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Posted 15 August 2004 - 02:49 PM
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 19 April 2005 - 04:51 PM
I got bored of Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and I've decided to reread WoT again... currently about halfway through the Great Hunt 
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Posted 16 April 2005 - 05:59 AM
Devices and Desires - K.J. Parker
MOI
Pandora's Star
MOI
Pandora's Star
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Posted 17 April 2005 - 11:59 PM
Ian Rankin's Jack Harvey novels. They is okays. Light, sometimes awkward. Read strange and norrel too, it was better than expected. appreciated the style too.
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Posted 29 April 2005 - 07:55 PM
Yeah, NationStates was supposed to be an advertising gimmick for 'Jennifer Government' that ballooned.
Just started Carlos Ruiz Zafon's 'Shadow of the Wind' after finishing pair of Miles Vorkosigan novels by Lois McMaster Bujold ('Memory' and 'Komarr')
Just started Carlos Ruiz Zafon's 'Shadow of the Wind' after finishing pair of Miles Vorkosigan novels by Lois McMaster Bujold ('Memory' and 'Komarr')
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caladanbrood
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Posted 28 June 2005 - 02:59 AM
quote:Originally posted by The Great and Masterful Yoda:
and i can finally read what i want to read! exams are over! first stop the belgariad and the mallorean, then the harry potters, then the Feist's and then i might look at my uni reading list - teeheehee. and then i have the entire tom arden series to read, and the kate jacoby's, and random books like catch 22 ... i've got a lot of reading to do
Yeah, but you see, I have good books on my to-read list
Gonna start (and probably finish) my signed copy of "Devil Delivered" when I get home this afternoon
O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.
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Posted 09 June 2005 - 01:41 PM
i need to read the Eriksons, i jsut dont have the spare cash to read them atm. are they any good? 
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 07:45 AM
Timothy Findley's - The Wars
Oh and Murrin if you want a good Arthurian story that is realistic and engrossing check out Jack Whyte's " A Dream of Eagles Sequence" based on real life roman legions.
Oh and Murrin if you want a good Arthurian story that is realistic and engrossing check out Jack Whyte's " A Dream of Eagles Sequence" based on real life roman legions.
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Posted 03 May 2005 - 04:42 AM
Reading The Sword right now...part of a triology called The Sword, The Ring and The Chalice... But I just discovered I lost dozens of books...including the two last ones in that triology
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Posted 31 May 2005 - 05:16 AM
am reading the waylander books again.
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 06:35 AM
Finished The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Agree with it's status as instant classic/outstanding read.
Now on with medieval swashbuckling in The Crusader by Michael Eisner.
And , in case someone is wondering why it took me 2 weeks to finish a 400p. book: for Uni I ust worked my way through:
- Summer for the Gods by Edward Larson. About the famous Scopes/Monkey trial in the twenties.
- Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel. A weird, comprehensive but kinda misnamed biography op Galileo Galilei.
and still plowing through
- Newton - making of a genius by Patricia Fara. About, as no doubt you've guessed, Isaac Newton. But it's not a normal biography but a deconstructionist exploration of Newton's postmortem transformation into a secular saint and the recurrent debunking of his hagiography.
That's about 850p. for only one damn exam!
Now on with medieval swashbuckling in The Crusader by Michael Eisner.
And , in case someone is wondering why it took me 2 weeks to finish a 400p. book: for Uni I ust worked my way through:
- Summer for the Gods by Edward Larson. About the famous Scopes/Monkey trial in the twenties.
- Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel. A weird, comprehensive but kinda misnamed biography op Galileo Galilei.
and still plowing through
- Newton - making of a genius by Patricia Fara. About, as no doubt you've guessed, Isaac Newton. But it's not a normal biography but a deconstructionist exploration of Newton's postmortem transformation into a secular saint and the recurrent debunking of his hagiography.
That's about 850p. for only one damn exam!
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McLovin
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Posted 27 July 2005 - 04:22 AM
Seems standard RJ fare to me. It's shorter, though...
OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.
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Posted 17 April 2005 - 02:33 PM
Book of the new sun is an excellent choice, Murrin.
Victory is mine!
