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  1. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    Yesterday, 02:10 PM

    On the cosy note, I'm currently about halfway through Peter S Beagle's (he of The Last Unicorn fame) A Fine and Private Place. It's lovely.

    It's about the residents and community (living and dead) in and around a graveyard. It was his debut novel and it's ridiculous that he wrote this at something like 19. It's very whimsical and you can see the beginnings of the wry observation and slightly off-kilter humour that The Last Unicorn is full of.

    My version has a foreword by Neil Gaiman, sadly, but it serves as a reminder that Beagle did everything Gaiman is known for decades before and (in my opinion at least) better - and isn't a problematic monster into the bargain.

  2. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    Yesterday, 08:00 AM

    View PostMacros, on 26 November 2025 - 07:49 PM, said:

    The hobbling made me want to set down Eriksons work and never pick it up again.
    I will never reread anything beyond RG (my dislike of TTH is separate but the last two books, nope fuck you Steve)


    Very, very nearly did the same thing on my first time through. I confess when I re-read the series (which I haven't done for years now) I skipped that part.

    I also think a similar reaction to

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    is what turned me off the Kharkanas trilogy.

    I've noticed my tolerance for "bleak" has very much shifted as I've gotten older. I used to "cope" (not sure that's the right word) with it when I felt it fit story and setting, but now I'm actively turned off by bleak stories (which I think is why I stalled around BH in my last Malazan re-read and have felt no desire to try it again since - despite having re-read it five or six times prior to then). I think particularly with books I have less time for reading than I did so it's mostly escapism, and I think I've hit a point of just not really being interested in reading that's as bleak/bleaker than the real world I'm attempting escape from.

    Having said that Watership Down remains one of my favourite books and Mr NAB thinks there must be something wrong with me as such (guess who watched the film too young?) - so perhaps it's not quite so clear cut.

  3. In Topic: JPK's Classics Read

    14 November 2025 - 09:23 AM

    View PostJPK, on 13 November 2025 - 04:39 PM, said:

    Please let the new Mummy movie be good. Please let the new Mummy movie be good. Please let the new Mummy movie be good.


    Amen!

  4. In Topic: JPK's Classics Read

    13 November 2025 - 01:09 PM

    Having said that, Van Helsing is one of those films I know is objectively terrible and an absolute travesty to the source character, but I kind of enjoy it anyway. I can neither explain nor justify it even to myself!

    On the book, I studied Dracula in school and enjoyed reading it again as an adult. Haven't ever gotten round to Frankenstein but it's on my list to do so!

  5. In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread

    11 November 2025 - 08:42 AM

    Can't link a trailer as Youtube doesn't work on my work system, but the film adaption of H is for Hawk is coming in January.

    I really loved the book when I read it (it's about a woman who deals with the grief of losing her dad by raising a goshawk) and Claire Foy is playing the lead. I'd have watched it regardless but I've yet to see Foy in anything where I didn't think she stole the show, so I'm doubly excited.

    Brendan Gleeson is playing her dad too.

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    TheRetiredBridgeburner 

    03 Nov 2025 - 07:41
    Thanks so much! :)
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    Tsundoku 

    02 Nov 2025 - 01:41
    happy happy happy thingy
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    Tsundoku 

    01 Nov 2024 - 21:01
    Good lawd, is it that time of the year again? I swear they are going faster.
    Hope you have a great one and you get all the good things :)
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    Tsundoku 

    01 Nov 2023 - 19:29
    happy birthday TRB :)
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    TheRetiredBridgeburner 

    02 Nov 2022 - 09:16
    Thanks! :D
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    Tsundoku 

    01 Nov 2022 - 20:11
    Happy another one :)
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    TheRetiredBridgeburner 

    02 Nov 2021 - 06:38
    Thank you! :D
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    Tsundoku 

    01 Nov 2021 - 20:00
    another one, have a great day
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    Tsundoku 

    01 Nov 2020 - 20:32
    happy birthday falcon girl
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    Tsundoku 

    02 Nov 2018 - 10:23
    Happy birthday Hermione
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    Toc_theyounger 

    28 Nov 2015 - 19:16
    What Hoosier said. Loved your reading sessions on Youtube. Do you still do them (I ask because I'm hoping for more)
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    HoosierDaddy 

    07 Aug 2015 - 08:22
    Your videos on YouTube are awesome. It's always different hearing the voices in another person's tone and accent. Really enjoyed them, thanks so much!
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    TheRetiredBridgeburner 

    17 May 2013 - 06:41
    Aww thanks very much, you know those videos only started because the Malazan fans on Tumblr dared me... then they just kept going with request haha! I should really do a new one :)
    How are you? :)
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    Studious Lock 

    17 May 2013 - 00:35
    Hey! Just popping in to say well done on the blog! Also randomly found you on youtube completely by accident. Really enjoyed the quotes vid :)
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