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What are you reading?; What book are you reading?
Topic Started: Jan 18 2008, 09:25:13 PM (8,569 Views)
rhombus
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The Friendly Parallelogram

'The Horse, the Wheel, and Language' by David W. Anthony
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Serris
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General of the Great Valley
The Road to Damascus by John Ringo
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Ducky
I have several series of books waiting to be read. I've started with Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Still only on the first book but I haven't had much time, or motivation, to read much. I'll probably jump into the Remants series afterwards, or maybe A Song of Ice and Fire. I don't know. We'll see.
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rhombus
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"Human, All Too Human" by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ducky123
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*insert creative caption here*

Read these books during my holiday:

Stephen King - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (a lovely novel. Try to write a story with only one character in it and you know what I'm getting at)

Sebastian Fitzek - NOAH (pretty cool thriller ^^)

Glenn Meade - Axis of Evil (deals with a possible gas attack of Al-Qaida. Very exciting yet horrifying to imagine this could happen any day anywhere :unsure: )

Gayle Forman - If I Stay (HIGHLY recommended! Maybe you've seen the movie already? Well, it's a VERY emotional book. I warned you!)
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Ptyra
Allow me to put on my ~skepticals~
I just got three non-fiction books from my college library.
One is "Autism's False Prophets", which focuses on the bad science and hysteria to "cure" Autism. I like how the author has compared the present freakout and horribly dangerous attempts for cures to the same panic as Polio at the start of the 1930's. The other is a maternity prenatal guide for natural pregnancy. No, guys, I swear to you, I am not pregnant :lol . But I like learning about these things way ahead of time, because that's the way I intend to go.

Also, a book about cats and cat behavior to better improve coexistence with household cats.
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The Lone Dragon
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Release The Dragon!
At the moment I'm in the process of reading Anne McCafferey's The White Dragon for the hundredth. The third instalment of The Dragon Riders of Pern series.
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Ducky
I'm currently reading the first novel in the "Hyperion" series by Dan Simmons, who happens to be my dad's favourite science fiction author. I like it alright so far. :)
Serris,Sep 2 2014
05:15 PM
The Road to Damascus by John Ringo

So, how did you like it? I had a bad experince with Ringo, I'm afraid. Picked up a book of his at Dubai airport - "The Hot Gate" - and to this day it's one of the worst Sci-Fi works I had read. :(
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The Anonymous Person
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GOF's resident weirdo
Reading two books over my spring break:

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (James Patterson)
Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
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Look Within Yourself
I'm currently reading Stephen King's "From a Buick 8".
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Ducky's sub-par imitator
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
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Chomper
Lately I've been re-reading some Dinotopia books - the ones not written by James Gurney. There are still a few more I want to get, but some of them are surprisingly hard to find (I've had the most luck on Amazon.) I love Dinotopia so much; I just wish it got more attention. -_-
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Malte279
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I'm a historian. I MUST be like that!

Did you read the ones written by Alan Dean Foster ("Dinotopia Lost" and "Hand of Dinotopia") Rachel? Those who are really good.
There are many others which I found to be of somewhat mixed quality (none really bad, but I don't recall having been utterly taken with one of them either).
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Malte279,Apr 4 2015
12:40 PM
Did you read the ones written by Alan Dean Foster ("Dinotopia Lost" and "Hand of Dinotopia") Rachel? Those who are really good.
There are many others which I found to be of somewhat mixed quality (none really bad, but I don't recall having been utterly taken with one of them either).

I have! :) Outside of Gurney's own work, those two are my favorite Dinotopia books. They're very well-written, for being that they were done by a fan, and not Gurney himself.
Not to say that the stories can't be well-written if you're not the author, but I was pleasantly surprised that Mr. Foster had contributed so much to the world of Dinotopia without it seeming non-canon.
Alan Dean Foster does this remarkably well, imo. Sometimes I go back and re-read both the first and second book. :)

As far as the other, smaller stories, I'd have to agree with you on that one. Some of them stand out, and then again some of them just don't. I've always been fascinated by the fact that Gurney allows others to publish books based on the world he created (as long as he read and approves it, which I think he does...) But some of the things that authors write about in the books are hard for me to consider canon. And I have to admit, when I read something that I don't think would ever happen in the Dinotopia world, I secretly choose not to consider it canon - even if Gurney himself did approve of the book being published. XD
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Learning Java!
Gillian Flynn's - Gone Girl
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Fyn16
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Why are there so many songs about rainbows...

Currently reading Stephen King's "Doctor Sleep," a sequel to "The Shining" set a few decades into the future. I was initially a little hesitant, as I felt King's writing has become a tad... lazier(?) than it used to be, but thus far I've been pleasantly surprised. This book feels great, with the writing style hearkening back to King's older works (which I love!). It's an outstanding return to form, and I'm not even a quarter of the way through it yet. Obviously I can't judge it completely yet, but it's been a good read so far.
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