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scififreak
Minmatar
The Collective
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2007.06.13 11:30:00 -
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Edited by: scififreak on 13/06/2007 11:31:02
Bone***** - **** Francis. Very good author 
Edit: wtf!!!
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Ifni
Applied Eugenics
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Posted - 2007.06.13 12:20:00 -
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 Originally by: scififreak
Edited by: scififreak on 13/06/2007 11:31:02
Bonecrack - Dick Francis. Very good author
Edit: wtf!!!
lol profanity dodge.
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VinceNoir
Amarr
Pyrrhus Sicarii
Aftermath Alliance
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Posted - 2007.06.13 12:44:00 -
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Originally by: Ifni
Originally by: scififreak
Edited by: scififreak on 13/06/2007 11:31:02
Bonecrack - Dick Francis. Very good author
Edit: wtf!!!
lol profanity dodge.
Oh shit, Ifni's hacking like a pro.
Originally by: "Shanda Captison"
Vince, you can't even spell ECM m8
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Ifni
Applied Eugenics
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Posted - 2007.06.13 12:46:00 -
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You take what is offered. And that must sometimes be enough. |
Sonny Corleone
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Posted - 2007.06.13 13:23:00 -
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John Steakley's "ARMOR". Great book if you like the man against the universe in a badass powered combat suit kinda thing.
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Shalia Ripper
Caldari
High4Life
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.06.13 15:25:00 -
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Edited by: Shalia Ripper on 13/06/2007 15:25:12
Originally by: scififreak
Edited by: scififreak on 13/06/2007 11:31:02
Bone***** - **** Francis. Very good author
Edit: wtf!!!
I've been a fan of Mr. Francis' work for years. He has gotten better as he aged...unlike Clive Cussler, who was mentioned by someone else. Cussler was OK until the early 90's....that is when he should have dropped Dirk Pitt and came up with a new shtick. Another author that aged badly is Robert Ludlum. LOVE his older stuff, but everything since his stroke sucks. ******? Alive? Leave that for the two-bit hacks, Bob. You have done better.
I just finished rereading Legacy of Heorot for the nth time. Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes. One of the best sci-fi "monster" books written. EVER.
Going back to Mr. Francis, I don't think there is a stinker in the bunch. Granted some of his earlier books had that "wannabe James Bond" feel, but all in all good stuff. I recommend The Edge, Bolt, Proof, The Danger and hell....all of them. I think the first one I ever read was Dead Cert.
P.S. ****** is profanity? Damn!!! Who at CCP has invoked Godwin's Law preemptively?
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The Anointed
Caldari
KR0M
The Red Skull
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Posted - 2007.06.13 18:42:00 -
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Im currently reading;
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
I'm a big fan of Robert Cowley, What If? and More What If? are quite good, especially for shorter commutes.
'Amo, Amas, Amat'. - Harry Mount and 'War reporting for Cowards' - Chris Ayres are also quite good.
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Lord Zoran
Caldari
House of Tempers
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Posted - 2007.06.13 19:06:00 -
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i've never actually finshed a book all the way through without being forced to......
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Tek'a Rain
Gallente
Isis Technologies
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Posted - 2007.06.13 19:30:00 -
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Edited by: Tek''a Rain on 13/06/2007 19:32:53
lesse.. reading right Now?
flipping back and forth between Permanence by Karl Schroeder (space is Big) and Science Fact/Fiction which is a compilation of different stories, all powerful scifi. including gems like The Gun Without A Bang (robert sheckley) and R.U.R., the play which helped create and put in use the term Robot (so i have been told). its actually a Textbook from '74, with intro from ray bradbury. one of my treasures from a 2$ investment in a case of old scifi hardbacks.
Quote:
TYME SEFARI INC.
SEFARIS TU ANY YEER EN THE PAST.
YU NAIM THE ANIMALL.
WEE TAEKYUTHAIR.
YU SHOOT ITT.
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Abavus Durden
Caldari
Pukin' Dogs
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Posted - 2007.06.13 22:40:00 -
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I'm currently reading the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. This is what the TV series is based on, but much tamed down for a TV audience. They aren't the deepest literature ever written, but they're fast reads (I blew through 1 in a day while stuck at an airport)and highly enjoyable.
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Tarquin Tarquinius
Gallente
Escorts of Eve
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Posted - 2007.06.13 23:50:00 -
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My favourite book of all time, and one I highly recommend to everyone is....
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
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Great Artista
Purple Cloud
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Posted - 2007.06.13 23:58:00 -
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lOL yuo read?+1!!
On a more serious note, could someone recomend a good scifi book? I have only touched some random novels which unfortunately were absolute crap.
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MassonA
Caldari
coracao ardente
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2007.06.14 07:12:00 -
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if i was going to be a little smartarse, i am reading your post 
but i havent read anything for quite a while, i should probably pick up a book from somewhere
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Gojyu
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Posted - 2007.06.14 08:03:00 -
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Edited by: Gojyu on 14/06/2007 08:02:35
My recommendations:
If you're in to sci-fi
The gap series- It's the mood of eve in book form, dark, dark scifi. Loved every second of it, although the authors style can be a bit much if you try reading all the books back to back.
Dune- The classic, chances are if you're into scifi you've read it already, but check it out if you haven't. Don't really recommend reading past god emperor (the rest kinda sucked), and most won't even recommend reading past the first.
Modern- JPod. The adventures of a cubical worker, the plot can't even begin to be described. Extremely funny
Everything else
H.P Lovecraft- at the very least call of cthulhu and the dunwich horror.
Edgar Allan Poe- A lot of his stuff is bad, the rest is extremely good.
1984- A classic, plain and simple
Inferno- By dante alighieri, the first book of quite possibly the greatest literary work ever created. Get the Musa translation if you're going to read it, longfellow and Sayers translations are very dry.
The Prince- Machiavelli's best work
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Lacrimae
Gallente
LFC
FATAL Alliance
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Posted - 2007.06.14 21:58:00 -
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Edited by: Lacrimae on 14/06/2007 21:59:32
Sadly all my books are packed as I am in the middle of moving to a new flat, so the only thing I have is Dan Brown's Angels and Demons I picked up at the airport last weekend, but a few that comes to mind:
Neil Gaiman - Can recommend anything by him, except Stardust really. Neverwhere and American Gods of course being the "classics"; "Smoke and Mirrors" being great for chuckles - especially love his take on Lovecraft's world.
Gaiman and Pratchett - Good Omens. Awesome! Great! Hilarious :D
Ian Irvine - All of The Three Worlds cycle. (Finished The View from The Mirror Quartet and The Well of Echoes Quartet. Decided against starting on The Song of the Tears triology before they're all published, else I would kill myself waiting)
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials (triology)
For goodnight reading I like my "Mammoth Books of Seriously Comic Fantasy" and "Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy"... Means I can read a short story and force myself to go to sleep instead of going "juuuust one more chapter" :)
Dead Stars Still Burn
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sneeperofsand
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Posted - 2007.06.15 02:28:00 -
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Originally by: Great Artista
lOL yuo read?+1!!
On a more serious note, could someone recomend a good scifi book? I have only touched some random novels which unfortunately were absolute crap.
if you want scifi i think you should read Orson Scott Card. read the ender's game books those are good ones.
if you want just fanticy then Robert Jordan, The whell of time. all the books are long, like realy long, but i have read all of them at least 7 times.
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Dirth moron
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Posted - 2007.06.15 07:25:00 -
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Currently reading ; -
Robert Rankin - Knees up mother earth
Phil Hines - Condensed Chaos (again)
I need to buy more books as I've read everything I have a dozen times 
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Darkwingd
Paxton Industries
Paxton Federation
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Posted - 2007.06.15 10:50:00 -
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I just finished re reading the Harry Potter series to get ready for the last book next month, and no I am not 11 years old .
Currently reading The Mote in Gods Eye again.
If I could find my Ringworld books I would start those again.
Basically anything Sci Fi I gobble up, even if its bad >.<
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Rodj Blake
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2007.06.15 12:52:00 -
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Edited by: Rodj Blake on 15/06/2007 12:52:54
I'm currently reading Collapse by Jared Diamond.
Interesting stuff.
Next on my list of books to read are Kingdom Come by JG Ballard and The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks.
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Cat Casidy
Death of Virtue
Vigilance Infinitas
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Posted - 2007.06.21 21:51:00 -
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I just started reading the 13 1/2 Lives of Captian Bluebear by Walter Moers, uhm well it starts off with captian bluebear explaining how he wasn't realy born just started out floating on the ocean in a walnut shell and gets rescued by the Minipirates  , who rule the sea but no one knows cus they're so small.... and yes hes realy a blue bear, and i judged it by its cover since the whole books illustrated by what looks like the Dr. Seuse artist; and yes the book is thicker than half an inch
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Karai Kamasu
The Collective of Ascended Beings
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.06.21 22:12:00 -
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I recommend Tad Williams, Otherworld series. Currently I am reading Nicola Griffith - Slow River.
hi-sec, lo-sec, these matters are of no importance to me, I travel via subspace, keke |
Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.06.22 00:14:00 -
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I like non-fiction books and would definitely recommend the following:
Nam - Mark Baker
Holding The Key - Ted Conover
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison - Warren Fellows
Three Can Keep A Secret If Two Are Dead - Yves Lavigne
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Hubbins
The Three Hundred
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.06.22 02:31:00 -
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If you are bored you can always read "Journey to the West"
Just make sure the edition has all 100 chapters 
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Rauth Kivaro
Forum Moderator
Interstellar Services Department
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Posted - 2007.06.22 06:21:00 -
[54]
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, by Mario Acevedo. Hardboiled mystery novel with a vampire and Iraq war vet as the lead character.
Sounds weird, but it's a great read.
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