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Which one's your favorite MC gold?

  • 06.17.2005 12:53 PM PDT

War and Peace was written by Tolstoy if I remember correctly and it is a classic and required reading for anyone in college/university literature or english studies.

Sun Tzu was this old chinese guy who wrote about tactics and war and there connection to the state and the affairs of the people. The book is called The Art of War. It is required reading for anyone who is going into sales as a profession. As to the true meaning... the art of war is not to engage in war but to solve your battles preemptively or with stratigy.

It's easier to see in a sales context; the greatest Salesman can sell his product without selling it, the product is purchased naturally by the client without them every knowing they've been sold.

  • 06.17.2005 12:57 PM PDT

wow, those are classics that i could never really get into. Modern literature, as they truly call it, is mostly crap, but you gotta take the good with the bad...

chapter 18? if i may say so myself, i've been waiting awhile. sure, i've been kept busy anyways, but still...what can i say? im just impatient.

as for good books, i'd have to say that the book Doom was hilarious, as was hitchikers guide to the galaxy, and any one of the battletech series. Every one of those books are awesome, especially from Michael Stackpole. as for real literature, i've always been a fan of shakespeare myself, even though i end up looking up a ton of crap on whats really going on. Dostoyevsky? i have it in russian.

  • 06.17.2005 1:00 PM PDT
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Well your right Classic Liturature is O.K. and modern literature is crap, and if they're not makeing a carbon copy of a movie and printing it on paper, people get the bright idea to rip off some story that stunk and make a crapier ( if that is a word, if it is Great! If not oh well )
version that some bozo on Ebay will buy.

And its sad now that you can count-on people that idiotic to buy junk like that
and unfortuantly most of the time they do.

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  • 06.17.2005 1:14 PM PDT
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Wow, Sir Brilliant it has been awhile since you have posted in here.

A few more hours and it will be here!!!!!

  • 06.17.2005 1:48 PM PDT

"It's like a cake filled with pies." -Pete "Mango" Parsons

Seventh Column Contests

its funny how we always get off topic. Only couple of hrs left till the gigantic chapter comes, cant wait. Mr_Clark how many pages are in there now, it was 26 like 4 days ago, it should be around 30 now. Cant wait, PAYCE im out.

  • 06.17.2005 2:00 PM PDT
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As for books I don't have a deffinite favorite but I love R.A. Salvatores Drizzit Do'urden series of books. Also the Star Wars: New Jedi Order books are great. Also the Game of Thrones series is great. Can't wait for the next chapter.

  • 06.17.2005 2:25 PM PDT
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Any one here ever read the "his dark materials" trilogy by philip pullman?

  • 06.17.2005 3:19 PM PDT
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How many people have read the Halo Books by Nylund And Dietz?

  • 06.17.2005 3:27 PM PDT
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I've read all 3 Halo books, but this wait is killin' me, "The Flood have found Earth" has been killing me since I finished Chapter 17.

  • 06.17.2005 4:10 PM PDT
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This storys better than all of those books combined.

The first was best because you learned of the cheif before he was a soldier, the second was a carbon copy of Halo:CE and the third was pretty good but you could see the plot coming.

Yeah i can't wait either, but it comes out in a few hours!

To bad the Cheif dented the hull when he flew in.

  • 06.17.2005 4:34 PM PDT
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This comes as a shocker to all of us, but a dear friend of mine just told me Halo isn't real!!

And that i gotta go right on the eve of the 18th chapter of the greatest story i ever read!

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  • 06.17.2005 4:36 PM PDT

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I read All Three Halo Books in About Four or Five Days.

  • 06.17.2005 5:44 PM PDT
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Hey guys did you get the Bungie is down junk?

Back on topic

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  • 06.17.2005 5:48 PM PDT
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Is Mr. C still writing?

I know the thing is probably 32 pages long, but he's still working on it?

Goodness

  • 06.17.2005 5:54 PM PDT
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I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.

i read all 3 books

  • 06.17.2005 6:01 PM PDT
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Good for you, sorry to cut an entirly beguiling conversation with lacking individuals short, J/K have you ever googled "Halo Library" and clicked on the first site? I swear, believe me i usually don't swear, that there is more info on halo than you can shake a stick at.

Goodness, i'm asking myself who has the time to write all of this, not talking about Mr. C in anyway. Aside from you guys, which have been awesome ( i mean that ), i am probably the most knowledgable person on Halo than anyone in my city. And all because of that blasted library.

Thank you for listening to my ranting.

  • 06.17.2005 6:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: MC gold
Good for you, sorry to cut an entirly beguiling conversation with lacking individuals short, J/K have you ever googled "Halo Library" and clicked on the first site? I swear, believe me i usually don't swear, that there is more info on halo than you can shake a stick at.

Goodness, i'm asking myself who has the time to write all of this, not talking about Mr. C in anyway. Aside from you guys, which have been awesome ( i mean that ), i am probably the most knowledgable person on Halo than anyone in my city. And all because of that blasted library.

Thank you for listening to my ranting.


HOLY S***!!! Whoever wrote all that info has NO LIFE. Some people are way too obsessed. (As i go to read all of it.

  • 06.17.2005 6:22 PM PDT
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What did you look it up?!?!?!?!?

  • 06.17.2005 6:26 PM PDT

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U Guys Talking Bout Saints Site? (U Have to be)

  • 06.17.2005 6:41 PM PDT
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No that Halo Library site that has all the unecessary facts and fine details about halo...

Ugh

I swear the dude who wrote it has no life.

  • 06.17.2005 6:43 PM PDT
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I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.

most of us that were here from a while back have seen it some one told us about it a while ago, there is lots of info on that site

  • 06.17.2005 6:43 PM PDT
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No kidding

Mr. C told us about it.

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  • 06.17.2005 6:45 PM PDT
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If you see a guy by the name of " The Kinkster " Around here, actually thats me but i'm on a different account on a different user on my computer.

And if you find Kinky Friedman offensive then get the -blam!- outta here, Just kidding

BRB, i'll show him to ya

Ahh fiddlesticks, didn't work, had to many pop-ups, froze up my screen and i had to restart the computer twice.

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  • 06.17.2005 6:54 PM PDT

Gamertag and AIM : The An7i Flag

Proud Former Member of The Custom Gamers Clan.

Rember the days when people thought Halo 2 would come out on August 24th and DLC would come on Feb 9. Yeah those were the days.

NRS High School

The Guy who Rins the "Halo Library" Is named Saint. He hangs out on the H.B.O. forums.

  • 06.17.2005 7:27 PM PDT