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Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-11-2006, 11:19 AM

Finally got this today.........

The Great Houses
Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the Spiral Politic.

The Enemy
Not so much an army as a hostile new kind of history. So ambitious it can re-write worlds, so complex that even calling it by its name seems to underestimate it.

Faction Paradox
Renegades, ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers, the criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults, happy to be caught in the crossfire and ready to take whatever's needed from the wreckage... assuming the other powers leave behind a universe that's habitable.

The War
A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect."

Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past...

Focuses on the first 50 years of the "War in Heaven," the universe-rending conflict in which Faction Paradox and all its rival Houses are irrevocably involved.

Covers the rise and fall of the Faction, the lost history of the Compassion project, the secret origins of the Celestis and perhaps even the nature of the Enemy itself!

hookers with machineguns · 04-11-2006, 11:44 AM

The best.

~~bungalow~~ · 04-11-2006, 05:33 PM

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The best.

Thats ****** bullshit

Levithan · 04-11-2006, 01:46 PM

Ervine Welsh- Trainspotting & Filth

Laces Out Dan! · 04-11-2006, 05:30 PM

I just read the book deathwatch in english....it was alright

A_Perfect_Sonnet · 04-11-2006, 05:39 PM

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.

holdyoualways · 04-11-2006, 05:49 PM

im not even done yet & im in love with this book
& for all you sexually deprived children out there
theres a very descriptive love scene in this book

MURDER JUNKIE · 04-30-2006, 10:45 PM

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im not even done yet & im in love with this book
& for all you sexually deprived children out there
theres a very descriptive love scene in this book

I read that book when I was about 16, I think that it is his best work. I just finished one of his new ones and it was dreadful, it read like a childrens book. It was full of groaner jokes and the like, I don't even remember what it was called it was so bad

holdyoualways · 08-05-2006, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MURDER JUNKIE

I read that book when I was about 16, I think that it is his best work. I just finished one of his new ones and it was dreadful, it read like a childrens book. It was full of groaner jokes and the like, I don't even remember what it was called it was so bad

i know, i love it!
i just got another one called "strangers" the other day
& the first one i read was called "lightning", that was alright
dean koontz & stephen king are my favorite authors so ill read pretty much anything by them

EDIT: & i might as well mention that i am this close to finishing "it" by stephen king
pretty good
much scarier than the movie
the movie was...a disappointment to say the least

explosions-in-my-pants · 04-11-2006, 09:42 PM

Danile Steel - Summers End

i personally am not a big fan of those types of books but i LOVED this one.. i tried reading other books like that one, by her and other romance writers but i didn't get the same excitement reading them and got bored fast..

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	Finally got this today......... The Great Houses Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the Spiral Politic. The Enemy Not so much an army as a hostile new kind of history. So ambitious it can re-write worlds, so complex that even calling it by its name seems to underestimate it. Faction Paradox Renegades, ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers, the criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults, happy to be caught in the crossfire and ready to take whatever's needed from the wreckage... assuming the other powers leave behind a universe that's habitable. The War A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect." Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past... Focuses on the first 50 years of the "War in Heaven," the universe-rending conflict in which Faction Paradox and all its rival Houses are irrevocably involved. Covers the rise and fall of the Faction, the lost history of the Compassion project, the secret origins of the Celestis and perhaps even the nature of the Enemy itself! __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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explosions-in-my-pants angel of tragic days Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 901	Danile Steel - Summers End i personally am not a big fan of those types of books but i LOVED this one.. i tried reading other books like that one, by her and other romance writers but i didn't get the same excitement reading them and got bored fast..