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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #30 on: December 19, 2007, 12:16:49 pm »
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Queen of Sorcery - David Eddings

David Eddings is famous for his fantasy books!!!
GReat choice!

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« Reply #31 on: December 19, 2007, 10:13:05 pm »
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Currently reading Old School - Tobias Wolff. I've polished off an initial reading on the English texts for next year, one of which is Catcher in the Rye. I'm enjoying the vague similarities between the two.

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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #32 on: December 19, 2007, 10:57:20 pm »
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Queen of Sorcery - David Eddings

David Eddings is famous for his fantasy books!!!
GReat choice!

Finished it last night (I'm reading the series again)

Having a look through The Rivian Codex now!

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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #33 on: December 20, 2007, 08:58:44 pm »
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Philip Pullmans- His Dark Materials
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« Reply #34 on: December 20, 2007, 09:00:03 pm »
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Lol I was reading this book about stupid men jokes or something ... some were funny, some werent so funny...;D :D 

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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #35 on: December 25, 2007, 07:20:11 pm »
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Sports Illustrated
Maestro- for English
The Latham Diaries

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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #36 on: December 25, 2007, 08:19:44 pm »
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Slash's autobiography (a Christmas present)

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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #37 on: December 25, 2007, 08:27:38 pm »
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WOOT Horizon Storms - Kevin J Anderson
book 3 of 7 :P

planning on getting book 4 soon, "scattered suns" :D
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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #38 on: December 25, 2007, 08:42:49 pm »
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Philip Pullmans- His Dark Materials
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Which book out of the trilogy?

I read Northern Lights back in '02, Subtle Knife and Amber Spyglass in '03/'04. ;)

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Book reading question
« Reply #39 on: December 25, 2007, 08:58:45 pm »
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I'm sick of this thread making me jealous: http://freestudynotes.com/VCEforum/index.php/topic,1042.0.html

Ok, so at the start of next year at some point I will walk up to the shops and get meself a library card. Do librarys work the same way as a school one does? (eg is it all free? =/) I don't remember the last time I was in one other than my school's one.

Next:
From year 10 I liked to kill a mockingbird and macbeth and I didn't like the divine wind (remember I did english language and hence didn't get to read things in yr11-12)
I have also read harry potter. xD

You have to recommend stuff. The catch is, I need to be able to understand it. To be honest, harry potter was testing my patience in dictionary looking up frequency (but thankfully she uses the same words in all her books, so the 4th-10th times I remembered for example that dumbledore likes to peruse things and hence book 7 wasn't that bad =D). HP also taught me they're more enjoyable when you actually look up the words and not just try and infer what they mean from the sentence.

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Re: Book reading question
« Reply #40 on: December 25, 2007, 09:32:44 pm »
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get the "saga of the seven suns", it's actually 7 books by Kevin J Anderson, and they all have dif. titles, awesome Sci-fi read (not so much science, a lot more sociology/economics/politics plus romance and all other genre stuck into one, INCLUDING fantasy ;D)...
book 1 is called "hidden empire" =D they're close to Lord of the Rings length except its actually understandable this time, xD
i'm up to 3... hehe
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Re: Book reading question
« Reply #41 on: December 25, 2007, 09:39:37 pm »
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I think some libraries have an one-time registration fee (City of Monash public libraries do I think). Then when you sign up, they give you a card on the spot. Laminated, with your name and all.

Then yeah.. just like school. There's the computer for searching, self-service borrowing scanner things, fiction/non-fiction/etc sections, librarians, and the good ol' book returning chute. Oh and places to sit.

:D

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« Reply #42 on: December 25, 2007, 09:56:12 pm »
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Perhaps you could try Hemingway. His style seems to fit your requirements :)

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« Reply #43 on: December 25, 2007, 10:01:10 pm »
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Jeremy Clarkson - Born To Be Riled
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #44 on: December 25, 2007, 10:01:56 pm »
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I need to read something these holidays, anyone have any suggestions??
Thanks