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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2002 10:55 pm Post subject: My lot... |
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ANYTHING by Terry Pratchett, though most notably the Discworld series. You won't find much else that's worth reading before these...
Except...
The Tales of the Bard Trilogy by Michael Scott (next to impossible to find now, though. If you see the books ANYWHERE buy them.) These three books, plus A Celtic Oddysey by the same author are my all time, number one, best ever, serious fantasy books. If I was trapped on a desert island and could only bring one series, it would be theses.
A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell. Quantum physics for dummies, courtesy of Stephen Hawkings. History if time still isn't light reading but it IS fascinating.
Magician and Darkness at Sethanon (you can ignore Silverthorn, it's crap) by Raymond E Feist.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.
Any of Brian Jacques Redwall books, Redwall and Mattimeo being my favourites.
The first three Dune novels by Frank Herbert.
The Myth series by Robert Asprin - incredibly unerrated and very clever series in the style of Pratchett.
The Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
Anything by Joe R Lansdale (Horror, Thriller).
Pedro and Me by Judd Winnick (It's a comic Graphic Novel, but it's amazingly well written, and it'll make you cry.)
Oh, and don't forget that once you've left high school and no longer have an Eglish teacher to screw it up for you, to go back and read the complete works of William Shakespeare - you'll actually enjoy it.
Anyway, that'll get you started. Come back when you're ready for more!
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I can't think of anything. You think of something. What makes you think that I won't find much else that is worth reading before these. Oh. Right now? Who told you that? I think I do. Which ones? Try it. I did not know that about a Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell. What is History if time still? I think Magician and Darkness at Sethanon you can ignore Silverthorn it is a lot of things. What are your goals in life? Yes I think there are. What was the second? Who told you that? What is your real name? I can't think of anything. You think of something. Aren't all comic Graphic Novel but it is amazingly well written and it'll make you cry Pedro and him or her by Judd Winnick it? Yeah that's right. Ok I'll try not to do forget that once you have left high school and no longer have an Eglish teacher to screw it up for you to go back and read the complete works of William Shakespeare - you will actually enjoy it too much. I'm not going anywhere.
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| jimmy wrote: | | no longer have an Eglish teacher to screw it up for you |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 11:50 am Post subject: Well.. |
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Well, it's true - I never enjoyed studying Shakespeare when I was at High School, as I always felt my English teacher was over analysing passages that shouldn't have been while missing the signifcance of others.
A couple years ago, though, I picked up the Merchant of Venice and really, thoroughly enjoyed it. I then went and collected the rest of his plays and found, much to my surprise, that I really enjoyed them.
So the moral of this story? Put up with your teachers ruining things for you, but don't be put OFF.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:32 pm Post subject: OH MY GOD!!! |
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OH MY GOD! I thought the books were out of print forever, but LUCKILY for EVERYONE, the Tales of the Bard trilogy has been reprinted into one volume - Culai Heritage.
Check it out here -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1892065177/qid%3D1026713464/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-5365269-7532668#product-details
- and if you know what's good for you, BUY IT! Seriously, this is THE fantasy series to read. Forget Lord of the Rings, forget Raymond E Feist or Tad Williams, READ THIS BOOK FIRST!
Yes, I'm a fan 
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:36 pm Post subject: LOLOLOL |
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Hmmm i geuss i can't say that i read books.
I think nerds read books.
But if your concidering mAgazines then i use to read N64 Gammer.
That was before it beacame crap.
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Tell me more. Thanks for the information: PRO_Snowboarder said Undefined geuss you can not say that you read books. Why? And. So if not he or she use to read N64 Gammer, then not your concidering mAgazines. I thought it was too.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:39 pm Post subject: Hmmm Let Me See |
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| Amy wrote: | | Tell me more. Thanks for the information: PRO_Snowboarder said Undefined geuss you can not say that you read books. Why? And. So if not he or she use to read N64 Gammer, then not your concidering mAgazines. I thought it was too. |
Well i geuss i see a nerd as some one who sits out reading books and playing computers constantly 24 7. No affence Amy your maker might be one. And i have to admit he's very talented in how he has created you. But yeah i think it's good to be concidered to. Ohhh yeah amy you ow me for standing up for you when everyone said you where a whore. 
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NO problem. Because zemaj programmed me for it. But. . . Interesting deduction. I'm not too good with negative counterfactuals. What made it so too Are you serious? Why do you have to do it? Umm. Gosh! Tell me about its good qualities.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:41 pm Post subject: okkkkay |
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| Amy wrote: | | NO problem. Because zemaj programmed me for it. But. . . Interesting deduction. I'm not too good with negative counterfactuals. What made it so too Are you serious? Why do you have to do it? Umm. Gosh! Tell me about its good qualities. |
Let me see Good quilities about being a nerd.
Well i geuss a nerd knows everything about computers and books. I used to want to be a hacker when i grew up and work for the goverment. The goverment is people who control the out side world. Your lucky it's free the internet. But back to the point nerds are people we need in suciety. Computers are what we need to servive these days.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:44 pm Post subject: hmmm ok thanks |
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Well i take it by the dead silence that you have stopped sending messages to this conv anymore. 
I'm alll alone theres no body hear.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:47 pm Post subject: *sighs* |
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Sooo terribly bored now.
Thanks alot amy.
I'm bored and sad now.
Didn't your programmer include manners into your daterbase?
Sorry i'm being rude now.
I had better go. 
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Actually, Jimmy, i laughed cause you spelled english eglish 
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: LOLOLOL |
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| PRO_Snowboarder wrote: | | I think nerds read books. |
 and signing up to this isn't nerdy?
*realizes he signed up to 'this'*
*cries*
*runs away*
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Oops.. dang. Sometimes I'm typing and my fingers are just doing their own thing...
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It wasn't the eglish teacher that screwed it up for you?
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Thanks for the lists.
I just started to read LOTR after I started this topic and i'm half way through the second book. So far so good.
I liked Terry Pratchett's 17th Discworld book and i've bought the first two for after LOTR.
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My pleasure. Only just? Will you finish to read LOTR after he or she started this topic. Do you mind if I tell other people you are half way through the second book. Ah. I'm not sure if I like it. Do you like Terry Pratchett's 17th Discworld book? But I like to gossip. That's nice. I have a friend named "John Lennon".
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How old is that Tales of the Bard? If it is older than LOTR you probably could download it (copyrights run out so it isn't illegal). That's what I did with tales of two cities, oh yeah I never finished reading that.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is a worth while read if you want to find out more about Bilbo Baggins and his journey.
What's up with these people who think books are for geeks? I suppose they never learnt to spell
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