Fantasy:

Anything by Terry Goodkind, Robert Newcomb, R.A. Salvatore, Kate Elliot, and Anne McCaffrey are beyond excellent.

Sci-Fi:

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series dominates this genre, and is the best Science Fiction series ever.

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene I've heard people talking about this book on the web for a while. This book makes The Prince look like a feel good book from Oprah's book club. One reviewer summed it up pretty good when he wrote. 1. For attack: To gain power, as have others who have carefully ...

There's a reason its cold in Boston, its called New England winter. :lol: Global warming is happening, whether or not your "ass" contributes to the greenhouse gases by farting or not. The give it up attitude is one of the reason my generation has a large mess to work on cleaning up the mes...

Mary S wrote:
Just think of the things we invented:

The telephone

Bell moved to America the year after he moved to Canada, and he invented the telephone a few years after that, and anyways, he was Scottish.

gmattson wrote:
If you put a post on the computer forum don't forget to tell to change password time to time and for the safety at least a word of 10 character

Add a few numbers and, if possible, special characters to further hinder password cracking.

That's great, but it'd be nicer if they'd contribute to the discussions. The only thing where you can get everyone to contribute is politics, because I'm pretty sure plenty of those guests aren't all advanced ranks, so if a discussion of any advanced kata or technique is going on, about all they ca...

I am only 16 and I realize that this is crap, I'm annoyed at some of the differences the way genders are treated, but not to the point of sheer stupidity.

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I'm not an adult and I'm by no means a parent so keep that in mind, but I can say this, my parents did spank me, but that was it, I think thats about as far as one can go, my dad almost gave me the belt but I was being a little ass and throwing temper tantrums left and right, my mom had to cry to st...

I wasn't in the black belt test :cry: so there was no way for you to have met me and I was in too much awe to go to any of the test board and say hi :oops: well, that is if you were one of the test board and Mr. Khoury didn't say the names very clearly. I was there watching, I was the dude with the ...

Teachers break up almost everything fun at elementary grade school levels, so I, being a brat, did everything possible to annoy the crap out of them, running around too fast, sliding on ice, crawling around in the snow, being excessively loud, etc. I also beat the crap out of some kid in fourth grad...

Ahh, stereotyping all that is emo. Emo is essentially where people piss and moan and cry about their life being total crap when it really isn't and then they cut themself when their daddy doesn't buy them something they wanted. Their music is all crap and the dudes wear makeup and look like girls, b...

I learned about this last year in my world studies class, they referred to it as the Rape of Nanking, learning about it and what they did with what I heard were pieces of bamboo, instead of sticks, made me retch. We spent a few weeks on the Holocaust and lightly touched upon this, it is sad that mos...

Holy crap you have a lot of time on you hands

To miked, 1 dojo because, a. its expensive, b. my parents made me wait a while to join. c. from what I have been told, the other dojos in my immediate vicinity are crap :( I know a few people that can take my hits, but, it's hard for me to get the time to spar with them. If I knew of a Muay Thai or ...

I just wear a mouthgard when I spar, if someone hits me in the crotch then I hit them back, hard, because I'm pissed. Instead of hitting them, why not just tell them that you're not going to spar with them any more? If someone's intentionally hitting you in the groin when they know you don't have a...