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If you like Sci-fi you have to read Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love" or "Stranger in a Strange Land." I also like Asimov Robot series and anything by Bradbury or McCaffrey. Sci-fi anyone?
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R.A. Heinlein - A-1 top drawer author - amazingly enough, I've not read the 2 you mention, but I devoured his short story collections in my youth - Bradbury kinda bored me after discovering Heinlein...
Also check out Arthur C Clarke's "The City & the Stars"
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02-12-2002, 01:08 AM
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Richard Matheson, wonderful short stories, and my favorite vampire novel, "I Am Legend"
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Now that sounds like a book written especially for me
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02-12-2002, 12:51 PM
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For the Archaeolgy buffs,
Down Behind The Pyramids, By Musthafa Crapp.
For the Ladies a short story 170 pages,way better than the movie
Bridges of Madison County,
For the Guys any thing by Immanuel Velikovsky
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02-13-2002, 07:50 AM
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Sci-fi rules
QTPie,
I too have this Beaver thing.
Heinlein's fun, but treats women badly.
Asimov's awesome.
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02-15-2002, 07:26 AM
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I discovered Asimov's Foundation on the shelf and seeing as several people mentioned it, i thought i would give it a go. Well, I've tried to read it three times and I've only gotten to about page 20....i keep falling asleep each time. Oh well, I'll try again when I'm not so tired. It's not the easiest book to read though.
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02-15-2002, 07:43 AM
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The Foundation series is not to be read like a Western.
It is the Fall of the Roman Empire revisited with a number
of wrinkles.
Asimov was exploring subtleties when he write it, along with
putting a lot of words on paper. At 2c per word, he had a
young family to support.
blk cat, shame! What's ancient Egyptian for pooper-scooper?
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02-15-2002, 07:48 AM
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Not read "Time enough for Love" or "Stranger in a Strange
Land"?
Gave up after "The Moon is a harsh Mistress"?
Reading McCaffrey's latest dragon book. Comments?
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02-15-2002, 08:29 AM
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Thanx for the enlightenment OF
yay...100 posts
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02-15-2002, 11:21 AM
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Re: Zoid
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Not read "Time enough for Love" or "Stranger in a Strange
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Gave up after "The Moon is a harsh Mistress"?
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sorry... like I said, got into RAH's short story stuff during & after HS, never got around to any of his novels... so maybe I should have stayed back from this thread, since I don't read much fiction anymore... far too busy being a Renaissance Man w/o profit in my own land...
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02-15-2002, 11:36 AM
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1. the bible
2. anything by piers anthony
3.Spock's World(don't know who wrote it)
4.'' Left behind'' series
5. the tarzan series by e. r. burroughs
these are ones i could read 5 or 9 times, some i have! 
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02-15-2002, 05:32 PM
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The Bible, in all it's variations...probably the best book ever written.
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02-16-2002, 07:00 AM
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The Bible, in all it's variations...probably the best book ever written.
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never read it....is it good?
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02-16-2002, 08:12 AM
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According to many, it is! Might want to try it sometimes
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02-27-2002, 06:55 PM
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never read it....is it good?
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Try and get the video.
I don't want to spoil it for you but he dies, the butler did it and the money gets burnt.
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02-27-2002, 06:58 PM
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LMAO...that was very funny!!
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Try and get the video.
I don't want to spoil it for you but he dies, the butler did it and the money gets burnt.
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