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Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:05 am

Then only thing I EVER read are cookbooks, at 2 in the morning, next to the fridge....
there was this other book, started with: "Get me some more wine, you piece of snot, i'm thirsty", cant remember the name tho

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:39 pm

Fantasy novels? Yeah, let's discuss fantasy! Ok, how about Feist? What does everyone this of his latest trilogy, "The Conclave of Shadows"?

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:36 pm

T. A. Barron is my favorite fantasy author. His merlin books and the Ancient One (did he/she write that?) are tops.

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:32 pm

Im currently going on three books at the moment

The Templars by Pier Paul Reid
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose (had a helluva time finding a copy actually)

As for fiction though, I can't go past Wilbur Smith. Though I've read all his books, so I have to wait for a new one to come out.

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:03 pm

Erm, read far to many books to really be able to say any specifics. BUT

Of course - Lord of the Rings Triology.

Also - am partial to Michael Crichton novels
I mainly read fantasy novels (like LOTR, David Eddings (basically a LOTR clone to be honest, but they are entertaining ), Robin Hob etc).

Also read thrillers etc, so have read Grisham, Crichton, Clancy, Fredric Forsythe, Ian Flemming, whilst my family start porning all their old thrillers on me for my books instead (ie, wilbur smth etc).

Have a semi library - cause as a kid i wasn't allowed to watch much TV or even own a computer - so i have an extensive collection of Starwars novels, Eddings (yep - still read them when i cannot choose anything else ), and approx 200+ other novels. As you might imagine, I was a true bookworm , However, i have NEVER read any dickens or shakespeare, or other cobweb classics. Too dull - fall asleep

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 7:33 pm

I read almost anything, and usually read several books at a time. Right now I'm reading Jupiter by Ben Bova, The Portrait of Dorain Gray by Oscar Wilde, a collection of short stories by Philip K. Dick, and assorted poems by Robert Frost.

"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it." -- Oscar Wilde

bom

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:09 pm

I recently picked up the latest Wheel of Time book. Only four more years and we'll know how it ends...

Post Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:56 pm

I read Band of Brothers by Stephen E Ambrose quite recently, it definitely ties up a lot of bits from the TV series. I used to go through Star Wars books at an incredible rate when I was younger.
I'm currently reading about 5 books concurrently, swapping the ones I'm reading each day!
They're:
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (beatnik travel story)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (This guy started the whole cyberpunk genre and was writing about a Matrix that human beings could plug into directly, way back in '84)
Penguin History of America (Name says it all)
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (The true story around the strange death of Chris McCandless)
and 'Are you Dave Gorman' by Dave Gorman (pretty feckin hilarious: one drunken bet, one very obsessed man, his hapless flatmate and 54 dave gormans)

Post Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:39 am

I"ve just finish a few dave Barry books which aare realy funny. And the Darwin awards which are just as funny but slightly less mature.

If life gives you lemons use them to squirk lemon juice in people's eyes and cheat.

zlo

Post Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:15 am

Lecter's guide to good eating
j/k, BTW

It's better to be a worldwide known drunkard than an anonymous alcoholic!

Post Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:21 am

Oh dear what a topic. Fantasy Sci-Fi Action Adventure etc. Currently I just finished a Forgotten realms book (harpers) and I am currently re-reading Dragon riders of Pern. I read anywhere from 2 to 5 books a week (most of them are repeats but I am one of the few who can read books over and over and still enjoy them) here is a short list of current and all time fav's
Eddings all of em period.
Lackey
Piers Anthony
EE Doc Smith (Lensman ROX)
Feist
Cussler
Warren Murphy (The Destroyer Series)
McCafferty
O.S. Card
Clancy (1st 4 and Net Force)
Alan Dean Foster
JK Rowling
David Drake
David R Palmer (Emergence and Threshold any one?)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (martian series)

and about a bazillion others


I Am Sharp like Bowling Ball

Post Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:49 pm

i read until my eyes hurt in bed and while im on the crapper until my arse gets numb. As for books, i'll read anything thats been reccomended or been bought for me.

Post Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:58 pm

@ssjgarretjax, did you read the Alan dean foster book, Splinter of the Minds Eye? A very good star wars book.


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Post Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:42 pm

I can't read anything but horrible history books. Everything else puts me to sleep.


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Post Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:19 pm

oh i got rucks of those. it got a bit stupid thought when they had "the nasty nineteen thirty fours" or "the terrible two thousand and one to two thousand and threes"

how old are you anyway? theyre not even books, their schoolbooks with humor


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