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Subject: i just bought 8 books for $40
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yep. that comes to about $5 a book.

lesse, i bought:

The Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
All 5 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books.

the first three are (obviously) the halo books, and the last 5 are a very funny semi-sci-fi series by british author, Douglas Adams (currently deceased (sp?)). i got them at about 10:00 pm, so i haven't really had much time to read them since i got home... i plan to start tomorrow.

anybody here read any good books lately?

  • 10.02.2004 11:48 PM PDT
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Jeffrey Archer, Kane and Abel.

Not scifi, but still good.

  • 10.02.2004 11:58 PM PDT
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I'm reading First Strike now.

  • 10.02.2004 11:58 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Tricksters Choice by Tamora Pierce.

  • 10.03.2004 12:00 AM PDT
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Yeah, well, I just finished the First Strike the 5th time... kinda cool in my opinion!

  • 10.03.2004 4:25 AM PDT
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Here in Sweden, most english books are translated into several shorter books. All the english books you can by is pocket books, and almost all the translated books are hardcover.
The book magician (by Raymond E. Feist) is translated into 3 parts. The original Magician in pocket form costs 120 swedish kronor. Each of the translated books cost 200+ SEK.
I think it's quite funny that you get the same story for 120 SEK or 600+ SEK.
I mean, I can understand that hardcover is more expensive, but 6 times more expensive!?!

  • 10.03.2004 7:27 AM PDT
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The last book I read was The Tale of Two Cities. It was for school but and I was pleasently surpirsed by how much I liked it. One has to realise that I am an avid reader but that I am generally put off by the language or writing style used in some of the older "classics" (I couldn't even make it halfway through Moby Dick).

-Baerdog7

[Edited on 10/3/2004 11:07:49 AM]

  • 10.03.2004 11:07 AM PDT

Let grunts Sleep!!!

Thats great.

  • 10.03.2004 11:12 AM PDT
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While the wicked stand surrounded, Call me, with thy saints surrounded.

Me
Me again

i have all 3 Halo books and finished them.

  • 10.03.2004 2:03 PM PDT