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MorbidMolly Octoballoon Level: 21  Posts: 30/171 EXP: 46523 For next: 3420 Since: 08-26-04 From: my house, a state, USA Since last post: 70 days Last activity: 5 days |
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| What's your favorite Book, Author, or Series? I really like reading Edgar Allan Poe's work. But most of his books only have selected tales. My favorite story by him is The Black Cat. Very good story. Very disturbing. But still very good.  Some more good stories by him are: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Raven. (edited by MorbidMolly on 09-02-04 02:10 PM) |
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Kaiser Wilhelm Red Goomba Level: 11  Posts: 11/37 EXP: 4653 For next: 1332 Since: 09-01-04 From: Sheffield/Liverpool, UK Since last post: 423 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| Keep meaning to read things like that, but it all seems a bit morbid? Just finished a bunch of P.G. Wodehouse novels ("Summer Lightning" and the ilk, all Blandings stuff), The Odyssey (Shewrings prose translation, finally!) and George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia." Favourite author's got to be (too weak to pin it to one!): Albert Camus - The Plague, The Fall or The Myth of Sisyphus (the latter ones more of an essay, but it's good) Douglas Adams - Yeah, well, everyone knows about hitchhiker's guide, but more people should read the Dirk Gently stuff!  Noam Chomsky - Top class essays. Anything from the Seven Stories Press series by him or others (Mahajan's good) should put todays news in balance. |
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Gavin Fuzzy Rhinoceruses don't play games. They fucking charge your ass. Level: 43  Posts: 153/799 EXP: 551711 For next: 13335 Since: 03-15-04 From: IL, USA Since last post: 13 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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Originally posted by Kaiser Wilhelm ah, Camus, excellent the last book series i read was, admitedly, a fantasy series  . the magician series by Raymond E. Feist, if anyone is framiliar.I can't really pick out a favorite book at the moment, it's really too hard. I can say that one of the last interesting books i read wasAngels: An Endangered Species, also Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn was excellent. on the poetry side of things, William Blake does some excellent work (although i much prefer his engravings and etchings).. and no, i'm not refering to any of his famous poems titled after animals |
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MorbidMolly Octoballoon Level: 21 Posts: 31/171 EXP: 46523 For next: 3420 Since: 08-26-04 From: my house, a state, USA Since last post: 70 days Last activity: 5 days |
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Originally posted by Kaiser Wilhelm Yeah, Poe's stuff oozes morbidness. He says in his stories alot that he isn't mad but at times I think he is.  |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 3186/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Kaiser Wilhelm Red Goomba Level: 11 Posts: 13/37 EXP: 4653 For next: 1332 Since: 09-01-04 From: Sheffield/Liverpool, UK Since last post: 423 days Last activity: 339 days |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85  Posts: 1031/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| My favorite authors would have to be... Christie, Chrichton, Poe, Adams, Zahn, and Stackpole. A cookie to whoever knows those last two... |
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MorbidMolly Octoballoon Level: 21 Posts: 32/171 EXP: 46523 For next: 3420 Since: 08-26-04 From: my house, a state, USA Since last post: 70 days Last activity: 5 days |
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| Yes, Fantasy is always good. On Fantasy my favorite authors would have to be Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. |
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alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 1224/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Last book I read was called Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. It was a study on the mystery of a small Pyrenees town called Rennes-les-Chateau in France. It was quite interesting. | |||
Uncle Elmo Hammer Brother Partly Sweet, Helpful, good at advice and a half decent writer. Also modest. Level: 49 Posts: 641/1062 EXP: 845899 For next: 37984 Since: 03-15-04 From: Prestatyn, Uk Since last post: 23 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| More worm than book worm, but yes My parents nicknamed my room "The Library" My fave author is "Terry Pratchett" by far, my fave DW book is "Mort", although I'm also hooked on the Carrot/Angua thingy (WOn't elaborate due to spoilers). I own every single one of them, even the ones he's done for kids) I also love Douglas Adams (have you read "Salmon of Doubt". I'm going to come out here and say I'm a big "J.K Rowling" fan too, a Harry potter Nut. Roald Dahl is a bona fide genius by the way. Apart from those, factual or "making of" books, and also books of lists I seem to thrive on. |
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Banedon Giant Red Paratroopa Level: 55 Posts: 572/1408 EXP: 1291380 For next: 22809 Since: 03-15-04 From: Michigan Since last post: 101 days Last activity: 90 days |
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| I read a lot of books...many of them are about how stupid some people are, like the guy who tried to have sex with a vacuum cleaner. As for fiction, I like some fantasy and science fiction. | |||
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Toxic in a sublime state of mind Level: 75  Posts: 1944/2857 EXP: 3732709 For next: 94195 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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| I'm a pretty big reader. My latest favorite book is Catch-22, but I could list pages and pages of books I've loved. Join Me is another cool book, but it's non-fiction. I'm sure many of you Londonheads have heard of it. |
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Valentine Revolution Leever Level: 24  Posts: 155/199 EXP: 68616 For next: 9509 Since: 03-15-04 From: UK Since last post: 103 days Last activity: 59 days |
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I really love the Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop. I just keep reading and rereading them. I read a bit of Mercedes Lackey as well but apart from the Last Herald-Mage trilogy her work isn;t really dark enough for me. I like a bit of Dragonlance but only the core books, and anything with Dalamar in them, because I'm a sucker for dark elves  |
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Kaiser Wilhelm Red Goomba Level: 11 Posts: 17/37 EXP: 4653 For next: 1332 Since: 09-01-04 From: Sheffield/Liverpool, UK Since last post: 423 days Last activity: 339 days |
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Originally posted by Valentine Revolution I forgot totally about dragonlance/lotr! Anyone managed to get through the Silmarillion? Keep meaning to, but, at least the first book's too heavy going for me, and i've read quite a bit of it before in greek mythology. |
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62  Posts: 814/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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Oooh, you'll be interested to hear that me and Chad met Margret Weis once  And yes, the only book I ever read is Lord of the Rings. My taste in books is the equivilent of junk food, and I'm going to try to change that when I go back up to uni. I'm more preferential to non-fiction books. Some of my favorites have been about the band Blur and Gaming. (edited by Tomo Takino on 09-02-04 07:14 PM) |
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AcidMan Blue Octorok Level: 10  Posts: 8/35 EXP: 4271 For next: 143 Since: 09-03-04 From: Bedfordshire/Sheffield UK Since last post: 265 days Last activity: 205 days |
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| I also have a liking for discworld books. But my favourite author is H.P. Lovecraft. There's something about the way he writes that's so descriptive, and at the same time he only ever hints at things. | |||
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62 Posts: 816/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Oh, and the Silmarillion. I've read about half of it it different chunks, but to read it through from start to finish is a challenge. It's more like a reference text than a novel, totally different style to Lord of the Rings. | |||
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AcidMan Blue Octorok Level: 10 Posts: 9/35 EXP: 4271 For next: 143 Since: 09-03-04 From: Bedfordshire/Sheffield UK Since last post: 265 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Originally posted by Tomo Takino Hmmm, I gave up on LOTR about halfway through Return Of The King, simply because I put the book down and didn't pick it up again. I'd carry on now but I can't remember where I left off  |
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Kaiser Wilhelm Red Goomba Level: 11 Posts: 18/37 EXP: 4653 For next: 1332 Since: 09-01-04 From: Sheffield/Liverpool, UK Since last post: 423 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| If you want to broaden your tastes a bit Tomo I've got a few books I could lend ya. Pretty wide ranging, you're not having any of my reference books though - Due to some unpleasentness I'm kinda banned from renting library books And yeah, the silmarillion reads like myths of yore. I will finish it! |
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Dracoon Zelda The temp ban/forum ban bypasser! Level: 84  Posts: 1329/3727 EXP: 5514391 For next: 147561 Since: 03-25-04 From: At home Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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| A few good books I can remember would be The Hatchet and The River. Brian's Winter was also good. (all of these were by Gary Paulson.) "The Book of Swords" series was really good and his last name, being Sabrehagen, is kind of ironic. |
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