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07-10-2003, 04:18 PM
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 I actually have the book, just been busy reading Heinlein lately.
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07-13-2003, 04:51 PM
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Insane
Location: In a huge maze just trying to find my cheese
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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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07-13-2003, 11:27 PM
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The Northern Ward
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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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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07-15-2003, 07:13 AM
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Psycho
Location: that place with the thing
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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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07-15-2003, 12:20 PM
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Junkie
Location: Up yonder
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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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07-18-2003, 12:23 PM
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Insane
Location: Seattle
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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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07-18-2003, 12:34 PM
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Psycho
Location: Pasadena, CA
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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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07-19-2003, 12:22 AM
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Psycho
Location: Somewhere between the Havens and the Earth
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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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07-19-2003, 11:08 PM
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Crazy
Location: right behind you...
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07-20-2003, 07:45 AM
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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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