Books 4.

[Everay]

i recently read StarFist book 3, very good, and am currently finishing up Field of Dishonor, which i must say, is the best book in the honor harrington series so far, the first 3 were so so, but this 4th really took off, i also finished we were soldiers, exelent, really gives you a idea of the battle, and gives a accurate picture of just what those men went through.

so, what have YOU been reading? and porn magazines do count, since i recently discovered that there are no longer any pictures in them, at least, not many.

[martyr]

steven king's dark tower series.

[Setari]

Rainbow Six. I love it.

[Spee]

Latest issue of Computer Gaming World

[Dharkbayne]

HALO: The Flood

[Henya]

The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton (Summer Reading for School) :mad:

[Rayder]

steven king's dark tower series.
Good series, too bad he's not done yet. What book are you on?

Just got done reading Prospero's Children.

[AztecWarrior]

Algebra 2 - McDougal Littell (last day of finals week!)

[Smaug]

War of the Spider Queen Book III: Condemnation

And

Paths of Darkness Book II: Spine of the World

[martyr]

rayder: waitin for song of susannah. since finishing wolves of the calla, read catcher in the rye, hitchhiker's guide, few others. reading farewell to arms at the moment

[RuskiVodka]

Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy and The Inner Game of Golf by W. Timothy Gallwey

[Jaged]

Bah, who has time to read?

[FraudulentBob]

Playboy: 40th Anniversary

[I Hate Pants]

The Harlequin

Great book about an English archer in the 100 year war with France.

[RuskiVodka]

Playboy: 40th Anniversary

LOL we got a honest reader :P

[EDIT] What I use to remember in Playboy was the Bass Fishing articles that they posted. Don't know if they still do.

[Everay]

aye, if your gonna post what book, be sure to say what it is about.

[FraudulentBob]

Playboy: 40th Anniversary
I think they had an article about some knockers or summat, all in all a good read.

[Flashingfish]

Catch 22. Again.

Very very good book about an American pilot in Ww2. Lots of crazy stuff happens and it's very funny :D

[ChewyLSB]

Band of Brothers: IMO, the book is better than the mini series. The book goes much deeper with the battles.

Ender's Game: Science Fiction. A very good read, and much better than the sequel, Ender's Shadow.

[Everay]

Band of Brothers is good, i suggest We Were Soldiers... Once and Young, it covers both battles in the Ia Drang Vally, commenly known as LZ Xray and LZ Albany.

[ControlledBurn]

David Weber's Honor Harrington series is the rock.

Just finished re-reading Rowling's Prisoner of Azkaban the other day. I've got a large history on Alexander the Great I'm working my way through now that's pretty good.

[JetRaiden]

I just finished The Things They Carried. its a book about a platoon in Vietnam. it was actually required for school, although I still liked it.

[TekDragon]

Just got done "The Magic of Recluse" series. Before that was the "Sword of Truth" novels, which the fiance is now getting through. Currently reading the "Dragon's Return" series which is fucking awesome, even if it is long (a dozen books, each one a thousand pages or so).

After im done this i'll probly read Orson Scott Card's "Enders Game" series again. The true series, not that Ender's Shadow crap. Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind.

steven king's dark tower series.

I got done the first one. Jesus.. that's something that kept me thinking well into the night for a good week or two.

Are the rest of the books so... twisted and gripping?

[Everay]

yea, im gonna read Enders Game after i finish Honor Harrington and StarFist, im not sure, but i think starfist is about a dozen books.

[ControlledBurn]

I just finished The Things They Carried. its a book about a platoon in Vietnam. it was actually required for school, although I still liked it.

"If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home)" is by the same author, Tim O'Brien. It's also a great read if you enjoyed "The Things They Carried."

[JetRaiden]

"If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home)" is by the same author, Tim O'Brien. It's also a great read if you enjoyed "The Things They Carried."

thanks.

[Triggar]

Right now I'm reading the "Econoguide Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando 2004".

It's actually really interesting, it talks about the history of the parks, and it points out all these interesting facts that are hidden in the parks. I won't say what some are, because there's a good chance it'll be used for a Mobilization activity :)

[Rbstr]

Ender's Game: Science Fiction. A very good read, and much better than the sequel, Ender's Shadow.

thats not the sequel that a paralele novel

the Sequeles are Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Childeren of the mind, all very goood, the paralles are IMO good to, Ender's shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Pupetts

[QuakCow]

halo series in its entirity

[martyr]

I got done the first one. Jesus.. that's something that kept me thinking well into the night for a good week or two.

Are the rest of the books so... twisted and gripping?


yes.
in fact... more so than the gunslinger, i believe.

[1024]

I just finished Survivor by Chuck Palahniuck. Quite interesting, and makes you think about certain things differntly.

Next on my list is Diary, also by Chuck.

[ControlledBurn]

Chuck is a literary god.

[RuskiVodka]

Really enjoyed "Lullaby" from Chuck. Great read.

[TekDragon]

thats not the sequel that a paralele novel

the Sequeles are Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Childeren of the mind, all very goood, the paralles are IMO good to, Ender's shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Pupetts

If you bought the books as they were released you'd know which ones were intended as sequels. If you read his introductions you'd also know.

Enders Shadow (and the Bean books) were an afterthought, added on to make some extra cash without putting in much literary work.

[Everay]

so i should look for enders game? what were the other books in that series titled?

[EarlyDawn]

Working on finishing Neuromancer, then the obvious next step forward is Count Zero. Will probably take a break there for Prey by Chriaton, then go to Mona Lisa Overdrive.

[ControlledBurn]

Ender's Game is a definite must-read.

[Mushnator]

Just been reading some nice fiction.

[TekDragon]

Ender's Game is a definite must-read.

Yep. It's an excellent book that will open your mind. Suitable for any age, so long as your an ok reader.

The next 3 books (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind) are MUCH more advanced and should only be attempted if your a veteran reader. They have some serious science ideas (biology, chemistry, and physics) thrown in there and, while they dont go into formulas so much, it helps to have a rudimentary knowledge of such things.

That being said, those 3 books are also superb and also a "must read".

Everything written past children of the mind is absolute trash and i don't think it was even written by O.S.C.

[TekDragon]

For anyone here who proclaims themselves a "liberal" I suggest you read the Sword of Truth novels. The author was a historian and gives you a bitch slap to the face of what liberalism and communism are really about. Of course, he does it in such a fanciful and gripping way that you won't be able to stop until you've finished the series.

[Toneball]

let's see, 'Walden' and a Robert Frost collection. Plus Beowulf....again....for the 17th time. :)

[jedi]

The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. Plan on reading The Cardinal of The Kremlin Next then I'm done with his fiction and I'll move onto his non-fiction. First non-fiction I'm going to read is, Submarine.

[living.ghost]

Bourne Identity.

[Lexington_Steele]

Chuck is a literary god.

Chuck is good, but he is no Kurt Vonnegut.

[oddfish]

Dark Tower Series.. Finished Wolves of The Calla.

Song of Susannah is going to be sad, i know it. If any of the ka-tet die, even Oy, i'm gonna be pissed. but i know it's gonna happen, i just know it. One of 'em is gonna die. Probably Susannah.. i hate Stephen King, he got me too attached to these characters. Especially after this last one. WoTC really pulls you into the characters. Especailly Jake. Then, Wizard and Glass really got me attached to Roland, but mostly Cuthbert..


anyways, i'm also working on writing my own book. I've written a shitload of short stories, but, i'm working on my book now. 121 pages, six full chapters, and still going. this is gonna be long, from what i can tell so far...

[GonePostal]

The Inferno, and then the Illiad

[Everay]

Illiad is a good one, i listened to the Odessy on casette tape once, exelent book.

[Derfud]

Dune: The Butlerian Jihad - Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson (The war against thinking machines thousands of years before the original dune series).
I dont know why this book got so much flak, I think it's great so far.

The Icewind Dale Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
I finally managed to pick up a FR book. So far it's pretty great.

[SDM]

The Icewind Dale Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
I finally managed to pick up a FR book. So far it's pretty great.
You should read the Dark Elf Trilogy first. Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn are the prequils to Icewind Dale. There's like 15+ books all together. I suggest reading them all.

[Derfud]

Dangit, and I thought IWD was the first one. :/

Atleast I can say that book rivals most school textbooks.

[SDM]

Dangit, and I thought IWD was the first one. :/

Atleast I can say that book rivals most school textbooks.
R.A. did a StarWars. He wrote IWD, then went back and did a trilogy starting at Drizzt's birth with Homeland, and Sojourn leaves off where IWD starts. The Dark Elf Trilogy are the best three of them all.

[TekDragon]

Dune: The Butlerian Jihad - Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson (The war against thinking machines thousands of years before the original dune series).
I dont know why this book got so much flak, I think it's great so far.

It got flak because it's a cheap imitation of the Dune series made by wunna be's (even if one of them is his own son).

The new Dune books can't even be compared in the same bracket as the original Dune series (Dune, Dune Messiah, etc, etc, Chapterhouse: Dune).

You won't find anywhere near the religious, scientific, or political contexts as were found in the first one. They just seem.. shallow in comparison.