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So What are you reading?
I'm currently reading two books. The first is A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. So far it's very good and I'm having a hard time putting it down. I can't wait for the next book, and it'll be skipping the queue of the other books I want to read.

The second book is called Looking into Hell by Mel Rolfe. It's a collection of stories from RAF Bomber Command crews flying over Europe at night.

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I just bought Michael Crichton's final novel, Micro, for my Barnes & Noble nook. Crichton is one of, if not my favorite authors, and his death saddened me, I enjyoed all his books and topics. I really enjoyed Pirate Latitudes, his first posthumous publication, and am eager to reach Micro, the second and last.

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"O! for a horse with wings!" -William Shakespeare

That's the guy who did The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park right?

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Yes, he did Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park (and Lost World, the sequel), and many others. There's a very good one by him called Airframe about a fictional airliner manufacturer, Norton, whose flagship widebody encoutners problems over the pacific, and its centerd on production, and investigation of the incident that injured 64.

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"O! for a horse with wings!" -William Shakespeare

I was reading "Altzheimers....a Practical Guide to Living" but now I can't remember where I put it.

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...Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for Merlin parts...

lol Killratio
I'm reading 38 26 34

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"O! for a horse with wings!" -William Shakespeare

Just the three pages then??

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...Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for Merlin parts...

I enjoyed Crichton's Jurrasic Park very much years ago. Much deeper reading than the movie of course. Fractal mathmatics is, in a nutshell, how I see our universe.
I'm reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Just over 800 pages left

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I'm currently reading The Lord Of The Rings Illustrated version. Over 100$ and very well invested money IMO. I'm halfway through.

I'm also planning on buying Silmarillion, also illustrated, for the same price as TLOTR. Another 100$ well invested!

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I have the The Silmarillion, I have yet to start it. I've been told it's in the same style as the The Children of Húrin. I enjoyed The Children of Húrin very much. It was so sad, the poor boy could not catch a break.

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With all due respect to Tolkien (and I have read LOTR a dozen times and love it), the Sillmarilion represents a linguists descent into wank. After you have translated your 15th page of High Elvish poetry it gets old.....sorry but as one who loves peotry (and has written a decent amount himself) I know exactly where Tolkein was coming from, how much enjoyment he got out of writing it and how the technical aspects of it were amazing but PLEASE...you might as well go off and learn how to speak Vulcan....

My humble opinion of course...you may enjoy it......

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...Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for Merlin parts...

I loved Silmarillion. Have to read it again soon.

Now I'm digging through classics. Captain Grant's Children by Jules Verne. Next on the list is A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I have to buy A Dance with Dragons too.

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Mike

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It's always worth remembering that the "Sellamillion" was not, in fact, written as a work by JRR Tolkein. It was "compiled" by Tolkein's son from his father's notes.

For years it was rejected by the more diehard end of Tolkein's readers as being 'just there to make money for his son', but said son always insisted that he published it as background information and to show how much effort his father had put into creating an "English Mythology" that he so admired from other areas of the world.

I think people still dress up in late 1900s period costume and recreate the battles in North Warwickshire.

Ian P.

Yes, most of JRR's books were compiled by Christopher Tolkien, but it's still JRR Tolkien creation and ideas. Honestly, I prefer what Christopher Tolkien is doing, over sequels and prequels of Dune made by Frank Herbert's son

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Mike

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