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OPOJ wrote:Hi everyone.
I read all kind of science fiction books. Like Isaac Asimov.
Now I'm reading Brave New World from Aldous Huxley.

Hey! OPOJ!

Brave New World is the book I want to read next!
I've read 1984 and loved it, saw Equilibrium and now I'm in love of those kind of theories...btw, if you haven't seen that movie or read that book and you like BNW, you should! they're btw the same lines...of totalitarian governments.

Equilibrium is FANTASTIC, I even have it in my computer!

stratoplayer wrote:Equilibrium is FANTASTIC, I even have it in my computer!

I agree, that movie is 'off the hook'
And guess what! I bet you've notice that Preston, at the end of the movie...smiles a bit. hehehehhe

You couldn't resist that could you...

Forget-me-not wrote: Great you are! I didn't have enough diligence to finish it

Well, it starts to get exciting on about page 300, where he describes the battle of Austerlitz. The first parts of the book are a little ropy, but it gets better and better. If I didn't have other things to do I'd like to read it through all at once. But as I still have to do some exams I've just two hours at night where I can read...

Well, I guess I wrote here before that I'm reading the Kalevala, and I have it in a PC.
Also have Dracula (I have'em on my brother's PC cause I have no money for the books, besides, the Kalevala is quite hard to find here- No, correct...is IMPOSSIBLE)

What do I read: Epic stories (Kalevala, the song of Roland, etc), JRR Tolkien, Beowulf...that stuff

Just a Vampire wrote:Well, I guess I wrote here before that I'm reading the Kalevala, and I have it in a PC.
Also have Dracula (I have'em on my brother's PC cause I have no money for the books, besides, the Kalevala is quite hard to find here- No, correct...is IMPOSSIBLE)

What do I read: Epic stories (Kalevala, the song of Roland, etc), JRR Tolkien, Beowulf...that stuff

Good choice, "Kalevala" (in Russian) and "The Lord of The Rings" (in English) are literary masterpieces which are always with me in my Pocket PC

EDIT: Oh, how could I forget? "The Silmarillion" is there too, at the first place!

Heiserich wrote: Well, it starts to get exciting on about page 300, where he describes the battle of Austerlitz. The first parts of the book are a little ropy, but it gets better and better. If I didn't have other things to do I'd like to read it through all at once. But as I still have to do some exams I've just two hours at night where I can read...

Nice to hear you like it. I'm glad to know that Russian classical authors are enjoyed abroad

Due to my job, I have to read mountains of technical documentation from Microsoft, Cisco, Netscreen, and others.

For private reading, I really enjoy biographies and autobiographies. I'm also rather keen on military history, as well books on counterintelligence and espionage. Some of my favorite authors are politicians, generals, and doctors. Clausewitz and Churchill are among my favorite authors.

I also enjoy a great deal of Christian literature, such as works by C.S. Lewis and Rick Warren.

For fiction, I've read a lot of Whitley Strieber, Jenkins/LaRue, Stephen King, D.C. Fontana, and many others.

A book about minerals by Judy Hall, very interesting!^^

I'm actually reading a book about the city Of Jihlava in Moravia (Czech Republic), this book is called "Kapitoly z historie Jihlavy" (or in english "the chapters of the Jihlava's history"). Very interesting thing.

I know this is kind of stupid, but actually i'm reading Avalon right now...though i've bearly started it.

mostly fantasy and sci-fi

actually Nightwatch

Terry Pratchett. And of course, heavy-metal magazines.

I have recently finished "The Celesty Prophecy" (Tolkki's recommendation at his forum), and a book about neurobics, brain exercise.
I am reading "Veronika Decides to Die" that is the only book of Paulo Coelho I had not read.
Apart from that I am writing my novel and reading my books on learning German and Japanese (does that count?)

MetalManiac wrote:Terry Pratchett. And of course, heavy-metal magazines.

yeah i forgot heavy metal magazines ... and gaming magazines

Let's see... I should be reading these for the exams next month...
Maths, Physics, Anatomy, Computers, Chemistry

Right now I'm reading nothing though...

Mark Salisbury's Burton On Burton, a book about my all-time favourite director Tim Burton. So far it seems really promising.

Hurray, finally I finished "War and Peace" by Tolstoi!
It took quite a long time, cause I had only two hours in the evenings to read. However, it's an absolutely great book.
Probably tomorrow I'll start with another book, don't know yet which one I'll choose...

Excellent book about old Rome's emperors and stuff, I don't know what is the english name of it.

last week I read "the different between woman and man". Was very interesting, recommended!

Now I am reading a poetically book from Rimbaud. Awesome, really awesome!!!!

currently reading a harry potter fan fic that my BF wrote... lol

I´m reading at this time "The Tenth Insight " by James Redfield. It is very interesting .

"THE SEX LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS" I just got through reading this book&if true, there are lots of past USA presidents that would make Bill Clinton look like an angel! George Washington was the Father of our country. Literally.

Also, I read the DAVINCI CODE which was interesting. I am waiting for the DVD, now!

What I last read was The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton.

I finished in a week. Just 300 pages.
The book was old I must say, back from the 60s. But I loved it very much.
It gave me the same thrills Crichton's last one State of Fear.

He's my favorite writer.

By the way, I just noticed that he's coming out with a new book on Nov 28 called NEXT that deals with genetics. Anyone intrested:

http://www.michaelcrichton.net/

Now I´m reading :Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 by John Major Jenkins , and Kalevala

the andromeda strain is also a good movie!

Got started on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.... if the film is anything to go by, this should be an interesting read...

I finished Dan Brown's Deception Point some time ago. It was a lot like the Da Vinci -Code and Angels And Demons; it was a really exciting story, but after reading it once, that's it.

browneyedgirl wrote:the andromeda strain is also a good movie!

And I am in the waiting list in the library to see it.

I'm currently short on cash so I'm basically re-reading some of my classics. At the moment i'm reading Lolita for the seventh time, if I remember correctly. I've also had a look to Biography of Hunger, english translation of Biographie de la faim, one of my favourite books by Amélie Nothomb. Really great translation, I highly recommend it.