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    The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arrowhead
    Sorry if someone has already posted these:The Last Legion by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, The last kingdom by Bernard Cornwell and The pale horseman by Bernard Cornwell
    I'm reading a book by Cornwell, it's called The Archer's Tale.

    Have you read that by any chance ?

    I'm about half way through and I'm enjoying it more with each page I read.

    Though the way he writes is certainly different from other books I recently read.

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    I've just finished Reading "Put What Where?: Two Thousand Years of Sex Advice" by John Naish. Freaking hilaroious book. I got that as a Christmas present. Currently reading a Chinese novel (trans into Eng) "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Its damn thick and I'm only at Vol 1.
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    The Dragon Rebory, #3 in the Wheel of Time

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    Quote Originally Posted by littlelostboy
    Currently reading a Chinese novel (trans into Eng) "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Its damn thick and I'm only at Vol 1.
    A Chinese novel? Teh Chinese Novel, that is! That book is like The One in many Asian countries, the door to China's most fascinating war, even though their National Epic(no s) is Rayamana of native variants. Liu Bei might as well become our next Prime Minister. He's the perfect politician.

    I'm reading Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, by Clive Barker. It's great, simple fun, without heavy literature weight. I'm not in the mood for philosophy right now, and won't be for a long while, no doubt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
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    have you sung the Tom Bombadil song yet?

    check out http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/lord_rhymes for an 'alternative' take...
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    Currently reading 'The eight'. My sister gave it to me. It is a complete ripoff of the already terrible Davinci code, and to make it even worse, it's translated into dutch. I have never seen a translation as bad as this one, it is like reading english in dutch, it makes no sense at all. It is really a very very bad book, horrible. It is obvious that is was written in the hope someone would make a movie out of it, atrocious. So why do I keep reading? Not sure, very bad things can be fun from time to time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by matteus the inbred
    have you sung the Tom Bombadil song yet?

    check out http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/lord_rhymes for an 'alternative' take...


    Bro is listening a metalish german group sometimes; they have neat songs based on The Hobbit/LotR themes.
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    and of course Led Zeppelin songs are full of LotR references, there's a web page on it somewhere...
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    Gardens of the Moon by Stephen Erikson (*sp??, bah who cares ) I really like his books, there is so much depth and forethought gone into writing them, the guy must have some imagination. Third time reading this series I think.

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    Silmarillion (arrived today )
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    Silmarillion (arrived today )
    Tell me what you think of the book, once you've started.

    Been interested in the book for some time now, like to know what you think.

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    The Rise And Fall Of Rome

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
    Tell me what you think of the book, once you've started.

    Been interested in the book for some time now, like to know what you think.

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    OK. I'm only at Christopher's prefaces yet.
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    I just finished reading Ghengis Khan an The Making of The Modern World, by Jack Weatherford. Basically it's a revisionist history of Ghengis Khan and the Mongols in general and places them in a much better light then most history books. I'm no expert on the Mongols but I did find the book to be enjoyable and even if you disagree with the revisionism, the accounts of his childhood and young adult-hood were eye opening.

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    I've got a couple on the go....

    Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - it won the 2005 Pulitzer prize for fiction. If you want a "different" sort of read...it's worth looking at. For a start, it's got no chapters (which I found hard to get used to at first) but more than that there's something unique about her style....she seems to achieve a sort of beautiful simplicity, but the level of insight and poignancy that jumps out made we want to read slower, and reread some passages.

    The other one is one of Dean Koontz's - One Door Away from Heaven he's one of my favourite author's. For the genre, I reckon he's got pretty good depth, and always plants a redemptive theme through his nightmarish stuff!

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    Just finished Les Trois Mousquetaires. Great, great book. Dumas was a genius.

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    The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough

    It's a Roman Republican novel about Gaius Marius and Sulla Very in depth drama, great descriptions, awesome atmosphere, I'm only on chapter 2 but I'd seriously recommend it
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    Silverknight, I just finished that series. All eleven million pages, or however many it is. Me and Dutch Guy were talking about it earlier, if memory serves ... let us know what you think as you progress, if the spirit moves you ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
    I'm reading a book by Cornwell, it's called The Archer's Tale.

    Have you read that by any chance ?

    I'm about half way through and I'm enjoying it more with each page I read.

    Though the way he writes is certainly different from other books I recently read.

    It's called the Harlequin in English and it is a a good book (I like the time setting and thefact that the hero comes from the same place that I do). Highly recommend the Pale Horseman. Edington is his best battle yet, even though the characters are getting repetitive (see thread in the Mead Hall).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemurmania
    Silverknight, I just finished that series. All eleven million pages, or however many it is. Me and Dutch Guy were talking about it earlier, if memory serves ... let us know what you think as you progress, if the spirit moves you ...
    I still have quite a way to go! I'm reading "First Man in Rome" first, then "The Grass Crown", and then "Fortune's Favourites"...afterwards I start on the Caesar's ones I'll let you guys know how it's coming. I'm enjoying it thusfar!
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    I finally started Boudica by Manda Scott, but I'm only a chapter or two into it.

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    3/4ths of the way through: A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin, Brilliant read so far, however, I am sort of dreading reading A Feast for Crows as I heard, and someone here told me, it wasn't as good as the last three.

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    I've moved on to light fare, something to balance out the technical things I have to read for work. Terry Pratchett is fitting the bill, just finished Thud, moving on to Men at Arms.

    Like I said, I need a little break.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemurmania
    I've moved on to light fare, something to balance out the technical things I have to read for work. Terry Pratchett is fitting the bill, just finished Thud, moving on to Men at Arms.
    How did you like "Thud!"? I finished "Going Postal" two months ago, but it wasn't not nearly as good as "The Truth". Is "Thud!" an improvement?
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    I think Thud is an improvement on Going Postal, but you know how it is. Pratchett just does his thing. His books are always better than they need to be, but they also seem to fall short somehow. I don't mind -- he makes the best light reading of any living author. When my brain needs a break, he's there for me.

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    "Shadow" by K J Parker

    Quite interesting really, this Chappie wakes up with the standard Amnesia background story and travels about trying to find out what on earth has happened.

    It is made staggeringly more interesting than it sounds because as he pops off on his little journey he seems to be mimicking that of an ancient fairy tale (that he knows nothing about) in which a God comes down to earth and without any malice intended, utterly destroys the world.

    I heartily recommend it.

    The review incidentally, may well contain spoilers, just read the first paragraph if interested, it pretty much sums up the book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
    I think Thud is an improvement on Going Postal, but you know how it is. Pratchett just does his thing. His books are always better than they need to be, but they also seem to fall short somehow. I don't mind -- he makes the best light reading of any living author. When my brain needs a break, he's there for me.
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