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Old Mar 02, 2008, 07:08 PM // 19:08   #1
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Default So... Read Any Good Books Lately?

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Read any good books lately?
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 07:11 PM // 19:11   #2
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I just finished the Mortal Engines quadrilogy for the third time, that was good.

Also just read Eldest again, because it rocks.
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 07:33 PM // 19:33   #3
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Book? Oh...one of those square paper things with symbols in it. Nah...
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 07:36 PM // 19:36   #4
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Read fight club last month. Book is just as great as the movie. Its also a bit different. I recommend it!
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 07:41 PM // 19:41   #5
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Enjoyed the movie, but never read the book.

Last book I read was Eric Clapton bio. Time to find something else to read besides forums.
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 07:42 PM // 19:42   #6
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Reading Claptons autobiography, chapter 3, had it about two months now.... ill get around to it.
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 08:00 PM // 20:00   #7
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just got done reading "Testimony" by France's current president Nicolas Sarkozy. Was a great book all I can say
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 08:22 PM // 20:22   #8
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I'm in the middle of reading Twelve Kingdoms and just started Liberal Facism, which explains the history of the progressive movement and what the philosophy really means; very interesting if you like history and politics.
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 08:26 PM // 20:26   #9
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1. http://guildwarsguru.com/forum/showt...ght=Read+Books
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On-Topic- I just finished reading Clive Cussler's Treasure of Khan, part of the Dirk Pitt series. Was a really good book.
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 08:28 PM // 20:28   #10
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I'm reading the Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. Superb book that really brings back Alice and Wonderland into a twist of reality
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 08:33 PM // 20:33   #11
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Currently reading "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden". Great book about a schizophrenic girl and her struggle to come back to reality, so to speak.

Blizzard- I love the Alice in Wonderland books, what's that book like?
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 08:35 PM // 20:35   #12
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Just finished the last Gunslinger novel. Much as I hate the word since it's so overused lately...epic series. Hubby bought me the graphic novel based on it too Off to read
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 08:50 PM // 20:50   #13
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The Great Butter Battle.
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 08:50 PM // 20:50   #14
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The Catcher in the Rye was really nice.
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 09:43 PM // 21:43   #15
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River of Gods - Ian McDonald.

thriller cyberpunk set in India if you have to give it a genre....
good stuff.
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 10:04 PM // 22:04   #16
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No ive not to be honest.

I really should start reading again before i forget how...
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 10:35 PM // 22:35   #17
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Tried to read the god delusion by richard dawkins.

Failed.

Try again next month... readings not my thing.

Read this weeks new scientist if that can count
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Old Mar 02, 2008, 11:47 PM // 23:47   #18
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I'm currently reading the "First King of Shannara" by Terry Brooks. 4th book in the series. There's like 11 more books in the entire Shannara series so I'll be occupied with these for a while.

Sol Vie, I read that book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, like 10 years ago at least. I remember that book vividly for some reason. I read Go Ask Alice right after that too. Then Jay's Journal... I must have been very depressed that year I think. LOL!!
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Old Mar 03, 2008, 12:49 AM // 00:49   #19
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I've started reading Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms for school, but I'm actually liking it.

Hemingway's settings are AWFUL. They draw on and on with faulty parallelism and run-ons until you can hardly stand it and I realize the irony because I tend to do that myself but I'm more conscious of it now since I read his. (This sentence is intentional, if the irony is lost on anyone.)

Sample:

"There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in their capes; their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge-boxes on the front of the belts, gray leather boxes heavy with the packs of clips of thin, long 6.5 mm. cartridges, bulged forward under the capes so that the men, passing on the road, marched as though they were six months gone with child."


The dialogue is fine, though. Once you surmount all of the walls of text to get to the speech, it's very much readable.
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Recently I read Eragon, I'm about 100 pages from the end of Eldest. Ummm I just started the 2nd book in the Door Within Trilogy. I'm also waiting for the Ranger's Apprentice 4th book( Favorite series)
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