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Elkad
Title: aka Ebenezer
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Registered: 2003-9-11 22:20:55
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Bonzoboy1 posted:
I recently reread C.S. Forrester's Hornblowers series, always a good read.
I'm trying to read those. Still on book 1, keep stopping to read something else. For some reason it just isn't engaging me.
Currently re-reading "The Boat of a Million Years", Poul Anderson, sci-fi about a few scattered people on earth who don't age. Don't think I've read it in 20 years.
Also reading Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky - which is exactly what the title says, a history book about salt. Interesting stuff.
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Jaedence
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Registered: 2009-2-27 02:17:13
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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:
I'm rereading the Wheel of Time.
I just finished Slaughterhouse 5 though, and would recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.
1. What the... Why?
2. Slaughterhouse 5 is next in my audio queue. Read it years ago.
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Bonzoboy1
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Registered: 2008-8-1 18:04:29
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I'm up to book five on the The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series, it took a bit to get into the first book but it was worth it.
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I'm finally reading George Martin's "A Dance with Dragons". Even at 200 pages in, it is MUCH better than the entirety "A Feast for Crows", which on my second read through was horrible, just horrible.
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Yukishiro1
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Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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The first chapter of A Confederacy of Dunces is the funniest thing ever written in the English language.
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paulg_68
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Registered: 2009-7-27 18:45:54
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I really liked the first two books in the Kingkiller Chronicle.
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Afio
Title: Belle of the Bull
Posts: 748
Registered: 2002-3-19 16:18:03
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Yukishiro1 posted:
The first chapter of A Confederacy of Dunces is the funniest thing ever written in the English language.
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Yukishiro1
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I hope you've read it Afio. It should be a crime not to if you live in that part of the world.
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Afio
Title: Belle of the Bull
Posts: 748
Registered: 2002-3-19 16:18:03
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Yukishiro1 posted:
I hope you've read it Afio. It should be a crime not to if you live in that part of the world.
Of course I read it.
I have seen a play with Spud McConnell. It was great.
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Yukishiro1
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Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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One of the great books of all time. Especially that first chapter. I was shocked to find how little it's known here on the west coast.
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