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    1. 03-18-2008 07:25 PM #1
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      What are you reading?

      What books/novels/whatever are you reading right now? I'm rereading the ASOIAF series, and I'm about 3/4 through the 3rd book, A Storm of Swords.
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    2. 03-18-2008 11:20 PM #2
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      I just started Michael Crichton's latest, Next. I'm about 150 pages in I think.
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    3. 03-19-2008 02:12 AM #3
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      I'm currently reading State of Fear by Michael Crichton... sort of.

      Quote Originally Posted by 27 View Post
      I just started Michael Crichton's latest, Next. I'm about 150 pages in I think.
      How is it so far?
      I'm a big fan, but I'm currently stuck near the start of his previous novel, State of Fear. I've found it a little slow. I'm sure it'll pick up, but I'm having trouble staying interested and keep taking breaks from reading it only to start again later but have forgotten a lot of the details. I love all his previous novels, the ones I've read anyway.

      The last book I read was The Palace of Impossible Dreams. Book 3 of the Tide Lord series. http://www.voyageronline.com.au/book...337X&Author=43
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      Startide Rising, by David Brin I think. It's messing with my brain for various reasons which I am not at leisure to disclose.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Hiros View Post
      I'm currently reading State of Fear by Michael Crichton... sort of.


      How is it so far?
      I'm a big fan, but I'm currently stuck near the start of his previous novel, State of Fear. I've found it a little slow. I'm sure it'll pick up, but I'm having trouble staying interested and keep taking breaks from reading it only to start again later but have forgotten a lot of the details. I love all his previous novels, the ones I've read anyway.

      The last book I read was The Palace of Impossible Dreams. Book 3 of the Tide Lord series. http://www.voyageronline.com.au/book...337X&Author=43
      It's more interesting than State of Fear. I didn't make it to far into State of Fear before I got bored and put it down.
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      I have enjoyed all of Michael Critchton's books which I have read. I am currently reading 'The first sword of shannara' by Terry Brooks.
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      I just started George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. We have to read it for English, but it's actually pretty interesting. Moreso than most of the other stuff we read in class, anyway.
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      Quote Originally Posted by lseadragon View Post
      Startide Rising, by David Brin I think.
      I've read all the Uplift books--they're a fun ride. I'm reading Brin right now, too--Earth.

      Quote Originally Posted by rampage
      I am currently reading 'The first sword of shannara' by Terry Brooks.
      I loved the Shannara books as a kid and teenager, but I tried to pick up something by Brooks a few years ago and found it borderline illiterate. That's what education'll do to you
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      I haven't read much lately, but I do have a bookmark in Robin Hobb's "Forest Mage". It's the second book of her newest trilogy, and I really hope that she's going somewhere with all of this very soon. I absolutely LOVE her work, so I'm still holding out hope for things to look up, but I'll just have to wait and see.

      And if you've never read her, start at the beginning and read "Assassin's Apprentice." She writes in trilogies and they are fantastic!

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      Stephen King's IT. The novel is fucking awesome.
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      I'm reading Xenocide by Orson Scott Card - the third book in the Ender series. This is my second time reading it, but I love reading book a few years after you've already read them. I read it for the first time in high school, and I understand a lot more of the political and religious overtones in it now.

      Awesome read!
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      Quote Originally Posted by L33tsaber View Post
      I just started George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. We have to read it for English, but it's actually pretty interesting. Moreso than most of the other stuff we read in class, anyway.
      1984 is a great book.
      I read it last year in English.

      -- I'm currently reading
      'History of My Life' by Casanova (Autobiography).
      So far so good but I don't really get how he started writing
      his autobio shortly before he died.
      He either had GREAT memory or kept a journal daily.
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      I don't like to read very much but I enjoy reading the Alex Rider series and anything written by Anthony Horowitz.
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      Memories, Dreams, Reflections, which is Carl Jung's autobiography. It is amazing.

      As for novels, I just started reading Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card (second book in the Ender series).
      "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
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      "We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about."
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      "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
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