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Buddymander
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 Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2006 19:17 Post subject: What books are you reading? |
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And what books would you recommend?
I just got finished reading The Traveler, its like a cyber 1984 in modern times, lots of action in that book, about 500 pages long.
I also finished reading a American history book from 1911, it was damn good, its nice because it doesn't justified everything done to the Indians and the spanish war like text books do today, about 500 pages long to.
Also im reading a book from 1897 called What A Young Boy Ought To Know, its a religions book, you know Christian, not that im religions but its nice to broaden my thoughts, it talks about about many different subjects, it talks a lot about evolution and god, stuff like that, its a little bit for the younglings than for me but its nice anyway, about 200 pages.
I'm also reading a big book from 1959 called The Encyclopedia Of WITCHCRAFT And DEMONOLOGY, im about 25 percent finished, its kinda of boring really, but i'll finish it sometime, lets just say the 1600s won't a good time to be called a witch, about 600 pages.
I will as well start reading a Etymology book called The Scholar's Companion.
As you can tell, i like old books 
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john grisham - king of torts, just finished it yesterday. just a plain book
i would recommend the dark tower series by stephen king and the laws of magic or whatever the english name is, its by Terry Goodkind . both fantasy. and offcourse the wheel of time
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2006 19:34 Post subject: |
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I'm currently reading Bram Stoker's: Dracula. Way better than the movies
My last book was Dan Brown's: Deception Point. That one blew me away 
My next book will either be Dan Brown's: Angels and Demons or Ernest Hemingway's: For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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TheSaint
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2006 19:39 Post subject: |
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Mostly only study books, but in the train some simple stories
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X_Dror
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ChinUp
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X_Dror
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2006 19:53 Post subject: |
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I was forced to read too many.
They can get nice when you get to the point but the problem is that it takes a lot of time to get to the point and I have better things to do in that time.
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ChinUp
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The more you read the shorter books get .. its about getting past the dialog in your head ..
BOOKS OWN ALL .. its just there are so many crap writers getting paid to produce toilet paper novels currently .. but that’s just a flicker compared to the vast resource of knowledge & imagination available to anyone who is willing to face teaching there mind how to SHUT UP & PAY ATTENTION .. it takes some practice but once you can just read the damb book rather than repeat every line five times in your head .. its a fantastic way to while away a few hours ..
Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum: < amazingly odd read .. this is one serious head case .. breaks his own back as a child so he doesn’t have to become an adult ..
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide < the writer made this website for a band called supergrass .. check it out
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
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Buddymander
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2006 20:57 Post subject: |
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| X_Dror wrote: | I was forced to read too many.
They can get nice when you get to the point but the problem is that it takes a lot of time to get to the point and I have better things to do in that time. |
Shit, i feel sorry for you man.
Being forced to read lots of books destroys ones interest in them, it destroys the magic of them.
I hope someday you can get over it, and really enjoy books.
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2006 21:34 Post subject: |
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I read some books, but then again it's usually only if i have to read them.
Though if I will know that some book is really good and I will have the time for it I will read it.
I just don't fancy books much as some other people are.
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SycoShaman
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Havent been to the book store in quite some time. I like reading tho, beats movies/tv.
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2006 22:40 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | | I like reading tho, beats movies/tv. |
Why say that? They're completely different entertainment mediums, each of them better at expressing different aspects of the human imagination, appropriate for different environments.
Anyway if you really believed that you would have been to a bookstore recently, or have you not watched TV for the same time frame?
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Esel_Gesi
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The only books I have time for are school books 
There's this intellectual stigma that books have. "I read books, I are teh smart"
I just don't really find the leisure in reading novels. I do my fair share of reading via NFOrce, News sites, school books, etc.
I would just rather spend my free time doing something other than sitting on my ass reading a novel.
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2006 23:35 Post subject: |
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| Esel_Gesi wrote: | The only books I have time for are school books
There's this intellectual stigma that books have. "I read books, I are teh smart"
I just don't really find the leisure in reading novels. I do my fair share of reading via NFOrce, News sites, school books, etc.
I would just rather spend my free time doing something other than sitting on my ass reading a novel. |
I'm just like that, it's why i get most of my reading done in the bathroom, where there's pretty much nothing else to do  |
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I'm reading now Patrick O'Brien. He has some really exceptional writing.
Usually I read fantasy and Science Fiction but lately I've started reading all the detective novels.
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trying to read and understand various poetry books
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I'm reading Musashi, some programming book and James Stewarts Calculus...
feels rather depressing when I think about it.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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in school i hated books cause i had to read them, now i dont have to anymore and i love em.
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cyberpunk ftw !
read like 20 Shadowrun novels, both Sprawl and Bridge trilogies by Gibson and a bunch of others
military stuff like W.E.B. Griffin and Clancy is ok too
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Serben
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I am reading a book I borrowed from a friend. It is called Witch Hunt: History of a persecution. Nothing has been cited so I don’t trust all elements. I am also reading some of Nortons anthology, whatever it is called. It is in the bedroom on my night stand. All the classics in there.
I freaking love reading text books, I am always going back to my microbiology texts.
@Chin
You reading that book online? Tao Te Ching? I have never done that. D/L a comic once but couldn’t be bothered to read it that way. I like the feeling of a solid book in my hands. The book smell.
@X_Dror
Maybe you just haven’t found a book you really like. Some people just hate reading tho.
@Compu
Good link I will have to check it out.
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Oct 2006 07:53 Post subject: |
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Well nothing right now though these I can recommende:
George Orwell's "1984".
Stephen Kings' "Dreamcatcher".
Stephen Kings' "The Stand".
Stephen Kings' "Cujo".
Stephen Kings' "The Dark Half",
Stephen Kings' "Skeleton Crew" <- Novel Collection also includes "The Myst".
Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six"
Tom Clancy's "Without Remorse",
Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears",
Tom Clancy's "Executive Orders",
Tom Clancy's "The Beer and The Dragon",
Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange".
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
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I have never not liked a Steven King.
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Bel-Ami of Maupassant and Crime et Châtiment of Dostoïevski.
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