I recently started reading 50 shades of gray... seriously.

My gf and all the women in my office seem to be absolutely addicted to it, so I figured I'd see what all the hype was about. Reads like a cheesy porn script so far... I'd steer clear.

I read a few passages in my gf's copy and it's just... Let's just say that it's obvious that it started out as erotic Twilight fanfiction.

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12 team H2H dynasty, most categories under the sun, incl. hits/blocks. Main team, farm

C: Kopitar Backstrom Stepan Cammalleri Little Bolland Laich Johnson
LW: Parise Lupul Erat McDonald Martin Silfverberg Nyquist Schwartz Morin Nieto Conacher
RW: PKane Doan Pominville Nash Clowe Lupul Rinaldo Stafford Rattie Stone Chiasson Ritchie
D: Green Suter Seabrook Dillon Beauchemin Schenn Letang Schultz Hamilton McNabb Rielly Harrison
G: Bryzgalov Pavelec Holtby Neuvirth Nihlstorp Lack CalPickard Andersen Stalock Sateri Eriksson
IR: Halak

I have done some pretty main stream readings of late:

Hunger Games
Divergent - FYI - 3rd book of trilogy out next Fall
I am Number 4 - FYI - 3rd book of trilogy coming out Aug. 8

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Start 12 FWD, 6 DEF, and 2 Goalies weekly - protect 12

STATS: F (G,A,GWG) D (G,A,+/-) G (W,GAA,SV%)

FWD - Parise, E. Staal, RNH, Oshie, Zetterberg, Roy, Brown, Stastny, Kesler, Wheeler, Okposo, Pavelski
DEF - Giordano, Fowler, Ehrhoff, E. Johnson, Bogosian, B. Smith
GOAL - Schnieder, Quick

RESERVE - Bernier, Markstrom, Petry, Elliot, Murray, Bailey, Silfverberg, Grigorenko, Galchenyuk, Nyquist

The Passage - Justin Cronin. (73% through, per Kindle... really enjoying it).

After a 3-year reading hiatus, my wife got me back into reading as she has switched into a bit of the fantasy world (which is effin great).

Her recent list (I let her pave the way):
*Hunger Games - which I read (first book 5/5, second book 2/5, third book 3/5)
*Fifty Shades of Grey - I'm not reading this, read a couple pages over her shoulder, meh. Apparently it is a "Facebook-girl-club-thing"... like announcing you are going to see Magic Mike. (tbh, I think that it is for the "married woman"... aha, guess I'm not getting it done!!!)
*Feed - She started this but said it starts very slow... she may have dropped it. (hf, you'll have to let me know what you think when you finish)
*Under the Dome - she just downloaded this to read
*World War Z - yup, on her queue

Well I've already read 2 1/2 books of the story, so regardless of how it ends I definitely recommend it. Of course it may not be for everyone but I really connected with the main characters from the beginning in that setting and it progressed from there. I wouldn't even call it horror; it has horror elements but combined with suspense/action it works for me. Worth giving it a shot.

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I think you mean "which is elfin great"

To steal (and butcher) a line from a comedian, I my library is mainly philosophical reading...

In other words I pretty much just think about reading a lot of books.

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Okay, so maybe nobody likes a cynic, but everybody f**king hates those perky optimists!

... and anyway, I make a damn good cynic.

I just started Endymion last night - I absolutely love Simmons. I highly recommend the Ilium/Olympus set if you like Hyperion, even better IMO. Another one by Simmons that blew my mind was Drood.

Just finished The Wind Through The Keyhole - very good but way too short!

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3C,6W,4D,1G;G,A,PIM,+/-,STP,SOG,Hits,FOW,W,SO,GA,S
C-Kopitar,Carter,Zajac,Bailey
W-Perry,Parise,Neal,Oshie,JvR,Clarkson,M.Foligno,Sil vferberg,Chiasson
D-Yandle,J.Johnson,Carlson,Nikitin,Dillon,Barrie
G-Ward,Bernier
Fm-Holland,Shore,Pulkkinen,Teravainen,Jensen,Rundblad,Morrow,Barber io,Krug

10 Tm-8F,4D,2G Weekly
F-Stamkos,MSL,E.Staal,Toews,Seguin,Duchene,E.Kane,St epan,J.Staal,Brown,Silfverberg,Johansen
D-Keith,Seabrook,Voynov,Bogo,Wideman,Fowler
G-Price,Rask,Dubnyk
Fm-Tarasenko,Scheifele,Atkinson,Faksa,Smith,Orlov,Rie lly,Trouba,Markstrom

Cool, I will keep them in mind. Also Robopocalypse sounds intriguing.

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I wasn't sure if I was gonna read Endymion. Is it a sequel or more of a spin-off?

Two other books I read lately were Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and Foundation by Isaac Asimov. I really enjoyed both of them but decided not to get into the sequels.

I have Starship Troopers in the queue as well and Dance with Dragons (I'm a cheap bastard I'm waiting for the paperback to come out).

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Stats: G(1) A(1) W(2) SO(1) OTL(1)
Count only the best 10 F, 4 D & 2 G
Pts traded with players

F - Ovechkin, Parise, Nugent-Hopkins, Couture, Lucic, Berglund, Couturier, Burmistrov, Brassard, Granlund, Strome, Grigorenko, Kassian, Nyquist, Kuznetsov
D - Burns, McBain, Faulk, Schultz
G - Howard, Schneider, Markstrom

Picks - 2013: 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 4th, 5th
2014: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th

Just started it but it seems more of a spin-off, set a few hundred years after Fall of Hyperion.

I started Ender's Game but couldn't get into it.

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C-Kopitar,Carter,Zajac,Bailey
W-Perry,Parise,Neal,Oshie,JvR,Clarkson,M.Foligno,Sil vferberg,Chiasson
D-Yandle,J.Johnson,Carlson,Nikitin,Dillon,Barrie
G-Ward,Bernier
Fm-Holland,Shore,Pulkkinen,Teravainen,Jensen,Rundblad,Morrow,Barber io,Krug

10 Tm-8F,4D,2G Weekly
F-Stamkos,MSL,E.Staal,Toews,Seguin,Duchene,E.Kane,St epan,J.Staal,Brown,Silfverberg,Johansen
D-Keith,Seabrook,Voynov,Bogo,Wideman,Fowler
G-Price,Rask,Dubnyk
Fm-Tarasenko,Scheifele,Atkinson,Faksa,Smith,Orlov,Rie lly,Trouba,Markstrom