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#1641 User is offline   Demon X 

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Posted 09 August 2006 - 03:37 PM

Reading Attila The Hun by Michael Man. A Barbarian King And The Fall Of Rome.

There's so much I didint know about The fall of Rome it's rediculess!!
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Posted 12 August 2006 - 11:31 AM

The Shadow Rising, and
American Sorrows by Jay Lake
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Posted 12 August 2006 - 12:51 PM

Just finished 'The Girl Who Played Go', by Shan Sa - about a Manchurian girl and a Japanese soldier during the occupation, told from both perspectives. Quite interesting.
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Posted 13 August 2006 - 09:16 AM

The Count Of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas.

My first time read of this novel. It's quite large, 1243 pages in total. I am already loving it and only have read 100 pages.

I only wish I knew french so I could read it without translation.
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Posted 13 August 2006 - 09:46 AM

Trouble;105570 said:

The Count Of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas.

My first time read of this novel. It's quite large, 1243 pages in total. I am already loving it and only have read 100 pages.

I only wish I knew frech so I could read ot without translation.


I dunno what it's looks like in english ... For me Dantès escaped and he's coming back for his revenge , dressed like a monk he come to see Caderousse , he explains what happened during the last 15 years

And also reading this

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/876/nap...rlesnulshx2.jpg
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Posted 13 August 2006 - 10:12 AM

Lily;105574 said:

I dunno what it's looks like in english ... For me Dantès escaped and he's coming back for his revenge , dressed like a monk he come to see Caderousse , he explains what happened during the last 15 years

And also reading this

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/876/nap...rlesnulshx2.jpg

It is much the same in the English version, Translated by Robin buss. Although I havn't yet even almost finished it. but he says that he misses nothing out and that he has written the best translation (He has a high opinion of himself, it seems).
http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/Book/B...0455328,00.html

What I meant mainly was that in most translations, alot of the original emotion and suspense is dulled by mediocre translations. This does not seem to be the case however, so I am quite happy.
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Posted 13 August 2006 - 10:22 AM

Reading Otherland, by Tad Williams.

Not astounding at the moment, but just filling time til I can get my hands on CS Lewis' Space Trilogy, and the newest RJ book... Alright so I want to know what happens.
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Posted 13 August 2006 - 11:34 AM

Started reading Eragon - purely for the fact that the actor who plays the main character in the movie has read Erikson, thus the movie is worth looking into, and I cannot see it without reading the book first. Have already read Temeraire, when it first came out - cute, I liked it.:)
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Posted 13 August 2006 - 11:48 AM

Shiara;105594 said:

Started reading Eragon - purely for the fact that the actor who plays the main character in the movie has read Erikson, thus the movie is worth looking into, and I cannot see it without reading the book first. Have already read Temeraire, when it first came out - cute, I liked it.:)

That is the worst thing I have ever heard.

The movie is not worth looking into just because he reads Erikson!
Eragon was an okay novel, barely. But it is so incredibly overrated that it makes me want to kill everytime someone tells me how good it is.

Don't get me started on the sequwl, Eldest. I don't know how I managed to finish that monstrosity.
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Posted 17 August 2006 - 12:20 AM

Just finished Paul Kearney's THE MARK OF RAN. I really enjoyed it, and can't wait to read the sequel, THIS FORSAKEN EARTH.

Check the blog for the full review. . .

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Posted 17 August 2006 - 07:52 AM

reading sharps waterloo and stormrider by gemmell.

just finished his dark materials 1, 2061, legend.
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Posted 19 August 2006 - 03:24 AM

I'm still reading "The Count Of Monte Cristo" as I havn't really had the chance to sit down and get anything done lately. but three quarters of the way through and this has to be one the of best things I have ever read. Put simply, I love it.
I only wish I had the audio book so I could listen to it at work.

I would like to thank Lily. You said you were reading this a page back and it got me thinking about it. Undoubtedly I would not have picked it up without reading your post. :)
Much appreciated.
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Posted 19 August 2006 - 06:19 AM

Trouble;107337 said:

I'm still reading "The Count Of Monte Cristo" as I havn't really had the chance to sit down and get anything done lately. but three quarters of the way through and this has to be one the of best things I have ever read. Put simply, I love it.
I only wish I had the audio book so I could listen to it at work.

I would like to thank Lily. You said you were reading this a page back and it got me thinking about it. Undoubtedly I would not have picked it up without reading your post. :)
Much appreciated.


Of nothing !! Thanx you Posted Image Glad you love it , I'm not finished it yet myself , Monte-Cristo met Merc?d?s married to this charming Fernand -she recognized him- Danglars already dislike Monte-Cristo ... I have forgot this passage when Franz and the young Morcef go to see to a public execution with the count , and how he talks about human being , revenge and death penalty . The dreadful death of the man , killed like some animal in a slaughterhouse , disgusting ...

I'm reading in the same time this thing about Bonaparte , what a man , and what a chef de guerre , very clever , pragmatic , charismatic , he was always looking for peace so he made always war . His men loved him , he planed some wonderful war plans

But I'm disapppointed , I though Napol?on & Jos?phine were a loving couple , but he loved her more than she loved him , she cheated on him ... It's also funny to see how all over the centuries French people and English people always disliked each other and how they seem to enjoy to fight Posted Image

Napol?on was a ****ing warrior
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 09:08 PM

Finished The Waste Lands, book 3 Dark Tower series.
Starting Wizard and Glass tonight.
Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm Not Sure About The Former.
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 09:18 PM

reading amber spyglass, even though i havent really enjoyed the previous two books in this series but i promised i would read them if only to slag them off!!:)
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Posted 22 August 2006 - 10:55 PM

Hi guys!

I just finished Paul Kearney's THIS FORSAKEN EARTH, sequel to THE MARK OF RAN.

Some of the emerging storylines show a lot of promise. And yet, the war which constitutes the bulk of This Forsaken Earth felt like some sort of interlude.

Good book, but not as good as its predecessor. For the full review, check the blog. . . :)

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Posted 23 August 2006 - 11:36 AM

The Fires of Heaven.
Wishing I read as fast as I used to a couple of years ago: I want to get back to the big pile of books I've not read before. Back in 2003, I could have read the whole WoT series in two weeks. In fact, I did read the whole WoT series in two weeks.
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Posted 23 August 2006 - 12:06 PM

Still digging away at The Count Of Monte Cristo. I re-read chapters over again just to grasp some things. Like the chapter intitled Ideology. Fantastic stuff.

But besides that I'm reading Good Omens. Funny.
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Posted 29 August 2006 - 07:15 AM

Trouble;108293 said:

Still digging away at The Count Of Monte Cristo. I re-read chapters over again just to grasp some things. Like the chapter intitled Ideology. Fantastic stuff..



Yes , it was a very good chapter , I loved when Monte-Cristo was seen by the others people like a vampire , a person charismatic but dark , fearful but you can't look away from him , very educated , beautiful , young and enigmatic

I've finished Dumas Sunday , for the next few days I'm going to read House of Chains , it's sooooo good to read Erikson again , I've missed him , Karsa intrigues me , for the moment I quite like him , honestly I'm looking for battles and blood and I guess he's going to gimme what I'm waiting for Posted Image

And after I read Lourdes , of Emile Zola , one of my favorite novelist . Eh , he wrote my favorite book La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Faute_de_l...bb%C3%A9_Mouret

About the celibacy of the priests , I've read it 5 or 6 times , always with such pleasure . Serge Mouret is a moron . Lourdes is in the Les Trois Villes . I've found nothing in english about it , just in french

http://www.ratsdebib...ilelourdes.html

It's about all the mess around Lourdes , and the bussiness . For Zola there's no such things like miracles , he explained the concept of the placebo made by the atmosphere of Lourdes and the state of mind of people . Zola was very critical about all the religion stuff , dunno if he was atheist but religion was not his friend and is a thing I love in him . He had the courage to say what he felt , thought and defend people like Dreyfus . A man who possessed guts , he was also a sexual man (just read Pot-Bouille , La Bête Humaine about a serial killer who kill women after having slept with 'em or in Germinal when someone cut off the penis of a worker) he was called Le Pornographe , and he was feminist Posted Image Love him
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Posted 29 August 2006 - 09:44 AM

I am reading 'Hannibal - Pride of Carthage' - by David Anthony Durham. I finally managed to find a copy!:) I haven't actually started reading it yet, but I will before the nights out and I'm looking forward to it. I've heard that it is exceptional. Shall let you know if it is:D

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And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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