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Offline markc

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Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« on: September 29, 2011, 12:56:13 PM »
In the past there has been a "What are you Reading Thread?" and I thought I would start it again to get some ideas since the holidays are approaching.


 I have finished George RR Martins latest work and loved it, I have also read the first two books of the Iron Elves series (think Sharps Rifles with Elves, Dwarves, Magic and such) (was ok) and I am just about finished with Dan Abnetts Third Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus "The Lost" (great series IMHO and love the Omnibus editions as they are economical here in the States).


So what are you Reading?
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2011, 02:20:54 PM »
I'm re-reading my hardbound copy of "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide" by Douglas Adams.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
Mostly Harmless

I gotta admit, it'd make a serious Christmas present. Hell, it'd make a serious blunt instrument.

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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2011, 02:37:19 PM »
I've recently unearthed some old titles that I liked when I was in High School and found in a box of old stuff.  Occasionally I read a few chapters in one of them just to lose myself for a bit.
Hobgoblin - John Coyne
God Stalk - P.C. Hodgell
Dream Park - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes

Then I've got the continuous re-listen to the unabridged version of Starship Troopers while I'm driving, and some non-fantasy/sci-fi stuff like The Forgotten 500 by Gregory Freeman, and a bunch of educational books related to business topics.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2011, 02:52:52 PM »
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Dream Park - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes

YMMV, but personally I consider the sequels to be good as well.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2011, 02:59:41 PM »
I can even give you a tease, with no spoiler alert needed because the final book ends with a quote. I won't make any promises as to accuracy of translation or attribution, but this is the final few lines of The California Voodoo Game, 3rd in the Dream Park series:

There are Paths that should not be taken.
There are Armies that should not be confronted.
There are Fortresses that should not be attacked.
There are Battles which should not be joined.

The Art of War, Sun Tzu

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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2011, 04:06:29 PM »
Just finished the first 3 Three Investigators books (young reader books from the 60's and 70's) and the Lensman series (E.E. "Doc" Smith). Now I have Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (I have already read the Old Man's War trilogy).
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2011, 10:57:15 PM »
I am rereading books I read way back in the late 60s and early 70s.

Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.

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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2011, 07:48:14 AM »
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I will be reading Michael de Larrabeiti's Borrible series: (1) The Borribles, (2) The Borribles Go For Broke, & (3) The Borribles: Across The Dark Metropolis.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2011, 10:11:06 AM »
Next on my list is the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2011, 06:17:54 PM »
Quote from: markc on September 29, 2011, 12:56:13 PM
I have finished George RR Martins latest work and loved it,

Not to give away any spoilers but I was pretty disappointed, mainly x years for this?  IMO after the next one comes out circa 2016 there needs to be some major re-editing of the last books to make more sense of them.  Too many side-plots that seem like page filler and after thoughts, but I digress...

Just finished Return of the Crimson Guard and a WH 40k sci fi fluff book Iron Hands.
Currently reading Nemesis by Asimov & Perfumed Scorpion by Idreas Shah.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2011, 09:54:20 AM »
"Dark Banquet- Blood and the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures", Bill Schutt.
An interesting book on how extremely difficult it is to live on blood. I never wanted to know so much about bedbugs..
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2011, 10:22:07 AM »
I just started on David Feintuch's; Seafort Saga I found in a box of old books I was going through.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2011, 10:33:05 AM »
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Footfall.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2011, 12:17:52 PM »
Quote from: GrumpyOldFart on November 28, 2011, 10:33:05 AM
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Footfall.

Was that with the elephant-like aliens? I remember the cover art, at least.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2011, 02:36:44 PM »
Yep, that's the one with the snouts. The Fithp.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2011, 03:42:31 PM »
Dug up some Warhammer 40k stuff for light reading (gotta love Ciaphas Cain), next to a cultural history of the Apaches.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2011, 09:45:19 PM »
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2011, 09:58:56 PM »
Quote from: arakish on September 29, 2011, 10:57:15 PM
I am rereading books I read way back in the late 60s and early 70s.

Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.

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If you do the math on the number of correspondences Lovecraft maintained, it's like.. 20 letters a day! I really enjoyed his stuff and actually got the Mrs. to dive in as well. :o
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #18 on: November 29, 2011, 12:03:35 PM »
I've been on a David kick lately, Drake and Webber.
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Re: Resurrection: What are you Reading?
« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2011, 07:26:56 AM »
Dune series.
Man, I get so much more 'reading' done after I started using audio books on a regular basis.
 
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