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I have been thinking that I should start reading something, besides the same Rolling Stone magazine I have been reading for the past month.

Any good books out there that are a must read? I am open to nearly anything, considering I have no knowledge of this kind of thing whatsoever. Thanks.

Terry Pratchet novels! Any of them are good. :)

I don't like Terry Pratchett.

Read A Game Of Thrones (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553381687/103-9131438-8573441?v=glance) by George R R Martin.

Gammage Cup.

The Dark Tower.  One of the best series in existence.

i really need to read that. isnt it like stephan king fantasy?

how about Dork Tower  LOL  :hehe:  :P  

Lord of the Rings (yes, all three books).  

'The Banned and the Banished' series by James Clemens.

The Lord of the Rings is actually a single book - it was split into three by the publishers.

And my brother is now living in Tolkien's old dorm room. :blink:.

Oh my goodness, someone on this forum actually knows that!

Most people look at you stupidly and say 'no, there are three books, dude'.  So I've grown slightly accustomed to referring to LoTR as three books.  Should you be interested in any Tolkien-ish information, the forum The Grey Havens (http://tolkien.cro.net/board/index.php) is a plethora of information, even though it's mostly dead now.  I'm Mithrandir there.

SS knows everything. except what a biscuit is.

hush. we had biscuits before the prospect of your country had even been fathomed so be quiet and go sit in a corner

Hehe, I was thinking the same thing.

Though, The Silmarillion is better/cooler in my opinion.   :)  

Now now children... No fights here please.

did i just get rinsed by the new guy?  :blink:  

still have to pick that one up sometime.

and....lmao mole. ouch.

plus i read that as "so be quiet and go shit in a corner"  

bbqpwned!

You're tripping, mole.  Getting old, soft, weak.  You need to pull it together. :P  

you need to realise that while insulting me in a forum area where i am mod is a very naughty thing  :cheesy:  

Well… maybe not as naughty as his Mole's[/size] avatar ;)

[edited for clarity], sorry 'bout that squire :sheep:  

whos?

yours  :hmmm:
I edited my post for clarity  

everyone needs good education (http://www.bpsite.co.uk/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=1404)

What is that thing supposed to be? Dog sex?

Great, you’ve turned the ‘Decent Book’ thread into a threshold to the ‘Indecent Art’ thread.

*shifts conversation away from those of innocent persuation*

I like plums. Anyone else?

plums are fine but peaches are so much better

My eyes!  My poor eyes!  LOL

Bah, plums are better than peaches.   :D  

Edit button is my friend....

the Silmarillion isnt a true story, it reads more like a history book IMO

I am proud not to have a dot on the Dodgy art envelope.

I hear that buddy.

thast almost blasphemous

spend some time in there and it will grow on you...moral dilema...im going to lie down

i seriously avoided that topic altogether never having known what was in it. so one day a reference was made to it in another post and i decided to check it out. i was deeply disturbed :P  i do remember being like hey! thats mole's avi! and it made sense..

...and all the pieces of life just slipped together


...yea

I still think rabbit / dog sex is wrong...

perhaps in a physical sense but as far as the art form (fur) goes, its fine

It's about this time I say, whatever floats your boat.

whatever tickles your pickle that is...

brilliant. haha

anyways, poiley turned down this that i offered to lend him
(http://www.smartwriters.com/images/file/0/48/cover_America_TheBook.jpg)

I never turned it down, I was reading it in the car and chuckling at what it said.

I shall slap you across the room for that.  *initiates slapping*

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*picks up the unconscious body and throws it out a window*


Jk, actually, that's pretty much exactly what it is.  It's a history of the Elves.  If you're interested in the 'backhistory', so to speak, of LoTR, The Silmarillion is a great read.  If your teacher forced your class to read LoTR, you'll ritually burn the entire series when you're done and never touch any other Tolkien books.

I am assuming that's what you did?

No, I love LoTR.  I reserve the ritual burning for crap such as Catcher in the Rye.  

hmm having dropped any class involving literature now, the last 2 books i was forced to read and write a piece of coursework for were, Tess of the Durbeyvilles and A Kestral for a Knave. to date ive read neither, i tuned out on the audiobook of tess' and managed to watch the film Kes for the other. but i did manage to do the essays
 

Tess of the D'Urbervilles was quite possibly the worst book i've ever read. I literally did burn it, especially since i picked it up for a buck. Now i'm reading the Scarlet Letter in class, which really isn't indearing itself to me

aye and they made me go sit on a concrete bench in the summer sun on a humid day (with hayfever) and listen to the audio version and i was told off by a passing teacher for not having my book open! how bloody stupid would it be to read AND listen to a book?!!? idiots

wow that sux.  Thomas Hardy should've been banned from writing books, to date the only two good summer reading books i've read are The Power of One and The Killer Angles

 :huh:
sorry, but that title just gets my attention

heheh i wondered about that too, though angles are a killer, i just dont understand A-level maths

what's "A-level maths"?

its the set of exams in the second year of non-compulsory education

whoops typo, i meant the Killer Angels

sorry I asked, I don't understand the answer :miffed:
is it just higher level math, suchas calc or is it something like discrete and stats?

'discrete'?  

Stats is relatively easy.  Trig on the other hand... *freaks*

I am going to be forced to read The Scarlet Letter in English class sometime soon. Will I survive?

Yes.  I read it over last summer for English and it was bearable.  If you can get past the 'old-style' diction, you'll be fine.  

trig, modulus, stats, intergration, areas of curves rotated about the x-axis...bleh i get the rotation stuff and thats about it

its actually not that terrible but as I said before it hasn't really endeared itself to me. not a bad plot though


Speaking of which, one "old style" English book i actually enjoyed was Wuthering Heights, that was pretty cool

sounds like calculus to me. :D   Yay for under division math!!! :P

apparently the american system uses lots af constants due to your messy choice of measuring

I think we should switch to the metric system...

Why do we call it the English system when England doesn't even use it?

it's call "standard" ;)
in physics and other sciences we use metric...cuz it ownz yo

miles, feet, mph, inches, its wierd yet schools teach in mm,cm,m all the way from year 1 and we still go about measuring in miles

mole aren't you in europe somewhere? where they measure in kilometers...or are you just commenting on our crappy country?

We call it english here... Minnesota is breaking away I guess..

no i live in the UK, so in school and doing mechanics or what have you outside in industry, everyone uses mm, cm... but in everyday life ask someone how far away something is and theyll tell you in miles or yards, ask how  heavey they are and youll get an answer in stone and pounds, then hieghts in feet and inches...... wierd isnt it?

what is stone?

14lbs is one stone

never heard of stone, but yea that is weird. the metric system rocks and all but its like another language, you are just translating it into what you know and are familiar with. you could say 40 meters, and i wouldn't have a good estimate on how far that is. kinda like with time, i hate military time because all i do is convert it to what i already know..

you mean a 24 hours clock? like right now its 18:30? i always work in that, helps that all the clocks in my house bar 1 work that way(digital not analogs  <_< )

12:13 right now!

I hate having to worry about if it’s AM or PM, but in “military time” (universal time) I don’t have a good feel of what time it is…17:00…just by looking at it I can’t tell it’s 5:00, but I automatically know it’s PM…
I don’t work with time enough to become familiar with it.

Heh, I set my cell phone to military time... it's easy to get used to (yet I still once forgot that 13:15 was not the same as 3:15 PM).    :ph34r:  

Why the fuck do you call the 24-hour clock (the accepted standard for telling the time) 'military time' ?!

24 hour clock...i never wear watches anymore, makes me depressed

Because in the States it’s not the standard, and it’s called 'military time' because that’s what the US military uses.  Otherwise it’s a personal preference sort of thing...

We are Americans, we use AM and PM, military time is for the US military, not us really messed up citizens.

 need you have said more?

It's the world standard, bitches.

they do really wierd stuff on the continent apparently their date tags are ss:mm:hh:dd:mm:yy  all in one go like that seperated by :  we arent meant to use . s because its the standard symbol for times (x) thus most of the world uses , s for decimal points...kinda defeats the purpose of it being a point dont you think? the decimal jerk would be better

No idea what mole just said, so I will just take a guess.

Time - Hour:Minnute:Second, yes seperated by colons.

Dates - Month Day, Year, yes comma between day and year.

For money and such, its $3.50. Decimal point to show the seperation of dollars and cents.

Not many people, at least from what I have seen, put the time and date all together like mole showed.

they do that on the continent really, your system is silly, month day year??? we do day month year hench smallest to largest denomination but then we do hour, minute, seconds biggest to smallest, supposidly the europeans (continental side) go from seconds to years in one coninous progression

We have tried to make our government change it so that we are like the rest of the world, but that has failed every time.

Which brings me to my next point, ever heard of B.C.E. and C.E? Well, it's the new "politically correct" term for B.C, and A.D, when speaking of years. Before Common Era, Common Era.

...so?

i agree

man, you're typing like you're on speed

With my response being "Screw the idiots who can't use BC and AD."  :)  

It's not politically correct it's the accepted historical standard. Americans seem to have a problem with doing everything the same way as everyone else.

its a continueing problem, anythng more than a sentance and it become pretty incoherant

especially with the typos


on a side note INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

Canada?

nah my post count was on 1776

Oh yea of course, I totally could have guessed that...

exactly

good going Saladin <_<  you've successfully gone over everyone’s head ;)

what was this thread's topic again? :huh:

What is a good book I should read?

The Dark Elf Trilogy :ph34r:
It’s a part of a trilogy of trilogies…something like that; The Dark Elf Trilogy being the first, The Icewind Dale Trilogy, and Legacy of the Drow, all by R.A. Salvatore.  A problem with the books ifs that it becomes repetitive (which didn't bother me too much untill the last book), but a good read anyways.   :)  

If anyone is a fantasy fan and hasn't read George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, you are not a fantasy fan.

i love R.A. Salvatore but i wasn't able to get into the last couple i've picked up. Sea of Swords i think is my favorite so far.

i'll have to pick that up rug :)  

Waaah!! :cry:
I’m not a fantasy fan!! :cry:
 

I think I've heard of it, before, but I can't say I've read it. :/

Go read it then!

Meh, I've never even heard of it before.  LOL  

Robert Cormier anyone? some damn good stuff there, gonna have to read The Chocolate War and its sequel again.

Meh, I didn't like the 2nd one as much, I forget the title, (After the Chocolate War?) but I wanted to kill Archie at the end of it. The first one was great and real psychological

indeed, right title and all, not as good no, but i wanted more! so i liked it :)  

i wish he would've written a third but i think he's dead now

Harry Potter anyone? :unsure:

very annoyinglky addictive, but good to read

This doesn't actually stop some authors  :ph34r:  

or Tupac, you know assuming he's dead


Harry Potter is great but I can only read it in spades, otherwise it feels like i'm addicted

oddly enough, I haven't actually read the new Harry Potter book :(

Notes that I also have a couple chapters (a few hundred pages too many) to read for a midterm that starts in only a few hours :paranoid:

i liked it a lot, the characters were a lot more mature, the plot was as well, i think she's writes better in later books then the first 2

The author’s life has changed significantly because of those books.  That and the story is now rolling, which allows for a more interesting story. IMHO  

yea i can't imagine her finishing it in the next book. especially being that she said they weren't going to get any bigger than number 5.

i'm addicted and don't care, but after the immediate withdrawal i went through after reading 6, i'm patient..

at least i'm not alone

the stories are darker now, and the characters arent such pussies which is all the better

You have heard of the concept of fan fiction, no?

I used to read lots of fanfics :)
…until I got a hold of a ‘lime’ (I haven’t read them since) :unsure:  

what?

not interested....

Which fandom(s)?

And it serves you right for not reading the warnings properly.  :P  But look on the bright side, at least it wasn't a lemon, or even slash for that matter.

i read fanfiction.net but i dunno what limes are :huh:  

when I ended up with that 'lime', I quickly found out what a 'lemon' was, but I have no idea what a 'slash' is  :huh:
do I even want to know? :miffed:

slash is a gay relationship, now what the heck are lemons and limes? :huh:  

I think the only thing it takes to make a story a ‘lemon’ or ‘lime’ is that the character(s) are put in (otherwise out of character) situations/relationships o_O and get worse from there on.  I forgot which one is worse though.

you mean illegal relationships? :unsure: cuz i've run into those fanfics and those are nasty

:mellow: ...
I don't want to know...
 :sheep:
*runs away

thou shalt know my pain after the things i've read *runs after smi shouting incest, rape, NAMBLA, and stuff like that*

I hate you :hmmm:  

I STRIKE AGAIN!!! :ph34r:  :ph34r:  :ph34r:  fanfiction is fun though, but people never seem to have an idea of A. How to write dialogue and B. put spaces between paragraphs

What is the opinion of the EarthSea books?
I think I saw the book in my house, and it's not mine :huh: I think I have a closet Science Fiction & Fantasy reader in my house :o  

y'all should read Al Franken you know assuming you guys are all liberals

Hence why you should browse by the number of reviews, not the titles. :P