What book are you currently reading? by Wyatt

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What book are you currently reading?

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Monday, October 15, 2007 11:26 AM

Stranger In A Strange Land ... Robert Heinlein

I might re-read the Gunslinger books by Stephen King when I'm done ..but I despise the last book..so I might not.

Bryce
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Way I remember it , albatross was a ship's good luck..'til some idiot killed it.

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Monday, October 15, 2007 12:55 PM

QUIETUDE

Troy - Fall of Kings: by the late great David Gemmell.

I hope one day they make a movie about his book 'Legend'. It would kick '300''s butt. Don't know who they would get to play Druss though.

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Monday, October 15, 2007 1:37 PM

FINEHAT

47 by Walter Mosley

I've read all of the Easy Rawlins mysteries, but this is his first for young adults.

If your hand touches metal I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.

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Monday, October 15, 2007 3:51 PM

RIVERFLAN

Since my last post:

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Shadow of the Hedgemon- Orson Scott Card
Snow-Walker- Cathrine Fisher
Day of the Scareb- Cathrine Fisher
The Book of the River- Ian Watson

I finished all except The Book of the River; I think I'll drop that one.

Now reading:

Bedlam Bards- Mercedes Lackey
1984- George Watson
The Black Gryphon- Mercedes Lackey
Triplet- Timthy Zahn
And
The Catword Portal- Shirley Roussean Murphey

Does anyone know if the 14th book of Guardians of Ga'Hoole is out yet? I've been waiting forever for it, but I have no idea if it's still in progress or what.

just because.

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Monday, October 15, 2007 5:10 PM

BSCPANTHERFAN

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Originally posted by embers:
Quote:
Originally posted by Shadesiren:

Lastly I have a book with a Dresden Short story in it to read as soon as I finish White Night (Which should be sometime tomorrow morning, I expect :P).

wait, what?
can I have the title?
(I don't want to miss out on any Dresden goodness!)

I believe Shadesiren is referring to Many Bloody Returns , an anthology of stories combining birthdays and vampires. There is a Dresden story in it. I just finished reading the book , and heartily recommend it. The dedication page reads "This is dedicated to Joss Whedon, who may never read it, and his enthusiastic fans known as the Buffybuds, who will."

So who is he?
He's my husband.
Well who in the damn galaxy ain't!

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:58 AM

CHAPTERANDVERSE

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Originally posted by Chindi:
Reading two at the moment

"All But My Life" (WWII survivor bio)Gerda Weissmann Klein Heavy going.

"Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follett's non thriller/historical novel. Pretty good so far...just started.

Just finished third of the Bartimaeous Trilogy.. still moves me every time... a "kids" book- but I love it.

Chindi

The Bartimaeous Trilogy is wonderful!! Fantastic humor and, as you say, incredibly moving.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:01 AM

LADYSERENITY

I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden

I also finished Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ( I love re-reading this book!)

Now I am reading Dragonflight by Anne Mcaffrey (rereading again)

and Sunshine by Robin McKinley ( I love her books, with this one she totally changed the aspect of the vampire! Fabulous!)

I like Mercedes Lackey also but haven't read any of her Valdemar books I am not sure which ine I should start with. I love her elemental masters books as well as the tales from the 500 Kingdoms.

Once you've been in Serenity you never leave. You find a way to live in it.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:23 AM

ARCLIGHT

The Gift of Fear - Gavin de Becker
America Alone - Mark Steyn
Founding Brothers - Joseph Ellis
Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrel
His Dark Materials trilogy - Phillip Pullman

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:12 PM

SINGATE

I've been re-reading a lot of my favorites this year. Right now I'm on The Lord of the Rings. I've picked up on many more differences between the book vs. the movies that I missed the last time around.

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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:11 PM

BULLET0IN0THE0BRAINPAN0SQUISH

Just finished Atonement by Ian McEwan. Trying to start on Henry James's What Maisie Knew. Twas gorram boring (or at least, the pace is so slow... I haven't given it a chance yet...) so I picked up Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors. Then I have to post my note-to-self, which will remind me of the Stephen King Dark Tower trilogy I haven't started on yet.

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I don't know what I'm saying. I never know what I'm saying.... -River Tam, Serenity (2005)

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:09 PM

CALHOUN

TV Week

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:13 PM

SAVAGEDIANA

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak. Good stuff. :)

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Me, I'm a thief.

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 2:22 PM

WYTCHCROFT

The Night Buffalo - Guillermo Arriaga

The fifth head of cerberus - gene wolfe

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 2:57 PM

THEQUICKBROWNFOX

The Virginian by Owen Wister. 100 years old, and still shiny!

From one thing, learn ten thousand things.

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:26 PM

ALLIETHORN7

City of the Dead- Brian Keene
The book says that some folk are calling him the new Stephen King. That's bull, for two reasons:
1, while he is a damnedly good writer, all he did was make zombies smarter and able to use guns, including rifles. I personally think that the whole getting ripped apart limb from limb by hordes of zombie midgets much more terrifying then being shot at.

and, 2, Isn't Stephen King the new Stephen King? Did he suddenly stop being himself? 'Cause, I seemed to fail to get the memo.

-Danny

and every time I play with passion I start breaking strings,
and my voice cracks when I sing from my heart
guess that's the price I've got to pay to know that I'm alive
this melody is tearing me apart

THRICE RULES!!!!!!!!!
My Master went to the Moon in a Rocket of Flamin' Cheese!
I LIKE CHEESE!!!
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:34 PM

RIVERFLAN

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Originally posted by ladyserenity:

I like Mercedes Lackey also but haven't read any of her Valdemar books I am not sure which ine I should start with. I love her elemental masters books as well as the tales from the 500 Kingdoms.

You need to start with her Mage Wars trilogy:
The Black Gryphon
The White Gryphon
The Silver Gryphon

Then go to the Last Herald-Mage trilogy:
Magic's Pawn
Magic's Promise
Magic's Price

After that I don't remember off e top of my head; but, she does have a website; I don't remember what it is either but just search Google and I think her web page is the first to come up.

And, some more good books by Ann McCaffrey are
The Rowan
Damia
Damia's Children
Especially if you lean more towards sci-fi, as these are set in the future and center around psi powers.

Have many good reads!

Oh, and I am now reading just The Fire in the Forge, as I have finished all my other books.

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 6:39 PM

TWITCH

This is gonna sound pretentious, but really it's not. Just good bookage. I'm reading Beowulf. The translation by Seamus Heaney is really good.

Prior to that was Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

-- Twitch

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:33 PM

KATO

I'm currently reading book I of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy titled Out of the Silent Planet. So far I'm about half way through it and finding it very enjoyable. It is deep in theology and philsophoy. I am blow away by C.S. Lewis' description of space travel, (for he wrote these books before man even went into space). His descriptions are almost perfect, as if he knew all along what it would be like. Plus his descriptions are far more intresting and enticing than how NASA today would describe space travel. The mere description of the sun is breath taking to read, making me want to see it for my self.

Burn the land, boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me...

"Submit therefore to God, resist the devil and he shall flee from you" -James 4:7

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:16 PM

WACKYNEPHEW

Just started on Storm Front by Jim Butcher thanks to some enthusiastic recommendations from several Browncoats.

Special thanks to deepgirl187 for pointing me in the right direction.

Vote for Firefly at http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep." Woody Allen

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:16 PM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

recently read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip Dick which I enjoyed a lot - it's up for grabs in the Browncoat flying library if anyone's interested (thank you FlyVote!!

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I just finished reading "Shakespeare" by Bill Bryson last night, it was really refreshing and had his typical wry humour! On the recommendation of Naughtman I bought Bill Bryson' book on the English language today, "Mother Tongue" - I already know I'm going to enjoy it!

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Friday, October 19, 2007 2:04 AM

VCDHUNTER

The God Delusion by Prof. Richard Dawkins.

Awesome stuff from a great man.

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Saturday, October 20, 2007 4:57 PM

GORRAMGROUPIE

Quote:
Originally posted by Kato:
I'm currently reading book I of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy titled Out of the Silent Planet. So far I'm about half way through it and finding it very enjoyable. It is deep in theology and philsophoy. I am blow away by C.S. Lewis' description of space travel, (for he wrote these books before man even went into space). His descriptions are almost perfect, as if he knew all along what it would be like. Plus his descriptions are far more intresting and enticing than how NASA today would describe space travel. The mere description of the sun is breath taking to read, making me want to see it for my self.

Burn the land, boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me...

"Submit therefore to God, resist the devil and he shall flee from you" -James 4:7

I read those books and they are some of my all time favorites. I'm trying to find my own personal copies!

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Thursday, March 10, 2022 9:41 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Need to read stuff a little more shocking

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Thursday, March 10, 2022 10:13 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Bourne Betrayal, Lustbader?
Simple Genius, David Baldacci.
Once a Hero, Elizabeth Moon (again).

hmm.
This thread just got. BUmped, and now 14 years later I just finished another Baldacci. End Game, which is part of a much better series than that Camel Club.

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Thursday, March 10, 2022 11:43 PM

BRENDA

Doctor Who

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