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Title: Current Book
Post by: Allama on August 28, 2007, 05:12:27 PM
There's a topic like this in General Discussion, but I thought this forum would be a good place for it so I took the liberty of starting a topic of my own.

So... what are you reading just now?

I'm in the middle of re-reading Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card; I enjoy the Alvin Maker series, and intend to go through Crystal City this time (as it was not yet released as of my last reading).
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Post by: Akka-Wakka on August 28, 2007, 08:22:51 PM
After much procrastinating, I started reading Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels several months ago.

I feel a bit guilty about it, because I think it would be hard by anyone's standards to call Discworld a challenging read, but they are hilarious, and I could do with some amusement every now and again in my life.  They are the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy of fantasy (that is to say, no plot but still a damn good read when interspersed with some more serious/thoughtful books).
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Post by: Larry on August 28, 2007, 08:34:00 PM
Damn straight. I'm re-reading all the Discworld novels at the moment, and I'm currently on Jingo. I have a few other books lined up to read as well, including the first Wheel of Time book. The WoT series has been recommended to me several times, so I've finally decided to start reading them.
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Post by: Delfos on August 28, 2007, 08:48:53 PM
i can't re-read. Tried more than once, but whatever i actually read gets locked in my mind and i can't read it again. If i don't recall something i just need to read a lil bit and i will recall everything. That should be great for studying if i would pay attention, whatever class i get interested and pay attention i can take 17-19/20 without studying. Example 19,7 in Theory of Design about Ergonomy and Antropometry. Consecutive 20s in Technologies (computer assisted draw using AutoCAD), stuff like that...

Anyway, without counting the books for studying, I'm trying to finish Psychoanalysis, and would like to read some fantasy or crime book, i get along with those, or a classic one. I'm trying to find the Foucault one, maybe i will read that one next. I like those old classics.
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Post by: Osamafune on August 28, 2007, 08:55:07 PM
I just started reading Misery by Stephen King. I just finished The Long Walk, which was just wierd and ended terribly... I was expecting him to say how The Long Walk came about, what the Change was, and what it meant to get Squaded.
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Post by: Larry on August 28, 2007, 09:02:27 PM
Delfos, it helps to have a terrible memory. I generally forget what happened in a book about ten seconds after I finish reading it. On the plus side, this greatly increases the longevity of the books, but it means I have to buy my favourite ones rather than use a library.
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Post by: Delfos on August 28, 2007, 09:12:13 PM
my mind functions well most of the time. I have some ability of being optimistic most of the time, and lock whatever that is bad in the past. Anything that comes bad i looked in optimistic side, but this creates monsters that if unlocked...would release hell. When i have bad dreams, i really have bad dreams. You will know how it feels when you spend a week dreaming spanking someone you know to the death. Man...if i had visual memory of Myroria....(lol kidding, i would rather tease him to death than spank him to death)

anyway, why do you read books if you have as good memory as that fish in Finding Nemo?
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Post by: Larry on August 28, 2007, 09:21:06 PM
Well, I enjoy them while I'm reading them. It's like eating chocolate or something; once you've finished, you've got nothing to show for it, but you do it anyway because you enjoy it at the time.
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Post by: Delfos on August 28, 2007, 09:32:19 PM
oh right...but chocolate you know how good it is, and you await it to be good next time you eat it, and you want to eat it again when you feel to. Plus it's food, not the same thing, i can't put ketchup on the pages or anything. I lock the logic of it, not whole info. I can't remember all the details, but if i have a situation, i can rebuild it with the logic i locked about it. Harry Potter is a childish ignorant naive leader-kind kid, if he is facing a magician more powerful than him, he will always risk confront him...and probably win lol...damn writers.
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Post by: Trey on September 01, 2007, 01:44:31 AM
The Canterbury Tales for school...someone shoot me.  End it now.
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Post by: Bialy Rycesz on September 01, 2007, 05:34:28 AM
I like that book....thanks to all her labors I shall be driven to murdering the neighbors,for knives out I'm an ugly customer though I admit I can't stand up to her...sorry for side track I'm reading the Aenied I read it when I was 12 but I dont remember any of it..it seems like a new book!!! :)....Just finished The Bacchae and other plays-Euripdes....I'm a sucker for old books ;D
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Post by: Larry on September 01, 2007, 09:13:11 AM
I don't think The Canterbury Tales is that bad. It takes a while to get used to the language, but once you have it's much easier to read, and the stories are fairly interesting.
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Post by: Bialy Rycesz on September 01, 2007, 12:00:26 PM
Thank you,Larry I think it is the horribly old English that turns people off of it but I think the insight on how people thought back then is very interesting and proves to me anyways that people aren't that different than they were in those times....
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Post by: Delfos on September 01, 2007, 01:12:28 PM
well, I've read one by Ellis Peters but it was in Portuguese, although it was translated with old no-longer-used words, so i guess it can be the same in English. But in Portuguese, since the words are close to the base latin, you can identify anything from it's heritage. So even old horrible no-longer-used words can be read normally.
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Post by: Trey on September 01, 2007, 09:19:30 PM
Quote from: Larry on September 01, 2007, 09:13:11 AM
I don't think The Canterbury Tales is that bad. It takes a while to get used to the language, but once you have it's much easier to read, and the stories are fairly interesting.

Well, no, the stories aren't that bad.  But that Middle English is killing me.
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Post by: Of Crazed on September 04, 2007, 04:19:41 AM
The Canterbury Tales blow.

I just finished "A Long Way Gone" for school, it was ok.
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Post by: Solnath on September 04, 2007, 02:45:27 PM
Decided to read something light for a change so now I'm going through "Culture, Communication and Cognition: Vygotskian Perspectives."
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Post by: Dysanii on September 04, 2007, 04:09:03 PM
I'm re-reading Atonement ahead of its theatrical release and I have started Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Post by: Bialy Rycesz on September 04, 2007, 09:29:00 PM
Rethinking Cold War Culture by Peter J. Kuznik & James Gilbert
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Post by: Anniane on September 06, 2007, 03:31:12 AM
The Power of Myth is illuminating.
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Post by: New Callande on September 13, 2007, 11:16:45 AM
At the moment I'm reading the Letters from America by the late great Alistair Cooke. Its a really interesting read. I'd recommend it thoroughly.
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Post by: Allama on September 13, 2007, 02:29:37 PM
I've begun to read Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Winn Sanderson, a fantasy set in the world after a great and momentous conflict... where the "bad guy", an evil sorceror, won and succeeded in taking over the world.  The problem, of course, is that what I read thus far was an excerpt from the beginning of the book on the publishing company's website and now find myself forced to purchase it to read the rest.  Damn you, convenient online sales tools!
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Post by: Collatica on September 14, 2007, 08:13:11 PM
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? Volume Two. - Steve Lowe & Alan Mcarther

For the cynics out there, bloody brilliant. Actually hilarious. Volume One is far better though.
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Post by: Miller18 on October 02, 2007, 08:12:59 PM
"1776" David McCullough for American History it is very good.
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Post by: St Oz on October 03, 2007, 01:31:02 AM
Biohazard by Alibek
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Post by: Collatica on October 03, 2007, 10:26:13 AM
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arther Golden
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Post by: ParrrrTay on October 03, 2007, 03:38:04 PM
 generally read mystery. Here is a list of books I have read so far this year.....
Stone Kiss by Faye Kellerman; Honeymoon by James Patterson; Broken Prey by John Sanford; At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks; Murder List by Julie Garwood; Split Second–David Baldacci; A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly; The Hunted by Alan Jacobson; Last Man Standing by David Baldacci; The Letter Of Law by Tim Green; Dark Horse by Tami Hoag; Guilty As Sin by Tami Hoag; Kill The Messenger by Tami Hoag; A Thin Dark Line by Tami Hoag; Two Dollar Bill by Stuart Woods; Bait by Karen Robards; The Motive by John Lescroart; Night Fall by Nelson DeMille; No One To Trust by Iris Johansen; Moment Of Truth by Christiane Heggan; Camel Club by David Baldacci; Mary Mary by James Patterson; Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich; Ashes To Ashes by Tami Hoag; Dust To Dust by Tami Hoag; Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs; Vanish by Tess Gerritsen; Body Double by Tess Gerritsen.

I'm currently reading:  Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
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Post by: Kyleslavia on October 04, 2007, 10:06:04 PM
Right now, I am reading The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fritzgerald.
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Post by: Miller18 on October 04, 2007, 10:07:49 PM
Quote from: Kyleslavia on October 04, 2007, 10:06:04 PM
Right now, I am reading The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fritzgerald.



Great Book.
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Post by: Kyleslavia on October 04, 2007, 10:57:54 PM
I agree, and have been enjoying it quite a bit. I think the book not only does a great job with illustrating life as it was in the 1920's, but it also says a lot about human nature. The novel, despite being only a mere 140 pages or so, is so rich and complex.
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Post by: Delfos on October 04, 2007, 11:44:44 PM
Quote from: Collatica on October 03, 2007, 10:26:13 AM
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arther Golden

the movie impressed me, didn't know Spielberg or J.Williams could do such thing.
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Post by: Myroria on October 04, 2007, 11:50:11 PM
Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird. Stunning.

Now I'm reading Brave New World.
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Post by: Allama on December 05, 2007, 07:05:49 PM
I'm just starting to read 12th Century Women Troubadours, which is a fascinating look at the lives and culture of female troubadours, which many do not realize existed, as well as a delightful collection of surviving works most of which are therein translated into English for the first time.

(I am simultaneously slogging through The Halfling's Gem by R.A. Salvatore, which is complete crap but I am far too stubborn to start a series then fail to finish it.)
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Post by: St Oz on December 10, 2007, 10:13:55 PM
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald- School
H.P. Lovecraft Tales-my own time
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Post by: Bara on December 10, 2007, 10:26:53 PM
Imperial Guard codex- Free time
US Army/Marine Counter Insurgey Field Manual-free time
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Post by: Delfos on December 10, 2007, 10:37:57 PM
a question, why do you need to read such incredible 'Manual'? Obviously you have nothing better to do, or read, with your free time. I'm not saying it isn't interesting, even myself would like to give it a try, Chopin and *good* literature would serve me better for 'interesting' and enlightening.
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Post by: Bara on December 10, 2007, 10:38:49 PM
i dont habe many of those books.
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Post by: Bender1968 on December 11, 2007, 02:36:28 AM
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
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Post by: Delfos on December 11, 2007, 01:28:41 PM
you can buy them, I bet your parents would be proud.
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Post by: Bender1968 on December 12, 2007, 03:18:53 AM
When I was younger, I used to read a lot of those military manuals.  In fact I still have "The Poor Man's James Bond, Vol I"
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Post by: Allama on January 04, 2008, 06:42:17 PM
Right now I'm reading A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, Enchantment: The Life and Times of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto, and Yotsuba&! Vol. 1 by Azuma Kiyohiko.  Yay so much for books!  ^_^
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Post by: Templarios on January 04, 2008, 09:50:21 PM
Quote from: Allama on January 04, 2008, 06:42:17 PM
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell,

Classic book along with Why I'm Not A Christian which i dont agree with some of what he says, it really makes me think and open my eyes more.
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Post by: B9 perspective on January 05, 2008, 12:49:26 PM
Gomorra- by Roberto Saviano

'Gomorra' is a book about the RL activities of 'La Camorra' titled in Neopolitan slang. The Camorra is the name of the Neopolitan mafia according to government pidgeons, members and people who associate with it call it la sistema, the system.
The first 2 chapters were great but the last 100 pages just say; and so and so was killed and then so and so and then so and so...well over 30000 in the mafia wars since the early 80s.
The author has so many serious death threats against him that he's under federal protection.
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Post by: geek girl on January 15, 2008, 10:19:52 AM
I have an annoying habit of reading several books at once (thank god for insomnia and high reading speeds)

just finished:
-Making money (terry prachett very awesome)
-The self sufficiency handbook (good for basic information about farming methods)

Reading now:
-Warhammer fantasy roleplay 1st ed book (as running a campaign)
-Chaos spacemarine codex (as making a new army)
-The spanish civil war (antony Beevor is a god)
-Alain De Botton the consolations of philosophy
-what makes sex fun (interesting pop science if your interested in that sort of thing)
-harry potter (the most recent one) it is incredibly bad damn I hate you jk rowling (much the same as allama and the halflings gem)

and on top of that revision yay hence why my reading list is a bit sparse
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Post by: Myroria on January 24, 2008, 09:17:22 PM
/me looks away, ashamed

I just read The Jungle.
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Post by: Of Crazed on January 25, 2008, 03:37:06 AM
Our Dumb World, aka the best book ever.
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Post by: Allama on January 25, 2008, 07:44:09 PM
I just started Aerie, the concluding volume in Mercedes Lackey's most recent series.
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Post by: Mahasoor on February 29, 2008, 12:59:14 AM
hahaha mercedes lackey.  Totally my guilty pleasure.

Books I'm reading:

for fun:
rereading gargantua and pantagruel by rabelais
rereading hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
trying to finish I Am America (And So Can You) by Colbert but it's bleh

for class:
History of Anthropological Theory
The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Maya Way of Life (SO GOOD)
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Post by: Allama on February 29, 2008, 05:09:09 PM
I'm just starting Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card.
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Post by: Akka-Wakka on February 29, 2008, 09:07:33 PM
atm, The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum.  I saw The Bourne Identity in a book store and thought I'd give it a read.  I was hocked from the word go.  Defiantly not like the movies, and so worth the read.
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Post by: Mahasoor on March 01, 2008, 02:01:22 AM
Wow Akka, I totally don't agree.  I mean, I agree that they're absolutely not like the films but I did not enjoy the books at all.  Especially toward the end of the series, I just didn't find it plausible.
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Post by: Akka-Wakka on March 01, 2008, 08:09:42 AM
Fair Dos, but for me the books are as much as about the Webb/Bourne conflict in his head as anything else.  Sure maybe they aren't gonna happen in real life, but thats what good fiction is for.
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Post by: Mahasoor on March 02, 2008, 09:36:04 AM
It's been a bit since I've flipped through the books but I was more distracted by what seemed to be needless chaos occurring in the scenes along with the Webb/Bourne conflict in his head.  Seemed to me that Ludlum was having too much fun writing in all sorts of mayhem in the final book that was unnecessary fluff - I found it too distracting from the overall theme of the first book.  I should probably pick up the series again and try to give it a second chance, I may have been too hard on it the first time.
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Post by: Bender1968 on March 04, 2008, 02:02:23 AM
the only thing about the Webb/Bourne conflict by The Bourne Ultimatum was stale

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Post by: Trey on March 04, 2008, 02:25:31 AM
For school:

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle-I rather like this one.
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-This one...not so much.

For fun:

Rereading Brian Clevinger's Nuklear Age-Still the funniest thing I've ever read...and, at 652 pages, I don't really have time for another book.
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Post by: Bara on March 07, 2008, 09:10:12 PM
On monday:

1984

Left Behind
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Post by: Bara on March 13, 2008, 09:52:58 PM
just finished Summer of the Apocalypse(great read)

now reading 1984 and Left behind.
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Post by: Myroria on March 15, 2008, 06:36:02 PM
The Jungle is a good book, Trey. Where are you now?
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Post by: Of Crazed on March 23, 2008, 03:11:28 AM
For "fun" - Naked Lunch
For School- Blindness

I like both.
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Post by: Bara on March 23, 2008, 02:55:31 PM
The Last Chancers(which, has the 13th Legion, Kill Team, and Annihilation squad along with 2 Short Storys)
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Post by: Mahasoor on March 26, 2008, 07:26:45 PM
I have officially shoved aside all other reading material.  I am now starting Judge by Karen Traviss, "THE DRAMATIC FINALE TO THE WESS'HAR WARS"

omg omg omg omg omg!!!!11!11!

 :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Post by: St Oz on April 08, 2008, 01:42:32 AM
Aeneis (The Aeneid in latin)

wish me luck x.x