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I just finnished a book. So that gets me a little more then 5,000 papes this summer. :D
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Dragon King - 3 Books
Pendragon Cycle - 5 Books
Avalon
Dream Thief
Empyrion 1 & 2
Iron lance - reading.
Bronze Bow

Got any suggestions?
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You mean in my life? I can't count that high. If you mean this summer, none. (being busy sucks :Angry: )

Anyway, you should read Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy or LOTR (don't be fooled by the merchandise or sellout-ness of the movies; LOTR is THE BEST trilogy I've ever read).
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Check out the series A Song of Ice and Fire, or Catch-22. Both are extremley good.
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Recently? Huck Finn, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Life, The Universe, and Everything, Mostly Harmless, Unfinished Tales, and The Three Musketeers. This is within the past month... I'd estimate 2,000 pages or so.
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A great fantasy series is the Wheel of Time :) I'm on volume 5 now and they keep getting larger and larger. Up to volume 9 or ten now :D
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I've been reading a lot of historical books lately. I'm currently reading Jg 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe, which will be followed by Luftwaffe Fighter Aces. I just finished reading The Terrible Hours and After : How America Confronted the September 12 Era.

Personally, if you want some really exciting reading, one of my favorite books is Chickenhawk, one of the best books written by a former Vietnam helicopter pilot I've ever read, and I've read about a dozen of 'em. I hope this helps.
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..Dont start! Ive read so much my entire life it would be impossible to keep a record of it..
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As have I... though I'd estimate ~200,000 pages total if I were to try and count... granted, I'm still young and have much more reading ahead.
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Wheel of Time just sucks. The final three books so far are CRAP. RJ's in it for the cash.
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Eye of the World was pretty good, I thought, but it didn't motivate me to keep reading the next book.

I just started Ender's Game. It's very good so far.
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Space demons is a good book you should have a look at that
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LOTR is my favorite series. It is a GREAT series. You should read the 12 book series on the history of the middle earth (by tolkien).
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As well as the Silmarion, the Hobbit, The Book of Lost Tales, and Unfinished tales.
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The Book of Lost Tales was REALLY good. The hobbit was good and should be read before lotr , or anyway you want.
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I'm reading Douglas Adams' "The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul" right now. Funny stuff.
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oh yes, that's a good book, JTA. i like the bit with the fighter plane.

try some of the articles on www.informit.com . they tell you all sorts of stuff about cracking, hacking, protecting your system, etc.
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Try Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams. True, it is a computer game (and quite a good one at that... shows how multi-talented the author is) but it has so much irony and literature intwined that you'll love it. The game is a branch off of Life, The Universe, and Everthing (that chapter where they introduce the super-Xenophobic dudes) and it basically allows you to explore the HHGTTG universe in 3D... very entertaining.
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Post by Bobo »

This topic is probibly dead and rotting.

Don't diss Wheel of Time, though the last 2 books sucked...
No people, that list was just thi.. last summer (fall now).

In my life time is like 100,000+

My fastest reading time, in 1 book, was 2,000 pages in 13 hours. Both Wheel of Time, books 5 & 6.

I'm writing a 200 page book write now. It's never going to be published, but I got all these screwy ideas in my head. I have to write them down. It's about this spy and his UBER awosome Dodge Viper 2003 RT/10! He goes around like James Bond and stuff. B)
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There is always a critic...

Der, what good agent car doesn't have a gun? :rolleyes: It pops out the passenger door. :blah:
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