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Post by Pombar on Nov 22, 2007 23:46:54 GMT
Reading Palestine by Joe Sacco. Nice Graphic Novel/Journalism hybrid that works quite well, for all that it's far too palestinian-focused.
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Pitt
Script Hume
Ungrateful Sonic Saxophonist
If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet!
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Post by Pitt on Nov 25, 2007 21:08:59 GMT
Edge Chronicles: The Lost Barkscrolls. A fine collection.
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Post by Super Sonic on Nov 25, 2007 21:14:35 GMT
Read The Time Machine at work today Awesome book. Teh Gawd Deloosunz OHNOES... its about time I read it methinks. Cant be on a science course without a lil Dawkins... ;D I started reading that, but he's just too pompous for my liking, even if I agree with most of his sentiments. 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. My favourite so far is Going Postal. Just finished reading some WW2 spy nonsense. Enjoyable rubbish, I suppose. A Game of Spies it was called, by Jack Higgins. Just about to make a start on The Black Book by Ian Rankin. |
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Post by The Shad on Nov 27, 2007 15:28:10 GMT
Just picked up Comics, Comix and Graphic novels.
It mentions STC.
I quite look forward to reading it. Sometime around Christmas.
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Post by Pombar on Nov 27, 2007 15:57:09 GMT
I got that years back, and go back to it every year or so to read the stuff I skipped over the last time. It's really quite interesting.
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Post by Xavious on Nov 29, 2007 15:19:29 GMT
Started to read the whole of The Chronicles Of Narnia series. I'm 3/4's through The Magicians Nephew and not finding it too bad so far. Weird, wondrous and a bit long-winded, but nevertheless rather good.
Can't wait till I get to Voyage Of The Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair which everyone claims are the best.
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Post by The Shad on Nov 29, 2007 15:33:21 GMT
No, the last battle is far superior to all the others.
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Post by Samface on Nov 29, 2007 15:40:02 GMT
Hahahahahahahahahaha no. Last Battle sucks. Only The Horse and His Boy sucks harder. Silver Chair for justice and victory. Or possibly Magician's Nephew.
Anyway, I'm re-reading Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase. It started out not as good as I remembered it but has now reclaimed its excellence. I put it down to the fact that the last time I read it was the first time I'd read any Murakami and thus at the time I was more in love with his style than the book.
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Post by Super Sonic on Nov 29, 2007 16:37:56 GMT
Reading the epically titled "Day of Reckoning" by Jack Higgins. This is the second last of the free books I took from my work as none of the customers were taking them with their copy of the Daily Telegraph...
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Post by alib18 on Nov 29, 2007 18:27:59 GMT
Were any of them any good?
The only books I've been reading recently have been for uni, need to get myself a good novel to read once we finish up for Christmas.
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Post by Super Sonic on Nov 29, 2007 18:30:24 GMT
I doubt they'd be your cup of tea, but feel free to borrow them. I'll be giving them away anyway.
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Post by alib18 on Nov 29, 2007 18:32:02 GMT
Well you can recommend one for me.
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Pitt
Script Hume
Ungrateful Sonic Saxophonist
If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet!
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Post by Pitt on Nov 30, 2007 14:54:45 GMT
I'm just finishing Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz. Like they say on the cover, it was worth the two year wait.
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Post by The Shad on Nov 30, 2007 20:56:35 GMT
Batman: Year 100. I like how its the same guy, since 1939, but it irks that they don't even hint at why. Should have been left ambiguous as to who it was. |
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Post by Pombar on Dec 1, 2007 14:52:24 GMT
Jewel in the Skull, by Michael Moorcock. I had initially tried to reread His Dark Materials, then realised that I could just read some Eternal Champion instead of Phillip "Moorcock for kids" Pullman.  |
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Post by Pete on Dec 1, 2007 14:58:38 GMT
Shadowmarch, by Tad Williams. I've only just started it, but I bought it after flicking through a friend's copy, and thought it looked interesting.
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Arrow
Big Time Boomer
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Post by Arrow on Dec 2, 2007 9:20:12 GMT
People still read books...? It's almost 2008.
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Post by Samface on Dec 3, 2007 16:18:32 GMT
[censored] off, Arrow. (Oh, and I'm re-reading Wild Sheep Chase's sequel, Dance Dance Dance, which is already way better than I remember it being and I'm only on chapter 10.) |
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Queen of Pig Torture
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Post by Smithy on Dec 3, 2007 18:03:37 GMT
State of the Art by Ian M Banks, even though I haven't finnished the books I was already reading.
The story of the love sick tree alien was fantastic.
Speaking of which, Stapledon's take on Martians as vegetation based hive-mind clouds who worship diamonds is genius.
Ramble, ramble, ramble
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Post by Pombar on Dec 3, 2007 18:23:51 GMT
Ian M Banks is some goood reading. His M-less non-SF stuff is also good.
Endlessly rereading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon for an essay I'm writing. At least I got to choose the books, I guess... And is it odd that I'm starting to see BNW's dystopia as pretty utopian, and BTH's utopia is dystopian? All these -topias are driving me mad D:
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Post by Samface on Dec 3, 2007 19:00:53 GMT
The only Banks I've read is Inversions, and I gave up a few chapters in (very unusual for me, I almost always read a book to the end even if I hate it).
Really need to read Brave New World one of these days...
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Post by phalene on Dec 3, 2007 19:12:45 GMT
Anyway, I'm re-reading Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase. For a moment I thought you mean the guy who did the picture books When Sheep Cannot Sleep and Sheep In Wolf's Clothing. I was about to get all excited. But no, that was Satoshi Kitamura  |
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Pitt
Script Hume
Ungrateful Sonic Saxophonist
If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet!
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Post by Pitt on Dec 4, 2007 21:28:29 GMT
I'm reading collected volumes of Battle Picture Library and Commando: War Stories in Pictures. I believe they were STC properties of the 60s onward.
A simpler time when comics were sixty four pages long and could be bought for a shilling.
EDIT: Note well, I keep typing that they were Fleet-way (without a hyphen, of course) properties, but it keeps changing to STC.
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Post by Samface on Dec 5, 2007 13:36:32 GMT
I thought that bit of the filter had broken long ago (someone was very funny about using the name Fleetway, I have no idea why). Will sort it naow.
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Post by WinterFlames on Dec 5, 2007 19:42:39 GMT
Just bought Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz. I've only got as far a chapter 2, but it's pretty good so far, I'm liking it anyway.
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