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I'm still reading the same books I was reading the last time, by the way. Guns, Germs, and Steel; the Complete blah blah of Edgar Allen Poe, and the first page of Gun, With Occasional Music. It's an Endless Summer.
Oh, and I'm studying the Worst Case Scenerio Survival Handbook very carefully, because you just never know.
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I was reading the ninth installment of the Honor Harrington series, Ashes of Victory, but that has come to an end. Now I'm thinking of rereading the William Gibson books, starting with Neuromancer all the way up to Idoru. Does anyone know of any new books published since Idoru? The father of cyberpunk still has much to give.
Also, I'm reading some brilliant and very informative small books by Patty Wipfler, about child psychology. Presently, "Tantrums and indignation". It's great information because while the books seem at first to be mainly aimed at parents to small children and teenagers, 90% of what's in the books can be applied to everyone's "inner child".
-------------------- "I'm nigh-invulnerable when I'm blasting!" Mel Gibson, X-Men
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I have multiple book shelves, but the one closet to me right now has mainly computer relates stuff on the top shelf. Microsoft MSCE stuff, reference books on stuff like Site Server, Networking, Web stuff, more reference books and text books on computer theory, and some MCP books in related fields.
Second shelf- novelisations. The one on the end, and the largest of all tomes is 'The Lord of The Rings', possibly the greatest book ever written. Then loads of sci-fi, fantasy and horror novels. Amongst them many Star Trek novels.
On the bottom three shelves, my esoteric collection. Maninly non-fiction on subjects ranging from paranormal phenonmenon, mysticism, anicent wisdom, spirituality, UFOs, lost civilzations, and so forth.
Some miscellaneous items include, one box of paracetamol, a black pen, a small pile of low denomination coins, a film for my camera, several half empty packets of cigarette papers, a cigarette lighter, a misplaced Bat Out of Hell CD, A Pink Floyd CD (I'm showing my age) some Bill recepits and three small screws.
...hmm, fascinating.
-------------------- "To the Enterprise and the Stargazer. Old girlfriends we'll never meet again." - Scotty
Four model boxes (Terry Labonte's #5 Kelloggs stock car, Ford Probe GT, 69 Shelby Mustang, VW Street Machine) A ceramic spaceship that I painted A bag of various Trek action figures A stack of Motor Trend magazines
On the second shelf: Some Trek novels (the ones that wouldn't fit on the bottom shelf) Two ceramic cat book-ends The Lord of the Rings collection Some Trek reference books (Chronology, LUG RPG guidebook) The NF comic "Double Time" Various magazines ranging from FHM to Star Trek: The Magazine
On the bottom shelf: The rest of my Trek novels (most of them can be seen on my website, Exit 80)
Then I have an old microwave stand with all my intact models on it. Sadly, I don't have any Trek models. These are all cars/trucks.
And on my dresser I have a bunch of Lego stuff I made.
There's a shelf that runs along the back wall of my room that has a couple of piggy banks, my Lever 2000 air freshener, my customized Trek Micro Machines, three trophies, FC figures of Picard, LaForge, and Data, and two Lego Bionicle sets. And my clip-lamp for reading.
-------------------- I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories
AKB: the best way to improve your writing is to, well, write. A lot.
Thanks MeGotBeer, I know. However the guide books have proved useful for structuring of my work as well as organising my notes in a more simplistic way (not to mention getting rid if all the crap in there! ). But yes, writing more does help improve your skill - can't argue with you there!
-------------------- If you cant convince them, confuse them.
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Listing everything on my bookshelves would keep me here for several days, so I'll just give you everything I've read in the past couple weeks, with a general overview of the other stuff:
Gateways 3&4: "Doors into Chaos" and "Demons of Air and Darkness" "The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1" "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman "The Descent of Anansi" by larry Niven & Steven Barnes "The Star Beast" by Robert Heinlein "Fresh for '01... You Suckas!" by Aaron McGruder "To Reign in Hell" by Steven Brust "Almost America" by Steve Tally" "A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits" by Carol and Dinah Mack
Next up to read: "Waverley" by Sir Walter Scott "Rob Roy" by Sir Walter Scott "The Burning City" by Niven & Pournelle.
On my Shelves: 424 Star-Trek related Books, RPG Sourcebooks, Novels, Reference Works, and Magazines. 27 Heinlein novels 31 Asimov novels 12 Clarke Novels 17 Dilbert collections 5 Wayne Douglas Barlowe books 3 Dougal Dixon books 7 Neil gaiman books 5 Robert Forward novels 5 Saberhagen novels 6 James Morrow novels 9 Anne Rice novels 7 C.S. Lewis Novels 7 Douglas Adams novels 5 Harry Turtledove novels 17 other assorted "Alternate History" novels/collections 7 Carl Sagan books All the Far Side, Bloom County/Outland, and Calvin & Hobbes books And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
-------------------- "The best defense is not a good offense. The best defense is a terrifyingly accurate and devastatingly powerful offense, with multiply-overlapping kill zones and time-on-target artillery strikes." -- Laurence, Archangel of the Sword
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Speaking of which, I just finished reading Enchantment by Orson Scott Card. Thanks for the info on that, Sol, it was an amazing book! I gotta read more of his stuff ...
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Man, you so out of date, the "physical" form of porn are almost extinct.
"Digital" shit is the main stream now!!
heeheehee...
-------------------- "George Washington said, 'I cannot tell a lie.' Richard Nixon said, 'I cannot tell the truth.' Bill Clinton said, 'I cannot tell the difference.'"
-- comedian TOM SMOTHERS, from his latest stage act with brother DICK SMOTHERS.
let's see, Updike's Too Far to Go, Mailor's Armies of the Night, Toni Morrison's Jazz, Don Delillo's WHite Noise, Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's planet, Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, and Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross...all for Recent american lit class. now all i have to do is write a paper on them...
-------------------- "Tragedy is when I cut my finger, Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."-Mel Brooks
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Let's see now... Some James Bond novels (Goldeneye, High Time to Kill, Doubleshot) Jurassic Park & Lost World. Star Trek Encyclopedia (2 & 3), DS9 Technical Manual, Continuing Mission, DS9 Companion. Various novels, some movie adaptations Rainbow Six Shadows of the Empire, Tales of the Bounty Hunters Currently I'm reading "The Bear and the Dragon." Assorted other works...
OnToMars
Now on to the making of films!
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Since my bookshelf is now one small two shelf deal and no longer several monstrosities spread over the house and filled with the collected purchases for my sister and I for our entire lives, I'll answer:
Top Shelf ========= Oxford Dictionary of science Bantam Thesaurus Webster's Dictionary I, Robot (Asimov) Foundation (Asimov) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke) Mars Trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson) The Martians (KSR) Endurance: Shacklton Expedition Seven Plays by Sam Sheperd Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard) Streetcar Named Desire (Williams) My University's course catalog Natural History of the Antarctic Introduction to the Space Environment Mars (the National Geographic book)
Lower Shelf =========== Spacefaring (human factors of spaceflight book) Bold Endeavours (likewise) Entering Space (Zubrin) Case for Mars***READ THIS*** (Zubrin) Last Man on the Moon (Cernan) Moonshot (Slayton/Sheperd) Dragonfly (Burrough) Man on the Moon (Andrew Chaikin)
What I brought with me to college.
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-------------------- If God didn't want us to fly, he wouldn't have given us Bernoulli's Principle.
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). But yes, writing more does help improve your skill - can't argue with you there! 
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