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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:51 pm

I went to the library to day and found It's Superman! by Tom De Haven.
Basically he reworks the Superman mythos into its original 1930s setting.
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Postby revolution » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:48 pm

LittleTokyo91 wrote:This Present Darkness by Frank Perretti...I hope I spelled his last name right hehe..


There is a sequel to it called Piercing the Darkness of you like this novel. I just finished it. ^_^
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Postby uc pseudonym » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:34 pm

Prisoners Without Trial by Roger Daniels

Preliminary reading for my research project.
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Postby Alice » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:03 pm

I borrowed a lot of "grown up" books from the library today, but when I got home, what is it I can barely put down? Two fantasy books for young folks:

The Mistmantle Chronicles, book one: Urchin of the Riding Stars, by M. I. McAllister

Elissa's Quest, by Erica Verrillo
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Postby uc pseudonym » Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:53 pm

The Orthodox Church by Timothy Ware

It seems I'm not quite as informed about the Earth Orthodox tradition as I had believed, though this book will change that.

Also, I finished Breath, Eyes, Memory and I'm more than slightly irritated. That's it? I guess I shouldn't have expected some early hints of plot development to pan out, but the character-based plots disappointed me.
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Postby Sohma » Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:01 pm

His Dark Materials - book 1: The Golden Compass. As a big fantasy reader many people have recommended this book to me. I finally bought it and after the first page I was in love. Though some may find the beginning a bit slow I was captivated by Phillip Pullman's beautiful writing style.

This is from Amazon.com: Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.

I must say this really doesn't do the book justice, but it tells you what the book is about ;D
I just finished the second book in the Edge Chronicles (The names of the authors slip my mind lol) I love those books, they are great if you are looking for a quick-read (I recommend getting the paper-backs considering the hard-backs are still very short and quite expensive lol.)
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Postby Technomancer » Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:39 pm

I've recently finished Mainspring by Jay Lake.

I've also just started Snowball Earth by Gabrielle Walker, which recounts the discovery of a truly global ice age ~700 million years ago, in which even the tropics werce frozen.
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Postby Alice » Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:39 pm

I'm also reading The Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's awfully fun -- really fast-moving and a bit overblown, with tons of action.
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Postby jon_jinn » Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:50 pm

i'm reading The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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Postby Alice » Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:58 pm

jon_jinn wrote:i'm reading The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros


Oo, an excellent book!
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:48 pm

Sohma wrote:His Dark Materials - book 1: The Golden Compass. As a big fantasy reader many people have recommended this book to me. I finally bought it and after the first page I was in love. Though some may find the beginning a bit slow I was captivated by Phillip Pullman's beautiful writing style.


I really liked The Golden Compass. It has, like, three climaxes! :wow!: I didn't like the other two books in the trilogy as much, but don't let me lessen any enjoyment you might have when you read them.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:29 pm

Paul M. Angle, A Pictorial History of the Civil War Years.
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Postby Htom Sirveaux » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:16 am

I was reading Stephen King's It but put it down. I may or may not pick it back up again later, but leaning towards "not." (It was giving me bad dreams. I don't recall a book ever doing that to me, and that tells me something. . . .) So I'm reading Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World and George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Also waiting patiently for my ordered copy of Andrew Vachss' Flood to arrive at Barnes & Noble.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:56 am

I had to put the book I was reading down to but for different reasons,it was one that I have had for awhile and the pages were starting to fall out.
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:05 pm

"I Am Spock" by Leonard Nimoy.

Not to be confused with his other book "I Am Not Spock". Guess he finally wised up. :P

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Almost makes you want Vic Mignona to put out a book called "I AM NOT A SHRIMP!!!!!"

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Postby mitsuki lover » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:01 pm

Our library is having its annual Friends of the Library book sale this coming Wednesday and Thursday(3 & 4 of October).So I will see what I can pick up.
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Postby Htom Sirveaux » Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:22 pm

Yay, I got my Andrew Vachss book! I love Barnes & Noble. It's right down the street from me and if I order something it only takes about 2 or 3 days to come in.
I'm really starting to get into Vachss' Burke novels. Reading one is like eating a bag of wasabi nuts. Each chapter hits you like a swift kick in the face, then when the fire in your head dies down you can't wait to dig into the next chapter.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:29 am

We're having our Friends of the Library book sell on Wed. and Th. of this week so I shall see what I can come up with.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:42 pm

Well here is what I was able to get at the book sell today(lot of people
crowding in a small area):
1.Mark Twain,LIFE AS I FIND IT ed.by Charles Neider
2.Mark Twain,THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER AND OTHER STORIES
3.John Steinbeck,TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY,IN SEARCH OF AMERICA
4.Madeleine L'Engle,A WRINKLE IN TIME
5.Margaret Wander Bonanno,PRETERNATURAL
6.Max Byrd,JEFFERSON,A NOVEL
7.Urusula K.LeGuin,BUFFALO GALS,WON'T YOU COME OUT TONIGHT
8.Tim Dowely,BACH
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Postby uc pseudonym » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:22 pm

Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out (colletion)

I was not expecting the polemic language of the forward (that author was actually exiled from Egypt for her views, amusingly enough) and I imagine most members here would fare worse. But if you don't mind a strong political position, it looks to be from an interesting perspective that is often not heard in America.
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Postby Fionn Fael » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:20 am

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. What can I say? I can't resist a novel from the "Banned Books" list. But of the materials I've read from the list, this one is certainly mild in comparison. I can see almost no reason for it to be banned from high school libraries. I am enjoying it, though.

I recently finished As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. I adored it. I'm doing a research project over it for my English class.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:51 pm

I read the Leguin book and also Life As I Find It by Twain so two down.
The two most vitriolic pieces in the Twain were:The Czar's Soliquy and
King Leopold's Soliquy,the latter dwelt with the abuses in Belgian Congo at the time.
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Postby uc pseudonym » Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:02 pm

When War is Unjust: Being Honest in Just War Thinking by John Howard Yoder

A solid work on the subject without making any absolute demands. I think one of his central points (that Christians have historically not used just war theory but mostly Machiavellian principles) is valid and important to note.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:14 pm

A Biologist Looks at Religion by Victor B. Scheffer.
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Postby Technomancer » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:57 pm

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

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Postby uc pseudonym » Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:01 pm

The Response of the Historic Peace Churches to the Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Charles Lord

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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:49 am

Japanamerica by Roland Kelts.

It's an okay book, but I kinda have an issue with him calling the dad in My Neighbor Totoro perverse.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:49 am

Inuyasha Profiles Book.I'm up to Kikyo now.
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Postby Htom Sirveaux » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:07 pm

[color="Blue"]House[/color] of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
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Postby uc pseudonym » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:15 pm

The Myth of a Christian Nation by Gregory Boyd

An enjoyable read so far, but I'm only through two chapters. As one would expect from an evangelical, on matters of theology he quotes massive amounts of scripture. This will be a useful resource in the future.
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