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    Found Lovecraft app, awesome. Started with The colour from space, his most creepy story imho.
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    On a bit of a Star Wars/Timothy Zahn kick at the moment: I just finished Outbound Flight, and have now begun Survivor's Quest.

    After that, will probably (re)read Steven Pressfield's Last of the Amazons.
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    Game of Thrones - A Feast for Crows.
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    LOLOLOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by edyzmedieval View Post
    I will make sure I will send my direwolf your way, Sir.
    I wasn't laughing at the subject matter of the book.

    I was laughing becoz people reading books.
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    Migrations of the Holy: God, State and the Political Meaning of the Church; William T. Cavanaugh

    My annual foray into theology; odd habit for a non-believer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump View Post
    I wasn't laughing at the subject matter of the book.

    I was laughing becoz people reading books.
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    Finished "Spijkerschrift", a book by an Iranian-Dutch called Kader Abdolah bloke last week. Reading Mario Puzo's Omertà at the moment, almost finished.

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    I began my annual rereading of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy earlier this week. Am currently halfway through Fellowship of the Ring; Frodo is currently recovering in Imladris.
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    A Great and Terrible King - King Edward I by Marc Morris.
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    The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, The Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades; Piers Paul Read

    A book that reminds how little I actually know about history :)
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    Finally finished the Return of the King (including the appendices) on Friday. So much do I enjoy my annual reading of the trilogy, that I'm always a little sad when I come to the end of it; it feels a little like saying good-bye to an old friend who I know I won't see again for a long while.


    I've now started Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield, one of my favorite authors of historical fiction. I read it once before about a decade back (sheesh, can it really have been that long??), and enjoyed it enough that when several months ago I found a used (but still in decent condition) copy for cheap, I couldn't resist picking it up.

    A good read so far. The memory of my previous reading is extremely fuzzy at this point, so it's almost like I'm reading it for the first time. Fun!
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    Troy by David Gemmel

    It's quickly becoming one of my favourite series.

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    Game of Thrones - A Dance with Dragons.
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    Am halfway through Mercy Kill by Aaron Allston. It's the just-released 10th novel in the Star Wars: X-Wing series.

    It's a good read, but I can tell that by not having read the NJO, LotF, and FotJ series, I'm missing out on a fair bit of the background material being referenced.
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    Reading Dinosaur Comics: Volume E by Ryan North. Sure, it is available online for free, but supporting independent art by buying it is cool too.
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    Hell's Angels Hunter S. Thompson. Very interesting read, filled with facts, quips and insights into both the biker sub-culture and the dominant American culture of the mid 20th Century.

    I've also been looking for books that would help me formulate better opinions and arguments against religious fallacy, I have read various writings of Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell. Any other suggestions?
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    Couple hundred pages into Skagboys, Irvine Welsh. Loving it. I realize now that it wasn't just the Scottish dialogue I had been missing all this time, it was Rents the main character from Trainspotting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proletariat View Post
    Couple hundred pages into Skagboys, Irvine Welsh. Loving it. I realize now that it wasn't just the Scottish dialogue I had been missing all this time, it was Rents the main character from Trainspotting.
    I really hated that one, there can be only so much style over substance. It isn't that I can't read it but it just annoyed me.

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    Currently working on several:

    Three Musketeers - A. Dumas. Re-read this every few years. Still one of the best novels ever written.
    Children of Dune - Frank Herbert. I find the sequels find themselves a little less focused than the original Dune. But it's very interesting nonetheless.
    The PMI Professional Project Manager certification guidebook. - About as fun as it sounds.
    The 4 hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss. Hate the tone, but like the content. If you have ability to separate the chaff from the corn, read this.

    Why so many at once? Well, the musketeers I almost know by heart, having read it in 4 languages and probably about 12 times since I was 14. Dune requires focusing of my imagination, which is great before bed, and the PMP one is mostly professional. Ferriss I read on a more-or less on-off fashion during my commute/boring meetings.
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    Pushkin, The Tales of Bielkin (TR translation)
    ​Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (read it once a year and almost each time begin in autumn)
    Not sure about mentioning the schoolwork scraps of Herodotos, Cicero and Plinius


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    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    I really hated that one, there can be only so much style over substance. It isn't that I can't read it but it just annoyed me.
    That's a shame, Frags, but I felt the very same way with just about every other Irvine Welsh book but this and Trainspotting. Porno had the great characters again but it was depressing if anything seeing them later in life. Marabou Stork Nightmares was very tedious and Glue was forgettable. I don't have the patience I did as a teenager to slog through bad books, doubt I could finish any of those if I read them now

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    My favourite sequel was Dune Messiah. The sadness of the story almost drips from the pages. Allthough GEoD was excellent as well. The last two of his books in this series were less satisfying. If he ended with GEoD it would have been a good end to a good series. Heretics and Chapterhouse just left me puzzled and wondering where he was going with these new storylines.

    Just finished Bonita Avenue, a Dutch book. Good but probably overrated by all the good press it has gotten. Not sure what I'm going to read next; although there are a couple of non-fiction books I loaned from friends and relatives that I have lying around.
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    This of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves

    I will continue to spam it untill one of you reads it

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    Thanks for the Dune recommendations, lads, will get those next.
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    I am just reading July 21st. An alternative story, what had happened if the assassination of Hitlr would have worked.

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    Rereading Anna Comnena's Alexiad; a biography of her Father the Byzantine Emperor at the time of the First Crusade with character portraits of the main leaders of the Crusade (whom she met). Can't beat first hand history.

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    @ Franconicus

    Care to share? Did things get better or worse?


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    Recently finished Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Am now in the midst of my annual reading of Asimov's Foundation series (all seven books).
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