Pitt
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Post by Pitt on May 16, 2007 21:05:33 GMT
I managed to get Winter's Heart and Crossroads of Twilight today, so I'm going to start on them.
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Post by Moo on May 18, 2007 0:34:40 GMT
Homers Illiad.
Greece iz teh win. ;D
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Post by Pombar on May 18, 2007 12:00:57 GMT
I have read the Illiad way too many times, and to be honest, it's just a duller angsty bloodbathy Odyssey. Which is what I'm reading at the mo, for the 14th time or whatever. Classical Civilisations arg!
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Post by Moo on May 18, 2007 17:26:46 GMT
No, well I thought that at first too, but theres just little things in it that make me lol.
eg. Apollo being a right [censored] to Patroklus, the bit where hes trying to climb up the wall and he keeps flicking him down, then smacks him on the back of the head and pops his armour off, that made me laugh. And the bit at the end where Priams moaning at his sons cos theyre all crap compared to Hektor, and he says something like "you are all heros of the dance-floor!!"
and theres the bit where Achillius is chasing Hektor round and round the walls of Troy, and when he finally dies loads of people come up and poke him. It just gives me funny mental images. ;D
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Post by Pombar on May 19, 2007 14:05:33 GMT
It's all about Diomedes beating the crap out of two gods (one of them the god of war), walking away from the third going "screw this" and then everyone still thinking that Achilleus is the best Greek warrior.
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Post by Moo on May 20, 2007 0:27:33 GMT
Which translation do you use btw?
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Post by Pombar on May 20, 2007 13:42:23 GMT
I forget. The Penguin Prose translation. Because verse is for losers. (not actually the case)
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Pitt
Script Hume
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Post by Pitt on May 20, 2007 15:20:42 GMT
JSA: Darkness Falls. A pity that Extant didn't actually fight them all at the same time.
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Post by The Tikal who had no Toes on May 20, 2007 16:30:38 GMT
A book about inner emigration, and I'm not going to explain what it is, called Flight Of Fantasy. For revision purposes.
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Post by Danny The Hedgehog on May 20, 2007 17:36:46 GMT
Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times (Not including hordes ofmanga)
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Post by The Shad on May 21, 2007 18:01:54 GMT
Pratchett, eh? I automatically like you.
Many, many, many notes on psychology.
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Post by The Shad on May 22, 2007 12:25:59 GMT
Just picked up Watchmen in the past hour. EDIT-Its like God himself has given my eyes a massage. Its... glorious. This comic cures cancer. Unlike Doctor Manhatten. Apparently. Just finished it. Buy it. Buy it NOW!
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Post by Pombar on May 23, 2007 12:18:52 GMT
Reread Marvel 1602 and the first five volumes of Sandman. It may not be as groundbreaking or of such literary quality, but it is so much better than the aforementioned Watchmen. Alan Moore < Neil Gaiman.
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Post by Hevs on May 23, 2007 12:22:19 GMT
Diagnosis Murder: The Walking Nightmare by Lee Goldberg
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Post by The Shad on May 23, 2007 12:24:51 GMT
Reread Marvel 1602 and the first five volumes of Sandman. It may not be as groundbreaking or of such literary quality, but it is so much better than the aforementioned Watchmen. Alan Moore < Neil Gaiman. Haven't read Sandman, even though I keep meaning to. Marvel 1602 is good, but it doesn't match up to Watchmen. Look at page one, chapter 12. Or the line: I launched them thirty five minutes ago. But again, different styles. 1602 was a homage to the old style superhero tales, while Watchmen was a decontruction of it.
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Smithy
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Post by Smithy on May 23, 2007 12:35:05 GMT
Reread Marvel 1602 and the first five volumes of Sandman. Love Sandman with a hearty passion but I didn't really like 1602.
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Yunni
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Post by Yunni on May 23, 2007 13:06:30 GMT
Sandman is great - although I've only read the first three so far. Novel-wise, I'm reading 'Hokkaido Highway Blues'. It's a non-fictional travel log by Will Ferguson - about his days as a teacher in Japan. On a drunkern night out, he decided he'd hitchhike across Japan by himself. He's had very humerous incounters, a very good insight into what Japan and it's people are actually like. Fiction-wise, I've been mostly reading a lot of Vampire Hunter D (they were books before animes ). I've been too busy to really sit down and read Interresting in getting something by Phillip Pullman...
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Post by Samface on May 23, 2007 14:16:24 GMT
Novel-wise, I'm reading 'Hokkaido Highway Blues'. Ooh, I almost picked that up the other day. Worth it, then? Buy His Dark Materials so hard. I've just started re-reading the Gormenghast trilogy for the first time, having not read them since the first time round when I bought the books after seeing the BBC adaptation. It's kinda distracting 'cos I keep trying to remember who played who. Was Christopher Lee Flay? Was Richard Griffths Swelter?
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Yunni
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Post by Yunni on May 23, 2007 14:50:25 GMT
Ooh, I almost picked that up the other day. Worth it, then? Oh yes : D
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Post by Samface on May 23, 2007 17:20:51 GMT
Wick, it is on The List.
I have too many Lists...
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Post by Pombar on May 23, 2007 18:14:45 GMT
Gormenghast is mighty. That is all.
...[/pombar'd] I like Marvel 1602 in that it's just a generally cooler setting for superheroes in my view. It works pretty well in that volume but I've heard bad things about the later ones. I prefer my heroes relatively unorganised, vaguely amateur and still fresh. I like newbies, basically. The Runaways is great for that.
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Yunni
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Post by Yunni on May 23, 2007 18:20:43 GMT
Gormenghast is mighty. That is all. ...[/pombar'd] I like Marvel 1602 in that it's just a generally cooler setting for superheroes in my view. It works pretty well in that volume but I've heard bad things about the later ones. I prefer my heroes relatively unorganised, vaguely amateur and still fresh. I like newbies, basically. The Runaways is great for that. Yeah, I've been itching to be able to afford Runaways... I am also itching..... For the next installment. Of. Blade of the Immortal. Only two tend to be released every year (graphic noval volumes) wah!!
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Smithy
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Post by Smithy on May 24, 2007 7:55:17 GMT
I prefer my heroes relatively unorganised, vaguely amateur and still fresh. I like newbies, basically. The Runaways is great for that. Yeah, I've been itching to be able to afford Runaways... I read the first digest and am trying to find the first Hardback so I can get the full impact of the art, the digests appear to have been printed with, that popular ink substitute, mud. I've just started reading Dune. It's gloriously crazed, I just know I'm going to end up snorting a line of cinnamon, injecting blue food colouring into my eyes and running round the house screaming about giant worms.
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on May 24, 2007 9:41:34 GMT
I'm nearly at the end of Winter's Heart, and given the limited coverage of Perrin's story, I'm going to assume that he's been spending this book (and Crossroads of Twilight, I'll wager) walking around in the snow.
Ah well. At least the other storylines are good.
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Pitt
Script Hume
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Post by Pitt on May 24, 2007 15:45:45 GMT
Winter's Heart is done, and I'm moving on to Crossroads of Twilight. The weakest book of the series it is called by some, but the standard of writing can only be consistent, so it won't be bad.
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