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Woah, there are some severely serious discussions going on in here, lets lighten the mood! Who likes Terry Pratchett? OOH, i do, i do! Chocolate Frijj! yeah! Watching people set fire to themselves while doing contact staff!Thats right!C'mon, more things that are cool or good!
You can always spot the moral victor.
They're the one bleeding on the ground.
EVIL DOES NOT WEAR A BONNET!- Mr Tinklestein
Mon the Biffy.
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Location: Nottingham (UK)
Recently read the Philip Pulman Trilogy, quite frankly SUPERB (one of the best trilogies I've read in a long time.. Inspired me to go and read paradise lost).
Other good authors I like include Hunter S. Thompson, Irvine Welsh (esp Marabou Stork Nightmares), Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho). Non fiction wise I currently have a thing for Naom Chomsky, and this wicked collection of articles called you are being lied to, oooh and Michio Kaku's Hyperspace.
For a laugh Tim Burton's "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other tales" is wicked!!
Sadly my reading has been quite focused and narrow recently aimed at getting through these bloody exams (all orthopaedics, medicine, surgery, physiology)... But normally I've got about 8/9 books on go at once, looking forward to finishing and checking out some of Satre's works. This is a great idea cause always like suggestions for new good books/authors
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Location: Deepest darkest Devon
The combination of cool daemons and bad mouthing organised religion, what more could you honestly want?You're from Nottingham? Games Workshop is based there!you're SSSSOOOOO lucky. Yes i am a geek, i don't care, I have nice shoes.
You can always spot the moral victor.
They're the one bleeding on the ground.
EVIL DOES NOT WEAR A BONNET!- Mr Tinklestein
Mon the Biffy.
not with cactus
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Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
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Recently read the Philip Pulman Trilogy, quite frankly SUPERB (one of the best trilogies I've read in a long time.. Inspired me to go and read paradise lost).
i read that quite a while ago now. and i agree, i should probably go read them again really
but yea, not the kind of thing i normally read, but variation is cool...
next book on my list of booksto read is 'zen and the art of motor cycle maintenece' (thanks dad
) Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol
i'm sorry, but no matter how many books you read, you can't beat Douglas Adams.
and Games Workshop rule.
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol
althou ZATAOMM is f***ing amaaaaaazing!
i want to read time machine by HG Wells. Supposed to be very good.
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
i saw the time machine film on a plane, it had a pretty girl in
good storey too
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
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Location: Nottingham (UK)
Yeah, I used to be into all that stuff. But then figured out how much I'd spent on it, went pale, sweaty and kinda went off it (now spend my money on spinning toys (and materials to make em with) 2nd hand books/clothes, lot's of arty stuff and my other assorted hobbies.. Much more satisfying) .
Found all my old stuff recently, I had some cool things (Ol' school Blood bowl, nicely sized skaven Army) so I decided to investigate a games workshop... I don't like the changes!! Call me old fashioned.. Still, many interesting arty ideas with the stuff I have..
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Location: Bristol
that's what happened to me.
i used to collect outlanders stuff - i had a kickass gang of eschers (yes, i am such a girl) then i went back there and they were like, no, we don't make necromunda any more. i was gutted i can tell you.;
haven't been back since, so i gues it's 'Games Workshop used to rock.' how sad.
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
58 posts
Location: Deepest darkest Devon
I can't say i've ever read him, i'll get round to it some day.One of my fav books, if not no.1 is The Truth by Pratchett, cos it's got journalists in it, n i'm a journalist (admittedly an unpaid one...)
You can always spot the moral victor.
They're the one bleeding on the ground.
EVIL DOES NOT WEAR A BONNET!- Mr Tinklestein
Mon the Biffy.
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Location: Nottingham (UK)
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you can't beat Douglas Adams
Hear hear... Genius; & the last female human (forgot name) was based on my mates mum; she dated Douglas Adam's whilst at Cambridge.
Hitchhikers is for books what Withnail is for movies in my opinion...
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Location: Milton Keynes and Kingston Upon Thames (UK)
TERRY PRATCHETT SHOULD AND PROBEBLY WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
as you can probebly tell i seriously like terry pratchett books. i also enjoy reading other fantasy books, robert rankin is quite funny and i really read as much as possible, i am a bookaholic and love to read.
has anyone read mirror dreams and the sequel mirror wakes? there f***ing briliant and the girl that wrote them was like 15 at the time!
luv trixy
THAT'S ABOUT AS SENSIBLE AS STANDING ON A HILL, IN A THUNDER STORM, HOLDING A GOLF CLUB AND SHOUTING AT THE TOP OF YOUR VOICE /ALL GOD'S ARE *BASTADS* -THE GREAT TERRY PRATCHETT.
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Location: Bristol
Robert Rankin!
yay - i was beginning to think noone had ever heard of him - people keep telling me i mean Ian Rankin NO I DON'T!!!!
i read snuff fiction and got hooked
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
58 posts
Location: Deepest darkest Devon
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i saw the time machine film on a plane, it had a pretty girl in
good storey too
Oh Oli, u are a funny one. hey, wots daves username?Shall we tell everyone about his makeup wearing?
You can always spot the moral victor.
They're the one bleeding on the ground.
EVIL DOES NOT WEAR A BONNET!- Mr Tinklestein
Mon the Biffy.
58 posts
Location: Deepest darkest Devon
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TERRY PRATCHETT SHOULD AND PROBEBLY WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
as you can probebly tell i seriously like terry pratchett books.
luv trixy
Hey Trixy, would you like to touch my 1st edition, signed hardback copy of Night Watch?well, alright, but only if you wash your hands first.
You can always spot the moral victor.
They're the one bleeding on the ground.
EVIL DOES NOT WEAR A BONNET!- Mr Tinklestein
Mon the Biffy.
Checking who's online, watching you!
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Location: somewhere, England (UK)
terry pratchett rocks!, robert rankin is quite good, did i mention that terry pratchett rocks!
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Hey Trixy, would you like to touch my 1st edition, signed hardback copy of Night Watch?well, alright, but only if you wash your hands first.
ooh ooh can i touch your first edition hardback night watch? huh, huh, can i?
is anyone else here writing a book? or is that just me?
games workshop rocks! does anyone actually colect any of the figures?
oh maybe thats just me as well
someone said that philip pullman trilogy was good and i agree all good trilogys have at least three books
you just lost the game!!!!!! !!!!!
knowledge is power, power corupts, study hard, become evil.
(the person actually known as Chris Bailey)
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Location: Austin, TX, USA
I looooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeee to read. Music, poi, and reading are the things that make my life enjoyable
Peace, Love, Circles
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Location: Bristol
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i agree all good trilogys have at least three books
i like that definition - it includes Mr Adams extraodinary trilogy!
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
member
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Location: Nottingham (UK)
Catch 22!!!! That's another one I read recently, awesome!!
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Books I've Read Since January 1, 2004
0.5) The Path to Power by Robert Caro (started in 2003)
1.5) The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
2.5) Wonder Tales by Lord Dunsany
3.5) Longitude by Dava Sobel (reread)
4.5) Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
5.5) Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card
6.5) Baudolino by Umberto Eco
7.5) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
8.5) The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton
9.5) Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip
10.5) The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road by Bruce Catton
11.5) I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda
12.5) The Wolf of Winter by Paula Volsky
13.5) The Army of the Potomac: Battle at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
14.5) H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
15.5) Means of Ascent by Robert Caro
16.5) The Most of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
17.5) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick (reread)
18.5) The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow
19.5) The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle (reread)
20.5) The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together by Michael Shapiro
21.5) The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
22) Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte (started in 2003)
E pluribus unum, baby.
HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Braggart!
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Llamas are larger than frogs.
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Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
DOUGLAS ADAMS IS THE BEST AUTHOR!!!!!!!!!!! Too bad he's dead.....I think I'll go cry.
I'm currently reading Last Chance to See, which is a book he wrote about endangered species. A little different from his other work, but still quite good.His Dark Materials are also some of the best books I've ever read. Anyone want to join my church of Dust?
And how can we forget Lord of the Rings?
I couldn't live without books- I'd hve to shoot myself, I'd be so bored.
"I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
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Hee, and that's not even counting all the reading I've done for school and work and moot court!
E pluribus unum, baby.
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
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Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
wow, i don't think i've heard of any of these books. but then again i tend to stick to the feminist literature and psych. articles, and i've taken a slight hiatus from reading since i finished the school portion of grad school. i did, however, just finish The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. awesome story.
some of my all time favs (in no particular order):
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Lovely Bones by Alice Seebold
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson (actually all of her books rock, but that one is my fav)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Never-ending Story by Michael Ende
Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation ed. Barbara Findlen
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
ok i'll stop there cause i could list so much more.
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
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Location: Nottingham (UK)
Procrastinating again:
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When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering
and
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Men," he began his address to the officiers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officiers. The officiers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.
Catch 22, if you don't know you really should!!!
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Location: Vansterdam
Books I've read since Jan. 1:
Humans by Robert J. Sawyer
The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force by James Luceno (the last one
)Dark Angle: Skin Game by can't remember
My Phil 111 text book
The Game by Teresa Toten
Factoring Humanity by Rober J. Sawyer
and 3 or 4 others I can't remember the names of.
right now I'm reading Pot Planet by Brian Preston. It's a Canadian Journlist (Brian Preston) who spends a year traving around the World living in and learning about the global cannibis culture. It starts off in Vancouver, BC (my fav city) In Marc Emery's seed shop and at the first Cananbis Culture Cananbis Cup At Marc's home (Marc Emery is the President of the BC Marijauna Party, and the publisher of Canabis Culture Magazine).
My fav quote for the book:
(he's on a ferry heading to the Sunshine Coast and the CC cup to judge some of BC's finest)
"We share the smoke of the blessed burning herb, not exactly hiding what we're doing from the passengers who stroll past us, but pretending we are invisible, as do they. Canada is very civilized that way."
In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird, now the world is weird and they take prozac to make it normal again.
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Berlin, Ireland
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next book on my list of booksto read is 'zen and the art of motor cycle maintenece'
I'm reading it at the minute.....took a while to get into but I'm enjoying it loads now....
I live in a world of infinite possibilities.
old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
Just having a look at the pile of books next to my computer.
Foundation design and construction
Handbook of soil mechanics testing
Soil mechanics in foundation engineering
Nonlinear finite element analysis
Transmetropolitan: Year of the Bastard
Hellblazer: Good Intentions
Hellboy: the Right Hand of Doom.
Either heavy texts or comics. Both have pictures and are therefore good.
There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.
Pooh-Bah
2,211 posts
Location: London, Wales (UK)
I love reading - so much so that I read many books and never remember the author or the title! Oops! I once read The Sheltering Sky halfway before I remembered I'd already read it! Hee, hee! Enjoyed it much more second time round. Anyhow here is a list of some of my fave authors. The book I have read most is Wuthering Heights, I read it 14 times before I left school (I had to study it for my leaving cert) and I reread it a few years ago once more.
Some of my fave authors / books
Haruki Marukami (Norwegian Wood, A wild sheep chase etc - all great!)
Pete McCarthy (McCarthys Bar, Road to McCarthy)
Graham Greene (The Heart of the Matter, The end of the affair)
Anais Nin (Delta of Venus)
Chuck Palahniuk (survivor, fight club)
Kurt Vonnegut (Galápagos, Timequake)
Enid Blyton (The magic faraway tree)
Anne Rice (Vampire chronicles (part Memnoch), The Mummy)
Jilly Cooper (Riders series - smut & innuendo, tally-ho!)
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Sarah Waters - (Tipping the Velvet, Affinity)
Suskind - Perfume - the story of a murderer
Yukio Mishima (Confessions of a mask, Spring Snow)
Chang - Wild Swans
Cheng - Life & Death in Shanghai
Philip Day - Food for thought
Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Gray
Balzac - Cousin Bette
Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
R.E. Feist - The Magician & sequels
Francesca Lia Block - The Weetzy Bat Books
The Celestine Prophesy
oh and I'm sure there are many more I've left off my list.
Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.
- W B Yeats
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
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delta of venus is quite good. i also loved story of o by pauline reage. i had to read them both for my sex, lit., and perversion class. actually a very interesting class
i forgot to add the sandman comics by neil gaiman to my list. mmmmmmm............
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
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....pervesion class
by any chance did you pass with flying colours?!!
I don't read as much as I used to but looking at Regyt's list makes me feel very shameful for only reading one book so far this year. It was the first Memoir book I've read and was by Micheal J Fox. Truly interesting and far better than I imagined it was gonna be. I'd recommend it to anyone but only if it's a bargain price. I wouldn't pay £20 for it that's for sure.
My fave author.....erm......probably Jay Stevens as he made a truly massive investigation roll like a thrilling story in Storming Heaven and fave books are by probably Hunter S Thompson. I like the way he writes, my fave stories are deffinately "a section of time in the life of" as apposed to a story of attaining goals. It's nice to read about a small section of someones life be it fiction or real.
Oh and my absolute fave thing about books, has to be, going to a second hand book stall and smelling as many as possible.....mmmmmm......slowly rotting paper mixed with dust is gooooooood......mmmmmmmmm.........
I have recently bought the Bhagavad Gita and can't wait to start reading it, but it's not very big so I'm waiting till I have a whole afternoon free so I can read it in one go.
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