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Your Library; What have you read?
Topic Started: Jun 1 2008, 02:17 AM (587 Views)
Ànraich
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List books (and their authors) you have read and enjoyed.

My Tank is Fight!-Zack Parsons
The Zombie Survival Guide-Max Brooks
Moments-Hal Buell
Masters of the Battlefield-Maj. Gen. Julian Thompson
1984-George Orwell
Expedition-Wayne Douglas Barlowe
The First World War-John Keegan
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-Omar Khayyam
The Colony-John Tayman
The Iliad-Homer
The Republic-Plato
Robot Dreams-Isaac Asimov
Utopia-Sir Thomas Moore
Farenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
A Tale of Two Cities-Chales Dickens
The Art of War-Sun Tzu
Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
Gulliver's Travel's-Johnathan Swift
The Social Contract-Rousseau
The Aeneid-Vergil
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire-Edward Gibbon
Paradise Lost-John Milton
The Odyssey-Homer
2001: A Space Odyssey-Stanley Kubrick
2010: The Second Odyssey-Arthur C. Clarke
2061: The Third Odyssey-Arthur C. Clarke
3001: The Final Odyssey-Arthur C. Clarke
Culture and Personality-Victor Barnouw
Personal Character and Cultural Milieu-Douglas G. Haring
Religion and Modern Man-John B. Magee
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea-Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth-Jules Verne
Night-Elie Wiesel
At the Mountain of Madness-H.P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu-H.P. Lovecraft
The Pillars of the Earth-Ken Follett
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper-Pamela West
Jaws-Peter Benchley


As well as:

All the books in the Remnants series by K.A. Applegate
All the books in the Halo series
All the books in the Warriors series by Erin Hunter
All the books in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky
All the books in the Deltora Quest series by Emily Rodda
All the books in the Star Risk series by Chris Bunch



I'll add more as I think of them.
Edited by Ànraich, Jun 1 2008, 02:17 AM.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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I have also read My Tank is Fight!. Interesting about the things being developed during WW2. I also am a fan of Warriors, which I need to catch up on as far as the latest two books. I read most of the Ga'Hoole books but stopped at 10 or 11. I also read the first Deltora Quest series, but that was some time ago. Most recently read book was Congo by Michael Crichton (actually my dad's), my second time reading it, first time finishing it. When I get the chance, I will list more books that I like.
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His Dark Materials triology, by Phillip Pullman. I like fantasy books, because they have lots of strange creatures and its fun to speculate their evolutionary history.
Edited by Carlos, Jun 1 2008, 10:38 AM.
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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For me to list every book I ever read would be a test a test my memory would inevitably fail. The books that come to the forefront, however, are the following:

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
Rama II by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
The Garden of Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune: Messiah by Frank Herbert
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

The World at the End of Time by Frederik Pohl
The Voices of Heaven by Frederik Pohl
One more book by Pohl but I forget the name -_-

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Some Jules Verne novel, but I can't which.


I've listed SciFi because it's relevant. I could go on about my love for Shakespearean works, or about a series of SciFi books for Juveniles that I read when I was younger, Animorphs by K. A. Applegate.
Because, "Despite all my dudgeon, I'm still just an rodent in a confine." just doesn't work.
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Some favorites:

The Xenogenesis series by Octavia Butler (my most favorite books ever, and considering where I am, I think EVERY member should take a look)

Baboon Metaphysics; The Evolution of Social Mind by Cheney and Seyfarth

Battle Angel Alita manga by Yukito Kishiro (post-apocolyptic, my other favorite type of sci-fi - plus, James Cameron is making a movie based on the books and you know it will be awesome!)


Recent reads I enjoyed:

Blink by Malcom Gladwell
King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
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Uhh, I'm only gonna list the recent titles I remember... I can refer to anything I've read when triggered, but without a cue/reminder it's not much I can dig up :-)

Into the Nebula by Gene deWeese (Star Trek TNG)
Psychotrope by Lisa Smedman (Shadowrun)
2XS by Nigel Findley (Shadowrun)
Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
the Boudica series by Manda Scott
Greek Homosexualty by Kenneth James Dover
Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere by Donna Williams
Principia Discordia by Greg Hill & Kerry Thornley
WebMage by Kelly McCullough
Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
a pile of basic neurology textbooks (like Blackwell's Essential one)

Of course, as a kid I went through Lord of the Rings, the entire Foundation universe, the Space Odyssey series, 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 and Tron, but who didn't?

And I frequent some blogs:

Screw Bronze!
The World We Don't Live In
Life With Aspergers
Biodiverse Resistance
...and some Hungarian ones that would be a waste of linkage for a non-Hungarian-speaking audience :-P
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