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Reading at t'moment?

#841 User is offline   RodeoRanch 

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Posted 08 February 2005 - 03:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Pale Remnants:
..give me the Conch ( In Joke )


Ha! I got it! I'm in the In! Posted Image

Besides reading countless boring textbooks, I've been reading "Funeral Games"
by MARY RENAULT
It's the tale of Alexander the Great's successors and the civil wars that tore apart his empire. Fascinating stuff.
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Posted 11 November 2004 - 12:53 PM

@Simeon - Incompetence is a good read. Colony is also very good. Possibly better, certainly closer to his Red Dwarf writing rootsPosted Image
O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.
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#843 User is offline   Murrin 

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Posted 19 December 2004 - 01:13 PM

'Reave the Just and Other Tales', by Stephen R Donaldson. I can't believe I've waited this long to read some of Donaldson's short stories - 'The Killing Stroke' alone was worth buying the whole set.
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Posted 15 August 2004 - 06:10 PM

I'm being bored to tears in reading "The Saxon Shore" by Jack Whyte.

A very interesting premise with the Arthurian legend but holy crap, his books are just damn dull and boring. I read the books about 5 years ago and decided to give them another go. My mistake. THey're still crap.
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Posted 22 September 2004 - 11:01 AM

Just finished "Island In the Sea Of Time" An excellent time travel/alternate history novel. Great characters, set pieces and research.And just bought the sequel "Against The Tide of Years ".

http://www.smstirling.com/

Reading China Mievilles "Iron Council"...no explanation needed, surely ?
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Posted 18 February 2005 - 03:36 AM

Nearly finished In Your Dreams by Tom Holt.

Pretty good so i've bought a couple more books by him.
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Posted 20 January 2005 - 01:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Tiste Simeon:
Reading the bible...

What are the legends books like? I saw Legends II in the shops, and thought it looked OK.


basically a book where some of the most famous fantasy authors present a short story each, taking place in their most famous worlds.. I liked legend II although the McCaffery one was just bad..

I'm done with Marx now, started on the name of the rose by Umberto Eco
Take good care to keep relations civil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil
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Posted 12 September 2004 - 12:56 PM

I've got three books on the go right now:

Philosophy Of Wicca by Amber Laine Fisher. I picked this up a couple weeks ago for some background reading, it's quite interesting.

Writings of the young Marx on Philosophy and Society. The title pretty much explains this book.

Midnight Tides. Yes, I know it's shameful I haven't finished this months ago, but I've been preoccupied. I basically pick it up on any free moments I get.
And so the First denied their Mother,
in their fury, and so were cast out,
doomed children of Mother Dark.
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Posted 03 September 2004 - 05:15 AM

Nightwatch - Terry pradchett

Not one of his best, but still a fair read.
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Posted 19 January 2005 - 04:03 AM

Reading the bible...

What are the legends books like? I saw Legends II in the shops, and thought it looked OK.
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
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Posted 19 July 2004 - 09:06 AM

@Pale
I could handle the Manifold series, though I thought Origin was a bit dodgy... have you noticed how some science fiction authors start to develop obsessions with early humans? It scares me someitmes...
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Posted 04 February 2005 - 04:41 PM

nice subversion of Jordan to the almost-as-****ty-and-bombastic Williams there. Kudos are in order.

Marduk's pile of excellence not subverted to the low:

God Talks with Arjuna
The Dhammapada
The Upanishads
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Tai-Pan
The Trial
On War (**** clausewitz)
The Prince
The Divine Comedy
The Book of Five Rings
The Communist Manifesto (no ****... everyone needs a laugh sometime)
Wealth of Nations
The Republic
The Leviathan
Poetics (though I might touch that after slogging through the east)
Four Plays by Aristophanes : The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
The Histories
Fall of the Republic
The Art of Horsemanship -Xenophon
Lepanto 1571
Gunpowder and Galleys
Rossback and Leuthen
Kolin
The Islamic World in Ascendancy
The Darkness that Comes Before
The Warrior Prophet
The Thousandfold Thought


clever, aint I?

and bored, dont forget bored.
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Posted 04 February 2005 - 10:32 PM

i know you were all wondering it, what is rlfcl reading? heres my list

hegemony or survival
shake hands with the devil
the iliad
the odyssey
(the rest of) inferno
midnight tides
sacred hunger
about 8 books on the spanish civil war (essay)
the commie manifesto as well (i'm forced to argue with trendo-communists alot)
manufacturing consent
(the rest of) the aenid
rise and fall of the third reich
god emperor of dune
strip jack
faust
foundation & empire
the anabasis
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Posted 16 January 2005 - 10:27 AM

Have to agree on Hobb I began "Farseer" and was bored to tears after 200+ pages. It was painfully slow and trad.Mrs Pale likes her Megan Lindholm penned novels. This is not a recommendation.

Kiss my Face.grrr

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Posted 14 October 2004 - 06:10 AM

Bakker's "The Prince of Nothing". So far so good.

- Abyss, was put off by the 'language-chart' thing.
THIS IS YOUR REMINDER THAT THERE IS A
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT
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Posted 28 July 2004 - 06:49 AM

Currently reading: Steven Erikson - House Of Chains, Antony Beevor - Stalingrad, Terry Pratchett - Hogfather.
Next in line: Steven Erikson - Midnight Tides, Iain M. Banks - Use Of Weapons, Jan Guillou - Crusades trilogy, Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!
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#857 User is offline   Mort 

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 01:53 PM

@pale - Rankin is very good. The first couple are standard fare, I started reading from about book 9 and it is very good from there on - dark, existential... my sort of stuff.

The writing is pretty good as well.
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Posted 28 July 2004 - 03:47 PM

Re-reading the Reynolds books - why - 'cos I can...

Perusing the Chomsky Reader when inclination strikes
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Posted 20 October 2004 - 05:10 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Nakijo:
Currently reading _Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell_ by Susanna Clarke. Amazing book!

That one is on my list. Good to hear it's a fine book. Posted Image

I've been reading
World History of Warfare - by Christon I. Archer, John R. Ferris, Holger H. Herwig, Timothy H. E. Travers. Whew, crap load of names there.

Also
The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378 by Ammianus Marcellinus.

Marcellinus is a damn interesting writer, even more so considering he's been dead for over 1500 years. Posted Image
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Posted 07 June 2004 - 10:51 PM

Finished Colours in the Steel

Now reading the third Tale of the Otori by Lian Hearn. Called Brilliance of the Moon
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