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Offline Bri_Dog

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The 'What book are you reading right now thread' is back again.
I just finished reading Force Heretic I-III and The Final Prophecy in the star wars NJO series.  Anybody got a copy of TuF that I can borrow?
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Offline Thorn

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The 'What book are you reading right now thread' is back again.
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
Call of Ctulhu - H.P. Lovecraft
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams

 

Offline Rictor

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The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams


Any good? And what's the general gist of it? It's pretty strange, since I was just asking for people's opinion on Adams' other books.

 

Offline JR2000Z

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Tom Clancey's Rainbow Six
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Just finished 'Nightwatch' by Terry Pratchett.


I stopped reading Pratchett after Reaper Man. He just ceased being that funny (I think I actually laughed twice while reading Hogfather).

It's a real pity as sometimes when reading his earlier books I'd laugh so hard I cried.
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The 'What book are you reading right now thread' is back again.
I'm conservative but not a Bush fan...I wouldn't mind if Michael Moore would go throw himself in front of traffic, honestly.  IMO, of course :P

Currently reading Prey by Crichton, The Fellowship of the Ring, and The Wolves of the Calla by King.  Nothing deep but all quality :D

  

Offline Odyssey

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Any good? And what's the general gist of it? It's pretty strange, since I was just asking for people's opinion on Adams' other books.

[color=cc9900]Yup, it's good. The general gist? Exploding airports, Dirk Gently, Norse gods, and fundamental interconnectedness. You really have to read it to understand ^_^[/color]

 

Offline Thorn

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Yeah.. its pretty wonky...

 

Offline Flipside

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karajorma, dn't give up on Pratchett, Hogfather was crap, even he admitted that, but he's back on form now, Nightwatch was great, Wee Free Men was brilliant, though Monstrous Regiment, his new one, left me a bt cold :(

 

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I'm reading Inside Truespace 4 at the mo. by Frank Riviera.
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I've got that but I've not read much of it (looked pretty good though).

As for Pratchett I did read Men at Arms too based on a reccomendation of a friend and I found it equally unfunny. I think he went too far in trying to be serious and in going from comedy to comedy-drama all the best jokes got left behind. I might go to the library and borrow Nightwatch but there's no way I'm paying for anything of his again unless I've already read it once and enjoyed it.
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Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon

both by Orson Scott Card

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Posted by CP5670  A Treatise on the Theory of Bessel Functions (G.N. Watson) A Course of Modern Analysis (E.T. Whittaker and G.N. Watson) The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field (J. Hadamard Asymptotic Methods in Analysis (N.G. de Bruijn)


Seriously CP, i'm not surprised.
and don't top it off with one of your famous crazy complex equations.
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Dragons of the Fallen Sun by Hickmann and Weiss

 

Offline Zarax

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Frank Herbert's Dune full edition.
The books (8), not the game.
The Best is Yet to Come

 

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Picked up Moo for the same reasons as Odyssey, and in the same place no less. So that's what I do when I'm bored in between classes.

At home I'm reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. And it's A-1. :nod:
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

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Noam Chomksy's Hegemony or Survival.
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Offline Stunaep

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I have no idea how this surfaced, but anyhow:
Kafka's "The Castle" and Allan Massie's "Claudius"
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Seriously CP, i'm not surprised.
and don't top it off with one of your famous crazy complex equations.


This is my brother; just ignore him. :p

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I have no idea how this surfaced


It looks like he did it. :p

 

Offline neo_hermes

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well i just finished The Butlerian Jihad and i'm going to start reading the Machine Crusade later on in the week.
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Offline Kamikaze

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Well, since I've been reading some new stuff....

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Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation . . .Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. - Richard Feynman