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05-08-2003, 05:27 PM
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Hobbit
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What are your favorite kinds of books?
Do you like horror, mystery, fantasy or non-fiction?? Tell about your phavorite books, and kinds of book!
My favorite, obviously is LOTR, but I also enjoy Historical Fiction!
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05-08-2003, 06:13 PM
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Lady of Westernesse
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Canada (Help! Our parliament building is melting!)
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I like to read fantasy, adventure, mysteries, and science fiction if it's not too cheesey and has some originality to it.
My favourite books are Lord of the Rings (duh), Harry Potter, Holes, and Dust (a kind of un-known sci-fi/mystery/fantasy that's really cool! I'd recommend it if you can find it)
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05-08-2003, 06:23 PM
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The Buddy Rabbit
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Yeesh, that question is like asking "what colour did you crap this morning?"
 I read wotever diet my imagination requires at the time  (currently, Irvine Welsh..........must be constipated) Last edited by Coney : 05-08-2003 at 06:26 PM. |
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05-08-2003, 06:54 PM
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FloraAzul
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Anywhere as long as there is a library in a one mile radius of here
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Nice image there Coney
I like, historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy and whatever happens to sound good.
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05-08-2003, 07:38 PM
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Lady of Legends
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Mwahahaha...All things fantasy! I also like science fiction, its just so hard to find a GOOD book in that category for me. I also like, uh, everything
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05-08-2003, 07:44 PM
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The Insufferable
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As a general rule, I prefer storybooks to, say, addressbooks or cookbooks or checkbooks. But that's just me.
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05-08-2003, 11:06 PM
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FloraAzul
Join Date: Dec 2002
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cookbooks make good eatin . . I mean readin'
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Atheism: A Non-Prophet Organization Yet many shall be amazed when they see Him-yes even far off foreign nations and thier kings; they shall stand dumb-founded, speechless in his prescence. For they shall see and understand what they had not seen before-Isaiah 52:15a Civil War- 498,332 dead WWI-116,708 dead WWII-407,316 dead Korean War-54,246 dead Vietnam War-58,665 dead Persian Gulf-372 dead War on The Unborn=35,000,000 dead and counting |
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05-09-2003, 12:49 AM
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Lord of the Pants
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Mostly scifi. As a general rule, fantasy doesn't do anything for me - Tolkien's my exception.
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05-09-2003, 01:09 AM
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Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
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Magazines for me!
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05-09-2003, 01:11 AM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Fantasy, and old historical fiction. Mostly Middle Ages and back.
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05-09-2003, 03:46 AM
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Fair Dinkum
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Houston, TX
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Fantasy, historical fiction, normal fiction. No sci-fi. (The complete opposite of Sheeana)
WF: Addressbooks are cool. What's wrong with them? I'm also fond of the phone directory. |
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05-11-2003, 12:07 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden
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Fantasy...(Tolkien, Brooks, Jordan, Stephen King (DT), Roger Lancelyn Green, A A Attanasio)
Science Fiction...(Piers Anthony, A C Clarke, J P Hogan, Kim Stanley Robinson) Adventure Thrillers...(Clive Cussler, Dale Brown, John Gardner, Harold Coyle, Peter O'Donnell, Tom Clancy (The Hunt for...)) Thrillers...(P D James) History & other Non-fiction...(Churchill, Michael Baigent, Ludovic Kennedy, Tom Clancy) Historical Fiction...(Edward Rutherfurd, Nevil Shute) |
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05-11-2003, 12:50 PM
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Lady of Legends
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05-11-2003, 01:14 PM
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The Elvish Temptress
Join Date: Jan 2003
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I don't like Fantasy books. Actually I can't say which type of books I'd prefer, I can only name authors:
John Irving John Grisham Thomas Brezina (a austrian childrens book writer) Tolkien Herman Hesse I like also like the books of the after-war writers from Switzerland.
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05-11-2003, 03:11 PM
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Lady of Letters
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Just regular fiction - I don't read fantasy (apart from Tolkien and Harry Potter), scifi, mystery, horror, crime, all that stuff. And I don't read historical fiction as in novels written now about the past, I just read old books. I like non-fiction too, mostly biographies. I'm picky
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05-13-2003, 08:21 AM
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Corruptor
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As for which types of books I like - I guess anything really, 'specially factual fiction (I'm a big fan of Ken Follet & Bryce Courtenay), but then I also love autobiographies and thrillers / horrors.
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05-14-2003, 09:11 AM
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Fair Dinkum
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05-14-2003, 09:23 AM
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Corruptor
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Power of One was the first Courtenay book I'd ever read, I still love it - my copy is completely worn from all the reading. Also read Tandia (the follow up to Power of One), Solomon's Song, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk, April Fool's Day (another of my favourites) and Jessica (I found that an interesting parralel to Power of One as it also dealt with the unfair treatment of minorities by the government, as well as the power of a single woman's convictions and parental love etc) but this time the scene had shifted to Australia.
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05-14-2003, 09:35 AM
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Fair Dinkum
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