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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Apr 10, 2006 20:46:29 GMT -5
Well that depends on your definition of fact..... they claim that it is all factual and they do have a reference to where they collected all the information. But it is one of those things where a lot of the records for certain time periods where lost, some of the stuff was from secret organizations that not everyone believes ever really existed (like the Illuminati) so that stuff wouldn't ever have been recorded. So it is basically a bunch of factual information with a bunch of stories and theories that may be fact but can't be proven without a doubt.
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Post by magikltrevr on Apr 12, 2006 10:43:22 GMT -5
Ah, history, the great thing about it is that there is so much that can never be truly proven beyond doubt.
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Post by florimel on Apr 17, 2006 14:57:31 GMT -5
As with movies, I probably have to many to list, but here are a few of my favorite authors, in no particular order:
J.R.R. Tolkien Isaac Asimov Charles Dickens Jane Austen Robert Heinlein Roger Zelazny (from whence comes my username) Orson Scott Card Rex Stout Agatha Christie Douglas Adams Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Ironside
And that's just a few novelists I like; didn't include any playwrights.
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Post by lindalou on Apr 21, 2006 3:06:09 GMT -5
Funny you would think with all the gaming we do no one would have time to read books! I love this. My husband says "You don't really read a book you consume it" My daughter and I have reading competions, see who can read it the fastest but still be able to answer questions. I know kinda geeky but... anyway, here's my list.
Tolkien Steven King Edgar Allen Poe Agatha Christie C S Lewis Jean M Auel V C Andrews Bram Stoker Mary Shelly Jules Verne
These are my all time favorites, we read just about anything we can get our hands that is fantasy based or reality like serial killers or ghost/hauntings stories.
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Post by hiramsedai on Jul 27, 2006 15:33:24 GMT -5
Robert Jordan Terry Goodkind Stephen King Jack London Ray Bradberry Isiaac Asimov RA Salvatore Karl Jung
I can't think of any others at the moment. I tend to go through books very quickly. It turns out that reality is just a rude interuption of the book i'm currenly reading.
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jul 28, 2006 7:45:21 GMT -5
Wow that is the first list written that I only recognize one of the authors.... soo what genre are most of those authors from?
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Post by hiramsedai on Jul 28, 2006 7:52:06 GMT -5
Wow that is the first list written that I only recognize one of the authors.... soo what genre are most of those authors from? -+-Win32##Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5##1152 × 864##1-+- Robert Jordan - fantasy "Wheel of Time Series" (where I got my name) Terry Goodkind- fantasy Sword of Truth Stephen King - horror Jack London - fiction Ray Bradberry -science fiction Isiaac Asimov - science/science fiction RA Salvatore - Dungeons and Dragons books & star wars Karl Jung - Dream Interpretation/Psychology -+-Win32##Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5##800 × 600##1-+-
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jul 28, 2006 7:55:21 GMT -5
Ohmigoddess!!! I can't believe I missed that one! I love psychology and even took a college class in it but I looked right over Karl Jung and didn't recognize the name! Now I feel dumb LOL Well that would explain it... you mostly read one of the few genres that I almost never read hehe. -+-Win32##Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5##1152 × 864##1-+-
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Post by hiramsedai on Jul 28, 2006 8:06:29 GMT -5
Ohmigoddess!!! I can't believe I missed that one! I love psychology and even took a college class in it but I looked right over Karl Jung and didn't recognize the name! Now I feel dumb LOL Well that would explain it... you mostly read one of the few genres that I almost never read hehe. -+-Win32##Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5##1152 × 864##1-+- in high school (only 20 years ago) I read "Gone with the Wind" on a dare, so I was obligated to read the sequal too. I abhor Scarlet!! Its too bad she didn't have cow print seat covers in her mansion. Now that would have been some funny apparell! -+-Win32##Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5##800 × 600##1-+-
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Post by Hallelujah on Jul 28, 2006 11:59:36 GMT -5
Looks like our tastes in books run along the same lines Hiram. Mostly fantasy and science fiction.
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Post by Cabranth on Jul 29, 2006 12:32:59 GMT -5
Hello.
Here's a few of my favorites that I can think of.
Roger Zelazny (like Flori my username is derived from R.Z.) J.R.R. Tolkien Robert Hienlien John Varley J.D. Robb (pseudonym of Nora Roberts) Tom Clancy Ann Rice (just her fiction, not the other stuff) David Drake Poul Anderson John Grisham Douglas Adams Stephen King Brian Lumley Stephen R. Donaldson K.W. Jeeter Terry Brooks Robert Pirsig
P.S. I've never actually read anything by Jung, but my favorite quote by him is "Show me a sane person and I will cure them for you". ;D
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Post by Whiplash on Nov 25, 2006 22:29:04 GMT -5
Some of my favs include: Laurell K. Hamilton Christopher Moore C.S. Lewis Shakespeare Dante George Carlin Homer Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle Anne Rice
I'm surprised that i hadn't seen Laurell K Hamilton on anyones list yet.
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Nov 27, 2006 22:22:45 GMT -5
Okay you must tell me more... Laurell K. Hamilton... can you compare the style of writing to another author? Also genre and stuff... I am very interested since you made a point of saying you were surprised. Ooohhh and we have a philosopher in our midst. How lovely... I am really going to enjoy you. Okay so I also love Shakespeare... I am totally a sucker for Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet but like many other things too. And you have never really heard the true stories unless you have actually read the plays themselves. Reading a storybook version or watching a movie just doesn't count. I desperately want to Iliad and the Odessey... haven't read them yet but I have read many, many mythology books and a bunch that quotes or copies some of his stories from those books. Let's see tell me more about Dante and Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle... I'm also interested in those two. And I loooove George Carlin he is totally a modern cynical philosopher in my opinion. And just hysterical to boot #woot# What are your favorites by Anne Rice? Also most people don't know this about her.... but have your read any of her "adult" novels. If you have you know what I am talking about
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Post by Whiplash on Nov 28, 2006 1:46:10 GMT -5
well Laurell K Hamilton writes whats called "Alternate History". Her stories are about how the world would be if "all the things that went bump in the night: werewolves, vampires, zombies and other creepy crawlers, were real. Not fiction or fantasy, but in the here and now." Her best selling works are of her "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" novels. They even made the first book into a comic book and are working on making it into a movie. Her writing is so realistic, you can almost see the charactors the way she describes them, and the places, and smells. She is great.
As for the Illiad and the Odyssey, i love them. I have read them many times.
As for Dante, he wrote "Inferno". thats where we get the "levels of Hell" today. His book is similar to "Paradise Lost" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the "Sherlock Holmes" books.
My faves by Anne Rice are the "Vampire Chronicals" series, and one of my favs is "Pandora". And i have never read and of her "adult" books, but i hear they are good.
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Post by greyeagle on Nov 28, 2006 8:40:30 GMT -5
Some reading that is loosely based on history:Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo. Pocahantas by Susan Donnell. All books written by Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear. The Gear series deal with Prehistoric North American Indians. Some other favorite reading is Mary Stewart ( King Arthur series) William W. Johnston ( Out of the Ashes series) But I will read just about anything that is worth printing.
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