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Books: What are you currently reading?

Before I read Wolves, I actually read every Gray Death book. The origins are great, the further adventures are OK, but the final book was just to depressing for words. It seemed more like a sad attempt to end the CBT era. I found many instances of that toward the end.

Aldin said:
Ryougabot said:
I am reading Wolves at the border - Robert N Charrette - Classic Battletech - I love that era.
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Excellent choice :up: I'm particularly fond of the series of books on the foundation of the Grey Death Legion.

~Aldin, who can't quite keep up with the new Dark Ages stuff
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NecroBlade said:
ej said:
NecroBlade said:
Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine
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:rofl:

New from "Outtaourass Press"?
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It's actually a very good series that compares themes in many different movies, TV shows, etc. to philosophical ideas, including Seinfled: A Book About Everything and Nothing; The Simpsons: The D'oh! of Homer; The Matrix: Welcome to the Desert of the Real; Buffy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale; Lord of the Rings: One Book to Rule Them All; Baseball: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box; The Sopranos: I Kill Therefore I Am; Woody Allen: You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?; Harry Potter: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts; Mel Gibson's Passion: The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy; More Matrix: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded; and the one I'm currently reading.

More volumes in the works include Superheroes, The Atkins Diet, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Hip-Hop. No, I did not make any of the above up.
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Man... Outtaourass Press has quite the collection going.

:D
 
NecroBlade said:
ej said:
NecroBlade said:
Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine
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:rofl:

New from "Outtaourass Press"?
Click to expand...
It's actually a very good series that compares themes in many different movies, TV shows, etc. to philosophical ideas, including Seinfled: A Book About Everything and Nothing; The Simpsons: The D'oh! of Homer; The Matrix: Welcome to the Desert of the Real; Buffy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale; Lord of the Rings: One Book to Rule Them All; Baseball: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box; The Sopranos: I Kill Therefore I Am; Woody Allen: You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?; Harry Potter: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts; Mel Gibson's Passion: The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy; More Matrix: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded; and the one I'm currently reading.

More volumes in the works include Superheroes, The Atkins Diet, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Hip-Hop. No, I did not make any of the above up.
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Where did you get those? What seection are they in?
I'm Reading Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows.
 
Emerald Eyes
The Long Run
Last Dancer


all by Daniel Keys Moran .... and for literally like the 30th time.
 
Ryougabot said:
Before I read Wolves, I actually read every Gray Death book. The origins are great, the further adventures are OK, but the final book was just to depressing for words. It seemed more like a sad attempt to end the CBT era. I found many instances of that toward the end.
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Bah! I just wrote and then deleted a massively fanboy post. Suffice to say I basically agree with you, though I rather enjoyed the clan story arc and the tale of Victor Ian Steiner-Davion.

~Aldin, who usually designs mechs for firepower rather than agility
 
SgtDrill said:
The Seige of Eternity by Frederick Pohl, The Return of Nathan Brazil by Jack Chalker, and Live from New York by Tom Shales.

I usually have 3 or 4 books going at once... whichever one happens to be closest when I'm in the mood to read, I grab it and go. :)
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You must be talented - i don't think i'd be able to manage more than one at a time - I would just get so muddled up with storylines etc.
 
I just finished "Learning the World" by Ken MacLeod, currently my favorite SF writer. This was another great read.
 
Mindfreak said:
Where did you get those?
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I got it as a gift, so I don't know what to tell you. Amazon might have them, or there's more info on their site, opencourbooks.com (not outtaourasspress.com).
 
I'm in the middle of reading 3 books, Daywatch by Sergei Lukyanenko, Corum: The Coming of Chaos by Michael Moorcock, and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami.
 
I just finished reading "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara. It's a novel about the events of the battle of Gettysburg and it won a Pulitzer Prize. I highly recommend it. The Ted Turner movie "Gettysburg" was based on this book. (Just be warned that while it gets 90% of the actual battle right it is not completely historically correct. That doesn't make it a bad book, just don't walk away from it thinking you've read a historical account of the battle.) Even General Norman Schwarzkopf says that this is "the best and most realistic historical novel about war I have ever read." And who's to doubt "Stormin Normin"?

(And yes, believe it or not, Grishnakh can read.)
 
oni said:
I'm in the middle of reading 3 books, Daywatch by Sergei Lukyanenko, Corum: The Coming of Chaos by Michael Moorcock, and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami.
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Is the Daywatch book based on/adapted to the film of the same name?
 
Yes, Daywatch was the basis of the movie. But the first book, Nightwatch contains the seeds for both movies. The Daywatch book has very little to do with the movie. I'm looking forward to both the third movie and book, Twillightwatch.
 
Fallen Templar said:
Finished Children of Hurin. Starting a Clockwork Orange
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I got Children of hurin back in May for my birthday. I had only just finished reading The Silmarillion so i ended up not wanting to delve back into middle earth history so soon.

oni said:
Yes, Daywatch was the basis of the movie. But the first book, Nightwatch contains the seeds for both movies. The Daywatch book has very little to do with the movie. I'm looking forward to both the third movie and book, Twillightwatch.
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I've seen the first film (and it was on again the other night), Daywatch has yet to be released on dvd over here yet so i haven't seen it.
 
I recently picked up Philip Pullman's Dark Materials. I've finished The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife and have just started The Amber Spyglass. Pretty good read.

My eye has caught some books by an Author named Jennifer Roberson (I think thats right) Has anyone read anything by her? And was it worth the read?

Oh and 100th post!!! Yipee Skipee!!
 
I really like Stephen Lawhead's Song of Albion trilogy! Its full action, intense battle, heartbreaking moments and moments where one feels joyfull.

~bravey~
 
Kepler said:
I am reading The History of the Ancient World

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How do you like it? Dr. Bauer was a professor of mine in college. She's fantastically bright and very down to Earth.
 
Right now, I'm reading Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. I've read all of the Ender's Shadow series except Shadow of the Giant, and now I'm working on Ender's Game.
 
Just finished Kiss the Girls by James Patterson. Holy carp can that man write a fast paced thriller. 2.5 half page chapters, insane plot twists and tons of suspense! I was about half way through and couldn't stop reading, I was up until 3 am finishing it. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. It was intense! Can't wait to read what happens to Alex Cross next, going to pick up the next one tomorrow.
 
Has anyone read Elantris? I thought it was great, and I was wondering if Mistborn was a sequel.
 
ron3090 said:
Right now, I'm reading Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. I've read all of the Ender's Shadow series except Shadow of the Giant, and now I'm working on Ender's Game.
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Why would you read Ender's Shadow and Xenocide before Ender's Game? All three in the Ender's Game Trilogy are excellent, but are very different from one another. I think I liked Xenocide least, but that's just my opinion.
 
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