MdMac
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Joined: 2/28/2006
Msg: 76 | |
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Posted: 4/26/2006 6:23:17 PM |
Wheel of Time Series - Robert Jordan
This is an excellent series. One almost as good is The Song of Fire and Ice series by George R.R. Martin.
My two all time favorites are -
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Mutiny on the Bounty
I also enjoyed Michael Moore's book Dude, Where's my Country - man does that guy have a hate on for George Bush. | |
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itsapc
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Joined: 9/10/2005
Msg: 77 | |
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Posted: 4/26/2006 6:31:54 PM | This series by Piers Anthony is an incredible piece of fiction.
He basically takes the characters thru time. Ie: Stone Age, Bronze Age, etc... up to a few years past the year 2000. It's the most amazing fiction I've read and he's based it on actual fact of what we know of how people lived in the past. Each chapter the characters jump in time, but his/her situation is still the same. It's interesting to see how each stage of human life dealt with the same situation.
Geodyssey
Isle of Woman (1993)
Shame of Man (1994)
Hope of Earth (1997)
Muse of Art (1999)
Climate of Change (unfinished) | |
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Posted: 4/26/2006 9:25:18 PM | sci fi and fantasy
mostly fantasy
workin on Kate Elliott right now
am partial to Laurel K Hamilton, David Eddings, Weis and Hickman, Robert Jordan, Barbara Hambly, Gayle Greeno, Jennifer Roberson, Mercedes Lackey, Katherine Kerr, Katherine Kurtz, Guy Gavriel Kay, Elizabeth Moon, etc etc etc
I spent years too sick to work - and if I hadn't have sci fi and fantasy writers I'd have likely snapped my twinky! | |
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Posted: 4/26/2006 10:10:15 PM | I read all the stuff Wyzwmn reads.
My absolute favourites:
Umberto Ecco - Focault's Pendulum
Jack Whyte - Arthur series
Anne Bishop - Dark Jewels series
CJ Cherryh - Foreigner Series
Melanie Rawn - Sun Runner series
I also read a smattering of Clancy, Le Carre, Follett, Neil Stephenson, and others of the same genre. However, not a bodice ripper in sight!
I read on average 2 books a week to completion and usually have 4-5 books on the go at the same time.
If my eyes are open and I'm not driving, walking or otherwise having to engage the visual cortex for something else, I'm reading. It amounts to about 3 hours a day of reading for pure pleasure.
And yep...I don't have any kids or a husband 
Regards,
Ragz | |
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Posted: 4/27/2006 10:35:33 AM | | For me I love the Stephen King novel Firestarter. I love all of his books... well except for IT. I read one chapter and I couldnt finish it. I think to do so Id have to read it during the middle of the day with the house completely locked up and EVERY SINGLE LIGHT ON!!!!! *shudders* I just find it amazing how he can go into such detail with murders and death and horror in general without being a sociopath lol. | |
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Posted: 4/27/2006 7:26:46 PM | how can you think stephen king ISN'T a sociopath after writing all those books????
......psychooooooo | |
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Posted: 4/27/2006 7:50:53 PM | Right now I've been reading some stuff by Bernard Cornwell. Great writting but very violent (historical).
I like James Clavell
And Far Pavillions was a great book set in india unfortunately I cant remember the author. For anyone interested in india way back during the british ocupation it is a great read.
Every Noam Chomsky book I have read. <
Two books that suck
Da Vinci Code. It was an okay idea for fiction novel but the writing was terrible I could barely stand it (apparently the guy he copied wrote a better book). It was overrated.
The Stand - The authors cut is just a bunch of crap made longer. I appoligize to the person who put this as one of their favs but this is deffinately one of the worst books I have ever read. | |
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Posted: 4/27/2006 7:59:04 PM | __WOW!!! Da Vinci Code was to me a wonderful book, very entertaining, well written and a real page turner.
__The book that I am reading at the moment is usually my fave. This being Elmore Leonard's Mr. Paradise. He never fails to entertain me. Great stories with quirky characters.
__A recent read was Finley's The Pilgrim. Love historical novels and this is one of the best.
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Posted: 5/5/2006 11:59:50 PM | Just sooo many... one's that I often re-read/refer back to, authors or titles:
Anything by Joe R Lansdale, J G Ballard, Michael Moorcock
In the Jaws of the Black Dogs-John Bentley Mays
A Dream of Dracula-Leonard Wolf
Steppenwolf-Hesse
Any tale of hedonism and debauchary-from Byron to The Dirt (for fun)
Of late mostly non-fiction. Pretty much a (mercifully) shortened list! | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 12:02:54 AM | My favorite book it the dycktionary cuz it holds up my couch!!!!!!!! | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 12:18:54 AM | Prey
by Michael Crichton (sp)
Absolutely a great piece of work.................hahaha | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 12:37:13 AM | books...hmmmmm...apparently there is one around here somewhere...lol  | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 1:59:51 AM | some of my favorites
- Twilight Eyes, Strangers - Dean Koontz
- Swan Song, Mine - Robert R McCammon
- The Talisman, The Bachman Books - Stephen King
-The Essential Calvin & Hobbes - Bill Watterson
- The Dirt - Motley Crue
- The Long Road From Hell - Marilyn Manson | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 7:25:28 AM | | A very good one is Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. It's an autobiography about growing up in the slums of Ireland and all the hardships he went through. A very riveting book, once you start it, it's almost impossible to put down. | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 8:12:23 AM | Here's a few ideas depending on your taste:
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (an all time favourite of mine, but be forewarned not to read it if you are depressed). Author is Canadian.
The Corporation: Pathological Pursuite of Profit by Joel Bakan (someone already mentioned this and the Knowledge Network has been showing the documentary).
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (very light, funny as are most of his books, especially the one about his dog).
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus.
Adultery by Richard Wright (every man will think twice about having an affair after reading this). Author is Canadian and the setting for the novel is the Toronto area.
If you like psychological suspense/crime novels than you might like Jonathan Kellerman's novel. | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 11:21:39 AM | The House of Sand and Fog is an excellent movie. If the book is better, I'll definitely have to give it a go.
My all-time favorite books are...unfortunately...Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding), Take Another Little Piece of My Heart (Pamela Des Barres), and Howard Stern Private Parts :) | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 2:12:12 PM | Fav series goes to
Robert jordan Wheel of Time
I'm a reader so like my music, I enjoy most topic and types.
into BC history and lore
into anything sound oriented
Happy Fishin | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 2:20:23 PM | Anything by Raymond Feist.
Any work by Steven Brust with Vlad Taltos...
Robin Hobb gets better the more she writes... Bring 'em on girl! | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 2:23:15 PM | Ahh... apparently so, I have the eddings as well... I've just read the Belgariad and the (can't think of the name) continuation of it...
Did you read the other series that he did? Are they worth the read? | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 5:17:27 PM | Rick014, Angela's Ashes was a great book. Unfortunately his next book 'Tis' wasn't so great :( But the first was brilliant; mostly b/c my grandparents are Newfie which means they're mostly Irish so reading the book I could totally get HOW they were talking and it just cracked me up.
Another recent favorite:
The Twelfth Transformation - Pauline Gedge.
I love her books, especially the ones she writes about Egypt. She has a great ability to make the scenery and the characters come to life. This book is about Akhenaten's rise to the throne and how much turmoil he put Egypt through with his pacifism. It also goes farther into history (but not by much) and showcases young Tutankhaten's (before he changed his name) coronation and as well as one possibility of his murder (which again I believe has been disproven now). | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 5:43:41 PM | Confessional: The Harry Potter series. Unlike some adults, I don't feel childish reading children's stories. | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 6:01:50 PM | | for fiction classics like Steinbeck,****ns, Shakespear Hemingway. Poetry Buckowski and Angela Mayou, Philosophy Sartre Science Silicon Dreams, Biography John Lydon, BB King. | |
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Posted: 5/6/2006 6:11:36 PM | c note:
I did not see the movie version of "The House of Sand and Fog, but the book is excellent and heart/soul wrenching. Like "A Fine Balance", it gives you a glimpse into a different culture and you see a depth of human misery that few of us have had to endure....although I think Mistry's novel goes as deep as one can go on the human misery side.
Night Out:
Any suggestions for BC history books for a BC newbie? | |
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