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Post by Wulf » Mon Sep 20, 2004 3:47 pm

The Thousand Orcs
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Post by Matt » Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:03 pm

Lastwolf wrote:I couldn't take the whole LOTR story seriously, for fuck sake he said 'gay' like 30 times in the first chapter .. I don't care that the book was written in 1912 I'm reading it now and calling someone gay is just going to male me laught cause I'm an immature bastard.
that got me too
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Post by Vicious » Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:22 am

In no particular order

1. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3. The Book of Nightmares - Galway Kinnell
4. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
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Post by Bogey » Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:10 pm

I love Terry Pratchet, but I'd recommend the Death books more. Especially Reaperman and Soul Music.
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Post by Melana » Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:24 am

I should reply to this properly

Though this probably only applies properly if your female since most of the books I like have much more character developement things than plot things...which I've found guys find annoying

The Old Kingdom Trilogy by Garth Nix
The Protectors of the Small Quartet by Tamora Pierce
The Wayfarers redemption Series (or if your Australian and pre-date silly americans getting Australian books The Axis Triology and the Way farers redemption Trilogy) by Sara Douglass
The Mallorean by David Eddings
Near on anything set in the world where Valdemer exists by Mercedes Lackey
The Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey
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Post by Super Goat Weed » Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:04 pm

I think i read those eddings books. I thought they were allright, maybe a little juvinile in nature, but still a good story.
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Post by Melana » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:45 am

Well considering that I read them when I was like 15 that's probably why.

Alot of those books are actually ones i'd recommend a juvenille to read.
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Post by Kimiko » Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:48 pm

Sadly to say...i never got through any of the lord of the ring books....started reading the first one and lost interest...~blinks~....and i have only ever seen the first movie...~blinks some more~....and I haven't ever read any of the other books that were mentioned...and I haven't heard of some of them....
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Post by Bogey » Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:11 am

What do you read?
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Post by Morbid Angel » Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:41 am

"Long Hard Road Out of Hell" Marilyn Manson's autobiography, is pretty intersting, fan or not.
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Post by Kimiko » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:51 pm

you know...the normal stuff...newspapers, repair manuals, law books...school text books...~blinks some :huh: ~...No I don't read ne of those...not evne the txtbks...i would die if i did...i love mysteries, fantasies, and horrors.... :P
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Post by Super Goat Weed » Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:02 pm

pardon me if this sounds stupid, but i don't know how you can like fantasy and not like Lord of the Rings.

Course i guess that's like liking rock and not liking the Beatles, and that happens so yeah, maybe it is sort of understandable. But you should know that it's basicly Tolkien's work that got it all started.
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Post by Kimiko » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:48 pm

lets just put it this way....i was never able to get into those books...i found the first one sort've boring...i never got passed the first few chapters...
Super Goat Weed wrote:pardon me if this sounds stupid, but i don't know how you can like fantasy and not like Lord of the Rings.

Course i guess that's like liking rock and not liking the Beatles, and that happens so yeah, maybe it is sort of understandable. But you should know that it's basicly Tolkien's work that got it all started.
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Post by Bogey » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:12 pm

I think you need to be a fast reader to enjoy Tolkien, because you'll be stuck on one thing for too long if not.
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Post by Super Goat Weed » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:31 am

yeah

i always get yelled at for reading stuff too fast. When i'm playing an RPG and someon'e watching the dialogue just flies by.
Anyway, i think in so many ways Tolkien was too smart for his own good. He really had no idea how to simplify things. But then again, if he had simplified things then it wouldn't be the epic work that it is.
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