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Alright well, my wife got one of those fancy new Nooks and gave me her old one.  Any recommendations on must reads or your favorite books?  I like anything about physics, space, history, and philosophy.... and not too picky on fiction either.

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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe should be available

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"Into the Heart of Borneo" or "Congo" by Redmond O'Hanlon, semi-non fictional books recording Redmond O'Hanlon's expedition through the jungles in those places in a humorous and interesting way. I'm not much of a reader, but I enjoyed reading these books!

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game of thrones!

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Game of Thrones!

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The first 3 books of Game of Thrones.  The last 2 weren't nearly as good

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Enders Game
The Wheel of Time Series
The Deathgate Saga
Piers Anthony
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well yea first season of GoT is best because lots of incest to masturbate to but the rest seem pretty entertaining as well

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Name of the Wind - patrick rothfuss

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O god.... Flint reads the WoT series?

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Temmeraire series is good historical fantasy.

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I'm pretty much a fantasy/sci-fi reader, I'd recommend.

WoT series, Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson, last book comes out January 8th....and i can't flipping wait.  It is a long series though, gonna be 14 books + 1 prequel.

Mistborn series, Brandon Sanderson, written by the same guy that is finishing up the WoT series.  Nice little trilogy.

Temeraire, Naomi Novak, only reason i picked this up is i found it at a bargain store for $2 and it said in bold letters that Peter Jackson had just been awarded the movie rights.  Pretty good historical fantasy.

Dune Trilogy (it is a trilogy dammit), Frank Herbert, If you read sci-fi, and haven't read  Dune, go jump off a bridge.

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card, Mean bug monsters X(

Silmarillion, J. R. R., I'm a huge Tolkien buff, and have read LOTR at least 7 times.  The Silmarillion gives a really interesting history of Middle Earth, it is a pretty tough read but is well worth it if you enjoyed lotr.  Also, if you haven't read LOTR, go do it.

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Dreadnought by Robert K Massie is on Nook

It's a book about the British - German naval rivalry from 1880s to WW1

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I'm the Librariman, ignore all the other posts.

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16 Reply by Wild Flower Soul (edited by Wild Flower Soul 20-Dec-2012 03:02:52)

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and for something completely different: proper books!

- Atomised, also known as The Elementary Particles by Michelle Houellebecq. It's most likely the most important novel written in our lifetime.. If you want something else:

- Catch 22
- Vernon God Little
- doctor Zhivagho
- Crime & Punishment
- Angela's ashes
- Ludmilla's broken English
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if you want to read about 1400 unabridged pages of something that doesnt get old i would suggest war and peace.  as much of a war mongerer as i am, i actually enjoyed the incestual and dramatic relationships between the rich families more than the narratives of the battle scenes.  there are a ton of different characters but tolstoy does a good job in developing each and every one. im also russian so probably biased but w/e

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If you're just interested in some light reading I would suggest John Grisham's last book, The Litigators. I thought it was decent.

I also heard JK Rowling's last book is alright but haven't read it myself.

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19 Reply by The Yell (edited by The Yell 20-Dec-2012 04:27:05)

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Dashiell Hammett wrote 5 novels and they are all good

Red Harvest
The Dain Curse
The Maltese Falcon
The Glass Key
The Thin Man


Also Ian Fleming's Bond novels, I would start with Goldfinger or From Russia With Love if you haven't read any of them before


you would like The Thin Man pengy, you are a hard drinking husband son of immigrants who lives on his wits

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The Magician series by Raymond e Feist.

Anything by Greg Egan - Diaspora is a fav, heavy physics-based sci-fi

The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi

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Omg Walking Corpse!!!!

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Pengy knows how to read? yikes yikes yikes yikes

also, anything by wilbur smith!

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Yes ^^

Start with River God.

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Thanks guys, if only I could read like Number 5 from Short Circuit.

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