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Offline Allama

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Current Book
« 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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Offline Akka-Wakka

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Re: Current Book
« Reply #1 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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Offline Larry

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« Reply #2 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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Offline Delfos

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« Reply #3 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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Offline Osamafune

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« Reply #4 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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Offline Larry

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« Reply #5 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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Offline Delfos

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« Reply #6 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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Offline Larry

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« Reply #7 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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Offline Delfos

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« Reply #8 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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Offline Trey

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Re: Current Book
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2007, 01:44:31 AM »
The Canterbury Tales for school...someone shoot me.  End it now.
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Offline Bialy Rycesz

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« Reply #10 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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« Reply #11 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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Offline Bialy Rycesz

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« Reply #12 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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"The threat is more powerful than its execution"-Emmanuel Lasker
"My vengeance is awake and she is a falcon that slumbers not till fully gorged"-Ivanhoe
"Come,the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge"-Hamlet
"It is always better to sacrifice your opponents men"-Savielly Tartakower
"Those who forget the past are comdemned to repeat it"-George Santayana
"In every enterprise consider where you would come out"-Publilius Syrus
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once"-Julius Caesar

Offline Delfos

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« Reply #13 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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« Reply #14 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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"I believe every single person is extraordinary. The tragedy is that we
have a society where too many people never get to fulfill that
extraordinary potential. My view – the liberal view – is that
government’s job is to help them to do it. Not to tell people how to
live their lives. But to make their choices possible, to release their
potential, no matter who they are. The way to do that is to take power away from those who hoard it. To challenge vested interests. To break down privilege. To clear out the bottlenecks in our society that block opportunity and block progress. And so give everyone a chance to live the life they want." - Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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