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Gem Windcaster;218420 said:
Interesting. I actually liked no.6 the best.
Me too...
Reading at t'moment?
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Posted 01 November 2007 - 02:13 PM
My name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk... or something along those lines anyways, don't have the book in front of me
Take good care to keep relations civil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil
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Posted 01 November 2007 - 06:04 PM
Finished "Braided Path", currently starting "Acacia" by Durnham...
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:
And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 02 November 2007 - 01:11 PM
Ooh, I was debating starting Acacia, but opted instead for The Golden Compass.
OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.
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Posted 02 November 2007 - 01:22 PM
McLovin;219325 said:
Ooh, I was debating starting Acacia, but opted instead for The Golden Compass.
Which is actually called Northern Lights. Strange America with its irritating renaming habit :hand:
*casting the shaved knuckle*
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Posted 02 November 2007 - 01:33 PM
House of M, by Brian Michael Bendis.
Yes, it's a comic book, but it's still a book dammit!
Yes, it's a comic book, but it's still a book dammit!
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Posted 03 November 2007 - 11:50 PM
Just finished "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. Very good! Kinda like the Vietnam war in space, only that I have actually no clue how that one was, because I wasn't born then. But everyone knows the according movies and such, right?
Currently reading nothing, but I'm starting to think that I could re-read the whole malazan thing again. Maybe...
Currently reading nothing, but I'm starting to think that I could re-read the whole malazan thing again. Maybe...
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Posted 05 November 2007 - 06:52 PM
Shiara;219332 said:
Which is actually called Northern Lights. Strange America with its irritating renaming habit :hand:
I originally thought that, but the truth is stranger. The original name of the series was going to be The Golden Compasses - as in the compasses a medieval architect would have used - implying God as Geometer. Pullman changed the series title to the Milton quote, but his worldwide publishers kept to The Golden Compass, as they thought it referred to the Alethiometer. In the majority of the world it's still called that.
Anyway. I'm reading Kafka's The Trial at the mo, and will be digging out my rather nice collected edition of His Dark Materials to read before the film is released.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. … So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. Bertrand Russell
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Posted 05 November 2007 - 09:37 PM
Yeah, it got me: I'm reading GotM again. Started yesterday evening and since i've a ton of other things to do, it most likely will take me at least until New Year to get through to the end of Reapers Gale again. And then what? Still most of the year to come until TttH gets out. That seriously sucks!
Could anyone help me out with some fine Science-Fiction maybe?
Could anyone help me out with some fine Science-Fiction maybe?
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Posted 05 November 2007 - 10:36 PM
I'm currently re-reading all my books by Andrzej Sapkowski. Now I'm in the middle of the sixth book of the Geralt series.. Aah, that's wonderful, I love Sapkowski's writing.
Puck was not birthed, she was cleaved from a lava flow and shaped by a fierce god's hands. - [worry]
Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]
Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]
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Posted 05 November 2007 - 10:43 PM
@ puck-I've heard lots about him, and apparently I have one of his Story collections- "Ostatnie życzenie" (I've finally finished organising the SFF portion of my gigantic 4 gig Library Manager4)... I heard a lot of praise for him from Russian reviewers, but the only thing available in Canada in English is a rather small tome labelled "The Witcher" (and frankly, after seeing the English synopsis for the "Nightwatch" series that I own in its original, Russian form, I'm wary of translations from that part of the world)...
So a question to you--where'd you get your books from?
So a question to you--where'd you get your books from?
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:
And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 05 November 2007 - 11:31 PM
Just finished alystair reynolds, pushing ice. Good effort. You kind of want to scream at some of the characters, but I like the idea (the whole futility of everything because of the vastness of time)
Also reading:
Bonehunters. I imagine I'm a bit behind most people here!
R. Scott Bakker: Warrior Prophet. Great series, get it read.
Reynolds again: glactic north.
Non fiction wise I'm on an atheist polemic binge:
Chris Hitchens, god is not great. But this book is. Read it, especially if youre religious.
The God delusion by everyones favourite celebrity atheist.
The Dawkins delusion by alister macgrath. Gotta hear both sides, havent you? (If youre right, you should be able to take it on, and if youre wrong you should find out why, so you can be right
). The title amused me anyway.
Sam Harris, the end of faith. I'm finding this guy quite obnoxious actually. Something of a totalitarian himself, and I think he simplifies things too much.
Also reading:
Bonehunters. I imagine I'm a bit behind most people here!
R. Scott Bakker: Warrior Prophet. Great series, get it read.
Reynolds again: glactic north.
Non fiction wise I'm on an atheist polemic binge:
Chris Hitchens, god is not great. But this book is. Read it, especially if youre religious.
The God delusion by everyones favourite celebrity atheist.
The Dawkins delusion by alister macgrath. Gotta hear both sides, havent you? (If youre right, you should be able to take it on, and if youre wrong you should find out why, so you can be right
). The title amused me anyway. Sam Harris, the end of faith. I'm finding this guy quite obnoxious actually. Something of a totalitarian himself, and I think he simplifies things too much.
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Posted 06 November 2007 - 01:47 AM
Just finished K. J. Parker's Devices and Desires.
The premise is interesting enough: An engineer is sentenced to death for a petty transgression of Guild law. After murdering some of his captors to save his life, leaving his wife and daughter behind he is forced into exile.
Devices and Desires is an intelligent read filled with intrigue. Throughout the novel it is evident that the story shows a lot of potential. However, the author doesn't always deliver.
Still, I'm curious to read Evil for Evil and The Escapement. Though it suffers from a number of shortcomings, Devices and Desires was compelling enough to intrigue me in a way that makes me want to discover what happens next. . .
Check out the blog for the full review.
Patrick
The premise is interesting enough: An engineer is sentenced to death for a petty transgression of Guild law. After murdering some of his captors to save his life, leaving his wife and daughter behind he is forced into exile.
Devices and Desires is an intelligent read filled with intrigue. Throughout the novel it is evident that the story shows a lot of potential. However, the author doesn't always deliver.
Still, I'm curious to read Evil for Evil and The Escapement. Though it suffers from a number of shortcomings, Devices and Desires was compelling enough to intrigue me in a way that makes me want to discover what happens next. . .
Check out the blog for the full review.
Patrick
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