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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #602
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Equinox Book of Science: The Earth, the Brain, Space, Warfare.
    Written by Challoner, Grayson and Harclerode.


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    #603
    arbeitsscheuer
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    Iain M. Banks - Dead Air


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    #604
    OfflerCrocGod
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    Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum; re-reading something I know I'll like :)


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    #605
    BossArky
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    A dodgy book called "Thunder Run" by David Zucchino. It's about the American invasion of Iraq, concentrating on the "thunderrun" into Baghdad. Reading it for information rather than pleasure, it has been sitting on the shelf for the past 6 months - an unwanted gift. I find it annoying the way the killing in it is glorified. The author dedicates the book to his father who was a Vietnam vet and Korean vet.... thus the book is rather American biased.


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    Tar.Aldarion
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    OfflerCrocGod wrote:
    Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum; re-reading something I know I'll like :)
    Brilliant book...resting in my bag atm :)


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    impr0v
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    Tim Pat Coogan - DeValera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow

    Have forgotton how to read over the past few months, need a concentration span transplant.


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    #608
    Noopti
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    Homer - The Iliad

    Enjoying it so far. Roughly 2/3 through. Not as good as The Odyssey though.


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    Tchocky
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    DH Lawrence - Women In Love


    *tears of envious hatred*

    ;)


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    OfflerCrocGod
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    Tchocky wrote:
    DH Lawrence - Women In Love


    *tears of envious hatred*

    ;)
    Welcome to boards :)


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Just finished the Day of the Triffids quite different from the film. So even if you didn't like the film it still worth a read for the whole "cold war" setting.


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    Jay Tomio
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    As I'm making my way through Tobias Buckell's forthcoming Crystal Rain, I just received another book that on my 2006 most wanted list, Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer, the first book in The Long Price Quartet - really been looking forward to this seies.

    GRRM had great thing to say about it from the blurbage:
    "he tells their stories in an elegant style that reminded me by turns of Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, and M. John Harrison"
    -GRRM

    He invoked MJH and Wolfe! :) Huge expectations.


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    #613
    Tar.Aldarion
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    The usborne illustrated dictionary of science


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    #614
    BossArky
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    Last night I started "The Truth" - another discworld... a recovery read from the last one a few posts above.


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    Undergod
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    Just finished the Day of the Triffids quite different from the film. So even if you didn't like the film it still worth a read for the whole "cold war" setting.

    Freakin' rules. I love that novel.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    reading timothy hindley - headhunter.... pretty good, I find myself kind disagreeing with alot of his moral viewpoints but it's an interesting read and I'd be willing to believe that I'm misinterpreting stuff.


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    #617
    Tar.Aldarion
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    The magicians' guild - trudi canavan


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    Misty Moon
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    Just started Game of Thrones - GRR Martin, 1st book of Song of Ice and Fire - one of those books I've been meaning to read for ages.

    Just finished Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian, delighted her books have been republished as I read many of them when I was in school but only ever managed to buy one or two.


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    BossArky
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    The Fifth Elephant


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    #620
    John
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    Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke


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    beans
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    Am reading Selected Works of Anton Chekhov, a Shakespeare Classics print

    Evocative Russian short stories with at times obscure moral statements and ponderings. Very enjoyable so far


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    theCzar
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    I've Galeano on hold to read "Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. great read.


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    Tar.Aldarion
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    Misty Moon wrote:
    Just started Game of Thrones - GRR Martin, 1st book of Song of Ice and Fire - one of those books I've been meaning to read for ages.
    Just finished that :)
    on to the second one now.
    Also just read the black magician trilogy and loved it.


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    bringitdown
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    The Plot Against America, Philip Roth


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    JCDenton
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    Just finished "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, and about to begin "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas.


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    BossArky
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    Pandora's Star - Peter F Hamilton


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    OfflerCrocGod
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    Knife Of Dreams - Robert Jordan. It's much better then the last two books (finally action and some wars! I even spent a few late night on it :)) but I'm seriously wondering if Robert Jordan is writing all of it because the style difference between some books seems odd......maybe it's just proper editorial control.


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    #628
    marshmallow
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    About to start Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens..

    It's my novel for Junior Cert and need to re-read it... yay.....


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    #629
    keevita
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    conversations with toni morisson.


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    arbeitsscheuer
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    bringitdown wrote:
    The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
    I'm just about to start that myself.
    Looks like being a fantastic read. Great premise.


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    Misty Moon
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    JCDenton wrote:
    Just finished "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, and about to begin "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas.

    Love the Count of Monte Cristo - one of my favourite books ever. First time I read it I found it deadly boring for the first 150 pages or so but once you get past that it's unputdownable. I think in part it just took me a while to adjust to the older style English as well.


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