The first two-thirds or so is the "history" of the book. This part is pretty hilarious. It involves such great topics as squirrel worshipping cults, ninjas, and people turning into butter. The last part is the "actual" Book of Counted Sorrows. This is a collection of poetry that he has written. Some of it was in books previously, but other ones are new. Most of it is rather bleak and focuses on good, evil, and philosophy. Then there are some strange ones like this haiku:
Busy blue-eyed girl.
Busy making Hobbit games.
Death waits in Mordor.
Overall, a pretty good read, though pretty short due to only ~250 pages and some pretty large text.
I'm that hardcore.
pretty interesting.
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Zair's account was hax0red to write:
Rereading "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" by Al Franken. Very funny. I recommend it, but some of it is funnier if you are familiar with Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, and people like them.
read that 
currently re-reading mysts of avalon......soo goood
you all should read it, especially if youre into fantasy/battles/medievil-ness
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Everyone wondered WTF when Suddar wrote:
Lord of the Flies and Lord of the Rings.I'm that hardcore.
I never really liked Lord of the Flies that much.
Im reading Aliens: Labyrinth, Aliens: Beserker, and Starcraft: Speed of Darkness (I LOVE science fiction)
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Zair enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
Rereading "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" by Al Franken. Very funny. I recommend it, but some of it is funnier if you are familiar with Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, and people like them.
Reading this as well. Quite good.
Also just finished the latest Harry Potter book (Yes, I know, it's a kid book, but they are actually decent books).
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ACES! Another post by Lechium:
I never really liked Lord of the Flies that much.Im reading Aliens: Labyrinth, Aliens: Beserker, and Starcraft: Speed of Darkness (I LOVE science fiction)
Speed of Darkness was a rather...interesting book. It definitely came at the SC universe from a cool angle.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Lechium said:
I never really liked Lord of the Flies that much.
Blasphemer!
I'm reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I'm not really enjoying it, but it's rather short.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Alaan wrote:
Speed of Darkness was a rather...interesting book. It definitely came at the SC universe from a cool angle.
I was glad that the book had a good ending, not some sappy garbage crap that I would expect from a third rate romance novel. He's a space marine, he did what he was supposed to do! 
Oh yeah, and I gotta read Starship Troopers over again... [ 02-24-2004: Message edited by: Lechium ]
that book
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Reading this as well. Quite good.Also just finished the latest Harry Potter book (Yes, I know, it's a kid book, but they are actually decent books).
Forgot to mention one other I'm reading. "The Scar" by China Mieville. Great author.
Crime and Punishment is very, very good. Death in the Time of Cholera is by Gabriel Marcia Marquez, who is sort of a South American Faulkner. I don't care for his style very much, though One Huundred Years of Solitude was certainly ..unique.
For pleasure:
From the Corner of His Eye, Dean Koontz. Some short stories by Tanith Lee - messed up stuff. And, finally, finishing "The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by Lovecraft.
After this I'll probably break into The Art of War, and then start wading through the most recent Wheel of Time books.EDIT: The u and i keys are right next to each other, y'know. [ 02-24-2004: Message edited by: Sentow, Maybe ]
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MorbId had this to say about Duck Tales:
For school:
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky and Death in the Time of Cholera.
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I also really liked Crime and Punishment. Was a lot better than I had anticipated.
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Maradon the Dumbleton screamed this from the crapper:
a book of John Milton poems, mostly "Paradise Lost"pretty interesting.
Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
As for me, I'm currently reading the collected works of Lovecraft. Iä! Iä! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Cthulhu fhtagn!
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
wut?
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent MorbId said:
I don't care for his style very much, though One Huundred Years of Solitude was certainly ..unique.
I really liked Marquez. I read One Hundred Years of Solitude and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, though, so that may have something to do with it.
I enjoy a lot of the literature from that area, though. I read Ficciones, and thought that was great (I especially liked the story about the Library of Babel or whatever it was), and I'm currently reading Pedro Paramo. [ 02-24-2004: Message edited by: Arttemis ]
After I finish that one, it's a massive biography of Pope John Paul II that I've had for a couple of years and never started reading before. [ 02-24-2004: Message edited by: Callalron ]
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Falaanla Marr had this to say about (_|_):
Starship Troopers.
That was definately a cool book.
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Kegwen had this to say about Pirotess:
I'm reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I'm not really enjoying it, but it's rather short.
I'm trying to read it too, but finding it to be some of the driest reading I've ever done.
I'm also plowing through Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
It's not something people hear about.
For those That have Just Read Starship Troopers, I suggest getting your hands on a copy of Joe Halderman's Forever War , and Armor by John Steakley, And Ender's Game If you haven't already.
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Peter enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
I am reading through the Song Ice and Fire books,
Those are my favorite books. The story is leagues beyond any other Sci fi/fantasy book in my opinion. Seriously, that series is the one thing I'm fanboyish about. I check www.georgerrmartin.com just about every day awaiting news on the fourth book.
Hope you are enjoying them
Interesting fact! I saw a picture of the author in an SA Cliff Yablowski (or whatever) update once.
After this, i'm going to read through the ever increasing orgasmicness of the 3 Song of Fire and Ice books to prep for book 4.
Then it's off to read Harry Potter 1-5 again.
After that, I'm hoping some more of the Mercedes Lackey series I've started will be out again. If not i'll tear through A Brief History of Time again and mebbe start going into some of the more technical astrophysics books or I'll pick up the Drow Civil War books.
Then mebbe some basic Psych stuff. Or philosophy. Haven't planned that far ahead yet.
Im Rick James, bitch!!!!
Yeah, I'm a sucker for trivial literature.
Got "The Gathering Storm", Book 5 of the Crown of Stars series by Kate Elliot, waiting after that. ^.^
