Oh, I forgot to mention...

I'm constantly reading and re-reading my Time Life True Crime series featuring Serial Killers, Assassinations, Unsolved Crimes, and the Mafia; as well as my many, many special effects make-up books (because I love some of the pictures).

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DJ Angel, Station Manager
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Boning up for a career change?

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DJ Templar - Station Owner, a.k.a. Darkestrike
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Uh...actually... I'm a certified Criminal Justice Chaplain... <.< >.>

If I were to actually take the required classes for weapons, I'd be a full-fledged officer...As it stands, I could be a hostage negotiator or a victim's counselor or even a prison chaplain (which I've done) or be a profiler...


*cough*

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DJ Angel, Station Manager
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James Reason, Human Error

A classic text...and yes, most of my reading is for work right now. Someday, after I get this ^%#%$ dissertation out of the way, I'll be able to read the Harry Potter sitting on my nightstand...

This looks like a fun thread!

As far as what I've *been* reading, the summer was mostly taken up by Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel" books, a re-read of the trilogy beginning with "Kushiel's Dart" and the first two books in the next series, which begins with "Kushiel's Scion". I read two or three books at a time, though.

Presently re-reading King's "Dark Tower" series, "Wizard and Glass"...

On the shelf over the desk where I sit are copies of the Bible, the Koran, Frazer's "Golden Bough", Kerouac's "On the Road"... Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning", Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet", Musashi's "Book of Five Rings" and Sun-tzu's "Art of War"... the trade version of "The Death and Return of Superman", a neat little book on schizophrenia by Susan Sheehan called "Is There No Place on Earth for Me", Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States", one old, very well loved copy of "The Velveteen Rabbit", and finally, for those no-brainer days, a copy of the text revision of the DSM-IV.


There are tons more all around the house, these are just the nearest to me and probably the ones I'd save if my house caught fire

I love to read; books are more friends than objects to me. If anyone has any cool books to suggest, yell at me and I'll add them to my reading list.

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“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.” Nikos Kazantzakis

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." Gene Wilder, as Willy Wonka

I need to get me another copy of the Velveteen Rabbit....there are some children's boks that never lose their wonder and that's one of them , also want to hunt up a copy of the Wish-fufilling Tree [ I think that was the title.... ] Like my music, I've a lot of books to replace.

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Let's see...on the plane to and from Chicago, I made good progress on Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. It's a great non-fiction about one of my all-time favorite detectives. I also have the last book in Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson to read. There's generally at least one or two manga lying around, magazines, and plenty of murder mysteries piling up.

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"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower

At the moment:

The Onion Girl, Charles DeLint
The Will of the Empress, Tamora Pierce (pulpy adolescent books of lame ftw)
Game of Thrones, George RR Martin (restarted the series)

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"You're so cold but you feel alive
Lay your hand on me one more time..."
-So Cold, Breaking Benjamin

The Onion Girl is such a wonderful book, but then I'm partial to DeLint. He blends myth and legend so beautifully with a modern setting.

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