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Re: What have you been reading lately?

Unread postby skeptik » Mon 04 Aug 2008, 03:48:50

James Thurber - Vintage Thurber Volume II (again after more than a decade)
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
John Fowles - A Maggot
P.J.O'Rourke - Republican Party Reptile (again after 20 years, amazing how time flies and times change)
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

... before that..I forget.

edit.. oh yes before that.... Stephen Jay Gould - Life's Grandeur.
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Re: What have you been reading lately?

Unread postby PrairieMule » Mon 04 Aug 2008, 14:23:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('skeptik', '
')P.J.O'Rourke - Republican Party Reptile (again after 20 years, amazing how time flies and times change)


I remember reading that in college(circa 1991?). That would be a good re-read today.
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Re: What have you been reading lately?

Unread postby Jenab6 » Mon 04 Aug 2008, 16:42:43

My Reading Conquests (since mid-2003).

2003. 21 books.
C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (7 books).
Isaac Asimov: The Foundation series (7 books).
Roger Zelanzy: The Chronicles of Amber, volumes 1&2.
Robert Jordan: The Wheel of Time (books 1-5).
2004. 38 books, 15001 pages.
Robert Jordan: The Wheel of Time (books 6-10).
Franklin W. Dixon: The Hardy Boys (books 1-11).
Robert A. Heinlein: Farmer in the Sky.
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (4 books).
Robert A. Heinlein: The Rolling Stones.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.: The Saga of Recluce (books 1-9).
Bob Shaw: The Wooden Spaceships (Land and Overland #2).
Weis & Hickman: The Dragonlance Chronicles (3 books).
George R.R. Martin: The Hedge Knight (A Song of Ice and Fire prequel).
Raymond E. Feist: The Riftwar Saga (books 1&2).
2005. 39 books, 16977 pages.
Raymond E. Feist: The Riftwar Saga (books 3&4).
Robin Hobb: The Farseer (3 books).
Robert Jordan: A New Spring (Wheel of Time prequel).
Raymond E. Feist: Riftwar Legacy: Krondor (books 1-3).
Raymond E. Feist: Krondor's Sons (2 books)
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.: Saga of Recluce (books 10-13).
Robert A. Heinlein: Sixth Column.
Steven Brust: Vlad Taltos (books 1-9).
Robert Adams: A Horseclans Odyssey (Horseclans #7).
Robin Hobb: Liveship Traders (3 books)
Raymond E. Feist: Serpentwar (4 books)
Robert Jordan: Knife of Dreams (Wheel of Time #11).
Raymond E. Feist: Conclave of Shadows (3 books)
David Eddings: Belgarath the Sorceror (Belgariad prequel).
David Eddings: Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad #1).
2006. 30 books, 14067 pages.
David Eddings: The Belgariad, books 2-5.
David Eddings: Polgara the Sorceress (Belgariad prequel).
David Eddings: The Malloreon (5 books).
Robin Hobb: Tawny Man (3 books).
Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (4 books).
R.A. Salvatore: Dark Elf (3 books).
R.A. Salvatore: Icewind Dale (3 books).
Ed Greenwood: Elminster (5 books).
Guy Gavriel Kay: The Fionavar Tapestry 1&2.
2007. 53 books, 22250 pages.
Guy Gavriel Kay: The Longest Road (Fionavar #3).
Glen Cook: Dread Empire (books 1-7).
Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars (3 books).
Jack Vance: Lyonesse (3 books).
J.V. Jones: Book of Words (3 books).
Steven Brust: Dzur (Vlad Taltos #10).
Katharine Kerr: Deverry (books 1-4).
Robert A. Heinlein: Orphans of the Sky.
Robert A. Heinlein: Revolt in 2100.
Robert A. Heinlein: The Past Through Tomorrow.
Katharine Kerr: Deverry (books 5-8).
Joe Haldeman: The Forever War & Forever Free (2 books).
Katharine Kerr: Deverry (books 9-13).
Robert Asprin: Phule (5 books).
Jean M. Auel: Earth's Children (books 1-5).
David Eddings: The Elenium (3 books).
David Eddings: The Tamuli (3 books).
Steven Brust: Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille.
2008 (so far).
Steven Brust: To Reign In Hell (286 pages).
George R.R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire 1-4 (3880 pages).
George R.R. Martin: Tuf Voyaging (376 pages).
George R.R. Martin: A Song for Lya (208 pages)
William R. Catton: Overshoot, The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (281 pages).
George R.R. Martin: Dying of the Light (365 pages).
Frederik Pohl: Mining the Oort (279 pages).
Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts: Empire 1-3 (1788 pages).
Steven Brust: Khaavren (2 books, 1044 pages).
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