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James Axler, although that isn't the writer's actual name, and there have been like 5 authors. The Deathlands series is quite large, over 100 books I believe. The genre is post apocolypse, that is after the planet suffers a large-scale nuclear devastation, and the timeline is about 85 years in the future.
 
xHippiexchildx said:
The Wheel of Time. Best fantasy series in the world.
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This was one of my mother's favorite series. She absolutely loved it, and it givs me solace to know someone out there is enjoying it. When I was very young I was flipping through the picture book of the creatures and what not, and freaked the fuck out when I saw the picture of this one trolloc. My mother and I always shared laughs after that about those trollocs. Funny, I guess.

Still reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, but almost done. Just got To The Lighthouse, also by V. Woolf, and intend on starting that as soon as I finish Mrs. Dalloway. I have never been so enthralled with fiction until I happened across the great Virginia Woolf in the movie The Hours.
 
Just finished White by Ted Dekker..the third book in his Circle series. Crazy set of books about a guy who goes to sleep in one reality and wakes up in another, like that new show Awake that's on now, but different. It has to deal with grand ideas of life and death, good and evil, god and the devil.. really interesting stuff.
 
Worlds At War:
a 2,500 years struggle between the east and west

Anthony Pagden

"In the west, the law has, since antiquity, been looked upon as the creation of man for the needs of man. That law is civil, it is existential, and it is based on fact. And because facts and the very existence of nature is change, so the law can, and indeed must change."

progress is change but change is not progress, progress is change with a positive outcome that is only perpetuated by whom ever benefits.
 
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^ I'm definitely checking that book out, sounds like something I wouldn't be able to put down =)
 
Planning on getting around to starting Dicken's Great Expectations.

Nearly finished Luke Davies-God of Speed.

Three quarts through Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omen's.

And halfway through Tim Winton's Cloudstreet.

Plans to start Pynchon's-Gravity's Rainbow at some point.

I can never just read one book...
 
pk. said:
Yeah, poetry is unfortunately a dying form of prose, I had to get a copy from Amazon =(

After reading "Thousand Cranes" I just had to read another Yasunari Kawabata novel.

I'm currently half way through "Snow Country", another masterpiece imo.
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Couldn't help but nit-pick here (Lit student that I am), but poetry is referred to as verse, not prose.
 
Currently reading "Bhagavad-Gita: As It Is" by A. C. Bhaktivedanta.
 
the ragged trousered philanthropists - robert tressell

very interesting, to see how little political dialogue has changed in 100 years. definately in a better situation socially in the UK at least in terms of poverty, but the general framework is the same pretty much.

for fans of george orwell, keep the apidistra flying, down n out in paris n london, similar (leftwing) political commentary on poverty in novel form
 
"The Man Who Sold The Moon", a collection of short/long stories by the great Robert Heinlen.

Been meaning to get through his shorts for ages. Really enjoying them. A good balance of humour, science and fiction.
 
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, a favorite which is very engaging.

And, like always, Darkmans by Nikola Barker. Don't know why, but I can open to any page in the tome and read about my day or thoughts..
 
^good suggestion but personally i am sick of staring at this screen.
lol

and i dont have a printer.

reading books really gets on my nerves, as what i read is non fiction and i dont care to absorb one individuals entire sprawling thesis....;)


"according to me and mine this is what is true for you"
 
pk. said:
Isaiah Berlin - The Proper Study of Mankind
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^you know me well
;)

I was going to buy "An Advertisement Touching a Holy War" but its $300...

75 cents from amazon is much more reasonable.

Only recently have I read any of Machiavelli's work, which was only a couple of paragraphs, but, enough to strike a great interest for myself in the rest of his work. It is so exciting to uncover my own ignorance!
 
^ I'd like to think so, I've been posting here for a while now =)

I really want to get "My Life and Ethiopia's Progress" by King Selassie I... need money, ahhH!
 
pk. said:
^ I'd like to think so, I've been posting here for a while now =)

I really want to get "My Life and Ethiopia's Progress" by King Selassie I... need money, ahhH!
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lmao

yeah idk how i find such expensive books. many of them are so obscure and old, that there is no copy-write, so one can reprint the text and sell them that way for exuberant amounts of money.
;)

seriously, to get back into the seeds and sources of our history of intellect you have to pay. in more ways then one....


But to come as close as possible to seeing the birth of nearly every extension of our culture and schools of thought, is, besides scary, priceless. what to do though.
 
What's that awesome book that completely describes everything? He did his own art.. It's a rare one.
 
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