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Summer Reading - 6/17/2009 7:22:12 PM

JarlOlaf

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Summer time is here, at long last... and I was wondering what books would make a good summer read. Does anyone have any particular books that they plan to read over the summer? Do you have a go to favorite to recommend? I just finished re-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair, and "The Zombie Survival Guide". Both great reads... but Now I think I will move to fiction and enjoy a story....

~Grabs my girl and my mead and my "Uncle Olaf goes to the Slave Market" pop-up book and settles in my chair for an evening of culture, expanding my mind, and ravishing my joybug....

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/17/2009 8:20:18 PM

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith.

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/17/2009 11:23:53 PM

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Tal Olaf:

Thanks for the interesting thead. Below are some links that are interesting [IMO.]

ongoing all the time work related reading **** http://online.sagepub.com
[known to be enjoyable and informative regardless if it is work related IMO]

shadow of tears --Amazing true story--
http://www.shadowoftears.com

A long time favorite magazine regular read is Popular Mechanics magazine.
http://www.popularmechanics.com

Bascially almost always reading anything to do with the restoration of classic cars and trucks
http://www.jefflilly.com
http://www.midlifeclassiccars.com

A great link to find just about anything to do with new, used and out of print books on religion, theology, mysticism, metaphysics, gnosticism, hermeticsim and related topics. {far too extensive list to post here.}
http://www.mysticfrogbooks.com

Regardless what you choose to read this Summer, Enjoy!

I wish you well,
~ Zevar ~

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 12:27:04 AM

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Tal Olaf....

If you are going to read the Zombie Survival Guide you must read World War Z. That book follows after the guide. Well worth reading and should be made into a movie.

As for me, Prize of Gor is the main must read this summer.

Be well...

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 4:16:17 AM

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I have two books on my list (well, three, actually). Not fiction though, but I think I'll find it fascinating reading:

Biology of Belief, by Bruce H Lipton and Virus of the Mind, by Richard Brodie.

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 5:26:53 AM

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I have started rereading Richard Bach, starting with Jonathan Livingston Seagull (a surprisingly Gorean parable), and have already finished The Bridge Across Forever and started Illusions....all very thought provoking, and all, in their own way, very much in line with the Gorean belief in the strength and power of self.

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 7:12:00 AM

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Greetings to the Free and slaves,

Master has allowed me to finish up a book that I started about a year ago and have never finished. The book is “Krushiel’s Dart” by Jacquieline Carey. However I MUST finish Marauders of Gor first! So between tending to my chores and other things Master has lined up for me, I will crack those two books this summer.

In service to Olaf,
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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 7:57:48 AM

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G'morning, folks,

Heya, Ollie!

I am about halfway through re-reading Asimov's Foundation series right now. Once that is done I'll be revisiting Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game & the accompanying series.

I will be trying to get to Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul this summer: I try to re-read it every late summer, celebrating when I originally read it. Magnificent book.

I'm rather excited to have heard that Donaldson has written more of the Chronicles of the Unbeliever. I'll be reading that whole series again so as to add the new books to the whole story with it fresh in my mind.

Wishing you all well...& enough to read,

~Kimveri

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 8:48:10 AM

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Skin-Trade
French for Dummies (used in concert with a class and Rosetta Stone-French 1&2)
"Fantasy and Science Fiction" June/July issue
Practical Cheesemaking
Charcuterie
In Defense of Food
Tropical Dairy Farming: Feeding Management for Small Holder Dairy Farmers in the Humid Tropics
Micro Eco-Farming

and, of course, if one were so inclined, my two novels, Long Walk Home and If A Tree Falls, make pretty decent reading *grins*

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 10:00:28 AM

estah

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Greetings, Jarls,
Greetings, Masters,
Greetings, Mistresses,
Greetings, slaves,

I have just finished Illusions and Jonathon Livingstone Seagull, they are short books, but not nessecarily light reading. I will have to reread Lord of the Rings (I am unable to get joke about Saron and the decoder ring out of my head) add to that The Silmarillion and The Hobbit. I will be rereading the book sof Byron Katie and focusing on some history, culture and political studies of Germany (got to pass that citizenship test). For some light reading I will be reading the works of Lovecraft.

estah

P.S. Stephen King is also on the list (I have a few from him I am still to read).

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 10:21:57 AM

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Greetings Olaf,

If you want to read some dark fiction, low magic fantasy, then you should try The Black Company Series by Glenn Cook. There is no good or evil, just shades of grey and loyalty to one's brothers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Company

Live well,
Orion

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 11:31:30 AM

Antheia

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I am beginning to think summer isn't going to get up here. Seems we get a few days of bright sun and more days of rain. I guess our gardens can use the rain though.
My summer reading list
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
That Went Well by Terell Harris Dougan
Celestiial Visions by James Redfield
Devils Bones by Kathy Reichs
Judge and Jury by James Patterson
A few spicier "bodice ripper" novels by Bertrice Small and Johanna Lindsey

A.

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 3:38:55 PM

Maahsatti

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Howdy my most Fave Northman,

I had a bit of a chuckle when I read that you read the Zombie survival guide.
My 23 yr old son read that and World War Z...He is a zombie fanatic...lol.
He currently is playing this video game called left4Dead...I have watched him play it a few times. It's the first thing he does when he gets home from work and the first thing he does when he wakes, before getting in the shower and leaving....lol..I have to admit, the game is interesting to watch.

For myself this summer, I plan to reread the Left behind series. I loved them and will enjoy rereading over the course of the summer.

Currently I am reading a manuscript of a book my sister wrote, called Sync, she just finished it, took her a little over a yr to write and now she is trying to find publishers and start the process.
It is a Fantasy Novel, So far it is quite awsome and I do not say that cuz my sis wrote it...lol..I would not lie and say it was good to spare her feelings, would not do that to her, just to set her up for heartache at the cost of embarrassment with publishers, ya know?, so yeah, what I have read so far is damned incredible.

Hope you are doing great,
Maah

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 5:00:48 PM

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hi Masters
~blows a kiss to Jarl
hi Mistresses
hi girls

my reading list for the summer will be light, for the most part. the next set of gor books intermingled with some fantasy and fiction... in between looking for work!

hi estah

Master had me read Seagull too. very thought provoking. we enjoy going down to the south side and roaming about in used book stores.

well wishes

tazzy

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 7:09:12 PM

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I'm plowing through the Gor books (five down, twenty-two to go

). In between those I am eagerly anticipating the next Janet Evanovich novel, Finger Lickin' Fifteen, and possibly some of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series.

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 7:22:52 PM

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As an avid reader I hope no one minds me adding my own list to the thread.

So far this summer, since the UM's finished school I've read...

Fortunes Fool by Mercedes Lackey
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
The Wizards Ward by Deborah Hale
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Scroll of Seduction by Gioconda Belli (About Juana the Mad, sister to Katherine of Aragon)
The Queen of Subtleties by Suzannah Dunn
Revenge of the Rose by Nicole Galland
To The Tower Born by Robin Maxwell
The Virgin Queen's Daughter by Ella March Chase
Guardian by Angela Knight
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks.
Currently reading The Snow Queen by Mercedes Lackey.

On the ordered list from the library.
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwall
Warlock by Wilbur Smith
Coyotes Mate by Lora Leigh
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara
Heart of Stone by C.E. Murphy
Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian
The Last Boleyn by Karen Harper
Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy
Staying Dead by Laura Anne Gilman
The Fifth Queen by Ford Maddox Ford
The Charmed Sphere by Catherine Asaro
Murder most royal by Jean Plaidy
Guardian of Honor by Robin Owens
The Fool's Tale by Nicole Galland
In Camelot's Shadow by Sarah Zettle
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Seraphim by Michele Hauf

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 8:25:33 PM

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Tal and greetings,

Damn Kim, I read the Thomas Covenant series the first time right before I joined the Army back in the late 70's. In fact I took the books with me on several trips to the Jungles of South America where I was doing that Special Operations thing. It was always a good feeling to escape in to a fantasy adventure where I knew I was not going to get killed.... and even when I could not read them, it brought me a lot of comfort knowing that they were there.

Orion, The Black Company is one of my favorites, and I even have a copy of Shadow Games on my desk, I have been rereading it lately... I always found Croaker to be a great character indeed.

Maah, I read the first few books of the Left Behind series, then unfortunately I saw the movie and it ruined them for me.. lol.... Kirk Cameron as a hero? Pul-eeeze. The books were interesting and I thought well written...

As far as World War Z.. that is on my short list of must read books... Zombies are on of my guilty pleasures. and I think that any movie could be made better by adding "of the Dead" on the end of it...
Titanic.. A boat sinking.. the water is cold.. BORING
Titanic of the Dead.. A boat sinking, the water is cold and Zombies eat Leonardo DiCaprio's brain.. MUCH BETTER

Field of dreams... Baseball at the family farm with a bunch of dead guys... Dulls-ville

Field of Dreams of the Dead... The Amazing Mets Rise from the Grave and devour the Atlanta Braves.. BRILLIANT!!!!

But I digress....

So, it looks like a good summer for laying out on the deck with a martini and a good book indeed!!!

~ Smiles as my joy drives up in a tanker truck of mead and tosses me a hose.... That's my girly critter..

Olaf

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A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes, Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
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RE: Summer Reading - 6/18/2009 8:57:34 PM

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Tal Olaf,

Since you just re-read Pirsig's Zen, have you read his Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals?

Boats, not bikes, but still thoughtful reading.

Live well,

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/19/2009 6:07:08 AM

estah

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Greetings, Jarl,

have to love a good zombie film. Although alot of the books the films are based are rather badly written. A zombie film with a twist is Shaun of the Dead. Land of the Lost has an interesting twist on the whole virus/undead story also. It does not have the best plot but has some strong points (mainly the teeth).

estah

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RE: Summer Reading - 6/19/2009 6:49:28 AM

Maahsatti

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Greetings estah,

You are quite right, Shaun of the Dead did have a great twist and I found it to be a riot, I c racked up through the whole movie.

take care,
Mistress Maahsatti

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