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I've read every novel Tim has written with the exception of the whole of 'Declare' and his latest, 'Three Days To Never'. 'Declare' is as engaging as anything else I've read by him except that it's a spy story and I've always had trouble with the necessary density of storyline attached to that genre. However I'm into it now and thoroughly enjoying it. This time I will finish!
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« Reply #1851 on: March 07, 2010, 07:15:37 am » |
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Just finished Perdido Street Station - what a rich brew of monsters, alchemy, science and steampunk that was!
I enjoyed it immensly and I am now going to find some more by China to read (hopefully at the airport tomorrow so I have something to read on the plane on the way home).
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'...Lockstock stonedead shock of a Dog Fenn frown'.
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« Reply #1852 on: March 07, 2010, 10:01:17 am » |
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Just finished Perdido Street Station - what a rich brew of monsters, alchemy, science and steampunk that was!
I enjoyed it immensly and I am now going to find some more by China to read (hopefully at the airport tomorrow so I have something to read on the plane on the way home).
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« Reply #1853 on: March 07, 2010, 10:26:46 am » |
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I have just finished 'The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters'- absolutely fantastic. Mad science, politics, metaphysics, murder, eroticism, love, adventure and downright magic in places. I nicked the heroine's name as I thought it wonderful. Ripping yarn. Massive book though- do not read it in bed and fall asleep. Nearly became unconscious another way!
I do hope this hasn't been mentioned before, perhaps I should have checked...
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« Reply #1854 on: March 07, 2010, 10:49:51 am » |
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« Reply #1855 on: March 08, 2010, 04:40:14 am » |
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« Reply #1856 on: March 08, 2010, 11:39:01 am » |
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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld.
Shiny cover, big print and pictures - perfect for a plane trip.
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« Reply #1857 on: March 09, 2010, 12:38:59 am » |
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Fire and Sword by Simon Scarrow, its a fictional account of the careers of Napoleon and Sir Arthur Wellesley (running in paralel)
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« Reply #1858 on: March 09, 2010, 01:23:48 am » |
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Remember: Stressed backwards spells desserts
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Governor
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United Kingdom
Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« Reply #1859 on: March 09, 2010, 01:29:07 am » |
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I'm a couple of chapters into Julian Barnes' "Arthur and George".
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« Reply #1860 on: March 09, 2010, 02:03:36 am » |
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Finally finished Reading the diamond age. I've been feeling incredibly bleurghy this past week, so I've been catching up on some reading. Loved the diamond age, fantastic fusion of cyber and steam, would heartily recommend. So next up, we have the fully annotated Alice. Never actually having read the books all the way through in the past rather picked them up and put them down occasionally dipping in and out, I decided that it was time for a good analysis of the Alice books, so far not too bad it's a bit of a slog getting through the academic writing next to the nonsense text, but I am getting there.
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« Reply #1861 on: March 09, 2010, 08:00:11 pm » |
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I'm a couple of chapters into Julian Barnes' "Arthur and George".
And jolly good it is too, thus far.
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« Reply #1862 on: March 10, 2010, 02:47:30 am » |
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Pavane...for the second time...amazing alt-history novel about a steamy sorta religiously governed England....I highly recommend
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« Reply #1863 on: March 12, 2010, 12:47:45 pm » |
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re-reading the naked communist
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« Reply #1864 on: March 22, 2010, 04:55:42 pm » |
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« Reply #1865 on: March 23, 2010, 09:59:09 am » |
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a couple of novels by GS Beard, french revolution/napoleonic royal navy genre fiction basically; not brilliant as they do rather lack in characterisation but they skip along reasonably well; better than a slap in the face with a wet fish (or anything by Terry Brooks) 3 stars!
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« Reply #1866 on: March 23, 2010, 11:16:37 am » |
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Rockula loaned me Arcadia Snips and the Steamwork Consortium by Robert C. Rodgers. I'm seven chapters in and quite enjoying it so far.
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Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
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« Reply #1867 on: March 23, 2010, 03:11:25 pm » |
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In the last two weeks I have read all three of Toby Frost's 'Space Captain Smith' books (and can't wait for the 4th), Robert Roger's 'Arcadia Snips (sequel PLEASE) and the latest of Jonathan Green's 'Ulysses Qucksilver' books; 'Evolution Expects'.
As I've now read all the Pax Britannia series and there's a delay 'til October for the next instalment I'm now reading Kim Newman's 'The Man from the Diogenes Club' collection (Thanks Captain Dirigible) and searching for my next.
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« Reply #1868 on: March 23, 2010, 04:34:35 pm » |
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I hear Mr. Newman has been comissioned to write a third volume in this series, can't wait! |
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« Reply #1869 on: March 23, 2010, 04:45:08 pm » |
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I hear Mr. Newman has been comissioned to write a third volume in this series, can't wait! Herr Doktor...when you say 'a third volume in this series' would the other two be the aforementioned 'Man from the Diogenes Club' and 'The Secret Files of the Diogenese Club'? I'm just making sure there isn't a volume I've missed. The one I'm really waiting for is the long awaited ( oh, so looong) fourth volume in the Anno Dracula series first, 'Johnny Alucard'. |
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« Reply #1870 on: March 23, 2010, 05:17:51 pm » |
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I hear Mr. Newman has been comissioned to write a third volume in this series, can't wait! Herr Doktor...when you say 'a third volume in this series' would the other two be the aforementioned 'Man from the Diogenes Club' and 'The Secret Files of the Diogenese Club'? I'm just making sure there isn't a volume I've missed. The one I'm really waiting for is the long awaited ( oh, so looong) fourth volume in the Anno Dracula series first, 'Johnny Alucard'. Indeed I do mean that what you just said: "Mysteries of the Diogenes Club" due October of this very year from Monkeybrain Press! I have read large chunks of 'Johnny Alucard', as there were several of the novellas available online, including 'Coppola's Dracula'- filming the unfilmable in 1970's Transylvania; 'Warhol's Dracula' where Johnny A became Andy's muse for a while, and another whose name escapes me... Best look here for Newman News: http://www.johnnyalucard.com/ |
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« Reply #1871 on: March 23, 2010, 08:54:26 pm » |
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Coincidently I re-read Kin Newman's Seven Stars collection just last week on a train journey, and was sufficiently inspired to check Amazon for new writings only to find that almost everything seems to be out of print. So that's a very timely post, and I shall be keeping an eye on the afore-mentioned website. Much obliged, Herr Doktor.
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« Reply #1872 on: March 23, 2010, 09:07:20 pm » |
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I am currently reading a compendium of H P Lovecraft's best weird tales called 'Necronomicon'. It's great! Finally a book heavy enough to break the television screen when the choice of what to watch is a) home shopping, b) a nature programme of some description or c) a schmaltzy rom-com.
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Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.
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« Reply #1873 on: March 23, 2010, 09:14:25 pm » |
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Coincidently I re-read Kin Newman's Seven Stars collection just last week on a train journey, and was sufficiently inspired to check Amazon for new writings only to find that almost everything seems to be out of print. So that's a very timely post, and I shall be keeping an eye on the afore-mentioned website. Much obliged, Herr Doktor.
Pleasure. I'm convinced the world would be a much better place if the work of Kim Newman was much more widely read! |
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[I'm convinced the world would be a much better place if the work of Kim Newman was much more widely read! Agreed. But perhaps the delay in new material is due to him spending so much of his time reviewing naff DVD's for Empire magazine and appearing on every TV documentary about horror, vampires, Jack The Ripper, Victoria..........  |
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