In that case, the Emperor series, by Conn Iggulden.
Pretty good, I like it a lot.
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Best regards,
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Is it sad that I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series? 
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Re: What are you reading now?
Yes.JimC wrote:Is it sad that I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series?
Yes ,it is!
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Sælir eru einfaldir wrote:Yes.JimC wrote:Is it sad that I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series?
Yes ,it is!
But of course you are right...
However, as a gin-drinking, cardigan-wearing maths teacher, I have reached a degree of sad where re-reading Harry Potter is a very minor contribution...
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It all adds up.JimC wrote:Sælir eru einfaldir wrote:Yes.JimC wrote:Is it sad that I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series?
Yes ,it is!
But of course you are right...
However, as a gin-drinking, cardigan-wearing maths teacher, I have reached a degree of sad where re-reading Harry Potter is a very minor contribution...
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NOOOOO! I re-read (some) Harry Potters every exam period. Cannot stand reading non-fiction when I'm cramming.JimC wrote:Is it sad that I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series?
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"Beautiful testing", edited by Tim Riley and Adam Goucher. Yet another superb O'Reilly book for software geeks. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596159825/
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Much of my reading time is spent with textbooks, but when I have some spare time to read, I'm working on three books:
The Devil's Punchbowl, murder and conspiracy in Natchez, Mississippi - Greg Iles
Years of Rice and Salt, alternative history in which christianty is a footnote and the dominant religions are islam and buddhism - Kim Stanley Robinson
A Test of Wills, murder mystery set right after WWI in which the main character is a shell-shocked veteran trying to put his life back together - Charles Todd
The Devil's Punchbowl, murder and conspiracy in Natchez, Mississippi - Greg Iles
Years of Rice and Salt, alternative history in which christianty is a footnote and the dominant religions are islam and buddhism - Kim Stanley Robinson
A Test of Wills, murder mystery set right after WWI in which the main character is a shell-shocked veteran trying to put his life back together - Charles Todd
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Six Frigates, about Merkins kicking Englander butt 200 years ago.
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Shirley Jackson - The Lottery
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Hello, welcome to the forum.Felix wrote:Shirley Jackson - The Lottery
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Yes, but do remember HMS Shannon...Gawdzilla wrote:Six Frigates, about Merkins kicking Englander butt 200 years ago.
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the last battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War by Ralph Wetterhahn
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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Making my way through George R. R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series. Currently on the third book.
"Muthig, unbekümmert, spöttisch, gewaltthätig - so will uns die Weisheit: sie ist ein Weib und liebt immer nur einen Kriegsmann."
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