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Griff 01-30-2011 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 707449)
Completely. I'm 75% through, and having a great time.

I also recommend "The Force is Middling in this One."

He is a funny guy.

I would favorably compare Bob Kroese to Douglas Adams, except that Adams had a typically dry British sense of humor, and Kroese is decidedly American, geeky American at that, using Linoleum as a plot point and sneaking in a reference to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

Just getting into it, but he is friggin hilarious.

wolf 01-30-2011 08:23 PM

Book ADD continues.

A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy - James Dellingpole
Wolf and Iron - George RR Dickson
Star Trek 1 - James Blish
Doctor Who: The Rescue - Ian Marter

All at the same time. I switch whenever the story starts lagging.

roygrimes50 02-03-2011 02:18 PM

"Re"-reading Star Wars: The Mandalorian Armor - K.W. Jeter
Not sure for how much longer, though: I didn't finish it the first time.

GunMaster357 02-06-2011 09:33 AM

"The Sign" by Raymond Khoury

Gravdigr 02-07-2011 02:32 AM

"The Husband" by Dean Koontz

wolf 02-07-2011 12:53 PM

A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy - James Dellingpole
Wolf and Iron - George RR Dickson
Star Trek 1 - James Blish

Doctor Who: The Rescue - Ian Marter
Crystal Singer - Anne McCaffrey
Erewhon - Samuel Butler

DanaC 02-07-2011 01:06 PM

Oh, I loved Crystal Singer! Read it years and years ago. Might reread it sometime.

wolf 02-07-2011 01:23 PM

I had forgotten a lot of the story ... I remembered the major stuff, but some of the character interactions were very fresh on the reread. It's probably 20 years since I read it last.

Happy Monkey 02-07-2011 03:35 PM

I'm in book two of Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis. It's an interesting take on time travel as run by the Oxford history department.

plthijinx 02-07-2011 09:38 PM

golden buddha - clive cussler

i like me some good modern day indiana jones :D

DanaC 02-08-2011 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 710344)
I had forgotten a lot of the story ... I remembered the major stuff, but some of the character interactions were very fresh on the reread. It's probably 20 years since I read it last.

Ha. Must be about the same here.

GunMaster357 02-08-2011 05:48 AM

"The ship who sang" by Ann McCaffrey

DanaC 02-08-2011 05:54 AM

The Ship Who Sang is one of my favourite books ever. That whole sequence was just amazing.

GunMaster357 02-08-2011 06:50 AM

I own a lot of books by Ann McCaffrey. The whole Pern ballad, Freedom novels, Crystal Singer, Pegasus Flight, Tower and Hive, Brainships, etc...

DanaC 02-08-2011 07:31 AM

I no longer have the books. I had to sacrifice my book collection when I moved into this house, and have steadfastly avoided keeping a collection since. Basically, anything that I can't readily re-acquire should I want to I keep. And books that were given as particularly meaningful presents. And my signed copy of the Crucible of course :p And stuff I haven't got around to reading yet. Basically, despite my best efforts my house is still creaking with books, but I do at least offload them every year or so. Last year I got rid of all my 8th Doctor books, as I have them all now as pdfs. And all my new Doctor Who novels, except the three I hadn't read yet. And all my Terry Pratchett hardbacks, as I now have them all on audio.


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