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Author:  Rynar [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:41 pm ]
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An attempt to recreate my favorite thread from all Glades prior. Tell us what you are reading, with a brief description, such that we might benifit each other.

Sticky if you love me.
Author:  Elmarnieh [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:46 pm ]
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Weekly - The economist
Trying to get through at work in tiny tiny pieces when I have time - Democracy in America
Author:  Talya [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:56 pm ]
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Just finished "The Traveller" by John Twelve Hawks. The next thing I'll likely read is its sequel, when I get around to it.
Author:  Rafael [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:07 pm ]
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Nothing as of now. I was going to buy The Snows of Kilimanjaro (in preperation for running my 7th character through the Nesingwary quests, heh). Anyone like it? I liked The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, so Snows was recommended to me by a literature professor at my school.
Author:  shuyung [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:09 pm ]
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Currently reading "Wrath of a Mad God" by Feist. I am also reading through the "Complete Chronicles of Conan", but that's a heck of a slog all at once, so I am interspersing other books.
Author:  Numbuk [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:06 pm ]
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The Guardship by James L. Nelson. Book one of Brethren of the Coast.

Basically a book on pirate fiction. Pretty good so far. But I am not a person who HAS to read a book every night, so I take a very long time to read a book. Only books that really, really, REALLY engage me get the honour of being read nightly. But I have been quite enjoying this one so far.
Author:  Elessar [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:09 pm ]
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Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. It's so-so in my opinion, but better than nothing. The similarities to Lord of the Rings make me lol at times also.
Author:  Aegnor [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:13 pm ]
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This is the longest I've gone without reading a book. I finished up rereading some Niven-Pournelle books a couple weeks ago, and I've been too busy since then with work and house buying stuff.
Author:  Shelgeyr [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:39 pm ]
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Author:  FarSky [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:43 pm ]
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The Strain, by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Author:  Hokanu [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:10 pm ]
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shuyung wrote:
Currently reading "Wrath of a Mad God" by Feist. I am also reading through the "Complete Chronicles of Conan", but that's a heck of a slog all at once, so I am interspersing other books.



I reread Feist pretty constantly. How are you enjoying it?

As for what I am reading.. lately it is whatever homework I get assigned
Author:  Diamondeye [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:17 pm ]
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Coldest Winter, about the Korean war
The Orc King, for my mandatory FR fantasy
The Forge of Christendom, regarding European history from about AD 600 to 1100
and when I eventually get back to it, The Sword and the Shield, an expose of the KGB by a defector
Author:  Loki [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:18 pm ]
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Fundamental Laboratory Approaches for Biochemistry and Biotechnology - 2nd Edition, Ninfa, Ballou and Benore
Inorganic Chemistry - 4th Edition, Shriver & Atkins
Fundamentals of Biochemistry - 3rd edition, Voet, Voet & Pratt
Deutschland Heute - Christian P. Stehr
Der Kleine Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein (Viel Spass!)

Also have been going back through my Physical Chemistry textbooks. :oops:
Author:  Screeling [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:28 pm ]
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The Internet. The whole thing.
Author:  Corolinth [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:35 pm ]
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Feynman Lectures, The
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

I kind of juggle back and forth, although Feynman is entertaining to read just in his own right.
Author:  shuyung [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:15 pm ]
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Hokanu wrote:
I reread Feist pretty constantly. How are you enjoying it?

I am enjoying it so far. That's not surprising, though, I like Feist's works. At this point, though, it gets a bit tricky trying to recall exactly what the relation of some of the characters back to the characters of the original Riftwar saga is, though.
Author:  Caleria [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:27 pm ]
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On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, when I'm not studying for my mid-terms. Like I should be doing right now...
Author:  Numbuk [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:20 am ]
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Elessar wrote:
Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. It's so-so in my opinion, but better than nothing. The similarities to Lord of the Rings make me lol at times also.


I read about 7 Shannara books before I decided to quit. However, his "Landover" series (starts with "Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold!") are an extremely fun and lighthearted read. He just came out with a new addition to this series, so I am eager to pick it up.
Author:  Colphax [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:14 am ]
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Just finished Harry Turtledove's How Few Remain followed by The Great War trilogy. It's alternative history, where the South won the Civil War, as well as a second war with the USA in the 1880s...and then WWI hits. Good stuff, with stuff like Lincoln becoming a Socialist, Mark Twain staying a newspaperman, Custer still leading armies in 1915, Marxist revolutionaries in the South, and President Teddy Roosevelt of the USA against President Woodrow Wilson of the CSA. There's a follow-on series, American Empire, which imagines a very different WWII in that timeline that I'll have to pick up.

Currently, I'm burning through my Dresden Files books yet again.
Author:  Gorse [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:59 am ]
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Currently on the third fo the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.

Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager (currently reading)
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
An Echo in the Bone
Author:  Imperi [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:45 am ]
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Currently reading the Iliad! It's pretty awesome. I'm reading it mostly because it will help me get girls.

I wish I could win girls by the spear... but unfortunately it is 2009...
Author:  Talya [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:41 am ]
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Numbuk wrote:
Elessar wrote:
Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. It's so-so in my opinion, but better than nothing. The similarities to Lord of the Rings make me lol at times also.


I read about 7 Shannara books before I decided to quit. However, his "Landover" series (starts with "Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold!") are an extremely fun and lighthearted read. He just came out with a new addition to this series, so I am eager to pick it up.



The series really came into its own with "The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara" (It had Airships!) and later. Also, he did a series that initially did not look like part of the Shannara series, called "The World & Void" (started with a book called "Running with the Demon"), but it ended up being a far prequel...it details the end of our current world and the apocalypse that led to the world of Shannara. What started out as very derivative ended up taking on a life all its own.
Author:  TheRiov [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:52 am ]
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Shelgeyr --I'm so so sorry. I HATE Dickens with a passion. I wanted Pip to die within pages of being introduced to him.
Author:  Imperi [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:52 am ]
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TheRiov wrote:
Shelgeyr --I'm so so sorry. I HATE Dickens with a passion. I wanted Pip to die within pages of being introduced to him.


LOL. I agree.
Author:  Mookhow [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:03 am ]
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The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson.
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