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America Alone by Mark Steyn (2006) - might not see eye-to-eye with the politics, but can't argue with the statistics.
His assessment of present-day Japan is on target: "...in a childish infantilized self-absorbed society where adults have been stripped of all responsibility, you need never stop playing with toys. We are the children we never had (p. 25)."
What are you reading now?
"Gone but not forgotten" 10/11/07
'Captivating' by John and Stasi Eldredge. It's a book about discovering a woman's soul. I just finished reading "Wild at Heart' by John Eldredge and that book was about discovering a man's soul. So my wife is reading 'Wild at Heart' so she can learn more about me while I read 'Captivating' to learn more about her.
And let me tell you....it has been a wonderful experience!
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Cool! I'll have to check those out when I visit the States this summer.
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i like reading about wwII history. reading A SOLDIERS JOURNAL by james bollich. i usually read for about half an hour at bed time, then i fall asleep. my wife reads alot but she reads fiction crap....
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Jens pulver's biography...again.
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Velocity by Dean Koontz.
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Harry Potter
Only The Strong Survive
this thread.
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I recently finished Angels&Demons by Dan Brown. Also read Power Eating and just yesterday started The Game
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You beat me to it. I'm studying Spanish. I want to read Zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance.
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That don't kill me, can only make me stronger
The Divine Comedy
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The Warrior Elite by Dick Couch
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I like WWII history too. If you haven't already, check out "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides. It's about the Army Rangers rescue of 500 American and Allied POWs from Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines. I believe it was also made into a movie, "The Great Raid," with Benjamin Bratt and James Franco. I haven't seen it yet, because the Japanese have banned it.
"The Warrior Elite" is outstanding, as is "The Finishing School", both by Dick Couch. I hope I'll run into Mr. Couch this summer when I go home to visit my folks.
I'll have to read about Jens Pulver. He was mentioned in "A Fighter's Heart" by Sam Sheridan, as the author spent a while training with Pat Militech in Iowa.
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Freakonomics. It's an economist's take on the way things really work in America.
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Series 7 books...
Giggity Giggity Giggty!
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.
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Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds.
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For whom the bell tolls-hemingway.
~ Vet~ I like Thai Girls
Hustler !!!!!!
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I'm surprised you get any reading done at all with your gf around.
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Just finished reading the 4th and last book of Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects. He is better known for his book Running with Scissors (P.S the movie blew so don't even try to compare it).
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I'm trying to learn Polish. So i'm reading a book on that
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I'm gonna have to check his works out. Sounds pretty interesting.
I didn't know they had Polish books.
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"The TRUTH about the American Pit Bull Terrier" - Richard S. Stratton
Everyone in America should be forced to read this book. Then MAYBE the witchhunt to ban the breed would (finally) END.
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I just started "Why the Left Hates America" by Daniel J. Flynn. Very interesting book so far.
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get a Polish chick... a better way to learn the language!
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just started "The Game"
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oil and gas facilitie piping and instrument diagrams...
"Vanity Redefined" ~VET~
Veritas was a good one..
easy read kinda a different view on religion/human origin in a neat story format lol
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That's honestly cool. The things mankind has invented and built are mindboggling.
There's a lot of good posts on here. I'm going to check out some of the books ya'll are reading.
With regards to reading foreign language books, passive learning (i.e., listening & reading) is fine, but actual production and interaction (speaking & writing) with a more proficient interlocutor has been shown to be significantly better for language acquisition, both in SL and FL learning contexts.
FL learning (e.g., learning English in a non-English speaking country, like Japan)
SL learning (e.g., learning English in an English speaking country, like the U.S.)
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