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QUOTE (Snowdog @ Jan 5 2005, 05:26 PM)
QUOTE (dweezil @ Jan 5 2005, 01:38 PM)
Clive Cussler-Trojan Odyssey


Voracious reader of: Tom Clancy, Ludlum, Ann Rule, that Douglas guy from the FBI profiling section, Necromancer series, and oh so many more.

ooh- isn't that the one that picks up where Valhalla Rising left off? With Dirk Jr.?

Also, the Bourne series by Ludlum is one of my all time favorites.

Yes. Dirk Jr. and Summer (Dirk Sr.'s daughter and Dirk Jr.'s twin) ((That sounds like some soap opera ad!!)) laugh.gif

 

 

 

 

Wilbur Smith is one of my all time favorites. I can't believe I forgot him!

 

Pauline Gedge-Alberta author who writes some fabulous Egyptian novels.

 

 

There are so many in my house, I could write a book on em!

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QUOTE (Slaine mac Roth @ Jan 5 2005, 10:57 PM)
I've nearly finished 'The Hidden City' (Part 3 of the Tamuli) by David Eddings

Is that any good Slaine?

 

I read the Belgariad and the Mallorean years ago, but never made it back to Eddings after that. I got caught up in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and haven't read any more fantasy since that (apart from regular returns to LOTR).

 

I'm just finishing Garden of Beasts by Jeffrey Deaver. Very interesting.

Yes, both the Elenium and the Tamuli are well worth reading. Although there are a lot of similarities to the Belgariad/Elenium, I foun them to be a more restrained and mature cycle.

 

The main complaint I hacve about the Belgariad is that the character of Silk is very over done and much too over the top. However, in the Elenium, Silk's characteristics are spread among two or three characters, making them more well rounded.

 

Add to this that the world created is better thought out and seems to ahdere better to its own internal logic.

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QUOTE (sfuentes @ Mar 20 2005, 12:34 AM)
Let's bring this thread back, because literature is important.

Right now I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell...

On the side, I am also reading the Rush tourbooks...

Excellent read...I expect a report on my desk by next Friday.

 

And I like apples.

 

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QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Mar 19 2005, 10:51 PM)
QUOTE (sfuentes @ Mar 20 2005, 12:34 AM)
Let's bring this thread back, because literature is important.

Right now I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell...

On the side, I am also reading the Rush tourbooks...

Excellent read...I expect a report on my desk by next Friday.

 

And I like apples.

 

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Shall I photocopy the pictures of Neil to include in the report?

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QUOTE (sfuentes @ Mar 20 2005, 12:52 AM)
QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Mar 19 2005, 10:51 PM)
QUOTE (sfuentes @ Mar 20 2005, 12:34 AM)
Let's bring this thread back, because literature is important.

Right now I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell...

On the side, I am also reading the Rush tourbooks...

Excellent read...I expect a report on my desk by next Friday.

 

And I like apples.

 

tongue.gif

tongue.gif

 

Shall I photocopy the pictures of Neil to include in the report?

Seeing as how pictures of Neil would be completely off topic...

 

 

Yes, of course. Include as many as possible.

 

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I am currently reading By The Light Of The Moon by Dean Koontz

 

I just love his style of writing its gripping, frightening yet funny, his characters seem so believable and are real"characters"

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Strangely enough, I'm also reading an Isaac Asimov book. This one is non-fiction and titled "A Choice of Catastrophes". Although it is non-fiction, there is plenty of Asimov's characteristic wit and good hard science.
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QUOTE (Huck @ Mar 20 2005, 03:35 AM)
I am currently reading By The Light Of The Moon by Dean Koontz

I just love his style of writing its gripping, frightening yet funny, his characters seem so believable and are real"characters"

Huck...I loved that book...Koontz is one of my all-time favorite writers. And, this one has a character with autism, which peaked my interest even more. Let us know what you think when you're done.

 

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QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Mar 20 2005, 04:14 PM)
QUOTE (Huck @ Mar 20 2005, 03:35 AM)
I am currently reading By The Light Of The Moon by Dean Koontz

I just love his style of writing its gripping, frightening yet funny, his characters seem so believable and are real"characters"

Huck...I loved that book...Koontz is one of my all-time favorite writers. And, this one has a character with autism, which peaked my interest even more. Let us know what you think when you're done.

 

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Will do GG, I'm only up to chapter 3, I'll let you know but it may take me some time.

 

I find it hard to find the time to read as much as I would like, usually when I go to bed or in the Men's room laugh.gif

 

 

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im currently reading A&R by Bill Flanagan.

 

Funny, check it out if your intreasted in the music seen.

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QUOTE (Quyn @ Sep 9 2004, 11:26 PM)
QUOTE (DonnaWanna @ Sep 9 2004, 10:10 PM)
one of my favorite books is Kings..desperation..that book is siiick!!! firedevil.gif that would make sucha morbid movie..that is if they stuck to the book

Have you ever tried Clive Barker? He is twisted, but an absolutely amazing writer.

 

Right now I am reading the 911 Commision report and "Through Violet Eyes" by Stephen Woodworth.

Isnt Clive the dude that made Hellraiser?

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I tried reading Everwood but couldn't quite get into it.

 

I'm reading Seven Types of Ambiguity by Eliot Perlman and Just One Look by Harlan Coben, pretty decent mystery...I'm getting into it faster than the Perlman book.

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QUOTE (yyz @ Mar 20 2005, 04:58 PM)
QUOTE (Quyn @ Sep 9 2004, 11:26 PM)
QUOTE (DonnaWanna @ Sep 9 2004, 10:10 PM)
one of my favorite books is Kings..desperation..that book is siiick!!! firedevil.gif that would make sucha morbid movie..that is if they stuck to the book

Have you ever tried Clive Barker? He is twisted, but an absolutely amazing writer.

 

Right now I am reading the 911 Commision report and "Through Violet Eyes" by Stephen Woodworth.

Isnt Clive the dude that made Hellraiser?

Yeah that's right

 

Check out his book Weaveworld it will expand your horizons cool.gif

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I'm incedibly happy today. Yesterday, I went into the Forbidden Planet and got hold of a book I've been after for ages - The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions by H P Lovecraft.

 

(Do I have to say that I could easily have spent my next 15 years wages in there?)

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I am reading the memoir of the young man who got pinned down by a rock in Utah in '03 and had to amputate his own arm. His name was Aron Ralston and the book is called Between and Rock and a Hard Place I am nearly done. It is an excellent book.
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I may as well start:

 

I just finished reading Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries.

 

It completely changed my attitude toward the man. Previously I had dismissed him as an anarchist of meager intellect who just happened to rise to public fame from being at the right places at the right times; but now I am privy to a whole 'nother Che - intelligent, kind, sensitive, funny, considerate.

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