04-27-2002, 06:19 AM | #241 |
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At the moment I'm reading the third book in Timothy Zahn's three-bookseries: The Last Command.
Am still only at the beginning of Harry Turtledove's World War: Upsetting the balance. Am thinking of continuing reading Kim Robinson's Red Mars. |
04-27-2002, 07:34 PM | #242 | |
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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05-06-2002, 02:30 PM | #243 |
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Taking a pause in my reading of Star Wars novels, I have just begun reading Arthur Hailey's Airport and will continue to read all of them. I'm also reading Kim Robinson's Red Mars and the third installment of Harry Turtledove's World War-series.
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05-06-2002, 04:46 PM | #244 |
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What's red mars like? It's a series right? I've been meaning to read them for ages...
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05-06-2002, 08:49 PM | #245 | |
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05-07-2002, 11:22 AM | #246 | |
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05-07-2002, 11:25 AM | #247 | |
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05-07-2002, 05:18 PM | #248 |
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my apologies to everyone, when I said that I can't read more than one book at a time b/c it's too distracting. It would seem that I lied, albeit unintentionally.
now that school has ended, I find myself waist deep in: The Problem of Pain~~C.S. Lewis Boxen--this is a collection of stories about an imaginary land called Boxen that C.S.Lewis wrote when he was young. I mean really young, as in, age 8. I'm still plugging away at Dickens's Our Mutual Friend Just finished a short story by George Macdonald, and the title is something like: Son of the Day, Daughter of the Night. very interesting symbolism in that one. Last night I started Molder of Dreams, by Guy Doud have I got my plate full or what? I've also brought home a copy of Les Miserables, and my sister has promised me access to her copy of the Silmarillion...the list just keeps on getting longer.
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05-10-2002, 10:54 AM | #249 |
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Ive just completed the Chung kuo series by David Wyngrove - absolutely fanatastic , I cant rate them highly enough . If you never read more than one more book in your life , please make it this one ( actually there is about 8 of them ) - whats it about ?
the quick version - future earth - everybody ( not quite everybody ! ) lives in giant domes over each continent - ruled by chinese emperors ( Li Yuan main man ) battles between expansionists and the emperors and some really nasty bad guy - Devore - maybe the most evil sadistic bad guy ever - tons of other stuff about mars and love and art and marrying your sister in law etc it really is a top read , go forth and purchase pronto.
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05-28-2002, 11:11 AM | #250 |
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I'm fixing to start the fourth novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender series. I am enjoying those immensely.
I am also reading through the Silmarillion again....homework for the Inklings forum! Got to keep up with all those elves!!
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05-28-2002, 01:25 PM | #251 |
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I'm reading all my LOTR books, my David Eddings books, and I'm just starting to reread the Vampire Chronicles.
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05-28-2002, 02:53 PM | #252 |
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Am starting on the Silmarillion now. Wish me luck! Have been having a bugger of a time trying to get through the first few chapters, it's like trying to transliterate hieroglyphics, for eru's sake!
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05-28-2002, 03:11 PM | #253 |
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I've just started the first Book of Lost Tales, after waiting for months for it to get to my local library . It's a bit hard going so far!
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05-29-2002, 05:22 AM | #254 |
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half way through a George Best autobiography and just finnished Billy Connolly's biography anyone else read the Chung Kuo series by David Wyngrove ? well you should !
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05-29-2002, 11:43 AM | #255 |
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Am halfway through KSR's Red Mars. The first time I read it I thought the latin/greek placenames a bit difficult to pronounce, but I 've gotten over that. It's a very good read.
Am in the beginning of Arthur Hailey's Hotel. Also very good. |
05-29-2002, 12:01 PM | #256 |
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Oxford History of Early Medieval Philosophers (I think it's called...)
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05-29-2002, 01:25 PM | #257 |
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Starting on 'The rise and the fall of the dinosaur"
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05-29-2002, 04:44 PM | #258 |
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Tolkien: A look behind The Lord of the Rings, by Lin Carter, and then I'm going to start Unfinished Tales: Of Numenor and Middle-Earth
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05-30-2002, 10:06 AM | #260 |
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I read "Temperance" by Plato last night. The english translation.
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