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#51 digitaldame
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The Nikki Heat series are fun short reads, I also agree with the House of Leaves recommendation. Then there's of course the Drizzt's books.

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#52 deactivated-5e836a855beb2
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at least 95% of the books i work with are trashy smutty paperbacks. you know, the kind of stuff YOU read. :PMarioRPGer
I am not ashamed :oops:
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Then there's of course the Drizzt's books.

Synthia
Not even close to sci fi but some of the best... erm... guilty pleasure books I've ever read.
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#54 AussieePet
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[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="lancea34"]

I can understand Harry Potter... but Twilight? Aussie... I am dissapoint. :(

lancea34

At least by reading the book, you can avoid the sh*tty acting and directing from the films.



Maybe, but Twilight still causes brain tumors. :P

But its better than the movie :D

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#55 DharmaMember77
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Never Let Me Go is the best sci-fi book of the 2000's, it may seem girly but anyone with good taste should love it.

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#56 DeX2010
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Oh, and there is also "Guantanamo Boy" by Anna Perra.
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#57 WhiteKnight77
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[QUOTE="MarioRPGer"]

jand i have the weirdest hunch that you and your wife read Stephen King and have fairly long discussions about his novels.

again, just a hunch.

Jandurin
I've read a good deal of Stephen King, but the wife hasn't really gone to horror yet. She's still noobing it up on general fantasy and sci fi with a smattering of vonnegut and that hipster loser tom robbins. And I'll thank you to keep your snark on this subject to yourself. You may have the edge in movies and music but books are my forte. :3[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"] Weird. "the ultimate geek novel" :P I like

It's great.

I used to read King a lot, but lost interest years ago. I even lost interest in reading Tom Clancy books though he was a favorite. I will have to remember that book you suggested though it is a novel and not history. It looks like an interesting read. Still, I have a backlog of 43 books to read as it is.
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#58 lancea34
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[QUOTE="lancea34"]

[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"] At least by reading the book, you can avoid the sh*tty acting and directing from the films.AussieePet



Maybe, but Twilight still causes brain tumors. :P

But its better than the movie :D

Maybe, but it's still just an average love story.

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#59 MarioRPGer
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jand, rec me a book and we can discuss it over the beer you owe me.

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#60 deactivated-5e836a855beb2
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jand, rec me a book and we can discuss it over the beer you owe me.

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Ender's Game. I think you need an easy one to start out on!
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#61 Skarwolf
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[QUOTE="Skarwolf"]

Frank Herbert's Dune, I didn't like the other novels.

Jandurin

How many of the others did you read? Also, I consider it fantasy.

All of them including his son's which were horribad. Consider it what ya want, its more like Sci Fi / Fantasy mockery of relgion.

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All of them including his son's which were horribad. Consider it what ya want, its more like Sci Fi / Fantasy mockery of relgion.

Skarwolf
Haha I read like 10 pages of his son's tripe and returned the book to the library and never tried them again.
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#63 surrealnumber5
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the moscow puzzles 359 mathematical recreation by boris a. kordemsky
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#64 AussieePet
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[QUOTE="AussieePet"]

[QUOTE="lancea34"]

Maybe, but Twilight still causes brain tumors. :P

lancea34

But its better than the movie :D

Maybe, but it's still just an average love story.

A love story of about two Mythical Creatures and a Human whos now a Vampire what more can u ask for?

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#65 Skarwolf
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[QUOTE="Skarwolf"]

All of them including his son's which were horribad. Consider it what ya want, its more like Sci Fi / Fantasy mockery of relgion.

Jandurin

Haha I read like 10 pages of his son's tripe and returned the book to the library and never tried them again.

I read them all while on night shift. Thankfully I didn't waste money on them. Borrowed from the library. The novels are basically descriptions of fight after fight after fight after fight with some talking then fight fight fight fight fight fight, talk a lil and attempt to use his fathers idea's and expand on them and fail, fight fight fight fight fight. Crapatola.

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#66 Johnny_Rock
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Under the Dome

One awesome book.

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#67 moker_1
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I love The Forever War.

Read some Kurt Vonnegut or Neil Gaiman. I think you'll enjoy them.

cmpepper23

It's great isn't it! i loved it.

I was going to look at the void trilogy by the same author but thought I'd pick people's brains first

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#68 aaronmullan
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A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin.3eyedrazorback
This. and the Dark Tower series.
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[QUOTE="Jandurin"] I'm 60% through a dance with dragons

How is it? People are mixed.
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#70 moker_1
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One of my fav's is a history book about the Native American's called Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. A great read, but depressing!

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[QUOTE="aaronmullan"][QUOTE="Jandurin"] I'm 60% through a dance with dragons

How is it? People are mixed.

great like it better than the last
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One of my fav's is a history book about the Native American's called Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. A great read, but depressing!

moker_1
did he take an arrow to the knee?
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[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="aaronmullan"][QUOTE="Jandurin"] I'm 60% through a dance with dragons

How is it? People are mixed.

great like it better than the last

Good. I'm going to get around to A Clash of Kings... sometime this year.
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#74 Necrifer
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Ring

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A love story of about two Mythical Creatures and a Human whos now a Vampire what more can u ask for?

AussieePet

For one of them to be a soul-devouring vampire-wraith.

Who kills the protagonist.

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"Keep the Aspidistra Flying" by George Orwell.
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#77 moker_1
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I'm loathe to buy a game tie in book. No matter how much I love Mass Effect there just seems something wrong about reading the novels.

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#78 Necrifer
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That's nice.

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#79 Pittfan666
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Dune? Ender's Game? Red Mars?
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#80 spazzx625
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I already pimped it on TDH...But I recommend Hunter by Robert Binidotto if you're into thriller novels. It's an indie book from a new novel author. Pretty rad.