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Postby MonteLDS on Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:10 pm

When you aren't playing with optical drives, do any of you read?

Right now I am reading "How to Win Friends & Influence People"

I have a girl buy me a book each month. She has great tatse
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Postby Ian on Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:42 pm

You should read "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" :D
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Postby MonteLDS on Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:57 pm

Ian wrote:You should read "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" :D

already have :D
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Postby aviationwiz on Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:46 am

Nothing now, but I really should...
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:26 am

I'm reading Najica Blitz Tactics volume 2, and will then move on to One Piece volume 4.

They're both Japanese Manga's :D
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Postby MediumRare on Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:50 pm

c't no. 14/2005 at present, Scientific American, Trains. Mostly magazines I read on the train on the way to work. Last book was "Die Dunke Seite der Liebe" by Rafik Schami (The Dark Side of Love) which is a marvelous love story / clan history set in Syria (has nothing to do with Darth Vader.)

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Postby Boba_Fett on Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:16 pm

After reading nearly every other great Star Wars book, I've FINALLY got around to reading the Grand Admiral Thrawn trillogy!!! D'oh #-o
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Postby Ian on Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:45 pm

Boba_Fett wrote:After reading nearly every other great Star Wars book, I've FINALLY got around to reading the Grand Admiral Thrawn trillogy!!! D'oh #-o


Those are some of the best SW books out there.

I'm currently rereading Shadows of the Empire.
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Postby MonteLDS on Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:37 am

How much time do you people spend reading. I can't seem to read more than 1 chapter a day. I have such a hard time reading books.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:37 am

Boba_Fett wrote:After reading nearly every other great Star Wars book, I've FINALLY got around to reading the Grand Admiral Thrawn trillogy!!! D'oh #-o


Those stories rival Lucas's own works.

But there are actually 5 books in that series :wink:
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Postby Boba_Fett on Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:30 pm

dolphinius_rex wrote:
Boba_Fett wrote:After reading nearly every other great Star Wars book, I've FINALLY got around to reading the Grand Admiral Thrawn trillogy!!! D'oh #-o


Those stories rival Lucas's own works.

But there are actually 5 books in that series :wink:


There are? The guy at Waldenbooks said there were only 3, which I now have: Heir to the Empire, The Last Command, and Dark Force Rising. Which ones am I missing?
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Postby Boba_Fett on Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:37 pm

MonteLDS wrote:How much time do you people spend reading. I can't seem to read more than 1 chapter a day. I have such a hard time reading books.


Same with me. I just don't have time to read during the day so I read right before I go to sleep. I can usually only make one chapter before I conk out from sleep deprivation ;)
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:12 pm

Boba_Fett wrote:
dolphinius_rex wrote:
Boba_Fett wrote:After reading nearly every other great Star Wars book, I've FINALLY got around to reading the Grand Admiral Thrawn trillogy!!! D'oh #-o


Those stories rival Lucas's own works.

But there are actually 5 books in that series :wink:


There are? The guy at Waldenbooks said there were only 3, which I now have: Heir to the Empire, The Last Command, and Dark Force Rising. Which ones am I missing?


Well, strictly speaking there are 3, and then the sequal to the series has 2.

Specter of the Past
Vision of the Future

Both are *REALLY* worth the read... if only for the very end of Vision of the Future :wink:
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:14 pm

dolphinius_rex wrote:I'm reading Najica Blitz Tactics volume 2, and will then move on to One Piece volume 4.

They're both Japanese Manga's :D


Now reading One Piece Volume 6, and will begin Najica Blitz Tactics Volume 3 shortly.

I have a feeling a novel will be appearing before me soon though... but all this reading has been cutting into my precious Gameboy Advance SP time :cry:
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Postby Boba_Fett on Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:56 pm

dolphinius_rex wrote:
dolphinius_rex wrote:I'm reading Najica Blitz Tactics volume 2, and will then move on to One Piece volume 4.

They're both Japanese Manga's :D


Now reading One Piece Volume 6, and will begin Najica Blitz Tactics Volume 3 shortly.

I have a feeling a novel will be appearing before me soon though... but all this reading has been cutting into my precious Gameboy Advance SP time :cry:


Hehe, I just bought a Nintendo DS yesterday (came with Mario 64 DS for free, couldn't resist). Wario Ware Touched is like video crack =D>
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Postby LoneWolf on Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:26 am

Currently reading "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. All other books have been packed and moved to the new house, so it'll be a couple weeks before I pick up anything else. This book has been a lot slower reading than his last one I read ("Snow Crash") which I couldn't put down.
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