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scorpio1049
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posted January 18, 2002 01:52 PM |
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Yes...
I'm back... Heyo all members... And the third book "Belgarath - the sorcerer"
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jiels
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posted January 18, 2002 02:40 PM |
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For all the newer members who probably don't care ( ) here is an older thread on a similiar topic. If your looking for what other people like to read delve into this.
Favourite Books
jiels (getting older every minute)
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geralt
Bad-mannered
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Master of sword
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posted January 18, 2002 03:05 PM |
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Scorp you have cool avatar is it your custom??
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TheJester
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posted January 19, 2002 03:51 AM |
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Who here is a fan of Animal Farm? For those who have, what do you think of it? That's my favorite book.
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MicroMan
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posted January 19, 2002 04:24 AM |
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My favourite is Wild Magic.
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Defreni
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posted January 19, 2002 02:26 PM |
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Nice Jiels 
My favourite thread u just brought as a link from
And Jester, George Orwells "Animal Farm" is just wonderfull: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others!"
Again I like that book alot more than his more famous piece "1984". And the animated movie made for "Animal farm" can still bring tears to my eyes, when the poor horse dies.
Defreni
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Lord_Woock
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posted January 19, 2002 04:05 PM |
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I didn't read the book, but I've seen both movies. They're fantastic!
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Nebuka
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posted January 19, 2002 11:44 PM |
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I read both books but didn`t see any movie and the books are great.
Right now I`m reading Dan Simmons`s "Hyperion"-truly amazing book...
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Legolust
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Aurora Australis
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posted January 19, 2002 11:54 PM |
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um
LOTR... surprise. who couldve knowb that those that play homm like LOTR
anyway. after that comes harry p.
and i have to read DUNE ill have a friend email a e-book to me
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Romana
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Thx :D
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posted January 20, 2002 12:08 PM |
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I really love to read Stephen Kings books.
Also Lestat the vampire and Valley of Kings from Wilbur Smith
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Shadowstormed
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posted March 13, 2002 07:52 AM |
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Mine has to be the discworld books or the book Charlie and the chocolate factory!!!
Does anyone read discworld by thierry Pratchet??
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vigant
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posted August 20, 2006 09:59 AM |
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The Hobbit, all LOTR books, The Silmarillion.
Books by Mark Twain, he's excellent. I especially liked "Letters from Earth". And also Sci-Fi books, they're numerous, I couldn't name them all right now.
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maretti
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posted August 20, 2006 03:52 PM |
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Dostojevskij, Fjodor. The Brothers Karamazov.
Great book and great eye opener about religion. Not easy reading though.
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frostwolf
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posted August 20, 2006 10:17 PM |
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Now I know we all like to play HOMM, but really, does everybody here read only fantasy and SF? More than half of you answered LOTR.
C'mon people, really, does no one read real, non-fantasy literature? Something like the classics. I mean from all the books, from Herodotus' 'Historyes' to Poe or Dickens, there are thousands and thousands of books out there that have 'real' value, not just entertaining one; by this I mean they deal with matters of philosophy, morale and ethics, and so on, or simply have great 'estetical' merits.
I know the movies were good, but really, you should try to keep your reading sepaate from your movie-viewing. By this I mean that while we generally go to the movies to relax and be entertained, our reading should be oriented toward self-improvement and education.
On the subject, some of my favs are 'Quo Vadis', 'Frankenstein'(biggest mistake was to make a movie after it- that's how it got to be called horror-there's just so much more than that), 'The steppe(n)wolf', just to name a few.
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friendofgunnar
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posted August 21, 2006 07:50 AM |
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Quote:
our reading should be oriented toward self-improvement and education
Nah, you should only read something if it's interesting. That's my philosophy.
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russ
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blah, blah, blah
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posted August 21, 2006 08:19 PM |
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Edited by russ at 20:28, 21 Aug 2006.
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Anything written by James Hadley Chase and Robert Howard's (and his followers') Conan novels. Reading those books is like watching a good action movie. A lot of action, easy reading, not too encumbering. I don't read to get a headache, I read to relax.
Chase = things take place in the 20-th century and are as realistic as they can get.
Howard = Conan the Barbarian travels in a fantasy land of Hyborea, a land of sword and magic.
Edit: how could I forget Srugatskie brothers?!!! Their books take place in a futuristic society living in TRUE communism (and I have to admit, they got it down to the slighest detail). The space age has begun and the humans are busy with the space exploration and making their peer's lives better instead of being busy fighting one another and trying to get ahead of each other at any cost.
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TnT_Addict
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posted August 21, 2006 08:33 PM |
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Without any doubt, "Faith of the Fallen" by Terry Goodkind from the "Sword of Truth" series.
Eventhough english is not my native or even second native language  I managed to read it just about in 2 days. It was amazingly beautiful story starting from the middle of the boock about cruelty, disturbing equality, anguish, suffering, human willpower, physical power, love and magic.
For a fantasy book it had some really awefull views on communism and how dumb this reign could get.
My second favourite series after the great and famous "Dragon Lance"
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Blackdragon
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posted December 12, 2006 08:24 PM |
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I like the books of Pauline Gedge, because she descibes the ancient Egypt so well and at the same time it is not boring to read. You see that the people from now are the same with ambitions, needs and hate!
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