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[RugbyLeague]

The Pope didn't have much say in the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions. They were mostly political tools of the Spanish and Portuguese :)

[Mario Luis]

Hehe obviously not but then I didn't know that Gemmel had either a few months back and he passed in 2006 I beleive.

[RugbyLeague]

Thanks, I'll have a look

[Dalek Dave]

May I ask your age?

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[RugbyLeague]

Old enough to know Monty Python. Let's face it I have had a quite a few Monty Python references from the people amongst whom I have discussed my latest reading ;P

[Dalek Dave]

I read once that it is a truism that those people who cannot quote huge passages of Monty Python verbatim have no business sitting in front of a computer. :)

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[RugbyLeague]

My office is a Derek and Clive coding shop.

[Gary Wheeler]

I'm a science fiction fan as well. A friend and I trade books back and forth, and he's gotten me into reading some more mainstream stuff: Lee Child's 'Jack Reacher' novels: http://www.leechild.com/[^] Randy Wayne White's 'Doc Ford' novels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Wayne_White#Doc_Ford_novels[^]

Software Zen: delete this;

[Dalek Dave]

How Sad! I suspect a lot of swearing goes on though!

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[RugbyLeague]

Naturally

[blackjack2150]

SciFi: Frederik Pohl (Gateway series) Frank Herbert (Dune, of course) Kim Stanley Robinson (The Mars Trilogy -> Hard SF masterwork) Others: Stephen King Dean Koontz Lee Child

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

I don't read a lot of SF, but I bought Rendezvous With Rama recently (haven't read it though). I borrowed Asimov 7 years back, it was mind-numbing and I didn't go beyond a few pages. My tastes are quite eclectic, so it's hard to identify a single genre or author. Having said that, I really like Agatha Christie's Poirot books, LotR, and 'popular science' books (In Search of the Edge of Time by John Gribbin, Chaos by James Gleick, etc).

Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)

[Mario Luis]

Ahhh , the mars one. Remember the triology, forgot the author tah.

[Mario Luis]

To be honest, I'm looking for anything good, not just sci-fi or fantasy. That is where my tendencies lie but I've read a few good books in different genre's.

[Marcus_2]

Actually I didn't... :doh: But I lost interest in the series somewhere at "Winter's Heart", it just dragged on and on. The first books are brilliant though, perhaps I'll buy the "coauthered" books just to have finished the series now.

[Michael Bookatz]

Don't forget to add Anne Mccaffrey and as said before Raymond e Feist. esp the Series he did with Jenny Wurts although the stuff by herself wasn't as good. I've also enjoyed some of Robin Hoob in particular the first assassins series and the solider boy series.

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[Mario Luis]

Read Anne and Raymond, although I far prefered Raymonds Empire series to his others. Robin Hob is a favourite of mine, my most recent purchases hasbeen three of his trilogys,: Assasin , LiveShip Traders and Tawny Man. Haven't read Soldiers yet, is it also set in the same universe?

[Rhuros]

I found the Algebraist to be very disappointing, it seemed to go nowhere for 3/4 of the book and then rush it all in at the end.

[Russell Jones]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be reading it anyway but won't hold out too much hope, if it's as disappointing as you suggest I'll have to re-read excession again to make up for it.

[martin_hughes]

I gave up somewhere after the 2nd or 3rd when I realised the series was going nowhere. Turned out to be a shrewd move which I've never regretted (and back then, no one knew that he'd just keep churning them out and then die before completing the job!)

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