Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
Governor
Master Tinkerer
 United Kingdom
Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« Reply #625 on: July 23, 2012, 08:42:31 pm » |
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Oh yes, "The Sheik and the Dustbin" is a particular favorite of mine.  |
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« Reply #626 on: July 23, 2012, 10:29:28 pm » |
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"The History of Vanity" by John Woodforde.
(Because it was a charity bookshop and they didn't have what I went in for and it's just rude to walk out without buying something.
And "Fashion Accessories" [another Shire guide].
And "Henry IV part 1".
And another Spike Milligan book.
And a couple of Manga titles.)
Because it's all for a good cause, right?
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'I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night’
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« Reply #627 on: July 24, 2012, 03:26:48 am » |
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currently reading:
High Fidelity
Legends of king arthur and his knights
the secret rose
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the glass book of the dream eaters.
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« Reply #628 on: July 25, 2012, 05:11:18 am » |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Short Stories, Volume I
Currently on The Five Orange Pips
Next up will be a re-read. Either The Count of Monte Cristo or Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea series.
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“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
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Anicsin
Deck Hand
 Hungary
Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
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« Reply #629 on: July 26, 2012, 07:35:11 pm » |
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The First Philosophers, by George Thomson.
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,,Est penes hominem arbitrium et ratio."
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« Reply #630 on: July 27, 2012, 05:27:55 am » |
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on the ebook side, Flashman and the Charge. (I think that's the title...  |
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« Reply #631 on: July 27, 2012, 01:25:33 pm » |
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I have just started to get into Dostoevsky's The Karamazov Brothers so I guess I won't be posting anything else in this thread for a few months.
After that I've got the Gangs of New York book which I stumbled across in a charity shop. I didn't realise it was actually a book published in the 1920s that was made into a film recently until I saw it on the shelf.
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« Reply #632 on: July 27, 2012, 04:27:27 pm » |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Short Stories, Volume I
Currently on The Five Orange Pips
Next up will be a re-read. Either The Count of Monte Cristo or Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea series.
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
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« Reply #633 on: July 27, 2012, 05:07:34 pm » |
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About three/quarters of the way through Pratchett's Hogfather, which is roughly the halfway point of the Discworld Series.
I think the next book will be Chamber's King in Yellow; I need a change of pace. Then back for the second half of my Discworld Marathon.
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'How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!' |
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« Reply #634 on: July 27, 2012, 06:10:07 pm » |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Short Stories, Volume I
Currently on The Five Orange Pips
Next up will be a re-read. Either The Count of Monte Cristo or Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea series.
I can highly recommend Earthsea. I must read it again. I started Count of Monte Cristo recently, but just couldn't get hooked. Earthsea is perhaps my most favorite series ever. And The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite bits of literature. Always wanted to be him (just minus all of the vengeance and going to prison thing). I ended up skipping most of the series and went right to Tehanu. Tales From Earthsea is next! |
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James Harrison
Rogue Ætherlord
 England
Bachelor of the Arts; Master of the Sciences
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« Reply #635 on: July 28, 2012, 01:52:24 pm » |
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Just got started on Robert Rankin's Japanese Devil Fish Girl.
I've added some more to my slush pile too!
'The Sea Hunters' by Clive Cussler
'Moby Dick' by Hermann Melville
'The Wind in the Willos' by Kenneth Grahame
'The Lion and the Unicorn- Gladstone vs Disraeli' by Richard Aldous
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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 #636 on: July 28, 2012, 03:12:14 pm » |
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"The Wind in the Willows" is my all time favorite book. I don't know how many times I have read it! (upwards of ten, I think)" "Onion sauce, onion sauce!" he remarked jeeringly."  |
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This isn't the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Brad!
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« Reply #637 on: July 29, 2012, 06:53:51 pm » |
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Flash for Freedom...no methodology to my madness, a lifetime of picking up out-of-sequence books at the used book stores has tempered me to 'reassemble' the story line afterwards... |
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« Reply #638 on: July 30, 2012, 03:02:36 am » |
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"The Wind in the Willows" is my all time favorite book. I don't know how many times I have read it! (upwards of ten, I think)" "Onion sauce, onion sauce!" he remarked jeeringly." Ooooh, I do love that book as well. Sadly it's packed away. Maybe I shall bring it out when I move and unpack (I have so say, the claymation TV series is one of my favorites as well and is linked with so many wonderful childhood memories). |
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« Reply #639 on: August 01, 2012, 04:28:17 am » |
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Flashman and the Dragon - these things are addictive... |
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James Harrison
Rogue Ætherlord
England
Bachelor of the Arts; Master of the Sciences
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« Reply #640 on: August 01, 2012, 08:57:57 am » |
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Pheonix Rising by Pip Ballatine and Tee Morris. Really liking it so far.
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« Reply #641 on: August 01, 2012, 06:02:33 pm » |
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"How to Make Friends and Oppress People:- classic travel advice for the Gentleman Adventurer".
"Chayka ch'e-enleeyenn shirt woaty!"
the Chinese for "this telescope is mine!"
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« Reply #642 on: August 01, 2012, 06:10:54 pm » |
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Just into the final throes of book 3 of 1Q84 by Haruki Murukami. Not as good as earlier stuff but I've started so....
Just bought holiday reads (4 x 6 hour train journeys plus some pleasant hours spent on a sunny verandah somewhere)
The Great Game - On secret service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
then it's back to Flashman!!
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Airship Artificer, part-time romantik and amateur Natural Philosopher
"wee all here are much troubled with the loss of poor Thompson & Sutton"
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« Reply #643 on: August 02, 2012, 05:20:00 am » |
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Something called 'A Flame in Byzantium'..by CQ Yarbro, yarborough...ah...it was free... |
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Capt. Dirigible
Rogue Ætherlord
United Kingdom
Shirts?.....I got plenty at 'ome.
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« Reply #644 on: August 02, 2012, 11:03:59 am » |
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Pheonix Rising by Pip Ballatine and Tee Morris. Really liking it so far.
I really enjoyed 'Phoenix Rising'. Good story..oozing Steampunk from every page. My only bone of contention is the names of the two characters: a archivist called 'Books' and a kick-ass female called 'Braun'..really? |
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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 #645 on: August 02, 2012, 11:21:55 am » |
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Something called 'A Flame in Byzantium'..by CQ Yarbro, yarborough...ah...it was free... I have read all of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's 'Saint-Germain' cycle of vampire books after accidently picking up the first one ('Hotel Transylvania' 1978) at a jumble (yard) sale in the early 80's. I'd been reading the Anne Rice books at the time but got bored. Got to say I prefer Yarbro's style. The character of Atta Olivia Clemens was first introduced in the Count Saint-Germain novel 'Blood Games' (1980), the 3rd in that series of (currently) 26 books. There are currently 3 books in the 'Atta Olivia Clemens' cycle (the first being the one you just read) as well as a further 2 in the related 'Madelaine de Montalia' series. |
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The legs have fallen off my Victorian Lady...
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« Reply #646 on: August 05, 2012, 02:44:50 am » |
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Interesting...yeah, I started an Anne Rice book once, and it was slow going... So far a good read. Finished 'Flasman and the Redskins,' now on to 'Flashman's Lady' |
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« Reply #647 on: August 05, 2012, 05:28:44 am » |
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Started The Call of Cthulhu, and I'm about halfway through. Intresting, seems shorter than I expected, leans a tad racist, but so do a lot of older stories. Scratch that, apparently he was a raging racist...
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Several modern detectives now claim that “Jack the Ripper” was actually named Carl.
“Carl the Ripper” just doesn’t have the same ring.
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James Harrison
Rogue Ætherlord
England
Bachelor of the Arts; Master of the Sciences
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« Reply #648 on: August 06, 2012, 07:17:37 pm » |
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I've just started The Return of Sherlock Holmes.... slowly working my way through the canon...
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Captain Shipton Bellinger
Immortal
United Kingdom
Why the goggles..? In case of ADVENTURE!
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« Reply #649 on: August 06, 2012, 07:33:50 pm » |
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I'm about two-thirds of the way through The Janus Affair by Ballantine and Morris. Although it's not the first in her 'Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences' stories, it's the first one that I've read—and quite honestlt it's likely to be the last. I'm finding the Victorian prudishness very forced (does everybody have to blush all the time?), the writing style tiresome and the actions of the characters at times quite unbelievable. Shame really, because the plot holds great promise.  |
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