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#782 Guest_nakijo_*
Posted 16 September 2004 - 05:32 PM
Now reading Joel Shepherd's second Cassandra Kresnov novel, Breakaway. His writing just gets better and better
#783 Guest_allwilldie_*
Posted 28 August 2004 - 08:58 AM
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Originally posted by Unoriginal:
Reading 'Salems Lot now and already a much better novel than "Neuromancer"
Indeed it is, Salem's Lot is fantastic, enjoy.
#784 Guest_Fool_*
Posted 17 December 2004 - 03:27 AM
Are all banks books written in the same structure?
IE. story scene - flashback - repeat until over.
IE. story scene - flashback - repeat until over.
#785 Guest_Sorry_*
Posted 05 February 2005 - 06:04 PM
The DaVinci code is not bad, but Angels and Demons I thought the better of the two. I have Otherland on my reading list right now.
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Posted 19 August 2004 - 06:58 AM
the nameless day- sara douglas
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Posted 16 August 2004 - 02:00 AM
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Originally posted by Marduk:
during, before... close enough(though wasnt it while they were in southern italy that the Salaminia came with the summons?
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yup! and that's during the campaign already, don't you think?
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
#788 Guest_Pale Remnants_*
Posted 13 July 2004 - 02:29 PM
@Mort. I think the heavy heavt satire of Market Forces put me off readingit. Also the drivel that was Broken Angels.
Perhaps in a few years when my satiric funnybpone returns , i'll give it a go.
Just finishing off "making History " by Styephen Fry . Probably the most intelligent and funny time travel/alternate history novel i've ever read.
Perhaps in a few years when my satiric funnybpone returns , i'll give it a go.
Just finishing off "making History " by Styephen Fry . Probably the most intelligent and funny time travel/alternate history novel i've ever read.
#790 Guest_Fyren_*
Posted 13 July 2004 - 06:03 AM
just finished "Midnight tides" a few days ago 
now i'm on to "a brief history of time" by stephen hawking. I loved his other book, "the universe in a nutshell"
now i'm on to "a brief history of time" by stephen hawking. I loved his other book, "the universe in a nutshell"
#791 Guest_Duiker_*
Posted 28 June 2004 - 03:54 PM
Just finished Trainspotting which has been on my shelf for at least five years. Never got into it but I finally penetrated Welsh' style (took me a while) and from then on it was unputdownable. As always, forget the cool movie, the cool book is way way better.
#792 Guest_AR_*
Posted 21 November 2004 - 03:54 AM
Still reading The Dark Tower.
Also reading the Highway Code, poor me.
Also reading the Highway Code, poor me.
#793 Guest_Pale Remnants_*
Posted 22 July 2004 - 11:22 AM
Like all Tads work, overblown and overwritten "Otherland" was a joke.
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Posted 28 August 2004 - 02:42 AM
just finished 'the salmon of doubt' by douglas adams. now, I really got the impression that he'd already written a dirk gently novel before that. am I wrong?
starting on 'to reign in hell' by some...uhm...american I think. the book is upstairs, and I can't be arsed to go get it.
starting on 'to reign in hell' by some...uhm...american I think. the book is upstairs, and I can't be arsed to go get it.
Legalise drugs! And murder!
#795 Guest_allwilldie_*
Posted 03 September 2004 - 11:38 AM
Misery - Stephen King. This is the third time I've read this and obviously I love it. Just the very claustaphobic feel that makes it so different from King's other books.
#796 Guest_Pale Remnants_*
Posted 01 March 2005 - 12:10 AM
Finished "The Scooby Da Vinci Doo Code". As I expected; a muddled cop out of an ending.Some interesting ideas but far too mainstream for my tastes.
EDIT : Reading "Warrior Prophet" Bk Two of R Scott Bakkers Prince Of Nothing. Just published in the UK.
EDIT : Reading "Warrior Prophet" Bk Two of R Scott Bakkers Prince Of Nothing. Just published in the UK.
#797 Guest_Fool_*
Posted 22 August 2004 - 11:21 AM
Eh, i wish my library had that book.
Reading "On War" by clausewitz... again.
Reading "On War" by clausewitz... again.
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Posted 06 January 2005 - 05:00 AM
I just spent a couple of days reading "Exultant: Destiny's Children Pt2" by Stephen Baxter and "Iron Council" by China Mieville. Both of which were very good; in fact "Iron Council" may be Mieville's best work to date IMO.
I'm also mid way thru "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" which I bought a couple of weeks ago. It's been fairly heavy going for me as 20+ years ago I developed something of an antipathy to the 19th Century idiom (via having to study "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist" in English Lit. class.) I've managed to put that behind me and have rattled through 400 or so pages in the last couple of days and, to my surprise (or should that be surprize) am quite enjoying it.
I'm also mid way thru "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" which I bought a couple of weeks ago. It's been fairly heavy going for me as 20+ years ago I developed something of an antipathy to the 19th Century idiom (via having to study "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist" in English Lit. class.) I've managed to put that behind me and have rattled through 400 or so pages in the last couple of days and, to my surprise (or should that be surprize) am quite enjoying it.
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
#799 Guest_Pale Remnants_*
Posted 02 December 2004 - 12:37 PM
@Fan : Yes my PSCRIPTS 2 arrived over a week ago. Not read any of it yet. Apart from a non fiction article on conventions by Rob Silverberg.Pretty good.
#800 Guest_Duiker_*
Posted 03 July 2004 - 05:33 PM
Just finished The Big U which was vitage Neal Stephenson (or, in other words, two thumbs up) now on to the positively weird Catch-22.
