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On February 09 2013 12:48 aZealot wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2013 06:10 Dirkzor wrote:Just finished reading this one: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/2pmXkSb.jpg) It was really good. It's like a chrildrens book written for adults... Anyone seen the BBC series? Is it good? I really enjoyed that book, a real good read. Coincidentally, I've been perusing some of Gaiman's old work on Sandman recently too (I used to collect the series). I had a sudden hankering for Sandman #74. I read it again, and went from there. Currently halfway through Zamyatin's We and I'm enjoying it very much.
I read American Gods just before christmas and my GF have the first 3 episodes of Sandman (the collected edition. So thats like 36 episodes or something) and I've read the first 2. I really like Gaiman's style. I have 2 more of his books but I dislike reading the same auther back to back (unless its a series of course) so I'm waiting to get into to those before I've finished something else...
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Got some nice Robert Ludlum books loaded onto my tablet really hoping to get through some of them this year.
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On February 11 2013 22:08 phANT1m wrote:
Got some nice Robert Ludlum books loaded onto my tablet really hoping to get through some of them this year.
I really liked his early works. Unfortunately his work gets progressively worse as he gets richer and lazier. Also from a writers point of view his dialouge construction is very poor
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On February 11 2013 17:26 Dirkzor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2013 12:48 aZealot wrote:On February 09 2013 06:10 Dirkzor wrote:Just finished reading this one: It was really good. It's like a chrildrens book written for adults... Anyone seen the BBC series? Is it good? I really enjoyed that book, a real good read. Coincidentally, I've been perusing some of Gaiman's old work on Sandman recently too (I used to collect the series). I had a sudden hankering for Sandman #74. I read it again, and went from there. Currently halfway through Zamyatin's We and I'm enjoying it very much. I read American Gods just before christmas and my GF have the first 3 episodes of Sandman (the collected edition. So thats like 36 episodes or something) and I've read the first 2. I really like Gaiman's style. I have 2 more of his books but I dislike reading the same auther back to back (unless its a series of course) so I'm waiting to get into to those before I've finished something else...
I'm on book 5 of sandman, I absolutely love the series and the places Gaiman takes it, even if the art can be a bit wonky sometimes, in general its pretty great.
American God's is incredible as well, and they definitely share some of the same ideas on the role/existence of mythological beings.
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On February 09 2013 19:37 Syn Harvest wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2013 11:40 sam!zdat wrote:
farv, from now on you are my official subject-supposed-to-like-classic-literature. I don't understand how anybody could actually have enjoyed reading milton. I agree with this Milton is a complete bore. I could never get into Paradise a few pages and I would throw it to the side. I have heard Brave New World by Huxley mentioned like five times in the last 2 days I think it is a sign. I'm gonna have to go pick it up.
I love Milton  where is all this milton hate coming from D:
also what is this about a ulysses group? i'm down for that~
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On February 12 2013 07:53 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
also what is this about a ulysses group? i'm down for that~
We decided to hold off for a bit, but it will happen!
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On February 12 2013 07:58 sam!zdat wrote:Show nested quote +On February 12 2013 07:53 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
also what is this about a ulysses group? i'm down for that~ We decided to hold off for a bit, but it will happen!
I'm in for when it happens. Can't believe I haven't read it yet.
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1. Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War
2. The Forever War
3. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
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On February 12 2013 08:01 Crownlol wrote:
3. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Are you currently reading this, or are you planning to? I would advise you not to read this book.
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On February 12 2013 08:03 sam!zdat wrote:Are you currently reading this, or are you planning to? I would advise you not to read this book.
Agreed Heinleins late work is not that good. Which is sad because Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land are two of my fav sci fi novels
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress surely deserves a mention here...
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On February 12 2013 08:57 sam!zdat wrote:The Moon is a Harsh Mistress surely deserves a mention here...
I have not read that one I will add it too my list.
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oh! you are in for a treat 
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On February 12 2013 09:44 sam!zdat wrote:oh! you are in for a treat
Ya it sounds pretty good I just looked it up but it will be a minute before I can get started because I finally got into The First Law Trilogy and the first book is awesome Ive burned through it in about 3 days and will finish it tomorrow. I cant stop in the middle of the series so I have probably 2 more weeks of First Law ahead of me before I can start anything else.
If you haven't read the series I highly recommend it The Blade Itself (book 1) is awesome everything I look for in a fantasy. Morally ambiguous characters, allruing and intriguing plot lines, and brutality
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On January 15 2013 22:55 kafkaesque wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2013 22:47 Omri wrote:Hopefully A Song of Ice and Fire: The Winds of Winter Yeah right, like that's going to happen. I'll prolly be reading that one in 2015, right along with the Kingkiller Chronicle III: The Doors of Stone.
This, please. :/
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On February 12 2013 09:56 IRL_Sinister wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2013 22:55 kafkaesque wrote:On January 15 2013 22:47 Omri wrote:Hopefully A Song of Ice and Fire: The Winds of Winter Yeah right, like that's going to happen. I'll prolly be reading that one in 2015, right along with the Kingkiller Chronicle III: The Doors of Stone. This, please. :/
I Imagine Book 3 of Kingkiller will be out next year but I'm pretty sure we'll be lucky to get Winds of Winter before 2017
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Reading LotR and gonna read other Tolkien books after(Silmarillion/Unfinished tails.)
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I became a big fan of Burroughs after reading Naked Lunch. That book changed the way I thought about what literature could be. I wanted more, and this was the only other book barnes and noble had. 10 pages in so far and it's great!
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