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Reply #25 on: September 22, 2006, 02:00:38 AM
Cheers - I've heard that from quite a few places now so there must be something going for it.
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Reply #26 on: September 22, 2006, 05:15:21 AM
American Gods by Neil Gaimen
Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister by Gregory McGuire
Pyramids by Terry Pratchet
I hope last night doesn't wake up this morning and tell tomorrow what I've done

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Reply #27 on: September 23, 2006, 01:01:19 AM
Olympus - Dan Simmons
"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

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Reply #28 on: October 04, 2006, 12:11:33 AM
Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay

Finished up Night Watch yesterday. :lurk:
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Reply #29 on: October 04, 2006, 01:09:52 AM
L.A. Confidential

Damn, it's pulpy to the extreme.
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

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Reply #30 on: October 04, 2006, 06:31:22 AM
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L.A. Confidential

Damn, it's pulpy to the extreme.
Watch the movie. Its absolutely fantasticly pulpy as well!
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Reply #31 on: October 04, 2006, 11:21:33 AM
On to the Warrior Prophet by Bakker - having real trouble giving a shit. Aside from Kellhus and Achamian (although less and less at every page) I cannot seem to care one way or the other for any of the characters. Which is a shame, because the writing is good.
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Reply #32 on: October 04, 2006, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: Star
Quote from: Genome
L.A. Confidential

Damn, it's pulpy to the extreme.
Watch the movie. Its absolutely fantasticly pulpy as well!
Seen it twice. I think I liked it a bit more than the book though. Probably because you don't have to put up with Ellroy's horrible descriptions of things.
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

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Reply #33 on: October 29, 2006, 10:36:28 PM
Neal Asher - The Skinner
There's a lot to be said for wilful ignorance.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

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Reply #34 on: October 29, 2006, 10:52:49 PM
Michael Hill - The Public Policy Process

Without a doubt the most annoying book I've read in weeks. :D
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That David played, and it pleased the Lord
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Reply #35 on: October 30, 2006, 12:50:06 AM
[Edit] Wrong thread! :D [/Edit]

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Reply #36 on: October 30, 2006, 12:52:13 AM
Terry Pratchett - Thud!

Awesome. :D
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Reply #37 on: October 30, 2006, 12:53:08 AM
Thud! was great! :D

How far have you gotten?
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Reply #38 on: October 30, 2006, 12:57:46 AM
Halfway. Vimes has just learnt how to play. :)
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Reply #39 on: October 30, 2006, 08:25:21 AM
alastair reynolds - pushing ice
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Reply #40 on: October 30, 2006, 09:02:37 AM
Still on The Count of Monte Cristo.

Concurrently reading:

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon K. Penman. Revisionist historical novel on Richard III.

Grunts! by Mary Gentle. Fantasy humour: the fight between good and evil as seen through the eyes of an orcish warband who discover a cache of modern weapons

Katherine Swynford: The History of a Medieval Mistress by Jeanette Lucraft. About John of Gaunt's mistress, whose blood runs through the veins of the British royal family to this day.
"You've just had a heavy session of electro-shock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. All those childhood traumas, magically wiped away - along with most of your personality."

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Reply #41 on: October 30, 2006, 09:25:06 AM
I have given up on The Warrior Prophet (for the moment at least) and started in on a reread of Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy.
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Reply #42 on: October 30, 2006, 12:53:54 PM
Stephen Graham Jones - Demon Theory

A horror slasher in the guise of a moviescript with footnotes all over. The writer definitely had a look at House of Leaves before he wrote it, but it is different enough to not be derivative...
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Reply #43 on: December 07, 2006, 11:59:06 PM
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago
I remember that it rained for years / And the blood, it left a stain

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Reply #44 on: December 08, 2006, 12:17:23 AM
Robin Hobb - Shaman’s Crossing
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Reply #45 on: December 08, 2006, 12:11:34 AM
Daniel C Dennett and Douglas R Hofstadter - The Mind's I
Hong's 1st law:  "It's only the other people who are munchkins"
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Reply #46 on: December 08, 2006, 10:23:41 AM
Robin Hobb - Forest mage (nearly done)
Whatever you say, emo-boy. /wrists

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Reply #47 on: December 08, 2006, 04:00:45 PM
Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio
There's a lot to be said for wilful ignorance.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

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Reply #48 on: December 09, 2006, 02:37:13 AM
just finished elizabeth kostova's historian, now onto the well of lost plots by jasper fforde.
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Reply #49 on: December 22, 2006, 03:57:29 PM
from instinct to identity: the development of personality = louis berger

it's good, written 30 years or so ago... he seems to be under the impression that homosexuality is caused by male#s being raised in too female an enviroment and vice versa...any queers here care to comment?
Lesbians shouldnt be allowed to use dildos. They have made their choice

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