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Defender
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just picked up stephen kings, "dreamcatcher". i saw the movie first, this time around. so i hope i didnt spoil it too much.
and for anyone else that is a stephen king fan, i recommend "the stand" its quite cumbersome, but well worth the read.
happy reading,
~DEFIANT
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My girlfriend (who is Russian) just gave me War and Peace for Christmas. The first 12 pages are good; I plan to read the other 1000 or so over the next month.
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I'm as old with my books as I am with my games. I re-read the Hitchhikers Trilogy every year or so, just for fun.
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On King: Have you read his gunslinger saga? That is one set of books only getting weirder and weirder, though they tie all his books together in a quite beautiful way...
yes, ive read all 4 books. but book 4 "wizard and glass", got really wierd towards the ending. it seems in the "gunsliger" reality, roland passes through different worlds, even ones fictional. thats what threw me off in book 4, he ends up in...SPOILER...
...the wizard of oz setting. i didnt understand much from that point on out. its like king got lazy and tried to hurry the ending out. its just wierd. oh well, maybe if he writes another book, ill get a better understanding.
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The Dune books and Battlefield Earth are really good stories if you're into sci-fi. Don't judge the books by the movies. Dune was close, but omitted too much storyline. As for the Battlefield Earth movie, I'm not sure of the writers ever bothered to read the book because they're nothing alike.
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I JUST finished Jonathan Livingston Seagull for the first time. Considering it only took about 45 minutes, it goes down on my "quick read" list. Still, it was a good book with some depth to it. I don't entirely agree with it's point, but I liked it none-the-less.
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For fantasy, I'm fond of the works of Steven Brust. His Vlad Taltos novels have the same kind of writing style as Amber, but refined. Amber didn't really work for me, but I like the tone in the the Taltos novels.
George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords) are wonderful. I couldn't stand Wheel of Time at all.
Most fantasy leaves me cold, though.
Recent SF: Brin's "Kiln People" is interesting, as is "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear.
Most of the rest of my library is either technical nonfiction or stuff like The Three Musketeers. 
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If so, whhat kind of books, anything you want to recommend in general?
ive been waiting for the next part. but i assumed it would not get written, since he had stated that it gets harder and harder to return to rolands world, and write more. this is good news indeed!
