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29-11-08, 22:29
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Best book
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I think mine is 'Atomised' by Michel Houellebecq.
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29-11-08, 23:18
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Too many, though I really enjoyed "The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum...I actually could list loads here but I would expose more of my geek side i.e. I read and buy too many!
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29-11-08, 23:28
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Can't go wrong with any book by Frederick Forsyth. Due to my short attention span 'No comebacks' was a good book of 10 short stories.
Course you can read the greats like 'Day of the jackal'
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30-11-08, 02:10
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In no particular order:
- Anything by David Gemmell (expect his historical novels)
- Riftwar Series by Raymond E. Feist
- The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn (Star Wars)
- The Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell
- The Bane novels by Drew Karpyshyn (Star Wars) - Will be a trilogy when he's written the third book.
- World War series by Harry Turtledove
- The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium and The Tamuli by David Eddings
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This Pear.... So Delicious
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Marwyn Finish It....
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30-11-08, 14:38
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oooohhhh i have read so many. So hard to choose
but one that i have read recently was First Light by Geoffry "boy" Wellum which is one of the best i have ever read.
if you're in to sci-fi/fantasy then i would heavily reccomend Song of Ice and Fire which are amazing and also the Sword of Truth series
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30-11-08, 15:21
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I've read the Sowrd of Truth series. It's good (shame about the TV series based on it being a turd though).
I just remembered another Harry Turtledove series of books thats a great read. The Darkness series is basically WWII with magic.
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This Pear.... So Delicious
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Marwyn Finish It....
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I've read the Sowrd of Truth series. It's good (shame about the TV series based on it being a turd though).
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wasn't aware of the tv shows... i honestly can't imagine how tv could possibly do teh story justice
i must have a look for them although i expect only dissapointment. how far in to the book series does it go or do they just chop huge chunks of the story out?
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Mal: "Cut her down."
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Nah! I'd rather make reactionary sarcastic comments to whatever crazy ideas other people have.
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“It's beer-o-clock, where the hell's my riot?!”
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don't worry just rread some plot synopsis on it... sounds bloody awful
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Mal: "Cut her down."
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Nah! I'd rather make reactionary sarcastic comments to whatever crazy ideas other people have.
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“It's beer-o-clock, where the hell's my riot?!”
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Riftwar Series by Raymond E. Feist is absolutely awesome!
My favorite books are the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley.
Tom Holt and Brian Lumley are my favorite autors by far!
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John Steinbeck - East of Eden - just wow...
Russel hoban - Riddley Walker - post apocalypse around cambridge in pigin english - excellent and illuminating on the human condition
Scifi:
Charles Stross - the atrocity archives (series) - funny, and geeky
Iain M Banks - Culture series - all excellent, my favourite "excession"
Ken Macleod - scottish marxist sci fi anyone?
Vernor Vinge - the mans a visionary - he thought up the internet...
Kim Stanley Robinson - the mars trilogy particularly (though the 3d one is weak, its worth it for 1st two alone)
William gibson - just keeps getting better and better
Neal Srephenson, the cryptonomicon, and the baroque cycle...
Other stuff:
Raymond Chandler - all the philip marlowe stuff, just all of it
Michael moorcock - Mother London (he's usually a fantasy scifi guy, but this history of london through the 20th century is beautiful)
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“If these are the early days of a better nation, there must be hope, and a hope of peace is as good as any, and far better than a hollow hoarding greed or the dry lies of an aweless god.”—Graydon Saunders
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So difficult to choose just a single book....
Wheel of Time series (Robert Jordan)
Riftwar series (Raymon Feist)
Discworld series (Terry Pratchett)
Empire Trilogy (Feist and Wurts)
The Feynmann Lectures
The Hobbit (Tolkein)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
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01-12-08, 22:39
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erm.............. mines the diary of anne frank. i totaly relate 2 the book on so many levels. im a big fan of dr robert winstone and his books. im reading his book about god at the moment
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02-12-08, 09:38
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mines the diary of anne frank. i totaly relate 2 the book on so many levels.
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02-12-08, 15:28
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The Shinning - Steven King innit
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@Timmeh: you realise you don't come off very "sain" if you don't know how to spell it :)
this post made my day
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02-12-08, 15:29
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07-12-08, 00:35
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hello sailor! ;)
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mainly emotional :'(
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mainly emotional :'(
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07-12-08, 15:22
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hello sailor! ;)
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have u read the book?
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yupp
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Are we including non-fiction? I guess so, because Feynman was included.
In no particular order:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
The Mind and The Brain by Jeffrey Schwartz
London Fields by Martin Amis
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Herzog by Saul Bellow
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Anything by William Blake, TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Will Self and Shakespeare.
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if it's fiction/horror, then
The Dark Tower series (Stephen King), 7 books in all I think
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
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