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Old 10-10-2006, 04:08 PM   #496
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The new SoIaF is out?!

Damn, I GOTTA get it, I've been waiting so long I stopped checking.
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Old 10-10-2006, 10:48 PM   #497
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No , I just like fine American ideas .
That being the case, Buddug, then take a look at the later pages of the gun threads over in Current Events. I just posted a reading list of fine American ideas there myself.
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Old 10-10-2006, 11:19 PM   #498
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PSST, buddug's been gone for months, theres no need to point her towards your neocon wishlist.
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Old 10-10-2006, 11:54 PM   #499
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I'm reading Wolfblade, one of those wonderful fantasy books. I read lots of fantasy... I'm tired of The Wheel of Time Series though I think they have pretty much lost any sense of suspense or "OMG I can't believe that just happened!" Because the plots are just so slooooow, and the author throws in way too many frivolous details. The last "substance" book I read was The Grapes Wrath a couple of months ago, good literature piece with wonderful historical insight.
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Old 10-10-2006, 11:56 PM   #500
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I'm tired of The Wheel of Time Series though I think they have pretty much lost any sense of suspense or "OMG I can't believe that just happened!"
If you want those, the Song of Ice and Fire series has them - and big ones. Only one in this latest book so far, but it's a doozy.
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Old 10-11-2006, 12:10 AM   #501
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If you want those, the Song of Ice and Fire series has them - and big ones. Only one in this latest book so far, but it's a doozy.
Thanks I might try that...my local library has a fairly poor stock, normally they'll have the 2nd book of a series but never the 1st, I really need to get cards to some of the larger libraries around...just been laze.
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Old 10-11-2006, 08:24 PM   #502
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Robert Jordan, right? True, that guy seems to have an utterly Swedish sense of dramatic pace. I'm a voracious reader, but trilogies that would stop an elephant gun are things I avoid picking up except to improve my muscle tone. Too many pages for not enough literary virtue -- kind of like the Shannara shelf-full. Though better written, which in the Shannara case isn't saying much.
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Old 10-11-2006, 08:35 PM   #503
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Wheel of Time is Robert Jordan. A Song of Ice and Fire is George R. R. Martin.
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Old 10-11-2006, 09:27 PM   #504
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Just checked out A Feast Of Crows from the school library!
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Old 10-11-2006, 09:40 PM   #505
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Islands in the Stream- Hemingway It was actually edited after he died. It isn't as riveting as his other stuff but still interesting.

Just finished my parallel read V. Pretty dark stuff.
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Old 10-11-2006, 09:48 PM   #506
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Just checked out A Feast Of Crows from the school library!
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Old 10-11-2006, 09:55 PM   #507
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Brand new library, just opened yesterday. It's been closed for remodelling, and its waaay cool now.
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Old 10-11-2006, 10:38 PM   #508
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Currently making my way through Heimskringla. Yes, the whole thing. Yes, it's fucking massive.

Grabbed the version from Project Gutenberg. 500+ pages. Uff da! Formatted it into two columns, 10 point font, horizontal page layout. The printed 2-up (two pages side by side on a single piece of paper) to a PostScript file. 192 pages 8-) I can upload the file if anybody wants it.
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Old 10-11-2006, 11:23 PM   #509
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The Time Traveler's Wife.

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What do you do when you meet the love of your life when you're six years old? And he's 36, but he's really only eight years older than you are? If you're Clare Abshire, you wait for each of his visits throughout the years until you meet him in real time.
Henry DeTamble is a time traveler, although not by choice. A genetic mutation causes him to spontaneously travel through time, disappearing from view, leaving behind his clothes and possessions, and arriving naked in another time and another place. For the most part, this is a curse. Henry often has to turn to petty crime to feed and clothe himself when he travels, and must run from people, thugs, or the police. Eventually Henry returns to his present time, bringing only the bodily injuries he's suffered back with him. Sometimes he travels back in time and visits an earlier version of himself. One of the places to which he travels often is the meadow behind Clare's house, and throughout her younger years, Clare meets him there and falls in love with him.
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Old 10-12-2006, 12:19 AM   #510
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Islands in the Stream- Hemingway It was actually edited after he died. It isn't as riveting as his other stuff but still interesting.
I just finished "The Sun Also Rises". Much preferred "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and I would like to read "Death in the Afternoon".

I read a short story in college, "The Short and Happy Life of Francis MacComber(sp)" and can't recall if Hemingway wrote it...but I remember I loved the story for all its' hidden meanings and symbolism.
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