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Sci-fi classic - The Moon is a Harsh mistress (Robert Heinlein)

Canadian - Anything by Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf, My Father's Son, The Farfarers, etc..)

Historical - Again Mowat, Gregory of Tours, Pierre Burton

Fiction - Stephen King

My $0.02 Tolkien is great - read all three books and The Hobbit is one month.

L Ron Hubbard - good for brain washing.

Sci-fi classic - The Moon is a Harsh mistress (Robert Heinlein)

Canadian - Anything by Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf, My Father's Son, The Farfarers, etc..)

Historical - Again Mowat, Gregory of Tours, Pierre Burton, Plutarch (Lives of Greeks and Romans)

Fiction - Stephen King

My $0.02 Tolkien is great - read all three books and The Hobbit in one month

L Ron Hubbard - good for brain washing.

I asked my dad for some suggestions on books and these were his suggestions.

Rusty Bedsprings by I. P. Knightly

Tom Cat's Revenge by Claude Bawls

I won't mention the others. You can't get a straight answer out of that guy. Don't ask about his favorite poem.

lol Chrissy... I just got back from Ottawa (Ok well three hours ago) I bought a new book by Steven Pressfield (New too me, published in 2001, maybe you've heard of it Polemarch) called Tides of War. It is written in the same way as Gates of Fire... Fiction based on History... This books tells the tale of Alcibiades, a general for Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

Second book I got was Stupid White Men... I had also wanted to buy Lies, and the Lying Liars that Tell Them.

I also spent 300$ on some wireless network items... A Wireless Base Station MN-500, and XBox Wireless Adapter MN-740 I bought those for XBox Live but I'm having trouble with my IP addresses and such... If anyone can help me out with this let me know in a PM... Thanks!

PS. The reason I don't use Microsoft help pages, and i haven't called my ISP, is because I hate Microsoft's help pages, and its not a business day today. (Sunday)

I have herd of "Tides of War" and have been planing to read it as soon as I find a copy. I've also been meaning to find Pressfields "The Last of the Amazons" and "The Legend of Beggar Vance" (Robert Redford made it into a movie with Will Smith and Matt Damon)

Reciently I have just finished...

KALEIDOSCOPE CENTURY By John Barnes

This is the 2nd book set in Barnes Resuna universe (the others being Orbital Resonance, Candal and The Sky So Big and Black). The book opens in 2109. The protagonist Joshua Ali Quare, awakens in a shack on Mars with no memory of his past. In the shack is a computer with messages recorded by him. He is a 104 years old but looks 65. The story of Joshua's life is told in flashback form. As a young man Josh was influenced by his mother, a radical Communist, and was recruited by the KGB. On their orders he joins the US Army as a radar tech. When the Soviet Union collapses he forgotten by his former masters. However in the near future a coup in Russia restores what was once the Soviet state and the KGB is reborn as the Orginization. There he is given a treatment that gives him immunity to AIDS, perfect memory and will reset his biological clock every 15 years (earasing his memory in the process). Through Joshua's eyes we witness the collapse of society brought on by the "Eurowar" that destroys the global economy and ecology, the rebuilding of civilization and the rise of artifical intelligence's called Memes. The Memes eventually evolve to the point where they can take control of human minds as well as computer networks. The Memes battle for control in the "War of the Memes" where Josh serves as a Mercenary for the Memes that controls most of North America, One True. One True eventually gains control of Earth (where everyone and everything becomes known as Resuna) but is unable to spread to the human colonies on the Moon, Mars and other star systems. Josh flees to Mars where he becomes a prospecter. The books strength lies in it's descreption of events in the 21st century, however it is hard to care for Josh. He is best described as a sociopath. He kills and rapes people for fun most of the time. I would recomend this book to sci-fi fans.

Anything by Jonathan Kellerman

Of course the Lord of the Rings

The Stand - the first King book I read, and I still think (one of) the best.

Animal Farm and 1984 by Orwell

Lord of the Flies

Well for my 500th post I decided to reach back into a thread where I don't really recognize anyones names, well except a couple.

I just finished Philip Pullman's The Golden Compas (I applied to be an animator on the movie), and Im now engulfed in my first western novel Comanche Moon The Final Volume of the Lonesome Dove Saga by Larry McMurty.

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Swampy: making the big ones count since August 2005.

A few I have read or been reading recently...

- Erskine Childers, "The Riddle of The Sands": pre-WW1 military intrigue.

- Huey-Tsyh Chen, "Practical Program Evaluation": study related; not exactly a page turner...

- Wilhelm Reich, "Character Analysis": boring as hell for the most part (am skimming over those bits), insanely funny in others. Ahh, Reich: one of the great quacks of the twentieth century!

- Richard Rohmer, "The Arctic Imperative": kind of old but still a relevant study of issues in the Canadian North.

- Sinclair Lewis, "Babbitt": A beautiful skewering of middle-class complacency.

I enjoyed this book. It was action packed, real life and sometimes very moving.
I found this book on the marines forum. The debate turned into a battleground. Some agreed this was the way it was and others tried to deny it. It was a sequal to Amongst The Marines, which casued quite a stir on the marines website.

Check this thread out. You can flip through the pages by clicking the pages button on the bottom left hand corner:

http://civviestreet.proboards19.com/ind ... 1094557494

My favourite book of all time has to be Ayn Rand's 'Fountainhead'. Close second is 'Starship Troopers'. Quite a leap eh. :wink:

Favourite book, 'Pilars of the Earth' by Ken Follet, and 'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer.

I quite liked the [/U]Golden Compass[U] that some one else mentioned. The setting and premise are original and interesting.

I stopped reading Fantasy type novels for a while, because they were all getting so similar. (Youth goes on quest with brave companions in a medieval-type setting to save the world in a final climactic battle of good vs. evil)

However, George R.R. Martin's series A Song Of Ice and Fire (Book One: A Game of Thrones) is excellent. None of the characters are all good (or bad), and the plot takes several unexpected twists and turns.

I dropped out of reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series way back in book 5 or 6. Any opinions on that one?