so king richard gave his kingdom to a horse? that would explain why he died.

im currently reading war and peace

About the only Time I actually have time to read is when I go to bed.
oh and I don't read fantasy or any other genre, I think they are just a waste of time.

My favorite author is Stephen Hawkinge, and I am currently in the process of reading and interpreting his book, The universe in a Nutshell
or any other Book about Technology,

I have read almost the whole Line on Fire-arms of The Dutch Writer A.E. Hartink.
He writes about Fire-arms Technologies and stuff. He wrote about Pistols, Rifles, Army small-arms, Antique weaponry and Big ones

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Oh, dear, How sad, Never mind!!-Battery Sergeant Major Williams
'Cos it's strange innit??, whenever you stand in a Library and go AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH, People stare at you, Whenever you do it in an Aeroplane everyone joins in.. - Tommy Cooper

Actually, I just finished "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" by, of course, Hal Moore and Joe Galloway. If you don't know the movie it's about 'Nam. The book is strikingly different from the movie and, in my opinion, Is better. It took me a whole month to read it because I'm a slow reader but you just about need that much to comprehend what all is going on. The book goes into detail about the individual soldier unlike most war books which talk about different armies and junk like that. It is a shockingly real "in your face" "blood and guts" image of war from the infantryman's view. It scared the sh*t out of me because of how gory it was bout it was an excellent read. Beuatiful book.

I am the signature virus! Copy me into your signature so that I can take over the world! Moohahahee!

Lord of the Rings Trilogy for one. I love the books. I read them after I saw the first movie.
I like the Silmarillion. The writing's really, really weird, but if you can get through it, you have some very interesting history about the elves in Middle-Earth.
I also like Terry Brooks' Shannara books.
I'm not a big fan of Stephen King's anymore, because of Dreamcatcher. Horrible, Horrible book, stay away.
Dean Koontz has some really cool stuff.
I also like Star Wars books.

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb!"

Since 1997 I've been strangely addicted to Robert Jordan's Wheel of time series.
When I started reading there were only six of the series out, and today there's ten books to the series, one prequel, A video game, and god only know's how many RPG's are out becuase of it.
Has this been all that I've read? no, Tim Robbins was good.
Another Roadside attraction
Still life with wood pecker, and others.
If you've never read Robbins, try him out. One helluva writer I say.

@Eh_Steve
I started to read that but found it far too slow, and gave up, my dad seemed to like it and bought it though so maybe I'll check it out sometime. If you're interested in similar reads about the experiences of indivivual soldiers in modern war there's always Band of Brothers which i mentioned earlier or Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden. There has always been plenty on the vietnam war, Chickenhawk was perhaps my favourite.

EDIT: A thread all about literature and our resident Shakespeare wannabe, Sir Spectre is nowhere to be seen, what's going on!?

Edited by - Recusant on 2/8/2004 9:41:21 AM

I found it slow, but it was faster thanstudy hall so I kept reading. I'll try some of those other books when I finish Johnny Tremain.

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I'm still waiting for Robert Jordan to finish the "epic" so that I can re-read it.

Right now, I'm reading "Don Quixote". Anyone else read it?

need you ask? it's wonderful (but if you haven't finished it and haven' read it before i won't spoil it for you!) Cervantes imagery is so clever and so spot on, and his comic set-pieces are genuinely funny, and tragic too.

have you seen "Lost in La Mancha?"

I knew you'd make an appearance! . I'm just starting it, and normally I'd finish it within a week, but I've been busy lately, and thus it could take me a while. Should I create a thread on it when I've read it?

No, I haven't seen "Lost in La Mancha" . A movie I presume? Based on the book?

@finalday A very long time ago I do not remember much except it was cool
He has a Bizzare one call "Into the Out Of" very weird makes you look at shadows very differently not Star Wars related but good nonetheless. He also did a few more Star Wars and quite a few original Star Trek's too.

Tolkien too Didnt like the Sim tho

I Am Sharp like Bowling Ball

If anybody would like free copies of some Science Fiction or Fantasy books they can check out the Baen Free Library website and download some really good ones.
There's also the Friends of Honor website.

My mind is full of useless information.

I'm reading ROTK at the moment, mostly at Work durinf breaks and also at home before I go to bed

"A TopGun through and through"

Hey! Orson Scott Card and "Ender's Game", along with all it's sequels/whatevers. I'm waiting for another one to come out. So far I have read...

Enders Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Enders Shaddow
Shaddow of the Hegemon
Shaddow Puppets

there must be more!!!