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Ahhh...I'v seen alot of his biography books on US presidents, though I confess, I never really waqs interested enough to pick one up
 ...perhaps I should one day
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04-29-2004, 09:15 AM
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Advocatus Diaboli
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i get the feeling that the 'new' books are somewhat questionable, how about 'chapterhouse' though? (i bought the others already, but figured i'd ask first on that one)
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04-29-2004, 03:22 PM
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Well, I'm probably the wrong person to ask - what, me biased - cos with the exception of Messiah, I loved them all. Chapterhouse was one of my favourites because Miles Teg was so central to the plot (he comes in Heretics).
Edit - Book Four: God Emperor of Dune was a really hard read. The other books I read in days/weeks, but GEoD took a couple of months. I really enjoyed it once I had finished though, but man, was it hard to get into. Kinda like the Silmarillion, hard but rewarding.
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04-29-2004, 03:45 PM
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 Also reading Thief Lord as review for "the boy". Pleasant enough for juvenile reading.
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05-02-2004, 01:44 PM
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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Currently reading 'the gate of death' septology (is that a word?) I love the references to Gandalf so far, though I'm very curious how it's feasable to quote Gandalf in seemingly separate fantasy world. Hopefully it gets explained in the later book.
Also reading LoTR for the discussion project and a geology book.
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05-02-2004, 05:43 PM
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Elf Lord
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Yeah, I read those. They were pretty good. The references were a little weird though, as you said. It's sort of explained at the end.
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05-02-2004, 06:26 PM
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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Oh good, I'd hate to find out at the end of book 7 that there is no explanation.
 
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05-02-2004, 06:34 PM
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I just finished reading "King Lear" for school, and in my spare time I'm reading "The Mists of Avalon."
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05-03-2004, 03:31 AM
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King Lear is fantastic (depressing, but fantastic). I just ordered Sweeter than all the world by Rudy Wiebe. But I'm not allowed to read it until I finish up all my leftover course-work on May 27...
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05-03-2004, 08:36 AM
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more than halfway through messiah... definitely some very zen-esk musing... i find myself reading a few pages then going back to the beginning of a chapter and reading it again... tough, but rewarding... i'm definitely getting more from it then i did the first time back when i was 11 or 12
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05-03-2004, 06:42 PM
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Just "finished" Fast Food Nation for school.
I just re-read "Feet of Clay" by Terry Pratchett. He is a genious.
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05-04-2004, 01:11 PM
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Am reading Book Two of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality: Bearing A Hourglass.
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05-04-2004, 04:03 PM
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Just started a re-read of Hogfather.
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05-08-2004, 08:58 AM
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05-08-2004, 01:56 PM
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Elf Lord
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Am reading Book Three of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality: With A Tangled Skein.
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05-08-2004, 05:06 PM
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Gaiman's American Gods and A Crown of Swords by R. Jordan.
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05-08-2004, 06:01 PM
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05-09-2004, 01:17 AM
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I'm reading Homer's Iliad. Must be prepared for the Troy movie.
And I'm still working with 'The Sound and the Fury'.
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05-09-2004, 09:26 PM
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I just finished my new favorite book, "The Persian Boy" by Mary Renault.
Extremely good book. Worth reading. I fell in love with alexander the Great after reading that book. Its a great book. Ofcourse I forgot to read "Fire from Heaven" first. That was suppose to be the first book but I just started to read the Persian Boy first and couldn 't stop reading it. (Plus I didn't know Fire from Heaven was the first part of the series. The book is called the Persian boy because its from a eunech(spp) from Persia's point of view after being gevin as a gift to Alexander during his crusade. Its a great book. Now I am reading the Da Vinci Code. It was lent to me by a teacher so I have to finish it before shcool ends. I am going to read Fire from Heaven after wards. So far The da Vinci code is great.
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