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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #30 on: January 01, 2011, 07:15:28 pm »
Deus, could you be more specific? Do you have a preference, or is anything from the pool of all human literature good with you? That being said, Sun Tzu's Art of War.
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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #31 on: January 01, 2011, 08:25:06 pm »
Quote from: Retro on January 01, 2011, 06:04:17 pm
House of Leaves.

Quote from: Heliman on January 01, 2011, 06:02:56 pm
Every book ever made by Terry Pratchett.

^This, but start with house of leaves.

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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #32 on: January 01, 2011, 08:38:48 pm »
Quote from: Realmfighter on January 01, 2011, 03:30:08 pm
Don't like thinking?

Try Leviathan

Ye gods, I thought you were talking about the philosophical work by Hobbes.

John Irving novels.  Also Neuromancer.


Also, how old are you?
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"The question of the usefulness of poetry arises only in periods of its decline, while in periods of its flowering, no one doubts its total uselessness." - Boris Pasternak

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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #33 on: January 01, 2011, 08:51:13 pm »
Hobbes's Leaviathan isn't bad either, at least on the first part when he talks about how man is inherently savage, greedy and overall evil. It gets bad at the point he starts talking about how great monarchy is.
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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #34 on: January 01, 2011, 08:59:13 pm »
Quote from: Heliman on January 01, 2011, 06:43:23 pm
Here you go then
Spoiler: The Order (click to show/hide)
... Right, I think I'm going with published order.
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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #35 on: January 01, 2011, 09:01:00 pm »
Good Omens
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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #36 on: January 01, 2011, 09:46:13 pm »
Shadowknight.
Hinterland.

The Pillars of Earth.

The Foundation Series.

The Caves of Steel.
The Robots of Dawn.

Odd Thomas.
Odd Hours.
Brother Odd.
Forever Odd.

The Bad Place.
The House of Thunder.
Your Heart Belongs to Me.
The Good Guy.
The Face.

The Hitchhikers 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.
Mostly Harmless.

Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency.
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

Magician.
Silverthorn.
A Darkness at Sethanon.

Faerie Tale.

The Kings Buccaneer.

Shadow of a Dark Queen.
Rise of a Merchant Prince.
Rage of a Demon King.
Shards of a Broken Crown.

Krondor: The Betrayal.
Krondor: The Assassins.
Krondor: Tear of the Gods.

Talon of the Silver Hawk.
King of  Foxes.
Exile's Return.

Flight of the Night Hawks.

Kane and Abel.
The Prodigal Daughter.

A Twist in the Tale.
A Quiver Full of Arrows.

The Eleventh Commandment.

The Fourth Estate.
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« Reply #37 on: January 01, 2011, 09:47:06 pm »
The collected works of Shakespeare.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The Phantom of the Opera.

Madame Bovary.

Lord of the Flies

Battle Royale

... Geez, I could go on and on forever, almost, and that is something that makes me happy today.
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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #38 on: January 01, 2011, 09:50:29 pm »
A Prisoner of Birth.
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.
Shall We Tell The President.
Honour Among Thieves.
Sons of Glory.
The Path of Honour.

:o Vector! You broke my list!!

If you're into dreck, which is still quite entertaining, anything by Matthew Rielly.

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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #39 on: January 01, 2011, 09:57:51 pm »
hell Charles Dickens books, Mark Twain books, Freakonomics (the book is awesome).
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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #40 on: January 01, 2011, 09:58:34 pm »
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Magician.
Silverthorn.
A Darkness at Sethanon.

Faerie Tale.

The Kings Buccaneer.

Shadow of a Dark Queen.
Rise of a Merchant Prince.
Rage of a Demon King.
Shards of a Broken Crown.

Krondor: The Betrayal.
Krondor: The Assassins.
Krondor: Tear of the Gods.

Talon of the Silver Hawk.
King of  Foxes.
Exile's Return.

God, really? They get repetitive. Read the first three.

The Wheel Of Time
The Malazan Book of the Fallen
The Saga of Recluce
The Ethos Effect
The Twilight Reign
Mistborn (and sequels)
Sahara (and not a single other Clive Cussler, it is the best, and all the others are the same thing, only with different villians and random artifacts being found)
1984
Animal Farm
The Fourth Estate
Kane and Abel
All the President's Men
Discworld looks good (I need to read it)
Silmarillion/All Middle Earth books
Not Twilight
Atlas Shrugged
Anthem
The Fountainhead
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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #41 on: January 01, 2011, 10:00:35 pm »
Lord of the Rings (if you can handle it)
The Culture Books
The Foundation Books
Rendezvous with Rama
Dune
Inheritance (Eragon)

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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #42 on: January 01, 2011, 10:00:53 pm »
You thought so? I quite liked all of them.
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« Reply #43 on: January 01, 2011, 10:01:10 pm »
The scott pilgrim series. I enjoyed a lazy afternoon reading it, listening to bands like Silversun pickups and of montral. So cash...
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Re: Things to Read
« Reply #44 on: January 01, 2011, 10:02:43 pm »
i find Ayn Rand books to suck so much and Animal Farm was the worst book i ever read, 1984 is really good though.
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