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Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:32 pm
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I Just finished "Abandon in Place" by Jerry Oltion A.K.A. Ryan Huges.
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Nebula Award winner Jerry Oltion was 11 years old whe Neil Armstrong took humanities first step on the moon. He watched in amazement as SF became reality--and a few short years later, he watched with equal horror as humanity abandoned the high ground that we had so recently won. The ghost of our space program has haunted him ever since.
When Neil Armstrog dies, not a nation, but the entire world mourns. The American hero had the eyes of the world upon him in 1969 when he stepped from his Saturn V and took the giant leap for mankind. But the world was shocked when, the day hafter Neil Armstrong's funeral, a ghostly Saturn V rocket launches from Cape Canaveral. It shakes the ground and rumbles with all the fury of a real launch, sending back telemetry all the way to the moon, stopping only at the point where a human would have to take control. At that point, the rocket vanishes. NASA doesn't like things it cannot control, but they are despondant when the launches become a monthly experience. The rocket appears strong when humanity is watching, near invisible when the launces bewcome routine and nobody has any interest. Rick Spencer does belive, and boards the ghostly rocket, hoping for his sake that humanity believes and that the reality of the rocket becomes what we make it. |
whew! that's the most I've typed for a while.
Suffice it to say this is one of the best books I have ever read, and it's not as SciFi-ish as star trek or any thing like that, yet it touches on the supernautural, or spiritual side of the universe.
You've got to read it for yourself, only took me 4 days. |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:51 pm
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Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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Location: Houston
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| The Dark Tower series by Stephan King(and I probably didn't spell his name right =/) |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:55 pm
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Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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Location: eugene,OR
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:16 pm
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Joined: 26 Nov 2004
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Location: Rhode Island
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The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
^ both by the same author, both very good. like candy, u can never put them down.
The Life of Pi
By Yann Martel, it was a required reading for my World Lit. class, and it was actually pretty good. Its about an indian boy who is a vegetarian, is a zookeepers son, is searching for God through 3 religions, and eventually becomes stuck on a life boat in the middle of the Atlantic ocean for 227 days.. and the only companion he has throughout the entire time is an adult Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. its been translated into like 47 languages, and i believe they have started making a movie on it that will come out sometime next year.. it was pretty good  |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:21 pm
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Teh Fuzzy Cuteness
Joined: 25 Nov 2004
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| Whats a book? |
Well that explains a lot. 
just finished....
Utopia - Thomas More
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice
currently reading... a lot of text books for classes  |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:29 pm
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well last year I did read a book called "Ender's Game" that was a fun book. it was also for english so blah.
thats also where [CfH]Valentine got her name  from enders sister valentine wiggen. |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:53 pm
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Location: Boston
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Books I have been reading:
The Book Of Five Rings bt Miyamoto Musashi
The Art Of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba
Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Bushido by Inazo Nitobe
The Unfetterwed Mind by Takuan Soho
These are the Books that i have been reading lately. UI like to read alot of books at one time and dwell on one book sand compare it to another boojk of some what the same thing that i am reading at the time. |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:15 pm
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Joined: 01 Nov 2005
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I need to read more, I miss it.
The last book I finished was "A moveable feast" -Hemingway
And currently I am working on "Tropic of Cancer" -Miller |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:41 pm
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| The Talisman |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:55 pm
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Location: Land of Beer and Hockey Sticks
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The Principia by Isaac Newton (i'm trying to find mistakes because his calculus pisses me off)
The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments (1960) - This book in the late 60's was taken out of libraries and bookstores and banned from ever being published again in the United States - I'm curious why, hence i'm reading it. |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:15 pm
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Bold = Reading
* = Read
** = Will be reading
Books I've read:
*Warcraft (Book 1): Day of the Dragon
Warcraft (Book 2): The Lord of the Clans
**Warcraft (Book 3): The Last Guardian
*Warcraft (Book 4): War of the Ancients Trilogy #1: The Well of Eternity
*Warcraft (Book 5): War of the Ancients Trilogy #2: The Demon Soul
*Warcraft (Book 6): War of the Ancients Trilogy #3: The Sundering
*The Hobbit
*The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
*The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
*The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
*The Lord of the Flies |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:20 pm
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Hamlet for lit class 
Other lit class books, ones I actually liked were:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Once Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Metamorphosis |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:30 pm
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| Audhumla wrote: |
Other lit class books, ones I actually liked were:
The Metamorphosis |
OMFG I HATED THAT BOOK...... but thats just me... |
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| kibblesnbits wrote: |
well last year I did read a book called "Ender's Game" that was a fun book. it was also for english so blah.
thats also where [CfH]Valentine got her name from enders sister valentine wiggen. |
That whole series rocks, espically Ender's Game and the Ender's Shadow series |
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Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:01 pm
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Enders Game totaly pwns.
Another good series is the Space Odyssy series: 2001, 2010, 2061, and 3001. All very very good. Actually, anything by Arthur C. Clarke is very enjoyable.
Oh, and i just finished (for the 2nd time) Isaac Asimov's "Greater Foundation/Empire" series. 21 books total, spanning over a million years of future galactic history. Here's the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_Series#List_of_books
I like sci-fi in case you didn't notice
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