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Author:  WTB [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 13:22 ]
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I stopped reading it over a month ago! Funnily enough, around chapter 8!
Author:  Dimrill [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 13:44 ]
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Gave up on Porn & Pong. Appallingly wrut, factually incorrect, boring as sin.
Author:  Lord Rixondale [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 13:56 ]
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WTB wrote:
I stopped reading it over a month ago! Funnily enough, around chapter 8!

You're lucky. I plodded through it, thinking that the ending might be exciting. It wasn't.
Author:  Dimrill [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 17:13 ]
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Started The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey. Fantakka book. I had no idea he penned a comic for the start of the Superman film.
Author:  WTB [ Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:13 ]
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Started reading Catch Me If You Can last night, got about 1/4 of the way through it. It's the book the film is based on. Some minor differences to the film so far. It's pretty good!
Author:  WTB [ Tue Sep 04, 2012 14:12 ]
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So I'll likely be finished with Catch Me If You Can by tonight. It has been good. I've more or less finished the plot of the film but there's still a third of the book remaining, so it'll be interesting to see what else they left out. It goes into a lot more detail about Abignale's "check" fraud methods. It's worth a read if you're into, er, crime and that.

Just ordered the second Ice and Fire book because it's about time I carried on with that. Also Brothers Karamazov. Think I'll read that first.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Sep 04, 2012 14:14 ]
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WTB wrote:
So I'll likely be finished with Catch Me If You Can by tonight. It has been good. I've more or less finished the plot of the film but there's still a third of the book remaining, so it'll be interesting to see what else they left out. It goes into a lot more detail about Abignale's "check" fraud methods. It's worth a read if you're into, er, crime and that.

Just ordered the second Ice and Fire book because it's about time I carried on with that. Also Brothers Karamazov. Think I'll read that first.


Fire and Ice: Amazon did the first 4 or so for £20 for the Kindle.
Author:  WTB [ Tue Sep 04, 2012 14:15 ]
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Kindle editions? Bugger!

Having said that, the second book was only a fiver and I already have the first, so...
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Sep 04, 2012 14:16 ]
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WTB wrote:
Kindle editions? Bugger!

Having said that, the second book was only a fiver and I already have the first, so...


...so you're probably not saving much. I've got the latest edition in my desk drawer at work, but I'll Kindle it.
Author:  WTB [ Tue Sep 04, 2012 14:17 ]
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I just can't read anything without my Kindle(TM).
Author:  myp [ Tue Sep 04, 2012 14:18 ]
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WTB wrote:
I just can't read anything without my Kindle(TM).

Is that why you didn't finish Dracula?
Author:  WTB [ Tue Sep 04, 2012 14:19 ]
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Poor Alberto.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 14:46 ]
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Buy my friend's book Pre-order here. wELL DONE HIM.

Publisher catalog
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 15:12 ]
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I don't have a US Amazon account.
Author:  Dimrill [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 18:53 ]
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Hmmm. This sounds quite, quite awful.
Author:  Cras [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 19:14 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
Hmmm. This sounds quite, quite awful.


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According to King's official website, Dan meets a "very special 12-year-old girl" who he must "save from a tribe of murderous paranormals".

Now a middle-aged man and aided by a prescient cat, he becomes Doctor Sleep.


Goodness me.
Author:  myp [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 19:29 ]
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Might give that one a miss.
Author:  DavPaz [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 20:01 ]
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bet the bad guy is a certain scarlet emperor
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 15:58 ]
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Guardian makes it sound not as bad.
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 16:56 ]
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Craster wrote:
Dimrill wrote:
Hmmm. This sounds quite, quite awful.


Quote:
According to King's official website, Dan meets a "very special 12-year-old girl" who he must "save from a tribe of murderous paranormals".

Now a middle-aged man and aided by a prescient cat, he becomes Doctor Sleep.


Goodness me.

What the flipping fuck is he snorting?
Author:  Kern [ Mon Sep 24, 2012 18:49 ]
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I'm reading Suetonius's 'The Twelve Ceasers' at the moment*. It's like the 'Horrible Histories' books I read as a kid (and still enjoy), but a few centuries older and way more lurid. Surprised it's taken me this long to read it. It's essentially the sex lives and other crimes of the emperors: great stuff.

Ties in neatly with this week's non-story of whether 'plebeian' is an insult or not, too.


*The Robert Graves translation
Author:  Squirt [ Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:49 ]
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Almost at the end of one of Terry Pratchett's recent book "Snuff". It's not that great really - seems a bit messy and is lacking both the lulz and the proper baddy or good plot of his better ones.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:54 ]
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I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major- general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition


Are the rest of Pepys's diaries as funny as this? I'm chucking quietly at work.
Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:02 ]
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MaliA wrote:
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I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major- general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition


Are the rest of Pepys's diaries as funny as this? I'm chucking quietly at work.

Yep.

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Fell in love again today, but like yesterday, it turns out to be another fucking cat that crawled under a freshly painted white fence.
Author:  zaphod79 [ Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:02 ]
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Squirt wrote:
Almost at the end of one of Terry Pratchett's recent book "Snuff". It's not that great really - seems a bit messy and is lacking both the lulz and the proper baddy or good plot of his better ones.


I have Snuff cued up to read but have not yet , however its not his latest - Dodger came out last week
Author:  JBR [ Fri Sep 28, 2012 14:03 ]
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I've just finished "The Song of Achilles", which I thought was brilliant; don't know whether the fact that I have read the Iliad (because it's based on the siege of Troy) helped or not, but suspect not. Marvellous.

Also "Conqueror" by Conn Iggledon, which I liked as a piece of royster-doyster style historical fiction, and also because he doesn't follow it through to inevitable decline and fall.
Author:  Kern [ Fri Sep 28, 2012 16:32 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Quote:
I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major- general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition


Are the rest of Pepys's diaries as funny as this? I'm chucking quietly at work.

Yep.

Quote:
Fell in love again today, but like yesterday, it turns out to be another fucking cat that crawled under a freshly painted white fence.


:)

I'm not reading eleven volumes (based on what I saw in the library today). Anyone know of a good abridgement?
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Sep 28, 2012 16:38 ]
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JBR wrote:
Also "Conqueror" by Conn Iggledon, which I liked as a piece of royster-doyster style historical fiction, and also because he doesn't follow it through to inevitable decline and fall.

His books about Genghis Khan are very readable.
Author:  JBR [ Sat Sep 29, 2012 17:47 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
JBR wrote:
Also "Conqueror" by Conn Iggledon, which I liked as a piece of royster-doyster style historical fiction, and also because he doesn't follow it through to inevitable decline and fall.

His books about Genghis Khan are very readable.

Oh yes- I enjoyed those too, and his Caesar ones. This is Kublai Khan (and Guyuk and Obelai and several other khans).
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:57 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Quote:
I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major- general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition


Are the rest of Pepys's diaries as funny as this? I'm chucking quietly at work.

Yep.

Quote:
Fell in love again today, but like yesterday, it turns out to be another fucking cat that crawled under a freshly painted white fence.

Oh, good work.
Author:  Curiosity [ Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:28 ]
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Heh. Only just 'got' that.
Author:  Dimrill [ Wed Nov 14, 2012 21:47 ]
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pTerry to hand Discworld over to daughter Rhianna.
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Nov 14, 2012 21:55 ]
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Good job i've already stopped buying them since he stopped being able to write them, really.

Really sad, the decline between e.g. Making Money and then Unseen Academicals where he had to get someone to help him. Love that guy.
Author:  Dimrill [ Wed Nov 14, 2012 21:56 ]
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I really enjoyed Unseen and Snuff. The last stinker he produced was Monstrous Regiment, and before that Moving Pictures. Good hit rate as far as I'm concerned.
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Nov 14, 2012 21:59 ]
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Snuff's on my chrimble list, but Unseen Academicals was like it was written by someone else entirely - not like Monstrous Regiment or Pyramids (which were the two stinkers in Kissyworld), which were like they were written by Pratchett but just bad.
Author:  Curiosity [ Wed Nov 14, 2012 23:32 ]
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Moving Pictures was one of the best!
Author:  Trooper [ Thu Nov 15, 2012 0:02 ]
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I loved moving pictures and pyramids!
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:42 ]
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Yeah, I liked Pyramids.
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:19 ]
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I've just literally started reading The Colour of Magic
Author:  Trooper [ Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:22 ]
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Iswydt
Author:  Curiosity [ Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:23 ]
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By the by, 'The Twelve' was excellent.

If you have still not read 'The Passage' then you suck.

It's the best post-apocalyptic vampire plague book EVAH!
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:25 ]
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Trooper wrote:
Iswydt

Unintentional, but I'll take it
Author:  romanista [ Thu Nov 15, 2012 17:40 ]
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kahneman, thinking fast and slow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:18 ]
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Hey guys! This looks a good book! Available for pre order now!
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:23 ]
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No Kindle, no sale.
Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:24 ]
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I finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray yesterday. Only a short tale really and I enjoyed it. I understand there's the original unedited version doing the rounds now though.

Must finish reading my M.R. James compendium now. It's the best time of year for ready spooky.
Author:  markg [ Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:27 ]
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This is a cracking good compilation of short stories:

http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/ ... _com.shtml

Been reading quite a few of these lately.
Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:30 ]
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I'll be grabbing that.
Author:  markg [ Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:32 ]
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Yeah, I'd lend it to you but we just have it as an electro-book. I'd imagine that it's quite a weighty tome in paper version.
Author:  DavPaz [ Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:35 ]
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Urk, I fear I may now need to read all Discworld novels.
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