Books You're Reading While Having a Smoke

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Originally Posted by hex1848

I'm a big Dan Brown fan. I'm about to start the Da Vinci Code. I wanted to read his other books to see if I really liked how he wrote before jumping in and reading his hyped up novel. I really enjoyed Angels and Demons.

Anne Rice, Hemingway, Coontz, Koontz.. some of my other favorites

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Oh man, where to begin? I haven't read the Da Vinci Code, but I really want to just because it's so controversial. I haven't read a page and I already know the premise for the most part. Dean Koontz is awesome, Dark Rivers of the Heart is probably the best one IMHO. Intensity was also a book that I just couldn't put down. :smiley20: Stephen Coontz's Flight of the Intruder was just outstanding, I think they made it into a film a few years back if I remember correctly. I'm not a big Anne Rice fan at all, though I have a few of her books.

The Robert Jordan Wheel of Time Novels, Smoke Magazine, or a catalog.

I highly recommend the Robert Jordan novels for quality fantasy fiction buffs. An epic tale still in work spreading almost a dozen books, and characters with such vivid personalities, you feel as if you've met them.

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Originally Posted by Kenyth

The Robert Jordan Wheel of Time Novels, Smoke Magazine, or a catalog.

I highly recommend the Robert Jordan novels for quality fantasy fiction buffs. An epic tale still in work spreading almost a dozen books, and characters with such vivid personalities, you feel as if you've met them.

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I read the first 3 or so of those. Not a bad series. It's hard to be original in such a media swamped world. He does a good job of bringing some new ideas to the table as far as fantasy realms go.

There are two series of books that deal with King Arthur and Excalibur that I really enjoyed. A Dream of Eagles written by Jack Whyte(he's a Canadian Author) is a 6 book series that is a work of fiction but it uses a historicle background. Basicly it takes the Excalibur story and puts it in the Roman Empire time, right after it falls.

The other series is Bernard Cornwell's the Warlord Chronicles. It is a 3 book read but it is awsome. It puts a different twist into the Arthur series because in it Arthur never becomes a king, and Lancelot is the bad guy :smiley36: Awsome books :smiley20:

Ohh yeah.. dont forget tolkien:smiley37:

No one has said Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler... :smiley2:

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Originally Posted by hex1848

Ohh yeah.. dont forget tolkien:smiley37:

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That goes without saying. He set the standard that everyone else gauges themselves on :smiley36:

Hey, a new guy here. Not to cigars (6 months) but more so to this board.

I've been reading a lot of history books while smoking. Reading a great book on Colonial US history (1565-1775) about the early colonists. Next book up is a history of the Republican party. Then on to a book about the history of the US expansion into the West, 1820-1890.

I've been reading Divine Invasions: a life of Philip K. Dick by Lawrence Sutin.

It's inspiring me to reread some of my favorite Philip K. Dick books Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, etc after I'm done with it.

Before that was The Tower Of Babel: The Evidence Against The New Creationism by Robert Pennock. Pennock is an assistant professor of philosophy at UT Austin and he tackles the issues from a philosopher's perspective rather than a biologist's.

I'll have to see if my library has that book. I am about to read The Collected Stories of Philip K Dick, so I'll see if they have that one too.