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What are you reading right now?

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I'm still working on two tomes I've been going through slowly, more slowly than I normally take on books:

I'm Just Here for the Food, Version 2.0 by Alton Brown, and

Japanese Sword Fighting: Secrets of the Samurai byMasaaki Hatsumi
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Stupid bint.
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I finally got The Making of Star Wars yesterday, so I've been chipping away at it. I recently finished I Am America (And So Can You!), my only complaint of which is that it's far too short.
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Reading? I don't have time for that. I'm still looking at that picture anarky posted in the 2001 thread trying to figure out which one of the girls is cold.
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Rogue II, since you may not have learned this in fifth grade, something happens to bazoombas when they get cold.
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Ok, I'm going to keep staring at that picture until I figure it out.
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I'm reading this really cool book about the Mafia. I can see them making it into a movie. i don't know why they wouldn't have already. It's called the Godfather. It's totally awesome.
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Just finished up 'God is NOT Great' by Christopher Hitchens. This guy is hilarious and puts you in your place right quick.

I did just pick up the new Star Wars book but I haven't finished the last one yet in that series...I've been on a non-fiction kick since July and can't stop!
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While in Florida last week I picked up a book I had my eye on for a while then forgot about until I saw it the store: The Blind Side by Michael Lewis.
Fantastic book. I'm about 2/3 of the way through and one of those books you don't want to put down.
Synopsis from BN.com:
In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world’s perception of the boy, whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself.
In The Blind Side, Lewis shows us a largely unanalyzed but inexorable trend in football working its way down from the pros to the high school game, where it collides with the life of a single young man to produce a narrative of great and surprising power.
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If you like Michael Lewis, read Moneyball. That book will change your life (or at least make you enjoy baseball more).

Right now I'm reading I Am America (And So Can You!) "by" Stephen Colbert. Its alright, but it tries too hard to be John Stewart's "America". It has a ton of footnotes and margin notes that are more distracting than funny, especially given that a lot of the margin notes don't line up well with what they are referencing.
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After re-watching The Shining on an impulse, I sat down and read the book for the first time.

Right now I am reading Lord of the Flies; another classic I'm only now getting around to reading.
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