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Just finished reading David Lee Roth's biography - He is quite egotistical but makes some good points!  _________________ |
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| sen-goku wrote: | | after reading the review on lemon of the game based on the book, i read the book "the rats" from james herbert. it's really good! 8) |
Get the two sequels - They are both as good as 'The Rats' although the third (and final) book is my favourite - It takes place during and after a nuclear war.
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| LeeT wrote: | | Get the two sequels - They are both as good as 'The Rats' although the third (and final) book is my favourite - It takes place during and after a nuclear war. |
thanks for the tip!  i just started bidding on them at ebay.  |
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I just finished reading Terry by Douglas Copeland. It's a bio, with pictures, on Terry Fox. He lost a leg above the knee to cancer. What he saw in the cancer ward gave him the idea to run a daily marathon across Canada on an artificial leg, raising money for cancer research.
A fascinating read, about a kid with a whole yard of guts. _________________ C-64 = blue screen of LIFE!... well, life in the 80's. |
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| Thunderer wrote: | I just finished reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - and to tell you the truth I don't know what the big deal is about this book. It was a nice reading though, very quick and easy to understand.
By far better and more exciting is Angels and Demons, although some of the action is very questionable.
Books to read that I've been stockpiling but haven't found time: Crime and Punishment, the Man in the Iron Mask, the Wind in the Willows, re-read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy (all five books), the Bible,....
The thing is I've always found it easire to read borrowed books as with my own I always say, there's time they're not going anywhere. However, I've been saying that for years. |
I've read The Da Vinci Code and I liked it. I've bought Angels and Demons but I haven't started reading it yet. Considering what you write, it seems like I have something to look forward to.
About the Bible, I started reading it once but I just managed to read a few pages. It was the most boring book I have ever tried to read. I remember whole pages of rambling about ...who was the son of ... who was the son of ... who was the son of... . Very uninteresting. |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| LeeT wrote: | | sen-goku wrote: | | after reading the review on lemon of the game based on the book, i read the book "the rats" from james herbert. it's really good! |
Get the two sequels - They are both as good as 'The Rats' although the third (and final) book is my favourite - It takes place during and after a nuclear war. |
Haven't read Domain yet, but will soon. Loved The Rats and Lair
| Christian Johansson wrote: | | About the Bible, I started reading it once but I just managed to read a few pages. It was the most boring book I have ever tried to read. I remember whole pages of rambling about ...who was the son of ... who was the son of ... who was the son of... . Very uninteresting. |
That's just a couple of chapters, the interesting stuff comes later. Still, a very slow and boring read, but has it has it's points here and there.
Right now I'm considering reading some of the Icelandic sagas again, since I seem to have forgotten some of them. Which is not a good thing 
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| merman wrote: | | SH0CKTR00PER wrote: | | SH0CKTR00PER wrote: | I've reconsidered my earlier post.. I'll read Desperation first  |
Can Toi? I'm starting to get a weird feeling about this book..  |
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Can de lach! Mi en tow!
In other words, done with it! Very easy read.. Now I'm off to the Regulators.. |
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Just read the fourth book by Mark 'Chopper' Read - Very funny at times! He had to disguise it as several letters as he wasn't allowed to write another book whilst in prison (criminals profiting from crime etc). _________________ |
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| Dan Gillgrass wrote: | | Hmmm... Deperation is much bettter (plus they are making it into a film which will prob be crap to be honest), Im still holding out on a new original King book... do ya ken? |
A film? I did hear about a mini series with a hot chick to play Cynthia..
I ken you very well, you old geezer.. But will it ever be so? |
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[quote="SH0CKTR00PER"] | Dan Gillgrass wrote: | | But will it ever be so? |
I think more to the point as with most King films, will it be any good?? btw, have you seen that gorgeous Tom Gordon pop up book?
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| Dan Gillgrass wrote: | | I think more to the point as with most King films, will it be any good?? btw, have you seen that gorgeous Tom Gordon pop up book? |
Given the mixed bag Mick Garris has produced so far, it's quite hard to tell I did see the pop-up in stores, but I had an instant flashback to creepshow, and I just let it be  |
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Just about to finish "Portrait of a killer - case closed" by Patricia Cornwell. She spent several years and her own money on following up a potential suspect in the infamous Jack the Ripper case. _________________ |
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| shteev wrote: | | merman wrote: | | Just about to finish "Portrait of a killer - case closed" by Patricia Cornwell. She spent several years and her own money on following up a potential suspect in the infamous Jack the Ripper case. |
What was your verdict on this? I saw a documentary about her search a couple of years ago, and it looked to me like her evidence is pretty ropey. I mean, the blurry image that 'could be Jack the Ripper' in one of Sickert's paintings isn't exactly watertight, is it |
I watched that too, which is partly why I picked the book up cheap in my local charity shop.
Having now finished it, I would say this. The evidence she presents does seem pretty persuasive (matching watermarks proven to be from the same BATCH of paper, what was thought to be blood on the Ripper letters actually being artist's etching powder, similarities in language between Sickert's letters and the Ripper's, and the guest book from a hotel in Cornwall where Sickert signed himself "Jack the Ripper ha ha").
What is quite scary is the fact that even Patricia is not sure how many Sickert/the Ripper actually killed, and that the cases were not confined to London.
I also found it interesting that the Ripper's victims are often portrayed as being young, good-looking "ladies of the night", whereas the victims were mostly over 40.
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Over the week-end I went to the book fair held in Skopje and bought several books - a couple from Dostoevsky, a couple phylosophical books and my prised find the poshumous publication The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams. This book features 11 chapters of the novel that Adams was working on at the time o fhis departure from this world, several editorials and unpublished introductions and other non-fictional essays focusing on the letter Y, two dogs in Santa Fe that would ignore the author, big noses and terrors of childhood school shorts. I read some of the non-fictional pieces and it really gives Adams' works a human dimension. I guess this is his last hurrah and the publishers have invited us into the mind of one of the world's great unrecognised genii. _________________ | Stingray wrote: | | So no one understands exactly how the C64 works as it is reversed engineered Alien technology via the Nazi Vrill project, Project Paper Clip and the TOI project. |
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Im reading through the Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan again in anticipation of Book 11 coming out later this year. 
Up to book 6 now. _________________ I had a dream last night I was a muffler.
I woke up Exhausted. |
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I love the first three books of that series. Unfortunately, I only read until book 5 or so because it got a bit repetitive. Which - in your opinion - are the best books in the series? _________________ As the famed philosopher Homer once said:... "DOH!" |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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This provided "entertaining" reading last night:
Hitman - a manual for the independent contractor
http://www.feastofhateandfear....itman.html |
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I'm reading Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. It is a very exciting book. |
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| Christian Johansson wrote: | | I'm reading Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. It is a very exciting book. |
Just re-read that myself. And The Da Vinci Code. And Deception Point. Must get hold of Digital Fortress...
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Aah, last xmas I read all Dan Brown books in succession. Some formulas / similarity became strongly apparent That said A&D & DVC are still quite good, or even very good IMO.
(btw. do the employees in CERN really play with giant fans to experience weightlessness, Half-Life style? ) |
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Reading right now: Sphere / Michael Crichton. The science part about space-time and black holes is very interesting.
Some people say (like Masaaki Hatsumi) that there's no such thing as time; it's a man made concept.
When I was watching the weather forecast some time ago I was thinking: why speak about time, place and particular thing taking place as seperate concepts? Isn't a rain shower above Holland at 15.00h tomorrow just one event?.... Just pondering... _________________ As the famed philosopher Homer once said:... "DOH!" |
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