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#1941 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 04:51 PM

Reading Eldest by Christopher Paolini.

For the record, the Eragon book is a lot better than the film...

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 08:59 PM

Fate of the Fallen by Ian Irvine

The Pub is Always Open

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Cursed Summer returns. The Lady Now Sleeps.

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 11:45 PM

Tiste Simeon;149239 said:

Reading Eldest by Christopher Paolini.

For the record, the Eragon book is a lot better than the film...

Like thats anything to go by.

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 11:49 PM

finished the Bonehunters ... compared with his other books it left me disappointed. it felt like too much wandering around to me.

nearing completion of Fragile Things by gaiman. i enjoyed Smoke and Mirrors more but this had some truly great stories in it.

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 11:51 PM

The Darkness That Comes Before - R. Scott Bakker.

Good call so far.

Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.

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Posted 08 January 2007 - 03:51 AM

"The War for Spain" by Antony Beevor

really good read so far about the Spanish Civil War

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Posted 08 January 2007 - 12:01 PM

My study timetable, with horror.

Skipping the first lecture of term to re-read parts of TBH is tempting but I'm not sure it's a great idea....

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Posted 08 January 2007 - 12:53 PM

rereading altered carbon, just finished against a dark background, and have lion of macedonia next:)

#1949 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 08 January 2007 - 01:20 PM

Trouble said:

Like thats anything to go by.

True but watching the movie has made me enjoy the books more...

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#1950 stone monkey

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Posted 08 January 2007 - 02:36 PM

I'm attempting to wade my way through the new Thomas Pynchon...

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

#1951 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 01:03 PM

The Cross of Christ - John Stott.

Very wordy.

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 01:14 PM

finished Winterbirth, which I quite liked although I don't think it was particularly special. Now I have a choice between Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle and The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay. What do you guys think? I haven't read anything by either of them before.

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PS. I'm leaning towards Kay.

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#1953 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 01:46 PM

I read one by Guy Gavriel Kay but I can't remember what it was called. IT is a really old one, and it was meant to be an allegory about Commmunism or something...
I enjoyed it and remember thinking he was a good writer.

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#1954 stone monkey

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 01:52 PM

@ Tiste - I suspect the book you're thinking of is Tigana
@ Sir T. - I'd personally go for the Mary Gentle, it's brilliant. That's not to knock the Kay because that one is his best book IMO.

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 01:55 PM

Hmm, I read Tigana in grade eight - the library sold it to me for 20 cents. When I finished it, I used it to prop up a linen chest that the leg broke off because I pushed it against my door and my dad broke his way in anyway, snapping the leg off the chest in the process...

*casting the shaved knuckle*

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 02:59 PM

stone monkey;149695 said:

@ Tiste - I suspect the book you're thinking of is Tigana
@ Sir T. - I'd personally go for the Mary Gentle, it's brilliant. That's not to knock the Kay because that one is his best book IMO.

Tigana and Communism? Why? Where? :outta:

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Posted 10 January 2007 - 02:30 PM

Shiara;149697 said:

Blasphemy!

I am reading The Art of War ... again. Boring.

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Posted 10 January 2007 - 04:02 PM

Finished The Woves of Calla and started The Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower by S. King).

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Posted 10 January 2007 - 05:10 PM

the darkness that comes before - bakker

reading on a mates recommendation. I am findin it hard to get into. I only read about 15 to 20 pages before i need to put it down. Im hopin that once i get whos who and the various plot gists then i will speed up my readin.......:confused: