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What is Your Favorite Novel

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1 (3.2%)
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
0 (0%)
Books by Charles Dickens
1 (3.2%)
Don Quixote by Miguel Saavedra
2 (6.5%)
I Don't like to Read At All
3 (9.7%)
I Got Less Than a "550" on my SAT or GRE Verbal; Doesn't That Tell You Something?
2 (6.5%)
Something not here
22 (71%)

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Voting closed: March 26, 2002, 07:55:47 am

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Originally posted by CP5670


Oh BTW four more books that are not novels but I really like nevertheless:

Calculus with Analytic Geometry and Multivariable Calculus
Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics
Differential Equations with Variational Calculus
Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook

;7


that sir is comedy

add Thermodynamic Transport Properties to that list and youve got the the rat pack there

 

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Tolkien , S.D. perry, Stephen King,

try the "dark tower" series by King, they're fairly good.
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Anything by:
King
Clarke
Wells

And also Quantum Electro-Dynamics by John........something.

Classics:
The Art Of War
Kama Sutra (not just the porn)
The Dogs Of War
The Hackers Manifesto (bad content, good literary talent)
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her, terry pratchett anyone? :p
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Originally posted by venom2506
her, terry pratchett anyone? :p


lol - spare me. :p
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all right!someone else who likes terry pratchett!!!
he's funny!
it's strange, but most people i know either dont like him or are indifferent...
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Originally posted by an0n
Classics:
The Art Of War
 


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Anyone read The Creation of the Gods? A nice chinese legend :nod:
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

 

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Originally posted by icespeed
all right!someone else who likes terry pratchett!!!
he's funny!
it's strange, but most people i know either dont like him or are indifferent...


actually, I haven't read much of him, not even a complete book ( bah, long story ... ), but what I've read cracked me up :)
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Discworld. I know a few people who are pretty well acquainted with that; I should get them in here. :)
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Originally posted by castor
:yes: that's great. Also "The Invincible" was kinda fascinating.

Some more favs, kinda mixed bag:
  Conrad, Joseph -  Nostromo
  Stapledon, Olaf - Last and First Men
  Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat
  Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis Trilogy
  Lawrence, D.H. ...any
  James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
  Asimov, Isaac - Foundation etc...
  Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomov
  Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
  Clarke, Arthur C. - Rendezvous With Rama etc..
  Chekhov, Anton ...any
  Card.. the Enders Game Series



Cool! Someone else that likes Stanislaw Lem! :D:yes:

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Originally posted by Styxx

And Welcome to HLP dude! Exits are to your right and to your back and, in case of emergencies, shotguns are located under the seats.

Ah! but of course.. forgot to look there. Much better now! ;) Next stop, the bar.. :nod:

Thanks Styxx

 

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Originally posted by castor

Ah! but of course.. forgot to look there. Much better now! ;) Next stop, the bar.. :nod:

Thanks Styxx

;7;7;7Welcome to the HLPBB!!! ;7;7;7

I like your ID :D
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As I've already said, you're welcome. :)
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Originally posted by venom2506

;7;7;7Welcome to the HLPBB!!! ;7;7;7

I like your ID :D

:lol:  where was that shotgun again.. :D
Thanks

 

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You forgot Star Wars The New Jedi Order.......

 

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LOTR, Silmarilion and related Tolkein stuff, and Patrick Tiley's Amtrak Wars. Oh, and the Discworld, of course.

 

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Originally posted by castor

 :yes: that's great. Also "The Invincible" was kinda fascinating.

Some more favs, kinda mixed bag:
  Conrad, Joseph -  Nostromo
  Stapledon, Olaf - Last and First Men
  Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat
  Butler, Octavia - Xenogenesis Trilogy
  Lawrence, D.H. ...any
  James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
  Asimov, Isaac - Foundation etc...
  Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomov
  Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
  Clarke, Arthur C. - Rendezvous With Rama etc..
  Chekhov, Anton ...any
  Card.. the Enders Game Series


Umm... that's a lot of stuff.
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Ender's Game was awesome! (the parallel stuff was good too, and the one about Bean after the Third War, but the sequels were bad I thought)
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler
books by Robert Heinlein
Rogue Squadron series by Micheal A. Stackpole
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If you want a good laugh and read LOTR, read this book!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451452615/qid=1017353253/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2807877-2171919
It is soooo hilarious!

An excerpt:
As he watched, the moon rose, there was a meteor shower and a display of the aurora borealis, a cock crowed thrice, it thundered, a flock of geese flew by in the shape of a swastika, and a giant hand wrote Mene, mene, what's it to you? across the sky in giant silver letters. Suddenly Frito had the overpowering feeling that he had come to a turning point, that an old chapter in his life was ending and a new one beginning. "Mush, you brute," he said, kicking the pack animal in the kidneys, and as the great quadruped staggered forward, tailfirst into the black East, there came from deep in the surrounding forest the sound of some great bird being briefly, but noisily, ill.

LOL! This book is hilarious, trust me. I read it in about 3 hours and laughed half of the time.
Frodo = Frito
Bilbo = Dildo
Gandalf = Goodgulf
Legolas = Legolam
Aragorn = Arrowroot
Sam Gangee = Spam Gangreen
etc etc etc
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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.