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Well I do apologize if my post upset you. Just trying to add a little humor to forums. :-) Plus, I think there are a few more worthy posts for the "Potential of Ruining the Thread" award than mine...Just a thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by GundamGuy
I thought Dragonlance novels and Forgotten Realms novels were the shit, back when I was, umm, 11...
Try reading David Gemmell if you like sword/sorcery novels, his first book, "Legend," is great, and will set you up for a phenomal spree of great reading..
Yes, I do have the mentality of an 11-year-old. :sweat: But I will definitely look into David Gemmel as well as that book you mentioned. Thanks! :sa-smile:
Well, I've read a few chapters from The Anarchist's Cook Book IV. I'm not done with it yet, but I'm still reading it *smirk* some very useful information we have here! :p
First, what I have not read: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Just bought it. :)
Now, what I have read, mostly while waiting for the aforementioned book. ;)
Fruits Basket 8, Natsuki Takaya
Full Moon wo Sagashite 1, Arina Tanemura (This one was a must-buy the second I saw it...the first manga I read was Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, after watching and loving the anime of the series, by the same manga-ka)
Shirahime-syo, CLAMP
Heh...
Currently reading books from the Drenai series by David Gemmell
Ah...rather quick to be posting again here, but I just finished the book most recently purchased. Another ending like this...first Sirius Black in the fifth book (I won't elaborate, for those who haven't read that yet), and now this, with both involved (Again, not elaborating since it's almost certain I'm the first here to finish the book), it's...I certainly await the final book, shall we say?
We need more of a bleak smilie, don't we...
have any body read herry potter latest book
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Eh. Just got done reading The Store and The House by Bentley Little.
I have been reading Knights of Darkness by Dr. Haha Lung. Its a pretty cool book.
Harry Potty...YaY! My baby stood first in line at 6.30 am to get it for me=) Demn, Rowling is trying to strike an adulty chord to every book as he gets older, someone should tell her, growing older doesn't always necessarily mean people you love dying every year. If that were always true, then Potty man better be having sex or sommat in this one.
Exciting nonetheless.
The ending of the newest Harry Potter books didn't engage me, cause she killed all the interesting characters.
I have read recently:
More than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss
Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling.
now a days iam doing studies on comerce books... they r tooo borimg
busy reading first 5 harry potter books then will read new one ...
I am currently reading the new one and WOW. thats all Ill say.
Yeah same. We are reading it at about the same pace. I just finished chapter 2.
READ THIS BOOK
harry potter 1,2,3,4,5
and 6 is in our country in a mont
and then im gonna read it
I'm waiting for my parents to get back from vacation and buy the latest one, I'm a broke college student and I will swipe their whole H.P. collection and re-read the series at leisure.. ^_^Quote:
Originally Posted by samarjit
I'm reading Katherine Kerr's Deverry novels right now, and I'm enjoying them pretty thoroughly. She tends to lean overly far toward "celtic" stuff imho, going to far as to provide a celtic pronounciation guide at the start of each of her books, and some of the locations and things names are just plain illegible.. "yvrodr," "mor i'r ddae," "aver troe matrw," :monocle: etc, it makes it confusing to get a feel for the story world, since the maps are full of all these unintelligible names of places that just kind of mush together in your head. Nothing really too original about the series, but it's a fun read anyway.
Also, I finished Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle a few weeks, ago, that was a major undertaking even for someone who reads 400 pages in a day easily.. The storyline was so complex, detailed, engrossing, and historically accurate, and the characters were so wild, that it was truly a treat to read. If you want to read these novels, I'd recommend reading Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, first, since it's set in modern day and world war II timeframes, and is a nice introduction to the characters in the baroque cycle (err, well, the descendants of the Baroque Cycle characters, who lived about 400 years or so earlier..) Reading fiction about Isaac Newton being all weird, cutting open dogs while they still live for the sake of "scientific advancement" :shocked: and stuff was plainly hilarious, it made me want to travel back in time, to a period of real discovery.. :bounce:
PS: Robert Jordan sucks, his novels are nothing but 400 pages of backstory, 2-300 pages of the same characters whining about the same problems, with almost no advancement, and then 400 pages of winding up the book to set up up on a "cliffhanger" for the next godforsaken book in his series.. I remember that one of his 1200 page books in the series had almost literally, NOTHING happen, except that one character got... a hat. x_x No joke, the guy got a stupid hat, and wore it for every following book. It wasn't even a cool hat!
Robert Jordan should be shot! :hotmad:
BTW, please don't anyone think that I'm insulting the FR and Dlance novels, they were a blast and certainly made me ramp my reading habit up by several notches.. It's just that they never really matured, and many of the authors/characters got worn out and formulaic.. I remember When I lost my taste for them; R.A.Salvatore my (previously) favorite fantasy author, with his Dark Elf series.. I was reading one novel, and then the next, and I noticed something odd.. The main character's pet (magical panther summoned from astral plane,) had gone from being a "female," to a "neuter" between books, with no explanation except for plain sloppy writing/continuity! :\ Then, I had settled down and gone back to reading him, and I picked up a book of Forgotten Realms short stories (tales of heroes or something, they had a series of heroes, villains, magic, etc, if I remember,) and the SAME character's magickal pet had suddenly become a MALE! Again, no explanation. Then I saw a picture of the author, except it had been done professionally to look all dark and gothic, and he was holding a big claymore, but he really looked like a pudgy loser who needed to get a good haircut.. I could never rekindle the magic with that author, or the entire story world, after that point.. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by c0y0te
Harry Potter 6 is a good book. And the British bookies were right to stop betting on who dies when they did. Obviously the people at the printing press were cheating when the put their bets in.
Potty Man getting real good now. Enjoying it. Wish could hibernate away from life and finish the book in peace, but silly things like college and peeing always have to come in the way. mehness.
Also attmepting to read The Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides. Let's see how that goes.
A must for Cyber Punk fans, and of course Blade Runner fans is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" which is the novel by Philip K. Dick on which Blade Runner was adapted from.
Anyway I picked it up again for the first time in almost 5 years and just finished it. I must say it is by far one of my favourite reads and even today it holds its own against modern sci-fi books, truely one ahead of it's time. 8-)
Just read The Town, The Store, The Collection and The Walking by Bentley Little during the first week of summer school. Gogo freaky horror.
Cried. Cried when _________ died. Demn. finished Potty man. So bloody upsetting. I've been waiting for so long for the demn book and then it goes and gets over in about 4 hours. Feeling vacant w/o the book, more so feeling silly for feeling vacant.
Going to read all the pottys again and then going to carry on reading The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghose.
Just finished The House and The Forgotten. ><
I just got done reading the graphic novel, Batman: Year One. Currently reading The Stand, Complete and Uncut by Stephen King.
i started A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway. i have to read it for school this summer. its quite boring so far.
HP book 6
(10 chars, bah!)
Latest read was "Lost Souls", currently - "Screw the Roses, Send me the thorns"...
Sadly enough, I went camping from Wednesday to today, and only finished four books.
Echoes of Honor - David Weber (Reread)
The Sword of the Land - Noel-Anne Brennan
Fitzpatrick's War - Theodore Judson
The Course of Empire - Eric Flint, K.D. Wentworth
today i started my second of three summer reading books. it is The Jungle and it is very boring so far. i might not find it so boring if it wern't for that i have to constantly write notes and shit on it for school.
the jungle isn't very god i read it last year in uh ... 11th grade
I just finished Exile by R A Salvatore the 2nd book in the Dark Elf Trilogy, I had just read Homeland the 1st one in the trilogy prior. Now for Sojourn.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Reading Wizard's First Rule for the 23432th time..
I take it snape gets pwnd? :P.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lenin.
Seeing how the pattern needs to keep going get my drift eh eh ;).
I just read the book jaws. My mom makes me read. She doesnt like me readin manga she claims its "not real reading"
i have just finished reading "five points someone" it is on life in IIT DELHI one of the top engg college in india
i thought sprung closed this :D