What have you been reading lately?

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Law Bringer
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Just finished Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle. Again, a book for a class that I just happened to like.

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Warrior
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Profile #201
Just finished both House, by Tracy Kidder, and Olympiad by Tom Holt. Both were arduous, but enjoyable, and ultimately satisfying reads.

Next is Witch by Gregory MaGuire. I would not recommend it solely due to the R rating it assumes.
Posts: 143 | Registered: Sunday, October 29 2006 07:00
Lifecrafter
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Currently reading Armageddon's Children. I recommend it to anyone who's read the Word/Void trilogy and the Shannara series. All are by Terry Brooks. Expect vivid descriptions of death and destruction.

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Dollop of Whipped Cream
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Profile Homepage #203
The Dark Hand of Magic by Barbara Hambly.

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Posts: 562 | Registered: Friday, December 14 2001 08:00
Shaper
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Profile Homepage #204
The Cape of Storms by Anthony Hazlitt Heard.

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Posts: 2686 | Registered: Friday, September 8 2006 07:00
Agent
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Profile Homepage #205
The Black Arrow, Stevenson.

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Posts: 1310 | Registered: Tuesday, December 20 2005 08:00
Shaper
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Profile #206
book world

-S- is for Six degrees of Stupid and Silly Separaration. (Thanks Alo.)

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Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #207
The Kinslayer Wars by Douglas Niles

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Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00
Agent
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Profile #208
Max Brooks, World War Z, The Zombie War. He also wrote The Zombie Survival Guide. A nice piece that shows how human stupidity can almost kill us all, against a readily defeatable enemy.

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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.

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Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00
Agent
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Just finished Ender's Game. Very nice, but I predicted the ending. Lucky guess.

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Posts: 1169 | Registered: Monday, September 23 2002 07:00
Agent
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Hey, did someone read Crypto? The best of Dan Brown's books, but is easy to know who is the "bad-boss", in my opinion. Maybe is because now the Dan's style is not a news.

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Infiltrator
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Profile Homepage #211
The Black Tulip, The Three Musketeers (in French) both by Alexandre Dumas.
Bartimaeus Trilogy by Johnathan Stroud (a fun read).

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Agent
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I am enjoying another one of my political reads
Burning Books and Leveling Libraries Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction by Rebecca Knuth. This is a truly interesting piece of literature, it covers destruction of libraries and books in such places and regimes as the Khmer Rouge, the Taliban, Kashmir Muslim and Hindu conflicts, the Nazi burning of the Berlin Sex Institute, and all sorts of other destruction. First they burn the book that symbolizes the person, then they burn the person if he hasn't run away by then. It even has a section on the looting of museums, libraries, and cultural institutions during our wonderful Iraq war.

[ Friday, December 01, 2006 19:48: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ]

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Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh.

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Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00
Infiltrator
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The Five Love Languages of Children It's been providing some very interesting insight.

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Posts: 563 | Registered: Tuesday, July 27 2004 07:00
Law Bringer
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The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier. Excellently creepy book.

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Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #215
Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist

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Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00
Agent
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Just finished reading Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer. His writing is both intriguing and odd. He also wrote several books on Ambergris, a truly strange place inhabited by odd bibliophiles and mushroom men. "Early History of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek" and "City of Saints and Madmen"

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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
Law Bringer
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

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Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00
Infiltrator
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I've started reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I've read the first two books this past couple of weeks, but as I don't have the third at home, that'll have to wait. I think it's pretty good though.
Posts: 587 | Registered: Tuesday, April 1 2003 08:00
Law Bringer
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quote:
Originally written by The Stew Boy:

I've started reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I've read the first two books this past couple of weeks, but as I don't have the third at home, that'll have to wait. I think it's pretty good though.
Enjoy it while it lasts. After The Shadow Rising it really starts to suck.

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Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00
Infiltrator
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Which book is that?
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Law Bringer
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The 4th one, iirc.

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Lifecrafter
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atlas shrugged, ayn rand
revelation space, alastair reynolds.

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Posts: 816 | Registered: Friday, October 5 2001 07:00
Lifecrafter
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Just finished reading John Dies At The End II. If you haven't read either of them they are available online for free right here. Well worth reading.
Posts: 776 | Registered: Friday, July 4 2003 07:00
Electric Sheep One
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Atlas Shrugged: huh. A great title, which I seem to recall her writing somewhere that her husband contributed. One of the few times in real life where a rich industrialist invents something.

AS kind of sticks in your mind forever, like that really garish comic book you read as a kid. In that sense, it's some kind of achievement. But man, as a novel, and as a philosophy, it's just goofy. Jack Vance wrote things set in less kooky universes. But AS is apparently dead serious.

Well, unless you just don't read it that way, I suppose. If you simply ignore Rand, and pretend AS was written by Vance, it could be a masterpiece.

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