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    books on spies and espionage

    Polar Star Hi Samerron, I'd say Polar Star is really very good. I've read it a good few times, and I suppose that must make it one of my favourites! It manages to be a spy thriller without having any/many actual spies, and in a fascinating setting. Actually, I am going to have to go and...
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    Arthur Machen

    Just read The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen. Very effective - creepy and disturbing. The action is all related by the characters - usually to other characters (if you read it you'll see why this is so effective in this case). Actually, I read some of the Dracula thread this morning, and...
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    Post a poem

    Something Scottish The Eemis Stane I' the how-dumb-deid o' the cauld hairst nicht The warl' like an eemis stane Wags i' the lift; An' my eerie memories fa' Like a yowdendrit Like a yowdendrift so's I couldna read The words cut oot i' the stane Had the fug o' fame An' history's...
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    H.P. Lovecraft

    Like most of the folk here, I like Lovecraft for his ideas more than his writing, though there are some genuine chills - I crapped myself when the guy goes down into the ancient tunnels in Australia; I think it's The Shadow Out of Time (or Space, maybe??). Every time I pass through some...
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    Looking for books XD

    A book which may satisfy your requirements for loners; ugliness and teens all at once is Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
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    books on spies and espionage

    Not exactly spy books, but Gorky Park, Polar Star and Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith are all interesting takes on recent eras from a Russian perspective. Blind Man's Bluff (sorry, can't remember the authors) is a history of the US nuclear submarine programme - much of their work involved...
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    Any book recommendations?

    Hunger is amazing! Made me want to starve myself... Just kidding. Try Novel With Cocaine by M. Ageyev; Pan by Hamsun; for something very weird there's always The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat; A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lyndsay The Man In The High Castle by Philip K Dick Hope this...
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    books on codes, codebreaking and hacking

    Try Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It has a load on secret operations during WW II; with one of the main characters being a code breaker there is a load on cyphers etc. It's a thrilling read, though the author is a bit of a pain in the bum sometimes. It even tells you how to communicate...
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    Cyberpunk

    I probably get round to reading Neuromancer about once a year - it's still that good. I've read most of Gibson's stuff, though I think I've missed a couple of the more recent books. Don't think I've read anything by Sterling except 'The Hacker Crackdown' (is that even a title/him at all??)...
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    Books you didn't finish

    Most memorably forgettable - Lord of The rings. Got to half way through Return of the King; could be bothered going on. Thank God for Peter Jackson. To be honest; life is just too short.:eek:
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    Parallel Reading

    I usually find my mind wandering after a while with one book (My attention span seems to be shortening to that of a gnat). I'm either annoyed with the author or characters, or am stimulated to think about something else. So I then go off to read something else and it all begins again. There...
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    Hello from Scotland

    Cheers! Hello and thanks for the warm welcome! Scotland is actually warm and sunny at the moment, but the other day I had to climb into my car through the boot, er, trunk, thanks to a flood of rainwater in the carpark at work - I should have stayed in bed and read!
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    Hello from Scotland

    Hi, Happy to be surrounded by so many book lovers, and looking forward to a few debates/suggestions. Have strange interests - now reading 'The Imitation of Christ', but have an almost complete collection of David Gemmell; Howard's Conan stories; The Moomin stories, and a load of Scottish...
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