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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2011, 06:00:25 PM »
Where the red furn grows.
for some reason i always thought it would be awesome to hunt raccoons all days and sell the fur and meat.


also i love when someone bring up the topic of books and people say the books they had to read in school.

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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2011, 06:02:34 PM »
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2011, 06:04:17 PM »
Where the red furn grows.
for some reason i always thought it would be awesome to hunt raccoons all days and sell the fur and meat.


also i love when someone bring up the topic of books and people say the books they had to read in school.

Ok, I'll be honest, I had to read of mice and men, but chekmate (the whole series of Noughts and Crosses, for that matter) was my choice. And they were awesome.


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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2011, 06:15:00 PM »
Catcher in the Rye

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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2011, 06:15:21 PM »
Where the red furn grows.
for some reason i always thought it would be awesome to hunt raccoons all days and sell the fur and meat.


also i love when someone bring up the topic of books and people say the books they had to read in school.

I thought it was a good read though.

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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #25 on: March 02, 2011, 07:06:29 PM »
Catcher in the Rye

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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #26 on: March 02, 2011, 07:17:56 PM »
 I prefer fantasy novels. Some of my favorites include The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (of course). The Sword of Truth (and it's sequels) By Terry Goodkind, and any of R.A. Salvatore's Drizz't books.
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2011, 08:55:20 PM »
Jonzu, start with this one first:








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« Reply #28 on: March 02, 2011, 08:58:09 PM »
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #29 on: March 02, 2011, 09:02:03 PM »
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #30 on: March 02, 2011, 09:23:04 PM »
Manifesto of the Communist Party
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #31 on: March 02, 2011, 09:26:52 PM »
Deltora Quest
The horrible history series :P

And the Dragon Lance and Forgotten realms series. Awesum set of books
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #32 on: March 02, 2011, 10:53:56 PM »
Eragon, Artemis Fowl, Hunger Games, Foundling, Last apprentice, Narnia, 'arry pottah, series of unfortunate events, alex rider, and redwall. all fantastic series in their own ways, some better than others. o and ender's game. AND BATTLEFIELD EARTH :D and septimus heap

as for non-fiction, Outliers was good, Eaarth too. But I don't read much non-fiction unless its for school.
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #33 on: March 02, 2011, 11:02:12 PM »
Eragon, Artemis Fowl, Hunger Games, Foundling, Last apprentice, Narnia, 'arry pottah, series of unfortunate events, alex rider, and redwall. all fantastic series in their own ways, some better than others. o and ender's game. AND BATTLEFIELD EARTH :D and septimus heap

as for non-fiction, Outliers was good, Eaarth too. But I don't read much non-fiction unless its for school.
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #34 on: March 02, 2011, 11:20:19 PM »
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #35 on: March 02, 2011, 11:36:43 PM »
@Rei: Farside is lulz

Eragon, Artemis Fowl, Hunger Games, Foundling, Last apprentice, Narnia, 'arry pottah, series of unfortunate events, alex rider, and redwall. all fantastic series in their own ways, some better than others. o and ender's game. AND BATTLEFIELD EARTH :D and septimus heap

as for non-fiction, Outliers was good, Eaarth too. But I don't read much non-fiction unless its for school.
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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #36 on: March 02, 2011, 11:43:50 PM »
I don't like to read, but here's some audio books I have listened to that helps me play RA2.

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do about It
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
TTC Game Theory
TTC Chaos Theory
TTC Understanding Complexity
Sun Tzu the Art of War
The 33 Strategies of War

Though I wonder if anyone else who read them notice how useful they are in bot building.

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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #37 on: March 03, 2011, 12:36:29 AM »
Horrid Henry
Beast Quest
.....more Horrid Henry......
thats about it!

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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #38 on: March 03, 2011, 02:47:30 AM »
Err...

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Re: What books do you like?
« Reply #39 on: March 03, 2011, 04:49:51 AM »
Let us see...

Moby Dick, the Dune series (though I only read the first 2 books and the one when Leto II ascends to what can only be called godhood), Lord of the Rings, The Call of the Wild, Animal Farm, most of Jules Verne... What else...

On more realistic books, I loved both Machiavelli's The Prince AND Sun Tzu's The Art of War. And yeah, I can see how that last one can be useful even here. It looks like it can be adapted to any conflictual situation.