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02-25-2006, 08:24 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Slovenia
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Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.
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02-25-2006, 03:01 PM
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#577
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
Posts: 1,858
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The Babysitter Triology by R.L.Stine. I read it when I was about 9 & it always got me worrying if someone was secretly after me...
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02-25-2006, 04:11 PM
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#578
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: San Francisco, California.
Posts: 392
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"Fire To The Powder Keg", again. It was that good of a book to me.
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02-25-2006, 05:50 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,249
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Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett. It's a Warhammer 40k novel. I don't play the game but I love the setting. Lots of races constantly at war. An emperor that to stay alive thousands of people must be sacrificed everyday. It's pretty insane. Plus the guy on the front of the book looks all tough and "GRRR! I'm going to hurt you!" I think my sickness is making me silly. >_<
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02-25-2006, 06:35 PM
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#580
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 317
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Ender's Game by Orison Scott Card. I've read it before...many many times. But it will always remain as my favorite book. Such a wonderful novel.
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02-26-2006, 05:01 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: A long time ago in a galaxy far away...
Posts: 50
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The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This has been one of my favourite books for a very long time. I think I first read it when I was 7 or so, I'm not entirely sure.
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02-27-2006, 08:15 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Norway
Posts: 1,059
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I'm reading Havana by Stephen Hunter.
It's about a man who's recruited by a shady branch of the US government to kill the young Fidel Castro, another man who's going to woo him, Commie-style, and possibly some more men doing something else... I don't know, I'm only three chapters in so far. But it looks promising! I was in the mood for something hard-boiled, and this fits the bill.
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02-27-2006, 09:18 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
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I've just started reading "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglass Adams... again. This is about the fourth time I've read it and I still think that it's funny.
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02-28-2006, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: A long time ago in a galaxy far away...
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Have you read any of the other books in that series? They're fucking hilarious.
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02-28-2006, 01:19 PM
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#585
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: San Francisco, California.
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"From Mission To Microchip" by Fred Glass. Because I have to. It's for 1 of my Labour Studies classes & the author is my teacher.
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02-28-2006, 04:34 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Elegy for a Lost Star, by Elizabeth Haydon. I think it's better than lord of the rings
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03-02-2006, 06:59 AM
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#587
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,055
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I just finished The Gilded Cage: A Story of Esther, by Rebecca Kohn. It was so good, I read it in one sitting.
The Book of Esther in the Old Testament is one of my favorite, because it's about a woman (yes a woman) who uses her smarts, beauty, and position to save her people from genocide. But, it's not very personal. Kohn tells Esther's story and not only does she tell it in a way that makes you feel like you really know Esther, but she writes it as historically accurate as possible. One really great thing about this book is the character of the King. He has his terrible faults, but he has his good traits, too. He is very much a real human being. I like to read about characters that don't fit nicely into a little box and if you like that, you'll like this book. If you like historical fiction, this one is great.
Now I'm reading The Punishment of Beauty by Anne Rice. It's the second in the Beauty series. Melikes this one too. I can't wait to find out what happens at the end of the third book 
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03-02-2006, 04:04 PM
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#588
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 96
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Well I am currently reading C# Core Language of the Little Black Book series by Bill Wagner. Its a computer programing book.
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03-03-2006, 03:37 PM
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#589
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
Posts: 957
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Nemesion - Actually I have the omnibus edition. It has the first four books of the series in one book. They're ALL freaking hilarious!
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03-06-2006, 11:51 PM
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#590
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 317
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Dracula Was A Woman by Raymond T McNally. A wonderful, albet expensive, little book about the Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory.
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03-07-2006, 12:11 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,055
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Is it a documentary, or a historical fiction?
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03-07-2006, 12:17 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 317
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Documentary, first I read The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu which apperently didn't follow her story very well, but it was still a rather interesting read, but I wanted to really know the facts behind the woman, and I heard that Dracula Was A Woman was the best documentary out there on her.
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03-07-2006, 12:35 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,055
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Well, let me know if it was an interesting read because I might pick it up myself! I like stories that stick very closely to history but straight history sometimes bores me. Historical Fiction is one of my favorite genres but if this one is a good read according to you, I'll pick it up.
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03-07-2006, 12:46 AM
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#594
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
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For historical fiction I would definatly recommend The Blood Countess. I thought it was quite good. A couple scenes were a wee bit over the top, but thats to be expected from a book about Bathory I suppose.
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03-07-2006, 01:15 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
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And, if you would like Blushing, I could recommend alot of historical fiction books to you if you'd like. All I seem to do anymore is read.
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03-07-2006, 10:55 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: London, the loneliest city, England
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For Historical Fiction try reading Spartan, it by a Italian professor who’s name I’m not even going to try to spell. Excellent novel set in the warrior culture of the old Greek world.
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03-07-2006, 12:35 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 317
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Elephants and Castle by Alfred Duggan. Its about the succesors to Alexander the Great, if that counts as Greek mythology. He was a bit mythological I suppose, because he called himself the child of a god.
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03-07-2006, 12:37 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
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Oh, and if your looking for a really good historical fiction about classical achitecture, such as cathedrals and all that jazz. Check out Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. In my opinion, it's an amazing read.
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03-07-2006, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: London, the loneliest city, England
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Anybody know any other good novels involving Greek Mythology? I've read Spartan already, I think. I'm not sure.
I'll check amazon.com
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Any thing by the same guy. Valerio Massimo Manfredi is his name. Also wrote novels about Alexander the Great. The talisman of Troy, about what happened after the Trojan war and the Last Logion, about the fall of the roman empire. That is what I have read by him and they are brilliant.
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03-08-2006, 12:11 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,055
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Okay, this is going to sound a bit cheesy, but I love the Goddess Summoning series by P.C. Cast. They are romance novels that are about modern women who, some way or another, accidently manage to switch worlds/bodies with Greek mythological figures.
One, an Italian-American woman, accidently gets switched with Persephone and falls in love with Hades (Goddess of Spring)...
and the other is an Air Force Sgt. and gets switched with the mermaid daughter of Gaea and Poseidan. (Goddess of Sea).
There's also Goddess of Light, which I haven't read yet.
I don't like most romance because they don't always develop the characters enough, but I really like these.
So, here ya go, Xng!
Since I admitted I read Romance, I may as well admit that I'm reading 'Something Wicked' by Evelyn Vaugn. It's pretty good so far; the heroine is starting to fall in love with the 'good twin' of her sister's killer - whom she accidently cursed. It's original
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