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Title: Books
Post by: Morais on July 29, 2012, 11:41:33 am
Hello Argonath Community!

I've searched trough the "Speakerbox" and found nothing really referring to Books.

Make sure to post here what books are you currently reading, and a bit of the stories as well. Feel free to discuss too!

I'll start:

I'm reading a book that was wrote in 1947, "If This Is a Man" by Primo Levi, an Italian writer that was a prisoner in Auschwitz. The book reefers to his time while he was in the concentration camp, and what he was put trough and all the others that were with him.
I'm haven't finished reading it, but the beginning is shocking.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Emre on July 29, 2012, 12:21:36 pm
The one I recently read was The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross.This novel is seriously thrilling!
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Post by: EliteTerm on July 29, 2012, 12:27:24 pm
My recent is The Walking Dead - Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 29, 2012, 12:28:39 pm
Can you guys tell a bit of the story?
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Emre on July 29, 2012, 12:36:33 pm
My book is about a girl/nearly woman named Kate Raab, her life seems just about perfect ; She has a boyfriend, a family that holds together but everything changes when the FBI takes her father into custody.She's is now secured by the WITSEC [Witness Protection Program]while her entire life changes. Her father disappears, a friend who has been close to him gets murdered in a gross way. With her family under observation and the FBI unreliable, she sets off to finally find her father but discovers secrets that are not to be heard of. The plot goes over a year, so I summarized it enormously.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 29, 2012, 12:39:06 pm
My book is about a girl/nearly woman named Kate Raab, her life seems just about perfect ; She has a boyfriend, a family that holds together but everything changes when the FBI takes her father into custody.She's is now secured by the WITSEC [Witness Protection Program]while her entire life changes. Her father disappears, a friend who has been close to him gets murdered in a gross way. With her family under observation and the FBI unreliable, she sets off to finally find her father but discovers secrets that are not to be heard of. The plot goes over a year, so I summarized it enormously.

Seems like a cool book.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Alfreddo. on July 29, 2012, 02:54:20 pm
We got a topic on books -

http://www.argonathrpg.eu/forum/index.php?topic=86389.0 (http://www.argonathrpg.eu/forum/index.php?topic=86389.0)
You favorite book (http://www.argonathrpg.eu/forum/index.php?topic=86389.0)

btw mine -

Lord of the Rings
Vampire Diaries
Animal Farm
Harry Potter and more...
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 29, 2012, 02:57:16 pm
Didn't saw it, because it was on the Forum Games section! My bad.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Jubin on July 29, 2012, 05:27:46 pm
Still gonna continue here.

Currently reading Pharmacist Melchoir and still Quran.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 29, 2012, 05:29:20 pm
Still gonna continue here.

Currently reading Pharmacist Melchoir and still Quran.

That seems an odd title. Tell me a bit about the story!
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Jubin on July 29, 2012, 06:12:31 pm
Solving mysteries in medieval Tallinn

Apothecary Melchior stories are detective stories taking place in the medieval town of Tallinn. Melchior Wakenstede is a fictional character created by an Estonian writer Indrek Hargla. Melchior lives in the 15th century Tallinn. He has his own pharmacy shop and a good knowledge of all kinds of medicines. Therefore he is a respected citizen of the town. However, he is not a regular apothecary - one of his skills is solving all sorts of mysteries and crimes. These kinds of crimes, murders in the peaceful town of Tallinn are disturbing the calm everyday life from time to time. Melchior needs to step in as he feels the urge not only to solve the crimes and catch the murderer but also to keep his hometown safe for his family and all the good fellow citizens. With his friend, the town's Court Vogt Wentzel Dorn, they form a pair with Dorn having the authority to bring the criminals to justice and Melchior the logical reasoning skills to do so.

Solving mysteries, Melchior himself suffers from a mystical disease that may attack him in the most unpleasant situations. It is a mental disease and to avoid the unpleasant consequences of the attack, he even deliberately knocks himself out. Despite knowing a lot about all kinds of diseases, even Melchior does not know how to fight his own - it is the curse of his family, the curse of Wakenstede. He is afraid that the curse is going to carry on to his son.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 29, 2012, 06:13:50 pm
Seems cool! Not my kind of book though...
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Post by: Alfreddo. on July 29, 2012, 06:22:57 pm
Nice story :D Copy and Pasted right?
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Post by: Jubin on July 29, 2012, 06:37:24 pm
Nice story :D Copy and Pasted right?
The guy wanted to know, what's the book about so of course. here's the source: http://www.melchiorfilm.eu/ (http://www.melchiorfilm.eu/)
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Murt on July 30, 2012, 05:28:48 pm
If I would ever read a book it would be a fantasy book, nothing else.

Last time I read a full book was the Lord of the Rings books'.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 30, 2012, 05:47:03 pm
If I would ever read a book it would be a fantasy book, nothing else.

Last time I read a full book was the Lord of the Rings books'.

Fantasy? I love books based in real facts. Specially about wars.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Kizzu on July 30, 2012, 09:46:07 pm
Last book i read was Blindness(Ensaio sobre a cegueria) by the great Saramago.

Trying to get my hand on "The Satanic Bible" by Anthony LaVey and "Red Alert" by Peter George.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Jubin on July 30, 2012, 10:05:45 pm

Trying to get my hand on "The Satanic Bible" by Anthony LaVey
I have this book in my own little library.
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Post by: Mariio on July 30, 2012, 10:08:58 pm
too bad i finished the school 2 years ago and since then i dont touch a book  :)
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 30, 2012, 10:36:35 pm
too bad i finished the school 2 years ago and since then i dont touch a book  :)

My dad finished school 25 years ago and still reads books... it's something great that expands your views and vocabulary. No bad points!
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Mariio on July 30, 2012, 10:40:31 pm
My dad finished school 25 years ago and still reads books... it's something great that expands your views and vocabulary. No bad points!
to be honest read a book will be one of the last things what i will do :neutral:
Title: Re: Books
Post by: TruthSvensson on July 31, 2012, 01:40:47 pm
to be honest read a book will be one of the last things what i will do :neutral:
And this is why we can't have nice things in this world.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Patton on July 31, 2012, 02:55:22 pm
too bad i finished the school 2 years ago and since then i dont touch a book  :)
to be honest read a book will be one of the last things what i will do :neutral:
We have a saying here that goes "only an idiot is proud of things the smart man is ashamed of".

Honestly, if you don't like books, you shouldn't have even opened this topic.



On topic, I've recently finished this book:

(http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2003/ashby/book3.gif)

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The Periodic Table (Italian: Il Sistema Periodico) is a collection of short stories by Primo Levi, published in 1975, named after the periodic table in chemistry. The stories are autobiographical episodes of the author's experiences as a doctoral-level chemist under the Fascist regime and afterwards. They include various themes following a chronological sequence: his ancestry, his study of chemistry and practicing the profession in wartime Italy, a pair of imaginative tales he wrote at that time, and his subsequent experiences as an anti-Fascist partisan, his arrest and imprisonment, interrogation, and internment in the Fossoli di Carpi and Auschwitz camps, and postwar life. Every story, 21 in total, has the name of a chemical element and is connected to it in some way.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 31, 2012, 03:17:55 pm
Sounds great, from the same author of my book!
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Post by: Gandalf on July 31, 2012, 03:24:27 pm
Before internet I read a lot of books....
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Post by: Thomas_A on July 31, 2012, 03:27:14 pm
it's something great that expands your views and vocabulary. No bad points!

Exactly !! But It can be also a great way to spend time, of course if the book is great
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 31, 2012, 04:50:26 pm
Before internet I read a lot of books....

Same, but now I find real problems when I try to concentrate on books, trying to fix it...
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Marcell on July 31, 2012, 04:53:40 pm
kamasutra
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Post by: Murt on July 31, 2012, 04:58:32 pm
kamasutra

 :rofl:
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on July 31, 2012, 04:59:58 pm
Aw man...   :lol:
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Post by: TruthSvensson on August 01, 2012, 11:20:45 am
You need to read books, if you want to RP properly. Atleast it's like that when you play D&D.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Jellyfish on August 02, 2012, 07:49:29 pm
Just completed reading 'Paths of Glory' and 'Sons of fortune' by Jeffery Archer.
Bought them a while ago but never got around to finishing them. The books are friggin' amazing. Recommended to anyone who appreciates a fine book.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Morais on August 02, 2012, 11:33:38 pm
You need to read books, if you want to RP properly. Atleast it's like that when you play D&D.

Not quite sure how.. but It's true that it does increase your power of imagination!
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Sawyer on August 04, 2012, 01:20:01 am
My mother have read all of the Harry Potter books, I still prefer watching them.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Marcell on August 04, 2012, 02:33:57 pm
The greatest book I have ever read was The Godfather. Other books can go fuck themselves with Playboy magazines.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Sawyer on August 04, 2012, 07:01:57 pm
The Godfather was probably the one and only book you read then.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Marcell on August 09, 2012, 09:54:18 pm
The Godfather was probably the one and only book you read then.
Not really, I just never bother to find good books, since I end up having no time to read them. I also pretty much managed to read everything with Tom Clancy noted down on it.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Patton on August 14, 2012, 11:00:54 pm
Currently reading this:

(http://i43.tower.com/images/mm101884185/organic-chemistry-k-peter-c-vollhardt-hardcover-cover-art.jpg)

Not very interesting but there are nice pictures and tables.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: Nathan_Alexandrov on August 14, 2012, 11:12:42 pm
Just about to finish this

(http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1328809143l/5558786.jpg)

Anyone read the Battlefield 3 book? I saw it in town and was unsure to get it or not.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: TheGreasyChopper on August 14, 2012, 11:38:27 pm
Trying to get my hand on "The Satanic Bible" by Anthony LaVey and "Red Alert" by Peter George.


 It is a book worth spending time into, wish you look finding it. I read it in a .pdf file because there are no versions in it in my country :/ I can and will say that it changed my views on life and my life itself.



 Anyways I'm currently reading Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein's Anders Series, a millionaire's kid gets abducted in a plane and ends up in a post-apocalyptic world that is full of half human half animal inhabitants. Tough I am reading Terry Pratchett's "The Truth". The latest book I read fully was Roslund & Hellstrom's "Three Seconds", the only book I ever read that might be better than Mario Puzo's "The Last Don" in my opinion. You should get ahold of the "Three Seconds" book if you are interested in criminal books/series or whatever. You sure will be on long ride and you will want to brainwash yourself just so you can read it again without knowing what will happen  ;)
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