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Post by Super Sonic on Jan 31, 2008 22:31:46 GMT
2007?  |
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Post by Pombar on Feb 5, 2008 9:32:26 GMT
Reread Watchmen, took me a night. Totally worth it.
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Post by The Shad on Feb 5, 2008 12:27:05 GMT
All His Engines last night and stayed in bed this morning to finish it. Brilliant.
Just picked up the single most expensive non-college book I ever bought, The Marvel Vault. Read it later.
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Post by Super Sonic on Feb 6, 2008 10:33:21 GMT
Finished Brave New World... thought it a bit slow. Just started A Brief History of Time. For someone so rubbish at maths and physics and the like, I wonder how I will fare.
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Post by Pitt on Feb 6, 2008 19:42:46 GMT
Star Wars, Legacy of the Force book 9: Fury.
It's a good series, and it doesn't lose momentum the way the NJO did in the middle. The only trouble I have is that Aaron Allston, Karen Traviss and Troy Denning seem to have small but nonetheless noticable differences of opinion on how Jacen/Caedus should be presented as a character, and it shows from book to book.
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Post by Knuckles on Feb 8, 2008 19:08:16 GMT
Just finished the fourth Dark Tower book and can't find the fifth anywhere...  |
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Post by Samface on Feb 9, 2008 16:29:59 GMT
Check charity shops, I got both the fifth and the sixth in a Cancer Research for two quid each.
Or Amazon/Play if you particularly want shiny new untouched versions, obviously. (Although I think my copy of the fifth hadn't even been opened before it ended up on the charity shop shelf...)
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Post by Smithy on Feb 14, 2008 19:29:07 GMT
I'm reading Cerebus.
Because I'm bitter and alone and it's all the fault of you rapacious devouring female voids!
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Post by Pitt on Feb 14, 2008 20:38:40 GMT
Settling Accounts: The Grapple.
Interesting to see how Winston Churchill would probably have been like Hitler if the English had lost the Great War. Then again, it's all speculation, so it probably wouldn't have happened.
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Post by Super Sonic on Feb 14, 2008 21:36:44 GMT
A Brief History of Time is pretty tough-going for a dip[censored] like me. So I'm reading Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. |
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Post by Exu on Feb 15, 2008 0:55:45 GMT
Guinness World Records 2008 Gamer's Edition
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Post by Pitt on Feb 17, 2008 19:53:10 GMT
Star Wars - Darth Bane: The Rule of Two.
Pretty good story. It's the sequel to last year's Darth Bane novel.
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Post by Feniiku on Feb 17, 2008 22:38:27 GMT
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik.
Fourth book in the Temeraire set, and continues right from where the previous one; Throne of Jade; left off. Good series.
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Post by Samface on Feb 20, 2008 19:36:56 GMT
I bought Ghost World today. It's good and that. Also it got the approval of the cute girl on the checkout, so that's a bonus.
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Post by Super Sonic on Feb 20, 2008 19:52:09 GMT
I think I'll either start reading Catch 22, or perhaps Domain by James Herbert.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Feb 20, 2008 23:20:54 GMT
. Also it got the approval of the cute girl on the checkout, so that's a boner. ;D Owen got me Charlie Brookers Dawn of the Dumb, its pretty much all of his columns over tha past few years but its still awesome!  |
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Post by Feniiku on Feb 21, 2008 0:32:57 GMT
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Read it loads before, but it's well worth more reads XD
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Post by Super Sonic on Feb 21, 2008 11:01:13 GMT
I read that when I was 9 or something. ;D
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Post by Smithy on Feb 21, 2008 11:11:50 GMT
I bought Ghost World today. It's good and that. I like how he managed to get the word [censored] onto the first page. It's the little things. |
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Feb 21, 2008 19:31:49 GMT
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Read it loads before, but it's well worth more reads XD Yeh I read this when I was a kid, after I saw the film so I was squeeeing with joy when I read about the juvenile Rex. The subsequent films get so much wrong though, according to the books at least. JPIII was awful! Anyways, I prefer Sphere. The films is rubbish but the books fantastic.  |
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Post by Pombar on Feb 21, 2008 21:23:13 GMT
JP3 was made purely for those who read the book, tbh. It's just made up of all the scenes and setpieces from the original book that they didn't put in the original film, squished together with some new excuse for him going on the island.
And to be honest? I don't watch Jurassic Park films for intelligence and mature storytelling. I watch it because Dinosaurs eat people. There was enough of this in JP3 to keep me happy.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Feb 23, 2008 21:40:39 GMT
Crichton had hinted that raptors had escaped onto the mainland in one of the books, I forget which as I read them when I was like 13 or something.... and its implied that raptors killed the crew of the cargo boat carrying Daddy and Baby TRex. So I was expecting JPIII to be mostly about raptors causing havoc on the mainland. So, I was kinda disappointed in the film. Anyways, I hate how when Jurassic Park is on telly, they take out the guy being eaten on the toilet and Samuel L Jacksons very fake looking severed arm! Whats the point in showing these beasts if you dont show all the neat things they do with their teeth?! Or in the case of raptors, the pretty cool curvy claw on their feet.... Also, I found it amusing that they swapped the boy and girl characters for the film, AFAIK the boy was older and the computer nerd... also there was something different about Kelly in The Lost World.... cant remember what, though. Anyways Im reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Im nit-picking the differences between the book and the movie... |
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Post by The Shad on Feb 23, 2008 21:48:53 GMT
Crichton had hinted that raptors had escaped onto the mainland in one of the books, I forget which as I read them when I was like 13 or something.... and its implied that raptors killed the crew of the cargo boat carrying Daddy and Baby TRex.  |
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Feb 23, 2008 22:21:45 GMT
Ha! Robert Bakker. Isnt he the guy that suggested dinosaurs evolved into the common sparrow? ;D *is tempted to follow up the googlesearch* Geeky fact: the raptors in JP were too big to be velociraptors... and were probably more like Deinonychus. Try to pronounce that, kids!  |
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Post by Pombar on Feb 23, 2008 22:24:52 GMT
Geeky fact: the raptors in JP were too big to be velociraptors... and were probably more like Deinonychus. Try to pronounce that, kids! WRONG. Common misinterpretation. When Crichton wrote the book, the species he uses as the "raptors" were, in fact, classified as a kind of raptor. More recently, they've been reclassified as a different kind of dino. This happened before the film, but the film felt that they'd A) be true to the book and B) stick with the cooler name, and went on calling the renamed species as raptors, as if nothing had happened. |
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