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    #2
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Some warhammer codeii and such.

    Rereading "Sourcery" by Terry Pratchet. (It's a nice bedtime read :))


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    Da Bounca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭Da Bounca


    re-reading : Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy in 5 parts.

    reading: return of the jedi pop-up book :)


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    Mr.Applepie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,079 ✭✭✭Mr.Applepie


    Originally posted by Da Bounca
    reading: return of the jedi pop-up book :)

    I had that book its a classic! :)


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    Asuka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Asuka


    Rereading all the discworld novels atm.

    Next in queue is (yet another) rereading of LOTR.

    A


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    bonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Just finished : LOTR (again, still quite underwhelmed by the book)

    About to start : Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson (as soon as i can lay my hands on a copy)

    jc


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    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,710 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Band of Brothers- Steven Ambrose, book of tv-series

    The Grand Design - John Marco, 2/3 fantasy novel

    Storming HEaven - Dale Brown, technothriller


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    Static
    Registered Users Posts: 347 ✭✭Static


    Switching between these books constantly:


    The emperor's new mind (penrose)
    Compilers- principles, techniques and tools (aho,sehi,ullman)
    The dilbert principle (adams)
    Applied cryptography (schneier)

    I also have several gary larson books. I know they're more comic strips, but they make for a good break between reading the heavier material 8)


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    DeadBankClerk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭DeadBankClerk


    For fun:
    • The Universe In A Nutshell - Stephen Hawking
    • Joystick Nation - JC Herz ("How vidoegames gobbled our money, won our hearts and rewired our minds")

    For fun too (but a bit college orientated) :
    • Core C++: A Software Engineering Approach. - Victor Shtern
    • Essential Mathematics For Computer Graphics, Fast - John Vince
    • Computer Graphics Using OpenGL - FS Hill, Jr.
    • OpenGL Reference Manual, Third Edition - Dave Shreiner


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,388 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Personally, I've been a media junkie for the last few months, all TV channels on, boards.ie, Irish Times, ireland.com, Air Forces Monthly, Warships, An Cosaintoir, Magill, Phoenix, B&F, ananova.com, theonion.com, HULL ... whatever, then I get bored and pick up something else.
    Originally posted by Manach
    Storming HEaven - Dale Brown, technothriller

    I've read it, it's OK, not as good as (early) Clancy.


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    CH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭CH


    re-reading : Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy in 5 parts.

    classic stuff.

    was in class the other day and someone asked what the meaning of life was, about 5 of us answered in unision "42"... one of those "ah, you read it too" moments :)


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    Baz_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭Baz_


    boards.ie


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    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    lol baz

    Lies of Silence - Brian Moore
    Doing it for the leaving


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    MarcusGarvey
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    Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
    The Illumintus Triology - Robert Anton Wilson
    Foucaults Pendulum - Umberto Eco

    Lined up to be read:
    Iain M Banks - Look to Winward
    Mark J. Danielewski - House of Leaves
    George R.R. Martin - Fire and Ice Triology Book II
    William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
    Thomas Pynchon - Gravitys Rainbow
    Jack Kerouac - On the Road
    Joseph Heller - Something Happened
    John Katzenbach - Harts War


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    Slydice
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    book 4 of the belgariad


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    DrunkLeprachaun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 999 ✭✭✭DrunkLeprachaun


    Finished a while ago: Norhtern Lights by Philip Pullman(excelent book btw).
    Now reading: That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis.
    About to read: This month's PC Gamer.


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    socs
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    Currently getting through

    Art of Memory - forget the author

    Diary of Samuel Pepys - S. Pepys, obviously

    After that, I have Moby Dick to get through.

    And here comes Christmas where I am sure to get more...


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    Slydice
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    Book 5 of the belgariad *shock*


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    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Its a 5 book series, described as

    "a magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fullfilled"

    It's really very good, I bought book one about a month and a half ago, about 2 days later I went into the bookstore and bought the remaining 4, book 1 got me hooked really fast.


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    Figment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Figment


    Just finished 'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman.
    Brilliant, brialliant stuff.
    Think about a few old gods going on a road trip across the states and you get a bit of an idea about the book :)

    Headline publishers think so much of it they will also offer you your money back if by some freeky chance you dont like it.


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    Pugwash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Pugwash


    just finished atonment by Ian McEwan, moved onto true history of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey.

    also reading the penguin history of the world for an essay thing for school.

    Discworld on the way :)

    all of which are transitioned by PC Gamer :P


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    eclectichoney
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    Just finished I know this much is true by wally lamb - well worth a read although the ending is a bit disappointing, and iv started The Plague by Camus.
    Lined up next is Steppenwolf by Hesse.


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    DadaKopf
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    Steppenwolf is one of the best books ever written! I try to make everyone read it - that and The Outsider by Camus.


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    MarcusGarvey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 825 ✭✭✭MarcusGarvey


    The Outsider is a good book. Fairly short. Good ending.


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    GoneShootin
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    1 : Band of Brothers
    2 : Java, 3rd Edition
    3 : The Clone


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    Chowmein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭Chowmein


    Just Finished: The Last Hero (Terry Pratchett) and all the other books in the discworld erm....... whats the word for series 27 books long?
    About to start:Notdamus Ate my Hamster ( Robert Rankin)
    Then for a little light reading: Psyhology (John P. Dworetzky)
    C.T.Y.I thing :)


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    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    whats the word for series 27 books long?

    anthology ?


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    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Originally posted by Static


    The emperor's new mind (Penrose)


    Cool! Let me know how that goes, will you? What's the general jist of it?

    Also, someone was reading some Douglas A. Hofstadter book, The Golden Braid or someting like that. How was that? I saw it in a bookshop and it looked readable but overwhelming.


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    LURCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭LURCH


    currently reading the rincewind saga - Terry Pratchett (sourcery, eric and interesting times)
    next on the list would be lord of the rings when i get it (i know im ashamed that i havnt read it)


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    Bard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    I'm currently reading Howard Marks' "Mr. Nice"...

    and I'm reading it SLO-O-O-O-O-O-OWLY... !

    (I get very little free time that I'm actually awake for) :(

    --

    seems like a pretty good book so far!


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    eclectichoney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    yes have to agree on the outsider - read it a couple of years back, so i might revisit it for a quick reread, though I usually never do - there's too many good books i still haven't read that i never have the patience/time to reread books lol. It's the best Camus I've read (mind you i've only read a few ;) )

    happy new year :)


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