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Post by vermithrax on Apr 17, 2017 0:46:14 GMT
Glad the "No Country for Old Men" book passage was fun. I read A LOT. Not a lot of sword books like our friend Verity (I kid) but all kinds. I sort of speed read so I do 2-3 books a week. So many great passages, so I will share some and see if anyone wants to chime in. This one is from Stephen King's short "Rage" which after all the school violence has been banned and pulled. I am not sure how I feel about all that and I leave it aside. This short is amazing and here is a section: Maybe my favorite book is Jack Finney's "Time and Again" and this section is a real hook: Last is Poul Andersen's "Tau Zero" which is a mind bend: Enjoy!
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Post by Verity on Apr 17, 2017 0:48:20 GMT
Hehe I do read a lot of sword books.
;) but I cannot claim 2-3 books a week. That is impressive!
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Post by vermithrax on Apr 17, 2017 1:01:21 GMT
Hehe I do read a lot of sword books. but I cannot claim 2-3 books a week. That is impressive! It annoys my wife to no end, books she reads over a month I do in a night then we discuss and to this day she is shocked I actually read it
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Post by vermithrax on Apr 17, 2017 1:07:13 GMT
For the more anime or fantasy inclined......... Joe Dever and John Grant had a wonderful series long ago....
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Post by Verity on Apr 17, 2017 1:13:31 GMT
In the more modern era... the Age of the Five series is one many overlook. Written by Trudi Canavan. Apologies I have no good passages to post
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Post by stormmaster on Apr 17, 2017 2:26:38 GMT
i used to be able to read a thousand page book in a couple hours, but sadly i dont even have time to do that anymore, so i can barely read one book a month on my commute to school, hmm maybe i should try to read more
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Post by Croccifixio on Apr 18, 2017 1:05:20 GMT
Law school killed my love of reading. Not for good, but I used to read a book a week. Sometimes a novel. Sometimes books on my hobbies. Sometimes philosophy books. But when I started studying in earnest, I had to read the equivalent of one book every other day and understand it. Drove me mad, so I gave up on non-law books. Still haven't gotten back to it. My eyes still suffer the consequences :(
Last book I read for fun apart from sword books was Invisible Cities by italo calvino. One of my favorite authors really. Wish i could get back to reading, but the cases beckon!
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Post by vermithrax on Apr 18, 2017 1:44:30 GMT
The opening from Stephen King's "The Stand":
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Post by vermithrax on Apr 18, 2017 1:47:03 GMT
My favorite section of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders":
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Post by vermithrax on Apr 18, 2017 1:48:53 GMT
"Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris. Was made into films, but the book is so much better:
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Apr 18, 2017 5:04:10 GMT
Just read again Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions" and "The Broken Sword", books of my youth. I slowed down with reading books because in my job I have to read much too.
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Post by vermithrax on Apr 19, 2017 23:52:57 GMT
"The Road Not Taken" is a short story by Harry Turtledove with a really great take on what aliens could be like techonology wise:
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Post by vermithrax on Apr 20, 2017 1:10:29 GMT
This is not a famous writer, nor a favorite book of mine. It is however the start of a story I always wanted to write and never got to it. My words:
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Post by Cosmoline on Apr 21, 2017 0:54:11 GMT
Law school killed my love of reading. Not for good, but I used to read a book a week. Sometimes a novel. Sometimes books on my hobbies. Sometimes philosophy books. But when I started studying in earnest, I had to read the equivalent of one book every other day and understand it. Drove me mad, so I gave up on non-law books. Still haven't gotten back to it. My eyes still suffer the consequences : Man, I'm in exactly the same situation. I graduated back in '98 and I still haven't recovered. It isn't just the eye strain, it's the *way* I read. Once you learn how to read case law and code it becomes difficult to just follow a text along. My eye zips from page to page looking for key points.
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Post by Croccifixio on Apr 21, 2017 11:10:48 GMT
Law school killed my love of reading. Not for good, but I used to read a book a week. Sometimes a novel. Sometimes books on my hobbies. Sometimes philosophy books. But when I started studying in earnest, I had to read the equivalent of one book every other day and understand it. Drove me mad, so I gave up on non-law books. Still haven't gotten back to it. My eyes still suffer the consequences : Man, I'm in exactly the same situation. I graduated back in '98 and I still haven't recovered. It isn't just the eye strain, it's the *way* I read. Once you learn how to read case law and code it becomes difficult to just follow a text along. My eye zips from page to page looking for key points. Exactly, and you can't enjoy a novel if you gloss over unimportant details looking for the key words and concepts, and then running it through different scenarios trying to find holes. I mean, if magic works by speaking a word and thinking a thought, let's just leave it at that and not look into language games and meaning and perception and how different words have many interpretations.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Apr 21, 2017 11:36:57 GMT
German code law does not need so extreme speed reading, but I know the scanning of big documents. At least I still can read novels, but not as fast as I used to. A good story to tell isn't unimportant for a jurist too, I think. We read tomes, we utter words, we write down words on "pergaments" and something happens. If that isn't magic!
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Post by vermithrax on Apr 22, 2017 2:26:15 GMT
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Apr 22, 2017 2:39:46 GMT
Amontillado! I'm reading much of Jack Vance, I like the "dry" humor and imagination.
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Post by Adrian Jordan on Apr 22, 2017 8:52:18 GMT
I can't think up many passages for the books I love most, but I can make a list of some, as well as the authors.
Orsen Scott Card: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow.
Dave Morrell: First Blood.
James Lee Burke: Dave Robicheaux series, Holland Family series(especially the Hackberry Holland branch).
Angus Trim: Ask Not series.
Bernard Cornwell: The Viking Saga.
Michael Tinker Pearce: Diary of a Dwarven Rifleman.
David Wong: John Dies at the End, This Book is Full of Spiders, Futeristic Violence and Fancy Suits.
I.J. Parker: Akitada series.
John Ajvide Linqvist: Let the Right One In.
Sooo many more, but that's off the top of my head.
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Post by vermithrax on Apr 26, 2017 2:30:25 GMT
"It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees."
- Archos R-14
"How come you know my name? You aren't supposed to know my name, Buttercup."
"I know lots of things Mathilda. I have gazed through space telescopes into the heart of the galaxy. I have seen a dawn of four hundred billion suns. It all means nothing without life. You and I are special, Mathilda. We are alive."
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