Reading at t'moment?

#2121 Tif the Barber Boy

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Posted 01 May 2007 - 07:43 AM

Trouble;180550 said:

heheheh

Yes... that too.

#2122 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 01 May 2007 - 11:34 AM

Great, now I'm giggling like kid in the school staffroom. A Roman Catholic school as well... how am I going to explain this one, Trouble?

Still on Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow but I am deliberately trying to read it slowly so I finish it just in time for Reapers Gale.

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#2123 Aptorian

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Posted 01 May 2007 - 11:48 AM

Tiste Simeon;180582 said:

Still on Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow but I am deliberately trying to read it slowly so I finish it just in time for Reapers Gale.

Are the novels actually any good? Cause the film made me want to punch babies...

#2124 Dr Trouble

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Posted 01 May 2007 - 01:27 PM

Tiste Simeon;180582 said:

Great, now I'm giggling like kid in the school staffroom. A Roman Catholic school as well... how am I going to explain this one, Trouble?

Still on Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow but I am deliberately trying to read it slowly so I finish it just in time for Reapers Gale.

Roman Catholic? You're on your own dude ... /flees!

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Posted 01 May 2007 - 01:34 PM

Been reading Conventions of War by Walter Jon Williams for the past 3 months, and still only halfway through (kids still not sleeping regularly through the night

) Man, I've got such an enormous backlog of books I may not even order Reaper's Gale - *slaps self* - what am I saying???

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

#2126 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 01 May 2007 - 01:36 PM

Aptorian said:

Are the novels actually any good? Cause the film made me want to punch babies...

They're not related to the film. I am enjoying it atm, but then Reapers Gale does come out next week, so it might just be flung to the "bleh" pile...

Trouble said:

Roman Catholic? You're on your own dude ... /flees!

Luckily no-one noticed me giggling away in the corner and I got away with it... could have been bad though...

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 01:37 AM

to ride hell's chasm by...

bugger. who is it by again? i gotta get home and cheack the author.

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 03:15 AM

Reading the US Midnight Tides release, along with a book (for fun) on evolutionary development and a book (for work) on soil formation and geomorphology.

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 05:10 AM

Tiste Simeon;180622 said:

I am enjoying it atm

You're enjoying it ass-to-mouth? :eek: I don't think this is the proper thread to discuss that.

Thankfully, I don't think there is a proper thread.

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#2130 Shiara

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 12:31 PM

Just started reading Perdido Street Station. It's... weird...

*casting the shaved knuckle*

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 12:33 PM

Shiara;180958 said:

Just started reading Perdido Street Station. It's... weird...

Heh. Tell me what you think, will you? I like the steam-punk setting, but I'm half-way through with no desire to pick it back up. Not a bad story, but not all that thrilling after reading about Ned Kelly.

#2132 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 02:02 PM

Raymond Luxury Yacht said:

You're enjoying it ass-to-mouth? :eek: I don't think this is the proper thread to discuss that.

Thankfully, I don't think there is a proper thread.

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You're so farting funny...

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#2133 Dr Trouble

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 03:37 PM

Shiara;180958 said:

Just started reading Perdido Street Station. It's... weird...

Me too. In between my Dresden Novels I've started reading Mievilles novels ... I thought that one was his first published so bought it.

So far I am wierded out with the guy having sex with the half human half bug, but hey, if it works for him...

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 05:25 PM

Half through The Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakow now. It's.. strange. I like the black cat.

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 05:52 PM

Trouble - I wouldn't really describe Mieville as "a pick-me-up", personally, but there we go. I like PSS, but the ending is... shockingly bad. Can't really say more without spoilers, but I don't understand how he can have written it, after the rest of the book that comes before.

Just started Abercrombie's The Blade Itself, but will likely not finish it this time round, as I've got quite a bit of work to do, and RG will be here within the next week at most.

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 08:04 PM

I'm half-way through The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Caroll. Quite funny so far.

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Posted 02 May 2007 - 08:10 PM

I loooved reading Perdido Street station and I thought the sequel Scar was even Cooler (I refuse to acknowledge Iron Counsil).

I thought China brought a very fresh new wiew on how to write fantasy. It's extremely weird but a very cool stroty, Oddly enough I thought the ending was very fitting if not perhaps attached as an afterthought when finished.