What's On Your Book Shelf?

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  1. Dec 15, 2007 at 7:18 PM #1
    White Tiger

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    Alright. I know a lot of you may not be major readers, but I was wondering what books you guys are reading or have lined up for the near future. Also, it can be academic or recreational, I just want to see what you all read. I'll go first, of course.

    "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater
    "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk
    "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk
    "Republic" by Plato
    "Collapse" by Jared Diamond
    "Shadows of War" by Carolyn Nordstrom
    "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
    "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" by Samuel Huntington
    "Merchant of Death" by Farah Braun
    "Tower of Babel" by Dore Gold
    "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
    "Cicero" by Anthony Everitt
    "The Prince and Other Writings" by Niccolo Machiavelli
    "They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky" by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak
    "The Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant
    "On the Social Contract" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes
     
  2. Dec 16, 2007 at 5:21 PM #2
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    On my Book Shelf at the moment...

    Michael Chrichton - Jurassic Park
    Michael Chrichton - Congo
    Ben Elton - GridLock
    Ben Elton - Chart Throb
    Ben Elton - High Society

    Got all the Terry Pratchett books, not about to list them all...
    Generally, I tend to prefer either satirical books...or books such as Jurassic Park. (Although that's the whole...Dinosaur Fetish)

    Been reading quite a few books such as Templar Legacy and more centered around that subject too.
     
  3. Dec 16, 2007 at 5:27 PM #3
    becks

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    i think theres a thread already i ve got loads books, sidney sheldon, john g, i ll check the names again and get back to u.
     
  4. Dec 16, 2007 at 7:27 PM #4
    XxCarbinexX

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    The only decent book's on my bookshelf is...

    "1984" By George Orwell
    "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" By Mark Twain

    And for Christmas comes Farenheight 451 ;)
     
  5. Dec 16, 2007 at 7:46 PM #5
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    I have about 13 Redwall books.

    I'm planning to read the rest. I think there is about 20 something.
     
  6. Dec 16, 2007 at 8:44 PM #6
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    Currently Reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (for school)

    Other things I've read off the top of my head:
    Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
    A Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
    Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

    Of course many others just being lazy.
     
  7. Dec 16, 2007 at 11:56 PM #7
    Galione

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    Lord of the Rings paperback hobit + books 1-3 - J.R.R. Tolkein
    Vampire Chronicles books 1-4 -Anne Rice
    Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice

    And a ton of Friedrich Nietzche
     
  8. Dec 17, 2007 at 12:05 PM #8
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    hmm, there's nothing really "on" my bookshelf. its more like, scattered "around" it.

    i have a ton of children books from my childhood, harry potter, I am Legend, and the lord of the rings. that mostly what i can remember right now
     
  9. Dec 30, 2007 at 5:17 PM #9
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    Nearly all my books now are ebooks and the only ones that I tend to keep on a bookshelf are reference books mainly for use with my pcs!
     
  10. Jan 1, 2008 at 3:26 AM #10
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    I own a lot of drawing and animation books...to many to list. xD
     
  11. Jan 10, 2008 at 4:14 AM #11
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    Dictionary....
     
  12. Jan 10, 2008 at 7:38 PM #12
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    Zomg i couldn't name them all as i have hundreds of books >.<
     
  13. Jan 10, 2008 at 8:00 PM #13
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    Books? You mean the things you give to short people to sit on?
     
  14. Jan 10, 2008 at 8:03 PM #14
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    The only books I have in my house are my math and spanish book from school lol
     
  15. Jan 10, 2008 at 10:09 PM #15
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    Tons of graphic novels, some Tim Burton, and a couple Nietzsche. Also I have Fight Club laying around somewhere.
     
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