Books? Reading? What?

[Enverdi]

Tell me about some good books you've read lately. In fact, be open to discussion about them. Yes!

I'll start. After a week of purchasing it, I have finished reading the new Robert Jordan book, Knife of Dreams. I love it! So much stuff got wrapped up in this book that I really feel has been severly drawn out.

What are your thoughts?
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Why use logic when you can just...make stuff up?

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i give up on WoT until the series ends. i'm convinced that if i stay up to date on reading it, he'll die before the series is completed.

that, and since another book is released every year to two years, i forget half of the 2136234 plot lines going on by the time i read the new one.

that said, the last things i read were (i tend to read a graphic novel between every two books):
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjana Satrapi
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
The Maxx by Sam Keith
Famous Pictures of Naked People by Jon Stewart
A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster by Josh Aiello
Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing by Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill
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A bright-eyed Thekko Ku Kalla dressed in a dapper sailor suit takes to flight and careers through the air toward the Modan Kucho and slams into him!
With a high-pitched cry, The Modan Kucho collapses in death.

[Enverdi]

He doesn't *whistle*
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Why use logic when you can just...make stuff up?

[Tugor]

I'm with Yaru on the Wheel of Time. I can't stand waiting for book to book, I'm just gonna wait until the series ends to buy the rest, I've read up to Path of Daggers.

I have quite a collection of books(over 300 last time I counted) as I never resell them after buying them. I'm the type that can read books over again even though I've already read them if they are good enough.

The first novel I read that got me into fantasy literature was 'A Spell for Chameleon' by Piers Anthony. It was the first book of the Xanth series.

Recently I just finished 'Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn' by Tad Williams and am currently finishing 'Mistress of the Empire' by Raymond E. Feist.
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[Enverdi]

A Spell for Chameleon was an amazing book. The series went down the drain, befuddled with puns, but I still try to keep up.
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Why use logic when you can just...make stuff up?

[HR-Mickey]

I keep on top of R.A. Salvatore's various series (FR or no) and just finished the last Drizzt book over the summer.

I also read this and recommend it.
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Mickey Brunner

To make a long story short, don't tell it.

I may be going nowhere, but I'm going nowhere fast.
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Kelvin Watt says, "I stopped drinking coke when no longer drinking beer didn't make my gut disappear."
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Kaelin Rae says, "Wait a minute..."
Kaelin Rae says, "You mean they have a COKE machine that dispenses beer."
Kaelin Rae nods to you.
Kaelin Rae says, "Greaser."
Kaelin Rae looks at you and sighs.

[Enverdi]

I dunno Mickey, that blurb reads a lot like a sideplot of Hitchiker's Guide...
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Why use logic when you can just...make stuff up?

[HR-Mickey]

If Douglas Adams wrote about rock and roll icons and a motorcycle named "Peggy Sue", then, yes.
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Mickey Brunner

To make a long story short, don't tell it.

I may be going nowhere, but I'm going nowhere fast.
---
Kelvin Watt says, "I stopped drinking coke when no longer drinking beer didn't make my gut disappear."
---
Kaelin Rae says, "Wait a minute..."
Kaelin Rae says, "You mean they have a COKE machine that dispenses beer."
Kaelin Rae nods to you.
Kaelin Rae says, "Greaser."
Kaelin Rae looks at you and sighs.

[HR-Morrigan]

As much as I love Jordan, I just couldn't get through the 10th book, it was just boring. I have the new one waiting to be read if I can ever get through the other one.

The book that I recommend is Neil Gaiman's latest, Anansi Boys, it totally rocks! And if you haven't read American Gods yet, do that too

edit: Tip of the Day: Don't post from work when you are ready to leave, it just leads to numerous typos!
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--Superintendent Chalmers

Morrigan Blackfury

[Enverdi]

[Kit]

[Brokyn]

I've been behind on my "classical" literature for awhile now. Here're my latest reads:

"1984," by George Orwell (more of a re-read, really)
"Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley
"Catcher in the Rye," by J.D. Salinger (re-read)
"Terrorism and Communism," by Leon Trotsky
"The ABC of Communism," by Nikolai Bukharin
"Mere Christianity," by C.S. Lewis
"The Republic," by Plato
"Capital : Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy," by Karl Marx
"Beyond Good and Evil," by Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm waffling between moving onto "Mein Kampf" (it might be interesting), "American Gods" and "Neuromancer". I might go with "American Gods" now that Morrigan recommends it.

--William
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neuromancer is good.
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A bright-eyed Thekko Ku Kalla dressed in a dapper sailor suit takes to flight and careers through the air toward the Modan Kucho and slams into him!
With a high-pitched cry, The Modan Kucho collapses in death.

[Enverdi]

Has anyone read the Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, or anything else written by that guy? I can't remember his name right now.

Also, Kit, Piers did another book with an unknown author called Dream a Little Dream, it's about Lucid Dreaming but an extremely engaging novel. I recommend it.
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Why use logic when you can just...make stuff up?

[HR-Faith]

Recent reads:

"Chainfire" by Terry Goodkind
"Straken" by Terry Brooks
"The Thousand Orcs" by R.A. Salvatore
"Knife of Dreams" by Robert Jordan
"Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice
"The Shadow of the Lion" by Mercedes Lackey
"Phaze Doubt" by Piers Anthony
"When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops" by George Carlin
"Prince of Demons" by Mickey Zucker Reichert

Some of these are re-reads, a lot of them are parts of series.
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