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I dunno, Hitchhiker's been pretty popular for a while. Ihaven't really noticed any "boost" per se.
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I assume you guys are trying to break the current world record for subtle, subliminal sarcasm, because I just talked about Honor Harrington in my first message, old ladies.
The Douglas Adams books were just referred to as HHGTTG.
Of course, TSN is known to have slight problems with such things as "Page 2" and such (we don't need to get into that) , I shouldn't be so baffled. I am be swede and turnip so perhaps I need to say things twice before it sinks in and you raise an eyebrow, like my prime minister did to Dubuya a couple of days ago on the top meeting.
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The Skystone by Jack Whyte; Timequake by His Eminence the Right Honourable Kurt Vonnegut; and just possibly, maybe, if I have a death wish War and Peace by that Tolstoy fellow.
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The Name of The Rose, by Umberto Eco. For my medieval philosophy class. "What do you know about it?" a neighbor asked. "It has Sean Connery in it," I said.
Walking on Glass, by Iain Banks.
Metamagical Themas, by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Some essays, by people. This last one is important, because it too is for a class, one about writing essays. The problem is, rather than just read them, we're supposed to write them. Which is what I'm not doing at this moment. Which is why I'm thread-dredging.
Um, so, anybody else writing essays? Or planning to? Or have in the recent (or, heck, distant) past?
Music to listen to while not writing essays (essays which, you suspect, may be too personal to attack, but then you fear that writing in general is too personal, and despair for awhile): Future Bible Heroes.
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I'm reading, for the first time, The Lord of the Rings. Just finished the Hobbit and am halfway through Fellowship. I've was given these books as a present about 20 years ago but I couldn't get through the Hobbit, since all I read at that time was hard SF. I liked the movie, so decided to have another go. Already, I'm surprised how much the events of Fellowship are telescoped in the movie. In the book there's, like, 20 years between Bilbo's disappearance and the start of Frodo's journey. In the movie, they seem like only a few hours apart. A good change, I think; speeds things up a lot.
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I just recently read Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. First book I've read since Dune Messiah over a year ago (whic I never finished, by the way...)
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I'm on one of my periodic alternate history kicks, so I just finished Harry Harrison's Stars & Stripes In Peril. Next on the list is The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. The premise of that one is that the Black Death wiped out all of Europe, not just one-third.
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I am currently reading 5 Ideas that changed the world, Barbara Ward Blood of the fold, Terry Goodkind 32 problems in world history, Edwin Fenton Just finished Donovan's brain, Curt Siodmak Andromeda Strain, Micheal Creighton Just starting Eagles brood, Jack Whyte Tom you should like this series of books, I have been reading it all out of order but they stand on their own well. I also read books on history, sciences all the time, but usually only as things I pick up and read for a while then stop and pick it up later. I guess I have a short attention span with some books but I ususlly finish novels but I am also usually reading 2 or 3 at a time. Kinda like switching channels on tv I guess.
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I'm getting through
Capitalizing book titles correctly, volume Two
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Sorry I didn't realize this was supposed to be a bibliography. It has been 17 years since I had to write one. I only learned about the M.L.A. a week ago.
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How to Write a Mi��ion and The Prometheus Deception.
I have on my shelves to read; The Sigma Protocol, The Forever War, Gateway (read it years ago but forgot what happened), the last 3 books of the Acorna series, Mars, Moonrise, Pegasus in Space, the Foundation Trilogy set after Isaac Asimov's series, Blue Mars, the Uplift Series and 24+ other books that I can't be arsed to list.
Come the end of univsersity I shall be spending my free hours reading, reading and reading (with a bit of writing and sailing and moving house thrown in for good measure).
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Well, I've just read most of the New Frontier books and i'm also reading Stalin: Breaker of Nations, which is quite good. I have also recently read Lord of the Rings as well as Redcoat by Richard Holmes and several of the Sharpe books.
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New Frontier books? Yeah, read them all (up to "Being Human" - any more out?) and the Section 31 books and first two DS9 relaunch books. Also read pretty much all the Star Wars and New Jedi Order books too.
Just wish that I could read books all day for a living - parents say it doesn't pay - what do you lot think?
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, I shouldn't be so baffled.![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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