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Author Topic: Books you've read lately. (No snappy title)  (Read 291933 times)
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« Reply #30 on: November 01, 2007, 09:44:09 PM »

The Island of the Day Before
by Umberto Eco
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« Reply #31 on: November 01, 2007, 10:36:05 PM »

In during Baroque Cycle.

The Big Sleep, some civil war books, a few other things I may or may not retain much interest in.
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« Reply #32 on: November 01, 2007, 11:55:38 PM »

Ha, there's more manga listed here than there are books.



"La Religieuse" by Diderot (ooh là là, en français)
"Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata

Both school assignments. Couldn't stop reading either of them... which may mean that I've been book-starved for the past good while. Probably been absorbing too much visual media.

"The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright. Evolutionary psychology fascinates me.


We're about to start "Les Liasons Dangereuses." How sick is that! Anybody seen "Dangerous Liaisons" with Michelle Pfeiffer?
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« Reply #33 on: November 02, 2007, 11:35:43 PM »

Much of what I have read lately are either school books (which, with few exceptions, I have picked up with extreme distaste) or pleasure reading relating in some way to the stories I write  Smiley.  Here is a small list:

Metapatterns
Gaia Atlas of world peoples
the Cosmic Serpent
Chaos and Harmony

Also, since I've recently taken to geology with a strong passion, I've been reading the publications of a elect group of professors at my school.

Peace  Cool.
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« Reply #34 on: November 06, 2007, 02:49:44 AM »

The full rulebook for Magic: the Gathering. It's 144 pages. I'm trying to get back into tournament play again, and I need to know the new Type II legal rules and interpretations.
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« Reply #35 on: November 12, 2007, 04:05:56 AM »

Just read James Clavell's "The Children's Story" again.

So good, really, really short, but still so good.
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« Reply #36 on: November 12, 2007, 10:19:32 AM »

Watchmen


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« Reply #37 on: November 12, 2007, 11:59:31 AM »

A Guide to Programming in Java - by Beth Brown

The same class also uses the following online "book"...

Introduction to Computer Science using Java - by Bradley Kjell
http://chortle.ccsu.edu/java5/cs151java.html

I'm probably half way through the text book and about a third of the way through the web "book". It's the main reason why I've had so little time to post...
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« Reply #38 on: November 12, 2007, 04:18:16 PM »

Oh JAVA, how I miss you.

So much better than C++, though my bias might be due to being taught one, and just told to go out and program in the other.
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« Reply #39 on: January 08, 2008, 01:55:47 PM »

So now I'm through all four Ender books (Ender's Game is one of my favorite books, its excellent storytelling, the second one is pretty good, and the other ones I read to satisfy my need for MOAR, they're alright but not great)

Also, 5 books in Baroque Cycle, incredible series.

Now I'm reading Pullmans Dark Materials, and after that the Ender's Shadow books, then I think another Honor or two and then System of the World, the last books of Baroque Cycle.

All of these are highly recommended for anyone with sci-fi, or alternately, historical sci-fi fiction inklings.
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« Reply #40 on: January 09, 2008, 10:44:56 PM »

I re-read Twilight.... a chick book, doubt any one here has read it...
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« Reply #41 on: January 11, 2008, 09:16:58 PM »

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Dragon's Fire
RunAwys vol.7
Negima
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A 1929 version of ripleys
insturtion manual
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« Reply #42 on: January 14, 2008, 06:47:13 PM »

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the cart and the cwidder
the Hollow Kingdom

couldn't put either of them down...
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« Reply #43 on: January 22, 2008, 01:06:59 PM »

I started reading the first book in the Wheel of Time series, but haven't gotten very far yet.
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« Reply #44 on: January 22, 2008, 08:03:07 PM »

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The Encylipedia of Fairies (not a joke this is a real book)
How Crystals are made.
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