Rockula
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« Reply #450 on: April 05, 2012, 12:47:55 pm » |
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Having finally caught up with all of the Brentford 'Trilogy' I can now move on to Mr. Rankin's 'The Mechanical Messiah' which has been calling out from the bookshelf since September.  |
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Grymm
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« Reply #451 on: April 05, 2012, 12:56:48 pm » |
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Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch and The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, both picked up at the library on a whim(One interesting cover, one author with same name as my youngest) ended up tearing through both in about 4 days I enjoyed them that much, now appetite has been whetted I'll have to go search out more by both authors.
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I've tried to see it from your point of view but I can't fit my head up your arse'ole too.
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« Reply #452 on: April 05, 2012, 12:59:27 pm » |
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Having finally caught up with all of the Brentford 'Trilogy' I can now move on to Mr. Rankin's 'The Mechanical Messiah' which has been calling out from the bookshelf since September. have you read The Japanese Devil Fish Girl ? Should really read that one first... |
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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« Reply #453 on: April 05, 2012, 02:00:17 pm » |
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Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
finished reading that not long ago quite enjoyable Having finally caught up with all of the Brentford 'Trilogy' I can now move on to Mr. Rankin's 'The Mechanical Messiah' which has been calling out from the bookshelf since September. have you read The Japanese Devil Fish Girl ? Should really read that one first... have read Japanese Devil Fish Girl and retromancer i do suggest both of those |
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« Reply #454 on: April 05, 2012, 02:09:10 pm » |
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Triplanetary, by Doc EE Smith - sort of 'bubblegum sci-fi' - actually, he was evidently admired by many, R A Heinlein makes mention of him, so I thought I'd see what the ruckus is about. Part of the 'lensman' series, evidently.
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Rockula
Immortal
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Nothing beats a good hat.
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« Reply #455 on: April 05, 2012, 02:32:56 pm » |
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Having finally caught up with all of the Brentford 'Trilogy' I can now move on to Mr. Rankin's 'The Mechanical Messiah' which has been calling out from the bookshelf since September. have you read The Japanese Devil Fish Girl ? Should really read that one first... Yes. I have read it. You lent it to me. |
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« Reply #456 on: April 05, 2012, 03:11:13 pm » |
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Having finally caught up with all of the Brentford 'Trilogy' I can now move on to Mr. Rankin's 'The Mechanical Messiah' which has been calling out from the bookshelf since September. have you read The Japanese Devil Fish Girl ? Should really read that one first... Yes. I have read it. You lent it to me. Oh yeah...  |
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maduncle
Rogue Ætherlord
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« Reply #457 on: April 12, 2012, 10:21:26 am » |
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Triplanetary, by Doc EE Smith - sort of 'bubblegum sci-fi' - actually, he was evidently admired by many, R A Heinlein makes mention of him, so I thought I'd see what the ruckus is about. Part of the 'lensman' series, evidently.
I think I had every EE Doc Smith book I could get when I was about 13 years old, absolutely loved them. They have Husqvarna ray guns in them don't they? |
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« Reply #458 on: April 12, 2012, 11:11:37 am » |
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I think I had every EE Doc Smith book I could get when I was about 13 years old, absolutely loved them.
They have Husqvarna ray guns in them don't they? I think that would be deLameters or Lewistons. |
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James Harrison
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Bachelor of the Arts; Master of the Sciences
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« Reply #459 on: April 12, 2012, 11:58:17 am » |
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I'm currently reading The Brightonomicon, which is proving riotously good fun. After which I'll probably go back to my slush pile and coax out some Sherlock Holmes, to be followed by Moving Pictures and then perhaps Green Mars.
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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 #460 on: April 12, 2012, 12:34:56 pm » |
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Just started George Macdonald Frasier's second volume of The Flashman Papers, 'Royal Flash'.
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OswaldBastable
Rogue Ætherlord
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« Reply #461 on: April 12, 2012, 03:31:00 pm » |
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Just started George Macdonald Frasier's second volume of The Flashman Papers, 'Royal Flash'.
personally I thought the series got better as it went along, great stuff; youve also reminded me I think theres one I havnt read, must track down a copy |
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C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre
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« Reply #462 on: April 12, 2012, 08:18:20 pm » |
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Just started George Macdonald Frasier's second volume of The Flashman Papers, 'Royal Flash'.
personally I thought the series got better as it went along, great stuff; youve also reminded me I think theres one I havnt read, must track down a copy Are you aware of this? and this? Today I got three books for my birthday: The Equivoque Principle and The Eleventh Plague by Darren Craske and Tony Pollard's The Secrets of the Lazarus Club |
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OswaldBastable
Rogue Ætherlord
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Not in front of the men..................
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« Reply #463 on: April 12, 2012, 09:15:47 pm » |
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I think I'll have to give them a look over, much obliged |
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« Reply #464 on: April 12, 2012, 09:39:39 pm » |
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Absolutely NO EXCUSE for a gently nurtured maiden to read FLASHMAN, and yet! FLASHMAN & THE TIGER is absolutely brilliant. The perfect little essay about Elspeth being behind the Tranby Croft scandal is a masterpiece of Flashy humour. Keep it in your petticoat pocket for Church.
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« Reply #465 on: April 15, 2012, 12:31:07 pm » |
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Currently re-reading Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone (in Dutch), and re-reading the Golden Compass trilogy by Philip Pullman.
I`m also very slowly working my way through a book on scientific theories for multiple dimensions. A bit difficult to understand, even though it`s written in a very simplistic way for people without actual scientific background on these kind of things.
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maduncle
Rogue Ætherlord
Australia
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« Reply #466 on: April 15, 2012, 01:02:54 pm » |
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Currently reading my new Honda VFR750 service manual - thrilling stuff.
But I am also reading the second Asylum short story collection - there are some excellent stories in here.
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Gerrit546
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« Reply #467 on: April 15, 2012, 06:16:26 pm » |
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I'm currently reading 'Science, a four thousand year history'. Quite intriguing I must say. It's about the development of the thing we call 'science' now and how it came to be. And it shows very clearly that the great people like Copernicus, Galileo and Newton are of course brilliant. But still men.
I can highly recommend it.
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James Harrison
Master Tinkerer
England
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« Reply #468 on: April 15, 2012, 06:19:11 pm » |
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I'm reading a book I picked up in the library yesterday- The Fall of Paris: The Siege and The Commune 1870-71. It is exactly the sort of esoteric, forgotten history I prefer.
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Angus A Fitziron
Rogue Ætherlord
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Research Air Ship R.A.S. 'Saorsa'
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« Reply #469 on: April 16, 2012, 10:54:35 pm » |
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Currently reading my new Honda VFR750 service manual - thrilling stuff.
But I am also reading the second Asylum short story collection - there are some excellent stories in here.
Great bike Maduncle - I miss my VFR800 - still keep thinking of getting a VFR 750 and get it naked then steam it up! Something about that engine... Currently reading 'Operation Mincemeat' an update on The Man Who Never Was the story of how British Intelligence during the last war floated a body onto the beaches of Spain in order to deceive the Germans about where Roosevelt was going to attack the soft under belly of Europe. A lot more informative and less cliched than the original immediately post war book. |
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« Reply #470 on: April 16, 2012, 11:41:11 pm » |
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Just finished The Mysterious Benedict Society. Very good children's adventure.
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“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."
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maduncle
Rogue Ætherlord
Australia
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« Reply #471 on: April 17, 2012, 01:16:58 am » |
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Great bike Maduncle - I miss my VFR800 - still keep thinking of getting a VFR 750 and get it naked then steam it up! Something about that engine... [/quote] My plan exactly - there will be a thread on it here one day... Meanwhile - the second Asylum short story collection is keeping me amused on the tram, I did enjoy Herr Doktors submission (finished it this morning between tram stop 42 and 55). |
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« Reply #472 on: April 17, 2012, 07:27:20 am » |
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would you believe I just finished reading 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea for the first time?
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« Reply #473 on: April 17, 2012, 11:01:10 am » |
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I'm currently reading The Brightonomicon, which is proving riotously good fun.
i loved that book B-movie joy in book form. I've heard its been optioned for a TV series... I'm reading simultaneously the difference engine and boneshaker and red dwarf: infinity welcomes careful drivers. its all a bit confusing... |
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
Governor
Time Traveler
United Kingdom
Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« Reply #474 on: April 17, 2012, 11:12:05 am » |
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Meanwhile - the second Asylum short story collection is keeping me amused on the tram, I did enjoy Herr Doktors submission (finished it this morning between tram stop 42 and 55).
Glad you liked it!  I'm partway through the bonus novella in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron- these reprints are terrific, corrected text, whole new 'inbetween' novellas, annotations, and other material- sort of a Directors Cut in paperback! |
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