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http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Manopla_de_Karasthan


reading the last book of the series. The premises are pretty simple: a Tolkien-ish staff that travels through a world where the gods and the living disagreed very often. There is no translation to English as far as I know, but it fits on the same chapter as Eragon & Eldest & Brisingr.


Brisingr was, in my opinion, a great book (read the english version).
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I dont really read books but im still waiting for the last of this serie (allthough I might b too old for it, started reading it when I was 11): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eragon
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Currently reading through the Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Trilogy.
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last book I read

books suck..
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I'm reading this entire series and I'm reading 61 hours right now.  I highly recommend the series.

http://www.leechild.com/books.php
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Soccerman771 wrote: I'm reading this entire series and I'm reading 61 hours right now.  I highly recommend the series.

http://www.leechild.com/books.php

sounds cool, reminds me of the Author of Jurassic Park. That guy's books are just something from heaven.
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Soccerman771 wrote: I'm reading this entire series and I'm reading 61 hours right now.  I highly recommend the series.

http://www.leechild.com/books.php
Are you reading them in order or just as you get them?

Just before starting the Hitchhiker's series, I read The Hard Way and Nothing To Lose. I'd read Bad Luck and Trouble previously.  Good quick reads. 

BTW, Soccer, if you like thrillers, you should check these guys out....

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - The Agent Pendegast books.  And all of the "Other Novels" are great too.  Skip Gideon's Sword though.  It's garbage.

http://www.prestonchild.com/books/


James Rollins - The Sigma Force Series.  GREAT books. His Individual Adventures are extremely good too.
 
http://www.jamesrollins.com/books


And, Jack DuBrul, most recently seen writing with Clive Cussler for The Oregon Files.  His own, non-Cusller character Mercer is one bad mofo. 

http://www.jackdubrulbooks.com/books.asp
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Soccerman771 wrote: I'm reading this entire series and I'm reading 61 hours right now.  I highly recommend the series.

http://www.leechild.com/books.php
Picked up 61 Hours last night.  $3 for a hardcover, can't beat it.
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RascalJones wrote:
Soccerman771 wrote: I'm reading this entire series and I'm reading 61 hours right now.  I highly recommend the series.

http://www.leechild.com/books.php
Picked up 61 Hours last night.  $3 for a hardcover, can't beat it.

I'm a little over 1/2 through that book right now.  Should finish it by the end of the week.

I've read the entire series in order except for two of them.

I didn't like Nothing to Lose until the last 50 pages, I think the rest of them have been spectacular.

I also recommend Stephen Hunter.  Sniper books.  Good stuff.
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Recently after seeing the adverts for the TV series but not being able to watch any of it, I have read the first book in the Song of Fire and Ice series:Game of Thrones written by George R.R. Martin. To any who have seen the series the books are fantastic, this guy knows how to write compelling characters who you can't wait to find out whats going to happen to them next in an imaginative, diverse and intriguing world. Highly recommend the series.
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Yep i read it seven years ago and the following three books. Waiting now for book 5 which will be published FINALLY in July
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I started Game of Thrones.  Didn't get through it yet.  I can be a slow reader at times.


Speaking of great fiction being made into series for HBO....I see that they are making Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" into a series.  That book was incredible.  But, you'd expect as much from Gaiman.
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Hey Soccer!  Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher?  6 foot 5, 250 pound Jack Reacher?


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketc ... tough.html
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RascalJones wrote: Hey Soccer!  Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher?  6 foot 5, 250 pound Jack Reacher?


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketc ... tough.html

Not a fan.  I think that he's just going to make the film and not necessarily be the 'star', though I couldn't see him trying to do anything else.

As to books, I just finished reading this:  http://www.thelongestwinterbook.com/

Highly recommended short read about one of the platoons that was directly involved in the Battle of the Bulge and was mostly captured as POW's.
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I just finished reading a good one that all gamers might be interested.  Especially any with a fondness for 80's nostalgia.

It's called Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.

And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them. 

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.

And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.

Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.

A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?
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