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21 Aug 2011, 6:32 pm

I am reading percy jackson and the lightning thief, aspergirls, and harry potter and the goblet of fire.

harry potter is my favorite book series of all time.

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21 Aug 2011, 6:35 pm

im waiting fpr the next book in the eragon series to come out.

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21 Aug 2011, 9:03 pm

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A Short History of Nearly Everything.

It's quite fun.

Isn't that a Bryson book?
I've had it on my bookshelf for a few months but have yet to read it.
I greatly enjoyed his The Mother Tongue, and I like science in general, so I'll probably give it a go after I read a few on my to-read list.

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21 Aug 2011, 9:04 pm

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I suppose were talking fiction here...

* Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
* Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
* On the Road - Jack Kerouac
* The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

All classics; very nice.

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21 Aug 2011, 9:05 pm

I'm a huge bibliophile; I'll have to think a bit harder about my top 5 favorites.

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21 Aug 2011, 9:23 pm

Hmm, picking five is difficult, I like to read a lot. Mainly fantasy/sci-fi fiction is my thing, and I have far too much of it to list. Here are some of my recent favourites:

The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
The Codex Alera, also by Jim Butcher (I love his humour)
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
The Matthew Swift novels by Kate Griffin
The Gentlemen B*****ds series by Scott Lynch (I have censored the name as I am not sure whether book titles are counted under offensive language rules. It is a great series nonetheless, and I am awaiting the next book eagerly).

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21 Aug 2011, 9:26 pm

I think they censor "bastard", anyways.

Let me check.

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21 Aug 2011, 9:26 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:

I think they censor "bastard", anyways.

Let me check.

... Guess they don't.

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22 Aug 2011, 12:28 am

zeldafan wrote:

im waiting fpr the next book in the eragon series to come out.

I wish it would come out already!

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22 Aug 2011, 5:27 am

My favourite books? There are so many of them! Impossible to pick a few.

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22 Aug 2011, 1:03 pm

please just pick five randomly from your favorites?

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22 Aug 2011, 1:53 pm

mntn13 wrote:

please just pick five randomly from your favorites?

I'll promise I'll get back to you later today on this. It will be such an arduous task...

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22 Aug 2011, 2:18 pm

My first five are
1- 100 years of lonliness by Gabriel Garcia Marqez, no words... awesome
2- The fifth son by Doris Lessing (this book seems to represent my experience of motherhood... read it if you are interested what a mother of a different boy feels)
3- The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir (an essay about female condition through centuries)
4- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates... how to write a novel!
5- Macbeth. I studied Shakespeare's english only to enjoy this reading...

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22 Aug 2011, 9:52 pm

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mntn13 wrote:

please just pick five randomly from your favorites?

I'll promise I'll get back to you later today on this. It will be such an arduous task...

...Tomorrow.

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23 Aug 2011, 5:33 am

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The Gentlemen B*****ds series by Scott Lynch (I have censored the name as I am not sure whether book titles are counted under offensive language rules. It is a great series nonetheless, and I am awaiting the next book eagerly).

I was given a copy of the first in that series, and it was highly entertaining.

i just finished Ringworld to which I give 3 Moogs out of 5

I'm thinking of getting round to a re-reading of Dune

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23 Aug 2011, 6:18 am

I have recently bought Watching: encounters with humans and other animals by Desmond Morris and I've also bought Hope for animals and their world by Jane Goodall, none of which I have started reading yet and I really should, I'm going to read Watching today.

My top 5 favourite books (in no particular order):
Benjamin Hale - The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
James Lever - Me Cheeta
Andrew Rosenstein - Flyboy: The All-True Adventures of a NASA Space-Chimp
Will Self - Great Apes
Dyan Sheldon - Planet Janet (this one has always been in my top 5 list)

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