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    Tri_Edge_1836 posted on Dec 22, 2009 7:28:16 AM - Report post
     
    Wow thanks Guys. I really needed a list of what I was going to read...
    i don't read as much as many of you guys like Thrawn and Dhampy, bt my list seems abit big..
    These were the books I read in the Last 2-3 months..


    harry Potter(7) and the Deathly hallows --by Joanne Katherine Rowling
    - for maybe the umpteenth time just a refresher, but did read it any ways..A pretty nice plot. The last chapter, that is the one after the King's Cross chapter(not the 19 years later thingy though) was mostly Predictable... I prefferred book 4 from the Potter series by far... 9/10

    Twilight series -- by Stephanie Meyer
    Twilight - book1.-- Intersting in the starting and the the End.Bored me in the Middle. 7/10

    new moon - Book 2.
    This one really did Bore me, I felt this was the Worst from the Series.. 4/10

    Eclipse - Book 3
    Was a very nice read.Favorit book in the Series... 8/10

    Breaking Dawn Sometimes Irritating and sometimes good. 7/10

    Midnight Sun I know its still Incomplete but still had to read it to satiate my Curiosity... very very nice... 9/10


    Inheritance Cycle-- by Christopher Paolini
    Eragon I had only read this before and had to re-read it so that i would be able to PROPERLY read the others... - Nice read. 8/10

    The Eldest
    The Roran Part was slightly Boring and Nearly always I was Hoping that the Eragon parts would start up.. Acceptable and its a sequel to Eragon and a Pre-quel to Brisingr...6.5/10

    Brisingr A VERY VERY nice read. Added a Hell Lot to the Story. really did like this Book. And coz of it I have a hard time waiting for the 4th and Final book of the Inheritance cycle.. really liked this book alot.. 10/10



    Urghum the Axe-man-- by Kjartan Poskitt and illustrated by Philip Reeve

    Rib crackingly Funny... Very Very DUmb(should be obvious when you set your sights on the Cover Page itself).. But very Funny as is Promised by the Author... 5-6/10.. Won't go above for me as it lacks a proper story, and doesn't go lower coz it was pretty funny..

    The Magic Thief--Lost (book 2 from the magic thief series) - by Sarah Prineas...

    Highly Boring with a pretty badly (and it also seemed very much childish) written story.. Its better you don't read it..--2/10

    Artemis Fowl (the First book rfrom the Artemis Fowl series)

    Pretty nice.. I really Liked the concept..
    Spoiler:
    Seriously LOL'd at the LEPrecon thing..
    Though I really hoped he wouldn't become such a softy in the End.. was Hooping with Evil part in the Genious to still prosper

    --6/10...



    3 Biggest mistakes of my Life - by chethan Bhagat.

    Acceptable.. Also I would say that you would get the full point of the Story only if you are an Indian. Even I don't get the Complete part of it as I live in a much more Different place as to which the story comes up from..But still a pretty decent book. -- 6/10

    5 point Someone - Chethan Bhagat...
    This book I really did like.. VERY nicely Described and Written.. This book will tickle your Funny Bones and will you give you alot to think about (if you want).. +Its Pretty Cheap.. Exactly what an Indian like me Likes.. --- 9/10



    Going to read the next book from the Artemis Fowl series...

    And really can't seem to wait for the Fourth and Final book from the Inheritance Cycle... Really looking forward to it..
    Also hoping that Stephanie Meyer would continue writing the Midnight Sun, and stop the stalemate @which now it is at...

    Oh and since FFQueen said about the Mangas, I read Naruto every time a new Episode is Launched. Also started reading the Bleach manga and also the manga called Fairy Tail... 💛

    Naruto -- by Masashi kishimoto...

    hailed as THE GREATEST EVER MANGA. And I completely agree with that Fact... Its absolutely AMAZING, and the genious of Kishi is absolutely mind-boggling... The no. of predictions and stuff that are released on the internet PER DAY goes into Hundreds. And yet it so happens that Kishi beats everyone of us in the story with generally a Highly well explained situation. Nearly every Single time...
    No wonder it was stated that from all the Manga sales from last year 50% was for Naruto... (I think the source is Wikipedia)...
    Rate infinity/10...

    Just started Bleach so won't comment..

    And Fairy Tail is acceptable as of now.... (Again Just started with it)...

    [Edited by Tri_Edge_1836, 12/22/2009 9:19:56 AM]
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    LatexBaby posted on Dec 22, 2009 1:28:30 PM - Report post
     
    Just finished reading
    Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

    A really good book

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    Toastman posted on Jun 28, 2010 4:14:16 PM - Report post
     
    SUPER BUMB!

    Anyway, these are books that I've read over the past few months. Been meaning to bumb this for a while now.

    Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Both great books. I particularly didn't like how it tended to jump around in setting and whatnot, but it was based off a dream, and that tends to happen in dreams. I do like the many great quotes and poems. Those were awesome.

    War of the Worlds. Meh. It was good for a short story, but it wasn't very consistent. There were just a few contradictions that I didn't like. For instance, the beasts need human blood to live. But the only two organs they have are a brain, and a pair of lungs. Not very consistent. Pretty good, short read. I do suggest it. This was definitely the ground base for most sci-fi books/movies these days.

    Gots to go. I'll update with more books in an hour or two.
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    king-of-games posted on Jun 28, 2010 6:33:59 PM - Report post
     
    Personally I'm not really a big book buff or anything, matter of fact I've probably only read 2 to 4 novels in my whole life, I can still read pretty well I just get bored easy when I begin to read a book. However I did very recently read a Biography called Controversy Creates Cash - By Eric Bischoff you have to be a pro-wrestling fan to appreciate it, but it Bio on Erics life from his childhood all the way up to him failing to buy the dying WcW and debuting on RAW. Although there were a couple of things n the book he didn't cover that I wish he did like the creative thought behind David Arquette's World HeavyWeight Championship and a few other minor details, but never the less a very good book.
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    Bes posted on Jun 28, 2010 7:02:12 PM - Report post
     
    Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz

    I really really liked this one. I was looking forward to reading this one so much I skipped the other books in the series just to read it. It was definitely worth it. Great read that I recommend to you all. 10/10
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    Dhampy posted on Jun 28, 2010 7:22:32 PM - Report post
     
    Recently...from what I remember...

    I'm back doing the Sharpe's series. They're my old standbys.

    Napoleon as Military Commander. A career-biography by General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall. Brits are notorious for refusing to criticize anyone, and Marshall-Cornwall is no different. But the analysis is nevertheless interesting.

    Wellington as Military Commander. Oh, look, another career-biography. Unfortunately, the author, Micheal Glover is in the "Derp Wellington did everything right at all times derp" camp.

    Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby. Third or fourth time I've read it. There's a lullaby in a book which kills, and this guy goes on a mission to destroy all copies of the book; and all sorts of other crazy **** happens.

    Star Wars: Crosscurrent by Paul S Kemp. A tie in for two of the new series--Fate of the Jedi and Lost Tribe of The Sith. Meh.

    Reread Starship Troopers for the eleventy billionth time.

    Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning. The story of Reserve Police Battalion 101. A bunch of cops from Hamburg who ended up liquidating a substantial portion of the Jewry of Poland. Quite chilling, actually.

    The VALIS trilogy by Philip K ****. VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. Quite serious, cerebral stuff, actually; but also drug-addled. PKD's last set of books, which represent his own gnostic religion.

    Clans of the Alphane Moon by PKD. About clans on a moon, go figure. If I tell more, I'll give it away.

    Under Fire (Le Feu) by Henri Barbusse. Don't bother with that twaddle in All Quiet on the Western Front. If you want to read a real, gritty and un-politicized fictionalized account, read this. Barbusse was an old man when he volunteered for the war--three times. And was wounded and invalided out three times. Despite being a Communist, this book isn't a political diatribe. Unlike Remarque, he believed that the unfiltered truth was enough. So, he wrote a fictionalized account of his own squad. It's fascinating.

    I read the entire Timeline-191 series by Harry Turtledove. Alternate history, the divergence being Special Order 191. So, the south wins the Civil War. How Few Remain has a second war in 1881, then WWI in American Front, Walk in Hell and Breakthroughs. Interwar years with the South being the Weimar Republic in Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold and The Victorious Opposition. And then WWII in Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple and In At The Death.

    Napoleon's Wars: An International History, by Charles Esdaile. A rather straightforward diplomatic history of the Napoleonic Wars.

    President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty, by Edward Schmitt. Ed Schmitt was one of my profs in university, and this reflects what he teaches very well. A deeply researched, technically proficient book. Not exciting subject matter, but I found it interestingly written. BUY A COPY. NOW.

    Guns of August by Barbra Tuchmann. Barbra Tuchmann was a housewife, self-trained in history (although she was related to the Morgenthau's). And wrote the definitive work on the first month of WWI. It reads like a novel, you know what's going to happen but her writing keeps you in suspense.

    Why We Suck, by Dr. Denis Leary. I don't agree with all of Leary's politics, but I agree with most of it. And he's funny as hell.

    And I'm currently reading Henry V as Warlord by Desmond Seward. He throws too many names around without identifying them; doubly so since people keep changing names. For instance, the Duke of Bedford (the brother of Henry V, and then regent for Henry VI) is alternatively called the Duke of Bedford, Bedford, John Plantagenet, Sir John of Lancaster, Earl of Kendal, Earl of Richmond, Kendal, Richmond... GAAA!

    Edit- I can't find the open bold tag, so it's all staying bold.

    Edit2- Nevermind

    [Edited by Dhampy, 6/28/2010 7:26:28 PM]
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    Al-pucino posted on Jun 28, 2010 7:31:33 PM - Report post
     
    The Deltora Quest series.

    I was a big fan of it back when I was still a kid. I decided to read it again only because I felt like it and I wanted to remember the memories I had when first reading it.
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    Toastman posted on Jul 12, 2010 10:04:42 AM - Report post
     
    The Curious Case or Benjamin Button Not much of a book, but great nonetheless. One of my favorite authors by far. This book was freaking awesome. So much emotion. You want to help the characters, but you can't. And unfortunately you know what is going to happen, what they are going to do, and how they are going to do it, but there's no way to stop it. It's inevitable. Really sad and touching book. I suggest you read it. I read it in under two hours on my way to school this morning.
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