I'm reading diamond age again right now

-Dune and the other Dune books

-Battlefield Earth

-Fire Upon the deep & Deepness in the sky

-Cryptonomicron

-Lord of the rings" books

Oh yes and the Wheel of Time seris

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Lord of The Rings (of course!)
HHGTTG =funniest thing on this planet
Chronicles of Narnia (at least when you're < 15 years)
Neuromancer, and any thing William Gibson

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Starship Troopers by Rob A. Heinlen.
The 1954 Classic. Has very little to do with movie. Think Heavy Gear with bugs.

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks. Much better than the movie.

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"If it doesn't work, hit it with a hammer."

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"you are all figments of my imagination"

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Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit (liked it a lot more than LOTR. Probably cause I have ADD)
Joseph Campbell - Power of Myth (good to read if you're a Star Wars fan. Gives you a new perspective on IV, V, VI. Plus life in general)

Stephen King: The Dark Tower series plus some of his short(ish) stories
Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings et al.
Jane Austen: esp. Pride & Prejudice
The Bronte Sisters: esp. Tenant of Wildfell Hall
PG Wodehouse: Jeeves and Bertie stuff
Stephen Lawhead: esp. Taleisin and Merlin
Noel Streatfeild: from my childhood days but is still a favourite

Those are some of the books that I can read over and over and over again... I'm sure there's more :)

Ohhh... Dark Elf series... thats the Drizzit pre-surface huh? Good call.

Might actually finish reading battleship earth... got stuck in the middle and...

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Cryptonomicron
Mona Lisa
Battlefield Earth
Silicon Snake Oil

The Virgin Suicides
She's come undone -Wally Lamb
Moby Dick- Melville
Portriat of a Lady- James

I like books but Ive read many other things
like
Screwtape Letters- CS Lewis
Books of Enoch (the apochrapyl texts of the bible)
Travesities -Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -also Tom Stoppard
Angels in America (part1 and part2)-Kushner

Im not a big sci-fi reader because I never got into the genre....however I did read
Lord of the Rings if that counts..lol

anyway...I read a lot..suggest a book and I'll pick it up

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"The causes we know everything about depend on the causes we know nothing about, which depend on the causes we know absolutely nothing about."- Tom Stoppard

anything by douglas adams. man was a genius.
just about anything by vonnegut. read everyone of his our library had. only one i didn't like was galapagos, incidentally.
clancy, most recently without remorse. great read.
in the same genre, higgins is also good. in the name of the father.
was into crighton when i was 14 or so. got old.
hemingway's nice for a classic.
never really got into sci-fi (adams was about as far as i got). liked killin' better.

does anyone else think that the book maniac magee kicks major ass?

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"When aiming three blocks away at a 4th story window from your apartment with a high powered air gun and scope. Always make sure there is not a walking patrol cop below your building."

Dragonlance Chronicles VOL 1, 2, and 3.

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"Nothing Dies More Quickly Than A New Idea In A Closed Mind."

Time to get reading.

Does anyone know where I could find all of those quotes from the beginning of the chapters in Dune? They were great, but it's a pain to page throught the books for em.

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Fear is the mind-killer -The Bene-Gesserit Litany of Fear

"the whole theory of warfare is a calculated risk" duke leto.

that's the only quote from dune i can accurately remember.

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It's a dog eat dog world; I'll do what I have to and let others argue whether it's right or not. Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes

1984(George Orwell)
Animal Farm(George Orwell)
MacBeth(you all know who) but i don't know if this is really a "book"
OutBreak(Micheal Criton)

though my all time fave book is Magician by Raymond E. Fiest. damn fine book. also enjoyed Battlefield Earth

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Originally posted by Chronos:
Piers Anthony. that man is the genius when it comes to book writing... Xanth... Split Infinity... Bio of a Space Tyrant... Incarnatios of Immortality (hence my nick)... i could go on for hours about this man...

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I bet the real reason you like him is because of the novel FireFly.

Another author I liked was Richard Adams, particularly the book Maia. Stephen R Donaldson I liked for a while, but I haven't been able to re-read any of his books. To me that's the test of a good author: whether or not the books can be read and enjoyed multiple times. Gotta say that Tolkien is the best though.

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but he's just such a good writer, i mean, in it theres a scene with a five-year old findering herself. five years old! and i bet any man reading that would have got hard, as i did. its not a shame, its a tribute to his artistry

j/k

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