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03-08-2011, 05:36 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by MissCheyenne
I'm......not reading anything at the minute  I ran out of books and have no idea what's around that's good. Come on people, recommend me stuff! I'll read pretty much ANYTHING except chick lit, you know, shitty romance novels and stuff. Other than that, anything's fair game. TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO READ WISE ONES. |
The Shannara Series by Terry Brooks which MUST be read in this order:
Running With the Demon*
Knight of the Word
Angel Fire East
Armagedon's Children
Elves of Cintra
Gypsy Morph
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The First King of Shannara*
The Sword of Shannara*
The Elfstones of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara
The Scions of Shannara
The Druid of Shannara
The Elf Queen of Shannara
The Talismans of Shannara
The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara
Antrax
Morgawr
Jarka Ruus
Tanequil
Straken
and then the first book of the new incomplete Trilogy (The Legends of Shannara) entitled 'The Bearers of the Black Staff' which is filling in the time gap marked with +++
Anything marked with an * can be a standalone read, but you really benefit from reading them all.
I'm a Terry Brooks junkie. :3
The series oscillates between Fantasy, Sci-fi and modern, but there's always a touch of fantasy and magic in each, and the modern sci-fi elements only really crop up prior to The First King and once again and onward from The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara
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03-08-2011, 05:44 PM
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#2852
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I bear a grudge against Shannara because something bad always happens to my favourite characters, or great things happen to characters I hate. Jerle Shannara was particularly guilty of this.
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03-08-2011, 06:00 PM
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#2853
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
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It's true, Terry Brooks is very guilty as charged, and yet, I always cling to the vain hope of a fairy tale ending that everything turns out alright for all the characters... and sometimes Mr. Brooks truly leads me on then breaks my heart (ie. the ending of Straken)
EDIT: Actually great stuff happened to one of my favourite characters from the First King/Sword (I cannot remember which, I think First King, because it involved Bremen), so that's not entirely true.
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“Lots of ways to help people. Sometimes heal patients; sometimes execute dangerous people. Either way helps.”
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03-10-2011, 11:39 AM
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#2854
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Uniontown, Kentucky
Posts: 334
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Demon In My View, By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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04-06-2011, 08:20 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Posts: 357
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John Lennon biography, and Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams.
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"An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high ;
But oh ! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye !
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die."
-The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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04-07-2011, 04:03 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: A ship called Dignity
Posts: 1,919
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Quantum Physics - Alastair I.M. Rae and (for the third time) Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
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04-07-2011, 04:56 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Buddhism, Sexuality And Gender. It was published in 1985 and its kinda funny how the lingo around sexuality has changed since. Nothing too drastic so far but I'm so used to seeing "gay men and lesbians" instead of "gay people".
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04-11-2011, 12:42 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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"French Women Don't Get Fat" by Mireille Guiliano.
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04-11-2011, 08:20 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Seattle,WA
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Rip it up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds...a review of Post-punk music haha good stuff
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04-16-2011, 04:42 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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Mists of Avalon, MZB. DoubleK thinks it's too feminist, but I think it's pretty super.
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04-21-2011, 04:33 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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Amanda hocking my blood approves series.
and books on how to teach toddlers art
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"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
Help me, I'm holding on for dear life
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04-23-2011, 05:02 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Australia
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"Skin hunger" by Kathleen Duey
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04-24-2011, 01:41 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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Originally Posted by korinna5555
Mists of Avalon, MZB. DoubleK thinks it's too feminist, but I think it's pretty super.
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Wait, TOO feminist? What?
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04-25-2011, 10:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Zootown
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Literary Theory: An Anthology ed. Rivkin and Ryan aaaaannnnddddd
Heart of Darkness (Critical Essays) ed Ross Murfin.
Oh yes, I am ready to be done with this.
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05-16-2011, 02:08 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I have four books to read for my War And Aggression course, I'm a good way through Shot In The Heart by Mikal Gilmore. I'm surprised I didn't have nightmares about Mormons last night.
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05-16-2011, 02:13 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: A ship called Dignity
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The Pleasures of The Damned - Charles Bukowski
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05-17-2011, 11:16 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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The Trial - Kafka.
Waiting excitedly for my copy of American Gods by Neil Gaiman to arrive, too. Every nerd I know has blown their load over this book. I am excited to say the least.
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05-18-2011, 11:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: New York City
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At the moment I'm reviewing Sartre, Beauvoir, Kant and Leibniz, among other historical figures for my upcoming philosophy final. Although once finished I intend to purchase and begin reading "Cities of the Red Night", by William S. Burroughs.
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05-22-2011, 06:46 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Seattle
Posts: 20
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Just finished
I just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez. It was amazing. This surreal trip through time with this village! Really intense themes about discontinuity and progress vs. stagnation!
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05-22-2011, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Seattle
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Wait, TOO feminist? What?
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Dude there is not such thing. An amazing woman really opened my eyes to feminist stuff lately. As a recently disabled guy, I'm grappling with a lot shit concerning masculine identity and my role in society as a guy now. My friend kicked my ass and opened my eyes to the struggles women have that make mine look small in comparison!!
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05-22-2011, 07:07 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
Posts: 1,726
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Readying "Feet of Clay", by Terry Pratchett.
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Kill your idol. Come on, jump into the void!
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05-22-2011, 07:59 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
This book not only sends me to a LARGE dictionary time and again, but sends me to other books: I have had to read The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca - Essays and Letters, and now I must pick up something by Aristophanes. In fact Nietzsche does not want a hasty reader; I realize now that if one wants to understand him in his context, one must begin with the Ancients, then read the Medevil philosophers, and then Nietzsche (as well as other Moderns).
If is a safe bet that my summer reading is fully scheduled. Woe unto you who chooses to truly understand the history of philosophy! For it is a Mobious Loop; philosophers referencing other philosophers, criticizing them, praising them, leaving the reader no where else but where he began!
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05-23-2011, 06:55 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Oh my gaw, isn't it enough to have reached this place, this collection of minds all waiting for me to read their thoughts at my leisure, to have the distillation of mankind's highest synthesis, without the limit of time complicating my reading list? Now I have discovered Kafka, and I am still not even half way through Western philosophy and American Literature, and have yet to even tap the
Orient. Time my Lord, please give me time!!! The Germans will consume much and yet I cannot linger long for other voices are calling!
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05-23-2011, 06:57 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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You haven't read Kafka yet? You are in for a treat, Kafka's great.
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05-23-2011, 08:54 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 2,932
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexMcDermott
I just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez. It was amazing. This surreal trip through time with this village! Really intense themes about discontinuity and progress vs. stagnation!
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I think I'm going to like you.
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You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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