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Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on May 01, 2003, 01:55:38 AM
You know this one. Post the book you have most recently read, blah-blah.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Biteme360 on May 01, 2003, 02:07:59 AM
Magic the Gathering: Emperor's Fist: Part II of the magic legends cycle.  it's awsome. 50 more posts and i'm back baby


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on May 01, 2003, 02:10:22 AM
I'm currently reading A Man Rides Through, part 2 of the two part Mordant's Need series.

It is great book, and the twists, plotting, and treachery between all the characters will leave you wondering who is lying, and who is telling the truth until a certain point, but from then on, you are left wondering: Will anyone believe them?

A GREAT book by Stephen R. Donaldson.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on May 01, 2003, 02:24:02 AM
Currently reading WoT: The Eye of the World
for the first time thanks to all you guys......loving it so far


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on May 01, 2003, 02:28:37 AM
Hope you enjoy it. The only reason I ever noticed it was because I needed a book to read in fifth grade, and it was the only one in the library. I still need to read the remainder of the books, since the last one I read was Lord of Chaos. The bookstores nearby haven't had any of Robert Jordan's books for a long while.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on May 01, 2003, 09:35:23 AM
I'm reading WoT: The Eye of the World also.
Second time round for me though. :)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on May 01, 2003, 02:04:52 PM
Just finished Crossroads of Twilight, Gonna read The World of Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time cover to cover, then im gonna take a break from them before re-reading Winters Heart and Crossroads of Twilight just before New Spring comes out :)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on May 01, 2003, 05:51:45 PM
I'm about to start Watership down By: Richard Adams.  Here I come you crazed little rabbits!!!!!   :ph34r:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: evilknight on May 01, 2003, 08:54:09 PM
im reading Romeo and Juliet for skool. it suks


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Biteme360 on May 01, 2003, 09:00:06 PM
darn that skool, i mean realy, they don't teach anything worth anything, down with skool :rolleyes:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Shadow Hawk on May 02, 2003, 12:44:46 AM
mmm, just finished re-reading Crossroads for 2nd time through WoT, now im re-reading the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Fiest, then im going to start the GAP series by Stephen R. Donaldson.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Guest on May 02, 2003, 04:15:34 PM
I haven't read GAP yet, though I do have all the books, courtosy of my father. If you start them before me, tell me if they are worth reading.  :D  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Guest on May 02, 2003, 04:16:46 PM
That guest was me. It seemed every time I post or do something here I get logged out. Or maybe I'm pressing back and not even realizing it. :hmmm:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Guest:Filran on May 02, 2003, 04:18:50 PM
Seeing how I can't log in, those two guests are me.  :hmmm: It keeps saying I'm logged in, then it goes and pulls this crap on me....  <_<  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on May 02, 2003, 04:24:20 PM
Har Har.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Shadow Hawk on May 02, 2003, 04:49:11 PM
well, i sorta started the first one, and so far so good...but ive heard from several people they're excellant, so i'd giv em a shot filran.  (reliable sources...sort of)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on May 02, 2003, 05:09:15 PM
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It keeps saying I'm logged in, then it goes and pulls this crap on me....
Useless cookies. :P


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on May 02, 2003, 05:46:31 PM
I had that problem with my forum at one point, you have to make sure your Browser is accepting the cookies properly, and if it is then SS has fished summit up.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on May 02, 2003, 08:52:15 PM
o don't talk about cookies I'm really hungry :(  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: evilknight on May 02, 2003, 09:13:20 PM
cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie   :balefire:  :asha'man:
whoops, there go the cookies.  :D  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on May 03, 2003, 02:09:02 PM
I can't change the browser blah-blahs at school. >.< Because then I shall die.


And I shall try and read the GAP series, but gotta finish reading A Man Rides Through.  :P  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on May 06, 2003, 05:25:03 PM
reading= the kraken wakes


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: lord of the dead on May 06, 2003, 06:05:07 PM
Not that anyone cares, but I'm re-reading Catch-22. Again. It's such a great book that I wake people up with my laughing.  LOL  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on May 06, 2003, 06:11:58 PM
Is that anything like see spot run?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: lord of the dead on May 06, 2003, 09:07:11 PM
Yes, a lot like See Spot Run, except this has big words, less pictures, is about something completely different, and is considered to be a one of the best books of the 20th Century. Although I can see the similarities with a childrens book...  :blink:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: evilknight on May 06, 2003, 11:13:44 PM
see spot run was my all time favorite, next to that, war and peace.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: lord of the dead on May 06, 2003, 11:45:32 PM
A true classic. I'll try to find a download of the animated series for you.  :hehe:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on May 07, 2003, 05:35:38 AM
Catch 22 hmm who wrote it???


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: lord of the dead on May 07, 2003, 12:37:43 PM
Joseph Heller. It's about a bomber squadron during WWII, and a bunch of crazy bomber piolts. There's some deep philosophical meaning in it, but it's so deep that I don't see it clearly,  ;)  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on May 07, 2003, 05:50:42 PM
o yeah my brother wanted me 2 read that ;)  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: opperdude on May 08, 2003, 11:45:00 AM
i am currently reading: waiting for godot, the book (actually a play) is one big spam session, i'm reading it for school and gonna write a great spammy bookreport about it  :D (is there anyone who read the book and can say something intelligent about it? my teacher kinda likes that  :P  :alien: )


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on May 09, 2003, 12:52:09 AM
never heard of it.......is that at a high school in the US or are you from somewhere weird (dang brits)....j/k


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: opperdude on May 09, 2003, 09:54:26 AM
i'm from the netherlands, and if i read it it is about nothing, but there must be some deeper meaning in it, which i can't see... it's a rather old book 1950 or so, written by samuel beckett, well all real spammers should read it because he's the master, he writes a book in which nothing happens and he gets a noble prize for literature for it  :miffed:
and i'm 16 so i don't believe that would be highschool then?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on May 09, 2003, 08:36:09 PM
anyone read n e john wyndham books?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: evilknight on May 13, 2003, 03:17:17 AM
nope.
i am now reading "To Kill a Mocking Bird"


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on May 13, 2003, 06:44:47 PM
im on tyhe second page of eotw


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on May 13, 2003, 06:51:55 PM
eotw ?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on May 13, 2003, 06:53:11 PM
eeew octopuss that wanks


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on May 13, 2003, 06:55:47 PM
The Eye of the World!


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on May 13, 2003, 06:55:49 PM
Thats one hell of a sick book title chris!


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on May 13, 2003, 06:56:22 PM
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The Eye of the World!
God no, u havent gone so low as 2 start reading WOT have you???


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on May 13, 2003, 08:32:52 PM
/me pokes Ripper with a hot fork.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on May 14, 2003, 06:27:30 AM
just finished Eye of the World.....and started The Great Hunt.
I'm a little confused about what happened at the end of EotW.  After Rand runs away from Aginor and Moiraine, can someone explain what the hell happened with the ropes of light and dark and the whole trolloc army thing?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on May 14, 2003, 10:22:11 AM
I will, 'soon as I've re-read to that part, because I'm not sure what you're on about. :miffed:


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on May 14, 2003, 03:24:59 PM
my bad......it was so confusing to read that i can't begin to describe what happened


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Shadow Hawk on May 14, 2003, 03:38:20 PM
yeh i read it about a 2 months ago so i'll try and explain, but you understand more once you read the whole series actually.  umm...not sure what your talking about trolloc army and all, but the ropes of darkness and all that are the forsaken's links to The Dark One if i remember correctly, which are also referred to with Asmodean much later...(not a spoiler SS, just pointing it out)...

anywho...something about them being made when they first swear to the dark one.  i think the ropes also have something to do with their life as well, it might even be their thread to the pattern that he cuts??  i'm not 100% sure on any of this though...

umm...it was his first one and it was actually really badly written, the whole "Eye of the World" thing in general was a bit wierd, but it made you want to read the next one and that's what mattered, cos 2 and 3 were pretty ausome and 4,5,6 rocked complete arse.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on May 14, 2003, 04:10:07 PM
ok.....while the whole thing was going on at the eye of the world, Lord Agelmar of Shienar was marching against trollocs who were attacking some pass......and then somehow rand was there and killed a bunch of them, or all of them.....i couldn't really tell.....what was goign on there?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Asura on May 30, 2003, 12:14:07 AM
Boredom makes me post stupid things. I'm reading White Fang by Jack London again... I need to get something else to read (Other than manga). I've already read all the books I have many times...o_O


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: WBHighwind on May 30, 2003, 01:56:59 AM
Im reading book 5 in the Wheel of Time series


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on May 30, 2003, 11:24:10 AM
me book 1


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: KillerHummingbird on June 05, 2003, 11:50:45 PM
WhiteKnight

i think what you are talking about was the links to the truesource and as was said, dark one(or atleast the truesource of one tainted by him)

i havent read that part for a while, but what happens is that rand when he gets into the middle of all of those people gets into a battle with the one guy there, and it sort of takes him to another place, but his body stays.  while he's away all the power he unleashes during the fight kills the trolloc army.

thats if i remember all corectly ;)

and i just finished the Pillars of Creation in the Sword of truth series and im gonna go and get something to read in about 5 minutes here. probably darkover, but im gonna look at sum other books too :)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on June 06, 2003, 12:34:10 AM
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my bad......it was so confusing to read that i can't begin to describe what happened
It'll happen more as you get further down in the books.  :P  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on June 06, 2003, 08:26:28 AM
/me slaps Filran.

How are we going to convert people to WoT if you say things like that! :hmmm:


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: GandalfTheOld on June 06, 2003, 10:07:29 AM
you count manga as book?

then i'm reading Pita-Ten 1-7... (don't ask me why, i just do...)

got a mad collection of manga... a bunch of them incomplete tho


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on June 06, 2003, 11:32:10 AM
Not really.


For those that must know these things, I shall be reading chapters 44, 45 and 46 tonight in The Great Hunt, then I'll finish it on Saturday evening and start TDR on Sunday night.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on June 06, 2003, 11:52:25 AM
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How are we going to convert people to WoT if you say things like that! :hmmm:
I'm not trying to convert people to WoT. :P I'll only convert 11 year olds who probably won't read it. Cause... I read them when I was 11. :o

I'm trying to convert people to Thomas Covenant.  :D  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on June 06, 2003, 05:43:49 PM
Bah, you should be trying to convert people to WoT... the series is about a lot more than Rand. :P


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on June 06, 2003, 05:55:05 PM
//Auron is currently reading A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Lord Rahl on June 15, 2003, 01:10:55 AM
I am currently reading the entire Mithgar series by Dennis L. McKiernan
recently finished reading thru WoT and SoT for the 5th time, LOL


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on June 15, 2003, 08:18:39 AM
What book comes after EOTW? As im gonna finish it within a few weeks, and it would be useful if i new what the next one is.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on June 15, 2003, 09:34:52 AM
the great hunt


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on June 15, 2003, 10:28:24 AM
Have you started that one yet?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on June 15, 2003, 11:07:08 AM
no im readin the harry fotter book first >:


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on June 15, 2003, 01:39:31 PM
1. The Eye of the World
2. The Great Hunt
3. The Dragon Reborn
4. The Shadow Rising
5. The Fires of Heaven
6. Lord of Chaos
7. A Crown of Swords
8. The Path of Daggers
9. A Winter's Heart
10. Crossroads of Twilight

I can't remember which way round 5 & 6 go, or what the name of one of them is.

Eureka! My brain works again. :)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on June 15, 2003, 03:23:51 PM
went bk into the sewer to find it?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Shadow Hawk on June 16, 2003, 09:45:07 AM
ahh, harry potter 5 nearly out in australia, cant wait.  some reason i just love those books.

anywho...just finished the Farseer Trilogy again, cos i love those books.  i dunno...the world its set in aint that great, the ideas on magic and everything aint that brilliant, but some of the characters...christ i love em
if u dont know what im talking about, (which i doubt many of u do) go read Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb.

also, just before that but just after i re-read WoT, i read all of the Raymond E. Fiest books, which i liked up to a point, he sorta got shitty halfway into the Serpentwar Saga, and the Krondor ones arent that great either.  But anywho...Magician (the first one, revised edition or original) fkn rocked complete and utter arse, one of the best books in history.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on June 16, 2003, 01:53:42 PM
Oooh! I've read the Assassins books by Hobb! Love those books... I read them 2 years ago, and I still read them...


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on June 18, 2003, 05:43:24 PM
horray the great hut camne 2day   :hehe:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Jezwyn on June 18, 2003, 06:08:09 PM
Hanging out for HP5, after I read all 4 in a week in Dec 2001.

Currently reading crap for Uni - "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett is on the top of the priority list, cos I have an exam on it next Wednesday, and haven't even finished reading it yet... If anyone's ever read it, it's really difficult to make sense of, and the class I'm taking is all about "how we make meaning of texts" - yay. After that I'll probably re-read 1984, also for the exam, then the assigned Kafka stories, and then Ibsen's "Ghosts". For leisure I have a stack of entertainment industry-related books I've purchased at markets etc, but haven't have a chance to read yet. And I probably won't get a chance to -I'll have to get into my texts for next semester first - all I know of at the time is that I have to read Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", so I've bought a copy of that, I'm all set.

Jez


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on June 22, 2003, 07:14:04 PM
//Auron reads A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold

Woo! Incest!  :ph34r:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on June 22, 2003, 07:22:05 PM
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o dear


i concur with myself


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on June 22, 2003, 07:27:06 PM
Oh Dear indeed.... *Cringes at scenes in the Sept*


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: KillerHummingbird on June 24, 2003, 08:13:38 AM
just finished magician from the Riftwar Saga, gonna get silverthorn soon hopefully :D (stupid slow library)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: matt_the_shark on June 27, 2003, 04:13:48 AM
I just finished reading harry potter 5 a couple days ago.  In my opinion, it is the best one yet


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on June 27, 2003, 11:06:54 AM
Finished The Dragon Reborn last night (this morning), will start The Shadow Rising on Saturday, assuming Waterstones have it in stock.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Everous on June 27, 2003, 02:23:00 PM
part way through 1984...

very cool book, great writing from Orwell and despite its relatively short length, theres a lot of political and philisophical material for the reader to mull over...but theres a few points that stick out

[li] as with animal farm, this is not a book centered around storytelling...its to make a political point, don't expect a great plot with excitement and tension around every turn...cos you won't get it

[li] an almost blind hate for socialism...though it was written at a time when people were filled to the brim with anti-socialist propaganda so its partially forgiveable...

there would be no problem if he made intricate points on the shortcommings of socialism...but as it stands, sometimes the book just chucks random abuse with no points backing it up...disappointing really

but theres still a lot of points in the book that is intricately written and very throught-provoking

[li] connected with the above points, many characters are "cardboard characters" simply created to prove a political point...they very shallow...though as i've said, the book was not written for its storytelling

though to all of these points...theres only one word: OVER-RULED...the amazing concept itself is enough to cancel out all of the above points...along with the impressive range of politics and philosphy that is included in the book creates a very substantial read that...a lot to think about in this book


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on June 27, 2003, 02:29:39 PM
animal farm is a good book if u actually realise what hes tyaling about and find the comunism l;inks in it


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Everous on June 27, 2003, 02:32:10 PM
:rolleyes:

i think everyone realised the political allegories of animal farm


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: opperdude on June 27, 2003, 06:00:49 PM
hehe yeah we watched it at school twice because we said we hadn't seen it and it took another 2-3 lessons with an extremely kewl movie


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: wisethai on July 03, 2003, 08:09:43 PM
Lets see the last book i read was A Soilder of the Great War by Mark Helprin.... trhe book waqs really good tellin' about WWI and the italian soilder's involvement...


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: unknownwake on July 04, 2003, 04:20:09 PM
I've been reading loads of comic books lately.  I used to read large books a lot when i was younger, but since about 16 years old I haven't been able to read like i used to.  I party all the time with friends, and I think my mind has turned to mush.   :hehe:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on July 05, 2003, 07:24:28 PM
Reading Gap into Conflict: The True Story by Stephan R. Donaldson.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on July 07, 2003, 10:49:10 AM
ill be on the dragon reborn when i get it,   i swear they've warped my mind :cry:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Assassin900934 on July 07, 2003, 10:53:07 PM
I saw a book on my booksshelf that i never saw before.

It is called Neuromancer.  I am only on page 4 though.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Airena on July 09, 2003, 10:00:17 AM
I'm re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird - the first time I read it, I loved it; now that I'm reading it again, I remembered why I loved it so much the first time.  =D


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on July 09, 2003, 10:53:40 AM
:miffed:  i cant read any book twice its never the same  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on July 09, 2003, 11:43:45 AM
I can read the same book twice, because it is never the same. :miffed:


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Airena on July 10, 2003, 11:34:12 AM
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:miffed:  i cant read any book twice its never the same
Actually, neither can I, but it's mostly an issue of patience than anything - and when I do read a book twice, I most likely catch something that I didn't see before).  I read To Kill a Mockingbird last year, but I had to read it again for my summer work.  If it weren't for that, I probably wouldn't have re-read it at all.

Now that I have re-read it, though, I wouldn't be surprised if I did so again.  ^^;;;

(And I'm now currently between books - I finished To Kill a Mockingbird yesterday, and need to find a new book; I think I'll be reading The Inferno by Dante.)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on July 10, 2003, 09:29:06 PM
hmmm finding new bits is gd but i cant stand the knowing whats gonna happen next bit it just puts me off


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: NakedWoobie on July 11, 2003, 12:20:42 PM
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Five Easy Pieces...Adrien Joyce and Bob Rafelson.
-
This episodic character study is one of the key American books of its era.
-
Robert Eroica Dupea, appears to be a redneck oilrigger in a California oil field. He and his best friend, Elton, when not working together, spend most of their time bowling, downing beers, and just hanging out.
-
This lifestyle is actually a charade. Robert Eroica Dupea hails from a well-to-do family of musicians. He's a brilliant classical pianist who's given up the instrument in favor of another life.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on July 11, 2003, 04:34:38 PM
:D  the dragon reborn came today its so cool its a 1992 version  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on July 12, 2003, 08:11:58 PM
Reading Otherland: City of Golden Shadow again. Good book. Makes me think we're all on the internet too much...


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Asura on July 18, 2003, 03:11:24 AM
._. Right now I'm reading Hamlet...And I need to finish it soon so I can read more for the reading program at the library? Neh. I shouldn't post things...


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on July 28, 2003, 03:04:25 AM
Hey guys, long time no post, just dropping in to say hi and toss in my two cents

i've just started The Shadow Rising......can't wait to see what happens.....i keep on wondering when i'm finally gonna meet Asha'man (or whatever his name is)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: evilknight on July 28, 2003, 04:31:19 AM
*rubs eyes*
whiteknight? woh, uhhh, oh right. hi

and im reading ummm....the computer screen right now, yeah


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on July 28, 2003, 05:07:32 AM
Asha'man isn't a person. Well. It is, but it isn't. Its a group of peopleses. Not one peopleses. MORE THAN ONE PEOPLESES. Or something..


I'm getting more and more incoherant these days...


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on July 28, 2003, 12:54:02 PM
Finshed The Shadow Rising at the weekend, and started The Fires of Heaven.

White, I'm afraid there are no Asha'man in tSR.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on July 28, 2003, 01:49:17 PM
CAUSE I ATE THEM!  :D  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: MiNi_SmUrF_MaN on July 28, 2003, 03:19:54 PM
i'm just starting to read Uncle John's Bathroom Reader

it's pretty weird ;)  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: ns33 on July 28, 2003, 06:52:38 PM
I most recently read this (http://www.planetef.com/~wdt/Loose/problem.gif).  LOL  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on July 31, 2003, 03:24:21 AM
dammit, i've read over 3000 pages of these dang books.....i want to meet Asha'man


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on July 31, 2003, 09:00:07 AM
You'll meet the Asha'man eventually. Remeber. It isn't a guy. Its a group. The Asha'man. o.o


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on July 31, 2003, 09:50:33 AM
Im on about chapter 7 of The Great Hunt.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on August 02, 2003, 03:15:19 PM
hmmmm i have 16 chapters of the dragon reborn to catch up on in the nmext 2 or 3 days so that should finish off the book for me and...

THIS IS STRICTLY NOT A WoT CONVO!


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Xero on August 02, 2003, 03:18:08 PM
I'm about halfway through HP: The Order of the Phoenix.


Yes, it's a children's book but I find them quite interesting. :hmmm:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on August 02, 2003, 03:22:44 PM
just dont mention it around Auron and keep the plot quiet cus i havent read it yet even though i have it  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on August 02, 2003, 03:27:19 PM
//Auron obliterates 'Xero'

HERETIC! TAKE YOUR CRAPPY SHIT BOOKS ELSEWHERE.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on August 02, 2003, 10:16:02 PM
/me hasnt read much of The Great Hunt recently, only on chapter 10.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on August 02, 2003, 10:22:21 PM
I fell asleep for the past two nights running, so haven't touched tFoH for a while. :(


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on August 02, 2003, 11:25:04 PM
*throws all the HP books in existance at Auron, surely killing him.*

 :D  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on August 03, 2003, 11:31:49 AM
i read TDR wen i woke this mornin and its wierd atm the best so far was the great hunt; by far


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on August 17, 2003, 02:12:06 PM
Okay then, hows this for some light reading.

Over the last two weeks I have:

Re-read: Chapterhouse: Dune (Comprehension!)

Read: Across the Nightingale Floor, Prelude to Dune: House Atreides, Prelude to Dune: House Harkonnen, Prelude to Dune: House Corrino (The Spice War in some places...), A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on August 17, 2003, 05:08:42 PM
Very nearly on TDR.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on August 18, 2003, 01:17:39 PM
me has been waiting a week for shaddow rising and now im fairly histericle


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on August 18, 2003, 05:53:47 PM
auron your supposed to read the books not eat them :hehe:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: matt_the_shark on August 18, 2003, 06:05:54 PM
but books are yummy and stuff.  especially the hardcover ones. :P  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on August 18, 2003, 06:38:03 PM
*Glomps books*

Hmmm? What was that about reading em?

*Glomp*


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on August 18, 2003, 08:32:41 PM
hmmm i used to only read hardcovers  but now i try to get paperback all the time (unless its first edition  :P )


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on August 19, 2003, 07:23:24 AM
I've never heard someone "glomp" a book or anything for that matter before.  you must be an exception to the noise rules LOL

 :hehe:  :sheep:  :hehe:  :sheep:     :hehe:  :hehe:  :hehe:  :ph34r:


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: KillerHummingbird on August 21, 2003, 09:21:02 AM
just finished Naked Empire from Sword of Truth, it was another great one :D and before that i read the A Song of Ice and Fire series, these are some absolutly amazing books if you havent read them yet. id reccomend them to anyone, they are written by George R.R. Martin if anyone wants to check em out ;)

now, i need to find another series... any suggestions?(fantasy preferably) thanks! :D


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on August 21, 2003, 09:25:27 AM
Quote
A Song of Ice and Fire series, these are some absolutly amazing books if you havent read them yet. id reccomend them to anyone, they are written by George R.R. Martin if anyone wants to check em out

Yip, they own :)

Do you know when A Feast for Crows is supposed to be coming out? I can't find a date anywhere :/


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on August 21, 2003, 11:44:19 AM
wow.......... the shodow rising just came and its in perfect condition. very chuffed so im not sure ull c me so much now


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: KillerHummingbird on August 21, 2003, 08:15:25 PM
Auron, no i dont, it doesnt have a release date, on his site George R.R. Martin says that though his publishers may try to put a release date on it, its impossible to do, and that it will come out when it's ready, and when he feels it is fit to go out.  The only other thing like a release date i found was on i think amazon.com, and they had it set for like May :P


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on August 21, 2003, 11:58:40 PM
Yeah, Amazon always have release dates, even when they've made them up themselves! LOL


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on August 22, 2003, 09:28:24 AM
Quote
Auron, no i dont, it doesnt have a release date, on his site George R.R. Martin says that though his publishers may try to put a release date on it, its impossible to do, and that it will come out when it's ready, and when he feels it is fit to go out.  The only other thing like a release date i found was on i think amazon.com, and they had it set for like May :P
LOL


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Filran on August 22, 2003, 01:05:37 PM
Re-reading Heroes Die. About halfway through. I need the next two books, Fist of Caine, and Blade of Tyshalle.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on August 23, 2003, 10:53:39 PM
Just started Fires of Heaven......attn all WoT enthusiasts.....i have a quick question.  At the beginning of FoH, when some of the Forsaken meet, they mention that four have died and one has gone over.  I know who the one is who went over, but because the books are occasionally very confusing, who has died so far?  You can pm me if you don't want to put out any spoilers for the general public.  But don't give me any information that i shouldn't have before i finish FoH.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: evilknight on August 23, 2003, 10:58:19 PM
im not really reading anything right now, but im waiting for the book that the guy who made 8 bit theatre is trying to publish. should be pretty good


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on August 24, 2003, 02:59:48 AM
Spoiler if you've not read past Eye of the World:
<spoiler>
Balthamel, killed by the Green Man.
Aginor, killed by Rand.
[/size]
</spoiler>

Spoiler if you've not read past The Dragon Reborn:
<spoiler>
Be'lal, killed by Moraine.
Ba'alzamon, killed by Rand.
[/size]
</spoiler>


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on August 24, 2003, 09:11:07 AM
Atleast you remembered to stick to your own rules that time...


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on August 24, 2003, 09:14:54 PM
*spoiler if not read The Dragon Reborn*
<spoiler>
is Ba'alzamon suppossed to be Ishamael?
</spoiler>


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: evilknight on August 24, 2003, 09:24:26 PM
bah, i havnt read it, but i still dont know what u'r talking about
*hadokens convo*
bah, feel the wrath of the new black mage hadoken!


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on August 24, 2003, 09:31:15 PM
Quote
*spoiler if not read The Dragon Reborn*
<spoiler>
is Ba'alzamon suppossed to be Ishamael?
</spoiler>
[!--SpoilerBegin--][/span][table border=\'0\' align=\'center\' width=\'95%\' cellpadding=\'3\' cellspacing=\'1\'][tr][td]SPOILER [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\'SPOILER\'][!--SpoilerEBegin--]Ba'alzamon is Ishamael, yes.[!--SpoilerEnd--][/td][/tr][/table][span class=\'postcolor\'][!--SpoilerEEnd--]


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: FragMaster1972 on August 24, 2003, 10:25:20 PM
anyone read the Area 51 series by Robert Doherty? I'm on The Truth right now, then Nosferatu. Pretty cool books.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on August 25, 2003, 12:40:51 PM
XD well cheers on behalf of everyoen else for copying the spoiler XD


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on August 25, 2003, 05:23:26 PM
/me calls whiteknight a pillock.
Atleast everyone else can stick to the rules!!!! Apart from SS sometimes...


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on September 12, 2003, 07:28:16 PM
//Auron reads Legends of Dune - The Machine Crusade.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: whiteknight on September 13, 2003, 06:31:33 AM
just finished fires of heaven.....now onto Lord of Chaos


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on September 13, 2003, 11:12:42 PM
yich i need to try and find the fires on amazon or somthing before i run out of book to read  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on September 13, 2003, 11:21:33 PM
Nearly half way thru TDR...


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on September 15, 2003, 02:35:05 AM
Anybody read from Forgotten Realms? I got into them about a year ago but have stuck w/ one of the authors: R.A. Salvatore. I recommend these books if you are into fantasy.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Asura on September 15, 2003, 11:32:36 PM
I was reading The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephan King...But now I'm reading The Lord of the Flies by William Golding.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on September 25, 2003, 10:14:23 PM
Finished The Machine Crusade. FUK! THAT OWNED.

Ahem, im now reading Grass for his Pillow.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on September 26, 2003, 02:58:12 AM
Never Heard of either.

[/useless post] :paranoid:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: ns33 on September 26, 2003, 02:08:41 PM
We start AP Eng with Le Mis. The freaking thing's 1500 pages. After three days of forceful reading, I'm at page ~670... <_<


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: FragMaster1972 on September 26, 2003, 04:17:32 PM
I didn't enjoy most of the books I had to read for english--especially The Good Earth. There were a couple decent ones mixed in here and there (Hobbit for one), but most of the books that I've enjoyed have been my own selections.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on September 27, 2003, 02:11:27 AM
2 words: GAMMAGE, CUP!!!!!!


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on October 03, 2003, 12:27:11 AM
come on, doesn't anybody read!!?!!?!?!  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: KillerHummingbird on October 11, 2003, 11:13:39 PM
i do, right now im on Starman from the Wayfarer Redemption(/axis trilogy) by Sara Douglas. i went to my book store with a list of 5 books, it didnt have one, so i just grabbed the first book in the Wayfarer redemption and now im goin on them :D Seems very good to me so far :D


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on October 13, 2003, 09:47:52 PM
okay, i've given up on Servant of the Shard....a deeply boring book. Do not read it!


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on October 18, 2003, 07:54:21 PM
I am now reading "The Outsiders" if anybody cares...its great so far.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on October 18, 2003, 08:12:51 PM
I HATE THAT fishIN BOOK!  actually the movie was worse than the book and the only reason I really hate the book is because we read it in school(back when I went to public school)  books are ruined when you read them in school.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: opperdude on October 18, 2003, 08:15:30 PM
you all have to read 'Waiting for Godot' it's small and you prolly can put it on your list and it's the pure form of spam, the whole book (nothing happens the whole fishing book)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on October 18, 2003, 08:29:41 PM
hmm I don't know if I'd like that LOL.

right now i'm reading "Catch 22" just started it actually my family members have been trying to get me to read it for a while.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on October 19, 2003, 10:47:08 AM
reading the fires of heaven, but dammit i hate back wash after WoT climax's


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on October 19, 2003, 11:53:05 AM
Just finished TDR, just starting the next one.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on October 19, 2003, 02:08:24 PM
the shadow rising in my opinion is incredable


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on October 25, 2003, 03:00:50 PM
LOL i found a  book called "I am the Cheese"! it's really wierd though...


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on November 03, 2003, 04:44:02 AM
LOL i read a page of that cuz one of my siblings had to read it for school ddn't find it very interesting LOL. tell me how it ends


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on November 03, 2003, 04:51:09 AM
oh it's really wierd! it's like this dude is in an institution trying to find out about his past...really strange but it's really not that bad.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on November 03, 2003, 05:02:27 AM
oo I may have to read that later LOL. o what did you think of the outsiders?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on November 11, 2003, 09:39:16 PM
I just finnished reading Maus and Maus II by Art spiegelman. pretty good stuff.  he is giving a speach tonight about comix or summit at a near by college i'm probobly gonna go.  just cus I have nothing better to do LOL.  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Saladin on November 11, 2003, 10:24:08 PM
i just finished reading The Queen of Attolia, its the sequel to The Thief.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on November 12, 2003, 07:49:17 PM
who wrote that?

me saw art spiegelman talk about comics.  kinda interesting.  would be better if he didn't bring polotics into the discussion and if he wasn't a damn chain smoker. but what can you do.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: smi256 on November 12, 2003, 08:19:30 PM
I went through: The Dark Elf Trilogy, Icewinddale Trilogy, and Legacy of the Drow this summer.  I've never read so much in my life.  I want to know other books like that.  character development, yay.
but right now I'm reading The Reivers (it's for school though)
 


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on December 28, 2003, 07:19:36 PM
*Resurrects*

Reading: Mastering the Art of War by Zhuge Liang and Liu Ji. Havent read a proper book in ages :S.
 


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on December 28, 2003, 10:43:01 PM
hmmm *goes into droning* must hunt the lord of chaos


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on January 24, 2004, 11:19:43 AM
I'm in the process of reading  persuader by lee child. its pretty good.  violent *drools*


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on January 24, 2004, 12:08:52 PM
Lord Of Chaos now, slow and huge, fun none the less


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on January 24, 2004, 12:09:46 PM
Mhm, one of the few (only?) WoT books that the story ends over 1000 pages (in my paperback version).


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: RipperRoo on January 24, 2004, 12:14:32 PM
Just about to start Fires of Heaven.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on January 24, 2004, 12:15:25 PM
just starting to think about looking to see if  my library has any of them or am i going to have to waste my precious money on them


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on January 24, 2004, 12:16:05 PM
only goes up to ~880 in mine


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on January 24, 2004, 12:17:09 PM
thats because I ate the last 120 pages in your copy


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on January 24, 2004, 12:17:56 PM
did you also change the contents page then?  :P  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on January 24, 2004, 12:19:15 PM
mhm.  i have connections in the  publishing industry and I was able to play with your copy


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on January 24, 2004, 12:22:49 PM
:huh: baring in mind it was printed 10 years ago?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on January 24, 2004, 12:25:27 PM
thats what you think.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on January 24, 2004, 12:28:35 PM
*chuckles* if it wasnt then your sources are pretty damn good


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on January 24, 2004, 12:31:11 PM
that they are. it pays to sleep with powerful people :P


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on January 24, 2004, 12:41:34 PM
...like Mrs. Phillips the locksmith? that was pretty low


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on January 24, 2004, 12:46:34 PM
LOL. yeah well I now have control over you bondage cupboard so I'm happy


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on January 24, 2004, 12:56:21 PM
:hmmm: indeed *goes to buy card reader*


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on January 24, 2004, 03:06:07 PM
/me is currently reading Crossroads of Twilight.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 02, 2004, 04:36:46 AM
Quote
I went through: The Dark Elf Trilogy, Icewinddale Trilogy, and Legacy of the Drow this summer.  I've never read so much in my life.  I want to know other books like that.  character development, yay.
but right now I'm reading The Reivers (it's for school though)
I've read all that. i know that this is freaking late response but oh well.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: opperdude on February 02, 2004, 09:52:46 PM
ehm i'm gonna hafto read 'brave new world' and 'lord of the flies' soonish for english literature thingy


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on February 02, 2004, 11:36:39 PM
Currently reading The Wheel of Time: New Spring by Robert Jordan.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 04, 2004, 03:26:32 AM
The Chocolate War

Tears of a Tiger(school)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Lord Lanair on February 04, 2004, 03:32:05 AM
I'd like to point out, after reading Ithanalin's Restoration, Lawrence Watt-Evans is one of the greatest fantasy writers around.  ;)  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Saladin on February 04, 2004, 10:09:58 PM
Quote
The Chocolate War

 
thats a good book


I'm reading "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 05, 2004, 12:36:30 AM
yeah, its alright so far. sorta confusing though
 


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 05, 2004, 06:44:03 AM
ooo anyone wants to start a chocolate war I'm up for it :P chocolate  wrestleing mmm


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 07, 2004, 12:25:59 AM
<_< sure! LOL  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 09, 2004, 02:09:06 AM
*throws chocolate frosting at galmort's face*


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: underruler on February 09, 2004, 02:37:37 AM
Quote
Quote
The Chocolate War
thats a good book
Yes it is.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 10, 2004, 01:03:19 AM



NO SPOILERS!!!grrr :angry:  :boo:  :devil:  :stake:  :balefire/l:  :lightning:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 10, 2004, 06:15:12 AM
under if your gonna  use spoilers just  use the spoiler code [spoiler] [/spoiler


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: underruler on February 10, 2004, 03:45:37 PM
I went back and edited it...sorry :(


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 11, 2004, 05:12:10 AM
alright, so i overreacted.  :rolleyes:  but seriously, read the spoiler warning, even if it is just a minor thing like that.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 11, 2004, 06:16:15 AM
not bad I want to read the book now :P


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 13, 2004, 02:35:22 AM
I think you'd like it :mellow:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 18, 2004, 02:06:01 PM
for those whove read it,

the last 2 pages of "a sudden chill" in The Lord of Chaos, i loved that


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 20, 2004, 01:29:24 AM
I'm almost done with "The Chocolate War" any suggestions for my next book?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on February 20, 2004, 01:34:44 AM
Have you read the Wheel of Time series yet?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 20, 2004, 01:58:12 AM
nope. i've also been recommended the left behind series....any thoughts?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on February 20, 2004, 02:08:42 AM
Not heard of the left behind series, but WoT is excellent so read it. :)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 20, 2004, 02:12:10 AM
ok, well what is the name of the first book?
 


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on February 20, 2004, 02:13:17 AM
The Eye of the World. :)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 20, 2004, 02:14:09 AM
Alright, will try it. It better be good :angry:  :P  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on February 20, 2004, 02:15:50 AM
I've recommended it to lots of people here, and no-one has said they haven't liked it, but several people love it. :)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 20, 2004, 02:18:34 AM
okay, so, in the Roleplaying forum, what is the deal with wheel of time?

How do i get in :rolleyes: . Because nothing said anything about it or anything


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on February 20, 2004, 02:21:42 AM
We did have a WoT RP going at one stage, but two of the members vanished without a trace and it ground to a sudden stop.

Hopefully we'll continue/start-over at some stage, but you will need to have read, I think, the first four books to avoid possible spoilers.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 20, 2004, 02:23:08 AM
oh, okay, because it was just a mysterious forum sittin there. :miffed:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on February 20, 2004, 10:33:19 AM
At the point we got to, it was necessary to have read book one and two.

If we ever played Prophecies of the Dragon to ocmpletion, it would require you to have read all the way to book six, to comprehend things, and to avoid spoilers.


[!--SpoilerBegin--][/span][table border=\'0\' align=\'center\' width=\'95%\' cellpadding=\'3\' cellspacing=\'1\'][tr][td]SPOILER [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\'SPOILER\'][!--SpoilerEBegin--]Because several key events from the books are mentioned or occur in it; The Battle of Emonds Field and Dumai's Wells for example.[!--SpoilerEnd--][/td][/tr][/table][span class=\'postcolor\'][!--SpoilerEEnd--]




Im currently reading A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. Its > You. I wish I hadnt read A Storm of Swords first, though.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 20, 2004, 12:17:00 PM
*prods* would i be ok with that spoiler?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Fire on February 20, 2004, 12:30:30 PM
nope dont read it.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on February 20, 2004, 12:30:55 PM
Well it refers to the last chapter in LoC, but nothing is really actually given away other than the name.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: fire on February 20, 2004, 12:40:28 PM
still dont read it.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 20, 2004, 01:06:12 PM
LOL yea not reading it then


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 21, 2004, 12:50:29 AM
Chicken. even i read it. it doesn't do much for me.... :sheep:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 21, 2004, 01:02:34 PM
:angry: im reading that book at the moment you foo


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 21, 2004, 06:45:50 PM
meh. you're the foo, foo.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 21, 2004, 06:51:27 PM
*looks at gals spam warnings* time to stop.

i managed to find a 1st edition of crown of swords too


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 21, 2004, 06:54:31 PM
Spam warnings are really on record? besides, i hardly spam. You're pretty hipocritical

Has anybody ever read "Brave New World"?
 


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 23, 2004, 07:17:38 PM
i picked up the coolest book at the store yesterday.  its called the most evil women in history. I need more inspiration  on how to go about being evil. :P  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on February 26, 2004, 02:49:59 AM
Currently reading Monument by Ian Graham.

Only just started, but it's doing okay so far. Ian's got an unusual style of writing, but that's not a bad point. He does seem to take his time on some bits and fly through others, but I dunno, maybe that's just the start; I am only two chapters in.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 26, 2004, 03:30:36 AM
you on a first name basis with mr.graham?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 26, 2004, 04:32:04 AM
LOL fire.

Robert Cormier also has a ...different style of writing in I am the Cheese. it was a good book and thats why i'm reading The Chocolate War. But don't worry SS, i'll pick up the first WoT book afterwards.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 26, 2004, 05:22:41 AM
mmm chocolate.

I started reading this book of true ghost stories my dad bought for me.  i love  that sorta stuff. makes me miss my ghosts :(


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Lord Lanair on February 26, 2004, 05:32:30 AM
And I'm sure the ghosts miss you too.  LOL

I got this new book- The Redemption of Althalus by David and Leigh Eddings.  It's an awesome fantasy book, and if anyone's read one of their other books... are they any good?  :)  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 26, 2004, 05:35:39 AM
whoah! you underlined the title. and  gave the authors(ers? ors?) names.  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on February 26, 2004, 02:09:26 PM
Quote
you on a first name basis with mr.graham?
I'm on a first name basis with everyone. :P


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 26, 2004, 06:14:27 PM
finished Lord of Chaos bout 20 mins ago Crown of Swords now

EDIT

what a pooey spoiler it spoils nothing more than the chapter index does!


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 26, 2004, 06:30:48 PM
yes but it made things interesting :P

damn you SS for being overly cosy with  everyone.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 26, 2004, 06:37:29 PM
and with the leader of the german army?


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 26, 2004, 10:26:48 PM
Quote
whoah! you underlined the title. and gave the authors(ers? ors?) names
. Ors.

Quote
what a pooey spoiler it spoils nothing more than the chapter index does!
Told you :hmmm: .

 


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 26, 2004, 10:27:30 PM
quiet you you havent eveen read the books


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 26, 2004, 10:29:34 PM
so? I'm about to though...remind me what the first one was again...i'm so lazy.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 26, 2004, 10:31:16 PM
The Eye of the World

would you like me to read the last page for you?

destroys the rest of the book


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Perdition on February 26, 2004, 10:32:35 PM
read it to me  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on February 26, 2004, 10:42:36 PM
Quote
The Eye of the World

would you like me to read the last page for you?

destroys the rest of the book
no thanks


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on February 26, 2004, 10:47:04 PM
im not so cruel...fil  :P  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on March 02, 2004, 01:42:26 AM
Finished.
Finally, I am honestly finished.

On to the libary: WoT


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Saladin on March 02, 2004, 03:57:08 AM
i'm reading Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on March 02, 2004, 04:01:02 AM
I hear he's a great author....


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Post by: Perdition on March 02, 2004, 04:09:59 AM
he is. he is awesome


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Post by: SS on March 02, 2004, 04:45:42 AM
I hear Tom Clancy sucks, but I don't necessarily trust the person who said that.


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Post by: Perdition on March 02, 2004, 05:47:43 AM
i dont trust your oppinion on anything anymore


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Post by: SS on March 02, 2004, 10:56:15 AM
Like I said, that's not my opinion, just what I've heard. I haven't read any books by him yet; got too much other stuff to do first.


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Post by: Galmort on March 02, 2004, 10:07:45 PM
Well...i picked up Beyond the Chocolate War today because my school doesnt have WoT which wasn't a surprise...so too bad for that series, maybe later....


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Post by: Filran on March 03, 2004, 12:52:26 AM
Recently read Catch-22, 1984, and Catcher in the Rye.


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Post by: Perdition on March 03, 2004, 01:17:29 AM
catcher in the rye was a shitty book.  the other two were good though


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Post by: Lord Lanair on March 03, 2004, 04:55:14 AM
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I hear Tom Clancy sucks, but I don't necessarily trust the person who said that.
He doesn't suck- all of his books seem the exact same, though.  ;)

Catcher wasn't a bad book- considering it was a mandatory school assignment.  <_<


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Post by: Perdition on March 03, 2004, 06:02:26 AM
it was a stupid book that kid needs to die.  


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Post by: Filran on March 03, 2004, 12:18:37 PM
Hey, if anything, I act alot like the guy in Catcher. xD So, it was okay, though, he never really DID anything. He just kinda wandered around. My impresion:


"I'm going to call my sister."
*goes to a phone*
"I don't want to call my sister."
*leaves*
"I want to call my sister."
*goes to a phone*
"I don't want to call my sister."

With a whole bunch of him mucking things up and him disliking the human population in general. Change the gender of him, and you'd probably end up with a less interesting version of me, or something. I'm tired.


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Post by: opperdude on March 03, 2004, 06:21:39 PM
i've ready the catcher in the rye!!! in english!!! (i preferred a clockwork orange, but catcher was ok too)


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Post by: Galmort on March 13, 2004, 04:08:24 PM
I now have to read Jason's Gold for english class, it looks okay but reading it in class makes it suck <_<  


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Post by: Perdition on March 13, 2004, 04:33:50 PM
I'm reading haunted heartland.  true ghost storiesa and weird happenings  from around the US.  havent gotten very far in it but its still fun


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Post by: Filran on March 13, 2004, 05:08:33 PM
Finished reading Animal Farm, starting Lucifer's Hammer.


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Post by: Perdition on March 13, 2004, 09:01:27 PM
went to the bookstore and got  love hina.  they didnt have the first but I figured it out enough by  skimming the second so I got that.  was gonna get the third too but it was 18 and over so I couldnt.  I'll get one of my bros to get it for me later.  anyways  love hina is awesomeness.  the charectors are so cute and lovable :)


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Post by: mole on March 13, 2004, 09:03:22 PM
an age rating on a book???


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Post by: Perdition on March 13, 2004, 09:06:04 PM
well its manga.  they put those on there because they can be pretty pervy.  like blue monday :P


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Post by: Filran on March 13, 2004, 10:11:55 PM
And nekkid. :o


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Post by: SS on March 21, 2004, 12:28:36 AM
I started on Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire last night. :)


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Post by: RipperRoo on March 21, 2004, 01:52:37 PM
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I started on Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire last night. :)
W00T pr0n r0xz0rz!!!11


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Post by: SS on March 21, 2004, 02:17:22 PM
Deja-vu (http://www.bpsite.co.uk/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=471&st=0&#entry16898) <_<


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Post by: RipperRoo on March 21, 2004, 02:54:53 PM
Wow, that was a long time ago.
Doesnt the world go round in circles.

And if it came out August last year, why you only just starting it?


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Post by: SS on March 21, 2004, 05:43:32 PM
Came out in August, got it for Christmas, but had been re-reading Wheel of Time until March, then I started on Monument, which I finished the other day. Still got Dune: The Machine Crusade waiting to be read, too.


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Post by: mole on March 21, 2004, 07:45:06 PM
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1 wearing no clothes. 2 without fur, feathers or foliage.

oh how boring?


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Post by: Perdition on March 21, 2004, 07:52:32 PM
I finnshed reading the most evil women book thing and that had some pretty grose details.  but overall it was  good.  and  finnished reading jennifer government which was ok  but it was pretty predictable.  


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Post by: Saladin on March 21, 2004, 08:47:05 PM
i hated Jennifer Government i've read that stuff before and it was boring, i also stopped playing that game because it was also boring


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Post by: SS on March 28, 2004, 10:49:03 PM
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I started on Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire last night.
And finished it eight days later. Wow. That was quick. :miffed:

Dunno what to read now... I suppose I could start on Dune:TMC, but I dunno if I want to just yet. :mellow:


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Post by: Galmort on March 29, 2004, 12:09:40 AM
I finished "Beyond the Chocolate War" on my long plane ride :)  , going to find something to read tomorrow...


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Post by: mole on March 31, 2004, 04:29:18 PM
starting the path of daggers


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Post by: SS on March 31, 2004, 04:40:17 PM
I've started Dune: The Machine Crusade.

Didn't really want to, but it's better than not reading. Probably. Doesn't start too strongly. :/


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Post by: Uber Peasant on April 15, 2004, 08:00:41 PM
anyone read the DaVInci Code.... tahts supposed to be good


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Post by: mole on April 20, 2004, 09:57:02 PM
hmm the traitors tree? heres one for you SS (penance fears not a book)


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Post by: Galmort on April 21, 2004, 12:11:18 AM
"the cure" :blink: ?

sucks like crap so far
 


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Post by: Saladin on April 22, 2004, 11:06:44 PM
Jesus Christ we have to read "Tale of Two Cities" for English!!! Dickens goes on and on and on(he was paid by the word)


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Post by: Perdition on April 23, 2004, 08:58:47 PM
that is a dull ass book.  dull ass movie too.  i feel for you


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Post by: Galmort on April 23, 2004, 09:24:09 PM
"The Bumblebee Flies Anyway" yes, another book from Robert Cormier, he is a really good author.


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Post by: Guest on April 28, 2004, 07:41:07 AM
I'm back for my obligatory post every few months......
latest read is Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card in the Ender series.....i gotta say im impressed by the books so far, but i never have a clue where he's going with them.  


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Post by: whiteknight on April 28, 2004, 07:41:49 AM
my bad, i forgot to log in, that was just me who was reading children of the mind


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Post by: evilknight on April 28, 2004, 09:23:12 PM
HOLY FUCK! IT'S WHITEKNIGHT!
and wow, good book choice, i guess.
i just finished reading Dante's Inferno. definatly a good book.
also, hey RB? i think you're reading schedule is the same as ours is. so you'll probably have to read siddartha and the inferno next year.


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Post by: Uber Peasant on April 28, 2004, 10:03:27 PM
ugh we had to do childhood's end for summer and now the COLOR OF WATER

wtf is that about? it sounds religious/ racial or sumthin


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Post by: whiteknight on April 29, 2004, 04:54:34 AM
good to see you too evilknight!
anyhow, you have to read siddhartha for school?  i pity you.  i read it for academic decathlon a few years ago......pretty esoteric


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Post by: mole on April 29, 2004, 04:13:35 PM
we had to do coursework on "tess of the derbyviles" whicih i havent read still (done the coursework though)

and we were meant to read "a kestral for a knave" a few months ago... job outstanding


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Post by: SS on May 01, 2004, 02:02:47 AM
Ok, So I finished Dune:TMC over the holidays and stared on Quoth the Crow by ... some author I can't be bothered to go check.

I'm currently not reading anything... can't really afford any new books. :(
Tomorrow I'm gonna go see if the local library is any good.


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Post by: Perdition on May 01, 2004, 05:11:24 AM
reading the Art of War by Sun Tzu.  always wanted to read that but never got around to it.  


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Post by: Galmort on May 01, 2004, 05:27:48 AM
finally picked up A wrinkle in Time...


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Post by: Perdition on May 01, 2004, 05:42:55 AM
that book  got way to much recognition.  read it and it was ok.  not excellent and wonderful like they set it up to be.


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Post by: SS on May 31, 2004, 11:09:09 AM
Finished Fallen Dragon by Peter K Hamilton last night.

It's a good book. Um, set a few hundred years in the future, several planets are colonised, and there's this 'Asset Realization' thing, which is essentially legal theft. That's probably as much as I can say without giving away the plot.

If you like Sci-Fi, go read it.


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Post by: Perdition on June 01, 2004, 12:55:11 AM
I was reading a book and it was a damn good one but I forgot the title and I forgot where i put it.   :unsure:  


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Post by: Lord Lanair on June 01, 2004, 02:55:34 AM
LOL

I gotta read The Great Gatsby for English class.  Groan... I think.  :(

Anyone heard of the Dragon Weather series, by any chance?  :)  


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Post by: underruler on June 05, 2004, 01:58:17 AM
I have to read Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.


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Post by: matt_the_shark on June 05, 2004, 05:37:56 PM
I'm reading The Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkein


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Post by: Perdition on June 05, 2004, 06:40:31 PM
middle of Bringing Out the Dead by joe Connelly

 


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Post by: mole on June 09, 2004, 07:25:14 PM
currently plowing through a winters heart like no ones business and some up the characters are putting me on edge  :hmmm:  


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Post by: Rug on June 09, 2004, 07:27:22 PM
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currently plowing through a winters heart like no ones business and some up the characters are putting me on edge  :hmmm:
The last chapter is the best in any WoT book.


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Post by: SS on June 18, 2004, 11:46:51 PM
Oooh, I forgot to mention: I started reading New Spring (WoT 0) the other night. :)


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Post by: mole on June 20, 2004, 11:38:36 AM
as soon as i get in the mood ill be reading a beautifuly perfect copy of crossroads of twighlight


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Post by: Asura on June 22, 2004, 07:33:04 PM
I'm trying to read Les (Is it 'Les'? I can't remember. >>.) Miserables. But I've been to lazy to start. >>


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Post by: Perdition on June 22, 2004, 10:21:57 PM
I'm reading Islam and the Jews.  interesting stuff


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Post by: Night Spawn on June 28, 2004, 01:19:28 PM
Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism by Plantinga


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Post by: Rug on August 15, 2004, 05:11:32 PM
[Thread necrophilia]

Been on holiday... that means... many books have been read.

In the last two weeks:

The Magicians Guild,
Novice
both by Trudi Canavan.

Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them,
Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot,
Why Not Me?
all by Al Franken.

The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven.

(re-read)

1984 by George Orwell,
Ringworld by Larry Niven.

And that reading list makes me look like one helluva communist.


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Post by: mole on August 15, 2004, 05:41:13 PM
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And that reading list makes me look like one helluva communist.

hmmm look?


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Post by: smi256 on September 11, 2004, 12:28:57 AM
LOL
I’ve had some time to read this summer too :D
The Rouge series (4 of them)
SpellFire (only the first book)
I’m now going for the third trilogy of DagonLance (War of the Souls) I’ve got the first two trilogies finished (I seem to like these long stories…)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy  


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Post by: Lord Lanair on September 11, 2004, 03:24:16 AM
Ooooh, the "Hitchhiker" series was fun!  :D

Lets see... I'm reading Heart of Darkness in English, and already read Like Water for Chocolate and The Alchemist for the class during the summer.


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Post by: Galmort on September 11, 2004, 04:12:21 AM
Any suggestions for me instead of "Riding the flume", its kinda lame...i'll give it a chance but i'll still need something
 


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Post by: ns33 on September 11, 2004, 04:13:50 AM
Les Miserables. We had to read the full version of it in 10th grade English. Now we're reading Hamlet and Oedipus as well as three epic poems for AP Lit.

MY TEACHER IS A NAZI


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Post by: Lord Lanair on September 11, 2004, 04:41:11 AM
Gal- never heard of that book before.  :miffed:

NS- we're gonna read Hamlet in AP English this year too (though I don't know about any epic poems).... it sounds like a good book!  :)  


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Post by: underruler on September 11, 2004, 06:22:30 AM
The Lovely Bones


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Post by: smi256 on September 11, 2004, 06:50:34 PM
I got to see the play of Les Miserables  :)
and I never had to read the epic poems in english class.  I can't quite stand normal poems... normaly...


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Post by: Perdition on September 11, 2004, 08:23:27 PM
ooo the lovely bones was a good one.  


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Post by: Galmort on February 06, 2005, 11:14:46 PM
just finished "Bleachers" by John Grisham, he is a very talented author i love the way he develops characters

good book, different, but good...


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Post by: underruler on February 07, 2005, 03:53:30 AM
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.


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Post by: Lord Lanair on February 07, 2005, 04:57:00 AM
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut.

I can see rug enjoying it!  LOL


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Post by: ns33 on February 07, 2005, 05:38:46 AM
We just finished Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Marquez, and we began The Sound and the Fury. After reading Intruder in the Dust last year, I'm beginning to wish Faulkner was never born.  <_<  


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Post by: Perdition on February 07, 2005, 11:55:35 PM
Yeah, faulkner was a cocky little shit that should've been put into an institution by the age of 12.

Every Dead Thing by John Connolly.  Graphic violence and sex splashed about in a very tasteful matter.  Quality!


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Post by: Lord Lanair on February 08, 2005, 01:01:52 AM
Didn't that guy (Connolly) write something about the Vietnam war?  :unsure:


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Post by: Perdition on February 08, 2005, 02:02:49 AM
possibly  I've only read a few of his books.


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Post by: underruler on February 09, 2005, 03:39:09 AM
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We just finished Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Marquez, and we began The Sound and the Fury. After reading Intruder in the Dust last year, I'm beginning to wish Faulkner was never born.  <_<
I kind of have to write report on him, but I'm kind of regretting picking him.


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Post by: ns33 on May 03, 2005, 11:32:39 PM
Catch-22 by Heller. I'm sure all you Euros have heard of this one before  ;)

Blindness by Saramago is also a good book.
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"We were blind the moment we became blind, fear struck us blind, fear will keep us blind." (117)
"Inside us there is something that ha sno name, that something is what we are." (248)
"images see with the eyes of those who see them..." (317)
"God does not deserve to see." (318)
"I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see." (326)
I highly suggest Blindness and these quotes while reading...
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"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." Matthew 15:14
"Men... would rather believe than know." Edward O. Wilson
"eyes were like a flame of fire... whose face was like the sun shining in full strength... I fell at [God's] feet as though dead." Revelation 1:12-7


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Post by: SS on May 04, 2005, 05:57:52 PM
I think I've heard of Catch-22 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099477319/026-7633049-9834026), but never read it. The reviews make it sound interesting though, so I'll add it to my list of books to read. Likewise with Blindness (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1860466850/qid=1115225313/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_3_2/026-7633049-9834026) ...the reviews describe a very interesting book.


As for what I'm currently on, I'm re-reading the WoT series, just started A Crown of Swords a couple of nights ago.


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Post by: Arkanor on May 05, 2005, 05:26:52 AM
Catch-22 is pretty good, if you can get past the quasi-unreality of Yossarian's predicaments.  

At the moment, I'm chewing my way through The History of Air Power, which is proving more interesting than the exceptionally dry title would indicate.  However, unless you have an interest in the Air Force it might prove somewhat less enthralling than I indicate.


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Post by: ns33 on May 16, 2005, 07:59:41 PM
I need a book of literary merit that has been turned into a movie. No Pride and Prejudice, no Eyes Were Watching God... Recommendations?


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Post by: mole on May 16, 2005, 08:06:29 PM
read jurassic park? good fiction

or are you being subjected to something 19th century-ish?


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Post by: Perdition on May 17, 2005, 01:12:29 AM
Currently reading Obedience To Authority (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006131983X/002-2256637-4068051?v=glance), an interesting book based on an amusing study that took place at Yale in 1961 and 1962. Too lazy to really get into it, but if you're bored you can always read the blurb on amazon about it.


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Post by: smi256 on May 17, 2005, 06:30:34 AM
ah :( no book report?


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Post by: Perdition on May 17, 2005, 11:52:50 PM
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Although the studies that are contained in this book are a little over 40 years old, they are as relevant as ever. Although Milgram wrote with his eye to the past - he looked back to the Holocaust and to My Lai (he finally wrote the book in 1972, 10 years after the studies were completed) - his voice has proven to be not only prophetic, but of continuing insight and relevance for understanding group dynamics of power and violence.

Milgram's studies were done between 1961 and 1962 while he was at Yale; they were all variations on a theme: a unknowing participant (the subject-teacher) was brought to believe that s/he was participating in a learning study. The other two main participants were a man who posed as the student (the learner) and one who posed as the principal investigator (the authority figure).

The subject-teacher was told that the learning would occur in this way: the student would be hooked up to an electric shock generator while the teacher would read a set of word pairs, which the student would repeat back. When the student missed one of the word pairs, he would be shocked by the "teacher" in increasingly higher shocks (the shocks increased in 15 volt increments), up to 450 volts (which was marked, along with the 435 volt mark, with XXX).

The basic goal of the study was to find out how far the "teachers" would go despite the cries, pounding and eventual silence on the part of the students. The frightening finding was that more often than not, the vast majority of teachers followed through with the command to continue the experiment, which was given by the man acting as the principal investigator every time one of the "teachers" wanted to quit. [It should be noted, however, that the experiment was designed such that the "student" was never shocked, as the student was an actor, typically in a connected room and could only be heard via microphone.


One of the things that makes reading Milgram's studies so chilling is the scientific exactness of Milgram's own writing style as he describes the studies. The moral and ethical issues raised in these studies, although addressed by Milgram in his narrating the book, are also expressed in this same mathematically cold style. It's almost like a bad science fiction movie where our whole human story is narrated - moral failures and all - with robotic precision. It's unsettling.

Of course, it *should* be: any experiment that deals with human interaction on such a violent and perversely authoritarian level ought to get us a bit uncomfortable. Of course, Milgram also notes that when the subjects were confronted with their own complicitness, they often blamed others or excused themselves in some way. It really does give a tremendous insight into the psychology of human beings: when faced with our own evil, we try to excuse it rather than deal with it.

If, at the end of reading Milgram's book, we aren't questioning ourselves and our ability to be violent and to promote the spread of violence by being passive, we have missed the entire point of the book. Milgram's goal is to not simply report the collection and analysis of data, but to engage the reader on a fundamentally moral level. He cites Hannah Arendt's work Eichman in Jerusalem and notes that evil is not necessarily expressed in a pro-active way; indeed, it can be far more subtle but no less dangerous.

Milgram's book is one well worth the effort. It reveals an element of human being that is so easy to forget, especially given that our culture is so bent on *denying* any element of - or at least any potential for - evil within ourselves. Of course, such blindness to the reality of evil and tragedy is what makes *letting it happen* so easy.

I <3 copy and paste


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Post by: Lord Lanair on May 18, 2005, 04:34:25 AM
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I need a book of literary merit that has been turned into a movie. No Pride and Prejudice, no Eyes Were Watching God... Recommendations?
I suggest All Quiet On the Western Front.  :)

BTW- I just finished 1984.  Spooky.   :unsure:  


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Post by: ns33 on May 18, 2005, 07:34:33 PM
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I suggest All Quiet On the Western Front.  :)
Someone recommended that to me today as well. Thanks, I'll look into it!  :cool:  


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Post by: underruler on May 19, 2005, 05:35:34 AM
Cather in the Rye and The Joy Luck Club


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Post by: Lord Lanair on May 21, 2005, 05:23:36 AM
If you read Catcher you can watch the movie Finding Forrester (which we're watching in school).  At least the movie seems interesting... so far.  :)  


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Post by: mole on May 21, 2005, 03:19:27 PM
is that the one with sean connery?


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Post by: Lord Lanair on May 24, 2005, 12:41:05 AM
Yeah, and it's pretty good!  :)  


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Post by: SS on July 12, 2005, 06:08:52 PM
Gah, almost two months and no posts in this thread. :(

Anyhow, I'm currently reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman.
Previously to that I read Neverwhere, also by Neil, which was quite good.

And before that, I read A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin - the first in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, and a very good book. Can't wait to order & read the next two in the series. :)


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Post by: SS on July 27, 2005, 01:26:03 PM
Bah, no-one else reading anything?

Anyhow, I finished Stardust, and I'm now onto Magician by Raymond E. Feist :)


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Post by: Hornet on July 27, 2005, 06:28:13 PM

I'm half-way though that one; make sure you read the other two books, and the Empire trilogy as well.

Which reminds me, there's a city in Magician called Yilith, but that's probably just coincidence.

Probably.


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Post by: SS on July 27, 2005, 06:41:16 PM
Yeah, I've got the other two also. (Only paperback versions of them though, whilst Magician is a special-edition hardback.)

Haven't got the Empire trilogy, but I'll probably order it in a months time to fulfil my bookclub commitment thingy.


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Post by: Lord Lanair on July 28, 2005, 07:26:29 AM
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Bah, no-one else reading anything?
Hmm... well, I'm reading a National Geographic book (printed in the 60's!) about the Age of Chivalry, if that counts...  I never knew that the ancient Persian god of light was named Mithras (the one thing I've learned in 200 pages).   :)


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Post by: Galmort on February 16, 2006, 04:50:19 AM
Been reading the Demon Wars series by R.A. Salvatore. I was a little skeptical when i got them for christmas, but they are good. typical fantasy with an ungodly ranger and his lover who's the most beautiful person ever..blah you know, but still, i love Salvatore's development


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Post by: SS on February 28, 2006, 03:15:27 PM
Wow, several months since my last post in here.

Finished the first three in the Riftwar Saga & have got the Riftwar/daughter of empire trilogy but not yet read it, because I'm currently reading ASoiaF book 3.

Not sure what I'll read after that - I've got so many unread books, which is both good and bad. :wacko:


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Post by: Galmort on March 02, 2006, 01:56:29 PM
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Not sure what I'll read after that - I've got so many unread books, which is both good and bad. :wacko:
i hear that


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Post by: matt_the_shark on March 18, 2006, 02:39:20 AM
not reading anything at the moment, but I'm looking for Ragtime.  I was in the musical version of it a about a week ago and now I want to read it.  


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Post by: Rug on March 18, 2006, 01:23:12 PM
Priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan. Been waiting for her to write another book...


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Post by: Saladin on March 30, 2006, 04:35:12 AM
One Day in September by Simon Reeve. It's about the Munich Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation


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Post by: Galmort on March 31, 2006, 02:32:45 AM
they made a movie about that too.....never saw it...just sayin


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Post by: Louise on June 11, 2006, 09:50:04 PM
*necromances thread*

Lady Chatterly's Lover. It's kind of literary, but if anything that's one of its better aspects. Not much sex in it so far ...  :unsure:


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: underruler on October 13, 2006, 04:32:44 AM
History textbooks and Shadow Puppets.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on October 17, 2006, 11:50:43 PM
I finished Knife of Dreams at the weekend.

I didn't like the ending. Or much of the book, really. There were some bits I liked, but too much dithering and.... argh the bloody words in some parts of it were just ridiculously obscure. Like 'widdershins' - WTF!?! (of course I know what it means now, its a Scottish word for anticlockwise, but that just makes its use more baffling - stating the direction of the spiral staircase is really unnecessary.)

Anyhow, been wondering what to read next and I'm still not sure. I think I'll go start a vote and let people here decide. :)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Louise on October 18, 2006, 01:30:02 AM
I finally got around to reading The Woman in White.  It's kind of overwrought.  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on October 18, 2006, 11:30:44 AM
the direction of spiral stair cases in castles and such is very important


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on October 18, 2006, 04:01:58 PM
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I finished Knife of Dreams at the weekend.

I didn't like the ending. Or much of the book, really. There were some bits I liked, but too much dithering and.... argh the bloody words in some parts of it were just ridiculously obscure. Like 'widdershins' - WTF!?! (of course I know what it means now, its a Scottish word for anticlockwise, but that just makes its use more baffling - stating the direction of the spiral staircase is really unnecessary.)

Anyhow, been wondering what to read next and I'm still not sure. I think I'll go start a vote and let people here decide. :)
It's a load of bollocks. Sorta glad he's dying, in a way... puts a limit on how much longer he can draw it out.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on October 18, 2006, 10:46:18 PM
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the direction of spiral stair cases in castles and such is very important
Yes, but when he explicitly tells me half a sentence earlier that the stairs were designed to be defended against attackers coming up, that's enough for anyone with half a brain cell to figure that they go anti-clockwise so the defender's sword arm is more free than the attacker's. :P



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Sorta glad he's dying, in a way... puts a limit on how much longer he can draw it out.
Mmmm, although I keep reading quotes that claim he's said it'll be 12 books no matter how long/large the final one needs to be.
As long as it is a decent ending and not a horrible cliff-hanger thing. I hate things that just suddenly go "oh, and that's the end, goodbye" ...although of course big long drawn out "happily ever after" chapters can also be annoying.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on October 19, 2006, 11:46:52 PM
well he obvously doesnt think much of you then does he  :rolleyes:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Galmort on November 28, 2006, 04:46:56 AM
The Demon Awakens

by my favorite fantasy author, R.A. Salvatore.

very first book of the Demon Wars saga which i have read but i haven't read this particular book. i didn't realize it came first when i began. excellent series though, pick it up


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on April 02, 2007, 08:12:37 PM
Finished Mistress of the Empire at the weekend. :D

Now I have to decide if to stick with Feist, or give The Northern Lights a try, like I said I would when I decided what to go for next ... nearly a whole half year ago. :blink:


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Hornet on April 03, 2007, 04:56:41 AM

Stick with it, there's no point starting another trilogy until you've finished the current one.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: smi256 on April 03, 2007, 07:30:14 AM
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Stick with it, there's no point starting another trilogy until you've finished the current one.
I agree, it just holds up in general.  Unless the book sucks, then drop that sucker like a sack of bricks

PS.
I'm still reading Eragon... I need to just set time aside to just finish the silly book. :sheep:  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on April 03, 2007, 07:08:11 PM
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Stick with it, there's no point starting another trilogy until you've finished the current one.
Uh, I have finished it.

I would be going across to one of the seperate ones (Jimmy the Hand or Prince of the Blood)


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Hornet on April 03, 2007, 09:58:34 PM

Ah, I got it up mixed with Daughter of the Empire. Mea culpa.

Probably have a pop at Northern Lights then.  Although as said before, you should really have read it many years back to get the most from it.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on April 03, 2007, 10:45:28 PM
I thought it was Rug that said that. :miffed:


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Rug on April 04, 2007, 02:18:27 AM
He didn't say he said it. He said it was said.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on April 04, 2007, 03:45:07 PM
i read an i before as and said too  


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: Hornet on April 05, 2007, 03:47:08 AM

Mole, you *really* need to start using punctuation.  Louise'll skin you and turn you into a waistcoat otherwise.

And I was referring to Rug mentioning it, yes.

I'm not currently reading any books, I probably ought to start again actually.  We've bought the Wizards First Rule series from a second hand bookshop at a huge discount, but my gf's currently buried in the first one, and she's a rather slow reader (although I'm a very fast reader, so she may be average-ish).  We've also got a fair few Pratchet books, so I might go for one of those.

Which reminds me (for some reason :blink:), who plans to get the new HP book?  I'm wondering if it might be worth buying a few spares to eBay 'em to those whose stores are out of stock.


Title: Currently I am reading
Post by: mole on April 05, 2007, 08:20:40 PM
just make sure she uses my good side


Title: Re: Currently I am reading
Post by: smi256 on July 17, 2016, 11:11:30 PM
I started the Kingkiller books when Name of the Wind came out, not realizing it was the only book out.  A friend just lent me the second book, The Wise Man's Fear, but I might have to reread the first book before I dive back in >_<;

I'm also being hounded to read the mist born series, but I don't trust my cousin's taste in books...


Title: Re: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on July 17, 2016, 11:59:14 PM
Personally I'd want to wait for the third book to come out - don't like waiting between books.

Never read Mistborn so can't agree or oppose that suggestion.


Title: Re: Currently I am reading
Post by: smi256 on July 18, 2016, 12:10:21 AM
That's how I am for TV shows, I wait until I can watch a season at my leisure.  My friend had a good laugh at my, "What do you mean it's not completely out yet?!".  I'm fairly sure he trolled me on purpose. :/


Title: Re: Currently I am reading
Post by: SS on July 18, 2016, 12:34:54 AM
I don't watch much any more but yeah - whether it's an episode every night or just as and when I feel like it, it's much more enjoyable and easier to get into compared to being drip-fed half an hour a week.