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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Toddo]
#6730006 - 03/30/07 11:14 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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i just picked up Ishmael by Daniel Quinn again. but the other night i finished Iceberg Slim - Pimp. anybody else hip to his work?
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unbeliever
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Illium by Dan Simmons. Probably one of the best American authors alive. The epic scale and broad range of his writing ability, not to mention the facility with which he does it, is staggering.
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fantasylndvictm
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever]
#6730295 - 03/31/07 12:35 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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i am readin dragons of a summer flame its part of a huge ass series call dragonlance, does anybody read those books??
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: fantasylndvictm]
#6730879 - 03/31/07 06:31 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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The occult art of war by Seth Awesome
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   All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
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hobbitxkillyou
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: fantasylndvictm]
#6730944 - 03/31/07 07:15 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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fantasylndvictm said: i am readin dragons of a summer flame its part of a huge ass series call dragonlance, does anybody read those books??
I used to read books like this, but have since gotten out of them. I used to read Forgotten Realm books though. I'd suggest checking them out. The Drizzt Du'Urden books are pretty sweet.
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unbeliever
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: hobbitxkillyou]
#6731057 - 03/31/07 08:28 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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fantasylndvictm said: i am readin dragons of a summer flame its part of a huge ass series call dragonlance, does anybody read those books??
I used to read books like this, but have since gotten out of them. I used to read Forgotten Realm books though. I'd suggest checking them out. The Drizzt Du'Urden books are pretty sweet.
I think the first six or so of the DL books (by weiss & hickman) are probably some of the best fantasy books that came out of all the TSR worlds. The Drizzt series isn't bad, but he's a bit much to swallow sometimes, his character is not always very believable. 
More currently, The Return of the Archwizards series is pretty good.
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever]
#6731251 - 03/31/07 10:11 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
So far, so excellent.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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hjalmar
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I'm still in my Russian literature fondness period. Been there at least for a year.
Last book I read was Tolstoy's "Resurrection" which was very nice but noticably much more "revolutionary christian" than his former works as "War and peace" (which I thoroughly enjoyed). In his later years Tolstoy believed in a moral revolution, namely the regeneration of the inner man due some sort of Christian anarchism.
I've also read and enjoyed last year:
Gogol's "Dead souls" and many of his short tales like "Diary of a madman" "Crime and punishment", "The devils" and "The gambler" from Dostojewski "The devil and Margarita" from Michael Bulgakow
...and now there's more Dostojewski to come as I bought "The idiot"
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Thin White Duke
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: hjalmar]
#6732285 - 03/31/07 05:08 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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2001: A Space Odyssey
I bought it for my flight to Canada in 11 days, so I'm just reading a chapter or two at a time for now, before I go to bed. I expect I'll finish it on the plane, or in Toronto airport.
But, I love what I've read so far
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fantasylndvictm
yup



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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever]
#6734829 - 04/01/07 01:08 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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weis and hickman r my favorite authors out of the series. i like the series simply beacause they make it believable even though u know its fantasy. there are soooo many books in that series....how many authors are there in the dl series anybody know??
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: fantasylndvictm]
#6736957 - 04/02/07 01:31 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Started a Disorder Peculiar to the Country
I dislike reading two books at once (Against the Day...still) but this book just flows
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WScott
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6737470 - 04/02/07 08:48 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
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onlynow
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#6740847 - 04/02/07 11:58 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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osho - book of secrets
mmmm enlightened beings
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hobbitxkillyou
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever]
#6741294 - 04/03/07 07:34 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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fantasylndvictm said: i am readin dragons of a summer flame its part of a huge ass series call dragonlance, does anybody read those books??
I used to read books like this, but have since gotten out of them. I used to read Forgotten Realm books though. I'd suggest checking them out. The Drizzt Du'Urden books are pretty sweet.
I think the first six or so of the DL books (by weiss & hickman) are probably some of the best fantasy books that came out of all the TSR worlds. The Drizzt series isn't bad, but he's a bit much to swallow sometimes, his character is not always very believable. 
More currently, The Return of the Archwizards series is pretty good.
Yea I know, but the Drizzt books were the rage when I was into those heavy fantasy books.
Check out George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series for some more adult type fantasy. Honastly, this series rivals Lord of the Rings in excellent fantasyness.
I just read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner last night. It was really cool....a christmas present from my g/f.
I'm not sure what I want to read now. I was going to read "Call of the Wild" because I never have, but I think I want something more summery.
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Mastamike1118



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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: hobbitxkillyou]
#6743035 - 04/03/07 04:49 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life :Alan Watts Talking Zen :Alan Watts
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unbeliever
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: hobbitxkillyou]
#6744091 - 04/03/07 09:13 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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If you want a good, serious, fantasy series then check out Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. It's epic (7 books with 2 more planned) and extremely well written.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: unbeliever]
#6746895 - 04/04/07 03:06 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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These are the books I'm in the middle of right now...
I should start putting this in my journal.
Napoleon And the Hundred Days by Stephen Coote
This is a historical book, non-fiction, about the 100 days from when Napoleon escaped from his island prison and deposed the king *again* and took over the country and reignited the war in Europe, to when he was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and more securely imprisoned.
The Battle: A New History of Waterloo by Alessandro Barbero
Similar to above, but a detailed breakdown of the battle. I'm a history nerd, what can I say...
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Great science fiction story. I wholeheartedly recommend this one for light reading.
AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom McNichol
I'm not sure about this one yet. Just started it...
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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fantasylndvictm
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: hobbitxkillyou]
#6747406 - 04/04/07 05:18 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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fantasylndvictm said: i am readin dragons of a summer flame its part of a huge ass series call dragonlance, does anybody read those books??
I used to read books like this, but have since gotten out of them. I used to read Forgotten Realm books though. I'd suggest checking them out. The Drizzt Du'Urden books are pretty sweet.
I think the first six or so of the DL books (by weiss & hickman) are probably some of the best fantasy books that came out of all the TSR worlds. The Drizzt series isn't bad, but he's a bit much to swallow sometimes, his character is not always very believable. 
More currently, The Return of the Archwizards series is pretty good.
Yea I know, but the Drizzt books were the rage when I was into those heavy fantasy books.
Check out George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series for some more adult type fantasy. Honastly, this series rivals Lord of the Rings in excellent fantasyness.
I just read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner last night. It was really cool....a christmas present from my g/f.
I'm not sure what I want to read now. I was going to read "Call of the Wild" because I never have, but I think I want something more summery.
cool thanks ill check em out im always up for checkin out new writers
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OneMoreRobot3021



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OneMoreRobot3021 said: Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
So far, so excellent.
Ever get really sad when you finish a book? I'll miss this one.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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OneMoreRobot3021



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I just bought J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island and a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories to follow it up with.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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