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Sol System
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Lost cause perhaps, but I picked up a softcover copy of Cryptonomicon the other day and am currently halfway through A Deepness In The Sky.

Any thoughts? Non-spoilered, of course.

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TSN
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Cryptonomicon is long. It gets boring at times, but it's pretty good overall. I didn't fully understand the ending, though...

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Jaffa woman: "Except your god!"
Teal'c: "False god! Dead false god..."
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AndrewR
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What are we reading??

Well I've got a few books going at the moment...

I finally got the DS9 Compedium... which I am reading like any Trek book... opening at any page and reading.

As for paperbacks...

"Ice Henge" by Kim Stanley Robinson
"An Anthropologist on Mars" by Oliver Sacks.

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But all that came back was the tide..." 'I Will Not Forget You' Sarah McLachlan


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Sol System
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Endings are apparently anathema to Stephenson.

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Nim
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I'm working on "Dune: House Atreides" and soon dito: House Harkonnen. Also, some shortstories by Mark Helprin.
And a shitload of mixed but sorted marvel-comics my brother let's me borrow when I'm ill. Last night I read some oldies, when Magneto ripped the adamantium from poor Wolvie's skeleton. That was low.

I WAS thinking of loaning "Finnegans Wake" soon, but I can't decide whether I want to stay sane or not.

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Read Peter F. Hamilton's "The Reality Dysfunction" recently, story elements and characters make it a good read.
Reading Iain M. Banks' "Against a Dark Background". Fairly good so far, but not the best of his sci-fi books.
Just finished David Gemmell's "Druss the Legend", a good hearty fantasy novel.Lots of swords, lots of gore, lots of tavern wenches.

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Fabrux
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Well, most recently I read Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Freaky book.

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Mmmm, reading through Xenocide and Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card. Its a continuation of the Ender's Game story.
Seems to be ok so far, not marvellous.... but even mediocre Card is worth reading

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I haven't bought a new book since...um...uh....hmm. Oh! Since "Atlantis Found" by Clive Cussler.

I'm currently on the waiting list at the library for his new one, "Blue Gold." Other than that, I just reread all my old books & I'm STILL trudging through my collection of essays on "Sovereignity and Security in the Arctic."

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