I love Harry Potter.

Imnsho, Dan Brown is the worst thing ever.

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OK, so I can't believe I'm admitting this, but read the Twilight series. It's addicting. I read the first book, then read the other 3 in one weekend. I couldn't stop. Don't knock it, til you try it!

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Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. -Jack Handey

Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Dan Brown is fairly unremarkable, I'd say (I think I've read all of his books while on some airplane or another), but the worst? Thumb through the popular books section and I'd put pretty much anything in the "romance" category down as worse. There's also some pretty horrible science fiction and probably mainstream fiction as well.

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

Oh god yes. I was engaging in hyperbole.

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I read the first few pages.

Aside from it being horribly written (), I knock it because I think the message it sends to girls is downright evil.

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If I had a teenage girl, I don't think I'd let her read it. But I enjoyed it.

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Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. -Jack Handey

Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

certainly not literature but worst ever ? there is far worse and lots of it.

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Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

Jesus loves you, allah wants you dead

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

what am I thinking... Anne Rice ! that vampire stuff is delicious !

and she is a very nice lady to boot. responded to both emails I sent her.

BTW, her Christ the Lord books are quite good too. Very convincing look at life way back when for a Son of God coming to figure out His path. Two out, at least one more on the way.

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Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

Jesus loves you, allah wants you dead

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

FYI---

I picked up a used copy of Watership Down today...

A good mix of political fiction is Vince Flynn. He's a seriously good read about action and Washington intrigue with a dash of anti-terrorism thrown in. "Term Limits" is brilliant and suck you right in from page 1. Matthew Reilly is also really good. To start with I'd recommend "Seven Ancient Wonders', or "Area 7".

I just saw on Yahoo News that Dan Brown has a new novel out called The Lost Symbol, about, you guessed it, the Freemasons again!

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I was just looking at that book today. Don't really know anything about it, just heard the name of the book somewhere.

If anyone here plans on giving it a read, let me know how it is.

"The 5000 Year Leap" is an EXCELLENT book!

Oh, Tom Clancy of course. I think he retired from the Jack Ryan series though. Hasnt written one in years. Hes always been spot on with international conflicts.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

Fiction is hard because taste is so variable. If you like an odd stylist you might try anything from Jack Vance's Demon Princes series, of which The Palace of Love is the best IMO. I will warn you his style is an acquired taste. L. Sprague de Camp in conversation with Keith Laumer once said that many people had found Vance's style "wooden". "Not wooden," said Laumer, "...carved" and I have always found that a very apt description.

Another I've been following recently is Michael Stackpole. His latest series, The Age of Discovery is a sort of alternate world fantasy based on the great voyages of the 15th and 16th centuries but with magic. A Secret Atlas is the first of three books on this intriguing idea.

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Alizee Jacotay, the reason god invented hips

the missus has gotten me a copy, I'll let you know. ought to be good, been working on it for quite a while.

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Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

Jesus loves you, allah wants you dead

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand