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Post by Renegade Replicant on Nov 5, 2006 22:38:51 GMT -5
What is everyone's favorite genre(s) of books?
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Post by zarog on Nov 5, 2006 22:39:27 GMT -5
Sci-fi to fantasy type books. Definitely.
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Post by letminlt on Nov 6, 2006 3:00:59 GMT -5
Fantast, Romantic, Historical Fiction
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Post by kingjames12 on Nov 6, 2006 8:52:19 GMT -5
Historical Fiction, and historical non-fiction! Yeah!
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Post by randallboggs on Nov 6, 2006 14:00:57 GMT -5
Sci-fi, fantasy, historical fiction and nonfiction.
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Post by zarog on Nov 6, 2006 16:40:29 GMT -5
I can read pretty much anything but as I said before sci-fi and fantasy.
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Nov 6, 2006 18:15:01 GMT -5
Sci-fi, fantasy, historical fiction and nonfiction. That about sums it up for me. Though I do enjoy the occasional book on psychology .
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Post by randallboggs on Nov 6, 2006 18:16:51 GMT -5
Psychology IS interesting, it's probalby one of the most fascinating topics I took in High School, and I'm STILL enjoying learning more about it.
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Post by zarog on Nov 6, 2006 18:19:39 GMT -5
Psychology normally isn't my kind of read however there was one book that I did like but I don't remember the name of it or who it was written by.
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Post by randallboggs on Nov 6, 2006 18:20:23 GMT -5
It's really deep though, even now no one understands fully how the mind works.
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Post by zarog on Nov 6, 2006 18:24:24 GMT -5
I would agree with you there.
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Post by randallboggs on Nov 6, 2006 18:25:24 GMT -5
Ya
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Nov 6, 2006 18:34:24 GMT -5
The book that got me into the subject was The Human Mind written by Karl A. Menninger (as you can see, I quote him in my sig). I found a first edition copy from the 30's for free ( ) at a book giveaway (an older man was moving to a smaller house in my community and did not have enough space for his entire library). Anyways, the book is about personalities and the different defects surrounding them. It is significant in the fact that he said that the mentally handicapped weren't as totally different then the rest of us and presented them as human beings. The book is intentionally written in a way that its easier to pick and read compared to your typical book on psychology. He doesn't over-indulge himself on the complicated terms.
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Post by randallboggs on Nov 6, 2006 18:38:11 GMT -5
Yeah I know, we had to read some of his work back in High School and I remember it was really cool and yes I DID notice your sig Great that you got a free copy.
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Post by zarog on Nov 6, 2006 18:47:41 GMT -5
I might have to find that book. Has anyone read Eragon and Eldest?
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Post by marsar on Nov 6, 2006 19:15:46 GMT -5
Sci Fi, fantasy, historical, Ive been reading a lot of alt. history books, Im in the Dies the Fire trilogy, its great.
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Nov 6, 2006 19:17:38 GMT -5
I can see a common theme here . Now I don't feel so alone ;D (most of my friends either don't read or they don't read any of the same genres I do).
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Post by zarog on Nov 6, 2006 19:19:35 GMT -5
I see the commonality too RR.
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Post by letminlt on Nov 6, 2006 20:03:48 GMT -5
I've read both Eragon and Eldest. I just saw trailers for the Eragon movie...it looks interesting...Nothing like I imagined it while reading the two books though.
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Post by zarog on Nov 6, 2006 20:20:01 GMT -5
I agree. I saw the previews. The first book had all of maybe five battles that lasted for more than a couple of pages. Pretty much the whole preview was war scenes.
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