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Fear Factor

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 5:15 pm

Addiction

It started a couple of days ago. I have a habit of reading before going to sleep. Problem is, I ran out of reading material! Battletech novels, Douglas Adams novels, Clancy novels, Dune series novels, all finished at least twice. So I got up and fired up the pc, and behold: I found a Shogun Total War pdf file, titled Way of the Daimyo. It was 125 pages of Era of Warring States goodness, easily comparable to a thin novel.

I never played the game. I had it, but never bothered to read the manual and therefore clueless about the gameplay. After reading the pdf file though, it aroused my curiosity. I installed the game again, picked clan Oda (my favorite, I love half-mad ruthless despot ) and conquered 1/3 of Japan in 3 days. I'm playing up to 7 hours a day and starting to lose sleep Until I get my Freelancer, this is my game of choice.

Anyone else have stories about treasures like this in your own attic?



Aku. Soku. Zan. (Kill. Evil. Instantly.)

Top-Gun

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 5:18 pm

You mad mad man

Arcon

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:19 pm

shogun rocks, i read that pdf.

maybe you should read good books though, a few classics, beowulf, neromancer, starship troopers.

other than that....oh i found a dead body in my loft, but it was only my dad

-arcon
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Top-Gun

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:30 pm

Better still, read Lord of the Rings

Huffer

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 7:25 pm

When I start having dreams about a game, I know I've been playing it way too much.

Now remember[! First you pillage and THEN you burn[!

Fang

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:12 pm

Hear, hear, top gun. It's extremely hard to find somebody who's actually READ them. Even harder to find someone else who read them before they heard the movie was coming out. But there's lots of great literature out there.

Animal Farm
The hobbit (LOTR prequel)
The Silmarillion (LOTR prequel)
Adventures of Tom Bombadil (another LOTR prequel)
Mutiny on the Bounty (one of my personal favorites)
The KIller Angels (GREAT GREAT GREAT book)
Moby Dick, of course

If you can't find something to read, you have poor eyesight. You also may want to find some Dave Barry. If you don't already know who he is, he's a humor columnist for the MIami Herald.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not too sure about the former.

-Albert Einstein

Fear Factor

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:42 pm

I have read LOTR, Silmarillion, and the Hobbit. All very good books. I've done Starship Troopers, too. Too short, IMO.

If you can't find something to read, you have poor eyesight. You also may want to find some Dave Barry. If you don't already know who he is, he's a humor columnist for the MIami Herald.


Well literally, my eyesight is poor I'm short-sighted, -3 each Regarding "finding something to read", I actually meant that it was in the middle of the night. I couldn't really go out and buy something.

OT rant: backstabbing Mori cur! I made him my ally so that I could venture east, he attacked me! so I proposed a cease-fire with my western enemies instead, and turned the full wrath of my Oda clan on him. Took 5 of his provinces in 2 hours ...





Aku. Soku. Zan. (Kill. Evil. Instantly.)

Godlike Entity

Post Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:52 am

You should read the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind, very very good, heh and i have two editions of LOTR one illustrated and one leather bound (what a dork) , and i cant find any of the old battle tech books for sale (the ones by Michael A. Stackpole)

p.s. have you read the new Dune book [uThe Butlerian Jihad[/u i thought it was excellent

Peace through superior firepower.


The Best FL Squadron Around Wants You

Edited by - Godlike Entity on 02-04-2003 04:56:25

Edited by - Godlike Entity on 02-04-2003 04:58:04

Natrunner

Post Wed Apr 02, 2003 4:17 am

I am the same as you Fear. I read before I go to sleep also. But I always have a book ready when I am near the end of one. The only times I have really been desperate for reading material is in the bathroom. I actually know what deodorant and shaving cream contain.

I came. I saw. I conquered. And sometimes get conquered.
"I'm Natrunner, I don't really run TLR but I do have an understanding with those that do."

pieman3141

Post Wed Apr 02, 2003 5:07 am

YAY!! ANOTHER BOOKSES THREAD

History of Middle Earth saga.
Read some shakespeare. that guy knew where it was at when it came to human emotions.
John Steinbeck (Yank writer that knew how to write properly)
Ender's Game (and the sequels)
Harry Turtledove (Alternate history scifi stuff)
uh... don't know what else. Stephen King is always a favourite. IT is his magnus opus. The Stand is his pre-magnus opus.
Orwell, Huxley for books on society and freedoms.
That'll keep you busy for at least a month's worth of reading. (given that you spend 4-5 hours per day, and read at a "normal" pace)

skymouse

Post Wed Apr 02, 2003 9:07 am

Terry Goodkind is good, nuther book of his coming out soon, waiting is a pain. Think I am starting my own personal library now, keep buying books whilst waiting FL

On another note, sounds like you need a caffeine drip to keep you going FF. That way, no sleep and your enemies will fear you even more

Skymouse

Top-Gun

Post Wed Apr 02, 2003 10:02 am

I bought the Lord of the Rings after the movie came out. Half way through Fellowship at the moment.

I read Animal Farm for my GCSEs, very good book

zlo

Post Wed Apr 02, 2003 11:43 am

As of battletech, Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" series is good stuff. Also, almost everything by Jack Chalker and Glen Cook's "Black Company" are worth attention. It usually take me one night to read one medium-sized book (up to 300 pages). Sometimes I feel I'm overreading, since I can't do anything else, bu I just can't help myself

Lev Arris

Post Wed Apr 02, 2003 12:35 pm

Same here: "before sleep reader". I just finished the first three books of Anne Rices Vampire Chronicles and i'm now waiting for my copy of Len Barnarts "Reign of the Dead". In between i'm reading Matthew Reilly's "Ice Station". Good for a relaxing read.

I also read some classics like "Dune", "Dracula", "Starship Troopers" and "Lord of the Rings" of course, but i didn't get around reading the "real" classics yet. But that's gonna change soon.

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"Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles
which every man of every faith can embrace. " - Murphy MacManus

Edited by - Lev Arris on 02-04-2003 13:36:01

Eraser

Post Wed Apr 02, 2003 2:25 pm

I too read books in bed before sleeping. The last few months I have been reading all 4 Harry Potter books, which were actually quite good. At the moment I´m reading The Rainmaker from John Grisham.

About any treasures like this in my own attic FF:

Last week I was checking the storage on my attic and found a bag filled with my old games. Phantasmagoria II, Police Quest SWAT, all the Leisure Suit Larry games (In the land of lounge lizards (´87), Goes looking for love (´88), Passionate Patti in pursuit of pulsating pectorals! (´89), Pasionate Patti does a little undercover job (´91), Shape up or slip out (´94), Love for sail (´96 or something around that period).

I also found Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within ! So I actually played this one last week and it was still fun

Two very cool games:

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