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I'm about half way through reading Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy and its pretty cool....anybody read any of his stuff? This is the first one i've read but i think i'll be investing in a few more of his books!...yeah books...the paper things your mum looks at...?

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I haven't read any yet. Uma-chan has been the bookworm lately. I've only kept interest in a few series. These consist of the Discworld Novels, The Wheel Of Time, Ah! My Goddess, No Need For Tenchi, and, of course, Harry Potter, which I only keep because it is not completed yet and because I can't throw out my birthday gift from grandma or I'll never hear the end of it. Speaking of long books that take a while to read, I have spent the past few days on The Eye of the World because it should be a series all in itself, it's so long. So far, I think, there are 9 Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time books, but each one is at least 600 pages long. He just goes so deep into detail... I believe the longest book I have ever read was the uncut version of Stephen King's THE STAND because I don't consider that piece of junk they call "The Bible" to be a book. The most difficult book I have ever read, I finished a few years ago. War and Peace was that. It was so difficult because it had been translated from Russian. Anyway, enough blathering on about my books, I believe I will read some Clancy if Uma-chan ever gets some.

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Originally posted by Isis Kaldara

I haven't read any yet. Uma-chan has been the bookworm lately. I've only kept interest in a few series. These consist of the Discworld Novels...

 

I'm a big fan of the discworld novels too, i've reaed quite a few but i've still got a few more to get through. :D:D:D

 

oh, btw Gendo, the holiday was really great thanks ;)

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To the best of my recollection, my favourite all-time books are The Power of One and Tandia. I read a lot of Harry Harrison as a kid. My favourite books were his Stainless Steel Rat series. His Eden trilogy was awesome too. And come to think of it, I read a pretty big chunk of the Bible (or as Isis fondly refers to it, "that piece of junk") too. Thinking further, I remember that I read pretty much anything I could get my hands on. Then one day, along came television and computers and my brain promptly turned to slush. The End.

 

Where did you have your holiday anyway, Tall?

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(I just love that little piece, can't you tell? :D )

 

Of Discworld, I have read the first four and started the fifth. Here is a list of all the novels so far:

 

Colour of Magic

Light Fantastic

Equal Rites

Mort

Sourcery

Wyrd Sisters

Pyramids

Guards! Guards!

Eric

Moving Pictures

Reaper Man

Witches Abroad

Small Gods

Lords and Ladies

Men at Arms

Soul Music

Feet of Clay

Interesting Times

Maskerade

Hogfather

Jingo

The Last Continent

Carpe Jugulum

The Fifth Elephant

The Truth

Thief of Time

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:jawa

you also need to read Good Omens by

Neil Gaiman and Terry Prattchet.

:jawa

also since Tall Guy has started playing

MYST Hyperion publishers the three MYST

books book of Atrus, book of Ti'ana and

book of Teranee. they will not tell you

how to play the game but they will give

you great background on the D'Ni culture.

writen by one of the Miller brothers and Paul Windgrove I think

(good established writer)

:jawa

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I agree, the new film is called "The Sum Of All Fears" Out now i think. Some other books that Clancy has wrote that have been turned into films include:

 

The Hunt For Red October

Clear And Present Danger

Patriot Games

 

and probably a few more too....

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I do not like Tom Clancy.

not because he is a bad writer

but because he and his fellow authors

who pen that sort of book do harm accidentally.

I mean even prior to 911

think about it, terrorists send people

to this country ie Canada,

the USA and the UK

so that they can be educated and so that

they can see first hand (in their own minds)

how bad and decandent we infidels are

and while they are here they absorb ideas

from books and movies.

now if it can be thought up and put into

words it can almost certainly be made real,

so these great books with their detailed

instructions on world case senarios

actually serve by (accident)as how to

demo's for terrorists.

I think even though we view them as

entertainment and nothing more

we should re-evaluate what we find

entertaining.

*as for Tom Clancy and those who like

him, I saw Red October and really liked

that film, I have it myself actually*

 

* I also really hate when actors

switch roles. for me Jack

is always going

to be Alex Baldwin.

But now Jack aged and became Harrison,

and then went back in time to be

Ben,

I mean it was bad enough in the old

Bond movies how Felix Lighter was

both caucasian and african american;

some continuity please.

I can only suspend my disbelief so far*

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Rainbow Six is the first TC book I have read so I'm not sure I can comment on how the books give ideas to possible terrorism but from what I have read so far of R6 I dont see how it could serve as an aid to planning forms of terrorism.

 

If anything it seems to give a lot away about ther statagies of governments around the world as although it is only fiction, I'm pretty damn sure there are secret organisations in existance that only a handfull of people know about! :D:D:D

 

"It is Tom Clancy's most shocking story to date -- and closer to the truth than any government would care to admit..." - Inside cover

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No, not JK Rowling. I went through a mystical-fantastical bullcrap phase when I was younger, though. I read a bit of Terry Pratchett here and there as well.

 

I like Wilbur Smith though. Has anyone read The Seventh Scroll? Like Tom Clancy, you have to be in the right mood for Wilbur Smith.

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