03-05-2004, 02:29 PM | #1221 |
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At the moment I'm also reading BISMARK - Kampen om atlanten. It being one of my absolute favourite subjects - the German ww II navy.
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03-05-2004, 02:36 PM | #1222 | |
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it is really good!even though i am only in the third chapter.
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03-05-2004, 03:35 PM | #1223 |
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The Iliad was IMO very good! And the Odysse seems to be even better (on the 4th song now).
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03-05-2004, 08:21 PM | #1224 | ||
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03-05-2004, 09:58 PM | #1225 | |
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03-06-2004, 12:47 PM | #1226 |
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I just started the 'Ware' series by Rudy Rucker (Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware).
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03-06-2004, 06:12 PM | #1227 |
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letssee...
Hur... I'm reading... hmm... The Two Towers... (just read the Fellowship, btw)... Little Women... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn... Uncle Tom's Cabin... Villette (?)... Jane Eyre... To Kill a Mockingbird... White Fang... The Call of the Wild... lots of others, but I really can't remember right now, and I'm too lazy to get up and look!
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03-06-2004, 07:27 PM | #1228 | ||
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Wow! I thought I read a lot of books at once. Good stuff Nim! Welcome to the Moot by the way.
I'm reading "Dune", by Frank Herbert, "The Book of Five Rings", by Miyamoto Musashi, and "Tales from the Perilous Land" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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03-10-2004, 12:06 AM | #1229 |
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What am I reading?
Right now Huck Finn, for about the fourth time. This is for school though so it also involved doing work (groan). and real books....? I've been so busy. Everything was over by last Saturday. Now I just need to go the library. I must've read every book in our house. I think i'll try Canterbury Tales and/or Picture of Dorian Grey next. Mercutio
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03-16-2004, 08:59 PM | #1230 |
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i think i'm finally (after thinking i was going to for oh... 8 months or so, maybe more) start reading "Neuromancer" by William Gibson. should be interesting.
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03-16-2004, 09:22 PM | #1231 |
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I just finished Frank Peretti's book Nightmare Academy, volume 2 of the Veritas Project.
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03-16-2004, 10:04 PM | #1232 | |
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I'm juggling Tad Williams Bk 2 in the Otherland series, and some book that someone is making me read (Da Vinci Code ). *sigh* Too much to read, too little time! AND I've got to get through my assigned readings as well. *sigh* Stupid lecturer tried to give us last weeks readings to (re)read.
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03-16-2004, 11:36 PM | #1233 |
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lets just say that i usually read a lot, then i get to entmoot and forget my books for months...
Don Quixote (first few chapters) Evening with the Orchestra (need to finish a very long epilogue) Taras Bulba (page I)
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03-17-2004, 05:47 AM | #1235 |
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I'm reading the first book in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Apparently the first few books are excellent, but then they start to become unbelievable. I'll give them a go, however.
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03-17-2004, 08:43 AM | #1236 |
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I'm waiting until the series of Wheel of time ever gets finished. I hate reading books and then having to wait a year to get my paw- er hands on the sequel.
Right now I'm reading LoTR (Purely for the LoTR project of course ), The Peter principle and a book about American Gargoyles I got from my sister.
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03-17-2004, 01:48 PM | #1237 |
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Just started the first book in the Wheel of Time-series, expectations kept as low as possible.
Just finished two books, one which I had to read in English-classes ("We All Fall Down" by Robert Cormier) and the first book in the "A Song of Ice and Fire"-series, "A Game of Thrones" and loved it. Had to order the next one from Amazon! Hands itching...
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03-17-2004, 07:03 PM | #1238 |
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I read a review for a book called "Dancing on the Edge" and started reading it. It's pretty good. Not LotR, of course, but okay.
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At the moment I'm just concentrating on The Odyssey and Electra mainly for school work - I've put aside all my other books until after my exam preperation.
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03-17-2004, 07:50 PM | #1240 |
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Cool! I'm trying to get my friend to read Dune and The Silmarillion. He says both are dumb. Fool! He doesn't get it that you can't judge a book by its cover. *sigh* Oh well, his loss.
Wait, maybe I could blackmail him into reading them.
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