Topic: Books Question
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Mon 11/22/10 09:24 PM
Who likes to read books? What are you reading now, and what would you suggest (My favorite).

I'm currently reading - Don't Start the Revolution Without Me - By Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell. It is very good.

My suggested book would be - Into Thin Air By - Buy Jon Krakauer. It is about a Disaster in 1996 on in an attempt to Climb Mt. Everest. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it. Those people are nuts!

I would also suggest Ann Rule's True Crime Books

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Mon 11/22/10 09:42 PM
Love books !
Usually reaf two @ a time , different genres
Currently reading
Got fight by forrest griffin
Wilt by tom sharpe

I highly recommend tom sharpe , he has a rther dark sense of humour , which is still surprisingly british , he's kinda like a vitriolic modern day version of wodehouse .

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Tue 11/23/10 09:33 PM
love books too. i also like to read more than one at a time.
reading now:
the devouring fearscape - Simon Holt
the apothecary`s daughter - Julie Klassen

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Tue 11/23/10 09:47 PM
oh i forgot the sugestion:
Soulless
Changless
Blamless
by Gail Carriger
this series is fun (the parasol protectorate series)
its a urban fantasy in historic England (jane austin style) but with vampires and werewofs in the mix. It`s very well writen and with a lot twists and turns. its funny!!! one of the best series i`ve read recentely.

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Wed 11/24/10 02:55 AM
i like the sound of that stefy..
whats the first in the series. if im gonna start on it.. i might as well start from the first book

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Wed 11/24/10 08:35 AM
Its been a slow month for me, not reading as much but do love to read.

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Wed 11/24/10 11:09 AM

i like the sound of that stefy..
whats the first in the series. if im gonna start on it.. i might as well start from the first book


The first one is Soulless!

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Wed 11/24/10 12:19 PM

Love books !
Usually reaf two @ a time , different genres
Currently reading
Got fight by forrest griffin
Wilt by tom sharpe

I highly recommend tom sharpe , he has a rther dark sense of humour , which is still surprisingly british , he's kinda like a vitriolic modern day version of wodehouse .


Love Wodehouse. Will check out Sharpe. Thanks for the suggestion! :smile:

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Wed 11/24/10 01:47 PM
I will definately have to read some of these above me.

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Wed 11/24/10 02:03 PM
Edited by Torgo70 on Wed 11/24/10 02:03 PM
Some of my favorite books include-

Steel Beach by John Varley

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Boy's Life by Robert McCammon

Little, Big by John Crowley

Imajica by Clive Barker

Son Of The Circus by John Irving

The Illuminatus! Trilogy( The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

The Alienist and its sequel The Angel Of Darkness by Caleb Carr

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

Currently rereading Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles

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Thu 11/25/10 09:40 PM
looooved the Martian Chronicles

Fav Sci Fi reading...

Asimov..Foundation Series, Robot Stories and Elijah Baily stories
Robert Heinlen..The Man Who Sold the Moon, Stranger In A Strange Land
Anne McCaffrey..All the Pern Chronicles

others...
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Who Goes There? (short story)
A Boy and His Dog


lots and lots more, but Im kind of sleepy right now...

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Thu 11/25/10 09:51 PM


i like the sound of that stefy..
whats the first in the series. if im gonna start on it.. i might as well start from the first book


The first one is Soulless!


thanks stefy

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Thu 11/25/10 09:52 PM


Love books !
Usually reaf two @ a time , different genres
Currently reading
Got fight by forrest griffin
Wilt by tom sharpe

I highly recommend tom sharpe , he has a rther dark sense of humour , which is still surprisingly british , he's kinda like a vitriolic modern day version of wodehouse .


Love Wodehouse. Will check out Sharpe. Thanks for the suggestion! :smile:


enjoy ! i suggest you start with Wilt..then finish the entire series on wilt. then move on to his others like Porterhouse Blues

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Fri 11/26/10 06:22 AM
Edited by Torgo70 on Fri 11/26/10 06:31 AM

looooved the Martian Chronicles

Fav Sci Fi reading...

Asimov..Foundation Series, Robot Stories and Elijah Baily stories
Robert Heinlen..The Man Who Sold the Moon, Stranger In A Strange Land
Anne McCaffrey..All the Pern Chronicles

others...
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Who Goes There? (short story)
A Boy and His Dog


lots and lots more, but Im kind of sleepy right now...


Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison(basis for Soylent Green)

Also Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle.

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny

Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens(aka The Other Human Race), and Fuzzies And Other People by H Beam Piper

Fuzzy Bones by William Tuning(Tuning was hired to write a sequel to Piper's first 2 Fuzzy novels after Piper's death, this was before Piper's unfinished manuscript Fuzzies and Other People was published in the early 80's.)