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One of the best books I've ever read - Ender's Game
I would also recommend Ender's Shadow.

I would also recommend staying away from the Twilight books. :P

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What Not to Read:

Poe's "A Descent Into the Maelstrom." If you have the imagination to really visualize his descriptions, this one could give you vertigo. Not good on a moving plane.

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I'm currently reading The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

I need to get a lot of Java software development done while in Atlanta, but unless the flights have free Wifi I'll be catching up on reading. :)

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Totally great movie. (Don't tell anyone, but John has a 1910 Indian that his dad raced...)

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I beg to disagree. In all the Atlanta stress, one of the greatest comedies of all times could be helpful to get you through.

Vampires who sparkle...comic gold! xD

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Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near

An excellent glimpse into the future when man transcends biology

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i would strongly tell you to stay away from those... my girlfriend force me to watch "New Moon" and let me tell you, it was one of the worst movies ive ever seen... she thought it was the best(of course) so i would look for some good action books... bring a laptop(can do almost anything on it... for me mainly checking my CD) but you can watch movies on the plane ride up... plus you can watch the match scores from all the other fields...

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This is probably a classic, but I have always enjoyed bringing "The Hitchhikers Guide" series on every trip down there! :D

Makes the time pass by quickly, and it is MY FAVORITE series!

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Do you think it means you're going to championships 42 times? Build a robot called Marvin? Recoil upon hearing Vogon poetry? Open a Milliways franchise? But above all - Don't Panic.

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:D Best book for Champs preparation I've read so far! Just as long as we remember to listen to the dolphins!

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How do you guys consistently design good robots without a clear understanding of what constraints you have? This isn't a rhetorical question, as you guys clearly do. I just assumed all upper level teams read the manual completely.

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I do. Some of our members do. But for the most part, mechanical people only read about the robot because the strategy people only read about the game and so on and so forth because they don't get that reading only a certain part matters. The manual is like the human body: you can function without certain pieces, but you'll never work to your fullest ability.

But I guess reading is too much for my team. I can't really blame them, some of the words have more than seven letters! :ahh: :rolleyes:

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I'm totally going to sound like a Shakespeare geek.... but I'm bringing King Lear.
It's small, I could spend forever rereading it, and I need to read it for my english class anyways, so...
But, then again, I also rigged up a way to carry a watercolor painting around with me, so I might be working on my AP portfolio in the stands. :D

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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

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I loved Looking for Alaska. :)
As for me, I will be bringing Will Grayson, Will Grayson which is also by John Green and his friend David Levithan.