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Currently reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Funny, informative and entertaining! 🙂
 
Last - The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
Current - Dark Winter - Andy McNab / Lonely Planet Of New Zealand
Next - Dave Gorman's Googlewhacking Adventure
 
hmm .. I only read webpages, forums, and technical manuals. ohh, and the captions on the tv screen for Kung Fu movies so I can understand what they are saying since I don't know Mandarin or Cantoneese.

Every couple of days it seems, I wind up reading stuff in the linux manual files... This is for my home linux server that I do not use with work or school.
 
last: The Miracle Detective: An Investigation of Holy Visions, by Randall Sullivan
deals mainly with apparitions of the virgin Mary in Medjugorje. somewhat disappointing.

next: My Life, Bill Clinton
 
Originally posted by: Ispy
Yeah Wuffsunie, I was actually wondering about the series as a whole myself. A few co-workers of mine have read through the whole series except for the one that isn't out yet, and I asked them about the others books and they just reply with "the first one is by far the best, after that it kinda slows down, and in the later books Richard is basically a side-character". But I really can't blame Terry for his mishaps because I can't even begin to fathom what he could do with 8 huge books taking place in the same "world" let alone have the same characters.
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Richard isn't so much a side character in the later books (exception is book 7, where everyone we've come to know is a side character and take up roughly 50 pages of text) as he's a one-dimensional character. Instead of exploring the world he begins to pontificate and preach. The subtle couching of morals and ideas that Terry does in the early books is abandoned in favor of flat-out stating them, and building very poor straw-man arguments to support them. As for complexity, wait till you see what he fully opens up in Stone of Tears, there is lots to do. The most amazing/annoying part is that books 7 and 8 accomplish pretty much nothing in terms of moving the overall plot forward. Heck, book 7 could have been 150 pages in a full novel and book 8 could have been pretty much eliminated from what I've heard. I just hope that what I heard is true; that book 9, Chainfire, is going to be the first of a trilogy that will end that series (or at least its major war).

I'm also assuming you've read "Debt of Bones"? I'm thinking about picking it up buts it's extremely small and costs almost $20, just wondering what you think about it.
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That's worth picking up. A cheaper way to do it is to get the Legends Anthology Vol 2 in paperback if you can (ie Amazon). That's in there along with two other stories, one of them by George RR Martin (that one is the best of the trio) and a poor, clichéd offering from Anne McCaffrey in her Pern series.

Originally posted by: FallenHero
You ever read "Calculating God" by Robert J. Sawyer? Check that out...VERY GOOD BOOK.
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I read that a while ago. The science is pretty good; not the most solid, but the book's entertaining as hell. Only a Canadian author would even dream of aliens making first contact in Toronto 😀 Very cool to see all the landmarks that I actually know in a book, too.
Try reading Sawyer's The Terminal Experiment if you liked God, that I thought was very cool.
 
Right now I've just started Kevin Mitnick's book, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security. Should be a good read about just how easy it is to own people through trickery.😛
 
The complete works of plato. And no, its not for school. 🙂

Also reading through hyperion, and the fall of hyperion. The best SF novels I have ever read in my life, bar none.
 
Originally posted by: saxguy
Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
technically I haven't read an entire book since like 6th grade... but I'm trying to start again. Reading Timeline by Michael Crichton right now 🙂
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what? that's what i am reading right now also 🙂
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I really like it 🙂 My friend keeps telling me to watch the movie after I finish it, apparently he loved it. He said it is a really good movie and it is just as good as the book.... however I'm not exactly sure if he read the book or not 😉
 
Hm.. finished The Big U by Stephenson. definitely not as developed as his later works, but funny and coarse in drug literature sort of way.

Also finished Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly, and I would seriously wipe my ass with the pages :camera: on principle if I wasn't sure it would clog the plumbing.

Next book I guess will have to be was Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds since someone just gave it an OMFG!!! 🙂
 
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Next book I guess will have to be was Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds since someone just gave it an OMFG!!! 🙂
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😀 Be sure to post your reaction to it. If you don't like it I'll be very surprised and quite interested in knowing why.
 
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