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    Sure Adam, 10 more -

    89. Golf is a game of a lifetime. Not because you can play for your lifetime, but because it takes a lifetime to master.
    90. A bunker is a place of atonement.
    91. Water is the least desirable lie.
    92. The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
    93. Trust your subconscious to know what to do.
    94. You can always make up one shot.
    95. Always have a goal in golf and always expect to achieve it.
    96. There's nothing difficult about golf, the average golfer, if he goes about it intelligently should play in the 70s (Ben Hogan).
    97. Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the life of some our most useless citizens (Bob Hope).
    98. There is no doubt that doubt is your worst enemy.

    These are as numbered in the book.
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    Edit: list wasn't showing, thanks now there Razzzzzz.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tex View Post
    Andy if you like a good fantasy read I recently found David Gemmel (though he is prolific and been around for ever) but isn't too bad. I am guessing you would be all over authors like Jordan, Hobbs, Donaldson and the likes...
    I haven't read Gemmel or Hobbs yet.

    Only recently started Jordan, because I avoided a never ending series. I'm up to book number 7, I think.

    Feist, Eddings, Goodkind, George RR Martin and Ian Irvine have been good reads. Eddings has no idea how to write a good book now though, and Feist is starting to be a little hit and miss.

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    IMO Gemmel was the best of the fantacy authors. Was because he is dead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by razaar View Post
    Sure Adam, 10 more -

    89. Golf is a game of a lifetime. Not because you can play for your lifetime, but because it takes a lifetime to master.
    90. A bunker is a place of atonement.
    91. Water is the least desirable lie.
    92. The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
    93. Trust your subconscious to know what to do.
    94. You can always make up one shot.
    95. Always have a goal in golf and always expect to achieve it.
    96. There's nothing difficult about golf, the average golfer, if he goes about it intelligently should play in the 70s (Ben Hogan).
    97. Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the life of some our most useless citizens (Bob Hope).
    98. There is no doubt that doubt is your worst enemy.

    These are as numbered in the book.
    I hope he was referring to the decade
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    Who would have thought that a book thread would be taken off-topic by golf?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyP View Post
    Only a couple of short stories, but I played Dragonriders of Pern on the Commodore 64, if that counts. Her work tends to get classed as science fiction, instead of fantasy, so I've never really bothered.
    Never quite understood that. I would class it more as Fantasy. I have read the complete Dragonriders of Pern series several times. Did not know abour the 64 game but I started reading her books sometime after that era anyway.

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    I read the books a very long time ago (=teenager), from what I remember the SF designation makes more sense the further you read, because the Pern people arrived via spaceship crash many years before and then genetically engineered the dragons to deal with the "thread"....blah blah etc etc.

    Oh, and whatever her name is who writes these things is a renowned SF author.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyP View Post
    I haven't read Gemmel or Hobbs yet.

    Only recently started Jordan, because I avoided a never ending series. I'm up to book number 7, I think.
    9 was where I gave up...
    you know Jordan died as well, before finishing that series - ghost writer (giggling to self adlo ) brought in.

    Quote Originally Posted by AndyP View Post
    Feist, Eddings, Goodkind, George RR Martin and Ian Irvine have been good reads. Eddings has no idea how to write a good book now though, and Feist is starting to be a little hit and miss.
    Yup...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tex View Post
    9 was where I gave up...
    you know Jordan died as well, before finishing that series - ghost writer (giggling to self adlo ) brought in.
    Yeah, I know. The guy finishing the "last book" has managed to stretch it out to two books apparently.

    And George RR Martin has had a huge gap between books too.

    I forgot to mention Pratchett. I've read a few of those and they are different in a humourous way. At least nearly all of the books are standalone too.

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    Just finished Richard Branson's biography. Thoroughly recommend it!
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    Ah, now that the moderator has started it I don't feel so ashamed talking about my penchant for geek fiction.

    In the same boat as you Andy - got to about 7 on the Robert Jordan series and gave up waiting. I now have a rule that I never start a book unless the series is finished after being burned by Janny Wurtz, Greg Keyes and Robert Jordan. (Mind you the Keyes one is a fantastic read and I'm very keen to get the series).

    I'd recommend Robin Hobb and Tad Williams.

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    Larry, I've read the Memory, Sorrow & Thorn series by Tad Williams and it was excellent. But I haven't read his new fantasy series or the Otherland series that he did.

    If you are running out of ideas for fantasy authors then visit this site: http://www.sff.net/people/Amy.Sheldon/listcont.htm
    The list has been around since 1994, but it gets updated (They probably haven't added Ian Irvine because he's Australian).

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    Just finished "Four Fires" by Bryce Courtney. What a great story teller he is. I really enjoyed it.
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    Aren't all Bryce Courtney books the same? The way my Grandma describes them...

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    The last 2 of the Jordan series are worth reading. If the final 1 or 2 ever come out it will be good. He did have extensive notes etc, not like he died suddenly. About book 7 it really bogs down and becomes a grind, as I call it the never ending series of whining women. It does get a lot better though so persevere.





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    Quote Originally Posted by just View Post
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    I read the books a very long time ago (=teenager), from what I remember the SF designation makes more sense the further you read, because the Pern people arrived via spaceship crash many years before and then genetically engineered the dragons to deal with the "thread"....blah blah etc etc.

    Oh, and whatever her name is who writes these things is a renowned SF author.
    I can see the point you are making but I would have said that her books are part Sci-fi. Part Fantasy. Guess it depends on how you look at things.
    The Authors Name IsAnne McCaffery. I think, I have read all her books.
    Another series of books in the fantasy line Are the Gandalara Books by Randall Garrett & Vicki Ann Heydron who also wrote a series called The River Wall.

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    Reading a book called "First Tests" by Steve Cannane (journalist on Triple J/ABC Radio) about test cricketers and the backyards they grew up in. Pretty interesting...good read. Quite interesting how some cricketers developed their strengths in the basis of what they needed to avoid when playing backyard cricket.
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    Not sure if I mentioned this book earlier in the thread (too lazy to check) - "Ben Hogan - An American Life" by James Dodson. It is the authorised biography commissioned by his wife Valarie following his death. It is a very intimate and definitive book and portrays a man not seen by the public. It appears to leave nothing unsaid about his life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyP View Post
    Larry, I've read the Memory, Sorrow & Thorn series by Tad Williams and it was excellent. But I haven't read his new fantasy series or the Otherland series that he did.
    I've read Shadowmarch, and it is really, really good, but there are still two books to come and I'm sticking to my rule about unfinished series now.

    The Otherland books are really interesting, and a good read even if they do drag a little and get caught in side-plots every now and again. I guess that's always going to happen in a 4-book series. They are actually set in the future, but most of the action happens in 'virtual reality'. Well worth reading the first one and deciding if it is worth your time.

    Quote Originally Posted by AndyP View Post
    If you are running out of ideas for fantasy authors then visit this site: http://www.sff.net/people/Amy.Sheldon/listcont.htm
    The list has been around since 1994, but it gets updated (They probably haven't added Ian Irvine because he's Australian).
    Nice one. I'm always looking for a bit of inspiration. My normal method is to wander across to my local second hand bookstore and grab the first book that takes my eye, but that will help.

    After reading this thread I got motivated (spending an hour and a half with a sleeping baby on my arm and nothing to do last night helped too) and popped down to the second hand shop. I'm about to start the Keys of Power trilogy by Simon Brown - anybody read that? I also picked up a couple of books By Sean Williams in the 'Books of the Cataclysm' series, but I'm not sure about them yet.

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    So it turns out most of ozgolf are a bunch of sci fi/fantasy reading poindexters....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yossarian View Post
    So it turns out most of ozgolf are a bunch of sci fi/fantasy reading poindexters....
    No surprises there, surely?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LarryLong View Post
    No surprises there, surely?


    I was expecting Andy P to be into that kind of stuff. But the rest of you...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yossarian View Post


    I was expecting Andy P to be into that kind of stuff. But the rest of you...
    Exactly, they need to spend more time watching quality porn on the interweb.


 

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