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Post by: TEM on September 05, 2003, 05:17:16 PM
This is the TMK Book Club!
Post here what books you have read that you think is worth reading. And try to limit the books you suggest to 300 pages and up in length(I'm talking big boy and girl grown-up books here people.Keep your Goosebumps outta here).

Time slowed and Reality bent.
But on and on the Eggman went.
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Post by: Black Mage on September 05, 2003, 05:32:34 PM
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

 Read it and weep. It's a great "trilogy" of, what was it, five books?
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Post by: TEM on September 05, 2003, 05:35:43 PM
My favorite book that I have ever read is IT.
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Time slowed and Reality bent.
But on and on the Eggman went.
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Post by: Black Mage on September 05, 2003, 05:49:31 PM
Er, was it "Dreamcatcher", by Stephen King?

 I remember that one was very similar to "IT", but I don't recall which Eggman was in. Meh.

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Post by: Forest Guy on September 05, 2003, 06:16:54 PM
Ha! Books? You're kidding right? I play video games, not read books. Haha!

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Post by: Chupperson Weird on September 05, 2003, 09:19:52 PM
The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn, The Hand of Thrawn (2 books) by Timothy Zahn, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien...

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Post by: marioguy on September 05, 2003, 10:31:25 PM
I read this trilogy about one year ago: A Jar of Dreams, The Best Bad Thing, and The Happiest Ending. I had to read A Jar of Dreams in 5th grade so I decided to read the other two parts because the first one was so good. It's about a Japaneese girl the lived in the USA in 1935. It's really good. Please read it.

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Post by: Trainman on September 05, 2003, 11:23:41 PM
Books? Uuuh, well, train a model railroading books for sure. Lamborghini, Porsche, Mclaren, BMW, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Corvette, etc. They made a new Bugatti that can top 252MPH!!!

As for the long books:

A Time to Kill, America, Life is Funny, etc.

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Post by: TEM on September 06, 2003, 07:39:29 AM
Lord of the Rings is good I'm about 1/5 of the way through Return of the King.
Another book I liked is another Stephen King book called Pet Semetary.(I'll start suggesting non-Stephen King books in my next post)

Time slowed and Reality bent.
But on and on the Eggman went.
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Post by: The Big Boo on September 06, 2003, 10:13:08 AM
I thought Lirael and Abhorsen were pretty good. They're Fantasy books, of course.
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Post by: Luigison on September 06, 2003, 12:41:27 PM
Gataway series by Fredrik Pohl

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams

About Time by Paul Davies (nonfiction)
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Post by: Kamouri on September 07, 2003, 01:57:51 PM
Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and Timeline by Michael Crichton

Harry Potter (all 5 books) by J.K. Rowling

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Post by: TEM on September 07, 2003, 03:43:21 PM
I think Jurrasic Park is one of the best books if have ever read, I haven't read the other two.

Time slowed and Reality bent.
But on and on the Eggman went.
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Post by: Luigison on September 07, 2003, 09:25:43 PM
Timeline is my favorite Michael Crichton book.  All but the last paragraph of the intro is true.  Go quantum physics!

Today we can send information through a solid object faster than the speed of light.  We can also teleport quantum particles across great distances.  Star Trek here we come!

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Post by: Markio on September 09, 2003, 05:26:08 PM
My favorite book is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.  It's so cool!  Has anyone else read it?

Fruit...
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Post by: TEM on September 09, 2003, 05:34:03 PM
No but I have heard it was good before. Is it nonfiction, fantasy, sci-fi or what?

Time slowed and Reality bent.
But on and on the Eggman went.
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Post by: Markio on September 09, 2003, 06:43:59 PM
Science fiction.  They monitor kids when they're born, and if they're a genius, they send them into Battle school in space to train to fight against an Alien race and blah blah blah...

Fruit...
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Post by: Luigison on September 09, 2003, 10:39:15 PM
I wrote a long reply here with correct spelling, grammer, and even HTML, but lost it due to a network crash.  So this time I am just going to spit it out.  Mods feel free to edit as you see fit. [Editor's Note: Uh, okay.]


I read the short story that Card based his Ender's Game on, but only the first few chapters of the novel.  I put it down while reading another novel.  I have a bad habit of reading 2 or 3 novels at a time.


If you like Ender's Game you will probably also like Hienlien's work, as well as Charles Sheffield's The Billion Dollar Boy and Higher Education.


I am currently ready Shefield's Godspeed while rereading The Time Ships by Stephan Baxter. The Time Ships is based on H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, but with up-to-date twists based on modern quantum physics. It is over 500 pages long.


I wrote a lot more before, but that is all I remember now...

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Post by: The Big Boo on September 10, 2003, 02:23:54 PM
I reserved A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from the library. I hope it's good...
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Post by: Lizard Dude on September 10, 2003, 04:20:44 PM
Oh it is...it is. Make sure to read all five...and short story...and, uh, er, unfinished book thing.

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Post by: TEM on September 10, 2003, 06:04:45 PM
An Excellent but very long book is The Stand by Stephen King. At first it may just seem like another "deadly virus on the loose that threatens to kill the entire country" book but stick with it, it turns out in a way you would never expect.

Time slowed and Reality bent.
But on and on the Eggman went.
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Post by: Luigison on September 10, 2003, 08:26:48 PM
It may be an excellent book, but all of King's stuff runs together for me.  He even said that he had stopped writing because he found that he was rehashing his old ideas in his new books.  Still, he was/is a good writer.  Misory is still one of my alltime favorite books/movies.  Remember the Simpsons episode where Stephen King told Marge he would get back to her if/when he started writing horror again.

That was a good episode.  Remember when some stupid director made a terrible movie out of Asimov's excellent short story Nightfall.

.. um.  sorry.  wrong thread.
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Post by: TEM on September 11, 2003, 05:25:17 PM
Wrong subject indeed. Don't bring the the filth of the filmmaking world in here and tainting the purity of literature!

Time slowed and Reality bent.
But on and on the Eggman went.
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Post by: TEM on December 16, 2003, 06:18:18 PM
I'm resurrecting this son of a gun with vengeance.

I intend on reading the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and "Ender's Game".
A book that is what I believe a tad overrated is 1984, it is good but the ending is below par.




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Post by: GiftedGirl on December 24, 2003, 09:20:05 AM
I like dogs.

Is this the North Pole? I''m looking for Santa.

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Post by: TEM on December 24, 2003, 12:18:55 PM
Try to keep your spam in other topics

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Post by: frostbite on January 04, 2004, 02:05:42 PM
The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George Bush. It provides an unbiased look at the first year of Bush's presidency, and shows what they were thinking on the inside.



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Post by: gunblade88 on January 04, 2004, 02:10:44 PM
definately any book in the Peirs Anthony series...some think its weird but i think its funny

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