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Offline kasperl

Re: A Book
Reply #20 on: November 22, 2005, 02:38:55 pm
Discworld.

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Re: A Book
Reply #21 on: November 22, 2005, 06:15:19 pm
Quote from: karajorma on November 22, 2005, 02:35:41 pm
Quote from: Sandwich on November 21, 2005, 11:57:14 am
Secondly... have you read The Forge of God, by Greg Bear? All I remember is an immense sense of loss and the vivid description of... said loss at the end. Pretty stunning.

Good book that. :) Have you read the sequal Anvil of Stars? It's somewhat different in style but still pretty good :)

Yeah, although I often confuse that with Eon... Anvil's the one where the kid from Forge is captaining a ship, looking for the baddies that did what it was they did in Forge, and Eon was with that wormhole-in-a-box satellite tube laser beam asteroid thing in Earth orbit, right?
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Re: A Book
Reply #22 on: November 23, 2005, 01:23:54 am
Yep. :)

Eon was good too. Not as keen on the sequel to it though.
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Re: A Book
Reply #23 on: November 23, 2005, 03:06:08 am
Quote from: Sandwich on November 22, 2005, 06:15:19 pm
Eon was with that wormhole-in-a-box satellite tube laser beam asteroid thing in Earth orbit, right?

Buh? :lol:
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Re: A Book
Reply #24 on: November 23, 2005, 04:53:54 am
You won't regret taking a look at The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.  It's the story of the son of a merchant, Amir, and his loyal servant, Hassan, and what happens to them before and after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  However, this book isn't focused on war, it's focused on Amir's life (childhood to adulthood).

We're studying it in class, and it's a national bestseller here in Canada right now...

*cough* And it made me cry...

Very deep.  Most people in my class felt the sudden urge to jump into the book and do something to help while reading it.  ;)
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