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Teddy Roosevelt used to read in a "Z" down the page in a few seconds and he found he could get enough of the book to chat with the author afterwards.

Though of course he died a long time before he could meet Truman Capote or Norman Mailer

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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im currently reading, steven erikson, fall of the malazan empire.

and

racing in the rain by garth stein

Leap ahead

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Pickle, I have bookcases worth of great physics/space/philosophy books and the 'history of' for all tongue

Great relevant books:
Carl Sagan - Demon Haunted World, Dragons of Eden
Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man, Identity of Man
Richard Feynman - Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Robert Zubrin - The Case for Mars
Martin Rees - Our Final Century (Our Final Hour in the US)

Pixies My pokemon brings all the nerds to the yard, and they're like you wanna trade cards?

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the dark tower series


fantasy fans that havent read those are missing out!!!

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its not worth it, the secret of the Tower is Patrick McGoohan

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Bill bryson`s a short history of nearly everything covers all topics u requested and more lol. I gave up reading it about half way through cuz my mind burst lol

Been dreaming, I've been waiting, To fly with those brave ponies
The Wonderbolts, their daring tricks, Spinning 'round and having kicks
Perform for crowds of thousands, They'll shower us with diamonds
The Wonderbolts will see me right here at the Gala!

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ALundra! Come to IRC some of thes days.

Sup?

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in between the lines! smile

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All the Discworld Stuff from Terry Pratchett and for sure Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy form Douglas Adams...

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ill have to check out the disc world stuff  but i to thing every one should read HG2G

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Once i figure out how to get chat on my phone i will tongue

and as for discworld, the best ones are the ones that focus on the city watch (imo) So unless anyone would totally disagree with that, keep it in mind tongue

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"Mort" was an awesome discworld novel
i especially liked that medieval arch wizard who was death's bootlicking handyman who got released back into the modern University

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I would agree that the city watch novels are the best.. city watch and all those about death

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