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« on: June 29, 2008, 04:03:00 AM » |
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I'm pretty curious as to what everyone's favorite book or book series is.
Mine has to be the Dark Elf series. The writing is superb and you really feel for the characters.
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2008, 04:22:32 AM » |
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all the tom clancy books right now
when i was young it was all about Hank the Cow Dog
and my favorite stand alone book is The Templar Legacy
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« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2008, 04:26:58 AM » |
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John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor's "Looking Glass" series. Best damned Sci-Fi I've read in ages... and all the Science is close to reality too. The second best would also be a John Ringo series. The Legacy of the Aldenata series. Think Starship Troopers (the book not the film) power armour verses a cross between a horse and an alligator who have spaceships and railguns and eat ANYTHING and anyone. Third favourite would be David Weber's Honor Harrington series or maybe his Prince Roger series. All these are under the classification of "Military SciFi". I'm kind of lucky in the fact that because I was disabled while in the military I get a free VIP subscription to webscription.net which has all these books in ebook form. Now I don't have to pay for the ebooks and get to read them up to 6 months before they come out in print (what they call Advanced Readers Copy). |
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« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2008, 04:31:24 AM » |
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Lucky bastard. Read many blockbusters before they released?
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« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2008, 04:51:28 AM » |
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i loved gulivers travels, and 20,000 leagues under the sea.
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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2008, 05:37:10 AM » |
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The Guide for guys,
some useful stuff right there.
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« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2008, 07:09:05 AM » |
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Fighting Rueben Wolf,,,something like that. It was written by Marcus Zuzak or something.
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« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2008, 10:30:07 AM » |
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When I was younger, the Darren Shan Saga is good for younger reasons. I just read recently his newest book for a new series of books aimed more for adults.
Gortex and Felix series I really enjoyed, can't remebeer the authors name, something King published by black libary.
And Flashman, only read three of them but they are good.
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« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2008, 10:53:33 AM » |
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well i have to read the Iliad right now, its so boring but it has a nice story
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« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2008, 12:14:33 PM » |
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well i have to read the Iliad right now, its so boring but it has a nice story
I preferred the Odyssey myself. |
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« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2008, 03:18:26 PM » |
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Same here, Neo. I always found Odysseus more entertaining than the whole Trojan Horse spectacle. The archery contest is what I really enjoy considering Odysseus comes back in total secrecy and slaughters the bastard usurpers.
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« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2008, 05:02:46 PM » |
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never read The Oddysey, thats probably gonna be assigned next year
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« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2008, 05:38:49 PM » |
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Tolkien, anything.
Close second for anything by Stephen King/Clive Barker.
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« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2008, 07:02:36 PM » |
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I love the Sword of Truth series. It's a fantasy on more realistic terms.
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« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2008, 07:32:54 PM » |
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I love the Sword of Truth series. It's a fantasy on more realistic terms.
I agree. The only thing that I didn't enjoy was Faith of the Fallen where Goodkind just kept pounding the new society's beliefs...Okay, we get it. Communism. Thank you, Goodkind. Now write about Richard escaping already. |
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« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2008, 10:29:20 PM » |
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Lucky bastard. Read many blockbusters before they released?
Recently read "Claws that Catch" which won't be available until November. It's one of the Looking Glass series I mentioned. One of the things that makes me laugh about that series is they find this alien space drive and turn a ballistic submarine into a spaceship in one of the earlier books (Vorpal Blade). Also the names of some of the books made think they were familiar somehow. This latest book finally revealed what. The books were "Through the Looking Glass", "Vorpal Blade", "Manxome Foe" and "Claws That Catch". Bar the first one (which was originally meant to be a solo book) the names are taken from a famous poem. |
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« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2008, 11:32:13 PM » |
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one of my favorite books is one i just read, called The Alchemist.
there's just alot in that book.
it makes me think.
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« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2008, 11:42:51 PM » |
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i wanna read the steven colbert book. i am america (and so can you)  |
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« Reply #18 on: June 29, 2008, 11:44:55 PM » |
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eric's got it nick. it's pretty awesome.  |
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« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2008, 12:41:53 AM » |
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Same here, Neo. I always found Odysseus more entertaining than the whole Trojan Horse spectacle. The archery contest is what I really enjoy considering Odysseus comes back in total secrecy and slaughters the bastard usurpers.
It's been a while since I read it but wasn't the suitors to his wife trying to string Odysseus's bow and couldn't yet along comes this tramp and does... and the tramp is Odysseus himself who then starts shooting the suitors? My memory is probably fibbing to me as usual. |
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« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2008, 01:18:52 AM » |
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That's exactly what happens, you still got it, baby.
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« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2008, 01:33:15 AM » |
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It's wierd how my long term memory is good yet my short term memory is crap.
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« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2008, 02:24:32 AM » |
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The Enders Game and Enders Shadow series.
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« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2008, 03:56:38 AM » |
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