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Old 07-10-2003, 04:18 PM   #81 (permalink)
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" The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoesky
One of the many, many books on my "to read" list. I actually have the book, just been busy reading Heinlein lately.
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Old 07-12-2003, 08:08 AM   #82 (permalink)
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Law of Survival - Kristine Smith

Shadow Puppets - Orson Scott Card

Diplomatic Immunity - Lois McMaster Bujold
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Old 07-12-2003, 12:19 PM   #83 (permalink)
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I'm currently reading several books. The second book in Tad William's otherworld series, Siddharta by Hesse, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy seriers, and The Salmon of Doubt, both by Douglas Adams.
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Old 07-12-2003, 06:34 PM   #84 (permalink)
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I was gonna say, "The forum, you ass..."

Salman Rushdie's Fury and Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat in Russian.
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Old 07-13-2003, 02:37 AM   #85 (permalink)
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I just finished "Arabella" by Georgette Heyer, and I'm now reading Tolkiens': The Lord of the Rings for the first time.
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Old 07-13-2003, 02:44 AM   #86 (permalink)
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American Gods- Neil Gaiman
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Old 07-13-2003, 08:29 AM   #87 (permalink)
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Old 07-13-2003, 04:51 PM   #88 (permalink)
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Stalingard by Antony Beevor. Had finsihed Enemy At The Gates about a month ago and was just blown away. I highly reccomend anything about Stalingrad, especially if you are not familiar with the battle.
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Old 07-13-2003, 10:26 PM   #89 (permalink)
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The Odyssey
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Old 07-13-2003, 10:51 PM   #90 (permalink)
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Old 07-13-2003, 11:01 PM   #91 (permalink)
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Just finished "Stranger in A Strange Land" and have started "The Moon is A Harsh Mistress" As with any other Heinlein book, I'm already hooked
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Old 07-13-2003, 11:27 PM   #92 (permalink)
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Almost done with "A Game of Thrones," first book of the Song of Ice and Fire series. Oh. Em. Gee. Really good.
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Old 07-13-2003, 11:36 PM   #93 (permalink)
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I have started reading the Harry Potter books...never thought I would...and I am enjoying them.
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Old 07-14-2003, 07:47 AM   #94 (permalink)
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"Sixth Column" by Robert Heinlein - written more than 50 years ago right after WWII - definitely shows it age (white people vs. the "yellow people", etc).
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Old 07-14-2003, 09:26 AM   #95 (permalink)
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I've just finished reading Michael Marshall Smiths collection of short stories- "What You Make It"
There are some deeply fucked up stories in that book!!
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Old 07-14-2003, 09:34 AM   #96 (permalink)
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The Double Helix, the story of the discovery of DNA.
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Old 07-14-2003, 11:14 AM   #97 (permalink)
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A series by LE Modesitt Jr. called recluce
I'm on "The White Order" as of now
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Old 07-15-2003, 07:13 AM   #98 (permalink)
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Few notes:

Nikki - The Darktower Series is easily one of the top three fantasy series ever. You’ve got superb taste.

Riptide - Dostoyevsky is the preeminent Russian author. Check out Notes From the Underground if you haven’t already…

Nice Guy - "Enchiridion" is amazing. An interesting story that first prompted me to read it is linked below:
http://www.geocities.com/stoicvoice/...1/js1101a1.htm

Pedialyte - I really didn't like Choke as much as, say, Lullaby. Just my opinion.

Twisted Fate - "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" was a diamond in the rough as far as series go.

Books I'm reading:
- In the Lake of the Woods: Tim O'Brien
- C++ and OOD - Standard Library Reference
- Your Brain is God - Timothy Leary

Books I just Read:
- The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran (easily the best book I've read in a long, long time)
- Magister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
- Shogun - James Clavell

Can't wait 'til Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind comes out. It'll be the first fantasy I've read in a while...
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Old 07-15-2003, 08:45 AM   #99 (permalink)
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I just finished Colin Powell's autobiography. Hell i figure he'll eventually run for president so i might as well know what we're getting into.
 
Old 07-15-2003, 11:12 AM   #100 (permalink)
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Just finished the new Harry Potter, and am reading Slander by Ann Coulter.
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Old 07-15-2003, 12:20 PM   #101 (permalink)
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Rereading "When Elephants Weep" ~ if you are at all interested in anthropomorphism you will like (no...love) this book.

Always seem to be leafing through my two favorites.....Will Shake's best of Mostly Julius Caesar and right now I'm fascinated with A Midsummer's Night Dream.
And the other biggie I keep going back to....E.A. Poe - Hall of the House of Usher.....read it a zillion times but I love the blackness and "bareness" of his writing.

Keep meaning to get through History of the World (started the 800 plus page mammoth about ohhhh a year ago and am still trying to finish the damn thing!).

Favorites that I would recommend to anyone.....

Anne McCaffrey (sp??) Dragonriders of Pern books...anyone of them...all of them

And a book entitled "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld"...don't remember the author at this moment. Good, though!

Oh...and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" a MUST read. In MHO!
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Old 07-15-2003, 07:42 PM   #102 (permalink)
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I should be reading Tom Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon, at work. Instead I'm TFPing at work!
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Old 07-15-2003, 08:35 PM   #103 (permalink)
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Thomas Pynchon

I have been collecting these novels all throughout my life, knowing that I shall absorb them at some point.

I've begun.

((Vineland))
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Old 07-15-2003, 10:07 PM   #104 (permalink)
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the "Black Dahlia" by James Ellroy and "Kingdom Of Fear" by Hunter S Thompson
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Old 07-15-2003, 10:21 PM   #105 (permalink)
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Contemporary Management, Project Management.

Grad School Sucks
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Old 07-18-2003, 11:37 AM   #106 (permalink)
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Was reading Neuromancer (again), but am also reading The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
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Old 07-18-2003, 12:23 PM   #107 (permalink)
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i just bought <u>choke</u> by chuck palahniuk, but i'm waiting to read it until the vacation i'm going on starting sunday. its so very very very hard to wait...
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Old 07-18-2003, 12:34 PM   #108 (permalink)
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Sex and Rockets, John Carter
(biography of Jack Parsons, founder of the Jet Propulsion Labs, Aerojet Corp. and inventor of the solid rocket fuels we still use today)

Quasimojo -
You're reading Pynchon? Gravity's Rainbow? If so, you'd be interested in this book. It's of more interest to me simply as a resident of Pasadena... Jack is a huge part of this city's history... but it's a fascinating read. Anybody that freakin' Alesiter Crowley thought was completely off his rocker makes an interesting subject to read about.
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Old 07-18-2003, 11:54 PM   #109 (permalink)
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The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears author of the brilliant An Instance of the Finger Post.
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Old 07-19-2003, 12:22 AM   #110 (permalink)
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Mercedes Lackey Arrows of the Queen series

I highly recommend her Herald Mage series for the fantasy lovers out there.
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Old 07-19-2003, 09:37 AM   #111 (permalink)
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Alexandre DuMas, Le Conte du Monte Christo
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Old 07-19-2003, 10:09 AM   #112 (permalink)
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Redemption Ark by Alistair Reynolds. and the Barsoom Project by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
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Old 07-19-2003, 10:58 AM   #113 (permalink)
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Harry Potter!

It's great.
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Old 07-19-2003, 11:01 AM   #114 (permalink)
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Thomas Wolfe
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Old 07-19-2003, 01:51 PM   #115 (permalink)
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Right now, reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks. Great series of case studies on neurological disorders. Dr. Sacks makes you feel for the patients.

Don't know what I'm gonna read next.
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Old 07-19-2003, 11:08 PM   #116 (permalink)
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I've just finished reading Michael Marshall Smiths collection of short stories- "What You Make It"
There are some deeply fucked up stories in that book!!
would you mind giving us a little info? like just one of the short stories contain what exactly? its weird how? horror? drugs?
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Old 07-19-2003, 11:09 PM   #117 (permalink)
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i just finished the getaway man by andrew vachess.

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Old 07-20-2003, 07:45 AM   #118 (permalink)
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would you mind giving us a little info? like just one of the short stories contain what exactly? its weird how? horror? drugs?
A lot of his stories are a bizarre kind of horror.

Spoilers for "More Tomorrow" below:








A guy starts at a new workplace and meets a girl he likes. Said girl has an unpleasant boyfriend. Girl starts appearing in rude pictures on Usenet, with a little more detail shown each day, and the message "more tomorrow". The girl looks scared.
Then the girl goes missing. After searching for her, the guy checks the newsgroups. Theres no new pictures of her, but new post say, "Beautiful Amputee". He opens the file. Its the girl, missing a limb. The message says "more tomorrow".


I'm not a very good storyteller, but Micheal Marshall Smith has a way of getting under your skin, and taking your breath away!!
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Old 07-20-2003, 09:20 AM   #119 (permalink)
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Right now, I'm reading a book called Cryptonomicon. So far, it's pretty interesting.

In case you're curious, it's by Neal Stephenson
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Old 07-20-2003, 10:49 AM   #120 (permalink)
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'The last journey of William Huskisson'. It's about the fist real railway between Liverpool and Manchester, and the problems they had in convincing people it would be a good idea.
Fascinating, if a little pedestrian in places.
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