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Dec 16, 2010, 08:16 AM // 08:16
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.
Guild: LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)
Profession: N/A
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Books...
Soo basically I've run out of books to read and am looking for ideas...
I honestly read anything so just put whatever you've liked recently :\ |
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Dec 16, 2010, 09:03 AM // 09:03
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Right here
Guild: Ende
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Hmm, ever tried reading Terry Pratchett books? He writes a mixture between good fantasy and light reading scientific books.
Also the Vorkosigan Series from Louis McMaster Boujold is a good read (Scifi)if you dont know them. |
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Dec 16, 2010, 09:03 AM // 09:03
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are we there yet?
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: in a land far far away
Guild: guild? I am supposed to have a guild?
Profession: Rt/
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I liked the Dune series....not just Frank Herberts, but his sons too---my hubby liked to collect the hardbounds of these, though I think we are missing the last 2 (guess I have something to buy with my borders gc).....
I just enjoy science fantasy and my most recent favorite author is R A Salvatore the cleric quintet was good and his most recent set the war of the spider queen (havent finished these yet). dont think you would like the linguistics texts I have been reading...very dry and very very boring.
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Dec 16, 2010, 11:54 AM // 11:54
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: In a van, down by the river.
Guild: RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO if I know, ask Lynette.
Profession: R/
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Wraiththu, The Devil's rose, The Plucker, Devil boats(and almost any other book about world war 1 or 2.
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Dec 16, 2010, 11:42 PM // 23:42
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Canada, B.C. Vancouver. aka.. amazing.
Guild: [Sith]
Profession: W/Me
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Goodkind's Sword of Truth series is pretty legendary.
The Dresden Files are also pretty good (Author is evading me) Iron Elves by Chris Evans is also very good Those are all fantasy* Chris Hitchens books are a solid choice. (Make sure they agree with your religious stance) Where the Wind Blows (Patterson I believe) |
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Dec 17, 2010, 12:58 AM // 00:58
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Guild: Guardians of the Cosmos
Profession: R/Mo
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Brian Lumley - Necroscope series
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Dec 17, 2010, 05:40 AM // 05:40
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Between J&K spending time at the spacebar
Guild: Insert here
Profession: A/D
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simple genius - david baldacci
Neuromancer - william gibson |
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Dec 18, 2010, 03:32 AM // 03:32
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Never Too Old
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Rhode Island where there are no GW contests
Guild: Order of First
Profession: W/R
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David Weber - just about anything he has written is great (military sci-fi)
and I second the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher |
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Dec 18, 2010, 05:19 AM // 05:19
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Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Ender's Game
Tales of Alvin Maker series (starts with Seventh Son) |
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Dec 19, 2010, 12:48 AM // 00:48
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.
Guild: LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)
Profession: N/A
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Anyways I poped out in spite of the day star today and picked up a small stack of books. There were some great suggesstions in here from what I've picked some I've never heard of and some I've read 5 times... Thanks everyone for teh helps 
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Dec 20, 2010, 12:10 AM // 00:10
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The depths of Africa
Guild: [LotU]
Profession: N/Me
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Have you ever picked up the Cirque Du Freak series?
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Dec 21, 2010, 02:24 AM // 02:24
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Rochester ny
Guild: Bad companyclan BAD
Profession: Me/
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read necroscope
vampires esp and two worlds.... |
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Dec 21, 2010, 04:44 PM // 16:44
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2005
Profession: Mo/
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Hmm ... well ... from one book nerd to another, here are a few of my favs:
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - a good read quick read that made me lol, passed it around my high school about 17 years ago and never got it back.  The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - read recently on my sons suggestion, and was very impressed - dark & sad & funny. Just about anything by Neil Gaiman - he is a storyteller of epic proportions & his novels, graphic series, and children books are all incredibly entertaining. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - people have already mentioned Terry, but when you throw Gaiman's story telling prowess in to the mix the end result is epic lulz. The Road - forget the movie, READ THE BOOK - it is amongst the darkest and saddest stories ever told. Same goes for The Kite Runner ... movies do not do these books justice in the tiniest bit. Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo Jose Cela - one of the best pieces of non-fiction available & unlike some things it didn't win a Nobel Prize for nothing! Then there is a slew of obvious authors you can always fall back on for a good read .. John Updike, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck, Goerge Orwell, Albert Camus, Hemmingway ... classics like Homer, Virgil, etc.. the sorts of things all people should read, not because they might enjoy it but because they might learn something. |
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Dec 22, 2010, 03:15 PM // 15:15
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: 55° 57' 0" N / 3° 12' 0" W
Profession: N/Me
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Stephen King - Skeleton Crew (I know King is a bit cheesey but SC I think is an earlier book of his, The Jaunt story really got to me. It's a bunch of short stories btw). Also 'It' was pretty good.
H.P Lovecraft (again short stories, the way they're worded is a bit different from books today but well worth the effort) The Magician series from Raymond E Feist, not sure if they would still appeal to me now but when I first read I loved them. Clive Barkers Imagica - Read it when I was backpacking, kind of felt like I was part of the story if that makes any sense  I just gave a ton of books to my local charity shop, if I'd known I'd have given them to you for Chris....Wintersday 
Last edited by Zebideedee; Dec 22, 2010 at 03:22 PM // 15:22.. |
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Dec 22, 2010, 03:17 PM // 15:17
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Feb 2008
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C.J. Cherryh
Fortress In the Eye of Time (Series) Was an enjoyable series for me. |
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