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« Reply #350 on: January 09, 2012, 11:25:04 am » |
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And Mark Hodder's 3rd arrived yesterday so that's next.  - waiting on my copy to arrive as I write. I think the Burton and Swinburne adventures are my favourites in the genre right now. |
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« Reply #351 on: January 13, 2012, 02:05:57 am » |
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Not a SP read but currently enjoying "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson. Decided to read it before going to see the movie. Generally speaking, after reading the book, the movie just does not do the written word justice.
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« Reply #352 on: January 13, 2012, 03:09:29 am » |
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Re-reading 'The Passage' whilst witing for my next Mark Hodder to arrive.
And looking forward to 'The Twelve' due out later this year.
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« Reply #353 on: January 13, 2012, 03:47:48 pm » |
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Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' - and enjoying the ride...
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« Reply #354 on: January 14, 2012, 01:43:13 pm » |
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Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' - and enjoying the ride...
Yay. It has to be one of my favorite books of all time. I'm glad you are enjoying it. I'm reading Death by Design- it's a little book which takes you on a tour of Glasgow Necropolis. Nicely done with plenty of interesting facts. I can't wait to visit and see for myself. |
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« Reply #355 on: January 14, 2012, 01:52:17 pm » |
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Funnily enough, I've just finished 'Necropolis: London and Its Dead', by Catharine Arnold: found it to be a light, easy read, very informative, going as it does from the Bronze age to the present day.
Oh, and just last night I plowed through Ronald Searle's 'St. Trinain's: the Entire Appalling Business', a collection of the complete St. Trinain's cartoons.
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« Reply #356 on: January 14, 2012, 03:02:37 pm » |
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Funnily enough, I've just finished 'Necropolis: London and Its Dead', by Catharine Arnold: found it to be a light, easy read, very informative, going as it does from the Bronze age to the present day.
I've read that too. I'm trying to read anything/everything about victorian cemeteres for my MPhil/PhD (i hope) so that's unsuprising. I enjoyed the whole book though; it was ambitious to try to cover such a wide time frame but it's an admirable introduction to the lot. |
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« Reply #357 on: January 14, 2012, 08:36:43 pm » |
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Currently I'm reading "The Science of Discworld II: The Globe" by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
On the slushpile to read are the following:
Eldritch Tales (H P Lovecraft)
The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen)
The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Frederick O'Dwyer)
The Folklore of Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
Jackcloudie (Stephen Hunt)
The English House (Hermann Muthesius)
I'm sure there are more I've forgotten about- I could have sworn I had at least ten on the list.
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Checking my bookshelves last night I added the following to the above:
Retromancer (Robert Rankin)
The Japanese Devil Fish Girl (Robert Rankin)
Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Coningsby (Benjamin Disraeli)
Lothair (Benjamin Disraeli)
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« Reply #358 on: January 16, 2012, 05:44:35 am » |
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« Reply #359 on: January 16, 2012, 05:25:52 pm » |
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Amusing or Fictiony Things:
Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost
A hilariously stupid book whose title is so rude I can't even type it with a straight face, on humorous real people's names taken from British censuses and parish registers - most of which are Victorian and either singularly unfortunate, utterly bizarre or some cackling nineteeth-century new dad's idea of a joke ('I've run out of ideas after naming my other 13 kids - so we'll call the new sprog 'Omlet Unexpected Migglesworth Fartwell the 49th! He probably won't make it past his 2nd birthday anyway so he won't live to hate me about it')
More Serious Historyish Things:
Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Book about the building of theR101 Airship
Yes, I should probably try and just read things one-at-a-time more often, but I read reasonably fast so they don't seem to stay in the reading pile for more than a day or two, so I don't have long enough to forget the plot in things!
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« Reply #360 on: January 16, 2012, 08:16:42 pm » |
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Finally got around to reading S.M. Stirling's Peshawar Lancers.
Damn it, that man can write! I wish I'd started this when I first bought it, instead of letting it fade into the general book-mulch in which I live. Now I'll have to locate a copy of the World's that Weren't collection, so I can read Shikari in Galveston from the same world time-line.
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« Reply #361 on: January 20, 2012, 04:28:27 am » |
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« Reply #362 on: January 20, 2012, 01:25:36 pm » |
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When I was supposed to be wrting an essay yesterday I actually brought and read a novel.
It was Birthmarked by Caragh O'Brien, it a dystopian novel looking at the effect on climate change on American society. I rather enjoyed it. I'll have to go and buy the sequel Prized now!
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« Reply #363 on: January 20, 2012, 01:43:41 pm » |
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And Mark Hodder's 3rd arrived yesterday so that's next It's out!!?? Quick! To Amazon with great haste!! Nearly finished 'The Iron Jackal' after which I have Alan K. Baker's 'The Martian Ambassador' and by the time that's read, Mr Hodder's third Burton & Swinbourne adventure should have arrived. EDIT: Well that's that ordered. Due to arrive on Feb 4. |
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« Reply #364 on: January 22, 2012, 11:35:12 am » |
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And Mark Hodder's 3rd arrived yesterday so that's next It's out!!?? Quick! To Amazon with great haste!! Nearly finished 'The Iron Jackal' after which I have Alan K. Baker's 'The Martian Ambassador' and by the time that's read, Mr Hodder's third Burton & Swinbourne adventure should have arrived. EDIT: Well that's that ordered. Due to arrive on Feb 4. My copy is at my bedside, I just need to finish re-reading 'The Passage' first... |
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« Reply #365 on: January 22, 2012, 10:42:08 pm » |
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Sci-fi book called 'One Good Soldier' (sorta 'war pr0n', if that's the actual designation... It was loaned to me, so there... |
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« Reply #366 on: January 26, 2012, 07:44:37 am » |
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a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Years Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2010 editor Paula Guran
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« Reply #367 on: January 26, 2012, 08:12:56 pm » |
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Had notification that the new Mark Hodder will be delivered by Jan 28th instead of Feb 4th..  Quite enjoying Alan K. Baker's 'The Martian Ambassador'..I gather this may be the second book featuring the characters of Special Investigator Thomas Blackwood of her Majesty's Bureau of Clandestine Affairs and Lady Sophia Harrington of The Society of Psychical Research..and if this one so far is anything to go by I shall be investigating that one as well. |
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« Reply #368 on: January 27, 2012, 12:41:11 am » |
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Have finished "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", bought and read the second book by Larsson "The Girl Who Played with Fire". Got so immersed with the characters went out and got the last one: "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest". All three are very 'infectious' and give cause to anxiety when one has to put the book down and sleep, shower, etc.
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« Reply #369 on: January 29, 2012, 08:57:19 pm » |
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And Mark Hodder's 3rd arrived yesterday so that's next It's out!!?? Quick! To Amazon with great haste!! Nearly finished 'The Iron Jackal' after which I have Alan K. Baker's 'The Martian Ambassador' and by the time that's read, Mr Hodder's third Burton & Swinbourne adventure should have arrived. EDIT: Well that's that ordered. Due to arrive on Feb 4. I had the same reaction, I ought to pay more attention to these things. I was just speaking last night while at the saloon with friends about the greatness of Hodder's work. In the meantime I am currently half way through Cherie Priest's third novel and enjoying it. |
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« Reply #370 on: January 31, 2012, 02:37:45 pm » |
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The return of Sherlock Holmes.
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« Reply #371 on: February 03, 2012, 09:49:28 am » |
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Going to knock out the City of Ember series. I loved the movie and wanted to see what happened after they got out. They are kids books so should only take half the day.
Then I'm going to read:
- Boneshaker I live in WA so it'll be an awesome read
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- Mainspring as soon as it gets here from amazon.
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« Reply #372 on: February 03, 2012, 12:28:32 pm » |
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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series, the third book "the life, the universe and everything!" its ok, but i'm still getting into it, its weird.
Douglas Addams is good but his work is very confusing sometimes!
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« Reply #373 on: February 03, 2012, 12:31:08 pm » |
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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series, the third book "the life, the universe and everything!" its ok, but i'm still getting into it, its weird.
Douglas Addams is good but his work is very confusing sometimes!
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« Reply #374 on: February 03, 2012, 12:37:48 pm » |
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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series, the third book "the life, the universe and everything!" its ok, but i'm still getting into it, its weird.
Douglas Addams is good but his work is very confusing sometimes!
If you find his Hitch Hikers books weird, don't even attempt his Dirk Gently ones... But I love his stuff. Been a fan since they were first broadcast on Radio 4. i wish i could listen to those stories! don't get me wrong, his stuff is brilliant, weird, brilliant weird and that's why i love them. But the beginning to "Life, the universe and everything" is very confusing...i have to get into it more! |
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