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Have not read this one yet but sounds fascinating. I love history when it is made to live.
Smithsonian Magazine: The Hunt for Julius Caesar’s Assassins Marked the Last Days of the Roman Republic.
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These are old but in my opinion are some of the best books ever written…
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All of Pratchett’s Discworld series, The Hobbit and TLotR trilogy,
And lately, the nine book sci-fi/fantasy series called Star Kingdom.
I can’t read much these days so I usually listen to the audio book versions --with the exception of the Lord of the Rings because the reader’s singing hurts my ears. Sheesh.
That’s a start. 
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Hmph. I’ll have to contradict the author on this one… 
In my opinion, any books from the Robot series can be read in whatever order, they’re all good, all self-contained.
Whether or not your read the Robots before, after, or around the foundation doesn’t matter.
It is however vital to read the original foundation triology before its prequels . The prequels are an interesting read if you know foundation, but… let’s just say they have a difficult time standing on their own.
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Currently reading Brandon Sanderson. Finished elantris, mistborn first trilogy and currently on the storm light archives
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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-the-Century America Google Search
Releases tomorrow
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The truth is out th-tomorrow
(X files music sting)
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“The Martians may be very fine intellectual people,” remarked one Jane Jones of Binghamton, New York, “but we do not, and never shall like their looks”
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[I knew there’d be a book thread around here somewhere]
Finally picked this up… been at the top of my TBR stack since it came out, but as @citizenScientist says, life finds a way of getting in the way…
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I’m pretty sure I found @the_architect’s book of poetry at a thrift store the other day. It will be going above my altar with a few of my other faves.
My life has become a synchronistic roller coaster of happenings. It’s like being able to control the weather. Archi-Poems… I laughed out loud when I found it.
Totally unique in form. I would equate it to reading architectural schematics through lines of code contained within a paperback book of poetry. A truly rare gem.
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Cool find!
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I was a big fan of Alan Dean Foster’s Sci fi (the Spellsinger stuff was okay, but not as good for me). Nor Crystal Tears was the first one I bought - I decided to buy a book with a cool space ship cover, without paying attention to the what it might be like. Loved it and it was probably the best one to start with.
My daughter got hold of them off my bookshelf and read them all in her teens too, which was nice.
I often have half a thought on his stuff when I create screenshots in NMS. I might try and re-do some, one day (I probably won’t).
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Apollinaire wrote “Caligrammes” in 1918 (mainly about WW1 then) with some famous poems as:
If you like beautifull books, a french editor make “collector” books based on the manuscripts edited at 1000 or 3000 pieces only. There are some “non french” book too like Peter Pan or 1984 ie.
And if you like hard writing exercise, did you read “void” by Gilbert Adair ? The try to translate “La disparition” by Perec.
I have a colony called Ank Morpok on a planet with huge ring I named A’Tuin and built a palace on a small hill on the border as a base named Vetirani. Am I good ? 
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C’est magnifique!
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There’s some beauty in the old english writing style that makes it worth reading just for the words. I think I experienced this for the first time when I read lord of the rings in english, and realized that the mere words held a kind of beauty of their own (though not that old, Tolkien did, unsurprisingly, a good impression of it).
The most extreme example I might ever have read in this category was Nicholai Tolstois (jr) “The coming of the King”.
Right now I’m reaching back to the originals. Busy with Ivanhoe, reading a couple pages paradise lost every now and then.
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Found a nice good shape 1961 paperback version at a book shop, selling from Canada 
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And added this one from the same seller, as it did not result in additional shipping cost. Official Star Trek: TOS (1983), signed by the author with a note left for someone called Trevor.
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Very nice book finds today
Really thick Lewis Carroll - The Complete Illustrated Works, published in 1993. In English even, which I prefer. Love the included original drawings.
This one is Dutch, which I found as well today. Slightly thinner, but almost twice as large, Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tales and Stories, published in 1975 by Van Holkema & Warendorf. Comes with quite a few coloured illustrations glued in, and a rare few printed, all made by Lidia Postma.
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Newcommer in the collection, the Faulkner’s masterpiece. As expensive as the Myst kickstarter books but this one is a real collector (only 1000 copies) and we can’t compare the quality. (This is the GB link, you can find others depending where you live if need)
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