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    What book are you reading at the moment? It could have been a "YES RIGHT NOW!" thread, but books take a little longer to get through than songs, so you should only really need to post in this thread once a week (or longer).

    I'm reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, and I was meant to have finished it by last September. I have an exam (mock GCSE) on it on January 9th, so I need to finish it soon.

    EDIT: This thread is also so I can see what books might be worth buying, so feel free to post some info about the book, or make recommendations.
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    "Can Cows walk down stars" by various scientists

    a great book answering all of life's little questions, like the one in the title
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    "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami

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    War and Peace by good old Leo
    When ignorance reigns life is lost.

    War is norm, Fight the War, Screw the norm!

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    space odessey 2061 bu auther c clarke brilliant book
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    Quote Originally Posted by ColdKnight
    War and Peace by good old Leo
    That would've been the best book ever written if Anna Karenina didn't exist. Is this your first time through W&P?

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    'The Letter of Marque' by Patrock O'Brian.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proletariat
    That would've been the best book ever written if Anna Karenina didn't exist. Is this your first time through W&P?
    Yeah first reading of it. Why so?
    When ignorance reigns life is lost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proletariat
    That would've been the best book ever written if Anna Karenina didn't exist. Is this your first time through W&P?
    This is neither correct for Russian literature nor literature in general. But, I still like you.

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    eddings' belgariad for old times sake.
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    Finished re-reading Red Dragon. Next: Silence of the lambs.

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    The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
    Finished re-reading Red Dragon. Next: Silence of the lambs.
    That's in the wrong order?

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    At the moment I'm reading:

    Franco-Prussian War: The German conquest of France in 1870-1871
    by Geoffery (spelling?) Wawro.

    The Art of War
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    "Cryptonomican" by Neal Stephenson.

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    I'm just about to start Stalingrad (Beevor), as well as slowly reading 'Does anything eat wasps' (New Scientist) and a collection of the Onion from 2003-04.
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    Stalingrad (Beevor)
    Excelent book, if not mildly disturbing at times.

    Right now I've got my face in alot. There's The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin, Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (on again off again), The Princeton Review's Best 361 Colleges (on again off again), as well as my continuous reading and rereading of On The Road, also by Kerouac. And more short stories and essays than I want to consider (have to read and analyze 10 of each instead of taking a final exam).
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    Quote Originally Posted by evil_maniac from mars
    At the moment I'm reading:

    Franco-Prussian War: The German conquest of France in 1870-1871
    by Geoffery (spelling?) Wawro.

    The Art of War
    by Sun-Tzu

    Oh, and by the way, I also have these lined up to read next:

    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

    The Communist Manifesto
    by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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    LotR, The Return of the King
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
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    LotR, The Return of the King
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    Well I'll be damned, after all the praise I gave Harry Potter you are still reading a tale about to youth-friends from a world full of fairy's that go to all sorts of trouble to climb a mountain with a bloody ring?

    for shame!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony
    Well I'll be damned, after all the praise I gave Harry Potter you are still reading a tale about to youth-friends from a world full of fairy's that go to all sorts of trouble to climb a mountain with a bloody ring?

    for shame!
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    That's the Incompatible language films, not the books!
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    Reading a Fanasty Novel now for pure recreational reading. To The Green Angle Tower, by Tad Williams

    http://www.tadwilliams.com/angel_tower.html

    My next reading will be a history book - just haven't decided which one.
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    Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring99/gunsgerms.htm
    Actually, picking it back up after a hiatus. Idaho recommended it, so I got it last spring; fascinating examination of how chance tech advances let some groups leap-frog others.

    I hear someone made a TV presentation of it, but I've not seen it. I wonder if it was any good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
    Reading a Fanasty Novel now for pure recreational reading. To The Green Angle Tower, by Tad Williams

    http://www.tadwilliams.com/angel_tower.html

    My next reading will be a history book - just haven't decided which one.
    That is a good one, I read it about 10 years ago.

    I'm reading the 11th book in the Wheel of Time... I should say I read the prologue then went looking for something that actually has pace to it.

    Reading WoT was easy before as I used to read such a huge volume of works that WoT was a nice diversion from the others, now it seems to slow without the other ones to balance my book diet.
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    Dragon and the Raven by G.A. Hentry



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    Gods and Legions by Michael Curtis Ford, about the Emperor Julian the Apostate
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    I'll start The Historian soon, maybe in a couple of days, anyone read it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheSilverKnight
    Gods and Legions by Michael Curtis Ford, about the Emperor Julian the Apostate
    I really, really disliked that book. I can't say why, either. It was sort of like a smarmy guest who wouldn't leave. The kind of guest who eats all of your crackers and cheese, and leaves the crumbs in the couch. You know the kind I mean.

    I'll be curious to see if you have a more coherent reaction to that book than I did. Of course, in the canon of Imerial Roman Fiction, nothing's as bad as Hadrian's Wall, or as I like to think of it, "Dances With Celts."

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    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

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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've read the first two of your list.

    And don't worry about them having been already mentioned, it's what YOU'RE reading at the moment.
    I'll be moving onto Boudica by Manda Scott when I get all my unfinished coursework out of the way (that could take a while).

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