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Offline Towlie

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #45 on: September 02, 2007, 04:35:08 PM »
something outdoorsey or may by sports related i would like it from 200-350 or so i
i need to read a book for a class i have i since as mentioned i dont read (except the monthly mags) so i thought i would ask some people that do to possibly point me in the right direction cause i am lost in the subject
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Offline Ryazania

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #46 on: September 03, 2007, 05:06:45 AM »
How about a book about war? I would suggest The Lieutenants by W.E.B Griffin if you want something masculine.
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Offline Towlie

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #47 on: September 03, 2007, 02:07:14 PM »
what era is it based on
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #48 on: September 03, 2007, 04:56:28 PM »
It starts in WWII with The Lieutenants and ends around the Vietnam War with The Generals
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Offline Towlie

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #49 on: September 03, 2007, 05:00:03 PM »
sweet ill see about locating a copy
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Offline Allama

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #50 on: September 04, 2007, 06:14:59 PM »
Quote from: Allama on August 29, 2007, 11:58:50 AM
I keep meaning to pick up The Worthing Saga but have yet to get to it.

Weird coincidence... the very next day my father gave me a copy of this book (one I have been thinking about reading for, literally, a decade) that he found at a yard sale.  Creepy, much?

Another favorite of mine: Daughter of the Empire by Raymond Feist.  The series that inspired this trilogy is decent, but this book is MUCH better and stands alone.  I hadn't even heard of Magician: Apprentice when I picked this one up, so believe me when I say it's not necessary to have read it.
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Offline Khablan

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #51 on: September 06, 2007, 05:30:38 AM »
Then I'd suggest something by Terry Pratchett, the Discworld series.  It's a light read, very entertaining, and some are fairly short.
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Offline Anniane

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #52 on: September 06, 2007, 10:29:08 PM »
Discworld is hilarious. And there's 27 (or more) of them now, so there's a quite a variety of stories to choose from.
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Offline Bender1968

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #53 on: September 10, 2007, 04:29:11 AM »
My favorite book has to be "Starship Troopers" By Heinlein but there's also "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. 
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Offline Libertalien

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #54 on: September 10, 2007, 02:35:14 PM »
Accelerando by Charles Stross is high on the list (and it can be read on the 'net: http://www.accelerando.org), as is Company by the one and only Max Barry, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Dispossessed and Harry Potter is on the list as well.
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Offline mantorman

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #55 on: September 19, 2007, 11:00:29 PM »
Mine would be Atemis Fowl 5 by Eoin Colfer
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #56 on: September 20, 2007, 07:03:41 PM »
http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385658454

The Arctic Grail - The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 by Pierre Berton. 

Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the pious and ambitious Edward Parry, the flawed hero John Franklin, ruthless Robert Peary and the cool Norwegian Roald Amundsen. He also credits the Inuit, whose tracking and hunting skills saved the lives of the adventurers and their men countless times.

These quests are peopled with remarkable figures full of passion and eccentricity. They include Charles Hall, an obscure printer who abandoned family and business to head to a frozen world of which he knew nothing; John Ross, whose naval career ended when he spotted a range of mountains that didn't exist; Frederick Cook, who faked reaching the North Pole; and Jane Franklin, who forced an expensive search for her missing husband upon a reluctant British government.

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Offline verak

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #57 on: September 21, 2007, 01:04:00 AM »
How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo

The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto

Freedomnomics by John Lott

All laissez-faire capitalist books :P
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #58 on: September 23, 2007, 10:25:22 PM »
1984, because we are watching you. <_:_>
                                                   
                                                     
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