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Post by Zerolus on Feb 23, 2007 23:58:55 GMT
I felt that the author could have specified Revan's gender, but I suspect that such information would have bothered numerous fans who don't accept that he is canonically male. Actually, he did. There's a quote in Part III which states 'All of his knowledge would belong to Bane' or something like that. So, yeah, anyone who still can't accept that Revan is canonically male now need to pull their own heads out of their asses. I mean, I felt indifferent about a the Jedi Exile being canonically female, why can't they do the same? Though this may be because I already thought beforehand, that if there was a canon path, it would be Light Side female...
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Post by Pitt on Feb 24, 2007 11:23:23 GMT
Yes indeed. I personally played Revan as male first, so I think of him as male. Upon learning that he was canonically a light side male, I presumed that the Jedi Exile would be female, and she would inevitably be light side too (after all, there aren't any games with a canonical dark side ending anyway).
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Post by Charles on Mar 3, 2007 22:33:32 GMT
Currently reading Where Have All The Bullets Gone?, the fifth volume of Spike Milligan's war memoirs.
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Post by Pombar on Mar 6, 2007 13:57:51 GMT
I read the fairly immense Forest Mage by Robin Hobb, got totally hooked, and spent about 17 hours solid reading it. It reminded me why Robin Hobb is the best fantasy writer in decades.
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Post by Mobiusman on Mar 10, 2007 7:55:00 GMT
I read Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony recently, and it definitely wasn't as bad as I expected. It starts off (and ends) a bit childish, but once Colfer gets the high-tech stuff going it's pretty entertaining.
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Post by Samface on Mar 25, 2007 15:47:52 GMT
Finished Middlemarch. I enjoyed it, there were loads of witty bits and apt metaphors I particularly liked, but for some reason the plot fell out of my head as soon as I read it. So basically I spent the whole book wondering what was actually going on. Ah well.
Just started James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia, the fictionalisation of a true-life murder of an actress in 1947 that Brian De Palma filmed last year. Only read three chapters, and I have a strong feeling that the frequent use of '40s American slang is going to lose me very swiftly. Shame.
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Post by Pombar on Mar 30, 2007 20:32:41 GMT
Rereading The Shadow of the Wind ('La sombra del viento') again, sadly not in Spanish. Also reading Le cran d'arrêt, by Emmanuele Bernheim, a french novel, in Spanish (it's strangely called "Arma Blanca" in Spanish ). It's mighty confusing enough without the book itself being fairly surreal. It's great so far, though.
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Post by Pitt on Mar 30, 2007 21:01:35 GMT
I'm still battling through Lord of Chaos. I'm almost at the end, and I now remember why I gave up The Silmarillion halfway through.
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Post by Samface on Apr 9, 2007 15:09:00 GMT
Rereading The Shadow of the Wind Great book. I need to re-read that myself sometime. Finished Black Dahlia, happily I got my head round the slang. Excellent book, but incredibly grim. Basically makes you hate the whole human race. Then I re-read A Clockwork Orange. Forgotten how good it is. Would've read it one sitting were it not for Sunday lunch interrupting. Now I'm on Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Only read three or four chapters, but it's looking good. I'm liking the footnotes, although the squabbling magicians remind me a bit too much of Discworld.
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Post by Pitt on Apr 9, 2007 15:11:05 GMT
I've recently read Casino Royale and Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming. Unfortunately, I now have nothing new to read, but I hope to get Moonraker and Diamonds Are Forever some time soon.
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Post by hiddenpalacepsycho on Apr 9, 2007 19:10:26 GMT
I'm currently rereading Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo, and I'm also rereading Torchwood: Border Princes.
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Post by kitai on Apr 19, 2007 12:42:26 GMT
D.N.Angel ~ Volume 1
Already seen the anime, and had this volume for a little while but hadn't got around to reading it. Have now. ^_^
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 19, 2007 13:49:18 GMT
If I'd known that comics count as books, I'd have posted here more.
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Post by Pitt on Apr 19, 2007 16:14:31 GMT
Wheel of Time Book 7: A Crown of Swords.
Robert Jordan makes misogyny seem cool. ;D
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Post by Pombar on Apr 22, 2007 20:34:41 GMT
Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrel is a quality, quality book.
Just bought and reread (like 80 times) Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness. The 4th book should be out soon! : D
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Post by Smithy on Apr 27, 2007 8:39:56 GMT
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
So it goes...
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Post by Pombar on May 4, 2007 18:53:39 GMT
Bought-to-reread Bryan Lee O'Malley's Lost At Sea. Any self-respecting (or even better, non-self-respecting) internet/geek culture/comic book/gaming/etc nerd who is, was, or remembers ever being a teenager should have read this, or should intend to. ...It also helps me stay sane in the wait 'till Scott Pilgrim 4 >_>
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Post by Smithy on May 4, 2007 19:06:50 GMT
Have you seen this story featuring two of the same characters? ...It also helps me stay sane in the wait 'till Scott Pilgrim 4 >_> August/September at the latest apparently. In the mean time you can pick up Comics Festival tomorrow for FREE! It features “The Wonderful World of Kim Pine”. Kim Pine is the bestest character in all of fiction. And, um, I'm just read Skin Deep by Charles Burns[/relevence]
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Post by Pombar on May 4, 2007 19:11:14 GMT
Someone'd better upload the new FREE Scott Pilgrim again this year >_> Or there'll be HELL TO PAY!
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Post by Pitt on May 5, 2007 12:50:02 GMT
I've finished A Crown of Swords, and I've moved on to The Path of Daggers.
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Post by Samface on May 5, 2007 14:02:04 GMT
Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrel is a quality, quality book. He's right, you know. I've finished it and it was great. Now I'm re-reading an Edgar Allen Poe short-story collection. Oh Edgar, you and your crazy she's-been-buried-alive ways.
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Post by Super Sonic on May 5, 2007 19:20:21 GMT
Peter Kay's Autobiography.
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Post by Feniiku on May 9, 2007 12:38:39 GMT
Partway through Hour of the Gate by Alan Dean Foster. Dad's only got the first three books in this series (Spellsinger), so I'm gonna have to find the others at some point.
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Post by Pitt on May 15, 2007 16:08:18 GMT
Doctor Who: The Face Eater. It's sort of an interim thing, until I can get Winter's Heart.
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Post by Samface on May 15, 2007 18:45:39 GMT
I picked up Michael Palin's tie-in book to Around the World in 80 Days for £1.50 in a charity shop, so I'm on that. Good read, very odd when he travels through countries that were Communist back in 1988 and aren't any more.
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