What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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Dana Jean

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cat in a bag said:
I am reading George RR Martin's Targaryen prequel, Fire and Blood. It is written as if a Maester was recording the history so I am not 100% loving it. Parts are really good, like a movie in my head. But parts of it are like reading the Bible, this person begat this person who begat so and so....too many flipping names. :biggrin2: I am only about 90 pages in.

Also reading pt 3 of The Stand for group. Still trying to catch up on the short stories I missed for that group!
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All that begatting is a rabbit hole of begats!
 
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Kurben

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Finished the Disappearance by Bentley Little.

Also i lost a book!! I just know i have The Mongol Empire by John Man somewhere in the house but i cant find it, It burns me up!!!!! I needed to check something about Genghis Khan. Thinking of getting a new copy.....
 
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Kurben said:
I found my book!!:m_spin::m_flowerhead: Somehow it stood in the russian history department instead of asian history. But i'm sure i looked there yesterday.....
Strange how you can look for a certain book (or something other for that matter) and the eyes just pass over it without noticing.
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It just took a side trip(Todash) into a thinnie.;)
 
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A friend of mine gave me a really nice bookclub edition of Planet Of The Apes right before Christmas, so I read that. It's a good book. A little different from the Charleton Heston movie. The Mark Wahlberg version is actually closer. She also gave me a very nice bookclub edition of 2001, so I intend to read that so that I can know just exactly what was going on at the end of the movie.
 
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I'm deep into The Mongol Empire by John Man. Great book. A lot of things wouldn't have looked the way they do today if not for Genghis Khan and his grandson Kublai Khan. They are the two principal characters even if the other intermediary great Khans (Ogodei, Gazuk and Monkhe Khan) isn't passed over in any way. Neither are the other Khans, like Batu Khan (leader of the Golden Horde in Russia) or the Il-Khanate led by Hulegu Khan in Persia but they had sworn to obey the Great Khan.
 
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