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max jaybo

The unread books on your bookshelf.

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Apr 11 09 2:47 PM

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I've been hearing that some other people are also behind in their reading...

So what unread or partly read books are gathering dust on your bookshelf?

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Apr 11 09 5:20 PM

I sure have plenty:

Star Wars:
Jedi Search
Dark Force Rising
New Jedi Order: Force Heretic II: Refugee
New Jedi Order: Force Heretic III: Reunion
Coruscant Nights II: Streets of Shadows
Allegiance

Regular:
The Alchemist
Eragon

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Kirr Mistwelder

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Apr 12 09 11:02 AM

No unread Star Wars for me, but I do have a 'stack of shame'. In the order in which I'm most likely to get to them:

1. Wolverine: Election Day by Peter David
2. Star Trek: Vanguard - Harbinger by David Mack
3. Duma Key by Stephen King
4. Orcs by Stan Nicholls
5. Star Trek: The Lost Era - Serpents Among the Ruins by David R. George III
6. The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Vol 2 ed. George Mann (I'm about half done with this, but short stories aren't really my thing)
7. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
8. Blackcollar: The Judas Solution by Timothy Zahn (again, I'm about 100 pages into this book, but it didn't catch my interest very much)
9. Ally by Karen Traviss (this is book 4 in a series I've only read book 1 of, so until I find copies of the other books, this is really low on my list).

I'm not even going to talk about all the books I've got on my ipod touch that I could read. But ultimately, it's the stack above that fills out my reading when I'm waiting for other books to be released.

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Iron Fist

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Apr 12 09 9:54 PM

I've got Dune: Messiah sitting on my bookshelf....I need to read Dune again first but I haven't found the time....soon.....maybe...

You know, its kind of sad that if I were to mention the discussions that go on here to somebody in the real world, they would call me crazy as well as obsessive and a complete geek/nerd/whatever. Then I come here and discover that I'm way out of my league. Especially when people recall details that I don't even remember....

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BobaKareu

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Apr 12 09 11:21 PM

World War Z
Heroes Die
Blade of Tyshalle
Caine Black Knife
Misery
It
The Dead Zone
The Stand
Christine
On A Pale Horse
Bearing An Hourglass
With a Tangled Skein
Wielding a Red Sword
Being a Green Mother
For Love of Evil
And Eternity
The Faded Sun Trilogy
Game Boys
Heirs of the Force
The Shadow Academy
The Lost Ones
Lightsabers
Darkest Knight
Jedi Under Siege
Shards of Alderaan
Diversity Alliance
Delusions of Grandeur
Jedi Bounty
Emperor's Plague (STILL LOOKING FOR)
Return to Ord Mantell (STILL LOOKING FOR)
Trouble on Cloud City (STILL LOOKING FOR)
Crisis at Crystal Reef (STILL LOOKING FOR)

*edit*

I'm editing this list down and adding to it as the days progress. I have a nice goal of finishing this list off completely before too long.

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Edited 3 times by BobaKareu May 2 09 4:38 PM.

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Apr 18 09 12:10 PM

I don't have that large a library, but Ivanhoe is one book I have never been able to finish. I have no problem with most other books, but this one...I want to fall asleep at the first page. I've tried several times, and I don't think I'll ever be able to finish it.

This is how twenty-five millenia come to a close. Corruption and treachery have crushed a thousand years of peace. This is not just the end of a republic; night is falling on civilisation itself.

This is the twilight of the Jedi.

The end starts now- Revenge of the Sith

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Iurus

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Apr 23 09 1:15 AM

Republic Commando: the entire set in 2 volumes. Waiting for me to get to them hopefully in the near future.
The Lando Calrissian Adventures
Han Solo at Star's End
Agents of Chaos 2: Jedi Eclipse

RA Salvatore's The Dark Elf Trilogy

Orcs

Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope

I think I have some textbooks or similar reference books in my closet as well that I never got around to reading.

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Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory.
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BobaKareu

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Apr 25 09 1:57 PM

Oooooh, forgot that I had the Young Jedi Knights books on my unread list. I've been scouring used book stores when I get the chance to, and actually I hit the jackpot and found three of them today. I just need the last four books and then I can get crackin' and read them all.

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Iurus

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Apr 28 09 12:56 PM

In Immortal Darkness's KJA interview, he gave a link where you could buy the whole YJK, autographed. The downfall is that everything on the site is full price, which is great for collecting, but not so much if you plan to read it down to non-collector's condition.

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Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me.

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JediVergere7

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Jun 19 09 7:56 PM

BobaKareu wrote:
World War Z
Heroes Die
Blade of Tyshalle
Caine Black Knife
Misery
It
The Dead Zone
The Stand
Christine
On A Pale Horse
Bearing An Hourglass
With a Tangled Skein
Wielding a Red Sword
Being a Green Mother
For Love of Evil
And Eternity
The Faded Sun Trilogy
Game Boys
Heirs of the Force
The Shadow Academy
The Lost Ones
Lightsabers
Darkest Knight
Jedi Under Siege
Shards of Alderaan
Diversity Alliance
Delusions of Grandeur
Jedi Bounty
Emperor's Plague (STILL LOOKING FOR)
Return to Ord Mantell (STILL LOOKING FOR)
Trouble on Cloud City (STILL LOOKING FOR)
Crisis at Crystal Reef (STILL LOOKING FOR)

*edit*

I'm editing this list down and adding to it as the days progress. I have a nice goal of finishing this list off completely before too long.

Wow! You have a lot of books to read. It and The Stand are two of the best Stephen King ever, so take your time on those.

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DarkLord Caedus

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Jun 19 09 8:14 PM

Batman: No Man's Land which I'm very excited to read soon, I also have The following to read from Star Wars:

The Republic Commando series
Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy
Black Fleet Crisis
Corellian Trilogy
Hand of Thrawn Duology
Crystal Star
Two YJK Volumes
The Phantom Menace
The Approching Storm
Yoda: Dark Renedezvous
Coruscant Nights Trilogy
Han Solo Adventures
Tales of the Bounty Hunters
No Prisoners
Last of the Jedi books 3-6

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Jun 22 09 2:56 PM

I actually just mentioned this in the current reading thread:

Republic Commando: Hard Contact
Republic Commando: Triple Zero (I need to get the others)
The Cestus Deception
The Coruscant Nights Trilogy
And the complete Young Jedi Knights Series (sans the first one, which i read and found to be unpallatable to the point of leaving a bad taste in my mouth. No offence to anyone who enjoys that series)

Im all caught up in my non SW reading though

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blackmoon

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Jun 27 09 4:32 PM

I usually read all my SW stuff as soon as I get it, but I do have a stack I need to get through:

The Year of the Hangman
Enchantress from the Stars
Exiled
Escape From Memory
The Ledbetters of Old Davidsonville

The last one is especially embarrassing see as my granny co-wrote it

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Grand Admiral Thrawn

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Jun 28 09 9:52 AM

Out of curiostiy's sake, Blackmoon, is Ledbetters a typo, or is that how it's spelled in the title?

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blackmoon

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Jun 28 09 7:33 PM

No, that's seriously how it's spelled. Her co-writer chose the title.

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Grand Admiral Thrawn

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Jun 30 09 2:58 PM

Huh, thx. That's what I figured but wanted the confirmation

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Oct 6 09 1:52 PM

Good Lord there are just so many! First of all, has it ever occurred to you that every time you read one Star Wars book, another is published. And I don't like to just read one style of book, so I buy loads of other books and alternate. Usually one Star Wars book for one or two other novels. This means I'm always playing catch up. I've got so many books to catch up on!

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max jaybo

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Mar 23 10 2:54 PM

How are you guys doing? Make any progress on those lists?

Unfortunately, mine keeps piling up...

Half-Read:
The Great Train Robbery
State of Fear, by Michael Crichton
The First King of Shannara, by Terry Brooks,
Crosscurrent
Children of the Jedi
Watchmen

Not-Read:
Temeraire: In the Service of the King (an omnibus of books 1-3), by Naomi Novik
Spirit Gate, by Kate Elliot
The Word and the Void (an omnibus of the trilogy) by Terry Brooks
Pirate Latitudes
Rising Sun
Eaters of the Dead, by Michael Crichton
Republic Commando 1-4
Death Star
Death Troopers
Darksaber *through* Showdown at Centerpoint... (it's amazing how little effort it is to avoid talking about them though.

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Kirr Mistwelder

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Mar 23 10 3:15 PM

Yeah, I read #1 on my list and gave away #8 (so that counts) but otherwise, I've only added to my list as well. Not counting a few ARCs I've got:

Crosscurrent by Paul Kemp (I can't believe I haven't read this yet)
Dragonseed by James Maxey (third book in a series I love)
Terminator Salvation: Cold War by Greg Cox
Kris Longknife: Intrepid by Mike Shepard
Night's Cold Kiss by Tracey O'Hara
Destined for an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost
The Commanding Stone by David Forbes
Slan Hunter by Kevin Anderson & A.E. Van Vogt
Quatrain by Sharon Shinn (I LOVE Shin's writing - another I can't believe I haven't read yet)
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

plus all these ones from the original list:
Star Trek: Vanguard - Harbinger by David Mack
Duma Key by Stephen King
Orcs by Stan Nicholls
Star Trek: The Lost Era - Serpents Among the Ruins by David R. George III
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Vol 2 ed. George Mann
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Ally by Karen Traviss

So yeah, thanks for reviving this topic so we can revisit our 'piles-o-shame'.

Max, the Temeraire series (at least the first four, which I've read - I think it's up to 5 or 6 books now) is really great. I especially loved the first book.

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Mar 23 10 4:18 PM

I have, among others, Luceno's Millennium Falcon unfinished. I have been "reading" it since December,
but can't seem to stomach reading it for any extended period. Couple of pages in a week... It's not the
novels' fault, it's just the events of LotF. My reading of Crosscurrent also suffers from the same malady.

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BobaKareu

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Mar 23 10 10:13 PM

Geez, almost that exact same list still. I sucked at reading stuff outside of Star Wars this year, but I'm rockin' it hardcore this year. I expect to get that list whittled down to damn near nothing by December.

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