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Offline Paradox  
#21 Posted : 05 May 2010 12:09:15(UTC)
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Lincon is a very interesting person... Did you know he was assasinated right after he startd trying to reform the American banking system...

anyway. so if enough people are interested.. whats the first book we should try and read?


I put a vote in for Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." I have never read it but always wanted to.


I have a copy somewhere and havent read it, so yeah that would be great.
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#22 Posted : 05 May 2010 14:21:24(UTC)
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i should read more.ever since i got "normal" hours at work and stopped smoking out,i havent picked up a book since.

9 to 5 sucks.i kinda wish i still worked nights.i got alot more done.the last book i read was "catcher in the rye"i figured it was high time i read this classic.
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#23 Posted : 05 May 2010 19:02:19(UTC)
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Books rock, particularly ones relating to war like the ones written by Stephen Ambrose. Currently reading 'Band of Brothers' for the millionth time, give or take a few thousand...I never get sick of it, it's such a fascinating read.
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#24 Posted : 05 May 2010 21:29:48(UTC)
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best war book i know is all quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque. which is in essence a book about a pair of boots.
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#25 Posted : 05 May 2010 21:57:56(UTC)
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I'm always reading so I'd be definitely up for this...have just recently finished reading "My Name Is Red" by Orhan Pamuk. Originally a Turkish book translated into English, the narrative style is epic...it's always first person, but every chapter is from the perspective of a different person, animal, or inanimate object.
I would reccomend reading JM Coetzee's "Disgrace", as well, that is possibly the best book I've ever read, properly well written.
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#26 Posted : 05 May 2010 22:23:23(UTC)
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Rincewind wrote:
best war book i know is all quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque. which is in essence a book about a pair of boots.


It is indeed...I've read it alot as well. I agree, it's not about a generation of young men maimed, killed, mentally destroyed by war...it's about getting a decent pair of boots.
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#27 Posted : 05 May 2010 23:15:10(UTC)
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I'm always reading so I'd be definitely up for this...have just recently finished reading "My Name Is Red" by Orhan Pamuk. Originally a Turkish book translated into English, the narrative style is epic...it's always first person, but every chapter is from the perspective of a different person, animal, or inanimate object.
I would reccomend reading JM Coetzee's "Disgrace", as well, that is possibly the best book I've ever read, properly well written.

I read My Name Is Red, twice, couldnt get it the first time, second time I thought it was great
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#28 Posted : 06 May 2010 00:18:27(UTC)
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I love to read, but I guess it'd be hard for me to find some of the books over here.
I'm reading mostly school books at the moment, right now it's A Cidade e as Serras from the Portuguese author Eça de Queirós.
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#29 Posted : 06 May 2010 00:22:00(UTC)
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Among the best books on war I've read (as a history buff) is The Second World War by John Keegan, and The Battle For Spain by Antony Beevor. You can probably guess what conflicts those are about.
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#30 Posted : 06 May 2010 00:33:13(UTC)
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i really liked antony beevors book on the spanish civil war. I found it both convlusive and enlightening. John Keegan i haven't read though.

the best history wise book i think i have read is the Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark, which is about the history of Prussia from 1600 to 1947. Or Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life by Alan Schom.
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#31 Posted : 06 May 2010 09:24:49(UTC)
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I think Rince, as founder, should pick a book then, and we can all read it and comment
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#32 Posted : 06 May 2010 09:47:35(UTC)
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na, i think we shoudl reach a consenus... Hemmingway sounds good to me, as does this My name is red... but some people have allready read it.
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#33 Posted : 06 May 2010 09:50:45(UTC)
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My Name is Red is a hard slog first time through to be honest, so maybe do that one later. I'd be up for Hemmingway though if that's what the consensus is.
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#34 Posted : 28 May 2010 05:05:34(UTC)
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I just started reading "The Old Man and the Sea" it isn't that long so it shouldn't take me much time to read it.
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#35 Posted : 02 June 2010 02:18:42(UTC)
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So...are we reading something then? If Rince comes back and we can decide, Ill order whatever it is on Amazon today
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#36 Posted : 02 June 2010 10:31:35(UTC)
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i am currently readinthe old man and the sea... and am enjoying it...

i have orderd my name is red though.... looking forward to it arriving!
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#37 Posted : 02 June 2010 10:32:31(UTC)
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Rincewind wrote:
i am currently readinthe old man and the sea... and am enjoying it...

i have orderd my name is red though.... looking forward to it arriving!



I may read the Old Man and the Sea as well.

Good call on My Name Is Red, you shant be disappointed...confused possibly, but never disappointed
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#38 Posted : 02 June 2010 10:35:10(UTC)
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try readin sceptisism inc... by bo fowler.... its an amazing critique of religion told from the view point of a shopping trolley....

infact i think that should be our next book...
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#39 Posted : 02 June 2010 10:37:46(UTC)
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Rincewind wrote:
try readin sceptisism inc... by bo fowler.... its an amazing critique of religion told from the view point of a shopping trolley....

infact i think that should be our next book...



Sounds amazing...Im gonna order it and Old Man of the Sea in the morning. I like a bit of random narrative
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#40 Posted : 02 June 2010 23:43:20(UTC)
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Purchased The Old Man and The Sea and Scepticism Inc last night on Amazon, for the grand total of 88p :D
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