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Post by cleburne on Jan 17, 2009 12:50:09 GMT -5
Well, cleburne, now that I'm really into it, I might possibly finish the trilogy in a couple of months myself! Lucky for me I don't have things like school to interfere with my lazy reading. At this stage Ram you must be getting through The Lord of the Rings now quiet quickly . Where are you up to now?
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Post by ram on Jan 21, 2009 14:38:48 GMT -5
Hey, cleburne, I'm about mid-way through Return of the King. (Just before the Battle of Pelennor Fields.) I'm taking a break from it at the moment.
I'm kind of shocked that I'll have read all of LOTR before the end of January. ;D
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Post by cleburne on Jan 22, 2009 7:17:41 GMT -5
Hey, cleburne, I'm about mid-way through Return of the King. (Just before the Battle of Pelennor Fields.) I'm taking a break from it at the moment. I'm kind of shocked that I'll have read all of LOTR before the end of January. ;D Good man well done ,its agood read. As for me finally finished "A Game of Thrones" GRRR enjoyed it in the end. Now moved onto "the Real Story" Gap series SRD.
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Post by cleburne on Mar 9, 2009 13:25:54 GMT -5
Excuse double post but just got my hands on S.Erikson "Memories of Ice". Love his books , easy to read and hard to put down. ;D
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Post by ram on Mar 11, 2009 13:36:37 GMT -5
Be sure to let us know what you think of the Gap, cleburne. I never got past the first book. I've begun a reread of Watchmen, inspired by having seen the movie. Hey, it's a legitimate novel - just one with pictures.
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Post by dANdeLION on Mar 12, 2009 6:37:10 GMT -5
Excuse double post but just got my hands on S.Erikson " Memories of Ice". Love his books , easy to read and hard to put down. ;D I'm on Toll The Hounds right now.
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Post by cleburne on Mar 12, 2009 13:15:59 GMT -5
I'm on Toll The Hounds right now. And hows it going with that is it a good read? I not sure how many books I behind you in the series but the way I,m going I probably catch up soon enough, its nice to see Kruppe back in the story , he,s a laugh ;D
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Post by thomasallencummins on Mar 18, 2009 16:17:40 GMT -5
I'm not reading nuthin at the moment. Probably won't tomorrow either, except maybe legal descriptions of real property. :-)
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Post by Cad Zombie on Mar 18, 2009 20:21:10 GMT -5
Currently about halfway through "Missing Links Discovered In Assyrian Tablets" By E. Raymond Capt
Excellent documentation from many varied sources on the subject of the lost tribes of Israel.
I recommend it.
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Post by cleburne on Mar 31, 2009 13:44:37 GMT -5
Currently about halfway through "Missing Links Discovered In Assyrian Tablets" By E. Raymond Capt Excellent documentation from many varied sources on the subject of the lost tribes of Israel. I recommend it. What lost tribes Cadombie ? Can you give us a summary as I might like to read that as most of my clients are from Israel and it might be interesting .
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Post by Cad Zombie on Apr 7, 2009 23:50:09 GMT -5
Havn't picked it back up since my last post, been busy with stuff and things.
"What lost tribes?" you ask? heh, well to sum up vast amounts of research and documentation on the subject of the 10 lost tribes of Israel would not do the topic justice.
The porblem is that historical facts get lost in the frey over time and people tend to forget some very basic truths.
In short this particular work documents (among other things) the origins, history, and migrations of Israel. It is commonly and falsely postulated that the 10 tribes of Israel were taken into what is known as the "assyrian captivity" and "absorbed" or "Lost" into the assyrian culture, this is false, there is ample documentation that supports a post assyrian captivity migration of most of the tribes "genetically in tact" moving out over the caucasus mountain region (hence the term "Caucasian" and into europe and from there out to basically all points and as a matter of fact, there is also considerable documentation that there were smaller group migrations out of the region and into greece from the Egyptian captivity of Israel, you know, the one Moses led Israel out of? anyway, a pair of brothers migrating from the Egyptian captivity gave us one of the brothers founding the city of Troy. Further, there are yet other examples recorded in the Apochrypha wherein Paul the apostle, travelling west into scottland and ireland happened upon peoples there who were of Israelite origin and the account details private conversations held with leaders of these people wherein they proved to paul for a certainty their claim that they were Benjamites.
There are many examples like this that are obscured by time and forgotten like pieces to a puzzle, scattered in the wind for the deeper scholar to search out and put together.
Hope that helps, this topic is such a huge undertaking of study in itself that what I have written here doesn't begin to scratch the surface.
CZ
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Post by cleburne on Apr 20, 2009 13:59:29 GMT -5
Havn't picked it back up since my last post, been busy with stuff and things. Hope that helps, this topic is such a huge undertaking of study in itself that what I have written here doesn't begin to scratch the surface. CZ No problem thanks for the explanation very informative and appears to be a very indept book , a good read I say.
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Post by cleburne on Jun 14, 2009 9:02:18 GMT -5
Be sure to let us know what you think of the Gap, cleburne. I never got past the first book. The start of the real story was slow and it took me a while to get past that bit ,but the story got alot better in Forbidden Knowledge and more interesting and its kept the momentem up in the next book Dark and Hungry god and I;m almost finished it ;D So Ram if u can get past The Real Story you will enjoy it I say.
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Post by ram on Jun 15, 2009 23:58:48 GMT -5
For me, it wasn't that the Real Story was slow. It was just a nasty story to read. I did not feel comfortable in that universe at all. Maybe I wasn't supposed to be comfortable, but it really turned me off. Eventually I might read the whole series, but no promises as to when.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Jun 16, 2009 5:50:51 GMT -5
I agree with you, ram. It was one of the most uncomfortable stories I'd read to that point and I managed to get through it only because it was SRD. Somehow I managed to bring myself to begin reading the second book and though the story in general remained kind of "icky" I ended up enjoying the series.
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