Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
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Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. :ph34r:
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Got my mitts on Dan Brown's first 3 books the other day...
Digital Fortress
Deception Point
Angels and Demons
When I'm done with them, I can finally start on The DaVinci Code.
I must be about the only person on the planet who hasn't read it yet. :01:
@Skizo :lol: :lol: push babi push
@unzi if this is this how you pick up women youll never get the one you want - go straight to the point you only have one life :frusty:
Resident Evil: City of the Dead by S.D. Perry
:lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by 15%
Zee book, she is like zee beyootiful voman, non?
(apologies to any French lotharios out there... ;) )
The reason I started at the beginning is that I like to read an author's catalogue from first to latest whenever possible.
You get to see the writer's skills evolve over time, and that can be pretty cool.
There can also be running gags or references to previous stories that a reader will miss, or not get at all if they started with a later work.
There's more reasons, but you get the idea...
And I have no need to pick up women - that's what my g/f tells me anyway. :unsure:
Consider Phleebas by Iain M. banks.
not his very best work but still a very good sci-fi novel.
The Cocka Hola Company by Abo Rasul.
Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
omg, if you haven't read this book you should be labeled a fag. seriously though, if you haven't checked it out do so, it's not your typical tom clancy book at all. if you're somewhat of an intellect, you can really read b/w the lines in this book, it has a much much much much deeper meaning then what meets the eye, at first u might not understand what i'm talking about, wait till u get 1/4 through the book, then you'll realize this guy is a freakin genius.
And I ordered this precious gem, heard some good things about it, either way, can't wait:
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASI...723390-1904850
I'm already done with the Resident Evil series :nuke: , which was very good, but for the love of god finish the series! :crying:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hairbautt
Currently reading: Star Wars Medstar I: Battle Surgeons by Michael Reaves & Steve Perry (Perry is back! :) ) & also The Awakening by Kate Chopin ( :wacko: ).
The Awakening, now that's a good book IMO.
The Awakening? :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by cpt_azad
'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom
From Publishers Weekly:
"At the time of his death, Eddie was an old man with a barrel chest and a torso as squat as a soup can," writes Albom, author of the bestselling phenomenon Tuesdays with Morrie, in a brief first novel that is going to make a huge impact on many hearts and minds. Wearing a work shirt with a patch on the chest that reads "Eddie" over "Maintenance," limping around with a cane thanks to an old war injury, Eddie was the kind of guy everybody, including Eddie himself, tended to write off as one of life's minor characters, a gruff bit of background color. He spent most of his life maintaining the rides at Ruby Pier, a seaside amusement park, greasing tracks and tightening bolts and listening for strange sounds, "keeping them safe." The children who visited the pier were drawn to Eddie "like cold hands to a fire." Yet Eddie believed that he lived a "nothing" life-gone nowhere he "wasn't shipped to with a rifle," doing work that "required no more brains than washing a dish." On his 83rd birthday, however, Eddie dies trying to save a little girl. He wakes up in heaven, where a succession of five people are waiting to show him the true meaning and value of his life. One by one, these mostly unexpected characters remind him that we all live in a vast web of interconnection with other lives; that all our stories overlap; that acts of sacrifice seemingly small or fruitless do affect others; and that loyalty and love matter to a degree we can never fathom. Simply told, sentimental and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership. Bringing into the spotlight the anonymous Eddies of the world, the men and women who get lost in our cultural obsession with fame and fortune, this slim tale, like Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, reminds us of what really matters here on earth, of what our lives are given to us for.
Dark Winter by Andy McNabb
The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
I wasn't sure I would like it but it has made me laugh out loud. Not many writers can do that.
Colours in the Steel - K.J. Parker
Dan Brown - Digital Fortress, (aka Het juvenalis dilemma <dutch title> )
Playboy :01:
just read the first 5 chapters of Yann Martel - Life of Pi
dont know why of is in italics :blink:
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Originally Posted by TheDave
Good book.
I have to read The Iliad and Heart of Darkness for next week.
Though for next weeks lecture on The Iliad we get to watch Troy. :01:
Lucifer's Dragon by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
So far it's just like reading another gibson novel, both in tone and subject.
The plot is his own though, so that's all right, and as I like Neuromancer and the rest, I quite like this.
Oedipus The King, this sick mo fo has sex with his mom
Great book. Cant stop reading :01:Quote:
Originally Posted by {I}{K}{E}
Currently halfway through Colditz - The definitive history by Henry Chancellor.
Apparently, it's "Based on the Acclaimed Channel Four Series"
Tupac : resurrection 1971-1996
I have just this minute finished, A series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snickett.
The triolgy included;
The bad beginning
The reptile room
The wide window
Although it obviously written for teenagers, I adore the style he writes in. Quite patronising if it was intended for adults, I guess, but amusing all the same. I'm sure my 14yr old brother will love these books as much as me.
I have to get hold of The Miserable Mill. :w00t:
Now half way through The Miserable Mill.
Went to the local libary this morning. :shifty:
Edit; Finished.
Next up is; The Austere Academy.
Just finished reading 'To kill a mockingbird' by Harper Lee
V. good actually - cried a few times too
Next book I am gonna read will either be Donna Tartt's the secret history OR Ian McEwan's Atonement - i aint sure which one i want to start
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
The Penguin Book of English Verse - Paul Keegan, Ed.
Both for uni unfortunately, can't remember the last time I read a book for pleasure. :(
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
because Tim Wheeler and Andy Sturmer told me to :dry:
RoadSense for Drivers: BC's Safe Driving Guide (not by choice) :(
Macbeth.
Read this for GCSE, so it should be interesting to look at it again at degree level.
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Originally Posted by Withcheese
I did it for GCSE, had to watch a dodgy version of it on video as well, it was by Playboy Products, Heigh Heffner was a p[roducer and the witches were old and very naked. Also had a full frontal of a boy like 10 years old :sick:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Heart of Darkness
Ian McEwan - atonement
CASH - by the editors of Rolling Stone. :)
Paradise Lost
The Penguin Book of English Verse
Prelude to Dune: House Harkonnen
Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden