columbusguy20
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The City: A Global Urban History,by Joel Kotkin for my Geography 650 class at OSU. But, it is a very interesting book and enjoyable read if you like history and things related to cities and urban areas!
Political Zoo,by Michael Savage. A good read for those on this forum who are more politically conservative!
The Bible,by various authors. This is always a good read!
FBZ
Columbus, OH
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The God Delusion[/i] by Richard Dawkins
The First Chapter of The God Delusion[/url][/i]
twistofreality
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I'm just got into Book II of Stephen King's The Stand, and it's really amazing. I've never read any of King's work in the past, so I was stunned at how intense his depictions of social collapse were. I've been on a post-apocalyptic fiction kick lately, and this has to be my favorite so far.
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twistofreality wrote I'm just got into Book II of Stephen King's The Stand, and it's really amazing. I've never read any of King's work in the past, so I was stunned at how intense his depictions of social collapse were. I've been on a post-apocalyptic fiction kick lately, and this has to be my favorite so far.
Check out that latest Cormac McCarthy "The Road" if that's what you're into lately, it's a fast read and I really enjoyed how it portrayed a post-apocalyptic America.
twistofreality
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Awesome! Thanks for the tip.
BCNation
Franklin Park
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BCNation wrote "How to Succeed With Women" (Ron Louis & David Copeland) :lol: 8)10 or 20 Books on Afghanistan for my IS Religion paper that's due in two weeks.
That's about it.
...And "Alternate Oscars" by Danny Peary.
It's a book I picked up in the Main Library last weekend to do some research for my own awards. The book is 15 years old, though (the most recent year in the book was 1991), but I found it amusing, as Peary lists his choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress for the first 64 Academy Awards. :)
Graveyard shift
Upper Arlington
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Selected short stories by Maksim Gorky.
Great stuff.
Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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BetsyB wrote How to win friends and influence peopleDale Carnegie
really an amazing book, I hope you enjoy it. If you like it, I'd recommend this:
Tom Hopkins: How To Master the Art of Selling
for many of the same reasons. This will be a bit lengthy, but I hope it's read.
Several years ago I was selling in a home improvement company and we had a junket to Detroit for a seminar. Hopkins spoke. Now, try to picture a room full of big swinging dicks, by that I mean a buncha guys who had all sold...a lot...and didn't think anyone could tell them a thing.
Hopkins walks out, and does the oldest trick in the book...sort of...and pulls a cross pen out of his pocket. He says "sell me this pen". Now, like I said, the room is full of big swinging dicks, including my own, and we all go old school on the guy. We start with a guy from a competitor who tries the old features and benefits method. He says "this pen is special, it's got an ink supply that's 10X the normal ink supply but it also writes with incredible accuracy"
BZZZZZZ...wrong. Hopkins cuts him off.
Next guy was my best buddy in the company and a helluva salesman, who tries to bruteforce him using old school. "This pen is the quintessential pen of it's time. I can assure you, and our guarantee will support this, that there is no other pen on the market today that will...blah blah blah"
BZZZZZ...wrong. Hopkins cut him off.
Now, I should preface my superhero right answer moment by saying I'd read his book before hand. So I was cheating sort of. Anyways, next up was me...and here's the exchange:
"Have you ever owned a pen before?"
"what did you like about that pen?"
"what did you dislike that pen?"
"so, if you had a pen...that could do this..but didn't do this...and was similar to you previous pen like this...you'd be willing to purchase that pen today?"
And then and there I understood the beauty of sales.
And it was amazing.
DISCLAIMER: although all the above events were true, some of the names (mine) were changed in order to protect the stupid, and in fact some individuals (me) was definitely not the one to successfully sell the pen
twistofreality
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I stupidly left my copy of The Stand in Columbus, so I've moved on to Harry Turtledove's Guns of the South. It's an alternate history novel about the Confederates being provided AK-47s by time travelers (I know-- it's completely far-fetched, but the transaction is so far a minor part of the story). The book is really compelling so far. I may have to pick up some of his series books when I get back into town.
Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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well, you still have to finish The Stand. Will always hold a place in my top 5 books ever. Thinking lately of picking up the Gunlsinger/Dark Tower series again too. I think I read the first 3 books years ago, and believe it's finished now.
twistofreality
Northwest
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I definitely will. Hopefully I won't forget what's going on by the time I get back home in March. I'm hooked enough that I considered just buying a copy when I got here so that I could finish it, but I had already purchased three new books for this trip.
Incidentally, one of said new books is The Gunslinger. I've heard nothing but awesome things about The Dark Tower Series, so I'm kind of excited to get into it, after so many years of rave reviews.
Columbusite
Minneapolis
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"Blindness" by Jose Saramago (Spanish version)
brothermarcus
West Siiiide
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twistofreality
Northwest
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I finished The Stand and then moved onto Piers Anthony's Golem in the Gears (uh... ninth? in the Xanth series of novels). I'm finally onto The Gunslinger now and am wonderfully confused. I can't wait to dig into this series.
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