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Draxx
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Posted: 1/15/2006 10:08:33 PM |
Vert:
I bought this book called " A Sucker is Born Every Minute" but..its just full of blank pages.....?
I thought that book was called "Everything men know about women".
No that one^^^ has a bunch of ripped up blank pages, then one with a period, then more ripped up pages. | |
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Posted: 1/16/2006 6:41:18 AM | No that one^^^ has a bunch of ripped up blank pages, then one with a period, then more ripped up pages.
you got "ripped" off then,... that was a second hand copy. Period. | |
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Posted: 1/16/2006 10:03:44 AM | | anyone ever read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance by Robert Pirsig. Quite brilliant and very "outside the box" | |
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Posted: 1/16/2006 10:22:10 AM | Damn near everything by Isaac Asimov 
I agree Gaiman's 'American Gods' was an awesome read, but I liked 'Neverwhere' & 'Stardust' a tad more.
'Sick Puppy' was a fantastic read (thanks darlin'  )
'Childhood's End' by Arthur C. Clarke
'Ender's Game' By Orson Scott Card. see also his Alvin Maker series for a real treat!
'The Case For Mars' by Robert Zubrin
Though these are all awesome novels, they pale in comparison (IMHO) to Asimov's Foundation novels, which I've read several times, yes all of them, lol.
Maybe Hollywood will eventually get the clue to give them the LOTR treatment and bring quality verisons to the big screen.... | |
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Posted: 4/25/2006 8:24:13 PM | Right now reading Angels & Demons (precursor to DaVinci Code) Very good read
The Kite Runner was excellent
Lovely Bones
Liked Million little pieces despite the crap
Mitchner for the BIG LONG reads... the epic tales
Classic read is East of Eden | |
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Posted: 4/25/2006 9:02:49 PM | | Dan Brown books...loved all three that I have read...thats my latest | |
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Posted: 4/25/2006 9:15:15 PM | don't know the author
it's a series
clan of the cave bear
valley of the horses
mammoth clan
fictions a good read
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Posted: 4/25/2006 9:24:17 PM | ^^^Author Jean Auel.
Gosh to pick a fav-just too hard.
I am so across the map and depends on my mood at any given time.
I suppose one that comes to mind would be 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy (read many many years ago). | |
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Posted: 4/26/2006 12:07:39 AM | The Celestine Prophecy - novel by James Redfield.
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Quantum Reality : Beyond the New Physics by Nick Herbert
Quantum Physics: A First Encounter by Valerio Scarani
Too many to list..... | |
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Posted: 4/26/2006 1:15:12 AM | Curious George – by The man in the yellow hat
X-men – by Stan Lee
Playboy – by H.M. Hefner
Busy town – by Richard Scary
Yellow Pages – by Telus
Too many to list….. | |
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Posted: 4/26/2006 6:08:28 AM | House of Dreams - Pauline Gedge
and the sequel House of Illusions. Both set in Ancient Egypt and follow the life of a village girl turned favored concubine named Thu. Involves romance, murder, mystery etc.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
All the books by Jean Auel. Ayla and Jondalar have to be my favorite fictional characters.
I did read Dante's Inferno and found it enjoyable but long and tedious. I love Shakespeare, King Lear and Hamlet mostly; but they aren't books.
Memoirs of a Geisha was very good, Geisha: A life was better in my oppinion for the fact that the latter was a true story of the girl with which Sayuri in Memoirs was loosely formed from. I disliked how Golden, author of Memoirs, used such lenience in helping perpetuate the myth of geisha being prostitutes.
Murder of Tutankhamen by Dr. Bob Brier (my signed copy yay) is always a good read and I'm muddling through it again. He writes just like he talks which has always been so engaging and makes you want to listen to what he says. I met him in 2001 in Calgary and he was so nice. The book, although I believe recent discoveries have led to put a kibosh to the story of Tut being murdered, helps explain theories of who could have done it and why. Being anywhere from his sister-wife Ankhesenaten to a priest.
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks. Great read about different brain disorders; especially frontal lobe injuries (my favorite) and a good long portion on Asperger's Syndrome and how it affected a lady named 'Heaven' (I think, and I cant remember her last name).
Ok, I think I better shut up; I could go on forever.
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Posted: 4/26/2006 7:06:10 AM | wow......read dante's inferno........more than 15 years ago and it still sticks with me....
I like Anne Rice...and the Lestat chronicles.......
finished reading The davinvi code..almost 2 months ago....and loved it......if your open minded i suggest it...if your a close minded christian..dont buy that book.....
John Grisham novels are always good...and if you like him you might want to try reading books written by a guy called jeffery deaver
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Posted: 4/26/2006 9:24:28 AM | | I just finished "a million little pieces" good book...don't care about the drama following..looking forward to reading the next one..."Leonards story"??? | |
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Posted: 4/26/2006 9:31:57 AM | Roots.....
spent a summer reading it when I was 11.....and just re read it last month..... | |
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Draxx
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Joined: 10/16/2005
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Posted: 4/26/2006 11:15:34 AM | Reading the Davinci Code which is great. Julia Cameron is one of my favorite's, her most famous book is called the Artist's Way.
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Posted: 4/26/2006 2:35:49 PM | | for me any book by stephen king is good. there is also this one I bought its called the road to hell. really good book about the the hells angels in canada. lent it to my dad so right now couldnt tell you who its by. | |
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Posted: 4/26/2006 6:13:35 PM | Current Tops:
Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing - Craig Lambert
Into The Whirlwind - Evgenia Ginzburg
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Under a Cruel Star: Life in Prague 1941-1968 - Heda Margolius Kovaly
I'd recommend them all in a heartbeat, though the first probably wouldn't be as incredible if the reader didn't share the author's love of the water and sport. Still, well written, and an amazing read.
oh, and when I want nostalgia, I turn back to David Eddings. Read them all for the first time when I was 7, and I still enjoy them when I've got a week to spare in the summer. | |
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Joined: 9/10/2005
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Posted: 4/26/2006 6:20:48 PM | If you are into some intellectual books I would recommend Hyperspace by Michio Kaku ISBN 0-385-47705-8.
"Amoung the best of its genre to appear in recent years... Taking his material to the limit, Mr. Kaku speculates on how the universe might have begun-perhaps as a tear in the space-time of some other universe, or as a quantum particle that sprang into existence, and then inflated to become a universe... What a wonderful adverture it is, trying to think the unthinkable!" - New York Times Book Review
I got about half way through this book during my Christmas break from school. It involves a lot of advance mathematics and understanding Einstein's theories helps too. I can't wait to pick it up again once I'm done school. Which is tomorrow  | |
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