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#461 doolally2au

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Posted 01 December 2004 - 01:00 AM

Whoa, I was thinking of re-reading MoI or the Riddle Master series - maybe I've got a psychic connection to Murrin?????

I just finished "The Grand Tour" by Patrica Wrede and Caroline Stevemer, so I went and re-read Sorcery & Cecelia, Mairelon the Magician and The Magician's Ward. I'm about to start "The Wild Wood" by Charles de Lint.

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly

#462 Murrin

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Posted 26 August 2004 - 01:11 PM

Finally got Chaos and Order - i'm finding that the later Gap books don't have the same tesnion as The Real Story and Forbidden Knowledge, but they're still good.

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Posted 27 June 2004 - 04:20 PM

Finished up Song of Susannah by King. Awesome book. I can't wait for the final book. To paraphrase Cory Doctorow: I would crawl over broken glass in order to read it.

Starting Lord Foul's Bane by Donaldson. I have never read TC in all the years of being a fantasy fan. Figured this is a good time to do the 1st and 2nd chron before the 3rd chrons come out this fall.

Waiting for Iron Council by Mieville to come out later this week. I'll be starting that right after I get it.

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Posted 17 February 2005 - 06:14 PM

Just finished China MiÃƒÂ¨villes "Perdido Street Station". Wonderful. For the first time in ages I got myself a book that challenged my English skills the first couple of chapters.

Gonna start of "The Scar" by the same author now.

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Posted 22 August 2004 - 11:44 AM

They dont buy it to give to you...they buy it to have on hand to be checked out by people...the first of whom just miraculously happens to be you Posted Image

and thanks for the link

and someone said it...I think Posted Image

or maybe not...

#466 Tsundoku

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Posted 04 March 2005 - 03:44 AM

Currently reading "Obsession" by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. JD is the guy who developed profiling of serial criminals for the FBI. Previous books are "Mindhunter" and "Journey into Darkness".
This one's about serial rapist/killers, but also how to have an active defence against being targetted by them without barring all the windows and going super-paranoid. Interesting stuff.

Finally finished Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome" series. Great stuff, but oh, those confusing Roman names!

Going to try to get back into "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds next.

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#467 Shiara

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 03:15 AM

Just finished readin Hello Missus. Am contemplating reading Midnight Tides again Posted Image

@RodeoRanch - Go the Hobbit!!! *hopes peter jackson gets the rights*

*casting the shaved knuckle*

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Posted 08 June 2004 - 08:31 AM

rereading WOT series by Jordan. Bloody hell, it's even more unnerving the second time! but I shall not give up !!

And Caesar's Bello Gallico. great stuff. Enough ideas in that book to create a whole fantasy series

#469 RodeoRanch

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Posted 07 June 2004 - 09:56 AM

Wuthering Heights damn near drained my will to live. Lord, I dislike that book! Posted Image

Still reading Deadhouse Gates.

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Posted 23 October 2004 - 01:38 PM

@rlfcl. Actually "Stardust" is the only novel of his I've not read ( I think it's more of a trad kids fairytale...nothing wrong in that of course )

The best short story in Smoke and Mirrors is the HP Lovecraft spoof "Old Shoggoths peculiar". Ther are a few tales I've not read which i'm polishing off in the next few days.Can't remember the one with the wall...perhaps it's the one with the Troll under the bridge ?

#471 rlfcl

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Posted 14 January 2005 - 11:56 PM

@ brood, only if you first explain to me what a choon is, and why i should drop it

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Posted 09 February 2005 - 04:32 PM

Finished Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
-It's a shame he never finished that Dirk Gently book, wondered where it would go next. Funny too, and still nicely written even though it wasn't properly finished.

Currently reading: Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
-I've had this for perhaps a year and still I haven't read it. Looking forward to reading more of this.

Does anyone in the UK order from Play.com for books? Amazon's cost for P&P is too high (Ã‚Â£3ish)if you just want one book. What I'd like to know is, How are the despatch times (Compared to the other stuff on play), Time it usually takes to get to you (again, compared to play's other stuff) and how they are with despatching pre-ordered books?

#473 First Seguleh

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Posted 04 June 2004 - 05:14 AM

They deleted the old topic! Inconcievable!
Reading (as well as Wuthering Heights): Paladin of Souls, Bujold. I got half way through WH and thought I deserved something nice and easy to read Posted Image

#474 Asheroth

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Posted 07 December 2004 - 08:39 PM

A huge bunch of Preliminary Readings for my Modern History course next year Posted Image

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Posted 03 June 2004 - 07:00 PM

Gregory Benford - In the Ocean of Night

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Posted 19 December 2004 - 07:28 PM

@brood
About halfway through The Algebraist now and it is excellent. It is one of his more intellectual books. He has seriously amped up the language. Some of his books allow you to float gently if you want to, but this one requires full concentration (at least for moi)

@Fool
Yep. Banks uses this technique often. Almost all of his flashbacks are sequenced chronologically, however, and most are continuous. An example is the current book which had two storylines running at one point - both about the same characters but with a number of years in between. The reader swaps back and forth a number of times, but each time returns to where they left off and proceeds forward chronologically. It is just like swapping between leading characters every alternate chapter or so

#477 First Seguleh

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Posted 20 July 2004 - 09:32 AM

I've been reading lots of Bujold books recently, because I can't be bothered to go to the library.
Two things:
Miles gets married!
Last day of term!

#478 RodeoRanch

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Posted 16 January 2005 - 10:34 AM

That man scares me on many levels. Posted Image

I'm now reading "LIBRARY OF HISTORY VOL. IX (BOOKS XVIII-XIX.65)" byDIODORUS SICULUS

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 04:09 AM

@ RR. "The Hobbit" was one of the first books to introduce me to Fantasy ,along with "Magicians of Verona" and a great yarn ta boot.Tolkien was a bit of an ol' hack but the Hobbit is great young reading.

"Iron Council" is picking up now...about a third left.

Listening to : "Strontium Dog far from Heaven"
http://www.bbc.co.uk...dio/index.shtml

#480 Chaos

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Posted 31 January 2005 - 05:26 AM

just finished reading the fool's fate by robin hobb and i'm very very glad to say that its more on par with her assasin trilogy than the rather dissapointing/slow books the preceded the FF in the tawny man trilogy. i'll say one thing for sure, she can't half write a decent ending Posted Image