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Happy Cheesecake
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Nobody has done this yet? Weird. Well, then, I guess I shall take the responsibility for this one.


Book? I hate book! Book is stupid!

Oddly enough, I'm slightly disappointed nobody posted this. I guess this means people are becoming more... *gasp* serious on the forums. We can't have that, now, can we?

Joking, of course.

But, on topic, the only series of books I've actually ever read, would be the Harry Potter serious. Besides that, I don't read much of anything. Sad, I know, but once I have some more time to waste, I'm guessing reading will become a large hobby of mine.

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Posted: 10th Jul 2010 10:30 Edited at: 10th Jul 2010 10:30
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Quote: "Book? I hate book! Book is stupid!"

I was supposed to post that, but forgot for some reason...

Quote: "Oddly enough, I'm slightly disappointed nobody posted this. I guess this means people are becoming more... *gasp* serious on the forums. We can't have that, now, can we?"

No, we can't. The contract says that it's restricted to be serious, so everyone prepare, becouse there will be men in sunglasses and black suits behind your door.

Quote: "Joking, of course."

What? Well, that makes the last statement pointless! Call the men in black back, call them back!!

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Posted: 10th Jul 2010 12:54
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I'm currently reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. If anyone's looking for a challenge (or a chance to learn some Nadsat!) then I recommend it. Just a word of caution, it's as controversial (if not more so!) than the film!

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*bump*

This thread is good enough to deserve it.

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Quote: "Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Lost World by Michael Crichton

both amazing books, so much better than the films."

And the movies aer damn awesome! How good are the books then?

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you guys say whatever you want, but

Twilight - 4 books (maybe it is called "the twilight saga" like the movies? ... whatever, the twilight books should definitly be on that list)

oh and another great book is "Signal" by Stephen king


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Dare I mention Neuromancer, a classic/modern cyberpunk that I am surprised has remained unmentioned thus far?

What about Dracula?

I would mention others but they are already in the list.

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You've got Ender's game twice. (Once without an apostrophe and once with)

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Yep. Thats because Enders Game is better than all of these other books.

Oh by the way, put

Agas Thgiliwt

It's a really good book, you oughta read it.

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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

"What I have shown you is reality. What you remember, that is the illusion."
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Do comic books count?


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Prey by Michael Crichton

Absolutely awesome book, especially for programmers

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I started reading the list... And I came to Green Eggs and Ham... I lol'd.
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Any theology by C. S. Lewis

more specifically,

The Great Divorce

The Problem of Pain

A Grief Observed

The Screwtape Letters

The Abolition of Man

and Miracles

Uh. . . What?!
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Quote: "Prey by Michael Crichton

Absolutely awesome book, especially for programmers"


That's funny, Diggsey. I just finished The Terminal Man 2 nights ago and am on about page 120 in Prey. So far, it is extremely captivating.

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Quote: "Yep. Thats because Enders Game is better than all of these other books"

Pfft... doubt that... but don't wanna start a flame eather, so let's agree to disagree.

Quote: "Do comic books count?"

Don't think so... atleast so far, the list is full ov novels.

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Quote: "Don't think so... atleast so far, the list is full ov novels."


Hm, what about graphic novels? Like Batman graphic novels?


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Quote: "Hm, what about graphic novels? Like Batman graphic novels?"

Dunno... but if it has a word Batman in it, it must be so cool to go everywhere!

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Quote: "Dunno... but if it has a word Batman in it, it must be so cool to go everywhere!"


Nice! Which reminds me, I get to go to the comic book store today... Should I get Batman, or Green Lantern, or Thor, or what?

YOU DECIDE. If it's a comic I like. But really, what comic should I get?


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I personally also enjoyed the Bourne series.

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Quote: "YOU DECIDE. If it's a comic I like. But really, what comic should I get?"
My favourites are Watchmen and The Dark Knight returns (sequel The Dark knight strikes again is not as good IMHO, and both are nothing to do with any film, which is a shame). Followed off the top of my head by the Marvel Civil war series and pretty much anything 2000AD ever used to do (Judge Dredd, that blue soldier guy etc).

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K-PAX by gene brewer
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - seriously, noone mentioned it or I have just missed it?
Monday Begins on Saturday by Arkadij & Borys Strugaccy - probably my favourite of them. Not sure if they are popular in the west...
Hunt For The Red October by Tom Clancy

If there's anything I forgot, I'll add it...

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Quote: "Nice! Which reminds me, I get to go to the comic book store today... Should I get Batman, or Green Lantern, or Thor, or what?"

Well, Batman is my all-time favourite comic :-P Altho I like Spider-Man too. And I like Hulk too, green, big, awesome. There is not alot of comic book stores where I am from (like 120 kilometres is the nearest), but when I get a chance I try to go see is there anything interesting. The answer is most likely interesting.

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Quote: "Should I get Batman, or Green Lantern, or Thor, or what?"

Quote: "Watchmen"


Which is a great book, Dazzag!

Also, I wanted to mention PREY again. I finished it last night, and it is now at least in my top 5. AI programming at its finest. Distributed systems spread across a multitude of nano-particles with a group predator base instinct. Reproducing themselves and evolving at an exponential rate with each new iteration. It's a fantastic book and it had me hooked from the very beginning. It was suspensful, yet exhilarating. It seemed that there was hardly any lag in the story from beginning to end. (see what I did there... )

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Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It's a Russian novel that has spawned many games and films (Such as Stalker [Film], Metro2033 [Game], and S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series [Game]).
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@Up: Well, TBH I have never read it. Probably because I'm not reading now as much as before and now I'm having a hard time reading more than 1-2 books by the same author in a row. It was the third one.
But surely I'll soon start reading it again...

And "Metro..." was created afer a book under same name. "Roadside Picnic" had nothing to do with it...

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Quote: "Well, Batman is my all-time favourite comic :-P Altho I like Spider-Man too. And I like Hulk too, green, big, awesome. There is not alot of comic book stores where I am from (like 120 kilometres is the nearest), but when I get a chance I try to go see is there anything interesting. The answer is most likely interesting."


Forget it, I got a Green Lantern graphic novel, Darkest Night, I like it but Batman was already dead when it started.

[email]Which is a great book, Dazzag![/email]

I might want to read that one day, it seems cool. But do they show Dr.Manhattan's privates like in the movie?


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Lord of the Rings
The Crown and Covenant series

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Quote: "But do they show Dr.Manhattan's privates like in the movie?"


It's there, but let's just say that his junk is not as well detailed in the book.

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Quote: "It's there, but let's just say that his junk is not as well detailed in the book."


...I'm not sure how I should take that.


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The Plague by Albert Camus
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Quote: "I'll chuck in Island by Richard Laymon"

Quote: "Oh and I'll chuck in Island (not the sci-fi film!)"

First quote is from the list and the second is what I said. Heh, I can see how this happened, and probably should have put the book in quotes. Basically the book is called "Island". Forget the "I'll chuck in" bit

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- The Legend of Huma -- Robert A. Knaak

- The DragonLance Chronicles, Heroes, and Legends Series

- The Arthurian Book of Days -- Caitlin/John Matthews

- All work by Robert E. Howard (esp. Conan)

- Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card

- Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold -- Terry Brooks

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Perhaps The Twilight Saga deserves an award for "the book series Best ruined by topless men in film adaption"

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Here's my choices:

The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
The Fat Man on Game Audio by George A. Sanger
The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten
Chris Crawford on Game Design by Chris Crawford
Redwall series (esp. Marlfox and Martin the Warrior) by Brian Jacques

The Fat Man is awesome. Everybody should read it.

Here's and updated and cleaned up list:



I had trouble ensuring I had the right info for these:

- Beast
- Hypernion books
- The Crown and Covenant series

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Quote: "Darkest Night - Is this referring to the Batman graphic novel?"


It's a Green Lantern graphic novel, named from the fact that, and I quote the sacred Green Lantern code, all Green Lanterns would fight through "Through Brightest Day and through Blackest Night...", and the "Blackest Night" had supposedly come. There is a similar graphic novel from Batman though, called "In DarkestKnight," once again a take from the Green Lantern code, for Bruce Wayne had supposedly taken Hal Jordan's place as the leader of the Green Lanterns, so they modified the common phrase, and made "Blackest Night," "Darkest Knight," for that was more of a Batman appropriate name. Gosh, get your facts straight.

And no, it is probably not.


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You've got Eldest and the Eragon series both listed, redundant?

I like Eragon, Lord of the Rings, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain. Hilarious, that book .

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Twilight new moon and the others

Ive never read them but they say there good

Who da man?!
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Quote: "Twilight new moon and the others

Ive never read them but they say there good "

My sarcasm detector is acting up, I'm going to be on the safe side and veto this .

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Quote: "Quote: "Darkest Night - Is this referring to the Batman graphic novel?"

It's a Green Lantern graphic novel, named from the fact that, and I quote the sacred Green Lantern code, all Green Lanterns would fight through "Through Brightest Day and through Blackest Night...", and the "Blackest Night" had supposedly come. There is a similar graphic novel from Batman though, called "In DarkestKnight," once again a take from the Green Lantern code, for Bruce Wayne had supposedly taken Hal Jordan's place as the leader of the Green Lanterns, so they modified the common phrase, and made "Blackest Night," "Darkest Knight," for that was more of a Batman appropriate name. Gosh, get your facts straight.

And no, it is probably not."



Ah, there we go! Fixed now


Oh, and Twilight's already on my list, and The Comet's too I think. ()

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Aw, wut? Twilight but no Yankee?

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Grave mistake on my part, no disrespect to the master satirist intended.

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I like Princess Bride. I could write a paragraph on it, but I'll just say I like it.


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George Carlin's Napalm & Silly Putty & Brain Droppings are pretty good for a laugh. Also, Me Talk Pretty One Day and other works by David Sedaris are pretty good.

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How could no one have put Ghost Recon down yet? My favorite book of all time.

Tom Clancy novels in general just...own.

I also liked what I've read so far of Ender's Game.

I've read too many bad books to think of other awesome ones.

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