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A brief History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Travel writer does science, with hilirious results! I'm really enjoying it actually, and (from what my sciencey mates say) it's very accurate.
(re-reading) Everything you know is wrong - disinformation press
Various articles on counter culture/re examining established "facts" by various writers. a fantastic book i would recommend to anyone.
um... and this: [ulr]http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/worstaprilfools.html[/url]
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
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Heroic Knight
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Just finished A feast of Crows - George R R Martin. Bloody fantastic series. Just love how the major heroes (with a few exceptions) keep getting knocked off.
Probably reread the entire Malazan book of the Fallen series next.
Liverpool Vamp - Richard Ballengate - Clan Tremere
Maelstrom - Malachi Dante - Now an Independant Trader
IRL - Matt Jenkins
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Katie (5/26/2006)
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Started it because I love some of his cyberpunk stuff. Very different in style, but I'm enjoying it so far. It's well researched with a wealth of historical detail providing an interesting (and for the historically illiterate like me, educational) background to the fictional story.*bounces up and down excitedly* Ooh! That's a great one! The System of the World and The Confusion are also really good and I'm going to have to get them and a quiet week to re-read them. They didn't hold with any of this "RSPCA" stuff back in them days did they? 
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Heroic Knight
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Having just seen Jarhead (wow) I may read the book next. I'm also tempted to re-read Animal Farm, just because it's 20 years since I last read it. It was one of only two of the books we were force-fed at school that I actually liked. The other was Brave New World, which kickstarted my love of Shakespeare.
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Bristol Vampire - Julius Linnett, Tremere
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emperor catvom (5/26/2006)
Just finished A feast of Crows - George R R Martin. Bloody fantastic series.
Got to second the recommendation for George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Possibly my all time favourite series of books. The first one is A Game of Thrones, if anyone hasn't read it, you should!
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tzanti (5/28/2006)
Having just seen Jarhead (wow) I may read the book next. I'm also tempted to re-read Animal Farm, just because it's 20 years since I last read it. It was one of only two of the books we were force-fed at school that I actually liked. The other was Brave New World, which kickstarted my love of Shakespeare.
T.Mmm. it is a good film, I just saw it on a plane. Animal Farm is probably a good one to read. Erm... wasn't BNW Huxley? I've read it, but it confused me and I don't get the Shakespeare connection.
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Heroic Knight
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coffmeister (5/28/2006)
Erm... wasn't BNW Huxley? I've read it, but it confused me and I don't get the Shakespeare connection.Brave New World is Huxley. John (the Savage) is always quoting Shakespeare, a collected book of his works being one of the few books John has read.
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balor (5/26/2006)
Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton Peter F Hamilton attempts to do a space opera with hard science ideas added to it.
I've just started reading Pandora's Star, the first book in that pair. So far it's gripping stuff and I love the concepts that are being introduced. I'm running a near-future SF tabletop game at the moment and I can easily see some of the concepts from this book leaking into the world.
Q: What would Yens do?
A: Decompose.
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