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[cYT]Born_Again_Good Board Guest Posts: 770 Join Date: Apr '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 6/14/06 8:54pm
	In Reply To #16 "I see no reason why a man should found a company or invest in stocks when inventing your own religion is an infinitely more profitable prospect" - L. Ron Hubbard http://www.xenu.net/ has the skinny on Scientology. Plus it's free. I think it's a bit ignorant to refer to dianetics as a religion. It's just a pyramid scheme that lures in dumb people with celebrity endorsements and promises of a bunch of easy answers. -----signature----- http://server2049.virtualave.net/clan-yt/yangtangnews.htm Gorsh's official yang tang song: You have to hear this. The boy has poetry in him: http://earlhaighistory.tripod.com/yangtang.wav (you have to copy this to the adress bar).
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DarricSA Board Guest Posts: 1,959 Join Date: Apr '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 6/15/06 2:41am
	LadyG: Have you read "Magician" by Raymond E. Feist? Could be the best book I've read. -----signature----- I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
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LadyG[AOS][TFF] I See You Posts: 5,127 Join Date: Jul '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 6/15/06 4:24am
	In Reply To #18 No, I don't think I've had the pleasure. It's fantasy, right? -----signature----- ----------- PlanetBlackAndWhite
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[PTS]Cc Crazy Crustacean Posts: 1,927 Join Date: Apr '05	RE: Books you've been reading lately 6/16/06 10:08am
	In Reply To Topic The CHERUB series, Animal farm, and Les Misreables. -----signature----- Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth
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DarricSA Board Guest Posts: 1,959 Join Date: Apr '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 6/22/06 5:51pm
	In Reply To #19 It is, yes. Please do, if you're looking for an amazing read. I'm not amazingly well read in a lot of fantasy (pretty much only read LotR, Magician, Sword of Truth and Discworld) but reading Magician almost makes me feel like it's the only Fantasy book I ever need to read. -----signature----- I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
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DiovvultPaternalis Newbie Posts: 1,139 Join Date: Mar '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 6/22/06 11:54pm
	I started reading because of Tintin and his little dog Snowy. That and Asterix and Obelix. Shortly after that I read the majority of the Great Books series. And then a lot of other of what most Western intellectuals would consider great literature. And then some of what Eastern intellectuals would call great literature. I don't care if you have to give kids comic books, if they eventually start reading good shit, it's all worth it. -----signature----- -Ive Paten
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Guest_2584956 Guest Posts: 3 Join Date: Jul '06	RE: Books you've been reading lately 7/4/06 9:23am
	why do people read its a waste of time when you could be sitting on your computer teaching your black and white 2 creature to be a blood thirsty killer
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Nukeme3 Board Guest Posts: 473 Join Date: Feb '05	RE: Books you've been reading lately 7/4/06 11:48am
	In Reply To #23 Board Guest 2584956 posted: why do people read its a waste of time I read for information mainly. I would also rather be capable of reading anything of importance to me and figure out first hand what is being said than going by what "Someone Said" it is about. -----signature----- Just your friendly everyday Pyromaniac
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LadyG[AOS][TFF] I See You Posts: 5,127 Join Date: Jul '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 7/10/06 4:35am
	In Reply To #24 That's a very wise thing to do. First hand knowledge beats hearsay any day. -----signature----- ----------- PlanetBlackAndWhite
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[cYT]Born_Again_Good Board Guest Posts: 770 Join Date: Apr '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 7/10/06 7:04pm
	In Reply To #24 I appreciate that, I'm just making the argument that L. Ron's Dianetics book is not particularly powerful and/or interesting. It's also overly long, the prose is pedestrian and the 'plot' (as such it is) makes no sense. In light of recent OTs and Auditors leaving the cult to write exposes on its working and politics, their information is probably as illuminating as you will find. It also kind of negates the 'controversy' aspect of the appeal of reading it. I mean, why read the first part of something when the full course of books will cost you about $500,000 and twenty years of your life, when you can get the gist of what's up after a few minutes of web browsing? Of course, if you just want to read a good sci fi book there are far more interesting, readable and (even in this day and age) controversial books out there. -----signature----- http://server2049.virtualave.net/clan-yt/yangtangnews.htm Gorsh's official yang tang song: You have to hear this. The boy has poetry in him: http://earlhaighistory.tripod.com/yangtang.wav (you have to copy this to the adress bar).
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LadyG[AOS][TFF] I See You Posts: 5,127 Join Date: Jul '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 7/13/06 1:46am
	In Reply To #26 I always appreciate good sci-fi, please give examples. -----signature----- ----------- PlanetBlackAndWhite
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Guest_2592384 Guest Posts: 2 Join Date: Jul '06	RE: Books you've been reading lately 7/13/06 1:57am
	In Reply To #27 Can't log in for some reason. Grant Morrison's 'Lovely Biscuits' series of short stories has certain elements that touch on sci fi. Aside from that it's a wonderfully dark cavalcade of the macabre, the grotesque and the downright bizarre. If you're into comics Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan could probably be called sci fi. It's about a kamikaze journalist who goes around shooting people with a gun that makes them shit themselves. Basically. Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep is a classic. It's the book Blade Runner was based on.
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LadyG[AOS][TFF] I See You Posts: 5,127 Join Date: Jul '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 7/14/06 2:03am
	In Reply To #28 Oh, thank you. Now I have atleast two names to look for that haven't already been reading. Unfortunately I'll have to import them, I doubt they're sold in sweden, but Amazon is reliable. -----signature----- ----------- PlanetBlackAndWhite
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DarricSA Board Guest Posts: 1,959 Join Date: Apr '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 7/22/06 7:08am
	Some more great Sci Fi: Snow Crash, Slaughterhouse Five, Ender's Game. Also there's a cute Terry Pratchett book called "Only you can save mankind" that I picked up for the equivalent of $3. It's aimed at "younger readers" but it was entertaining nonetheless. -----signature----- I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
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[PBnW]_Blink_Boy Llama Posts: 60 Join Date: Mar '02	RE: Books you've been reading lately 8/1/06 4:26am
	This month I have been mostly reading The Gospel Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster -----signature----- Why cant I play the drums as good as Travis Barker?
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