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Mine is Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert. As a Dune junkie, I just have to complete my collection, with a rerelease in a golden cover, with art done by one of the more intriguing Polish artists.

I'm also finishing up Butlerian Jyhad, which, while not as good as the originals, is still a fascinating take on the universe. I love how it manages to convey the scale of the war with Omnius, whilst focusing on individuals.

It's simply lovely.
 
I bought roughly all of the Dune Books from both Herbert and son, but I don't know if I'll ever read the ones by son.

As for most recent was Snow Crash (reading now) and Fall of Hyperion, which I just finished and think it was one of the best conclusions to a story I've ever read.
 
Bought Earth Abides, Herbert's Destination: Void, and William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive for a buck a pop at an awesome used book store in the area.

I can't stand those Dune spin-offs though. They fail even as Dune-lite, which in and of itself is just wrong. I could tolerate that first prequel trilogy, but just wait until you read the Battle of Corrin. That's a fucking B-O-M-B of the highest caliber. It goes beyond Herbert & Anderson, who edits that shit? Hugely disappointed by Hunters of Dune or whatever they called Dune 7.

I'm done with those jokers, they're at the point now, after the prequels, the pre-prequels and the finale-quels that they just look for 2 week gaps between the previous books and hamfistedly cram another novel in. Milking it dry...
 
The last book I've bought was a cheap pocket of "Walden & Other Writings" by Thoreau that I bought only because it contained the text "Life Without Principle" which I had not read ever before.

The text was worth the couple of euros. I love Thoreau.
 
Flan an amazing psychotic post apocalyptic 'road' novel by Stephen Tunney. Highly recommended :)

http://www.stephentunney.org/newflan/flanthenovel.html

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The Necronomicon.

Can't believe I found it, really, as there are only three copies in the world. The fools let me have it for £20.
 
Quantum Mechanics - Cohen Tannoudji.

I need it for my god damned class or else i am afraid of failure...

Payed 200 bucks for the damned things...
 
Blakut said:
Quantum Mechanics - Cohen Tannoudji.

I need it for my god damned class or else i am afraid of failure...

Payed 200 bucks for the damned things...
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You should have double slitted the books before you paid for them, that way you could have saved on the waves and you would have only had to pay for the particles.

Just saying.

I do all my shopping that way.

8-)
 
The Road

haha looke at me im so cool i dont use punctuation give me nobel prize

edit: removed ! from end of sentence.


alec said:
You should have double slitted the books before you paid for them, that way you could have saved on the waves and you would have only had to pay for the particles.

Just saying.

I do all my shopping that way.

8-)
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On one of the fear channels a science!tist said basicly we could all be some aliens MMO. Or us from the future playing ourselves in a MMO. Quantum Physics yeA!
 
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Lewis. Ever since I saw the films on cable I've wanted to read the series.
 
Euh...I don't have a 'last book' I bought, I've got a last shipment.

Frederick C. Lane, Profits from Power: Readings in Protection Rent and Violence-Controlling Enterprises.

Aaron J. Gurjewitsch, Mittelalterliche Volkskultur

Peter Biller, The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought.

All study related, though none of them are mandatory.
 
Murdoch said:
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Lewis. Ever since I saw the films on cable I've wanted to read the series.
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You mean C.S. Forester not C.S. Lewis, don't you?

If you like the Hornblower novels, don't miss the Aubrey/Maturin "Master and Commander" novels by Patrick O'Brian. They're incredible.
 
The Long Walk by Stephen King.

Ya know for a book about 100 teenagers walking to their death there is a ton of ejaculation, shitting, pissing, puking and blue ball references.

Still a good book though. The Bauchman years are long past though. I don't think he mentions seminal fluids anymore.
 
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