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Post by Samface on Dec 12, 2006 20:36:40 GMT
Choice! Finished The Stand (once again ace, and got me pumped to finally get round to The Dark Tower, but I could swear the first time I read it they explained the characters' superflu immunity...). Started reading Michael Crichton's Timeline, which from the back cover sounded ace. And for the first twenty pages it was ace. Then the second twenty were bloody awful. So I ditched it and started on Lemony Snicket instead. The Bad Beginning gets a thumbs-up so far (I actually dithered about reading it all in one sitting, but luckily got tired at about midnight. )
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Post by Pitt on Dec 12, 2006 20:51:10 GMT
I regret to inform you that the series starts to go downhill after book eight. I have The End, but I haven't read it yet.
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Post by Samface on Dec 12, 2006 21:06:50 GMT
I've heard that it improves after book eight, as the Baudelaires are forced on the run, rather than "they get a new foster parent, Olaf kills parent, rinse and repeat".
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Post by Pitt on Dec 12, 2006 21:27:37 GMT
Be that as it may, I myself found the books to become somewhat tedious as the series drew to a close. Now it had become, in my eyes at least: Baudelaires disguise themselves and find acceptance with a single member of whatever group they hide themselves in. Their disguise is uncovered and their benefactor either turns on them or is killed. They must start running again. And I'm told that the final book leaves a number of unanswered questions. But isn't really my place to tell people what to read.
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Post by Pete on Dec 16, 2006 1:05:50 GMT
Dan Brown- Angels and Demons.
Features no angels or demons within...RIP OFF!
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Post by Pitt on Dec 16, 2006 10:20:15 GMT
At last! Two new books, and ones that I had hoped to get. Hannibal Rising and Wheel of Time: New Spring.
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Post by Samface on Dec 16, 2006 10:33:12 GMT
Finished Bad Beginning, now back on the Stephen King and most of the way through re-reading Pet Sematary.
Damn that book is freaky.
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Post by Pitt on Dec 20, 2006 17:12:13 GMT
I've finished Hannibal Rising. It's a pretty good novel, but it felt somewhat poorer than The Silence of the Lambs, the true jewel of the series.
I started reading New Spring yesterday, and hope to have it finished before Christmas.
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Post by rj on Dec 22, 2006 20:09:17 GMT
I've heard that it improves after book eight, as the Baudelaires are forced on the run, rather than "they get a new foster parent, Olaf kills parent, rinse and repeat". That be true, and the story gets excellent. The End ends in sort of an anticlimax, but it is a satisfying end to The End where the end of The End is at the end of the End and so to that end The End ends nicely.
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Post by Pitt on Dec 23, 2006 13:45:50 GMT
The End left too many unanswered questions for my liking.
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Post by rj on Dec 23, 2006 18:39:41 GMT
The End left too many unanswered questions for my liking. It felt like it added to the atmosphere because of that. Under the circumstances, it's the best that you can wish for.
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Post by Pitt on Dec 23, 2006 19:05:59 GMT
Under the circumstances, it's the best that you can wish for. I'm sure I could've wished for something better.
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Post by rj on Dec 23, 2006 19:06:47 GMT
Under the circumstances, it's the best that you can wish for. I'm sure I could've wished for something better. You completely missed the point of the book, didn't you?
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Post by Pitt on Dec 23, 2006 19:33:18 GMT
So it would seem.
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Post by Samface on Dec 28, 2006 19:23:30 GMT
Currently on Christopher Paolini's Eragon, which I got for Chrimble. Cliché as hell (Brom couldn't be Obi-Wan more if he tried) but very readable.
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Post by Pitt on Dec 28, 2006 19:34:08 GMT
I saw the film yesterday, and I hope to read the book soon to see how the two compare.
I've jsut finished reading the Kingdom Hearts manga. It wwas a side-quest, so to speak. The novel I am currently reading is Star Wars: Tempest, book three in the Legacy of the Force series.
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Post by t3hchaosx3 on Jan 2, 2007 1:54:42 GMT
Shaman King 11
Pre-release beta editions = victory :3
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Post by Samface on Jan 2, 2007 19:34:40 GMT
Finished Eragon, my earlier opinions stand.
On a bit of a Snicket kick now. Done and dusted The Reptile Room - I've seen the movie so plotwise nothing remarkable, but it made me laugh out loud on three seperate occasions - and just started The Wide Window.
Love the letters Snicket leaves to the editor in the back of each book.
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Post by Smithy on Jan 2, 2007 20:29:02 GMT
Just finished the Moomin comic strips collection by Tove Jansson, possibly the reason why the printing process was created.
Also ready A Study in Emerald from Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman.
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Post by Pitt on Jan 2, 2007 21:56:30 GMT
I'm about to start reading a Star Wars novel entitled Darth Bane: The Path of Destruction.
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Post by Dave on Jan 6, 2007 16:43:45 GMT
Star Wars - Rise of Darth Vader
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Post by Samface on Jan 6, 2007 23:46:30 GMT
Finished Wide Window ("and the moral of World War One is..." - brilliant) and started a book my dad leant me, Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom. Something of a spy thriller/historical piece, set in Spain during the Second World War whilst Franco is trying to decide whether to enter the conflict. Only read four chapters, but it's swiftly moved from okay to excellent.
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Post by Oz on Jan 8, 2007 12:50:54 GMT
I'm half way through Hannibal Rising, and it's not that bad. Gives a lot of insight into the character and has been an interesting read...thus far.
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Post by Pitt on Jan 8, 2007 17:55:04 GMT
Hannibal Rising is good, but I didn't think that it's as good as The Silence of the Lambs.
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Post by gaz on Jan 9, 2007 9:45:17 GMT
Clive Cussler - The treasure of Khan follows the same old Cussler design for a book, but I am enjoying it lots
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