Books

[Chibichibi]

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*cracks neck* Mind if i just go ahead and list my favorite Authors? I actually have a list to go by this time.

Douglas Adams
Piers Anthony
Anne Bishop
Anita Blake
Ray Bradbury
Terry Brooks
Orson Scott Card
Jacqueline Cary
Michael Crichton
Darren Shan
Lester DelRey
Diane Duane (I know she writes for young adults shush >.> )
David Eddings
Terry Goodkind
Elizabeth Haydon
Brian Jacques
Mercedes Lackey
Madeline L'Engle
Holly Lisle
Duncan Long
HP Lovecraft
Robin McKinley
Andre Norton
Kate Novak
Christopher Paolini
Tamora Pierce
Philip Pullman
K.A. Applegate
Mickey Zucker Reichert
JK Rowling
Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
Lemony Snicket
Christopher Stasheff
Anne Rice
Anne McCaffrey
Tolkien
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Patricia Wrede
Jane Yolen

...

I think that's it. >.>;; yes, i have a lot of favorites.

 

[Shrike7]

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Unfortunately, spoiler tags don't work for me, as a result of my cell phone. For example, yours read:

Spoiler
WE HAVE SPOILER TAGS FOR A REASON!
=D [/shameless self-promotion]
As you can see, I can't even tell where the box is supposed to end. Same thing with quotes :/

Point is, easiest way to not give away stuff, is to not write in in the first place. Please?

 

[Alias]

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Oh wow. I had no idea that was even an issue, haha. I'm assuming it's because your cell phone can only read straight text and not php script? (or java or whatever vbulletin uses)

I wonder if there's a way to fix that....

 

[Shrike7]

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There is, but it triples page length, and makes it nearly impossible for me to be effective on the forums like that, so I deal without.

And dammit Tass, why didn't you read this thread first! :/

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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*cracks neck* Mind if i just go ahead and list my favorite Authors? I actually have a list to go by this time.

Anita Blake

Anita Blake is a character though... Laurel K. Hamilton is the author of the Anita Blake novels.

 

[Tassadar]

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There is, but it triples page length, and makes it nearly impossible for me to be effective on the forums like that, so I deal without.

And dammit Tass, why didn't you read this thread first! :/

Sorry.

 

[Chibichibi]

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I'm currently listening to Anne McCaffrey's Acorna series. I'm slowly working my way through all of the books I've downloaded. I hated to do it, but i didn't have the cash to drop on them. x.x

 

[Shrike7]

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Sorry.

meh, I'll survive. *shrugs*

 

[Briggs]

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I'm not really into fiction books.

This week so far, I've read Have A Little Faith by Mitch Albom, How to Write, Art of War by Sun Tze and Greek and Roman Mythology.

 

[Lucas]

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I'm reading The Art of War at the moment too. Great read. I also just finished up The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Good book, although it becomes blatant socialist propaganda at the end, which kinds of ruins the dire tone of the otherwise brilliant story.

 

[dmronny]

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The Jungle was pretty good except for the aforementioned propaganda parts. Read The Art of War a while ago, and though sound and true I thought it rather boring.

 

[Lucas]

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It can be. My copy has excerpts from ancient Chinese leaders who adopted Sun-Tzu's strategies; it means that there are multiple interpretations of Sun-Tzu's teachings below his initial entries, which helps clear some of the more elaborate quotations up.

 

[dmronny]

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Well that would be better than my copy, I could have just found it boring because I was required to read it at the time. If I have to do something, it tends to lower the entertainment value.

 

[Lucas]

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True that.

 

[Hentaispider]

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Last night I read Sir Terry Pratchett's Nation. I have to say that it could've been better. The writing was as good as ever, the tone was even pretty serious in the beginning(more so than in any Discworld novel I've read). But the ending left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

Spoiler

Even with the name and everything, it was still obviously a tale about a boy and a girl. But the ending? It could have been the classic "boy gets girl". Or it could've been a tragedy. Either would've been satisfactory, although it's hard to think that Pratchett would write a tragedy(I just can't see him doing it). But no! They just ignore the potential for romance and do what's their duty, never meeting again. In the beginning there's just the two of them, both alone, both lost after the wave. They get to know each other. And then...nothing. Stories aren't supposed to be like that. Reality is like that often enough.

 

[Chibichibi]

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Suzanne Collins, "The Hunger Games" and it's second, "Catching Fire"

It's set in future America, where it's been reduced to a Capitol and 12 districts. Each year the districts send two tributes to Th Hunger Games. One boy, one girl. Only one person can survive. And whoever does survive, is set for life.

 

[Rule 34]

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Well, I've been reading "Three Bags Full", also called Glennkill I think. It's, as the front page says, the internationally bestselling novel of crime-busting sheep.

While the idea itself sounds pretty interesting, I find the execution. . . strange. As in "sheep just don't behave that way" strange. I find it hard to suspend my disbelief for some reason. Maybe it's my personal fault, I don't know. The book's not pretty big and is probably out as a paperback. If crime-busting sheep interest you you might want to pick it up.

I got myself "Metro 2034" for Christmas, a Russian futuristic/horror novel. Haven't been able to get into it very far, but the setting seems, if not unique, at least interesting enough to check it out. After a nuclear war, the survivors that happened to be in the metro of Moscow at that time have formed a new civilization down there in the subways. They trade food and electricity for ammunition and have to fight off all kinds of mutants and bandits. Metro 2034 is actually the sequel to Metro 2033 - which a game is being developed on - but I think I can read it without getting too confused.

Somehow the Eastern authors and game creators seem to be fascinated by nuclear war/disaster.

 

[Incubus]

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I got "The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China" for Christmas.

It's a difficult read, so I haven't got far into it, but it is certainly awesome. And a great roleplaying aid for one of my characters as well.

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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I got the biography of General Rick Hillier for Christmas.

Boo ya!

 

[Hentaispider]

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I just got Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice. I figured that I should read it since I like horror books and it is one of the most famous ones.Besides, it was only €5