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Postby Linksquest » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:58 pm

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin we heard on Booktape on our way down to Tennessee. I had read teh book before but the reader did a great job with voices and made it even more hilarious. A great book which I definately recommend!
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Postby suribachi » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:01 pm

Recently read the Circle Trilogy (Black, Red, White) by Ted Dekker. Really cool books -- great plot twists. It's also really great the way he weaves two universes together.

I'm about to read Monster by Frank Peretti. I bought it the other day but haven't cracked it yet.
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Postby yukinon » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:03 pm

ack! I keep trying to find the last Circle book for my Dad for forever! (Long story short, I've been buying Christian fiction books for my Dad-a nonChristian, for a while with little result, but he LOVED the Circle trilogy. yay!)
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Postby Technomancer » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:14 am

Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism

It's very interesting, but slow reading.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:51 pm

Irish Druids And Old Irish Religions by JAmes Bonwick,published 1894.
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Postby rocklobster » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:06 pm

The Count of MOnte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
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Postby Kumagoro » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:25 pm

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews. It's classic trashy paperback literature.
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Postby termyt » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:13 am

Ronald Regan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader by Dinesh D'Souza.

The book offers excellent insight into one of the most influential and successful presidents in American history.
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Postby SnoringFrog » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:11 pm

New Spring by Robert Jordan, the prologue to his Wheel of Time series.
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Postby KBMaster » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:53 am

I'm reading A Christman Angel by Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer... in July. ;) It's a good read, but my mom and sister say it's too slow for them.
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Postby BigZam » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:03 pm

just finished The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (very good book by the way) and just started The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum.
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Postby uc pseudonym » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:13 am

Grease Monkey by Tim Eldred

It's a graphic novel, but I'm listing it here because it's decent literature (if not one that takes itself terribly seriously) and it's actually taking me longer than some small novels. So far I've found it fairly amusing and I'm interested in the world that has been created.
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Postby rocklobster » Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:35 pm

Crown of Swords (Wheel of Time 7)
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Postby Aka-chan » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:22 pm

The Umbrella Man by Roald Dahl (SO funny)
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
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Postby RubyJewelStone » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:47 am

I'm probably going to start on The Lord of the Rings real soon.
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Postby Kaori » Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:02 pm

I recently finished The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy. Despite my frequent disagreements with the author, he also has many good points, and his use of metaphor is brilliant.
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Postby suribachi » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:27 pm

I just got through reading Monster by Frank Peretti. Very entertaining and fast moving with a pretty good plot twist. Almost as good as The Oath.
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Postby yukinon » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:48 am

I just bought my dad the book "Obsession" by Dekker. Any opinions on it?
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:08 am

Dark Saber- Kevin J. Anderson
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Postby Bunny » Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:03 pm

The God of Small Things- Arundahti Roy. It's beautiful in the way that makes you want to read it very slowly to let it all settle in. Almost like poetry in prose. I adore it.
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Postby Phantom_Sorano » Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:38 pm

Utopia by Sir Thomas More.....
Jeremiah 29:11-"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord,"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
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Postby uc pseudonym » Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:43 pm

God's Healing Strategy by Ted Grimsrud
God's Shalom Project by Bernhard Ott

Oddly enough, my reading as of late has been dominated by work-related books. Both of these are very similar titles that look at the entire Bible as a story of God's work with humanity in order to give readers a broader context. I'm too familiar with the concept for them to be very useful personally, but I am reading them for other purposes.

In any case, I have completed the former and I am about half-way through the latter. Hopefully, I will be able to begin some personal reading within a few days.
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Postby Azier the Swordsman » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:19 pm

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son
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Postby uc pseudonym » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:46 pm

At the very beginning of summer I put in an interlibrary loan request for The Man who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton. Generally I get a copy of the book in two to three days... and I am only now receiving this one. Maybe it got left lying around, or maybe it was simply difficult to find. In any case, I should be able to begin it soon.
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Postby suribachi » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:55 pm

yukinon wrote:I just bought my dad the book "Obsession" by Dekker. Any opinions on it?


Haven't read that but The Circle Trilogy was great. I read it recently and want to pick up some of his other stuff.
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Postby Locke » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:33 pm

Finished 1984 and starting The Adventures Of Huckleberry Fin tomorrow.
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Postby RobinSena » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:59 pm

Starship Troopers.. =)
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Postby mitsuki lover » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:21 pm

Being A Green Mother the second to last in the Incarnations of Immortality series.
Though there is also a one off novel that acts as sort of a sequel to the others.
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Postby suribachi » Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:12 pm

The Rising Sun by John Toland
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