romance isnt dead its just sleeping im sure i saw it on its perch a little while ago.
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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btw im a science fantasy fan as well. love Robin hobb and Tad williams
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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textbooks 🙁, bible (it's my job).
Any fiction I can lay my hands on, any car mags I can lay my hands on (except meathead V8 ones), the paper over people's shoulder on the train....:P
two hoodlums lust and sex in ricers bashed romance back in the 80's... he was reading poetry to his girlfriend courtship in the back of his splitty when they rolled up and beat him senseless with sticks.
he's still in a coma, but he'll be out soon... ive been donating my blood sweat and tears to bring him back
barls wrote:romance isnt dead its just sleeping im sure i saw it on its perch a little while ago.
romance is pining for the fjords.
your not alone in that one mate. ive also got a snail that can count if you ever want to replace him :thumb
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I like to think that romance is comming back....
You're right about guys your age treating women like crap, thats why we all go for older guys
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it enjoy the view
so queen bug do you have a favourite romance novellist?
warb wrote:barls wrote:romance isnt dead its just sleeping im sure i saw it on its perch a little while ago.
romance is pining for the fjords.
:duh looking for harold holt??? :duh
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i think he was swimming with chivalry and modesty at the time...
I can't pinpoint a favourite as such, but I do like Jane Green.
I read a lot of Wilbur Smith...he has a bit of romance in every novel
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it enjoy the view
i only read non-fiction, dont waste my time with fiction as i prefer to learn rather then dream and imagine, i do enough of that at work... i just prefer to learn in what time i have to read...but i love reading.... use to read up to 7 papers back to back every week on top of books at night and TIME bla bla bla... too much time spent reading and not out enjoying myself sometimes so i stopped that... one memorable book stands out from when i was like 14 or so... A Garden For Eden. The story how an american child was kidnapped and ended up alone and left for dead in the middle east and he was rescued by a secret PLO camp hidden amongst the sand dunes of the desert. he ended up learing arabic, reading the koran and becoming a 'fedayeen' (spelling?) , freedom fighter.... basically he was trained as a soldier from a young age with the other arabic boys... cant quite remember the ending now but wish i could read it again....anyway, back to work zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz
everything dies baby, thats a fact..
maybe everything that dies one day comes back..
put your make up on and your hair up pretty..
and meet me tonight in Atlantic city..
i find Philosophy novels, especially Sartre's the most rewarding (and damn hard to read), Stephen King is good (especialy the Stand), the dude who wrote Ice station is good fun (like a Bond or Vin Desiel movie in a book, only with MORE action) most crime/suspense novels are a good read, but some writers are down-right disturbed!
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my favourite author would have to be shakespeare!
but modern would be raymond feist, terry pratchett, sarah jacobs...
if you have a lot of time on your hands, find the battleaxe trilogy and the wayfarer redemtion trilogy.
sometine known as the wayfarer redemption saga, it combines fantasy, action, science fiction, romance, supernatural, thriller... everything in the one series... note that its 6 books long and the shortest is 750 pages, so be prepared for a lot of sitting.
wow, its interesting to see that so many people still read these days. thats awesome. most people my age don't read very often, including myself. i have the attention span of a 3 year old ADHD kid on red cordial, so i avoid long novels. i like to read some of the books by Dr. Karl Kruzelniscki and stuff like that, with random weird facts. i also like eastern philospohy teachings, stuff from the Dalai Lamma is always interesting.
i am yet to read the DaVinci Code, i will one day.........seems weird.......thats good
i found the deathgate cycle was better or the Robin hobb assasin trilogy followed by the live ship traders then finished by tawny man series was better
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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only one person has noted an australian author... airfooled. matt riley wrote ice station correct? or a riley of some sort.
i mainly read philosophical stuff or non fiction these days. i'm with airfooled... don't like unreality...........
'people who do not read fiction are simply afraid of what they cannot understand.'
Poe.
i read fiction through all of my younger and teen years and now i think i've "grown up" and want to read something about real life :P
i wasn't condemning fiction Kikko, merely stating that i'm in a different phase of life at the moment :P
I read history and find it absolutely fascinating how you can read so many books about the same era in time even the same battles but get so many variations on the same thing plus how history is continually changing and not set in stone as you would expect (ie being changed to suit modern politically correct times). As you can imagine this can get very heavy so I always keep The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy handy for such events:thumb
am reading Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy trilogy at the moment , love to read Wilbur Smith,Stephen King and Robert Ludlum and some spy type paper backs titled The Executioner , Able team as well as real stories about crime in australia like the vampire killer and the sheila who killed her boyfriend and skinned him and cooked bits of him for his kids, so read a variety of stuff i suppose
Paul
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hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is simply amazing... one of my all time favourites
did anyone see the movies made perchance?
on fox at the moment is the series as i keep missing it🙁
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I read nearly 90% non fiction...sociology...philosophy...religion...luv legends of different countries....celtic...norse...native american....our koori..
Read the different Grail Legends a lot...French ...German...love that stuff....trials of the nights...pagan beliefs....christianity....magic....romance...karma....it had it all....They are stories I can live into...
Oh...mythology...Greek...used to name my pets after Greek gods lol...Hmmmmm they'd b legends too...
Stepen King...scary but great reading....
Umberto Eco....he has knowledge and uses it well in his books 😎
Cathy Lette for a slutty good laugh
I don't leave home without doing the x words 😀
....somehow the last few years VW mag's have been up there :thumb
I am afraid of things I dont understand, therefore I dont read anything
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jenz - you read my mind! i love greek mythology! i bought a fish for a lady friend of mine and called it aries (it wa a fighting fish!) and our dog was caled aphrodite.
i love native american and celtic culture - druidism is just way too cool!
i also love chinese, mouri, egyptian, saxon, norse, english french, etc etc. the life lived in those times and the stories told are simply amazing!
when im in vic next (coupla weeks) we're gonna do lunch! no wait... Brunch! so much cooler
I had two birds...Eros n Eos...sweet luv birds :kiss
They had lots of babies :sandrine
Kids books are good...Roald Dahl is very wicked 😎
