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13-12-2002 4:03pm#1
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Them by Jon Ransom - The funnier side of the KKK, Islamic Extremists and Ian Paisley.
Flashman for Freedom by George Fraser- The Empire shirks back, an account of a true Victorican Hero.
Essential System Adminisation (armidillo book) - Really recommended post Xmas-dinner reading
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_A Beautiful Mind_ by Sylvia Nasar - I didn't see the film, because it was to loosely based on the facts.
The book itself is interesting, going into the history of some of the institutions he attended (Princeton was something of an academic backwater around 1900, but improved immensely in the decade leading up to WW2.)
Books I read recently: _Dr. Strangeloves' Game_ - a popular history of economics, partly in terms of the lives of various important figures.
_Four Colours Suffice_ - no prizes for guessing what this is about!
_Mortal Causes_ by Ian Rankin - I reread this recently and it's still excellent. Basically, a man is executed in an underground passage in Edinburgh, all signs point to terrorist involvement, the father of the young man is Edinburghs' biggest crime lord McCafferty (currently serving time in Barlinnie prison) and he wants revenge, it then turns out that the terrorists are importing weapons for a "spectacular". Oh, it's also Festival time, so there are a lot more potential casualties for any "showdown" between McCafferty and the terrorists.0 -
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Well i've a very bad habit of having several books "open" at once. Presently I'm working through, according to mood
Rereading Eddings' Tamuli Trilogy and his Belgariad Series. Both excellent if you're into a nice lite fantasy.
The Illuminatus Trilogy, very interesting style, but i've no time to get into it in the last few weeks.
Tad William's "The Dragonbone Chair", it's ok, I'm not sure if I like his style tho.
And for those who might just care, physics related...
Eugene Hecht's Optics, Schaum's Outlines Quantum Mechanics, Chow's Classical Mechanics, and some random mathematican's book on Math's Methods.
For those who haven't guessed I've a few projects due up soon
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Originally posted by nesf
Rereading Eddings' Tamuli Trilogy and his Belgariad Series. Both excellent if you're into a nice lite fantasy.
Tad William's "The Dragonbone Chair", it's ok, I'm not sure if I like his style tho.
The David eddings books I found very good reading first time around, when I was 15 or so. But now, they seem too obvious. The wording used is almost childish. I find all his books to be extremely similar as well, the redemption of Althalus, the polgara book, the belgarath one, all almost exactly the same.
Tad Williams was excellent ! Read the memory,sorrow and thorn books originaly when I was in 6th class. Can read them nowadays, 9 years later, and still really like them.
Unfortunately, busy reading fairly crap action/adventure books at the moment. Read a few of Robert Ludlums books recently and they are good, nothing amazing.
Also, gone back over the Dune saga and still find them very good.
Haven't read a good fantasy book in a long while
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