Post what you're reading.

[ozzgx4]

I guess it depends in what kind of books you're interested in and if it grabs your attention. I've also started reading this one...another vampire book XD

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Originally Posted by snickothemule

Q:What is the meaning of life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

[Proto]

Reminds me of the Ninja pirate zombie robot.

Weren't pirates not supposed to be able to voyage over bodies of water anyway?

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[ozzgx4]

lol These vampires are a little bit different to the normal ones

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Originally Posted by snickothemule

Q:What is the meaning of life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

[Cid Highwind]

Originally Posted by Radix865

Dragonlance books are good but I like Forgotten Realms more... Although they really resemble each other. But still, damn I'm a sucker for R.A. Salvatores Forgotten Realms books! I can't wait till the local library gets his next book, "The Pirate King"...


But right now as I've read all the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms books that I've found from the local library, I started reading "Tales of the Otori". Pretty interesting, it takes place in a fantasy world closely resembling 13th century Japan. Its more mature than Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms but it's pretty interesting...
Here's what wiki knows about it for anyone interested:

Tales of the Otori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another Salvatore fan on the forums? Cool I'm currently reading Road of the Patriarch and I'm highly intrigued by it. The entire Sellswords series has entertained me a lot more than the last Drizzt books. Perhaps I grew tired of it a bit, after all, it can be a bit predictable in the end, you know who wins since there's always a new book coming anyway. "The Spine of The World" I found an extremely good book as well, focusing on Wulfgar a lot and on new characters. It was both the most brutal and most humane book of the series, it completely refreshed my interest.

I still have The Cleric's Quintet here as well, untouched, bought from a friend who didn't feel like the series anymore. I'm reading these books because I've had a high interest in the Forgotten Realms ever since Baldur's Gate 2 and because there's not that many good fantasy games on the market.

As for The Pirate King, in this book I have here it says it's scheduled for October 2008, are you reading localised versions, or does your library simply not have it in stock yet, Radix? I buy all of them, I love having a collection for display, even though my GF begs me to read something other than fantasy books

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Just finished The Last Wish, insane book.. Gonna start this one:

[Irukapooka]

Mind if you post a summary of that book, Demi?

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The Empire of Nilfgaard attacks and overwhelms the Kingdom of Cintra. Queen Calanthe of Cintra commits suicide and her granddaughter, Cirilla, called Ciri, or "Lion Cub of Cintra" somehow flees from the burning capital city. Emhyr var Emreis, Emperor of Nilfgaard, sends his spies to find her. He knows that this young girl has great importance, not only because of her royal blood, but also because of her magical potential and elven blood in her veins.

The girl is protected by Geralt of Rivia, a witcher - a magically and genetically mutated monster slayer for hire, and also a man whose destiny is bound with that of Ciri. Aided by several others including the famous bard Dandilion and a powerful sorceress named Yennefer, Geralt quickly learns of a man named Rience who is hunting Ciri relentlessly, aided by some powerful and influential allies.

As she learns the ways of both a witcher and a magic user, Ciri and those around her begin to realise that almost everybody wishes to either use her for her mysterious power or kill her so that such a power cannot become wielded by others.

[Irukapooka]

Thank you Demi. It sounds awesome. Enjoy the read and then give a review!

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Np Bree.

[Silenus]

Well I haven't read anything new recently.

But these are one of my favorites as some might guess.
Read the whole series.


Don't have much time to read now.

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[Radix865]

Originally Posted by Cid Highwind

Another Salvatore fan on the forums? Cool I'm currently reading Road of the Patriarch and I'm highly intrigued by it. The entire Sellswords series has entertained me a lot more than the last Drizzt books. Perhaps I grew tired of it a bit, after all, it can be a bit predictable in the end, you know who wins since there's always a new book coming anyway. "The Spine of The World" I found an extremely good book as well, focusing on Wulfgar a lot and on new characters. It was both the most brutal and most humane book of the series, it completely refreshed my interest.

I still have The Cleric's Quintet here as well, untouched, bought from a friend who didn't feel like the series anymore. I'm reading these books because I've had a high interest in the Forgotten Realms ever since Baldur's Gate 2 and because there's not that many good fantasy games on the market.

As for The Pirate King, in this book I have here it says it's scheduled for October 2008, are you reading localised versions, or does your library simply not have it in stock yet, Radix? I buy all of them, I love having a collection for display, even though my GF begs me to read something other than fantasy books

Well, I agree that the whole Drizzt saga is kind of predeterminable and he's kind of just a goody-two shoes... Well, the Hunter's Blades books were a little different. On the Sellswords the other hand the characters are kind of evil which is nice diversity, not to mention Entreri has been one of my favourite characters in the books ever since he appeared in them!

Another series I really liked was Elaine Cunninghams, Starlight and Shadows... Definetly worth reading!

Pretty funny, I got interested in Forgotten Realms after playing the original Neverwinter Nights! After that I got intrigued and got myself BG and BGII...

And yes, when I checked the library two weeks ago the Pirate King was still in "acquisition"... If there was one I would get it even if it was written in english but they don't have it so I have to wait for the translation. And I'm not really into buying books as I rarely feel like reading them again, so it feels like wasting money which is tight nowdays!

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I read nothing but non-fiction, usually dealing with politics, history, philosophy, and religion (anti-religion).

For the past couple of months I've read nothing but Bush books (at least the Bush years have resulted in some interesting reading material). I've read quite a number of them, including Vincent Bugliosi's excellent "Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder".

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[Proto]

Originally Posted by Proto

@Spyhop: I actually have had A game of thrones stored in my bookshelf; it has been in my to read list for a while, but somehow I never find the time to read it, or I get a hold of a new Dragonlance book and I just have to read that first I just took a peek at the first chapter (where they are at that icewall forest), but it didn't pique my interest that much. Everyone seems to laud the series a lot though, so I'll probably give it a chance when I'm done with the book I'm reading.

Well, after reading this long overdue book I have fallen in love with the song of ice and fire saga. I have just ordered the other 3 available books, and eagerly awaiting for them. Yay.

On the fully technical side I just read this paper:

A constant-time kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm for simulation of large biochemical reaction networks

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[Spyhop]

I'm reading Book 4 now. Book 3 was amazing.

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[strike105x]

Well i dont get to read much anymore though Assumed Identity by David Morrell and the Shogun volumes by James Clavell are the books i could read over and over again.

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[Cid Highwind]

Originally Posted by Radix865

Well, I agree that the whole Drizzt saga is kind of predeterminable and he's kind of just a goody-two shoes... Well, the Hunter's Blades books were a little different. On the Sellswords the other hand the characters are kind of evil which is nice diversity, not to mention Entreri has been one of my favourite characters in the books ever since he appeared in them!

Another series I really liked was Elaine Cunninghams, Starlight and Shadows... Definetly worth reading!

Pretty funny, I got interested in Forgotten Realms after playing the original Neverwinter Nights! After that I got intrigued and got myself BG and BGII...

And yes, when I checked the library two weeks ago the Pirate King was still in "acquisition"... If there was one I would get it even if it was written in english but they don't have it so I have to wait for the translation. And I'm not really into buying books as I rarely feel like reading them again, so it feels like wasting money which is tight nowdays!

I started reading them because I think I needed a DnD fix after having played Baldur's Gate 2. I was recommended Elaine Cunningham by someone from my old NWN1 RP server as well. I recently started the Cleric's Quintet by the way, but I haven't really had the time for it. I started playing Icewind Dale too, but didn't even make it out of the first town yet

As for the books: English ftw, I have an aversion to any translation into my local language.

Edit: And I'm surprised no one has started a quote fest yet, saying that they're reading the post above

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Non-Fiction here too, currently reading "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins.
Last book read was "Cold War" by John Lewis Gaddis.
Great books, i also have "1421: The Year China Discovered America" by Gavin Menzies, heard the book is surrounded by speculation of wether it's a fake but it should at least provide a good read.

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[ozzgx4]

I'm thinking of reading the da vinci code. Has anyone here read it?

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Originally Posted by snickothemule

Q:What is the meaning of life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

[Spyhop]

Yes, it was alright.
Angels & Demons was better.

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