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    What book are you reading these days?

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    Re: What book are you reading these days?

    I recommend The age of Misrule

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    The Darkwar Saga by Raymond. E. Feist
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    Firewall!!!

    I am taking next week off work to read the book mendhak gave me.
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    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
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    Re: What book are you reading these days?

    Quote Originally Posted by visualAd
    Firewall!!!

    I am taking next week off work to read the book mendhak gave me.
    Yeah you better.

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    Re: What book are you reading these days?

    Quote Originally Posted by BodwadUK
    I would recommend the Dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
    This series is over-rated
    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
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    Re: What book are you reading these days?

    Quote Originally Posted by BodwadUK
    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
    A good recommendation, I enjoyed reading those. I had low expectations though so was possibly easily pleased.

    Currently, I've finally got around to reading 'The Idiot' by Dostoyevsky and it's very very good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valleysboy1978
    The Rigante Series - David Gemmell
    His best series, RIP

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    "The sleep book" by Dr. Seuss

    over and over and over and over and over and over and over again...

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    Pretty much anything by Bill Bryson is great, each time i read one i want to go travelling!
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    I am reading
    The Death of Vishnu.
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    I've just finished reading The Children of Men by P. D. James

    now a major motion picture

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    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.


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    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

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    Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

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    I forgot to mention that I am also reading comic books.
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    Always on my office desk... Linux Desk Reference by Scott Hawkins.

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    For the past one year :Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
    I'm a really fast reader
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    Getting Gay With Babies by Michael Jackson

    Foreword by Britney Spears

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    Quote Originally Posted by davebat
    Quote Originally Posted by Valleysboy1978
    The Rigante Series - David Gemmell
    His best series, RIP
    Definitely. Connavar and Bane were fantastic characters.

    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
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    he finished 70,000 words, I think his wife will be finishing it.

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    That's good news

    Also forgot to mention:
    The Entire Shannara series by Terry Brooks
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    I have been reading Bill Bryson's Neither Here nor There at about the same rate as littlewiki.

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    Word is they have some special for their people nowadays (especialy for those at top level )
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    Quote Originally Posted by opus
    Word is they have some special for their people nowadays (especialy for those at top level )
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    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.

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    The Saga of Darren Shan - The Vampires Assistant (Book 2)
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    Re: What book are you reading these days?

    Quote Originally Posted by gavio
    Erich von Daineken - Memories from the Future

    Great book
    How about Chariots of the Gods?

    Break out from your mental box.
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