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[MaestroMike]

Whats it about? any good? Kinda tired of tv/movies.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I'm reading a lot of comic books and slowly working on Dune.

Love my Kindle Fire HD10

 

[nush]

Hard Time by Shaun Attwood, English guy gets sent to the toughest jail in Arizona for dealing Ecstasy in the USA.

Due to the lockdown he's made the third book in the series Free to download with his other books becoming free. Its a good solid read about life in prison.

To help people pass their time on lockdown, in the coming weeks, I'm making all of my 12 books free on Amazon Kindle, which you can read on any device with the Kindle app This week, Prison Time, is free to download until Mar 27 at these links:
AMAZON USA
AMAZON UK
Worldwide: https://books2read.com/u/banEAq
Thank you for all of the Amazon and GoodReads reviews!

 

[triplestation]

its already quiet as shit with all dis kung flu u wanna go even quieter????

 

[Grinchy]

I actually went back to reading the Dark Tower series from Stephen King. I left off near the beginning of the 4th book and picked back up there.

I'm not claiming it's some literary masterpiece, but it was helping pass the time. Though, there came a point where they find some dead bodies with a newspaper nearby with articles about a super flu....so that didn't really help take the mind off.

 

[SpartanN92]

I started reading a Halo novel.
I used to be a junkie for the Halo books but Halo 5 killed it for me. Slowly getting back into the books.

Halo: Silent Storm is okay so far. It's a story about young Master Chief and his early battles against the Covenant 25 years before the games.

 

[Mr Nash]

Steamrolling through some Warhammer 40K stuff.

 

[teezzy]

Yea actually! I'm finishing up my second reading of Palahniuk's Fight Club, then the plan is to head straight into Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille.

I might make a pit stop into graphic novel territory,and read my trade copy of Ice Cream Man vol. 1 by W. Maxwell Prince at some point- I've heard excellent things!

Self isolation rules.

 

[Hotty Botty]

Started reading Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology. I have a whole bunch of other books ready to go.

 

[Tesseract]

absolutely nothing, i read enough in my twenties to fill multiple lifetimes

just music and games during the lock

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana is fantastic

 

[nush]

I actually went back to reading the Dark Tower series from Stephen King. I left off near the beginning of the 4th book and picked back up there.

I'm not claiming it's some literary masterpiece, but it was helping pass the time. Though, there came a point where they find some dead bodies with a newspaper nearby with articles about a super flu....so that didn't really help take the mind off.

Try some dean Koontz instead.

 

[Grinchy]

Try some dean Koontz instead.

I read Intensity years ago. That was a fun one!

 

[crowbrow]

From the District File by Kenneth Bernard -- really on topic with what is happening right now it's small charming and relatable stories about introverts and lonely or old people.

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo -- latinamerican classic magical realism poetic novel about a guy who goes to a small remote town to meet his father only to find a deserted town full of ghosts from the past and where reality and dreams are intertwined.

 

[Anki]

Yes, i have decided to spend this week reading books instead of playing games. I have finished Strange weather in Tokyo (I really liked it) and started One hundred years in solitude. So far its interesting.

 

[Plies]

Started reading Mode One, The Beta Male Revolution, and The Possibility of Sex.

 

[ROMhack]

Am halfway through The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Dune Messiah. Bought Calvino's Cosmicomics last week because I knew the bookshops would be closing soon. Got a book on stargazing to get through too.

 

[Elektro Demon]

I read on GAF.

 

[Andyliini]

I just read Nevil Shute's On the Beach. I feel like I could have chosen a better timing for reading it.

 

[nush]

I read on GAF.

NeoGAF: Believe by Tyler Malka.

Chapter One: The Butt Thread.

I find this to be of a somewhat unique literary experience to review EviLore has assembled some of the most unique voices in the internet writing sphere. Names that you'll be very familiar with such as Cunth , Papa , brap , Melon and MiyazakiHatesKojima and not contained them within one topic for discussion or even a literary chapter as many creators of ensemble pieces would do, but rather to allow their voices to mix together in a innovative and enthralling way so that the flavor of each writer makes every chapter or "Threads" as NeoGAF calls them allows the writing styles to marinates and create a unique recipe to excite and surprise your reading taste-buds.

What I find to be most stimulating and unique about this style is that it's a propitiatory E-book format that is readable on any internet browser and not under the constraints of other Ebooks like Amazons popular Kindle. The writers and audience interact with each other in real time, the book is never finished and will keep having new chapter added as long as the audience is held engaged and enthralled with the particular thread (Chapter).

Overall as a reviewer I'd have to give this a "Must Read" award for it's boundry breaking format and it's seemingly never ending delivery of new content of an unpredictable nature.

 

[nush]

Hard Time by Shaun Attwood, English guy gets sent to the toughest jail in Arizona for dealing Ecstasy in the USA.

Due to the lockdown he's made the third book in the series Free to download with his other books becoming free. Its a good solid read about life in prison.

To help people pass their time on lockdown, in the coming weeks, I'm making all of my 12 books free on Amazon Kindle, which you can read on any device with the Kindle app This week, Prison Time, is free to download until Mar 27 at these links:
AMAZON USA
AMAZON UK
Worldwide: https://books2read.com/u/banEAq
Thank you for all of the Amazon and GoodReads reviews!

Shaun has put up the next book for free. Story of Mafia hitman Two Tonys.

2nd FREE BOOK: TWO TONYS
To help people pass their time on lockdown, in the coming weeks, I'm making all of my 12 books free on Amazon Kindle, which you can read on any device with the Kindle app This week, The Mafia Philosopher: Two Tonys, is free to download until Apr 3 at these links:
AMAZON USA
AMAZON UK
WORLDWIDE

Thank you for all of the Amazon and GoodReads reviews!

 

[PrellboGark]

"In the Shadow Of Justice" by Katrina Forrester

It's about how liberalism falls short.
It basically states that the seminal work of liberalism which is John Rawl's "Theory Of Justice" described a status quo that was already on its way out at the time the book came out (1971) and which limits and problems of liberalism arise from that.

In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrina Forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism—a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state—became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar United States and Britain.

In the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, Rawls's A Theory of Justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophy. Using archival sources, Forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among American antistatists and British egalitarians. She traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the 1960s and '70s and beyond. In these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right—from the New International Economic Order to the rise of the New Right. These thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their critics.

Recasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, In the Shadow of Justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limits.

In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy - Kindle edition by Forrester, Katrina. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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Not done yet, but so far it's very good.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

I've nearly finished this:

 

[slugbahr]

Started rereading 1984 a little while ago.
I keep getting distracted by GAF though.

 

[nush]

Next Free book is up.

3rd FREE BOOK: LIFE LESSONS
To help people pass their time on lockdown, in the coming weeks, I'm making all of my 12 books free on Amazon Kindle, which you can read on any device with the Kindle app This week, Life Lessons, is free to download until Apr 10 at these links:
AMAZON USA
AMAZON UK
WORLDWIDE

NOTE: to get the FREE book, you do not need to sign up for Kindle Unlimited, you click on BUY the book for ZERO price

 

[Scotty W]

Decided to reread the Iliad. 2 years is 2 long.

 

[ManaByte]

Started re-reading The Legend of Drizzt. All the way back at Homeland. Should get me through the entire quarantine. 30+ books LOL

 

[Tesseract]

skonk works is good right now, feeling it

kinetic modeling of biological systems is good if you can tolerate 73 conflicting reference points

 

[infinitys_7th]

Anyone have a recommendation for an e-Reader? It would be used for books and manga.

I've had a little bit of a crisis lately because I realized I haven't read a book-book in like 10 years, outside of technical books. I used to read all the time, but I just fell out of it in favor of games, anime, and more recently manga (Berserk, SnK, and now Jojo).

 

[pennythoughts]

not a fun read