20-10-2004 01:47									#91
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So what is the conspiracy anyway? that their mission is to protect the decendant of Jesus or what?

	20-10-2004 01:51									#92
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In a nutshell,

spoiler(highlight to read): yes, the Priory of Sion is supposed to be a secret organization that guards the offspring of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. It also holds the documents that can prove this. The documents include the family tree of the royal bloodline of the two, the "sang real", a diary of Mary Magdalene telling of her time in what's nowadays France, and a gospel written by Jesus himself, the "Q document". The Priory is just waiting for the right moment to reveal all this to the world - that Jesus intended for Mary to become the rock he'd build his church on instead of Peter. Which in turn would pull out the rug under the RCC's feet.

	20-10-2004 01:55									#93
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Yeah, what I suspected.

	20-10-2004 19:53									#94
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Jack McDevitt's 'The Engines of God'

Jan Morris's 'The Venetian Empire'

'Boswell's Clap', by William B. Ober

	20-10-2004 23:20									#95
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No wonder my mom got the Da Vinci Code for my dad.

	20-10-2004 23:43									#96
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I finished my previous book, and the current book I'm reading is so abysmal that I can't bring myself to state its name. Here's an idea of the quality though: about halfway through the book, the love interest of the main character has been revealed as being terminally ill.

	31-10-2004 23:18									#97
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i read both the da vinci code as well as the earlier angels & domans (those 1200 pages helped fill lots of computerless army service hours )

	31-10-2004 23:31									#98
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Small Gods by Terry Prachett.

Also, I stopped by the library, and they had an audiobook of the newest novel by Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Escape, so I'm listening to it in the car.

(If a book takes place after a previous book, it's a sequel; if before, it's a prequel...but in the middle of a series like Cornwell is doing here...is it a midquel?? It's nice to have Lt. Knowles and Maj. Hogan back; Sgt Obediah Hakewell isn't due for his appearance yet, but I'm sure he'll be along--says so in the Scriptures.)

	31-10-2004 23:42									#99
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The complete works by William Shakespeare.
By Sea and Land - a Story of the Royal Marine Commandos
The Sixth Great Power - the history of the House of Barings
London: the Biography, by Peter Ackroyd

Oh, and I bought the complete DVD box set of The Fawlty Towers

	31-10-2004 23:53									#100
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The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

	01-11-2004 00:08									#101
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I'm reading two books:

Kick Him In The Teeth by Ulrich Weissenmueller
Next Run by Tito Esposito

	01-11-2004 01:11									#102
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quote: -- Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men

It's good.

I just finished Under the Skin by Michel Faber. Horrifying, grisly stuff.

	01-11-2004 03:29									#103
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Nothing.

	01-11-2004 04:34									#104
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Da Vinci code was a fun book if you ignore the gross inaccuracies. Would have enjoyed it alot more if it didn't have that stupid note just before it started about everything contained within bieng true, and the author's blind insistance that it is still so after all the critisism. Angels and Demons was the same way.

Reading Guderian's biography right now, facinating for those who like that era and alot of detail. Pre war stuff in especially interesting.

Also re-reading David Brin's Earth, I think you UN junkies would get a kick out of it. If you need an none right wing referance GePaP is a Brin fan if I remember correctly.

	01-11-2004 05:16									#105
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David Brin ROCKS!! The Uplift series was one of the best in SF of the last twenty years. Too bad that Costner mangled "The Postman" though.

Currently reading through my 'Ancient Historical Fiction' list.

	01-11-2004 05:32									#106
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Earth
The Postman

Right now I'm reading "How to be Good" by Nick Hornby

	01-11-2004 05:38									#107
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Currently As I Please by George Orwell (a compilation of editorials he wrote in the Tribune late in WWII), America (The Book) by Jon Stewart, and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

	01-11-2004 11:26									#108
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I'm "reading" I, Robot by Asimov (unabridged) as an audio book on my iPod mini.

	01-11-2004 12:13									#109
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka I'm reading two books: Kick Him In The Teeth by Ulrich Weissenmueller Next Run by Tito Esposito

hockey books?

	01-11-2004 15:45									#110
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quote: Originally posted by Patroklos Reading Guderian's biography right now, facinating for those who like that era and alot of detail. Pre war stuff in especially interesting.

AUTO-biography or written by someone else? I've read his Panzer Leader, was good, but he does imho quite intentionally downplay geran atrocities vs alllied ones. Otherwise, a good book for a military history enthusiast.

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Tingkai, nah, the Kick him in the teeth is poor translation, what I found out the title is closer to 'hit to the mouth'. It's about this young couple and their trials and tribulations.

Next Run is about sadistic border officials who promise that if this family comes forward they'll get into the country but they were kidnapped by those, they sold them like slaves and threatened them... so that's the Next Run, what's the Next Run going to be..

	01-11-2004 19:54									#112
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quote: As I Please by George Orwell (a compilation of editorials he wrote in the Tribune late in WWII)

Good boy! I've read his entire collection of essays, journalism and letters.

Has anybody ever read Boris Vian?

	01-11-2004 19:57									#113
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quote: Originally posted by Saras London: the Biography, by Peter Ackroyd

didnt like that much. I was really looking for a history, not Ackroyds idiosyncratic approach. Never finished it.

	01-11-2004 19:58									#114
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

a classic, expecially suitable for Civ players.

	01-11-2004 19:59									#115
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quote: Originally posted by Ramo and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

That was VERY good, though I dont know as Id be in the mood for it now.

	02-11-2004 02:24									#116
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Now starting Ringworld by Larry Niven.

	02-11-2004 02:33									#117
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I just finished a novel, by whom I forget, Called "The Boys are back in Town"- fantasy. It was interesting.

I just finshed Reading "What is wrong with Kansas" by Thomas Frank- excellent- all liberals need to read it- does a good job at exploring the Conservative backlash.

I will begin the new Stewart textbook.

	02-11-2004 02:38									#118
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I just started The Bourne Identity. It's been a really long time since I read a work of fiction, but I must say it's a nice change of pace.