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Old 01-30-2011, 06:07 PM   #1951
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Completely. I'm 75% through, and having a great time.

I also recommend "The Force is Middling in this One."

He is a funny guy.

I would favorably compare Bob Kroese to Douglas Adams, except that Adams had a typically dry British sense of humor, and Kroese is decidedly American, geeky American at that, using Linoleum as a plot point and sneaking in a reference to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
Just getting into it, but he is friggin hilarious.
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Old 01-30-2011, 09:23 PM   #1952
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Book ADD continues.

A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy - James Dellingpole
Wolf and Iron - George RR Dickson
Star Trek 1 - James Blish
Doctor Who: The Rescue - Ian Marter

All at the same time. I switch whenever the story starts lagging.
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Old 02-03-2011, 03:18 PM   #1953
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"Re"-reading Star Wars: The Mandalorian Armor - K.W. Jeter
Not sure for how much longer, though: I didn't finish it the first time.
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Old 02-06-2011, 10:33 AM   #1954
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Old 02-07-2011, 03:32 AM   #1955
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"The Husband" by Dean Koontz
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Old 02-07-2011, 01:53 PM   #1956
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A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy - James Dellingpole
Wolf and Iron - George RR Dickson
Star Trek 1 - James Blish

Doctor Who: The Rescue - Ian Marter
Crystal Singer - Anne McCaffrey
Erewhon - Samuel Butler
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Old 02-07-2011, 02:06 PM   #1957
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Oh, I loved Crystal Singer! Read it years and years ago. Might reread it sometime.
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Old 02-07-2011, 02:23 PM   #1958
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I had forgotten a lot of the story ... I remembered the major stuff, but some of the character interactions were very fresh on the reread. It's probably 20 years since I read it last.
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Old 02-07-2011, 04:35 PM   #1959
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I'm in book two of Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis. It's an interesting take on time travel as run by the Oxford history department.
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Old 02-07-2011, 10:38 PM   #1960
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golden buddha - clive cussler

i like me some good modern day indiana jones
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Old 02-08-2011, 06:24 AM   #1961
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I had forgotten a lot of the story ... I remembered the major stuff, but some of the character interactions were very fresh on the reread. It's probably 20 years since I read it last.
Ha. Must be about the same here.
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Old 02-08-2011, 06:48 AM   #1962
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Old 02-08-2011, 06:54 AM   #1963
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The Ship Who Sang is one of my favourite books ever. That whole sequence was just amazing.
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Old 02-08-2011, 07:50 AM   #1964
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I own a lot of books by Ann McCaffrey. The whole Pern ballad, Freedom novels, Crystal Singer, Pegasus Flight, Tower and Hive, Brainships, etc...
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Old 02-08-2011, 08:31 AM   #1965
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I no longer have the books. I had to sacrifice my book collection when I moved into this house, and have steadfastly avoided keeping a collection since. Basically, anything that I can't readily re-acquire should I want to I keep. And books that were given as particularly meaningful presents. And my signed copy of the Crucible of course :p And stuff I haven't got around to reading yet. Basically, despite my best efforts my house is still creaking with books, but I do at least offload them every year or so. Last year I got rid of all my 8th Doctor books, as I have them all now as pdfs. And all my new Doctor Who novels, except the three I hadn't read yet. And all my Terry Pratchett hardbacks, as I now have them all on audio.
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