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I really like "The lord of the rings" trilogy and "The Hobbit". Those are amazing!
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07-13-2010, 12:42 PM
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Neil Gaiman has a new book coming out soon that looks excellent. I think I might have to add it to my (puny, 3 book) collection.
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08-10-2010, 11:36 PM
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Let the Right One In (seriously either watch the film or read the book you *won't be disappointed, its what twilight *should* have been liek)
The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo while i haven't finished it it so close to become my fav. book evar. Cardinal of the Kremlin Tom Clancy enuff. said
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08-11-2010, 12:06 AM
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Harry Potter Series.
Pendragon Series, best ever. Deltora Series Dragrons of Deltora Series Deltora Shadowlands Series Animorph series Hatchet The River Brian's Winter Brian's Return Phantom Tollbooth The Iceberg Hermit Swiss Family Robinson Robinson Crusoe Moby Dick Treasure Island Dear America books Dinotopia books Jason's Gold The Call of the Wild Down the Yukon Alex Rider Novels My Side of the Mountain. good book about a boy connecting with nature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Side_of_the_Mountain Little House on the Prairie Books The Rifle Call it Courage The Time Machine There are many more but that's all I can remember. And sorry for no Authors, I could look it all up but meh.
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08-20-2010, 06:16 AM
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Harvest of the Stars by Poul Anderson. The most epic sci-fi story ever written, imho.
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09-23-2010, 06:49 PM
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At the moment, I have to read "Medea. Stimmen" (I don't know the english title) and "Macbeth" for school.
But beside them, I read "A Night To Remember"  Does anybody know this book? Last edited by La'rityen; 05-07-2011 at 08:45 PM.
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09-23-2010, 08:22 PM
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Right now my favorite book series was definitely cirque du freak, Amazing books, Darren Shan is an excellent writer and it keeps you on the toes the entire time
 , and yeah i've read a little of A night to remember La'rityen
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09-23-2010, 08:24 PM
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 "We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find." "Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it because nobody else will. Like when someone comes into your life and half of you says: 'You're nowhere near ready'. And the other half says: 'Make her yours forever'."-Remember Me "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"-Mahatma Gandhi "It can't rain all the time"-The Crow
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09-23-2010, 08:32 PM
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I know right?! Such an amazing series, Did you like the end? It seriously was like OMGOMGOMG NOOOO WAY?! when it ended lol Darren shans got some serious skillz :p have you read any of his other books?
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09-24-2010, 04:23 PM
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I have read a lot of books over the years, mostly fantasy but a few other stand out as well.
Practice Effect by David Brin Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey (first four or five are the best..the rest..eh) Tomoe Gozen trilogy (forgot the author) Gen-Sime series (again forgot the author) Deryni series by Katherine Kurtz Most of the David Eddings stories are excellent as well. There are two other fantasy series that I am completely blanking on despite them being my all time favorite stories. All my books are in storage otherwise retrieving titles and authors would be much easier. A note on the Pern books, McCaffrey has been approached a few times and scripts were written for movie versions of her book(s) but turned them down because they wanted to totally change the story. Thanks to Cameron the technology is there to make dragons and riders totally believable. I hope that someday I will be able to see the Pern dragonriders on the big screen.
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10-04-2010, 11:37 AM
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I really like the Eden Trilogy by Harry Harrison. Its premise is that the giant meteorite that killed the dinosaurs and other giant reptiles never hit the Earth. Instead evolution just kept on and finally there arose a sentient race of lizard people called the Yilane. They developed a kind of biotechnology where they grew things that has its counterparts in technology, for example living dart guns, ichtyosaurs that is used like boats and similar things.
At the same time, isolated in North America, which have a colder climate than the tropical regions of the old world where Yilane arise, mammals and finally humans have developed. The humans live a stone age life. Finally these two species meet and start to fight each other. It is exciting books, with very good descriptions of the natural environments. Also the descriptions of the Yilane and their society, living conditions (they use gigantic trees as their homes) and language is very inspiring. The books in the trilogy is West of Eden, Winter in Eden and Return to Eden. Also I really like the Night´s Dawn Trilogy, by Peter F Hamilton. This is a really good Space Opera, with amazing technology, hyper space travel, space empires, interesting alien species and a mysterious threat. Also Hamilton describes two different cultural branches of humanity, the Edenists who rely on bio tech with living spaceships and space-habitats, biologically induced telepathy and biocomputers, and the Adamists, who rely on classical technology with spaceships, neural implants, cybernetic reinforcements and super-advanced electronic computers. The books in the trilogy are: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God. All these books will really blow your mind, they are awesome. Last edited by redpaintednavi; 10-06-2010 at 03:45 PM.
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10-06-2010, 03:33 PM
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More about these books:
Eden trilogy West of Eden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Winter in Eden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Eden_(novel) http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/hh/n25-1.htm Night´s Dawn trilogy The Night's Dawn Trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The world of Night´s Dawn Confederation Handwiki Last edited by redpaintednavi; 10-06-2010 at 03:44 PM.
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10-15-2010, 05:57 AM
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Man's Search for Meaning:
 A WW2 concentration camp story and psychology book combined. One of my favorite books especially the final section on logotherapy. Gave me the basis for several of the views I have today. "An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in beauty, art, or nature. But there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces. A creative life and a life of enjoyment are banned to him. But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete." Last edited by Banefull; 10-15-2010 at 06:02 AM.
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