Keith
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Post by Keith on Jan 17, 2006 19:01:16 GMT -8
Joe ~was~ in fact the best character. Joe Gargery. Too bad Pip couldn'tve been honest and cool and just lived with Joe. That would've been a better story, ending in about 50 pages of yawn-fest instead of about 400.
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Post by Daos on Jan 22, 2006 14:40:00 GMT -8
I finished "I, Robot" and have moved on to "Caves of Steel." I'm hoping to finally purchase the sequel, "The Naked Sun" today at the bookstore so I can read it once I'm finished with the first one.
Hopefully I'll have some luck in finding it, or else it's off to Amazon.com for me.
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Post by matt on Feb 3, 2006 20:07:17 GMT -8
I just started reading "Elvissey" by Jack Womack. It's a bit of a sci-fi/cyberpunk thriller type book and it involves Elvis Presley as a cult leader in the future.
Yeah. I like weird stuff.
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Post by HorizonsDream on Feb 3, 2006 22:36:40 GMT -8
You must be the new guy, so hi New guy! That book sounds kind of...uh...well weird.
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Post by Daos on Mar 14, 2006 19:01:22 GMT -8
Whoo! I just got Prelude to the Foundation from Asimov's Foundation series. Should be a good read.
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Post by matt on Mar 14, 2006 20:26:10 GMT -8
Magic Kingdom For Sale by Terry Brooks.... now switching gears and moving on to The Hunted by Elmore Leonard.
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Airellian
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Post by Airellian on Apr 21, 2006 17:05:26 GMT -8
Has anyone read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell? It's about two magicians trying to restore English magic during the time of Napolean Bonaparte's conquest. Such a one sentence summary cannot do it justice, though, so read it, though it may be too hefty for most, being 800 something pages.
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Airellian
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Post by Airellian on Apr 26, 2006 19:36:26 GMT -8
I'm currently reading Armada, by Garrett Mattingly:
"Chronicling one of the most spectacular events of the sixteenth century, The Armada is the definitive story of the English fleet's dramatic defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588."
It's pretty interesting for nonfiction. When I rang this up at the cash register, the clerk looked at the book, read the back flap, and said, "Hey, I'd like to read this book, too." That was funny.
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Post by Daos on Sept 5, 2006 18:26:21 GMT -8
I'm re-reading my Mythadventure series by Robert Asprin. I only had the first two, but the third and fourth just arrived today from Amazon. It's a really fun series that mixes high fantasy with a little modernism. Anyone here ever read it?
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Biz
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Post by Biz on Sept 6, 2006 9:23:38 GMT -8
Nope, but I am reading Peter Pan and I finished Candide. And reading old issues of National Geographic.
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Post by Daos on Sept 6, 2006 9:29:42 GMT -8
I have some new issues of National Geographic that I never took out of the protective plastic bags. My grandmother signed me up for a year's subscription, even though I never said I wanted it or was interested in it. (In fact, I told her the opposite. But she had all ready paid for the subscription by then. Bleh.)
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Post by Shannon on Sept 6, 2006 10:24:03 GMT -8
I just devoured Charlaine Harris's "Sookie Stackhouse" series, which is about a telepathic woman living in a world were vampires and the like exsist. Great light read.
By the way, Theive's World (a collection of short stories by a variety of authors, also including Asprin) is a great read, also.
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Post by Daos on Sept 6, 2006 12:02:31 GMT -8
Oh, yeah? I've heard of Thieves' World, but never read them. Is it a parody/comedy like Mythadventures?
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Biz
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Post by Biz on Sept 6, 2006 12:18:29 GMT -8
I have the new ones too, but I took them out of the plastic coverings. You should at least look at the pretty pictures.
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Post by matt on Sept 6, 2006 13:54:50 GMT -8
I read a Thieves' World book some time ago, actually. It wasn't a comedy from what I remember.
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