What have you been reading lately?
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Warrior
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 04:28
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I am reading Mammoth and Red Thunder by John Varley. [ Tuesday, January 02, 2007 04:29: Message edited by: Leftover Sauerkraut ] -------------------- "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 Posts: 152 | Registered: Monday, November 6 2006 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 07:32
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If you can get King David's Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle, it is well worth the read. Although, it is a standalone book, I think in some way it is the best book in the Codominium series. It doesn't seem like it is part of the series. You may be surprised that Jerry Pournelle considers The Mote In Gods Eye as part of the series as well which is kind of strange. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 09:01
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I do have King David's Spaceship. Why wouldn't Motie books be part of it? I admit they aren't CoDominium since the CoDominium fell, but they are part of the same story universe. -------------------- My ego is bigger than yours. Posts: 480 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 09:29
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I think of the Codominium as more military than anything else. The moties is less military than the other novels. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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Councilor
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 12:20
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High Tech Trash by Elizabeth Grossman. It's quite sobering. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 19:10
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Just finished Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere at about 2:30 last night. Amazing book, but I was seriously worried that the ending was going to turn sour. Naturally, it was put back on the right track within the last three paragraphs. -------------------- TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, January 3 2007 07:01
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A little Paula Volsky. Take a historical event, mix in a bit of magic and some interesting characters and your get Volsky's style. Right now its The White Tribunal. Man's family is persecuted (wrongly) by a tribunal seeking to root out (1st magic then its enemies - continued justification of existence). Man survives and makes a faustian pact with the devil (this time its an otherworldly beast whose powers give man the use of magic) and seeks revenge. Some good writing here, nice pictures being painted (well, not all nice - some are quite dark). -------------------- "Dikiyoba ... is demon ... drives people mad and ... do all sorts of strange things." "You Spiderwebbians are mad, mad, mad as March hares." Posts: 687 | Registered: Wednesday, January 19 2005 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, January 3 2007 16:09
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Where to start, where to start... I love reading anything, from cereal boxes to classics, so I can recommend wholeheartedly: 1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes 2. Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord 3. Lucy Maude Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables 4. Any and all writings, fictional or not, on "Buzz" Beurling 5. Isaac Asimov's Fantastic Voyage Oh, and personal experience forces me to say that by confining your search for books to sci-fi and fantasy, you are doing yourself a disservice. -------------------- The Survival Elite Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, January 3 2007 19:19
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Paula Volsky is pretty good, though my favorite books of hers are some of her earliest, and now (I think) out of print: The Luck of Rellian Kru and The Wolf of Winter. I re-read these both periodically. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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La Canaliste
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written Thursday, January 4 2007 02:24
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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. It is a wonderful lesson in pacing a story so that only the terminally bloody-minded can stick with it. -------------------- But it's the unsquandered youth that is truly wasted. Deep down, you know you should have voted for Alcritas! Posts: 387 | Registered: Tuesday, March 1 2005 08:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Thursday, January 4 2007 19:56
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I was reading the Tale of Genji when I first opened the dastardly door to General, and IIRC it was responsible for my first alternate PDN, Dame Annals. It's a wonderful story despite itself. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central "Slartucker is going to have a cow when he hears about this," Synergy said. Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Friday, January 5 2007 09:04
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I just started reading Pulse-- The Coming Age of Systems And Machines Inspired by Living Things by Robert Frenay. It is a doorstopper book. After this next on my agenda is Natural Capitalism: Creating The Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Other than science fiction, I really enjoy popular science type titles. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, January 5 2007 10:16
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Finished Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes two days ago. I thought it was good. -------------------- "Let us see what the new day brings." - Temas, Areni. Visit my realm! Rate My Scenarios! Fort Emerald Robbery The Nephils' Defense The Final Spire The Fifth Tower of Magi The Portal Posts: 626 | Registered: Monday, October 25 2004 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, January 6 2007 17:47
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I just picked up The Zombie Survival Guide. I'll let you know how it is. Hopefully I'll never have to use any of the techniques, but you can never be too careful. -------------------- You acquire an item: Radio Free Foil Posts: 1169 | Registered: Monday, September 23 2002 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, January 6 2007 18:32
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The Tale of Genji is on my shelf, taking up an impressive chunk all by itself. I have no plans to remove it. Man, hardly anything happens in it, and when anything does happen, it's very hard to figure out what it is. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, January 6 2007 18:35
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Wikipedia. I have a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong way to go. :P EDIT: At Thuryl's request, it's been shortened. [ Saturday, January 06, 2007 19:43: Message edited by: Nioca ] -------------------- Hz'ii'zt a'iiencf coxnen a'bn'z'p pahuen yzpa'zuhb be'tt'phukh'kn az'ii'ova mxn't bhcizvi'fl? Nioca's Citadel - A resource for BoA graphics and scripts, as well as my scenarios. In Last Hope's Light RP - The end is near... Posts: 2686 | Registered: Friday, September 8 2006 07:00 |
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written Saturday, January 6 2007 19:21
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Kindly make it somewhat less looooong; it is stretching my browser window. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Saturday, January 6 2007 19:21
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quote:That sounds like a book for Ephesos. :P Anyway, I'm currently reading Sanctuary by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya C. Cook. It's volume 1 of the Elven Exiles Dragonlance series. If you're a DL fanboy like me, you'll like it. :P -------------------- "It's sort of like Star Wars. Except Jeff didn't make Erika shoot first in Avernum 3, nor did he introduce annoying computer-animated aliens." —Arancaytar The Spiderweb Chat Room Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 178 | Registered: Thursday, April 6 2006 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, January 6 2007 21:20
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quote:No, I don't need a book to tell me what I already know. :P -------------------- TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Monday, January 8 2007 13:48
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There is a hidden history to Wikipedia. I don't think you will find it anymore, but on a rumor Wikipedia was inspired by Gordon R. Dickson's book The Final Encyclopedia which was an orbital compilation of all human knowledge. There is other stuff about the making of Wikipedia which is buried in its past. I think there is a connection to the nonprofit group the Dorsai Embassy as well. I think they have quietly moved away from their science fictioney origins. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, January 8 2007 15:09
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quote:The same way Jimbo Wales has quietly moved away from being a porn king. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Monday, January 8 2007 16:39
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"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. His most recent, and perhaps most enjoyable book. He doesn't go out of the way to offend, but he doesn't go out of his way to be diplomatic either. I know one 'secular' forum where if I even mentioned that I thought God was a delusion, I'd be banned for making offensive statements. :rolleyes: -------------------- VIVE LA TAKERS! VIVE LA REBELLION! VIVE LA GHALDRING! Posts: 522 | Registered: Friday, November 15 2002 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Wednesday, January 10 2007 09:21
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War In Heaven...Charles Williams Posts: 42 | Registered: Saturday, June 25 2005 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Thursday, January 11 2007 08:48
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The War of the Ancients Trilogy Richard Knaak -------------------- Lt. Sullust Quaere verum Posts: 2462 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Thursday, January 11 2007 10:20
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The Zombie Survival Guide isn't as funny as I thought it would be. Some stuff is good, but it gets an overall rating of Eh. That said, I'm not quite finished. -------------------- You acquire an item: Radio Free Foil Posts: 1169 | Registered: Monday, September 23 2002 07:00 |