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« Reply #25 on: August 04, 2007, 12:16:58 pm » |
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About 3/4's through reading  which is a great great book. I need to pick that one up. Lifetime paranoia of Zombies and all... |
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« Reply #26 on: August 04, 2007, 01:13:06 pm » |
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its a great book!
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« Reply #27 on: August 04, 2007, 06:38:41 pm » |
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Not that I admit it with dignity, but i'm currently re/reading the Harry Potter books. I had to reread the first four, since the fifth had been on my shelf for some time collecting dust. When I finish book 5 I guess I'll have to borrow/buy 6 and 7.
Other than that I've started reading Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Those are pretty good.
Yeah I like fantasy.
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So I like to get high off the dust on the 170-year-old books in the library. What of it?
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« Reply #28 on: August 04, 2007, 06:56:39 pm » |
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terry prattchet is awesome, I have read almost all of his books so far, I currently have postal and wee free men in my possesion, I used to have alot more of them but people borrow them they someone else and they are lost in the world somewhere! He has such a great style and his books are so easy to read  |
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« Reply #29 on: August 05, 2007, 04:39:39 am » |
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I also am an avit Prachett fan.... I have all of his Discworld (and semi-discworld) novels EXCEPT: The Last Hero and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents..... My favorite books in that group are both of the ones involving Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men (The Wee Free Men & Hat Full of Sky), as well as any story involving Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork city watch.... Vimes' personality is a LOT like mine is probably the reason... Well that and the fact that the Watch is full of interesting and colorful charachters (hard to get any more colorful than Corporal Knobby Nobbs).
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"It is by steam alone that I set my contraptions in motion.
It is by combustion of coal and boiling water that the engines acquire speed.
For protection, the eyes acquire goggles,
The goggles become a warning.
It is by steam alone that I set my contraptions in motion."
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« Reply #30 on: August 05, 2007, 09:03:01 am » |
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I read and re-read Herodotus, "Histories"... Recently got my son to set down the gameboy long enough to read "20k Leagues", which he absolutely devoured and thoroughly enjoyed. Mostly, I read Saberhagen's novels, particularly his work concerning the Berserker sagas.
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Where you start doesn't determine how far you will go - the people who believe they can, and the people who believe they cannot, are both right.
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« Reply #31 on: August 05, 2007, 02:05:29 pm » |
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Mostly when I'm writing, I don't read as much. I guess I suppose I could be using the time to get my own book out there!
I review occasionally for a site I frequent and a couple of weeks ago, I received my coveted copy of Lois McMaster Bujold's fantasy THE SHARING KNIFE, VOL 2. I loved Vol 1 for the action, the romance and the amazing characterization. Vol 2 is a slower read -- not as much action in the plot -- but it's a much deeper book. I cracked mine open right away and started reading, but in retrospect, I recommend a quick reread of Vol 1 first. It helps to have some of the details fresh in your mind. Vol 1 is more of a romance with the meeting and falling in love, Vol 2 is more about the deepening relationship between the characters. I think the only reason she split them is because otherwise it would have been like carrying around a book the size of half the Encyclopedia Britannica. Chunky, to say the least.
However, the book currently gathering dust on my nightstand is the 2000 Seamus Heaney translation of BEOWULF, which I finally remembered to pick up from the library. I've had to renew it once already, so I really should get to reading it before I rack up more late fees.
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« Reply #32 on: August 05, 2007, 03:39:41 pm » |
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I love Terry Prachett too, I think Ive got all his discworld novels, I havent read all of them yet though, thats all I was reading for months, so I decide to take a break from discworld for a little bit!
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« Reply #33 on: August 05, 2007, 10:51:15 pm » |
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« Reply #34 on: August 05, 2007, 11:54:33 pm » |
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Dracula. Bram Stoker.
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« Reply #35 on: August 06, 2007, 12:13:49 am » |
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YA ripping yarns here: Infernal Devices, Philip Reeve, third of his gloriously steamy predator cities stories. And Shrike has just woken up! Squee!
And Around The World On A Wheel, just as ripping - the travelogue of some Victorian army chums as they are the first to ride around the World on bicycles. Stiff upper lips and stern resolve, all round; loaned to me after my penny-farthing kink was revealed...
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« Reply #37 on: August 09, 2007, 02:57:37 pm » |
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I'm currently listening to "The Hunt for Red October" on audiobook & trying to find an unabridged audiobook version of "Red Storm Rising" both by Tom Clancy.
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« Reply #38 on: August 09, 2007, 03:03:36 pm » |
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Have recently purchased copies of "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins & "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.Both books which have been on my "I really must read..." list for years.
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"Through the ruins of a city stalked the ruin of a man."
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« Reply #39 on: August 09, 2007, 03:12:47 pm » |
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having just finished the infernal devices triolgy (oh my!) which has caused my good friend in Second Life to start his first traction city build (well, house) i have started on an as yet unreleased Peter F hamilton tome. After that i shall be rereading Neal Steaphenson's works. Again  and buying many of the books above, and possibly below... |
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« Reply #40 on: August 09, 2007, 03:36:04 pm » |
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Currently reading <i>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</i> by Carson McCullers, which is beautiful and amazing and <i>Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast</i> by Wolpert, which is fascinating. One of those books that changes the way one views the world.
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« Reply #41 on: August 09, 2007, 04:01:11 pm » |
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Taking The Red Pill. Science, Philosphy & Religion in The Matrix...
(I know Kung Fu...)
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« Reply #42 on: August 09, 2007, 04:25:32 pm » |
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Spook Country by William Gibson.
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« Reply #43 on: August 10, 2007, 07:41:57 am » |
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Spook Country by William Gibson.
Mine just came yesterday! Gotta go read more now! |
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« Reply #44 on: August 10, 2007, 08:50:42 am » |
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I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I was worried that it wouldn't live up to his amazing first book The Kite Runner, but I was definitely not disappointed. Suns was beautifully written, enlightening and intense.
Right now I'm reading Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette. Dense but fascinating.
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STEAMPUNK: THE NEW CULT OF DRUGS DEBAUCHARY AND DEATH |
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« Reply #45 on: August 10, 2007, 04:53:00 pm » |
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I just started reading the 3rd book in Steven Eriksons - A tale of the Malazan book of the fallen - memories of ice (3rd).. if you havent read this series there is about 10 books in it I think.. first book is the hardest of the lot to read |
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« Reply #46 on: August 12, 2007, 12:54:57 am » |
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by the oh-so-famous Cory Doctorow, which I have to say is the rummest novel I ever read, and whether you like it would depend on how much magic realism you can put up with...
One thing I would recommend is a photography book, Burning Man: Art in the Desert, by A.Leo Nash. It's a collection of pics of the works either in their unfinished state or after they've gone, with emphasis on the harshness of the desert environment in which they're made. Very inspiring.
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"`Suppose, after all, it all ends in your butterflies and morlocks. THAT DOESN'T MATTER NOW. The effort's real. It's worth going on with. It's worth it. It's worth it, even so.' . . .
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« Reply #47 on: August 12, 2007, 02:21:59 pm » |
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I'm reading P.G. Wodehouse - A Damsel In Distress, Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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« Reply #48 on: August 12, 2007, 03:52:08 pm » |
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My Dear and Unfortunate Successor,
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
Multi-generational study of Vlad Tepes, and just where is his tomb? And why do people keep dieing?
Thanks for providing a reading list for the foreseeable future
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« Reply #49 on: August 13, 2007, 03:56:03 am » |
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You know, I believe everyone here would enjoy <b>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell</b>. Victorian Englandy, with appearances by real personages (Lord Byron had me in fits) and magic to boot.
Right now reading <b>Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories</b> by M.R. James. My, what Victorian spooky fun!
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