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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: November 27, 2006, 11:17:10 PM »
Read "The Cuckoo's Egg", by Clifford Stoll, yesterday.  Went pretty quickly.  Really cool book.  Working on "Lisey's Story" now, by Stephen King.  I finally get to go pick up Mistborn from the Library this Friday.  Been waiting for that one for what seems like forever.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: November 16, 2006, 05:32:46 PM »
The Dragon Waiting, by John M. Ford.  So, I've only read about 25 pages of this book, but it's written just beautifully.  Not like flowery words or anything, but just very well written.  I know that Robert Jordan is a sore point for a lot of people on this site, but Jordan said that Ford was the best author in the US, bar none.  Fairly strong statement.  So, I had to check him out.  Pretty good so far.

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Writing Group / Re: National Novel Writing Month 2006
« on: November 15, 2006, 07:43:50 PM »
I signed up.  Don't know how far I'll get, seeing as how I just did it.  Eh.  It'll be a good exercise in insanity.

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Site News / Re: Introduce yourself - right on!
« on: November 15, 2006, 07:39:12 PM »
Figured I had better do this seeing as how I'm about to graduate to level 2...

My name is Dan Smyth.  I'm currently going to school at BYU studying to be a Chemical Engineer.  I got my BS in 2002, and hope to be done with my PhD in late 2007.  I found this website completely by accident, and later saw that there were some people I knew who were associated with it.  I mostly check out the books section.  I'm in the process of working on my first novel.  A friend and I are co-writing it, and things are coming along smashingly.  Grew up in Arizona.  29 yrs old.  Most times completely boring, but occasionally make comments that shouldn't be missed.  Anything else about me must be logically deduced and will not be the subject of future tests.

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Books / Re: Interesting application...
« on: November 14, 2006, 06:58:29 PM »
Ah, but ChainReading and Shalfari are free.  Apparently LibraryThing costs money if you want to post more than 200 books to your profile.  So, I guess it really depends on how into this thing you are, as to which place you want to go.  Me, I'm a cheapo.   ;)

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Books / Re: Interesting application...
« on: November 14, 2006, 06:49:37 PM »
ChainReading is very similar too.  Sounds like these others might have a few more options though.  I'll probably check them out.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: November 13, 2006, 06:12:55 PM »
Reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.  Quite good so far.  About halfway through it and still enjoying it.  Hallelujiah.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: October 30, 2006, 04:36:14 PM »
Reading Doppleganger by Marie Brennan.  Pretty slow intro.  Not much going on.  Mediocre reading.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: October 26, 2006, 06:39:21 PM »
Fifth Sorceress was a bit too dense for me.  The pages looked like Tolkein but weren't written as well.  So, I kicked it to the curb and picked up Runelords:  The Sum of All Men by David Farland.  Pretty good so far.  Mostly though, it has made me want to start working on my novel again.  Have Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt) and The Dragon Waiting (John Ford) in the waiting.  I need to find a book that I'm excited to read, and want to get back to it when I put it down.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: October 17, 2006, 07:42:29 PM »
I've never figured that out Sigyn.  Finished Prestige.  Good book.  The end could have been a little better developed, or just plain more.  Reading On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony right now.  I'm thinking I'm going to quit though (on pg. 75) as it hasn't really done that great of a job of "catching" me.  Going to try Fifth Sorceress by Robert Newcomb next.  Need to find something of value...

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: October 03, 2006, 05:14:34 PM »
The Prestige, by Christopher Priest.  Quite good so far.  The movie comes out this month, and it looks amazing.  So, I thought I'd check it out.  It's about magicians/illusionists.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: August 10, 2006, 02:32:07 PM »
Currently trying to read Tad William's Otherworld:City of Golden Shadow, Dune (the original... for the first time, I'm embarrassed to admit...), and Needful Things by Stephen King.  Ah, and sorry if my last post was kind of spam.  It's not my website.  Just a cool one that I got told about.  Thought people here might be interested.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: August 02, 2006, 07:37:49 PM »
There's this great, new website where you can track what you're reading, what you plan to read, write book reviews, etc called ChainReading.  Check it out: www.chainreading.com     It's fairly new, but still quite impressive.  Works great for this kind of thing.

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