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    Recommend Me Some Good Books

    For the past 6 or 7 months I've been reading a lot more than I usually do and I'm looking for more.

    I've read the Dune books and really loved most of them.

    I'm in the process of reading the Earth Chirldren's series which started with Clan of the Cave Bear and I'm really loving them so far.

    I read Thomas B. Costain's The Plantagenets series The Conquering Family , The Magnificent Century , The Three Edwards and The Last Plantagenets which i really loved. His story telling style is great combined with the history of the period.

    I've seen a couple On Amazon and at the Library but knowing most people here are well read I'm looking for books in a series that link together. People keep encouraging me to dip into the Harry Potter series but I've resisted it so far.
    Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh
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    Re: Recommend Me Some Good Books

    Originally posted by Sprayber
    People keep encouraging me to dip into the Harry Potter series
    Don't waste your time.
    THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
    AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
    AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
    DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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    • #3
      Re: Re: Recommend Me Some Good Books

      Originally posted by LordShiva


      Don't waste your time.
      That's what I'm afraid of but I hate to get a book and not read the whole thing.
      Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh

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      • #4
        Berlin noir by Philip Kerr was a fun read:

        Now published in one paperback volume, these three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany -- richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In The Pale Criminal, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in A German Requiem, the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more death than he imagines.
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        Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing

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        • #5
          There's a what are you reading? thread, you know
          Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing

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          • #6
            I really liked Orson Scott Card's political thriller: Empire

            But lately, I've been concentrating on histories and historical fiction.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Nostromo
              There's a what are you reading? thread, you know
              Actually, I didn't know. Been gone for so long. I thought maybe there would be a books subfourm by now
              Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh

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              • #8
                Have you heard of this series called "Lord of the Rings"? It's quite amazing.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
                  Have you heard of this series called "Lord of the Rings"? It's quite amazing.
                  Bah, the movies were better.

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                  • #10
                    Glad you said that, it makes me feel abit better that i got the books last xmas and still haven't read them, i don't want to be let down
                    Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the greater race are transcendant, and to embrace them is to acheive enlightenment.

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                    • #11
                      'Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follett.

                      Just started rereading it.
                      Yes, let's be optimistic until we have reason to be otherwise...No, let's be pessimistic until we are forced to do otherwise...Maybe, let's be balanced until we are convinced to do otherwise. -- DrSpike, Skanky Burns, Shogun Gunner
                      ...aisdhieort...dticcok...

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                      • #12
                        He just published a sequel to that, did he not?

                        I was a bit disappointed at the ending to Pillars of the Earth, but overall it was a great book.
                        If at first you don't succeed, take the bloody hint and give up.

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                        • #13
                          Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader.
                          "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                          "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                          • #14
                            I'm reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, It's part one of The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

                            Just started yesterday, and I'm already hooked.

                            All the George RR Martin fans need to look into these books.

                            ACK!
                            Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Wezil
                              Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader.
                              Couldn't find anything more stimulating?
                              If at first you don't succeed, take the bloody hint and give up.

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