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May 21st, 2008, 12:14 AM
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Hm. It seems we agree on something. :P
Trying to decide what I'd like to read while I have time before internship starts. Might begin the Codex Alara series by Jim Butcher.
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May 21st, 2008, 10:22 PM
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I just read her newest one, and it's pretty good. The older I get the more socially conservative I get. But this is a music forum, and a thread about what we're reading, so I'm not getting any further into politics.
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May 23rd, 2008, 01:21 AM
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I've finished CQY's Tempting Fate and am now in that "in-between-books" phase. I do most of my reading on the john, so.....out comes the Bathroom Reader from the Bathroom Research Institute.
 (In all seriousness, it's well-done, and by a small independent press.)
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May 23rd, 2008, 07:43 AM
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I'm working my way through "When Gravity Fails" by George Alec Effinger - cyberpunk sci-fi in an Arabic setting. It's a bit weird, but I find it interesting that he nails some Arabic/Muslim cultural characteristics, like how it's considered terribly rude just to say "no" to someone; instead you have to take the roundabout route, saying "I wish I could help you" and variations on that.
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May 23rd, 2008, 07:59 PM
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I just finished "Child of a Dead God" by the Barb & J.C. Hendee (the latest of the Noble Dead series). It was much better than the previous one. It kinda wrapped up part of one story, and lead into another part.
I just started reading "The Bancroft Strategy" by Robert Ludlum. My Dad liked it and lent it to me. I normally don't read the spy novels.
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May 23rd, 2008, 11:32 PM
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May 27th, 2008, 07:51 PM
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I'm halfway through The Count of Monte Cristo. I am trying to finish it before I see the Vanden Plas Christ 0 rock opera, which is inpired by this book.
The book is great - held my interest from the first page. If you read it, make sure to get an unabridged version. You'll miss a ton of great stuff if you read the little abridged version. Anyone read any of Alexandre Dumas' other books? This one is so good, I may try another. I guess his son was also an author of quite a few books too.
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May 28th, 2008, 11:11 AM
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Yup. All good. If you like those and like fantasy, check out Steven Brust's Phoenix Guard series. He wrote them in the style of Dumas and the stories parallel the Three Muskateer stories pretty closely, but they are based in a fantasy universe and are much funnier than Dumas' stuff.
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