Pitt
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If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet!
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Post by Pitt on Jul 2, 2010 10:06:58 GMT
Terry Pratchett - Mort.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jul 2, 2010 16:24:32 GMT
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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 Jul 2, 2010 16:36:59 GMT
Yeah, I thought The Colour of Magic was a bit boring and that almost put me off, but I really got into it when I read Equal Rites.
Mort is great fun.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jul 2, 2010 17:21:17 GMT
Equal Rites was the first one I read, thought it was great. I agree about Colour of Magic, much preferred the sequel, Light Fantastic.
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legionfan44
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Post by legionfan44 on Jul 3, 2010 16:39:21 GMT
Last Book I read that wasn't a comic was Dante's Divine Comedy, Pretty good.
I plan to read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales sometime this summerl....if I can ever get my attention span to cooperate. lol.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jul 3, 2010 21:27:12 GMT
It took me about 9 months to read all of the Divine Comedy... after Inferno it was really really dull I thought.
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legionfan44
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Post by legionfan44 on Jul 3, 2010 21:33:39 GMT
It took me about 9 months to read all of the Divine Comedy... after Inferno it was really really dull I thought. Agreed..Inferno is hte best part..I also enjoyed tha Game & Animated DTV adaptions of it. oh Forgot to mention last post..I do occasionaly read a few poems or short stories from my COMPLETE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLEN POE book. What can I say Classic Lit PWNS Modern Lit. LOL! Although I am wanting to check into a few modern book series...such as Maximum Ride & the Demonata. |
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Post by The Shad on Jul 3, 2010 22:10:02 GMT
I plan to read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales sometime this summerl....if I can ever get my attention span to cooperate. lol. Oh, yeah. I should be reading that... now. Stupid thesis. |
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Post by Pete on Jul 3, 2010 22:20:08 GMT
I plan to read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales sometime this summerl....if I can ever get my attention span to cooperate. lol. Oh, yeah. I should be reading that... now. Stupid thesis. I read The Miller's Tale in school, and by "read", I mean "translated" every other sentence. The actual story was pretty good, but it's much harder to read than, say, Shakespeare. |
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Post by The Shad on Jul 3, 2010 22:26:09 GMT
I read The Miller's Tale in school, and by "read", I mean "translated" every other sentence. The actual story was pretty good, but it's much harder to read than, say, Shakespeare. Well, its much older than Shakespeare. Its easier if you read it aloud, I find. Chaucerian Middle English is much easier than other Middle English texts, since it's what standard modern English came from. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is much harder to read. I have to read a [censored]ton of Middle English (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and some of the Canterbury Tales, but I haven't decided which Tales to use, and a few more) and Anglo-Saxon (Beowulf and others) for my thesis. Anglo-Saxon is a nightmare. I really hope I get to work with translations of the stuff, because I really couldn't face translating a whole text of Anglo-Saxon. |
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Post by Super Sonic on Jul 3, 2010 23:04:43 GMT
I don't think I'd be able to read it without thinking of Bill Bailey's Chaucer Pubbe Gagge.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jul 9, 2010 14:41:29 GMT
Read Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life and Over to You by Roald Dahl in just over 24 hours. Both are collections of short stories and very readable. Over to You is all about pilots in WW2 and tended to be very miserable.
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Post by Hevs on Jul 9, 2010 15:02:28 GMT
Green Mars... 2nd book in the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Tbh I'd rather this trilogy have less sex and politics and more Science.
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Post by Shadic? on Aug 1, 2010 4:13:25 GMT
I've been reading "The Time Machine Did It" by former Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder.
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Pitt
Script Hume
Ungrateful Sonic Saxophonist
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Post by Pitt on Aug 3, 2010 23:54:54 GMT
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series.
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Post by Lost Mercenary on Aug 4, 2010 21:58:51 GMT
Just pre-ordered Yahtzee's new and first book Mogworld.
If it's anything like the short stories on his site this should make a good read.
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Pitt
Script Hume
Ungrateful Sonic Saxophonist
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Post by Pitt on Aug 5, 2010 21:38:59 GMT
Will probably start Guards! Guards! soon. Pyramids was kind of disappointing after Wyrd Sisters, but I've heard good things about this one.
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Post by Super Sonic on Aug 14, 2010 7:16:23 GMT
Switch [censored] by Roald Dahl... slowly working my way through a load of his books.
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Pitt
Script Hume
Ungrateful Sonic Saxophonist
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Post by Pitt on Aug 21, 2010 21:53:55 GMT
Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson, which certainly maintains his reputation as one of the best new fantasy authors about.
Also reading this comedic political book my dad got me.
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Post by Super Sonic on Aug 23, 2010 10:32:31 GMT
Roald Dahl - My Uncle Oswald
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lordgazza
Big Time Boomer
"What part of stay away from the apple tree did you not get?!"
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Post by lordgazza on Aug 25, 2010 0:01:59 GMT
Evil Under the Sun by agatha christie
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Jafar
Big Time Boomer
On Wings of Hope and Fear
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Post by Jafar on Aug 25, 2010 16:48:06 GMT
Chapman's translation of Homer's The Odyssey. The diction is a bit hard to understand sometimes but is a lot smoother than some other epic poems, and Odysseus the character and the theme of returning home after a huge, seemingly unconquerable struggle is one that inspires the idealist I am much. I also am about to start The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde.
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Post by Eleonora B.M on Aug 31, 2010 20:46:31 GMT
"L Change the World" and "how to read" both spin off from the death note saga. First one is a real book the second is a manga....
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lordgazza
Big Time Boomer
"What part of stay away from the apple tree did you not get?!"
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Post by lordgazza on Aug 31, 2010 21:50:17 GMT
Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertran M.Patenaude.
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mark00275
Big Time Boomer
Learner driver on the rampage!
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Post by mark00275 on Sept 5, 2010 19:46:50 GMT
Snow Garden by Christopher Rice, I enjoyed it ;D
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