My shot here was a joke ;P.
Just finished Thud! by Terry Paratchett. It was one from the Ankh-Morpork watch line. Good too. Done his stuff since go for him.
Ancient Sci-Fi some it is so timeless. Like John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, one unbelievable series. One must read, if you have the time. This was one of those that SF writers of today were inspired from.
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Quote from Orika
Books, I read and LOVE:
Twilight (Stepehenie Meyer)
New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)
teach me (R.A. Nelson)
Tales of the Otori- Book 1: Across the Nightingale Floor (Lian Hearn)
Tales of the Otori. Book 2: Grass for His Pillow (lian Hearn)
Doing It (Melvin Burgess)
Umibe No Kafuka (Murakami Haruhiki)
Memoirs Of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Luna (Julie Anne Peters)
Harry Potter Trilogy (Joanne K. Rowling)
I've read really many books, but these are my favourites. Does anybody know one of them (exept Harry Potter)?
Twilight (Stepehenie Meyer)
New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)
teach me (R.A. Nelson)
Tales of the Otori- Book 1: Across the Nightingale Floor (Lian Hearn)
Tales of the Otori. Book 2: Grass for His Pillow (lian Hearn)
Doing It (Melvin Burgess)
Umibe No Kafuka (Murakami Haruhiki)
Memoirs Of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Luna (Julie Anne Peters)
Harry Potter Trilogy (Joanne K. Rowling)
I've read really many books, but these are my favourites. Does anybody know one of them (exept Harry Potter)?
I've read the Twilight series (and Eclipse, part three, comes out August 7th, yay!) and Memoirs of a Geisha. Almost everyone around here can tell you how devoted I am to Harry Potter, I don't think I need to say I've read that series.
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3:33 pm, Jul 30 2007
Posts: 194
Haven't finished a couple of books. i've started a new book called Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher (that's the second and final book to his Furies series). I also read and finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows.... to me, it was a bit anti-climatic at the end. Also, books by R.A. Salvatore, Patricia Briggs, James Clemens, and James Patterson.
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STEALTH is The Dark Horse...
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MANICK is First runner up! Idol...
STEALTH is The Dark Horse...
KAIOH is Full of Surprises...
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R.A. Salvatore, R.A. Salvatore.... *beats head against wall* Oh! Okay, I remember now. I've got some of his books, he's not bad at all.
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I go away and suddenly the spammers are the mods. Okay, I can adjust to that, but... Gorath?! And what's up with Mam's not being the top poster?
210 days until I'm legal, Indy!
ZombieKing ihas been challenged! Now it's between him, Blissful_wulf and Mamsmilk. And maybe Dr. Love.
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I go away and suddenly the spammers are the mods. Okay, I can adjust to that, but... Gorath?! And what's up with Mam's not being the top poster?
210 days until I'm legal, Indy!
ZombieKing ihas been challenged! Now it's between him, Blissful_wulf and Mamsmilk. And maybe Dr. Love.
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3:59 pm, Jul 30 2007
Posts: 194
Quote from Orika
Books, I read and LOVE:
Twilight (Stepehenie Meyer)
New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)
teach me (R.A. Nelson)
Tales of the Otori- Book 1: Across the Nightingale Floor (Lian Hearn)
Tales of the Otori. Book 2: Grass for His Pillow (lian Hearn)
Doing It (Melvin Burgess)
Umibe No Kafuka (Murakami Haruhiki)
Memoirs Of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Luna (Julie Anne Peters)
Harry Potter Trilogy (Joanne K. Rowling)
I've read really many books, but these are my favourites. Does anybody know one of them (exept Harry Potter)?
Twilight (Stepehenie Meyer)
New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)
teach me (R.A. Nelson)
Tales of the Otori- Book 1: Across the Nightingale Floor (Lian Hearn)
Tales of the Otori. Book 2: Grass for His Pillow (lian Hearn)
Doing It (Melvin Burgess)
Umibe No Kafuka (Murakami Haruhiki)
Memoirs Of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Luna (Julie Anne Peters)
Harry Potter Trilogy (Joanne K. Rowling)
I've read really many books, but these are my favourites. Does anybody know one of them (exept Harry Potter)?
oh! i also read all of the series "Tales of the Otori" books! wasn't it good?! there were certain pages and chapters that were sad.
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STEALTH is The Dark Horse...
KAIOH is Full of Surprises...
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R.A. Salvatore, R.A. Salvatore.... *beats head against wall* Oh! Okay, I remember now. I've got some of his books, he's not bad at all.
Read all of his Drow books?
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Quote from xShatteredSoulx
R.A. Salvatore, R.A. Salvatore.... *beats head against wall* Oh! Okay, I remember now. I've got some of his books, he's not bad at all.
Read all of his Drow books?
Most of them, I think. I'm wanting to say I've read eight, but I'm not terribly sure.
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210 days until I'm legal, Indy!
ZombieKing ihas been challenged! Now it's between him, Blissful_wulf and Mamsmilk. And maybe Dr. Love.
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11:19 am, Aug 6 2007
Posts: 5
I read a lot of books, it just depends on if the book sounds interesting or not
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Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...
~Rose Walker
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Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...
~Rose Walker
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3:56 pm, Jan 4 2008
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I like reimagined fairytales. I'm not sure if that's quite the right way to say it, but... oh, well.
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ZombieKing ihas been challenged! Now it's between him, Blissful_wulf and Mamsmilk. And maybe Dr. Love.
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4:08 pm, Jan 4 2008
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I really like the dark tower series
or anything by stephen king in general
but the "classic's" that they teach in schools like romeo and julliet and such, are ok too.
i liked tears of a tiger and to kill a mockingbird the most
or anything by stephen king in general
but the "classic's" that they teach in schools like romeo and julliet and such, are ok too.
i liked tears of a tiger and to kill a mockingbird the most
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4:17 pm, Jan 4 2008
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A dream of red mansions/The story of the stone (Hong Lou Meng) is the best book I ever read. I do own several translations and an untranslated Chinese comic version.
Other books I like a lot and recommend (just some titles, I enjoy a lot of books):
Freedom and necessety (Steven Burst)
The sorrow of war (Bao Ninh)
Der Richter und sein Henker (Friedrich Durrenmatt)
Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
The lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The price of glory (Alistair Horne)
The iron dragons daughter (Michael Swanwick)
Strega (Andrew Vachss)
Other books I like a lot and recommend (just some titles, I enjoy a lot of books):
Freedom and necessety (Steven Burst)
The sorrow of war (Bao Ninh)
Der Richter und sein Henker (Friedrich Durrenmatt)
Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
The lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The price of glory (Alistair Horne)
The iron dragons daughter (Michael Swanwick)
Strega (Andrew Vachss)
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9:46 am, Jan 31 2008
Posts: 4764
I like to read. Would you asume that whoever reads manga doesn't read books? 
Funny that many of my favorite books I've read in the 5th and 6th grade (in their original form)..
My favorites
The Three Musketeers (and all other alexandre dumas's books.)
Madam
War and Peace
The Master and Margarita (not sure how it's wrriten in wnglish..)
The birth of venus
Marie Antoinette
That's all I can come up with for now (I have a cold, and when I do I tend to be very forgetable...^^;)
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And if the world were black and white,
you would be my rainbow in shades of grey.
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If I had a fantasy self, it'd be a tentacle monster.
Funny that many of my favorite books I've read in the 5th and 6th grade (in their original form)..
My favorites
The Three Musketeers (and all other alexandre dumas's books.)
Madam
War and Peace
The Master and Margarita (not sure how it's wrriten in wnglish..)
The birth of venus
Marie Antoinette
That's all I can come up with for now (I have a cold, and when I do I tend to be very forgetable...^^;)
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Hrodulf and Bjornolfr, you will not be forgotten.
And if the world were black and white,
you would be my rainbow in shades of grey.
Click 'n Play!
If I had a fantasy self, it'd be a tentacle monster.
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Member10:20 am, Jan 31 2008
Posts: 3503
i like to read, and used to read a lot, but not reading much lately. I like science-fiction in general, i´m usually forgetful when it comes to remember titles and authors (lol, i read them quickly). Well, in general i like literature, and read whatever falls in my hands unless it´s really really boring (the hardest book to finish reading until now has been "El Quijote".)
Had read and liked
Dune
Lord of the Rings
Poe´s short stories
etc.
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Had read and liked
Dune
Lord of the Rings
Poe´s short stories
etc.
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- Golden Kamui
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11:41 am, Jan 31 2008
Posts: 70
11:41 am, Jan 31 2008
Posts: 70
I enjoy reading quite a bit, although I don't have a genre I spend most of my time within. Right now I'm rereading one of my all time favorites: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon.
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12:35 pm, Jan 31 2008
Posts: 97
I don't read western comics either,
I don't really set aside time to just read books anymore.
I do for manga though .
Anyhow, some of my favorite books...
L'etranger, La Peste- Camus
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Brave New World - Huxley
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald.
Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons, Deception Point, The Da Vinci Code - Brown
Harry Potter Books - Rowling
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"Existence precedes and rules essence." -Sartre
"When I do good, I feel good; When I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." -Lincoln
"You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are." -Jacques
I don't really set aside time to just read books anymore.
I do for manga though
.Anyhow, some of my favorite books...
L'etranger, La Peste- Camus
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Brave New World - Huxley
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald.
Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons, Deception Point, The Da Vinci Code - Brown
Harry Potter Books - Rowling
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"Existence precedes and rules essence." -Sartre
"When I do good, I feel good; When I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." -Lincoln
"You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are." -Jacques
