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It's Friday night, so of course we're all at home alone reading our books, what have you got? I just picked up:


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Earlier this week I read Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming and The Farther Shore, and Ive got Deep Space 9: Abyss that I'm thinking about reading. Both books take place after their respective series. The Deep Space 9 books are particularly entertaining.
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Tale of 2 cities. by that guy, who's dead and writes books.
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If he's dead I don't think he writes anymore roid. ;)

I don't think I have anything worth reading at the moment. The last one I read though, was "Phantoms" by Dean Koontz
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yeah his stuff has really gone downhill since.
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Dune :)
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SWANK!
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Star Trek: Ashes of Eden
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Robinson Crusoe, full unedited original edition. They Capitalize all the Nouns and Miscillaneous Words in This kind of Book.
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A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett
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Peter F Hamilton: Pandora's Star
Jasper Fforde: Lost in a good book.

Think the Ender series lost it about 3 books ago. The first one was excellent.
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I'm going to start re-reading the first two books in the Wheel of Time series so that I can read the third and fourth, which I received at Christmas. I'm not a really huge fan of Robert Jordan's writing, but I do want to find out how he manages to drag his storyline out through 11 massive books. :P
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Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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"Against the Gods" by Peter L. Bernstein
"Hardtack and Coffee" by John Billings
"A World lit only by Fire" by William Manchester
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"Adaptive Speciation" edited by Dieckmann, Doebeli, Metz, and Tautz.

"The Gospel according to Matthew" by Matthew

"The DescentBB" hosted by Sickone
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Reading? Heh, I'm too busy writing one :D
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"Twelve", by Me
"Bartimaeus Trilogy: Golem's Eye", by Jonathan Stroud
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"For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Hemmingway

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"Words Of The Dragon: Bruce Lee" by John Little
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Ender's Shadow is a great book. :) Here's what I'm reading though,

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I just read On A Pale Horse and Naked Empire. Right now, a Javascript book. :)
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sojourn by r.a. salvatore
chainfire by terry goodkind
khai of kehm by brian lumley
ansi 837ia1 by wpc
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Recently finished The Two Swords by R.A. Salvatore.

They need to make movies out of his novels, dammit. ;)
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Verran, I'm really curious about those books. I've seen them everywhere and I always try to pick up a vibe from them by reading the blurb or a couple of pages, but I'm still pretty clueless. Can you clue me in on the appeal and overall story?
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The Last Juror by John Grisham
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Broken Time by Maggy Thomas
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Attack Poodles! by James Wolcott.
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ST DS9: Unity (the last of the "eighth season" novels)

This one has definitely gotten my attention with the return of a certain parasite from early TNG era.
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BigSlideHimself wrote:Verran, I'm really curious about those books. I've seen them everywhere and I always try to pick up a vibe from them by reading the blurb or a couple of pages, but I'm still pretty clueless. Can you clue me in on the appeal and overall story?
Sure thing BigSlide! The series is mostly about a dark elf named Drizzt Do'Urden. If you don't know D&D/Forgotten Realms, dark elves are an evil race of elves. Drizzt ends up being an affectionate / compassionate character, far from the norm of his evil race. The story is about how he is able to survive (primarily due to his fighting skills), overcome the enmity of his race, and how he finds much-needed companions along the way.


Many recommend reading in this order:

* Realms of Magic (Anthology) - Guenhwyvar (Short story)

* Dragon Magazine #152 - The First Notch (Short Story)


The Dark Elf Trilogy
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* Homeland (a favorite)
* Exile (a favorite)
* Sojourn (a favorite)


* Realms of Infamy (Anthology) - The Third Level


The Icewind Dale Trilogy
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* The Crystal Shard (a favorite)
* Streams of Silver (a favorite)
* The Halfling's Gem (a favorite)


Legacy of the Drow
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* The Legacy (a favorite)
* Realms of Valor (Anthology) - Dark Mirror
* Starless Night (a favorite)
* Siege of Darkness (I hated this one)


The Cleric Quintet
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(These books DO NOT have Drizzt in them, but the characters appear in later Drizzt books in cameo appearances)
* Canticle (a favorite)
* In Sylvan Shadows
* Night Masks
* The Fallen Fortress
* The Chaos Curse (a favorite)


The Highwayman
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* The Dowry (Short Story)


Passage to Dawn
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* Paths of Darkness (I hated this one)
* The Silent Blade
* The Spine of the World (I hated this one)
* Servant of the Shard
* Sea of Swords (a favorite)


* Realms of Shadow (Anthology) - That Curious Sword

* Best of the Realms (Anthology) - Empty Joys


The Hunter's Blades Trilogy
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* The Thousand Orcs
* The Lone Drow
* The Two Swords (a favorite)
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Last thing I read?
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War instruction manual. :P

Next book will probably Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (due out July 15th, 2005).u
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huh? you guys read on fridays?

last friday night was "Pirate Night." We bought a shitload of rum, watched pirate movies, talked like pirates, and lit ourselves on fire.


No joke. I have a first degree burn on my knuckle.
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After this book, I'm gonna re-read "ST: The Return" and "ST: Avenger". It's a triolgy, all written by Shatner.
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Intermediate Accounting: Volume I

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The Descent Bulletin Board by A. Geek
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Just started Dune: The Battle of Corrin.
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Stephen King-The gunslinger ....but i can't get into it yet.
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Refiner's Fire, the first novel by Mark Helprin. He wasn't quite in the Winter's Tale zone yet but was pretty good already. Better than his later books, I think.

Ooh, Winter's Tale. Being in a blizzard makes me want to reread that again.

I just got Hackers and Painters, which looks brilliant. Some of the essays in it are also online at the same site.
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The Eye of The World by Robert Jordan
This is a re-read.
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Bias- Bernard Goldberg.
Let Freedom ring- Sean Hannity.
Gunsmithing: Rifles- Patrick Sweeney
Gunsmithing: Pistols & Revolvers-Patrick Sweeney

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