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Old 02-23-2014, 10:35 PM
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Russian history is fascinating. This one reads like a story making it one of the more engaging historical reads.
Nice, adding this to my list. Thanks! There is a good one about Marie Antoinette called Abundance that I liked a lot.
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Old 02-24-2014, 12:02 AM
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Nice, adding this to my list. Thanks! There is a good one about Marie Antoinette called Abundance that I liked a lot.
I might check that one out. I love reading about her. I really liked "Marie Antoinette: The Journey" by Antonia Fraser. And if you want to know more about the fate of her son, the dauphin, after the executions of the king and queen I highly recommend "The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette" by Deborah Cadbury.

It was really good, but so sad and tragic that I actually cried.
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Old 02-24-2014, 08:13 AM
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I might check that one out. I love reading about her. I really liked "Marie Antoinette: The Journey" by Antonia Fraser. And if you want to know more about the fate of her son, the dauphin, after the executions of the king and queen I highly recommend "The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette" by Deborah Cadbury.

It was really good, but so sad and tragic that I actually cried.
Thanks! I will add that one too. I looked up what happened to him once, it seemed to be a big fat unanswered question in a French Revolution class I took. But this sounds really interesting.
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Old 02-24-2014, 09:37 AM
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Lets turn this thread into a book suggestion thread, itll quickly run out of steam unless we read 2 books a week =)

My favorite reads are science fiction, and i would love some suggestions as i dont have the time to filter all the crap, since i have many interests.

Heres a couple of science fiction books i really enjoyed and suggest:

Pre-apocalyptic tale, in the form of a diary of a 12 year old girl, as shit hits the fan in Manhattan:
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Cyberpunk classic, with a main story and a couple of short stories at the end that cover the later years of the story explored in the first main one. Humanity is split among many factions, 2 being the mechanists (Cyborgs) and the shapers(genetic engineers):
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A ship that drifts through space with thousands of inhabitants that forgot what was the ships mission when it was first set off in space, generations ago:

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A collection of short stories, uneven id say but the one called rogue farm and the story with the 2 bear things are worth the cover price alone:

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This one not science fiction really, but dark fantasy and really interesting. Its a collection of short stories, the story called cram i thought was especially good.

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Old 02-23-2014, 11:41 PM
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Russian history is fascinating. This one reads like a story making it one of the more engaging historical reads.
I loved this book. I also recommend "Nicholas & Alexandra" and "The Romanovs: The Final Chapter". Mr. Massie really knows how to make his subjects come back to life. It was hard for me to put any of his books down.
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I loved this book. I also recommend "Nicholas & Alexandra" and "The Romanovs: The Final Chapter". Mr. Massie really knows how to make his subjects come back to life. It was hard for me to put any of his books down.
I will definitely check those out. This is my first of his books, but I am becoming a fan.
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Found a digital copy of 250ish Forgotten Realms books. I've read quite a lot of them but this time I started them in chronological order. using this site:
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Old 02-23-2014, 09:53 PM
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Found a digital copy of 250ish Forgotten Realms books. I've read quite a lot of them but this time I started them in chronological order. using this site:
http://o-love.net/realms/fr_time_books.html
I've got so much to read, hopefully I'll get around to these! +1
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Only for the 4th time Bob. I'm getting there.

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