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What are You Currently Reading? (pg. 40)
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| Zharen |
| Currently reading Wuthering Heights. A little difficult for me to follow, but I'm getting the gist of it. All these characters sure do despise each other. |
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| biznology |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zharen
Currently reading Wuthering Heights. A little difficult for me to follow, but I'm getting the gist of it. All these characters sure do despise each other. |
t's ok...
try and read steppenwolf without being buzzed. its a downer, unless buzzed.
reading: Under the Banner of Heaven.
hope there arent too many mormons on TA. interesting book however.
not as good as Into the Wild - bomb| |
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| Cloudburst |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Dune is awesome! Thanks Pete! :D
edit: I wish it was longer...I don't want it to be overrrrrr. I want like, 1000 pages!
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There's 5 sequels. :p (Original series)
Dune (1965)
Dune Messiah (1969)
Children of Dune (1976)
God Emperor of Dune (1981)
Heretics of Dune (1984)
Chapterhouse Dune (1985) |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cloudburst
There's 5 sequels. :p (Original series)
Dune (1965)
Dune Messiah (1969)
Children of Dune (1976)
God Emperor of Dune (1981)
Heretics of Dune (1984)
Chapterhouse Dune (1985) |
I know, but apparently they lack what the first book has. I'm gonna give the next one in the series a shot anyways and see how it goes.
Have you (or anyone else [other than infinity HiGH]) read the other books? Reviews?? |
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| Lira |
I've wanted to read this book for quite a while, and finally managed to do so. It's a very inspiring work, and reflects quite accurately my views on freedom (although it made me think a lot about stuff I didn't really mind before also). |
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| Subey |
| The War with Mr. Wizzle |
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| Cloudburst |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
I know, but apparently they lack what the first book has. I'm gonna give the next one in the series a shot anyways and see how it goes.
Have you (or anyone else [other than infinity HiGH]) read the other books? Reviews?? |
I've read them all and I liked them all, but some more than others. The ones I liked most:
Dune (1965)
Children of Dune (1976)
Chapterhouse Dune (1985)
What I like about his books is that he isn't scared of evolving and extending his world. The last book in the series takes place several thousands of years after the first book and its a different world then of course. Enemies becomes allies and worlds change. You get to see his universe from different perspectives which I like very much.
The rest were also good, but slightly too slow paced for my taste.
Dune Messiah (1969)
God Emperor of Dune (1981)
Heretics of Dune (1984)
All in all I enjoyed them all very much. Then again I'm a geek. :D |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Werd, alright thanks. I'll definitely give 'em all a shot. Does it matter if I don't read them all?? Are they written chronologically? I don't wanna miss any important details. :) |
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| Ygrene |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
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| Cloudburst |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Werd, alright thanks. I'll definitely give 'em all a shot. Does it matter if I don't read them all?? Are they written chronologically? I don't wanna miss any important details. :) |
Yeah they are written chronologically. They are partly based on each other and there's always something or someone from the previous book(s). So skipping some isn't recommended. All or nothing baby! :thepirate |
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| infinity HiGH |
For anyone looking for something non-fictinal and very interesting to read, I highly recommend The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.
Here's a description of the book:
If a virulent virus—or even the Rapture—depopulated Earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind vanished? That's the provocative, and occasionally puckish, question posed by Weisman (An Echo in My Blood) in this imaginative hybrid of solid science reporting and morbid speculation. Days after our disappearance, pumps keeping Manhattan's subways dry would fail, tunnels would flood, soil under streets would sluice away and the foundations of towering skyscrapers built to last for centuries would start to crumble. At the other end of the chronological spectrum, anything made of bronze might survive in recognizable form for millions of years—along with one billion pounds of degraded but almost indestructible plastics manufactured since the mid-20th century. Meanwhile, land freed from mankind's environmentally poisonous footprint would quickly reconstitute itself, as in Chernobyl, where animal life has returned after 1986's deadly radiation leak, and in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, a refuge since 1953 for the almost-extinct goral mountain goat and Amur leopard. From a patch of primeval forest in Poland to monumental underground villages in Turkey, Weisman's enthralling tour of the world of tomorrow explores what little will remain of ancient times while anticipating, often poetically, what a planet without us would be like. |
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