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    James MacMillan is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    Early on I was afflicted with the incurable disease of reading. It is a progressive illness that only gets worse and worse as time goes by. So many books so little time!

    There are just too many books to list individual titles.

    Among my current all time favorites authors are:

    Robert Heinlein
    James Fenimore Cooper
    Aurthor Conan Doyle
    Rudyard Kipling
    Alan Dean Foster
    WEB Griffin

    and on and on and on and on......

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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    Early on I was afflicted with the incurable disease of reading. It is a progressive illness that only gets worse and worse as time goes by. So many books so little time!

    *snip*.....
    One of the tag lines that I use is

    "Addict to the written word. I read the back of ceral boxes if nothing else is available."

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    James MacMillan is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThreadBbdr View Post
    One of the tag lines that I use is

    "Addict to the written word. I read the back of ceral boxes if nothing else is available."
    Yes - and in another thread someone talked about being bored!

    Just how is this possible, when there are so many, many books to read?

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    The Blind Corral (Ralph Beer)
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    The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
    The Tales of O. Henry (O. Henry)

    Almost anything by Heinlein gives a good look into human nature.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    Early on I was afflicted with the incurable disease of reading. It is a progressive illness that only gets worse and worse as time goes by. So many books so little time!

    There are just too many books to list individual titles.

    Among my current all time favorites authors are:

    Robert Heinlein
    James Fenimore Cooper
    Aurthor Conan Doyle
    Rudyard Kipling
    Alan Dean Foster
    WEB Griffin

    and on and on and on and on......
    I, too, am addicted to reading. It is not unusual for me to have 3+ books going at the same time.

    Some of my favorite authors, that haven't been mentioned, are:
    Louis L'Amour (I have them all in hard back)
    Clive Cussler
    Stephen Coonts
    Tom Clancy
    John Grishom
    Diana Gabaldon
    and sooooo many more.

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    James MacMillan is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Livingston View Post
    It is not unusual for me to have 3+ books going at the same time.
    Doesn't everyone do that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Livingston View Post
    I, too, am addicted to reading. It is not unusual for me to have 3+ books going at the same time.
    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    Doesn't everyone do that?
    I LOVE to read. But, I'm a "one-at-a-time" kinda guy. otherwise I start crossing characters from one to the other. Well, I've never attempted more than one at a time, but I assumet that's what would happen.

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    I'm currently reading several books... some at my easy chair, others bedside, and others yet in my backpack that I take to work daily... I'll read on the bus, occasionally at work, and nearly anywhere else.

    Currently in progress:

    The Man Who Would Be King - Ben Macintyre
    Empire From The Ashes - David Weber
    The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
    Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
    Krondor the Assassins - Raymond Feist
    Something M.Y.T.H. INC. - Robert Asprin
    The Bear and The Dragon - Tom Clancy

    and in the backpack:

    Dark Assassin - Anne Perry
    Dust - Martha Grimes
    Long Spoon Lane - Anne Perry
    and three crossword puzzle magazines, too.

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    Great thread, by the way.

    Some of favorites have already been mentioned, so I won't re-list them.

    Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

    The Camulod Chronicles by Jack Whyte
    1. The Skystone
    2. The Singing Sword
    3. The Eagles Brood
    4. The Fort at the Rivers Bend
    5. The Saxon Shore
    6. The Sorcerer
    (He also wrote Uther & The Lance Thrower, but these 1st 6 are best. They are all half fiction.)

    Enjoy
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    Quote Originally Posted by sirdaniel1975 View Post
    Great thread, by the way.

    Some of favorites have already been mentioned, so I won't re-list them.

    Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

    The Camulod Chronicles by Jack Whyte
    1. The Skystone
    2. The Singing Sword
    3. The Eagles Brood
    4. The Fort at the Rivers Bend
    5. The Saxon Shore
    6. The Sorcerer
    (He also wrote Uther & The Lance Thrower, but these 1st 6 are best. They are all half fiction.)

    Enjoy
    I'm reading those Camulod Chronicles right now, I have to say they're my favorite series thus far. I can't believe I forgot this series.

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