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Post by The Shad on Sept 24, 2007 18:38:07 GMT
War of the worlds.
This book cures cancer.
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Learner driver on the rampage!
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Post by mark00275 on Sept 27, 2007 8:41:32 GMT
Jamie Olivers new cook book and an egyptian historical fiction by Paul Doherty
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Post by The Tikal who had no Toes on Sept 27, 2007 8:48:30 GMT
Just finished reading Two Lives by Vikram Seth. It's a biography of his great-uncle and great-aunt, who was a German Jew whose family were killed in the Holocaust, and it takes in India, Germany, Israel and Palestine, and the UK. It's very heavy going, but I definitely enjoyed it, and I'll forgive Seth for his Israel-bashing because at least he wasn't being a raging [censored]wit about it.
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Post by Sefiros on Oct 2, 2007 23:04:15 GMT
Finished Parasite Eve.
Going to start The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami next.
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Post by Feniiku on Oct 3, 2007 9:39:33 GMT
Reading Temeraire: Throne of Jade now. Tis awesome, though Temeraire is acting like a teenager all the time in it XD
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Post by Samface on Oct 3, 2007 10:56:27 GMT
Going to start The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami next. You win extremely hard. I'm reading Anchee Min's Empress Orchid. S'alright. It's better as an account of Imperial China rather than a novel in its own right.
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Post by segaz on Oct 3, 2007 16:04:50 GMT
Finshed the Dark Tower. Ending was...unexpected, and the final Authors note by King was...a little harsh.
Started reading the Chronicles of Prydain...you know the Black Cauldron, Book of Three, etc. They're better than the LOTR books imo.
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Post by Samface on Oct 3, 2007 17:55:35 GMT
Finshed the Dark Tower. Ending was...unexpected, and the final Authors note by King was...a little harsh. I love the way you get to the coda, and King actually tells you to stop reading in order to avoid disappointment. Brilliant.
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Post by Pombar on Oct 3, 2007 18:15:02 GMT
Reading through Beyond this Horizon again, and thinking to myself that an author with some competancy should really novelise the idea if not the exact story of Bioshock. Because Rapture is the most creative, interesting, unconventional and even believable (were it not for the GM fire shooting and stuff) dystopia since 1984 & Brave New World.
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Post by Lost Mercenary on Oct 4, 2007 13:49:14 GMT
Star Trek: Enterprise - The Good That Men Do
A re-write of the terrible TERRIBLE finale ;D
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Oct 5, 2007 17:41:33 GMT
Principles of Toxicology, Timbrell.
It has scary equations in it that I dont understand!! *cries*
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Smithy
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Post by Smithy on Oct 5, 2007 18:00:28 GMT
Nearly finished Frankenstein by Miss Mary Shelley.
Victor, dude she's pretty much your sister, that's a little weird man.
Next in my Halloween countdown is The Invisible Man. Of course it'll be hard not to think of him being sodomised to death by Mr Hyde while I'm reading.
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Oct 5, 2007 18:38:44 GMT
Great War: Walk In Hell by Harry Turtledove.
Y'know, I think I could see Woodrow Wilson as Confederate president in real life.
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Post by Samface on Oct 7, 2007 17:56:46 GMT
Nearly finished Frankenstein by Miss Mary Shelley. Officially the second most boring book I've ever read (after Persuasion). I'm currently reading Evidence of Blood by Thomas H. Cook, a crime writer my dad luffs a lot (he lent me the book). I basically only read crime books when someone lends them to me, but it's pretty good. He's got a good way with summing up a setting with one little detail.
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Smithy
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Post by Smithy on Oct 8, 2007 19:15:27 GMT
Nearly finished Frankenstein by Miss Mary Shelley. Officially the second most boring book I've ever read (after Persuasion). [censored] you, you suck. After I finish Holmes I've got After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Just read that, it was pretty good, what's with Murakami and Oedipal tendencies in his younger characters though. Read it a while back, found it deeply irritating.
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Post by Samface on Oct 13, 2007 17:54:08 GMT
what's with Murakami and Oedipal tendencies in his younger characters though. Can't say I've noticed. o_0 (Oh, aside from May in Wind-Up Bird.) Anyway, I've just finished Watchmen. It was very good and now I get the natty visual reference in "Kill Big".
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Smithy
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Post by Smithy on Oct 14, 2007 7:54:38 GMT
what's with Murakami and Oedipal tendencies in his younger characters though. Can't say I've noticed. o_0 (Oh, aside from May in Wind-Up Bird.) Kafka on the shore!?
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Post by Feniiku on Oct 14, 2007 10:08:57 GMT
Finished Temeraire: Black Powder war. Damnit, I want more Temeraire books but I've read all the existing three :/ Oh well.
Reading Feast of Souls now, by Celia Freiedman. Chunky book, should take me a bit longer to read than normal XD
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Post by Samface on Oct 15, 2007 18:12:24 GMT
Oh yeah... In my defence, I've only read it once. I'm re-reading Northern Lights. It's still ace. Ian McKellen's voicing Iorek in the film.
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Post by The Tikal who had no Toes on Oct 15, 2007 18:17:17 GMT
Azumanga Daioh, Vol 2.
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Post by Sonicchimp on Oct 15, 2007 18:18:16 GMT
Scottish Ghosts. I loves ghost stories I do.
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Post by Pombar on Oct 15, 2007 18:43:53 GMT
More Catch 22. Reading too much of it makes my head spin. There's only so much farce a man can take!
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Oct 16, 2007 21:18:11 GMT
Horrible Histories: The 20th Century.
Seven years have passed since I got this book, and it's falling apart completely, but it's still a brilliant read.
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Post by The Stiv™ on Oct 16, 2007 21:36:21 GMT
Is that the one with "One small step for man but a massive blow to the cheese industry." on the cover? I love that book, I'll have to dig it out sometime soon.
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Oct 16, 2007 21:37:52 GMT
That's it exactly. It was the first HH book I got (for a plane journey) and it was what created my enduring love of history to this day.
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