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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 21:54    Post subject:  What books do you read?  

So some of you can just about write...

What book have you read recently that you would recommend?

I've just read The Book Thief which is a very poignent book about a girl in Munich during WWII. I thoroughly recommend it.

BTW Osiris - a book is a lot of text a bit like a .PDF

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 22:54    Post subject:  

Lol diet.

Well I dont read much, I have read the colour purple which I would recommend. I just received the bourne trilogy in book form which I intend to read, which I have been told is good (I certainly like the films!).
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 23:10    Post subject: Re: What books do you read?  

Diet H2O_TSGK wrote:

BTW Osiris - a book is a lot of text a bit like a .PDF


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 23:24    Post subject:  

These are the 3 shelfs above my computer, I have read 90% of them. Other 10% are SWMBO books.
What sort of genre are you into?
Mine are sci-fantsy such as Robert Jordan - wheel of time series or L.E. Modesit Jr
Adventure - Clive Clussler or James Clavell
Also Tom Clancy (rainbow 6 games based on)
To name but a few.......

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 23:51    Post subject:  

N1 Borg. I used to read a lot of fantasy & SF. favourite fantasy was stephen donaldson and favourite SF was dick, orson scott card. I read some of the Feist riftwar books a few weeks back and they were nice page turners.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 00:15    Post subject:  

i read the hole Goosebumps books a couple of years ago.. ahh. the days..
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 00:18    Post subject:  

Unfortunately these days the only books you'll catch my nose in have the title "hanes manual" or "chiltons".

Still good reading though.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 09:34    Post subject:  

Try - Rama by Aurthur C Clarke
Or Dune - Frank Hert
For a good sci fi read

Adventure
Try Inca Gold - Clive Cussler

Always happy to recomend a good book Very Happy

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 09:45    Post subject:  

Aside from various chemistry textbooks (inorganic chem, o. chem, and p. chem (shudder)), I really haven't read a whole hell of a lot. Right now I'm reading Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin. It has something to do with vampires, a riverboat, and 1850's America. Good read so far.

And if you're a fantasy fan and haven't read R. R. Martin's a Song of Fire and Ice books, you must. Very, very, very good. Did I mention they were awesome and very good? And for what little it's worth....he rocks the beard...and has a silly hat Shocked !



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:57    Post subject:  

I read a lot of Dean Koontz.

The best are Odd Thomas(3 part series), Life Expectancy and Velocity.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:15    Post subject:  

Ahh, so many good books already mentioned.

Just finished:

Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island. One of the best thriller's i've read in years: thrilling, dense, captivating and an end with a twist which came totally unexpected for me. Lehane is also the author of Mystic River.

Currently reading:
Douglas Hofstadter - I'm a strange loop. If you are into computer science, KI, feedback systems, recursive loops etc, it's worth a read. He's the author of the highlyl successful Gödel, Escher Bach.

For those who prefer pictures:
Frank Miller - 300. The model comic for the movie.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 17:43    Post subject:  

I tried to read LOTR:Triliogy however I got to the 3rd book and my last braincell exploded from information overload. The only other books I read are to do with computer programming......not much fun really Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 18:21    Post subject:  

Harry Potter XD And Some other Fantasy books Razz
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 19:02    Post subject:  

I have only read 3 books of him so far but Stephen King writes great books.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 08:31    Post subject:  

Favorite book of all time is A Confederacy of Dunces. Also a huge fan of the late Douglas Adams. Michael Crichton also writes good books.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:31    Post subject:  

Not done much reading for a while, but when I do, it's normally history. Often Military history, but not exclusively so.

The one that stands out in my mind right now is - A history of the English speaking peoples by Winston Churchill.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 17:41    Post subject:  

I like science fiction, both classic and new stuff. My favourite is probably the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. At the moment I'm reading The War in the Air, also by Wells which is great and full of European imperialism and a cockney englishman, who somehow unwillingly ends up in a zeppelin attack on America.

In terms of non-fiction I read my geology textbooks for university (sometimes) and a bit of history and an art textbook/guide, as outside PC games I like to draw a lot.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 17:44    Post subject:  

Xenon wrote:
I like science fiction, both classic and new stuff. My favourite is probably the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. At the moment I'm reading The War in the Air also by Wells which is great and full of European imperialism and a cockney englishman who somehow unwillingly ends up in a zeppelin attack on America.

In terms of non-fiction I read my geology textbooks for university (sometimes) and a bit of history and an art textbook/guide, as outside PC games I like to draw a lot.


Best you scan in a couple of your drawings for us to look at then Wink Very Happy

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Best you scan in a couple of your drawings for us to look at then Wink Very Happy

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 00:00    Post subject:  

cra*pin hell you did that in one day mate, you got damn good talent. n1!!!

My sisters into alot of drawing as well (She only 17) and shes really good, she recently got hereself a tattoo gun Shocked Shocked and I crapped my pants when she started using it on her mates after only two weeks of practise, but after the photos I saw of what she done they were bloody amazing (Only tribals but they were real good and nothin messed up like some ive seen)

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 04:20    Post subject:  

I absouloutely hate reading.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:59    Post subject:  

I like reading but I only do it when I have to or have too much time on my hands/am bored. I've read everything LOTR from the hoobbit to children of hurin, everything harry potter, everything roald dahl, anthony horowitz, and a whole bunch of dutch writers you probabely never even heard of. Most were in my child years, as said, I only read when I have time too much but I always have things to do Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 22:44    Post subject:  

Diet H2O_TSGK wrote:
N1 Borg. I used to read a lot of fantasy & SF. favourite fantasy was stephen donaldson and favourite SF was dick, orson scott card. I read some of the Feist riftwar books a few weeks back and they were nice page turners.


What where the stephen donaldson called?

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 22:50    Post subject:  

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Diet H2O_TSGK wrote:
N1 Borg. I used to read a lot of fantasy & SF. favourite fantasy was stephen donaldson and favourite SF was dick, orson scott card. I read some of the Feist riftwar books a few weeks back and they were nice page turners.


What where the stephen donaldson called?


Various titles. Fantasy = Chronocles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, SF = Gap series


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Covenant

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 01:40    Post subject:  

Good books

Mr Nice - Howard Marks: The autobiography of the largest cannabis dealer of the 1980s. Funny, strange and moving at times, one of best books I have read.

1984 - George Orwell: The classic story of Big Brother, a government gone mad with power and what happens to those that disobey

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey: A tale of the day to day lives of the inhabitants of a mental institution, later used as the basis for a movie starring Jack Nicholson

Costra Nostra, A History of the Sicilian Mafia - John Dickie: No synopsis needed for this, the name speaks for itself


and some for the more politically minded Smile

Reefer Madness and Other Tales from the American Underground - Eric Schlosser: An examination of the three largest moral problems facing the United States, namely immigrant workers, cannabis use and pornography

State of Denial Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward: The untold stories of the war in Iraq as told by the former White House correspondent with the New York Times

I'll post more later on if I remember them Smile

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 03:00    Post subject:  

[KC] Rafadagaffer wrote:
Good books

Mr Nice - Howard Marks: The autobiography of the largest cannabis dealer of the 1980s. Funny, strange and moving at times, one of best books I have read.

1984 - George Orwell: The classic story of Big Brother, a government gone mad with power and what happens to those that disobey

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey: A tale of the day to day lives of the inhabitants of a mental institution, later used as the basis for a movie starring Jack Nicholson

Costra Nostra, A History of the Sicilian Mafia - John Dickie: No synopsis needed for this, the name speaks for itself


and some for the more politically minded Smile

Reefer Madness and Other Tales from the American Underground - Eric Schlosser: An examination of the three largest moral problems facing the United States, namely immigrant workers, cannabis use and pornography

State of Denial Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward: The untold stories of the war in Iraq as told by the former White House correspondent with the New York Times

I'll post more later on if I remember them Smile


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English and History
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 03:41    Post subject:  

me no speak egnlish Sad
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 03:47    Post subject:  

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 13:47    Post subject:  

Anything by Tolkein.

Hobbit
LOTR
The Silmarillion
The Children of Hurin
The book of lost tales.
+ many more.


Richard Laymon has some good horror books.

At the moment im reading The Matewix xD

Ill read anything as long as it doesnt look overly shit or have Harry Potter in it lol
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