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EDKRIEG Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 2/17/06 7:32am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	The Separation by Christopher Priest.Just published by a small Baltimore Publisher-Old Earth Books.It is alternate history-of sorts about two brothers.Goes from around 1936 through....But that would be telling.It is a strange sort of AH book.Possibly something weird happens?Last phrase is not intended to be a spoiler.If anyone has read it please post.The book was orginally published in the UK and I almost bought one at a Baltimore SF con last year.
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steve12553 Registered: Feb '06	Date Posted: 2/20/06 2:45am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	I'm finally getting around to "the Silamarillion" by Tolkien. Been hearing about it for 20 years and found a copy at Barnes and Noble. -----signature----- ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... "...That is the place where we cannot look...the place where only a Kwisatz Haderach may look."
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Merlyn_Gabriel Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 2/20/06 4:16am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	Alfred W. McCoy - A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the cold war to the war on terror. ( only on the first pages yet) James Luceno - Dark Lord, The rise of Darth vader ( just started this one too...so far so okay) I just finished Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn ( worth the read.) -----signature----- A different kind of star wars story.... Book 3: http://dote3.blogspot.com The Chiss have a saying; Sweetest is the fruit that is just out of reach.
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tal0nkarrde Registered: Dec '05	Date Posted: 2/20/06 9:11pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	Just started reading Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost by Troy Denning. -----signature----- Visit www.g-pop.net for all things entertainment!
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Raja_Io Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 2/21/06 1:15pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	Baudolino by Umberto Eco -----signature----- It's better to have loved and destroyed your girl with the power of the Arc of Covenant than never to have loved at all. --- Making a ninja burger in progress... 0%
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jedichef1 Registered: Aug '04	Date Posted: 2/21/06 1:36pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	Just finished Angels and Demons, Dan Brown, can recommend it as well it was a great read. -----signature----- If so powerful are you why leave. Hogwarts House cup Game 14 Gryffindor Prefect.
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Alishu06 Registered: Mar '05	Date Posted: 2/21/06 7:37pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	Outbound flight!!!! FINALLY -----signature----- Always Remeber that they fought and are fighting for your FREEDOM Master to Handmaiden_Azul and SKYWALKER024
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MarcusP2 Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jul '04	Date Posted: 2/22/06 4:47am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	ROTS novelisation since I just picked it up in PB. Just finished Evergence 1 and Swarm War. -----signature----- Darth Revan Fan Club: Technical Specialist Uncle Eddie was my favourite wrestler Gentle Giant owns my bank account.
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Raven Title: SFF: Books and Comics Mangler Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/22/06 5:26am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	I'm reading The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Anthony Beevor. So far, it's good. The subject is a strange mix of depressing and exciting, but one I enjoy reading about. The end of the Third Reich is one of the greatest stories ever told. You have some of the most evil people ever to walk the earth, institutionalized insanity, rank cowardice, unimaginable destruction, unfettered greed, unexpected kindness, and incredible heroism – on both the Russian and German sides. Moments like Albert Speer’s last visit to Hitler and the raising of the Russian flag over the Reich Chancellery building are the sort of moments that make any fiction pale by comparison, and Beevor has been doing a good job on them so far. -----signature----- 1. Seek enlightenment. 2. ??? 3. Prophet.
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Sith-I-5 Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 2/22/06 10:17am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	Haven't really settled onto a book. Have just completed Steven King's Dark Tower IV: Wolves of the Calla. Now I'm vacillating between these three: Inconceivable, Ben Elton. How to Win Friends and influence people, Dale Carnegie. Polar City Blues, Katherine Kerr. -----signature----- Crowning Moment of Awesome – THE MASTER. Summoning six billion robotic beach balls Of Doom to decimate the Earth, blowing a good-bye kiss to the Doctor, all the while dancing to "Voodoo Child". EPIC. EVIL. WIN. 007 Family - DVC's twin bro'.
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ezekiel22x Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 2/22/06 10:23am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	I’m about 150 pages into The Scar, and am already finding out that this book is every bit the engaging piece that Perdido Street Station was. Mieville’s settings are painted with a descriptive eloquence that imbue his creations with uniqueness, while his mastery of bringing out fully realized individuality in characters is spot-on. His blend of modern/mundane societal nodes combined with steampunk and high fantasy riffs manages to come across as a perfect example of harnessing potentially familiar elements as a means of destroying expected conventions. Few authors write with the brazen confidence that Mieville achieves, and for that reason I wouldn’t hesitate to name as one of the genre’s most important names to come out of the last decade.
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RolandofGilead Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jan '01	Date Posted: 2/22/06 10:24am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	jedichef1 posted: Just finished Angels and Demons, Dan Brown, can recommend it as well it was a great read. That was a great read, but the implausability of the ending kind of ruined it for me. Sith-I-5 posted: Haven't really settled onto a book. Have just completed Steven King's Dark Tower IV: Wolves of the Calla. Now I'm vacillating between these three: Inconceivable, Ben Elton. How to Win Friends and influence people, Dale Carnegie. Polar City Blues, Katherine Kerr. Cry pardon but I must recommend The Dark Tower V: Song of Sussanah you've come too far along the path of the beam to turn back now. I'm currently reading Stephen King's Cell and Robert E Howard's The Conquering Sword of Conan when I have time at home. I still have James Luceno's Dark Lord, and CS Lewis' The Silver Chair waiting in the wings. -----signature----- Satan's not in a guitar pick, he's inside all of us. In here, in your hearts. He's what makes us not want to go to work, or exercise, or tell the truth. He's that little voice in your mind that says "**** you" to the people you hate.
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DBrennan3333 Registered: Nov '04	Date Posted: 2/24/06 4:07am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	I'm reading a lot of Jack London's old writings (as opposed to his new stuff, which I hear mostly involves fertilizing daisies or something) and lots of it, believe it or not, is really good science fiction. In particular, the great story 'The Scarlett Plague,' which I think is the first ever zombie story (although they didn't call them zombies.) Here's a great quote after all but .5% of the population has died: "Civilization has crumbled. It is each man for himself." P.S. I said at another site I'd repost this, so here it is: Jesus---- I---- Love----- You----- and------ Need----- You---- -----signature----- My 10-min. Doc about Clone Wars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_h41PEyU1w My Award Winning Star Wars Essay: http://StarWarsEssay.Blogspot.com !!! My Illustrated Sci-fi Novel: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=284043
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Queen_Pixie Registered: Jul '99	Date Posted: 2/27/06 10:21am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	I just finished reading Mercedes Lackey "Burning Water", and am undecided as to which of my new books to read next. I think I may go for one of the Star Trek books. -----signature----- When the stars shine bright in the engine's trail, and the dust of another world drops behind.
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malcolm-darth-am-i Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 2/27/06 8:14pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
	A book called The Thir Secret.
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