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Post by Pombar on Jan 8, 2008 19:22:59 GMT
Battle Royale manga volumes 14 & 15. Finally finished this series after too many years. Also, Blade of the Immortal volumes 6-9. Goood.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jan 8, 2008 19:26:09 GMT
Just finished A Spot Of Bother by Mark Haddon My mum's reading that just now. Might borrow it from her once I'm done with the ever-increasing piles of books that I want to read. |
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Post by Pombar on Jan 8, 2008 19:34:21 GMT
Michael Frayn's bloody Spies. Again. And Again. And Again. Revision is evul.
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Post by The Shad on Jan 8, 2008 20:40:47 GMT
Tamburlaine the Great, by Christopher Marlowe.
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Post by Samface on Jan 9, 2008 19:23:27 GMT
I studied that one in uni. 'Tis pretty good. Preferred Faustus though.
I is reading Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, his latest short-story collection. Some of the stories are just too arbitrary and confuse me, but a lot of them are really good.
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Post by The Shad on Jan 9, 2008 19:24:24 GMT
Ah, Faustus. Great piece of writing, there.
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Post by The Shad on Jan 15, 2008 21:05:39 GMT
The Sluggite Koan.
Deep.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jan 23, 2008 13:41:24 GMT
Mort by Terry Pratchett.
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Jan 23, 2008 19:49:46 GMT
Settling Accounts: Drive to the East by Harry Turtledove.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jan 28, 2008 20:42:19 GMT
Brave New World.
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Pitt
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If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet!
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Post by Pitt on Jan 28, 2008 21:51:17 GMT
Star Wars, Legacy of the Force book 6: Inferno.
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Post by Arch_one_zero_one on Jan 28, 2008 22:13:57 GMT
Powder Wars
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Post by Pombar on Jan 29, 2008 21:21:19 GMT
This. Chose to do it, alongside Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon, as my independant literary analysis & comparison coursework. Both novels reach the same conclusion through the exact opposite process. Quite a good read, both of them. |
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Post by Super Sonic on Jan 29, 2008 21:26:04 GMT
It's a little bit slow so far I'm finding. Though it amazes me how people like Huxley and HG Wells managed to predict/fantasise about the future in such a way that almost seems plausible.
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Post by Pombar on Jan 29, 2008 21:31:10 GMT
Beyond This Horizon seems closer to reality than they ever did, tbh. Heinlein was so good at predicting he predicted the waterbed before it was invented. So now no-one can patent it.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jan 29, 2008 21:37:43 GMT
I'll keep an eye out for it.
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Post by Pombar on Jan 29, 2008 21:46:27 GMT
Don't look too hard - it's been out of print for a decade or two, and after 2 months of actively searching, my teacher couldn't find a copy. I had to lend him my 40 year old edition.
Of course, I looked on Amazon and found about 40 copies, starting at 50p...
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Post by Super Sonic on Jan 29, 2008 21:51:44 GMT
I often trawl the Edinburgh second-hand book shops, they're awesome and a bit like Black Books.  |
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Post by The Tikal who had no Toes on Jan 30, 2008 18:01:46 GMT
The Sailor Moon manga.
Do not judge me.
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Post by Samface on Jan 30, 2008 19:15:36 GMT
I JUDGE YOU.
Lately I have read: Markus Zusak's The Book Thief (excellent - a bit too "Look at me I am angling for an award", but well-written enough for that not to matter), Xiaolu Guo's A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (pretty good, but not nearly as clever as it thinks it is) and now I am re-reading Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (still brilliant).
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Post by Pombar on Jan 31, 2008 18:34:17 GMT
Samface, ever read The Shadow of the Wind? Since you're into all that international lit.
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Post by Samface on Jan 31, 2008 19:37:46 GMT
I have, about two years or so ago. Borrowed it off me dad.
I enjoyed it a lot, although the ending was a bit over-the-top. I've got a feeling I may have mentioned it somewhere back near the beginning of this thread.
EDIT: Just checked, no I didn't.
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Post by Pombar on Jan 31, 2008 21:08:54 GMT
I read it about 2 and a half years ago also, just rereading it now. Very enjoyable and hard to put down, even in a time when I'm having trouble getting sucked in by books. And yes, the ending is silly, but it's also a glorious OTT resolution that's actually quite nice to see compared to all these modern restrained-by-realism books. Wouldn't want to see it very often though.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jan 31, 2008 21:52:25 GMT
Shadow of the Wind? Hmmm, I wonder if Dio read the book. ;D
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Post by Pombar on Jan 31, 2008 22:01:01 GMT
Actually called La Sombra del Viento, so I doubt it, but hey! Also, the Dio song probably came first.
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