# Books?!?

**URL:** <https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140>\
**Category:** Unrelated Discussion\
**Created:** [June 10, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140 "2011-06-10T18:47:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![yoyoguy888](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoguy888/32/319_2.png) [@yoyoguy888](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoguy888)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/1 "2011-06-10T18:47:51Z")

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What’s everybody reading? I know what you’re thinking. Either : whats a book? or Who reads anymore?  
But still, I’m reading Dean Koontz: Breathless, at the moment

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/2 "2011-06-10T18:50:09Z")

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Anything Discworld.

Anything Terry Pratchett.

It’s a bit of an obsession…

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/3 "2011-06-10T18:59:07Z")

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“A Tale of Two Cities”

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/4 "2011-06-10T19:01:02Z")

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“Backlash”-Aaron Allston

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/5 "2011-06-11T20:12:46Z")

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Nothing but i already read 50 books during the school year. All i did before i started to yoyo was read.

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/6 "2011-06-11T21:39:51Z")

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The new way things work. It’s a pretty interesting book.

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/7 "2011-06-11T22:09:24Z")

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The Selfish Gene, a book on genetics and evolution.

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/8 "2011-06-11T23:57:02Z")

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just finished 20000 leagues under the sea and am now working on journey to the center of the earth. i love jules verne

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/9 "2011-06-15T18:52:05Z")

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I’m reading Sole Survivor By Dean Koontz

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/10 "2011-06-15T19:45:45Z")

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Go the F\*\*k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach. It’s a childrens book for adults!

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/11 "2011-06-16T02:22:22Z")

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Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick.

It’s a really neat read. Kind of annoying at times, but the universe and it’s concepts of a future humanity are stunning.

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/12 "2011-06-16T03:17:31Z")

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“One up on wall street” by Peter Lynch and “Deal Makers” by William McClendon

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/13 "2011-06-16T03:46:12Z")

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havent found anything that tickles my fancy but my recent favorites are:

Brave New World, The Giver, Fight Club, and 1984.

This summer I am considering reading Atlas Shrugged.

Oh, I also love reading Nietzsche’s works.

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**Author:** ![yoyoguy888](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoguy888/32/319_2.png) [@yoyoguy888](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoguy888)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/14 "2011-06-16T20:30:35Z")

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Dean Koontz-Seize The Night

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/15 "2011-06-16T20:46:22Z")

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Dune by Frank Herbert AWESOME

my favorites are anything by Orson Scott Card especially the empire series

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/16 "2011-06-16T20:48:32Z")

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The newspaper

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/17 "2011-06-16T21:19:58Z")

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> [@stephosh](#):
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> Go the F\*\*k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach. It’s a childrens book for adults!

I’ve heard of this book before… anyways,

I often have a hard time finding anyone who knows who Terry Pratchett is, except for people who work at bookstores later at night or at around ten or eleven AM, when generally no one is in the store…

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/18 "2011-06-16T21:51:30Z")

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline…Journey to the End of the Night… greatest book ever writen…

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/19 "2011-06-16T23:03:29Z")

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> [@Troy\_oyo](#):
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> havent found anything that tickles my fancy but my recent favorites are:
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> Brave New World, The Giver, Fight Club, and 1984.
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> This summer I am considering reading Atlas Shrugged.
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> Oh, I also love reading Nietzsche’s works.

Love Fight Club! Chuck Palahniuk is a mad man!

You might check out Jean-Paul Sartre. He wrote The Wall. Great book!

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**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/books/27140/20 "2011-06-21T21:08:41Z")

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Books are OK but not great. Some books are great but I am reading Treasure Island and two people just died. :‘( :’( :‘( :’( Yoyo’s and video games save me from the horror of books. Is yoyoing a sport? Just asking because I want to prove my dad wrong. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Sorry dad but it needs to be proclaimed a sport. These are my favorite books The Boys Start The War, and all the Persie Jackson books.

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