Reading any good books? - Page 27

Spock · 12-09-2005, 01:25 PM

Tom Clancy's "Splinter Cell". A very provocative book in these times and written in his inimitable style.

durinsbane2244 · 12-09-2005, 10:27 PM

the two towers...an obscure book, anyone here heard of it? [shocked silence]

anyway, 13th time through this, than on to the 14th for return of the king...read it an extra time to get pumped for the film...and i read the FotR 37 times...sad, i know...only one i own...

Curubethion · 12-10-2005, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Spock

Tom Clancy's "Splinter Cell". A very provocative book in these times and written in his inimitable style.

Didn't they make a video game for that?

durinsbane2244 · 12-10-2005, 11:32 PM

they have three...

rohirrim TR · 12-12-2005, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Spock

Tom Clancy's "Splinter Cell". A very provocative book in these times and written in his inimitable style.

I thought someone else actually wrote those, but he just endorsed them or did someone just co-author them?

rohirrim TR · 01-30-2006, 04:21 PM

Musashi: by Yoshikawa, Charles Terry translation
real good book long, but very much worth your time.

Serenoli · 01-31-2006, 05:48 AM

Never heard of it....

what i mean is, could you please tell me what its about? cos its all Japanese to me.

Spock · 01-31-2006, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by rohirrim TR

Musashi: by Yoshikawa, Charles Terry translation
real good book long, but very much worth your time.

Excellent book and life to study. It's on my bookcase as I type this.

"Go-Rin-No-Sho" or "the book of five rings' as it is known in English is also one to read over and over, as it's nuances are missed with only a first reading.

Curubethion · 01-31-2006, 11:48 PM

Wheel of Time...yes those Robert Jordan books...that never end

...
I've only finished the third book in the series. Not too bad...

Grey_Wolf · 02-01-2006, 08:42 AM

After finishing Cussler's Dirk Pitt-books, Turtledove's Worldwar-series, Churchill's A history of English-speaking ppl's III: The Age of Revolution, Lawrence James' The Rise and fall of the British Empire and Kim S Robinson's Blue Mars, I'll begin reading Iggulden's Emperor-quartet (which fourth and final part I aquired in London).

rohirrim TR · 02-02-2006, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Spock

Excellent book and life to study. It's on my bookcase as I type this.

"Go-Rin-No-Sho" or "the book of five rings' as it is known in English is also one to read over and over, as it's nuances are missed with only a first reading.

I'm looking for the "five rings" but I haven't found it yet it looks worthwhile. I'm just starting "art of war" by sun-tzu.

katya · 02-02-2006, 06:32 PM

One of my exchange student friends here found Go-Rin-Sho (should it have the "no" in it? This one leaves it out) in Japanese and English in one book. Nice. I had thought about reading it a long time ago, so maybe this is my chance....

Spock · 02-03-2006, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by katya

One of my exchange student friends here found Go-Rin-Sho (should it have the "no" in it? This one leaves it out) in Japanese and English in one book. Nice. I had thought about reading it a long time ago, so maybe this is my chance....

Good. In many bookstores they carry the English version which does have the title as Go-Rin-No-Sho, of course that's so those speaking English can get the title correctly.

Elemmírë · 02-05-2006, 12:09 AM

Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. It's about time I got to reading more of him...

Reading a philologist in translation is painful.

But I don't speak German.

**crickhollow** · 02-05-2006, 02:27 AM

I just finished Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller. Has anyone read this or his other book, Blue Like Jazz?

Lotesse · 02-05-2006, 02:51 AM

No, but speaking of comedic-type writers, I just bought "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell," by Tucker Max, and it's the bomb! You guys should check out his website, tuckermax.com

Elenmire, "Beyond Good and Evil" is fantastic Nietsche.

The last sane person · 02-06-2006, 03:38 PM

"The Kite Runner" Not exactly like home, but much the same.

***Rían*** · 02-06-2006, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by crickhollow

I just finished Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller. Has anyone read this or his other book, Blue Like Jazz?

haven't read it, but I saw the title and liked it ... was it good?

**crickhollow** · 02-06-2006, 08:29 PM

Oh, it was excellent. I saw Donald Miller speak at the University of Texas last year, and a lot of what he spoke on is in Searching for God Knows What. He talks about the Gospel's significance as a story, and he dissects Romeo and Juliet as a narrative of the Christian story.

On top of that, he's great story teller, himself. I love the story about when he stopped believing in Santa Claus. One of his reviewers said Miller was like Anne Lamott on testosterone, and I'd say that's a pretty accurate discription.

Spock · 02-06-2006, 08:37 PM

I've just finished "Tony and Me" by Jack Klugman.

It's a great, easy read and gives insight into two guys who made many of us laugh. A bonus was that the book came with a DVD of out-takes from the 'odd couple' tv show....hil air e ous ..........

Take time to check this one out of your local library should it appear on the shelf.

12-09-2005, 01:25 PM	#521
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Tom Clancy's "Splinter Cell". A very provocative book in these times and written in his inimitable style. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

12-09-2005, 10:27 PM	#522
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	the two towers...an obscure book, anyone here heard of it? [shocked silence] anyway, 13th time through this, than on to the 14th for return of the king...read it an extra time to get pumped for the film...and i read the FotR 37 times...sad, i know...only one i own... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

12-10-2005, 11:32 PM	#524
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	they have three... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

01-31-2006, 05:48 AM	#527
Serenoli Head of the Department for the Invention and Propagation of Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ithilien Posts: 852	Never heard of it.... what i mean is, could you please tell me what its about? cos its all Japanese to me. __________________ "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery Join the Harry Potter discussion, click here

01-31-2006, 11:48 PM	#529
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Wheel of Time...yes those Robert Jordan books...that never end ... I've only finished the third book in the series. Not too bad... __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

02-01-2006, 08:42 AM	#530
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	After finishing Cussler's Dirk Pitt-books, Turtledove's Worldwar-series, Churchill's A history of English-speaking ppl's III: The Age of Revolution, Lawrence James' The Rise and fall of the British Empire and Kim S Robinson's Blue Mars, I'll begin reading Iggulden's Emperor-quartet (which fourth and final part I aquired in London).

02-02-2006, 06:32 PM	#532
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	One of my exchange student friends here found Go-Rin-Sho (should it have the "no" in it? This one leaves it out) in Japanese and English in one book. Nice. I had thought about reading it a long time ago, so maybe this is my chance....

02-05-2006, 12:09 AM	#534
Elemmírë avocatus diaboli Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Himring Posts: 1,582	Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. It's about time I got to reading more of him... Reading a philologist in translation is painful. But I don't speak German. __________________ ~ I have heard the languages of apocalypse and now I shall embrace the silence ~ Neil Gaiman

02-05-2006, 02:27 AM	#535
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	I just finished Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller. Has anyone read this or his other book, Blue Like Jazz? __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

02-05-2006, 02:51 AM	#536
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	No, but speaking of comedic-type writers, I just bought "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell," by Tucker Max, and it's the bomb! You guys should check out his website, tuckermax.com Elenmire, "Beyond Good and Evil" is fantastic Nietsche. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

02-06-2006, 03:38 PM	#537
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	"The Kite Runner" Not exactly like home, but much the same. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

02-06-2006, 08:29 PM	#539
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Oh, it was excellent. I saw Donald Miller speak at the University of Texas last year, and a lot of what he spoke on is in Searching for God Knows What. He talks about the Gospel's significance as a story, and he dissects Romeo and Juliet as a narrative of the Christian story. On top of that, he's great story teller, himself. I love the story about when he stopped believing in Santa Claus. One of his reviewers said Miller was like Anne Lamott on testosterone, and I'd say that's a pretty accurate discription. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

02-06-2006, 08:37 PM	#540
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	I've just finished "Tony and Me" by Jack Klugman. It's a great, easy read and gives insight into two guys who made many of us laugh. A bonus was that the book came with a DVD of out-takes from the 'odd couple' tv show....hil air e ous .......... Take time to check this one out of your local library should it appear on the shelf. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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