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« Reply #650 on: August 06, 2012, 07:39:34 pm » |
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Just ordered Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch whilst I finish off Elminster Must Die. (yes I like the odd dnd pulp book too  ) |
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« Reply #651 on: August 07, 2012, 11:13:11 am » |
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Just ordered Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch whilst I finish off Elminster Must Die. (yes I like the odd dnd pulp book too ) i highly recommend that one!! there is also "Moon Over Soho" and another one that doesnt come to mind at the moment which i would like to read! |
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« Reply #652 on: August 07, 2012, 12:15:55 pm » |
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I finished 'Flashman and The Redskins' on the train down to The Countess on Friday. Picked up a copy of 'Flashman at The Charge' on Saturday. Started it Sunday evening and I have one chapter to go. Another cracking read. Next I have 'The Secrets of The Lazarus Club' by Tony Pollard and then on with 'Flashman in the Great Game'
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But look at you! You're shaking all over!
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« Reply #653 on: August 07, 2012, 12:24:57 pm » |
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I read 'Minutes of the Lazarus Club' a few years ago and it was a pretty good read as I recall. Not quite steampunk, more alternate Victorian, but not far off the mark either.
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Rogue Ætherlord
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« Reply #654 on: August 07, 2012, 06:35:33 pm » |
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I read 'Minutes of the Lazarus Club' a few years ago and it was a pretty good read as I recall. Not quite steampunk, more alternate Victorian, but not far off the mark either.
Same book. The hardback was called 'Minutes of...' but for some reason the paperback editon is called 'Secrets of..' |
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« Reply #655 on: August 08, 2012, 03:19:10 am » |
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The workplace's library coughed up another Anne Rice (sp?) called Vittorio...it's short, so I may be able to see if I can finish one of AR's books...  The person who left them left about a dozen books by her, and I never realized how many of them I've never heard of. Still boppin' through 'Flashman's Lady'...on ebook |
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« Reply #656 on: August 09, 2012, 01:23:47 am » |
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The workplace's library coughed up another Anne Rice (sp?) called Vittorio...it's short, so I may be able to see if I can finish one of AR's books... is still sitting on my shelf half-read from about 6 years ago. Finished "The Call of Cthulhu", the scariest part is far more subtle than the monster. Not sure what to read next (again...). Still working on Empire of Broken Glass, and War of the Worlds which is so much better and unlike either movie that I'm left baffled at how they got so much so wrong. |
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Several modern detectives now claim that “Jack the Ripper” was actually named Carl.
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« Reply #657 on: August 09, 2012, 03:02:15 am » |
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Royal Flash, on the ebook side...
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Captain Lister Maylin
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« Reply #658 on: August 09, 2012, 11:41:08 am » |
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I got a kindle for my birthday, which is now overflowing with steamy goodness. Read 'Halcyon #1 - The Burning Sky' by Joseph Robert Lewis a while back and quite enjoyed it. Recently reread 'Unnatural History' by Jonathan Green for the nth time. Loved the 'Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: Phoenix Rising' by Pip Ballatine and Tee Morris so much I immediately got the 'Janus Affair'. I've also downloaded 'Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus' http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/134422 which is pretty good so far. After that, there's just 3 or 4 paperbacks to read too. |
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« Reply #659 on: August 09, 2012, 12:44:25 pm » |
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Bantam Classics complete collected Sherlock Holmes, volume 1. I don't have 2 yet...
Also scanning a mid 50s book, the Space Story Omnibus, in preparation to sell to someone who may have better means to preserve it.
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« Reply #660 on: August 10, 2012, 09:03:23 am » |
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just finished 50 Shades of Alice In Wonderland last night and it was fantastic!
I'll now never look at the original the same again!
(Also you guys won't look at me the same either, knowing that's my choice of reading!)
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''I'm a loose bolt in a complete machine. What a match! I'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet.'' "You want steampunk to be a novelty, a LOLcat, a meme. I want it to be my life. Which of us is going to fight harder for it?" - Dimitri Markotin *DISCLAIMER* This dungeon is fictional, and any similarities to other dungeons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  http://www.facebook.com/avasapparelMention you're from BG when ordering for free shipping! http://www.etsy.com/shop/AshleighEllanUse 'AVA10' for 10% off! |
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« Reply #661 on: August 10, 2012, 11:10:34 am » |
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I read 'Minutes of the Lazarus Club' a few years ago and it was a pretty good read as I recall. Not quite steampunk, more alternate Victorian, but not far off the mark either.
Same book. The hardback was called 'Minutes of...' but for some reason the paperback editon is called 'Secrets of..' "Minutes of..." had some flaws so was re-written/re-edited and re-published as "Secrets of...", as I understand it. Good book, but took itself far more seriously than it should have done. |
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« Reply #662 on: August 11, 2012, 04:11:02 am » |
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Flash and the Tiger...slogging my way through... |
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« Reply #663 on: August 12, 2012, 04:50:38 am » |
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...and on the physical book side, something called Pandora, by yes, Anne Rice... Nice fiddly historical bits so far... |
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Rogue Ætherlord
England
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« Reply #664 on: August 12, 2012, 07:31:17 pm » |
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I've got Pandora somewhere... it's the one set in Antioch, isn't it?
I'm now reading The Bloody Red Baron. I'm trying to drag out my Sherlock Holmes canon as long as I can, but I have only one novel and two compilations of short stories to go.
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« Reply #665 on: August 13, 2012, 03:06:53 am » |
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Yeah, just arrived (in the literary sense... Bloody Red Baron is interesting, finished it recently. |
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« Reply #666 on: August 15, 2012, 01:58:31 am » |
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A break from the escapist after re-reading all of Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea books (they always leave me in a good place, mentally). Getting ready for art school with Art Critiques: A Guide by James Elkins. So far, its not as bad as I thought it would be. Artists of any kind and caliber out there, you may want to pick this up.
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« Reply #667 on: August 15, 2012, 11:37:08 pm » |
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Attempting Jane Austen`s Sense and Sensibility, but considering how much difficulty I had getting through the first two chapters (really short chapters at that!) I think I`m going to switch it off with other books like Robin Hood and Treasure Island.
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« Reply #668 on: August 16, 2012, 10:54:07 am » |
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Attempting Jane Austen`s Sense and Sensibility, but considering how much difficulty I had getting through the first two chapters (really short chapters at that!) I think I`m going to switch it off with other books like Robin Hood and Treasure Island.
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« Reply #669 on: August 17, 2012, 04:37:29 am » |
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Flashman and the Great Game (ebook), and Majestic (something about UFOs...the work library is getting mighty thin...
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« Reply #670 on: August 17, 2012, 05:18:52 pm » |
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I've just started Soldier-Sahibs, about Henry Lawrences circle in the 1840s and 1850s. Its one of the books thats been on my amazon wish list for about 4 years!
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
Governor
Master Tinkerer
United Kingdom
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« Reply #671 on: August 17, 2012, 09:08:12 pm » |
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"Flash for Freedom", ripping yarn, as per!
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« Reply #672 on: August 19, 2012, 04:15:42 am » |
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Flashman and the Angel of the Lord - on the ebook side...
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« Reply #673 on: August 19, 2012, 11:42:35 pm » |
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Currently reading Cherie Priest's Clementine. Once I'm done with that I should be pretty well caught up until The Inexplicables comes out.
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« Reply #674 on: August 20, 2012, 05:24:24 am » |
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I've just finished reading Kady Cross' The Steampunk Chronicles: The Strange Case of Finley Jayne, The Girl in the Steel Corset and The Girl in the Clockwork Collar. I enjoyed them very much. Now I'm looking for my next read. This thread is very helpful in that.
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