh teets. I use it mostly for audiobooks, set it on 1.5 or even 1.75 speed, and knock that shit out.
  • GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,480
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    Pro Libby tip: If you're listening to a book before you go to sleep, set a bookmark and then the sleep timer. If you ass out before the timer, you'll know roughly where to go back to.
  • MeekMeek Member Posts: 7,031
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    Pro Libby tip: If you're listening to a book before you go to sleep, set a bookmark and then the sleep timer. If you ass out before the timer, you'll know roughly where to go back to.

    literally described me and the thousands of podcasts I've "listened" to... turn on a podcast, fall asleep within 2 minutes, wake up and I've completed it. I never retain anything. I can't deal with audio books for that reason. My commute is 8 minutes so doesn't work for me in the car and everywhere else I just fall asleep (parenthood has left me chronically sleep deprived apparently) so I need to just read the old fashioned way - with my eyes.
  • CFetters_Nacho_LoverCFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 28,704
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    Meek said:

    Pro Libby tip: If you're listening to a book before you go to sleep, set a bookmark and then the sleep timer. If you ass out before the timer, you'll know roughly where to go back to.

    literally described me and the thousands of podcasts I've "listened" to... turn on a podcast, fall asleep within 2 minutes, wake up and I've completed it. I never retain anything. I can't deal with audio books for that reason. My commute is 8 minutes so doesn't work for me in the car and everywhere else I just fall asleep (parenthood has left me chronically sleep deprived apparently) so I need to just read the old fashioned way - with my eyes.
    It's almost like someone sent you a sympathy card for your lost time when your kid was born.
  • MeekMeek Member Posts: 7,031
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    Meek said:

    Pro Libby tip: If you're listening to a book before you go to sleep, set a bookmark and then the sleep timer. If you ass out before the timer, you'll know roughly where to go back to.

    literally described me and the thousands of podcasts I've "listened" to... turn on a podcast, fall asleep within 2 minutes, wake up and I've completed it. I never retain anything. I can't deal with audio books for that reason. My commute is 8 minutes so doesn't work for me in the car and everywhere else I just fall asleep (parenthood has left me chronically sleep deprived apparently) so I need to just read the old fashioned way - with my eyes.
    It's almost like someone sent you a sympathy card for your lost time when your kid was born.
    wouldn't trade it for anything, but there is no denying the circadian rhythms are now shot.
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 26,538
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    Those were books I’d read recently that I liked.

    Official recommendation list would include:

    Blood Meridian
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    1984
    The Thrawn trilogy
    1776
    The Hunt for Red October
    Moneyball
    The Right Stuff

    Just to name a few...

    I like the new thrawn stuff too
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 26,538
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    Altered carbon might be my fav book

    I like that noir shit. Cyberpunk noir. Awesome
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 26,538
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    Mad_Son said:

    Altered carbon might be my fav book

    I like that noir shit. Cyberpunk noir. Awesome

    I'm continually amazed to see that you read for pleasure. A white claw guzzling beaver who follows ASU...
    Dont knock my nerd shit. I think most movies and tv shows suck. I actually put on 6 underground to go to sleep last night. What a shit thing.
  • ThomasFremontThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
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    Those were books I’d read recently that I liked.

    Official recommendation list would include:

    Blood Meridian
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    1984
    The Thrawn trilogy
    1776
    The Hunt for Red October
    Moneyball
    The Right Stuff

    Just to name a few...

    I like the new thrawn stuff too
    I’ve only read the first of the new ones. I liked it, but after a few other disappointing entries in the newer books I haven’t dipped back into anything Star Wars related. You recommend Alliances and Treason?
  • RoadDawg55RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,123
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    Would love some recommendations that don’t have to do with war or sci-if, fantasy type shit.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 41,649
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    Would love some recommendations that don’t have to do with war or sci-if, fantasy type shit.

    Guests of the Ayatollah
    The Right Stuff
    Pretty much anything by Michael Lewis like Moneyball or The Big Short


    Just downloaded The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. Looks interesting so far.
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