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MechEngDropout
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 Posted: 09/10/05 - 21:46 Post subject:
| Ms. Jenn wrote: | | brie k wrote: | Reading isn't geeky. It's fundamental!!!
I'm reading Bleachers by Grisham, strictly for pleasure, and The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh for my crim law class. Have to give a report on it. I've started on State of Fear by Michael Crichton, but not sure when I'll get around to finishing it. Christmastime maybe? |
I wasn't all that impressed by Bleachers. I was a stunted story and I think it needed a little more umpf. 
Question for you multiple book readers: How do you do it? When I'm promiscuous with my books I get all my characters and plots mixed up. I'm a one book at a time girl. |
I hate to shat on Brie's selection too, but I was very unimpressed by State of Fear. I thought Prey showed that Crichton was done, and State of Fear really proved it thoroughly. When I say I'm reading more than one book, it's usually because one is fiction and one is non-fiction. I only read one fiction book at a time. Non-fiction isn't as important to have coherence. Also, usually when I'm reading more than one at a time, I stop midway through one, read the other completely, then resume the first.
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andydp
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 07:09 Post subject:
Of course I'm a geek. Of course I like to read. That's why I know all that stuff you're amazed about. That's why I can quote things in Latin and French. That's why I don't go "DUH ?". That's why I know where to look for the answer.
If reading is geeky then give me Geekyness or give me death. (Apologies to Patrick Henry...)
OK to prove geekdom: Who was Patrick Henry, when, where and why did he say his famous quote: "Give me Liberty or give me death" Googoling the answer is cheating. This is a very basic fact from US History - you should know it.
Added bonus Geek points: Name the person who said "Taxation without representation is a form of tyranny"
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Library Chick
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 08:49 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | Of course I'm a geek. Of course I like to read. That's why I know all that stuff you're amazed about. That's why I can quote things in Latin and French. That's why I don't go "DUH ?". That's why I know where to look for the answer.
If reading is geeky then give me Geekyness or give me death. (Apologies to Patrick Henry...)
OK to prove geekdom: Who was Patrick Henry, when, where and why did he say his famous quote: "Give me Liberty or give me death" Googoling the answer is cheating. This is a very basic fact from US History - you shold know it.
Added bonus Geek points: Name the person who said "Taxation without representation is a form of tyranny" |
Patrick Henry gave that speech in the Virginia Convention, Richmond on March 23, 1775. (I believe he was a representative to the convention)
Taxation withouth representation is tyranny is attributed to James Otis, 1763.
I got this information from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition.
(I actually own a copy of Bartlett's Quotations. How geeky does that make me!)
Oh, and as for reading - I do it all the time - and I would still do it even if it weren't my job. I just finished Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery, a Young Adult mystery by Peter Abrahams. It was most excellent.
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youngrunner
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 11:58 Post subject:
I love to read, and they are all geeky books. I just finished Flu : The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
I'm also reading various books on genetics and related areas in biology, and just about any articles on running or nutrition.
But I do on occasion read "normal" books like Harry Potter.
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Bad Jenny
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 16:53 Post subject:
I just finnished Dry by Augustine Burroughs. I am ALWAYS reading something. If I'm a geek, I'm a happy one! 
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