Being really bored and on break from courses, i have accrued a rather large list of things to read, actually haveing time and no homework. Namely:

Recently finished:
-Silicon Snake Oil, second thoughts on the information highway / Clifford Stoll
-Stupid White Men, and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation / Michael Moore
-Amusing ourselves to death : public discourse in the age of show business / Neil Postman.

Currently Reading:
-Deep black : space espionage and national security / William E. Burrows.

Still to Read:
-High tech heretic : why computers don't belong in the classroom and other reflections by a computer contrarian / Clifford Stoll.
-The Arabic alphabet : how to read and write it / by Nicholas Awde and Putros Samano.
-Beowulf [sound recording] / translated and read by Seamus Heaney.
-The puzzle palace : a report on America's most secret agency / James Bamford.
-BAD, or, The dumbing of America / Paul Fussell.
-Dumbing down our kids : why America's children feel good about themselves but can't read, write, or add / Charles J. Sykes.
-Dumbing us down : the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling / John Taylor Gatto.
-The cult of information : a neo-Luddite treatise on high tech, artificial intelligence, and the true art of thinking / Theodore Roszak.
-Who owns information? : from privacy to public access / Anne Wells Branscomb.
-Endangered minds : why our children don't think / Jane M. Healy.
-The wind up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
-Dune / Frank Herbert

[And yes.. i /did/ in fact just pick up books that started with the word 'dumb'.. ]

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I'm reading Chapterhouse Dune right now.

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"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
-Robert Jastrow

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Strange Beauty (Murray Gell-mann biography, mostly)

At this moment, I don't have read any books and I won't read any books probably in a long time.

The sad fact though is that right now I am reading a terrible flame war on a other forum I visit, and unfortunately I am one of the victims and attackers.

Poor me.

But Anthony Burgess' 'A Clockwork Orange' and Philip K. Dick's 'Blade Runner' are my all-time favourites.

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Fukien Ground Boxing

Wing Chun Fighting and Grappling

The Count of Monte Cristo

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (still working on it)

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I can't think of anything to put here right now.

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Philip K Dick - Valis
Stephen King - Gunslinger II: The Drawing of the Three
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting



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I have a signature.

The Ecologic Sessesion by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
PosgtreSQL

TV Guide

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

Something by Jack Higgins, forgot the name but it's something about an IRA enforcer undercovering with an ULA op to steal a bunch of gold from Britain and then the IRA guy is going to kill the ULA guy to give the gold to the IRA. Or something. I'm not very far into it.

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<< start the revolution >>

I hope you mean "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".

I still want to read "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep"... but at the moment I'm reading "Notes From A Small Island" by Bill Bryson.

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Yeah, but you know what? This one, this one right here, this was my dream, my wish, and it didn't come true. So I'm takin' it back. I'm takin' 'em all back.

Im reading "Dude where's my country" by Michael Moore, and after that I'm reading "Lies and the lying liars who tell them" by Al Franken

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

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Just finished: Philip K. Dick:
Do androids dream of ...
The Simulacrum
Another one

Dune

Reading: PKD, Clans of the Alphane Moon

Still to read: About 10 more PKD books, lots of dune, and a lot of asimov.

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"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

this thread

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"The quality of the levels you make is determined by the skill of the person not by the editor in which they use!"
-Michael Kyle

The Arcane Sith

Nothing at the moment. Just finished LotR

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Just finished: Every Robert Heinlin book our school library owns (about 5).
Currently reading: The Shadow Rising, The Wheel of Time book 4
Still to read: The Wheel of Time books 5-10.

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"I'm significant!.... Screamed the speck of dust."
-Calvin

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Book one of the Sword of Truth series:
Wizard's First Rule

Bloody amazing so far Can't wait for the rest.

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<Glyde> but.. you can't pick pickled peppers, even if a pickled pepper picker could pick pickled peppers!

Icewind Dale Trilogy, by R.A. Salvatore


paired with the Dark Elf Trilogy, it is possibly some of the most entertaining reading I have ever had.

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Eat the pudding.

Huck Finn for English
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson for myself

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1 of 14 | 6-16 Never Forget. | Click.

Just finished rereading "A storm of swords" by George R.R. Martin. This has to be best series I have ever read.

Currently reading "Spectre of the past" by Timothy Zahn.

Glyde Bane: I recommed getting Terry Goodkinds books from the library first (if you aren't already doing so) before purchasing them. The first four are pretty damn good, but the quality goes to straight to hell from book five onwards. Book 6 was just plain ridiculous and Book 7 in particular was atrocious, I never even bothered finishing it. (IMHO of course )

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The Return of the Shadow, by JRR Tolkien/Edited by Christopher Tolkien.

Its the 6th volume of the The History of Middle Earther series, if I recall correctly.

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Reading now: Krakatoa, The Day The World Exploded 27th August 1883 by Simon Winchester
Wow, this is an absolutely fascinating book. Looks not only at the most destructive (known) volcanic eruption experienced by human beings but also the effect it had on civilisation. Strongly recommend.

Read on weekend: Pompeii by Robert Harris
Ok I had a bit of a theme going at the moment Unlike the Krakatoa book, this is fiction...kinda....I mean the eruption and many of the people (and their actions) in the book are real, but the main character and the non-eruption related story is not. I can really see this one becoming a movie (like his book Enigma was). A real page turner.

Read last week: When Dragons Rage (book 2 of Dragoncrown trilogy) by Michael A. Stackpole.
I love this author, his battletech and starwars books are always top notch and whilst I'm not a big fantasy fan, I gave this trilogy a go simply because he wrote it. All in all this is pretty damn entralling series that I have really gotten into. This second book is not quite as good as the first one (Fortress Draconis) or the prelude book (see below) but still a great read.

Read week before that: The Dark Glory War (prelude to Dragoncrown trilogy) by Michael A. Stackpole.
This was a fabulous book. Set many decades before the Dragoncrown trilogy begins it sets the scene perfectly for what is to come.

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Right now reading Snow Falling on Cedars for english. Very good.

Before the last few books that I read, I went through every Drizzt Do'Urden book published to date They now have a special space on my bookshelf. The new trilogy (part 3 to be published in October) is absolutely amazing.

Legacy of the Drow is an excellent series (comes after Icewind Dale trilogy), it has some great action sequences.

Then there's Paths of Darkness, the 3rd book in this series manages to make Artemis Entreri even cooler than he was before

Books I have recently read (on my own free will):

Game Design: Secrets of the Sages edited by Marc Saltzman, 1999

Game Design Perspectives edited by Francois Dominic Laramee, 2002

and everything before Kings in the Bible, in short.

Books I am currently reading:

Get in the Game! Careers in the Game Industry By Marc Mencher, 2003

Drawing People: How to Portray the Clothed Figure by Barbara Bradley, 2003

and Kings 1 in the Bible

Books I intend to read in the vague near or distant future:

Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from the Industry Experts edited by Marc Saltzman, 2004 (yes, it is in fact a newer, bigger, better version of the first book mentioned)

The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons

The rest of the Bible (besides that which I already read out of order -- New Testament, most of the Wisdom section, perhaps other parts). Potentially then onto other well-known holy texts, such as The Koran, or simply go back and re-read. Or both.

Too many popular fantasy series. Here's a few off the top of my head:
-Dark Tower series
-Sword of Truth series
-Wheel of Time series
-re-read of The Lord of the Rings-related books

And, of course, ISB-related stuff

Notice a pattern?

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For class: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For pleasure: Out of the Silent Planet, part one of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy

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Oh yeah, and Dor, I can tell you from practically all of my family who have worked in the NSA (I will not succumb with the rest of my family!) that The Puzzle Palace] and the other book that guy wrote about NSA aren't anything astounding. I seem to remember it being a joke, but I think that's a bit of innacurate memory on my part. Just giving you a heads up.

what i am currently reading

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wang is within all

The Human Comedy / By:Can't remember

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Signatures are overrated.

"You can run but you will only die tired."

Jihad: the Trail of Political Islam - Gilles Kepel.

To read: too goddamn much!

"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

Just finished Hitchhiker.

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I'm a C4D b****!

I've recently finished the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman - geez - it's amazing how engrossed you can be when the British rail transport system breaks down (but the latter is hardly unexpected...)

Seriously - this trilogy (although meant for young adults) has so much more for everyone else, both younger and older (a gripping, colourful "fantasy" story for the kiddies and a much darker, theoretical and theological edge for more mature interpretations). In fact, it's the only book I've read since GCSE and A-Level English that has inspired me to write (and am presently still adding to ) a "Critical Analysis".

I really can't shamelessly plug this book enough . ALthough there have been some groups of people that claim it is anti-God and anti-Christianity, at the core of it is the question of "choice" and was man's act to eat from the Tree of Knowledge a sign of "disobedience" and "willingness to break away from God" or was it for personal growth, to further our own knowledge of the world around us (and to have a conscious and informed opinion of the world we live in)? All this, wrapped up with great imagination and thought provoking ideas in the form of a children's novel.

Now to me to do that (and do it well) is sheer brilliance!!!

-Jackpot

/me ends plug fest

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"lucky_jackpot is the smily god..." - gothicX

"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
But two things stand in stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own"
("Ye Wearie Wayfarer" - by Adam Lindsay Gordon)

I just finished Blood Canticle by Anne Rice. I love The Vampire Chronicles. I'm reading On The Beach by Nevil Shute for my English class.

Dune

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Some people are like Slinkies.... not really good for anything, but you can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs

Recently Finished: Wild at Heart and Mad Magazine

working on: Tai-chi Theory, and Discover magazine

Have yet to go: Popular Science, National Geographic, another Discover, Popular Mechanics, a taichi magazine, the Lord of the Rings trilogy...

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Duel Zero : Released the beta. Probably the end of it. Not to worry though, I'm working on Randsaber, which is a lot better.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin for class.

Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors by Colin Wilson

Who is Man? by Abraham J. Heschel

Angels: An Endangered Species by ??? (too lazy to find the book and look at the author at the moment)

The Book of Zohar translated by Gerschom Scholem

Mysticism by Ben-Ami Scharfstein

It's not too out of character for me to read 7 or 8 books at one time.

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I have become Death, destroyer of newbs.
Statavad-Gita 8:14

I just finished off "Soul Music" my Terry Pratchett.

I dont know what Ill read next. Problably the next book in the Discworld series, though.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Currently:

Heir to Empire (First in the SW Thrawn Trilogy)

Recently:

Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Timeline - Michael Chrichton
The 13th Warrior - Michael Chrichton

What I hope to get my hands on:

The next two Thrawn Trilogy books . . .
Jurassic Park - Michael Chrichton
Lots of TIME magazines (I used to have the time to read each weekly issue but school has changed that . . . )



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JA is awesome!
Corrupted Paths, my WIP for JA. Screens here: http://imagebase.freewebspace.com/photo.html

My quote: "People choose to side with the left, and the others choose to side with the right. I go forward."

The Wheel of Time series. I'm on book 6