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michaelleung: I suppose Playboy does have words.

and 3D boobs. don't forget 3D boobs
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Bodkin: ...

I just wanted to bring some Czech names in, that's all. Unless there were some I have not noticed.
Also, I just like his style, but Stroncium was just awesome.
Oh yeah, I also recently finished Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (the loose inspiration for the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) and Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Both highly, HIGHLY recommended for classic sci fi fans.
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dawvee: ...

Oh yes, roadside picnic was fricking amazing. I just couldn't stop reading, the way it was written... I still have mental image of flattened plane stuck in my head
Yeah!
I recently borrowed 1984 by George Orwell from my library. Heard so many references to it, I had to read it. Also reading The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut and The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndon.
I'm reading a lot (and catching up on a lot of classics) recently.
I read a lot, I'm a real bookmegatron.
As many gamers, I also enjoy fantasy literature and I support new weird and original writings: Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie, China Miéville, Brandon Sanderson. Try these. As for science fiction, I was always mostly into the "science" stuff, so I love the books of Michael Crichton.
Apart from that, I read classics and contemporary, mostly U.S. writers, don't really know why. My favorite writer is John Updike, he passed away last year :(
So yeah, I'm into it.
Reading Lord of the Rings for the first time. Jane Eyre is a book I have been reading on and off since finishing Wuthering Heights.
Sorry! Can somebody tell me what this topic is about?
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Egotomb: Sorry! Can somebody tell me what this topic is about?

Stacks of paper glued together at one end so that they form a block, with relatively coherent writing throughout the entire stack. They're usually called "books".
At least that's what I've come to understand, I may be wrong or I may simply not have the whole truth as there might be nuances I have yet to see.
Oddly enough I just bought Orwell's 1984 today. And I don't read as much as I used to. :(
Currently, I only read 3 or 4 books a year.
Post edited May 13, 2010 by Kingoftherings
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evilguy12: ...and The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndon.
I'm reading a lot (and catching up on a lot of classics) recently.

That's Wyndham ( :p ), but good choice. I recommend The Chrysalids when you're done Muidwich Cuckoos. One of my favorites of his.
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dawvee: Oh yeah, I also recently finished Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (the loose inspiration for the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) and Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Both highly, HIGHLY recommended for classic sci fi fans.

I've not read Solaris. I'll have to check that one out. I read The Invincible by Lem though, and very much enjoyed that one.
I read for fun a fair bit, albeit not at the same rate I used to; much of the time I used to spend reading is now spent on videogames. Videogames are cheaper, I find.
I used to read a lot of fantasy, but lately I've been going mostly for sci-fi, the harder the better. Cyberpunk and steampunk are also cool. Realistic fiction in general is my bag nowadays.
I plan on finishing the Preacher graphic novels when I get my paycheck, finishing The Inferno on Sunday (Funny, a book full of religious quotes and the such being finished on Sunday.), and maybe picking up that Stephen King biography my gf got me for my birthday.
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morhlis: Haha - I have got to stop being lazy and read some of the general threads not on the front page.

Too lazy to read older threads, but willing to make a thread about reading? That's a beautiful mindfuck. =P
I loved reading when I was younger though it seemed to stop when I bought my own TV at the age of 18, later became an on and off thing.
But sometime late last year I started reading some Graham Masterton books a friend of mine loaned to me, and I'm happily back into the swing of things.
Currently on the third book of the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and I'm loving it.
I commend you for enjoying Lovecraft, as much as I love the concept of his Cthulhu mythos, the writing just bores me to tears. I'm unable to pinpoint why, but it's the same thing with Tolkien.
Here I am saying that two of the most remembered, if not influential, writers of their particular genres bore me to tears. Sacrilege, I know.
Man, books are awesome. I've a big stack of new ones that arrived recently that I've yet to get through. I ready pretty fast so I was trying to save them.
If anyone's curious, the greatest books ever written are Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Neuromancer by William Gibson.