Welcome to VBF's slowest, quietest thread... thanks mostly due to the sheer profundity of the collective intellects of our members here. :afrog:
A for Andromeda
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Welcome to VBF's slowest, quietest thread... thanks mostly due to the sheer profundity of the collective intellects of our members here. :afrog:
A for Andromeda
I recommend The age of Misrule
The Darkwar Saga by Raymond. E. Feist
Firewall!!!
I am taking next week off work to read the book mendhak gave me.
I would recommend the Dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
I am currently reading a Dilbert book. Cant recall which one but it is scary how accurate it is to real office life :lol:
Yeah you better.Quote:
Originally Posted by visualAd
This series is over-ratedQuote:
Originally Posted by BodwadUK
Don't get me wrong it was enjoyable but I've read far better books than these.
Good examples:
The Belgariad & The Mallorean - David Eddings
Magician - Raymond. E. Feist
The Darkwar Saga - Raymond. E. Feist
The Rigante Series - David Gemmell
A good recommendation, I enjoyed reading those. I had low expectations though so was possibly easily pleased.Quote:
Originally Posted by BodwadUK
Currently, I've finally got around to reading 'The Idiot' by Dostoyevsky and it's very very good.
His best series, RIPQuote:
Originally Posted by Valleysboy1978
Where's Waldo In Time?
"The sleep book" by Dr. Seuss
over and over and over and over and over and over and over again...
Pretty much anything by Bill Bryson is great, each time i read one i want to go travelling!
I am reading
The Death of Vishnu.
I've just finished reading The Children of Men by P. D. James
now a major motion picture
I just finished Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
Extremely good.
An enjoyable moment was when Odd, in a Plow Mounted RV, with 6 Monks, while racing towards the convent to fortify it before it is attacked by 4 dimensional Constructs of Jointed Exoskeletoid Armor, Saw outside his window Elvis's ghost cavorting with Boo the dog down the slopes of a snow covered hill, arms outstretched and thouroughly enjoying the falling snow as he catches the flakes upon his upturned face.
:wave:
i just finished reading without Remorse by Tom Clancy.
not a bad book could of been better as most Tom Clancy books.
now i'm reading tom clancy's Op -Center State of Siege so far it seems alirght.
the only Tom Clancy books i thought were really good was the Splinter cell book series and the Netforce series
but that's just me :)
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
I forgot to mention that I am also reading comic books.
Always on my office desk... Linux Desk Reference by Scott Hawkins.
VBF:GD/CC for Dummies ;)
For the past one year :Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
I'm a really fast reader :p
Getting Gay With Babies by Michael Jackson
Foreword by Britney Spears
Definitely. Connavar and Bane were fantastic characters.Quote:
Originally Posted by davebat
His writing will be sorely missed, I always looked forward to his books coming out, and was really getting into the Troy series too...wonder if it will be finished now
he finished 70,000 words, I think his wife will be finishing it.
That's good news :thumb:
Also forgot to mention:
The Entire Shannara series by Terry Brooks
I have been reading Bill Bryson's Neither Here nor There at about the same rate as littlewiki.
Donna Leon "Doctored Evidence"
Siemens Benefits Pension Scheme. (I'm getting old :cry: )
Word is they have some special for their people nowadays (especialy for those at top level ;) )
Hmmmmm. It may be time to start the climb to the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by opus
Just Finished Diane Duane: The Empty Chair
Half Way thru Michael Connelly: Echo Park
Quote:
Originally Posted by mendhak
You should have asked me for a copy of Altered Carbon. I would have loaned it to you in exchange for you steadying your hand whilst sending me songs.
If you are interested, I can loan you Equilibrium Thermodynamics next.
The book my sister left years ago which I just found while cleaning the house...
Dear Pup: Letters to a Young Dog by Diana Pullein-Thompson.
The Saga of Darren Shan - The Vampires Assistant (Book 2)
Erich von Daineken - Memories from the Future
Great book :thumb:
How about Chariots of the Gods?Quote:
Originally Posted by gavio
Not yet... i'm going through his repertuire... slowly, but firmly :bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by hairball
The great Erich Von is still writing???
I stopped EV a bit before Walter Ernstings "The Day the Gods Died".
Supposedly Pure fiction, but its about the author actually, after meeting up with Erich V., and setting out to write his own Expository, actually FINDING the physical Advanced alien Tech, he stumbles back into time, contacts the aliens in ancient peru, AND, coming back, he investigates an area on the top of a mountain, and again encounters those alians who are monitoring our earth, as it either enters the Y phase, where we decimate ourselves, or the Z phase, where we are welcomed into the Cosmic Brotherhood.
BTW,
Today I just got Lee Child: Die Trying
A Good Jack Reacher Novel, from 1999. {I know, a bit old...But I can still read! I'm not blind yet! :D }
Half Way thru.
Last 2 Pages {that I read} a bit slow, but I was distracted by the band of women sitting next to me at the Winfield. Ahh, well, I jumped ship, came back here.
Anyways, So far, So good.
:wave:
-Lou
Ray Kurzweil's The age of spiritual machines: When computers exceed human intellect.
I read it last year, but im refreshing myself before I read his follow up -- The singularity is Near, when humans transcend biology.
isn't it Erich von Dänicken?, but maybe he changend his name, 'cause of all the luna**** he had published.Quote:
Originally Posted by gavio
I have started Common Wealth of Thieves
Last book I read:
a must read for everyone... very short.. VERY powerfull
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Beginning Visual C# 2005. Wrox and O'Reilly books are the best.
Pwning Visual C# 2005. Rudi's made up books are the best.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
This book is constantly shifting. It shifts in the middle of sentences and moves to different viewpoints and completely unrelated story fragments. A real head... thing.
My third book since this thread started. Wow, you guys are slow.
Depends on the material :pQuote:
Originally Posted by mendhak
Dresden Files Book 1: Storm Front
I am on my third book too.
Started a book called "Dragon"
Mendhak - I have not yet counted the comics I read during this while.
ON a second note, others have work to do I guess.
I read with my third eye while I work with my other two.
So you are like the monkey in Dilbert that uses its tail when typing
Snow crash...
according to statistics.
reading
4 mins/page.
1 chapter/train day.
about 50+ chapters all in all.
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Currently writing my own book
What's it about?