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| Hey D'art,
I loved Taliesin - it was great. I thought Merlin and Arthur were good as well (especially Merlin). If you get the chance read Byzantium by the same author thats a fantastic read.
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I'll check out the Demon Haunted World - sounds good. The version of Cosmos that I've got has a lot in it debunking the myths propagated about science. | 
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03-11-2003, 08:00 PM
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#22 | | Armorer
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| I tend to read Science Fiction and tend to branch out when the author writes in more genres. The authors I prefer are Asimov (including his mysteries), Mac Reynolds, Clark, Blish, Heinlein and Asprin.
It is interesting that the last two are both named Robert and both were fencers.
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03-11-2003, 08:03 PM
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| I just realised that I forgot to add Dune. It's one of my all time favourite books.
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03-11-2003, 08:47 PM
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| He was a Sabre Fencer for the Naval Academy team. Now they don't even have a recognized club. You can see his bias in 'Glory Road'.
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03-11-2003, 11:39 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Gav
Inq' didn't you find the end of 'The Sirens of Titan' unsatisfying? I loved the book uptil the end.
| Well, yes. But there's so much great stuff in there otherwise. I mean, the idea of God the Utterly Indifferent and the mandatory "levelling" of human abilities alone...  | |
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03-11-2003, 11:56 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Catlady
When Legends Die (I can't remember the author)
| Hal Borland, "When the Legends Die". Actually, I'd have to say I thought that book was awful.
But other favorites:
Treasure Island - THE classic pirate adventure; it defined pirate fantasy just as Tolkien did for medeival fantasy.
Just about anything from Terry Pratchett - I'd love to see Pratchett get together with Doug Adams. They've both got that off-the-wall kind of humor.
DAVE BARRY!!
Harry Potter books are very good.
The Shaara books - "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara, and the rest by his son Jeff.
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03-12-2003, 12:01 AM
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Just about anything from Terry Pratchett - I'd love to see Pratchett get together with Doug Adams. They've both got that off-the-wall kind of humor.
| I'm afraid you've missed the boat on that one - Douglas Adams is dead [sadly]. | |
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I've always like Watership Down,
| Whilst it may be a good book, I must send our an impassioned plea to all, that it must NOT be shown to the under sevens! Ack! I had nightmares for months!!!  d:
Just because it has talking bunnies, doesn't mean it's good for children!
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03-12-2003, 05:18 PM
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| One Hundred Years of Solitude - It was such a favorite of mine, I couldn't read anything else for months, until.....
Love In the Time of Cholera
Love in the Ruins - by Percy Walker
For Childrens Books: The Rolling Riceball, and The Grateful Crane
I've never heard of some of your books, so I looked at When Legends Die, it's completely different than girls books. It's amazing.
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03-12-2003, 06:22 PM
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| When the Legends Die is a very good book. I read it two years ago in the ninth grade and enjoyed it.
I Should give you my entire list of favorite books because you asked for it, but I'm in a slightly generous mood, so I wont.  So here are jsut a few of my fav.s in no real order.
The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas is a genious)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
the entire Sword of Truth series (so far up to book 4)
the Left Behind series
The Alliance by Gerald N. Lund (only book I've read of his.)
the Harry Potter series
the LOTR series (so far)
The Three Musketeers
Weisel's Night was good I'm glad someone mentioned it.
Of Mice and Men was a great book but I was the only one in my class that liked it.
Anything and everything my Shakespeare
Holiday in Your Heart has a good message.
The Christmas Box (All time favorite christmas story)
The Diary of Anne Frank
That's all I have time for. I have yet to read some of the ones everyone else has mentioned but there are a good handfull of them that I want to read.
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03-12-2003, 11:28 PM
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Well, so are you! you are very well read for an 11th grader. interestingly, there is a very good fencer that i know who also likes Shakespeare and fencing!
Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
The Pearl
Tale of Two Cities
The Bible
The Collected Writings of Nichiren
The Ongi Kuden
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03-12-2003, 11:45 PM
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| my favs would have to be (in no particular order):
To Kill a Mockingbird
Night
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Inherit the Wind
The Hot Zone
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| The very top of my list is "Winters Tale" by Mark Helprin. Anything else by him is excellent as well. After that, in no particular order:
Lord of the Rings
Foundation series by Asimov
Misplaced Legion series by Harry Turtledove
History of Byzantium (3 vol.) by John Julius Norwich
Good Omens
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
Dante's Divine Comedy
Don Quixote
Kitchen Confidential and A Cooks Tour by Anthony Bourdain
And to echo someone else's previously stated sentiment, don't get me started on poets.
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03-13-2003, 03:33 PM
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| Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Mists of Avalon - very poetic book about King Arthur
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
[about sci-fi, i did some book shopping awhile ago and went through the sci-fi shelves, a lady shopper who was a total sci-fi brain, and i had a little talk about the genre in general; how it's moved away from the purist form of sci-fi ie: man's adventures into space and the philosophical/religious overtones; to the fantasy science-fiction genre, for me; after Dune and Dune Messiah, I couldn't get too much into the sci-fiction fantasy stuff; she was into the dragon thing, and from there it just sort of goes downhill in to spiral of occult, so i generally stay on the Light-Side]
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03-13-2003, 04:33 PM
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#35 | | Armorer
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| You might like Robert Asprin. He does have the magic (Myth), but it is not serious, it is light. But he also has done a number of true Sci-Fi series, Phule, Time Scout, Thieves World. Individual books like 'The Cold Cash War, The Bug War, License Revoked and colaberation with George Takai (Sulu) 'Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe'. Most of his works is light.
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03-13-2003, 06:01 PM
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| Thank you! What can I say, I love to read! It's awesome that you mentioned the Bible. I have yet to read it entirely, but I'm working on it.
I have seen Mists of Avalon, and have the books but haven't read them yet. I look foreward to it.
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| I read it the Bible several times I got an A in sacred scripture in college. What can I say, it was a best seller, it's consistently a number One best seller in the world. It's truely an amazing account of life, the world, the history of early man, in the old testiment, the new testiment is another story of an entire regions conversion to a new faith, so it's pretty intensive. | |
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| 1: The Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer - has some sword play in it by the likes of characters such as Sir Richard Francis Burton and Cyrano.
2: The Amber Series by Roger Zelazny - also contains sword play. It seems that RZ was doing a lot of marshall arts during his short life.
3: Kurt Vonnegut - he's so cool.
4: Michael Crichton - Timeline, Sphere, Jurasic Park
5: Philip K Dick books are wicked, I love them.
Thanks for other suggestions.
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| I liked the Circle Of Light series too, gotta love were-otters. :-) | |
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| Wow, choices, choices.
Anything by Lois McMaster Bujold (SciFi/Fantasy with REAL characters)
C.S. Lewis is great.
The Harry Potter series rocks.
But my all time favorite is "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
It seems that not matter what genre, my fiction must have realistic characters who are complex and not perfect.
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