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disassembler:
Star Wars novels in the Expanded Universe.
If you're a fan but don't know where to start, try Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy then you could read the Hand of Thrawn series, which deal with most of the same characters in the aforementioned trilogy.
caf:
Diamond Sword, Wooden Sword By Nick Perumov
For several centuries, the Empire of Men, that has defeated dwarves, elves, orcs and the Danu, has been kept strong with blood and fear. The base of the throne are the even Magical Orders that hold unlimited power over the souls and fates of all inhabitants of the land and the emperor himself. But the day of vengeance is nearing, the day of the beginging of the great battle. For in the deep of the Drung Forest has awoken the holy sword Immelstorun and in the secret caves of the Mountain People is shining his diamond "brother" Dragnir.
The first book of the series that takes place in the world of Melyen. A lot of magical powers, people and lone heroes do battle to possess the two magic swords. The main character of the series, Fess is playing his own game, but unexpectedly he finds himself in the center of the struggle for the Diamond and Wooden Swords.
Got this one when i was about to take a train crosscountry, and got hooked instantly.
Odd Thomas By Dean Koontz
"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd's otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different. A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd's deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.
Reape:
George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
isukianime:
Magician: Apprentice by Raymond Fiest
Books 1 - 4 (Riftwar Saga)
--- Quote from: disassembler on March 04, 2010, 06:29:48 AM ---Star Wars novels in the Expanded Universe.
If you're a fan but don't know where to start, try Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy then you could read the Hand of Thrawn series, which deal with most of the same characters in the aforementioned trilogy.
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i'd stay away from the New Jedi Order...Lucas got greedy. The writing really sucks in the books that belong to that series and those that belong in the timeline after that series.
(click to show/hide)i think the latest plot twist is that Princess Leia's child in the new Sith Lord
Rzmnz:
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
(stolen from Wikipedia)
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary is a humorous autobiography of Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, co-written with David Diamond. The book explains Linus' view of himself, the free software movement and the development of Linux.
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