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Postby USSRGirl » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:38 pm

I can't read. I'm illiterate.
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Postby QtheQreater » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:12 pm

USSRGirl wrote:I can't read. I'm illiterate.


Funny, you seem to be able to respond to my posts in the tournament thread...how'd you do that without reading it? :eyebrow:
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Postby Icarus » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:21 pm

I'm not sure if it counts since it's a magazine, but I've been rereading my old issues of Linux Format a lot recently
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Postby rocklobster » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:06 am

I'm currently re-reading the Dragonheart book based on the movie of the same name.
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Postby loki » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:23 am

Right now I am reading Bonehunters by Steven Erikson(again).
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Postby Kkun » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:12 am

The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
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Postby Bunny » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:03 am

uc pseudonym wrote:I believe you mean Dietrich Bonhoeffer. That isn't meant to simply be nitpicking, but I note it because I found the book very interesting. How far are you in it right now? It is difficult reading, in my mind (translation rarely improves texts, either), but worth the thoughts involved.

I'm nearly through with The Call to Discipleship. Yeah, it's a little tough on the attention span sometimes but it is enlightening and I do enjoy it.
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:46 am

Andrew shwabbs : Its all downhill from here on the road with Project 86.

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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:47 pm

Victor Borge's My Favorite Intermissions by Victor Borge.As the back flap says:
Victgor Borge is Victor Borge and a Dane by any other name isn't.
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Postby yukinon » Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:04 pm

I have been wanting to read The Four Loves for SO LONG, but it seems like it is really hard to find.
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Postby fairyprincess90 » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:45 pm

i just finished reading Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill

its like romance and it was a decently long book but i enjoyed it a ton

some of G.L.H's other books i like is crimson roses and the mystery of mary
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:40 pm

Finished Victor Borge today.Hilarious but true.
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Postby Gypsy » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:22 pm

I just finished Till We Have Faces (thanks, Ash!) and Walk Back the Cat.

I've been in the middle of Velvet Elvis for a while. It's really a book you read slowly and chew carefully. If you've ever wished there were more books like The Ragamuffin Gospel or Blue Like Jazz, you should check out Velvet Elvis.

For "candy" books (the term me and my coworker at the bookstore have for read-in-two-nights, light fiction works) I'm reading A Bride Most Begrudging. Why I even admitted that ... I don't know.
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Postby rocklobster » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:14 pm

I've started re-reading Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
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Postby Kaori » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:19 pm

The Song of Roland. The technique of the poetry is not particularly notable, but the story itself is very well-shaped.

Tolstoy's Resurrection
. I didn't enjoy this book as much as his earlier novels, largely because of the author's comments about organized religion. However, the book was at least an interesting read.
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Postby HisaishiFan » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:27 am

I read this a couple of months ago, but if you haven't read it and want to try something that will grab your heart, read "The Memory Keeper's Daughter." Story: Twins are born on a snowy night, with only the doctor (father) and a nurse attending. The girl has Down Syndrome, the father tells mother she died, but he really gives her to a nurse to take to an institution. The nurse walks into the institution, sees how dehumanizing it is, takes one look at the baby in her arms and flees with her. The book is about the effect of these two decisions on all the lives involved. It is also about art and whether it has the power to heal.
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Postby yukinon » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:40 am

That sounds beautiful. I have a lot of experience working with those people, so I'd definitely be interested in that. Making mental note....now.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:06 am

Got back into The Magician's Nephew... started it a coupel weeks ago and in the middle of it, so now I actually have time to continue through.
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Postby yukinon » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:40 am

ah, that is one of my favorite Narnia books. The other one being The Last Battle.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:37 pm

yukinon wrote:ah, that is one of my favorite Narnia books. The other one being The Last Battle.


It's my first time reading through the series^^ The whole set was lent to me, since the only thing I've done is seen the movie when it came out. Well, at least they're all pretty short. Still, time is somethign I need to go through them all^^
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Postby martinloyola » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:49 pm

The Flower War - Tad Williams, not as completely engrossing as Otherland series but since it is a single volume it doesn't feel quite so ponderously tedious or copious in detail. Much more on the side of horror than his other works, it mixes sci-fi and fantasy very well
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Postby USSRGirl » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:32 pm

QtheQreater wrote:Funny, you seem to be able to respond to my posts in the tournament thread...how'd you do that without reading it? :eyebrow:

That's the irony of it! :lol:

... I'm reading this thread. XD
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Postby joeblade » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:58 pm

George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones
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Postby QtheQreater » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:40 pm

Some Redwall book...eh...The Bellmaker?
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Postby uc pseudonym » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:12 am

Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel by Luke Timothy Johnson

It has been an interesting read so far. He begins with differentiating between the way we consider a person who is dead and one who is alive, then applies that to our consideration of Jesus today. A fairly scholarly work, but I haven't read enough to judge it extensively.
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Postby Puguni » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:56 pm

I've just read:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, pretty good, a few curses.
Of Mice and Men, LOVED IT. :D
Island of Dr. Moreau, pretty good.

Now reading:
A Death in the Family
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Postby yukinon » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:04 am

I've wanted to read Dr. Moreau ever since I saw the Freakazoid episode that made fun of it. How sad is that?
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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:11 pm

They spoofed The Island of Dr. Moreau on that one episode of Totally Spies where a evil fashion designer manipulates human DNA to turn people into half-animals.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:00 am

Alright, so finished The Magician's Nephew last night... now onto The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Heh already seen the movie which I loved, so time to check out the book^^
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Postby Kokhiri Sojourn » Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:24 am

I'm half-way through Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson. He has such an interesting point of view and brilliant insight. I love his writing on creation testifying the glory of God.
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