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What Are You Reading?; The bookworms shall inherit the earth!
Topic Started: Mar 5 2005, 07:18 PM (10,279 Views)
Hyper-Ballad
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The Collector by John Fowles.

Your turn! Let's talk books! :whistle:
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Materia Thief
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For the one-billionth time,

The Hours by Michael Cunningham.
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Kusari Yarou
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The His Dark Materials series by Philipp Pullman
It is an awesome fantasy/scifi series
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Shrouded
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The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind as well as the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. :geek:

..and I agree, we will rule the world. :devil:
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The His Dark Materials series by Philipp Pullman
It is an awesome fantasy/scifi series


I agree! I adore the His Dark Materials trilogy! Such an amazingly good read... :wub:

It's great to meet another fan! :D

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The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind as well as the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. :geek:


Ah, my brother's reading the Wheel of Time series! ^_^

I'm going to have to get round to them one day... :geek:

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..and I agree, we will rule the world. :devil:


The world is ours, Shrouded. It's just that no-one else knows it yet. We'll just bide our time (reading) until we can take it back and rule it forever! :devil:
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Ah, my brother's reading the Wheel of Time series!

I'm going to have to get round to them one day...


WOT is very good. It was slow at the start but it became very interesting at the end. Now the Sword of Truth novels are very inspiring(something I did not expect for a fantasy book), it really gave me a new outlook in life. :geek:

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The world is ours, Shrouded. It's just that no-one else knows it yet. We'll just bide our time (reading) until we can take it back and rule it forever!


:devil: Tis' a plan then!!! They shall all cower in their dark corners whenever they hear our names!!!
( :whistle: anyways, check your PM)
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( :whistle: anyways, check your PM)


Done and dusted! :lol:

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Now the Sword of Truth novels are very inspiring(something I did not expect for a fantasy book), it really gave me a new outlook in life. :geek:


Now that's a good recommendation! If you don't mind that I'm inviting you rant, then I'd love to hear you elaborate a little. How do you feel about the series, and how did it change your outlook? Sorry if I'm prying, but I'm really interested... :geek:

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:devil: Tis' a plan then!!! They shall all cower in their dark corners whenever they hear our names!!!


Yes! It will be so! Let us amass our bookish army of darkness! :ph43r:
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Kusari Yarou
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Wheel of Time and Sword of Truth sound interesting...what are they about? :D
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I'd like to know, too! They sound like two series worth checking out.

As for me, I'm reading Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination at the moment. Helen Fielding, I love thee so... :)
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and Barrel Fever by David Sedaris. This guy is hilarious! :lol:
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Speak by Laurie Halsen Anderson. Verrrry dark... verrry lovely, really. Scabby lips remind me of... MEEEE!!! :winner:
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Spoilers--Well not really, just some overview. :cloud:

Wheel Of Time is about a very powerful hero who gets reborn every few centuries or so to battle the great "dark one". It's a typical "good destroys evil and save the world" kinda thing.

:cloud: With a twist...

You see, the hero is also prophesized to go crazy and kill everyone near him(he kills more than half of the world's population every century or so). So this reborn hero not only needs to worry about the "dark one", he also needs to worry about his sanity. :P

Overall, I love the character development here. There's also some pretty neat plot twists here too.

... but that's nowhere compared to the Sword of Truth novels. It's basically the same premise, a hero is foretold to be born and destroy the coming evil. However, this is more complex than WOT.

The book delves heavily into the grey areas of good and evil. It challenges your moral standards of right and wrong. You'll see the hero punishing a lil girl by severing her tongue from her body. You'll even see him kill a bunch of violence-hating pacifists.

This book gave me a new outlook because the it tells you how to exactly look at everything as a whole before you make a conclusion out of it. You question everything that you don't understand and learn every information no matter how irrelevent it is before making a move.

:ph43r:
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Wow... *looks up at Shroudy's statements* All of those books seem very interesting... if not a little dark. I personally love thought-provoking books - they give you something to roll over in your mind.

Currently though, I'm not reading anything like the above statements. :unsure: I'm reading The Witches of Worm, which actually is interesting for a child's book...
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The Silmarillion, Lord of The Rings, Pride and Prejudice, Wicked, and any books that has Drizzt Do'Urden and/or Artemis Entreri written by R.A. Salvador...

...I also read Star Wars and Star Trek Voyager books...
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...I also read Star Wars and Star Trek Voyager books...

Ever tried the New Jedi Order? I loved it...until they killed off my fave character :sad:

I'm now reading The Vampire Armand and it's making me blush. :blush: It is very...uh...graphic. Let's just say that Anne Rice is a yaoi fangirl's dream. :/
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