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Post by QuadRaptor on Oct 23, 2006 14:31:37 GMT -5
I've gotten into reading books recently, so I decided to make a list of what I've read. I didn't include the Dinotopia series but I read a bunch of those before "The Government's Manual for New Superheroes". Actually, "A Coyote's In The House" was what really sparked me into reading. www.geocities.com/quadraptor/books.html
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Post by FuZzNuT-[TU]- on Oct 23, 2006 15:09:19 GMT -5
I use to own Raptor Red. That was a good fictional docmentary.
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Post by QuadRaptor on Oct 23, 2006 15:44:50 GMT -5
And it's STILL my all-time favorite novel, too! I just dug through my shelves to find my copy of it!
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Post by thef0qer on Oct 23, 2006 22:25:30 GMT -5
If you havent read Holes by c.s. lewis.... .. .......
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Post by QuadRaptor on Oct 23, 2006 22:54:43 GMT -5
That one that was made into a movie? Meh, I had never heard of it before that.
Regardless, Raptor Red pwns it!
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Post by QuadRaptor on Oct 24, 2006 11:36:47 GMT -5
Today I was able to take "WarBots" back because I found out it was like #4 of a 11 or 12-book series that I wasn't sure if I could ever find, so instead I picked this one up, which I'm now finding out is a novel for a video game by the same name: Ah well, it looks like a fun read so I think I'll enjoy it. Another one of those "everything's gonna be screwed up in the future" kind of books like Tomorrow Sucks and Tomorrow Bites.
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Post by spooker on Nov 4, 2006 14:18:40 GMT -5
i got too many books, like 6 shelves full. only read like half of them though
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Post by thef0qer on Nov 4, 2006 15:39:25 GMT -5
the lord of the rings is a good series.
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Post by QuadRaptor on Nov 4, 2006 16:13:10 GMT -5
I finished Night Mare yesterday. It was a great story, and now I'm onto Civil War Fantastic.
I actually read the book in 3 days. It's kind of a short book (older ones [30+ years] apparently are the same length. The Wolfling and Sun Dust-Devil Horse are old and the same length). The story is similar to the anime "The SoulTaker" in the sense that you don't know what the hell is going on at the beginning and by the end everything makes perfect sense. But it wasn't even that, I really liked all the wierd stuff that happened in the story too, especially when people morphed into animals or appeared in a room at random.
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Post by QuadRaptor on Nov 4, 2006 16:23:57 GMT -5
Eventually I plan to re-re-read Raptor Red, since I read it when I was still in middle school (I think 5th/6th grade and then again in 8th grade). Each time I read it I seem to understand more, which doesn't suprise me since back then there was some wording I did not understand. I remember how suprised I was when Red cussed, too, and some of the funny things in the story.
(A male raptor comes to flirt with Red, and she examines him closely, then backs off, exclaiming, "SPOTS!! HE'S GOT SPOTS!!" when she sees he's got some kind of disease)
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Post by spooker on Nov 5, 2006 13:54:45 GMT -5
Each time I read it I seem to understand more, which doesn't suprise me since back then there was some wording I did not understand. this is usually the sign of a good book. I wrote my thesis for my philosophy degree on Plato's Republic, and i've read that book about 30 times over the past 7 years and it still reveals so much that is new to me each time. Im not saying Raptor Red is a great book, but its impressive that it can engage you at such different points in your development
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