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Reading at t'moment?

#401 First Seguleh

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Posted 15 June 2004 - 07:41 AM

Finished: Illium, Dan Simmons. It was really good! I'm now eagerly awaiting the sequel (I'm assuming there is one, the reviews on the back hinted there was). The only thing that bugged me was the muezzin calls in Jerusalem; I think that was more than justifiably steriotypical.

#402 rlfcl

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Posted 01 February 2005 - 01:34 PM

just finished Hobb's "Fool's fate". a few parts i wasnt a fan of, but vastly outweighed by the good parts. a great finish to a great series, and the end of the book, imo, fits the spirit of the whole series very well. gonna miss fitz & the fool, as well as the other great characters in these 6 books.

#403 drosdelnoch

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Posted 15 November 2004 - 09:44 AM

Funnily enough Fanderay I keep dipping into that book, just finished the second Tanya Huff Blood novel, about to start the third.

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Posted 18 July 2004 - 01:24 PM

Poor Calot...we,ve all been there.

Reading Ellisons "Jeffty is Five"...intriguing.

Also reading a ridiculous amount of instruction booklets for my new PC...superfast..zzzzoooommmm etc

@ First. Baxter can be hard to digest. I began to read the "Time...Space" trilogy but gave up. Plot and characters are secondary to his hard SF theories...great ideas...in a textbook.

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Posted 12 September 2004 - 12:48 PM

Now on the huuuge Wizard & Glass

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Posted 09 June 2004 - 12:06 AM

"Windrider's Oath" by Dave Weber. His books are the literary equivalent of junk food- so enjoyable but quite bland, if you know what I mean.

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Posted 19 July 2004 - 10:29 AM

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

#408 Morgoth

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 10:36 AM

Lord of the Flies again.. Have to buy some new books from work one of these days but I know i wont get anything done if i do

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It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil

#409 Rich the Great

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Posted 20 February 2005 - 12:41 PM

Read any novels by Richard Morgan, they are science fiction, but pretty damn fantastic.

#410 Tenaka Khan

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Posted 18 February 2005 - 03:22 AM

Just finished 'The Charnel Prince' by Greg Keyes. NIce book and pretty interesting series up to now.

Gonna start with 'The Ring of 5 Dragons' by Eric van Lustbader, no idea if it's worth the time, but it's the only fantasy series that they actually have in the library so I'll give it a go (got to go easy on the money spending at the moment, poor little student I am... and I don't even want to think abou NoK Posted Image

). Anyone read it?

#411 Murrin

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Posted 05 November 2004 - 02:26 AM

Runes of the Earth! It was delivered earlier this week, I'm starting it today - I just wish I didn't have to wait three years between each new volume of the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

#412 Gothos

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Posted 15 August 2004 - 02:37 PM

just finished 7th "book" (chapter? whatever) of Tucidydes' "Peloponesian war". and damn, what happened to the Athenian army at Syracuse is... well, Germans at Stalingrad ended up the same, these two ongoing battles/wars are like clones. really. from besieging to besieged, cut off, surrounded and annihilated. tough luck for Nicias being executed by the Syracusans, he was a good man.

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.

#413 doolally2au

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Posted 19 September 2004 - 12:06 AM

I can't remember the last time I posted here. I've been on a bit of a Charles de Lint binge again. I read "Waifs and Strays", "Tapping the Dream Tree" and re-read "Jack the Giant Killer", "Drink Down the Moon", "The Riddle of the Wren" and "The Harp of the Grey Rose". Binge over for now.

And this morning I just finished "Excession" by Iain M Banks. I think I like this one best so far of his novels I've read. Some of the interactions of the ships made me laugh aloud.

I'm not sure what to start next - maybe Natural History by Justina Robson.

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly

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Posted 15 June 2004 - 03:33 AM

Yeah, i've been hearing good things about Hobb so i thought it was time to see what the fuss is about Posted Image

Shadowkings is Cobley's first fantasy novel, so it should be interesting to see what it's like. Heard this book is is a pretty good read too. The second book of the trilogy is out now and i think the final book is out later this year.

#415 Satan

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Posted 13 July 2004 - 02:20 AM

reading my first eddings book. something destiny something.

Legalise drugs! And murder!

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Posted 14 June 2004 - 03:19 PM

At least you got real women.

*shudders*

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Posted 11 November 2004 - 07:45 AM

@ caladanbrood - lifes too short to read crap.

There was another series, Janny Wurtz, that started superb but its gone the same way. Something about light and dark, good and bad, same old same old. Cant even be bothered to look up name.