The Glade 4.0

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.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Weekly - The economist
Trying to get through at work in tiny tiny pieces when I have time - Democracy in America

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Just finished "The Traveller" by John Twelve Hawks. The next thing I'll likely read is its sequel, when I get around to it.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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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.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

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.

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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.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

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.

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.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

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

As for what I am reading.. lately it is whatever homework I get assigned

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
END OF LINE.

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

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

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.

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"I've got twenty ways to tell you shut the f*ck up / nineteen of them are twenty-four bars long / the other one goes: SHUT THE F*CK UP" - Aesop Rock
"There is no God higher than truth." -- Gandhi
Formerly: Tulamian

The Internet. The whole thing.

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The Dude abides.

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.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

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.

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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...

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"I Live, I Love, I Slay, and I Am Content."
- Conan the Barbarian

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.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

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.

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

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

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Gorse

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...

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"The map is not the territory."

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.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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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.

LOL. I agree.

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"The map is not the territory."

The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson.

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