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Post by The Shad on Oct 19, 2007 11:06:57 GMT
Just got Machiavelli's The Prince.
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Post by Smithy on Oct 23, 2007 18:35:19 GMT
Read The Time Machine at work today, the time traveller so went back to the future for the Eloi sex tourism didn't he?
Just started She by H. Rider. Haggard, it looks to be silly fun.
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Post by Feniiku on Oct 24, 2007 11:57:25 GMT
Finished Feast of Souls by Celia Friedman. It's a very gripping story, a dark fantasy. Much Sorcery, so if you like that type of story, I reccomend it.
And now I'm out of books again :/
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Post by kitai on Nov 5, 2007 8:59:28 GMT
Hope this counts...
Full Metal Alchemist ~ Chapter Seventy-Six
OMFG!! ;
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Post by Samface on Nov 5, 2007 20:03:07 GMT
A friend lent me Hunter Thompson's Fear in Loathing in Las Vegas the other week. Much like the film, it gets a bit one-note ("hey we are TAKING DRUGS and SEEING THINGS") but the prose is so vivid and readable it doesn't matter that much.
Now I am re-reading Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart books (almost finished The Shadow in the North, the second one). They're better than I remembered!
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Post by Shadic? on Nov 6, 2007 5:35:40 GMT
I'm reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Damn fine book, and it's subject matter is as true today as it was back in the day in which it was written.
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Post by Insector on Nov 6, 2007 13:35:15 GMT
I've just read Watchmen for about the eightieth time. Got to enjoy it before the film comes out...
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Nov 6, 2007 21:11:08 GMT
Teh Gawd Deloosunz OHNOES... its about time I read it methinks. Cant be on a science course without a lil Dawkins... ;D
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Post by Lost Mercenary on Nov 6, 2007 22:28:53 GMT
Some book I picked up in London called Stone Heart. Living statues in london and talking riddle loving Sphinxies are involved.
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Post by Pitt on Nov 7, 2007 21:12:17 GMT
I'm just finishing Great War: Breakthroughs. When I'm done that, I reckon I'll read the next one in the series; American Empire: Blood and Iron.
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Post by alib18 on Nov 8, 2007 17:04:01 GMT
Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono, for uni.
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Post by Arch_one_zero_one on Nov 11, 2007 17:37:16 GMT
The Bourne Identity. Its pretty good so far.
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Nov 13, 2007 22:09:19 GMT
Harry Turtledove - Ruled Britannia; the story of William Shakespeare's career in Spanish occupied England post-1588.
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Post by kitai on Nov 14, 2007 13:44:04 GMT
Full Metal Alchemist ~ Chapter 77
OMFG!! (again )
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Post by Pombar on Nov 14, 2007 13:59:09 GMT
Progressing further (at an unforgivably slow pace) through Don Juan (it is said jew-un, you heathens!). Finished Canto I after far, far too long. As for Canto II, I may have to read ahead again.
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Post by Insector on Nov 15, 2007 11:37:50 GMT
Finished Watchmen again.
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Post by Pombar on Nov 15, 2007 20:43:43 GMT
Scott Pilgrim 4. OH MY GOD READ THIS BOOK/SERIES.
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Post by The Shad on Nov 15, 2007 20:50:46 GMT
Sluggy Freelance. Just up to 2001's hallowe'en special.
Evil Aylee FTW.
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Post by Pombar on Nov 15, 2007 20:52:56 GMT
I think I left Sluggy after (re)reading it up until 2004. I'd previously read it back in 2001, but caught up (to 2004) earlier this year. God, it's tough stuff.
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Post by The Shad on Nov 15, 2007 20:54:28 GMT
The fact its a daily thing just really wears me down. However, moments like: You know how it feels to be powerless. To be on the verge of death. To fail your friends. Hold on to that. Bottom line, if you or any of your friends interfere in my business again, I'll put away the kid gloves. make it all worth it.
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Nov 16, 2007 16:48:38 GMT
The Chronicle of the 20th Century.
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Post by Smithy on Nov 21, 2007 18:10:30 GMT
Last week I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez which was great once I worked out which of the characters were which and how they were all related.
Now I'm sporadically reading Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon and I'm probably going to make a start on The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard.
Stupid BBC4 British Science Fiction documentary, making me want to read things.
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Post by Link K2B on Nov 21, 2007 20:40:07 GMT
I were readin Pratchett's newest effort, Making Money, but I fear I left that somewhere in Manchester, opefully at me bird's house or else I've no idea what's become of it. It's far too similar to Going Postal though, still a good read thus far mind.
Next up I'm readin sections of Ovid's Metamorphoses for uni then old Willie's Anthony and Cleopatra again. I'm tryin to get started on Northanger Abbey cos I promised meself I'd never watch another TV or film adaption til I'd read the books and me flatmate has the whole Jane Austen lot on DVD and I'm dyin to watch.
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Post by Pombar on Nov 21, 2007 21:11:28 GMT
Ovid is a right [censored]. I'm not a fan of any of his stuff. I think it's his poorly inserted morals (or when they're not, the whole story seems to be a mere vehicle for the cruddy moralistic standpoint he's presenting with little or no merit besides). Gimme Euripides any day. Reading some Aeschylus at the moment, Agamemnon specifically.
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Post by WinterFlames on Nov 22, 2007 17:00:44 GMT
Just finished The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett. I adore that damn book, just because it's got conspiracy, Werewolves, silliness and the greatest character ever, Inigo. Oh and The Werewolf Hunt/Escape was awesome too.
I wasn't thrilled with Making Money, but maybe I need to read it again. Night Watch and Thud! are also superb, Night Watch is my favorite however, but right now I'm reading Guard! Guards! with 90% more silliness.
Has anyone read Century Rain, by Alastair Reynolds? I heartily recommend it to anyone. Brrr, the descriptions (and a graphic imagination) of some things in the story give me chills.
Most of the story is set in a noir(ish) 1959 Earth where something is very wrong and a failing private detective tries to make sense of a suspicious death of a woman called Susan White.
250 years later Earth is uninhabitable due to sentient nanites killing anything living. Verity Auger is on trial and is given the option of getting of scott free by performing a not-so-simple task, recovering artifacts in the possession of someone called Susan White.
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