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Jacques d'Orleans
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Posted - 2016.10.01 07:03:12 -
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Right now reading a brand new one in my collection: Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy - Strategic Illusions, 1936-1941. By A.J. Marder
Have you seen Robocop? Many people don't know that it's actually a documentary.
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Merchant Rova
Pathway to the Next
57
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Posted - 2016.10.06 16:03:21 -
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The Eve Chronicles right now.
"The Federation is not a defined region of space, of planets, of mountains, rivers, or woods. It is a vision."
-Arlette Villers
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Eleonora Crendraven
Global Communications AG
56
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Posted - 2016.10.09 16:29:53 -
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Jean Luc Clermont wrote:erm...
at this very moment, i am reading the Eve-Online forums
Yes. But after that:
H. P.. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft ... but only after dark
https://twitter.com/gcAG_EVE
http://eveboard.com/pilot/Eleonora_Crendraven
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Penthesilea Otomeya
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.10.13 22:06:12 -
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Just finished Remarque's Three Comrades: A Novel. Engaging, gut-wrenching, wonderful.
Just started Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? |
Timmy Vortex
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2016.10.15 17:31:47 -
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The Dispossessed ..pretty old but good sci-fi novel |
Ian Morbius
Potomac Greeting Card Company
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Posted - 2016.10.15 18:59:46 -
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Gneeznow wrote:Just finished Brave New World, now starting World War Z A great Huxley novel.
GÇ£No social stability without individual stability.GÇ¥ GÇò Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Warriors In Pink
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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
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Posted - 2016.10.15 23:20:52 -
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Just started the last book in the Alistair Reynolds' Revelation Space trilogy, just finished Robert Mason's Chickenhawk.
Civilised behaviour is knowing that violence is barbaric, but paying other people to do it is business.
New Player FAQ
Feyd's Survival Pack
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Gneeznow
Ship spinners inc
190
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Posted - 2016.10.22 13:55:16 -
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Now reading Dale Carnegie's ''how to win friends and influence people'', the grand-daddy of self help books. It's really good so far, lots of sound advice |
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
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Posted - 2016.11.03 01:28:38 -
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Penthesilea Otomeya wrote: I've read Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Fronttwice, with about 20 years in between. The second time I read it, the high points of the story seemed really different. Now I have to read it again to see what he changed this time.... What a great one.
Start the bubble machine!
-Lawrence Welk
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Haile Korhal
Professional Amateurs
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Posted - 2016.11.03 21:19:53 -
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Previously finished Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett after the 7th read through, now starting Going Postal by him as well, 30% done and will probably start over by Sunday.
I've read about 38 of the 41 Discworld books an average of 30-40 times each, although a few I've only read a paltry 3 or 4 times where as some of my favourites are up closer towards a hundred. They're just so much fun. Started reading Pratchett in 2011 and I haven't really stopped except with random breaks for things like The Hunger Games series (about 20 times on average each), The Divergent series (about 20 times on average each again), and The Dark Tower series (about 10 times for Gunslinger alone and I still don't know what's going on in it).
Egregious Spreadsheet Services - For Spreadsheets as a Service to businesses, corporations, and higher, look no further!
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voetius
Quiet Days in Clichy
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Posted - 2016.11.03 21:47:21 -
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Nietzsche "The Will To Power", Kaufmann translator and editor, Vintage Books.
I also liked Dale Carnegie, I thought it would be just self-help / improvement waffle but was quite interesting. |
Mortlake
Devils Rejects 666
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Posted - 2016.11.04 09:27:11 -
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I'm reading Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe which has sat on my shelf for many years without being touched.
I'm a little apprehensive as I've been informed that the ending is a little flat, but I'm enjoying it so far.
I'll be reading Neverwhere again next. If any Gaiman fans are interested, BBC R4 has an adaptation of How the Marquis Got His Coat Back on later today.
I was told to remove my signature, so I have.
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Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
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Posted - 2016.11.09 11:35:24 -
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I havent read a book in a long time, so it was actually Patrick Stewart who had to appear before me in a dream. Sitting with me in a pub, at the table, he said - "You know that they dont teach people how to enjoy reading? Let me show you something, (he opened the book he had). Here you have a name of the author, (he spelled it, then paused for a while). See? This is what they teach you in school, they dont teach how to enjoy book, what it can bring to your life. They teach letters and few theories and then you are on your own"
Every part of a game helps to tell a story. =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him.
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Taishoku Mayaki
Black Scorpions Inc Circle-Of-Two
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Posted - 2016.11.09 13:53:06 -
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I've actually started reading Game of Thrones at last, on the third book. They are huge.... Big time investment this.
"Right-O, lets get undocked and see what falls off the ship"
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
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Posted - 2016.11.10 01:02:02 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:I havent read a book in a long time, so it was actually Patrick Stewart who had to appear before me in a dream. Sitting with me in a pub, at the table, he said - "You know that they dont teach people how to enjoy reading? Let me show you something, (he opened the book he had). Here you have a name of the author, (he spelled it, then paused for a while). See? This is what they teach you in school, they dont teach how to enjoy book, what it can bring to your life. They teach letters and few theories and then you are on your own"
That's amazing. Yukihiro Takahashi (drummer and songwriter, most known for being a member of the old band YMO) once appeared in one of my dreams. He said something like, "If you want to create something, you don't do it by hoping some brilliant idea to pops into your head from out of nowhere. You do it deciding on your craft, setting a daily schedule for yourself, and working as hard as you can during that scheduled time every day, with no exceptions. You have to work to make yourself more perfect in your skill every day. You must be dedicated and professional, even after you've had some successes and made some money. What are you doing, wasting your time trying to do things as an amateur, when you have an idea and free time? You'll never get anything done that way, and years will pass and all of your ideas will be wasted."
Start the bubble machine!
-Lawrence Welk
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Axure Abbacus
Pentex Subsidiaries Corp
37
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Posted - 2016.11.10 05:15:39 -
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Seneca: On the shortness of life. |
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4709
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Posted - 2016.11.10 21:52:02 -
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Pod and Planet fiction contest entries Some EVE players are not bad writers at all!
Start the bubble machine!
-Lawrence Welk
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LordOdysseus
AirHogs Zulu People
9947
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Posted - 2016.11.14 20:31:10 -
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Silen Serine wrote:Currently muddling through American Gods, though about the 70-page mark it hasn't grabbed me yet.
Need a fantasy author for my September reads, if there are any suggestions.
Better late than never: the late Sir Terry Pratchett.
If fire doesn't solve your problem,you're not using enough.
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Hetu Hegirin
Otherwhere Circle
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Posted - 2016.11.15 06:13:12 -
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Just started Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, pretty daunting at 700 pages of first-person narrative. Should be illuminating from a writer's perspective.
Also working through The Art of Language Invention by David Peterson. Crash course in constructed languages is mushifying my brain. |
Nina Hayes
Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.11.16 10:08:57 -
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Reading "Old tractors and the men who love them". A fiery passionate trip through the mid-west. Quite a romp really with it's many twists and turns, a true technological love story. Man and machine, as one, they say no one understands them.
Old tractors and ya know...
Going to give this one a go after I'm done with the former, sounds like a shortcut though.
How to raise your IQ by eating...
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Falken Falcon
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Posted - 2016.11.22 12:21:52 -
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I started the wheel of time which i've been pushing back for years.. but now, one down 13 to go
Snipe
Aye, Sea Turtles
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Mrsticks
RNCGM Inc.
1
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Posted - 2016.11.23 22:57:38 -
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Ancient Godly Monarch, Ancient Strengthening Technique. Chinese Light Novels. The Beginning After The End, Novel in that spirit. http://gravitytales.com/ |
Halo Jones
Oberon Incorporated
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Posted - 2016.11.25 21:59:29 -
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Look to Windward - Iain M Banks.
Shame he is dead. Been rereading the culture series from the beginning. The world is lighter for his loss. Not a godbotherer, as he would term it, just a shame. |
LordOdysseus
HC - Salty Pigs
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Posted - 2016.12.21 02:21:28 -
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Falken Falcon wrote:I started the wheel of time which i've been pushing back for years.. but now, one down 13 to go
Snipe
I'm starting that series too. I hope it'll take me less than a year to finish it all.
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
If fire doesn't solve the problem, you're not using enough.
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
I'm always on the winning side.
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Lucifer Second-Born
Edgeless Industry's Digital Vendetta
5
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Posted - 2016.12.21 11:11:58 -
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Personal Demons (Good Intentions Book 3) by Elliott Kay
Warning: Personal Demons contains explicit sex, explicit violence, explicit language, explicit use of implications, open relationships, polyamory, blasphemy, sacrilege, heresy, paganism, sorcery, portrayals of matters divine and demonic bearing little or no resemblance to established religious canon, prejudice, murder, mass murder, singular murder, alley murder, conspiracy to commit murder, regicide, treason, dismemberments, impalement, arson, defenestration, racially charged GÇÿNam flashbacks, trash-talking, smuggling, mansplaining, spoiled Christmas surprises, numerous state and Federal firearms violations, organized crime, transnational crime, avian conscription, disturbances of the peace, paranoia, Doomsday preppers, illegal immigration, party fouls, public endangerment, underage drinking, human sacrifice, destruction of cell phones, false identification, consumption of alcohol, mayhem, attempted kidnapping, mass vehicular collisions, reincarnation, conspiracy to commit sexual promiscuity, threesomes, assault and battery, banditry, reverse banditry, eye-gouging, cultural misappropriation, trespassing, lies, innuendo, intrigue, foreplay under false pretenses, bribery, political corruption, spiritual corruption, misuse of military facilities, a blanket fort of ill repute, home invasion, warfare, espionage, mercenary activity, consumption of sentient beings, panhandling, lingerie, cohabitation outside of marriage, missed homework assignments, too much pizza, toxic masculinity, abbreviated sex scenes, fully descriptive sex scenes, romantic sex, casual sex, mild dom/sub play, mystic servitude, stalking, knife-throwing, weaponized alcohol, weaponized furniture, weaponized human remains, drone strikes, slavery, eternal damnation, mind control, carjacking, spitting, biting, vandalism, gossip, sexual objectification, immolations, feminist solidarity, zombie terrorists, pissy ex-boyfriends, too much information from Grandpa, and a flagrant narrative disregard for common standards of decency. |
Sark Nosha
Nosha Trading Empire
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Posted - 2016.12.23 01:27:30 -
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The Apocalype - The Undead World
Good old zombie apoc story - definitely a really good read. Very brutal, and probably fairly honest account of human nature in that kind of world. |
Marcus Rintel
8
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Posted - 2016.12.27 15:06:28 -
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The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel It was recommended to me, as I love SciFi and Fantasy books. I've read about the first 3 chapters now, and its starting out good.
Anyone know of any GOOD GLBT books? MM romance, SciFi, or Fantasy.
8 Golden rules of EVE
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Sark Nosha
Nosha Trading Empire
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Posted - 2017.01.05 08:29:43 -
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Animal Farm - George Orwell Such a good read so far - just as good as 1984 for anyone who has read it. |
Sasha Nemtsov
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2017.01.06 21:16:01 -
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I worked in a public library as a schoolboy - a Saturday job, which left ample time for my studies (or would have done so had I actually been studious). Books everywhere: new books, old books, good books, c**p books. I read the lot.
Fast forward a very long way. For the past 10 years or so I've been completely unable to read novels of any kind. I don't know what happened; it just died. But I am an avid reader of non-fiction, though I'm far more selective than that tousle-headed schoolkid of yesteryear. Currently reading:
Alexander the Great - Robin Lane Fox
Among the Russians - Colin Thubron
Pleased to see so many people sharing my enjoyment of reading for pleasure and instruction! |
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
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Posted - 2017.01.06 23:44:17 -
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Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War Really great, actually my second time reading it. Background: -The author was a USMC 2nd Lt in Vietnam -It took him 30 years to finish the book -It takes place in the mountains near the North Vietnam border, where there were a series of "conventional war" hard battles between regular (not guerilla) troops -The author's next book was autobiographical long essay-like. Inferentially, it explains a lot about the characters in Matterhorn.
Start the bubble machine!
-Lawrence Welk
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