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PostPosted: 07-26-2008 09:12 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Underpants? wrote:
R00k wrote:
the road

enveloping and dark


Is that an endorsement or critique? :paranoid:
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PostPosted: 07-26-2008 04:25 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


R00k wrote:
the road
enveloping and dark
Is that an endorsement or critique? :paranoid:


little of both, i guess.
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PostPosted: 07-26-2008 04:45 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Just started Everything and More by David Foster Wallace. I've been recommended other books by DFW, so this one caught my eye when I was looking for a book on cryptography (was in the math section). It's about how mathematicians have dealt with the concept of infinity. Pretty good read so far.
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PostPosted: 07-27-2008 12:24 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Decent into Chaos - Ahmed Rashid

I give it a :up:



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PostPosted: 07-27-2008 11:57 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Just finished "Shadow and Claw", the first half of the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Now reading "Sword and Citadel", the second half of the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
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PostPosted: 07-28-2008 07:54 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i'm buy ey so if i doent have to read it i'm totally not going to

i like a nice nap instead heh



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PostPosted: 07-28-2008 08:39 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


re-read the Dark Elf trilogy a couple weeks back (huzzah for used book stores!), reading Gravity's Arc now... it's pretty dull so far.
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PostPosted: 07-28-2008 09:31 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I've always liked the Dark Elf trilogy. It's such a unique and creative world. Having such a cold killer as the hero didn't hurt either.
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PostPosted: 07-28-2008 10:03 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.

Classic. Always wanted to read it, so I ordered it. It's very different than Bladerunner, though.



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PostPosted: 07-28-2008 10:21 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dick is great PUN INTENDED. There are a couple of great collections of his short stories that can be had for ~$10.

After watching No Country for Old Men for the 4th time, I snagged the book. Going to try Blood Meridian next.



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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 04:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


R00k wrote:
I've always liked the Dark Elf trilogy. It's such a unique and creative world. Having such a cold killer as the hero didn't hurt either.


well, don't read it again - you'll be disappointed. the writing is actually pretty dodgy and drizzt is a total emo bitch... you forget how much of the series is wrapped up in him whining about how "the hunter" is going to take over his personality. it seemed pretty awesome when i was 12ish, but now i just wanna slap him around and then send the author some corrections. better than most of the d&d novels, perhaps, but still pretty clown-shoes.
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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 04:57 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


lolth@drizzt...
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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 05:41 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


menkent wrote:
R00k wrote:
I've always liked the Dark Elf trilogy. It's such a unique and creative world. Having such a cold killer as the hero didn't hurt either.


well, don't read it again - you'll be disappointed. the writing is actually pretty dodgy and drizzt is a total emo bitch... you forget how much of the series is wrapped up in him whining about how "the hunter" is going to take over his personality. it seemed pretty awesome when i was 12ish, but now i just wanna slap him around and then send the author some corrections. better than most of the d&d novels, perhaps, but still pretty clown-shoes.


Maybe I should take your advice and let it live on in memory then. :(

I think I was 14 when I read it.
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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 06:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hannibal wrote:
Dick is great PUN INTENDED. There are a couple of great collections of his short stories that can be had for ~$10.

After watching No Country for Old Men for the 4th time, I snagged the book. Going to try Blood Meridian next.


I'm about half way through Blood Meridian (set it aside for some other things a couple weeks ago, but going to finish it soon), and I think it's wonderful. McCarthy is the kind of author I always hope to find when I'm poring over the fiction section at the bookstore.

It takes a few pages to get used to his writing style, but his prose transforms raw emotions like fear and desperation into tangible parts of the landscape, and the characters he develops are like forces of nature. I'm looking forward to finishing the story.
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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 06:11 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


if you're not going to read Dark Elf again, fine, but at least recognize my play on words :mad:
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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 09:11 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


ha - i didn't realize it was a play on words until you pointed it out.

but i recognize
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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 06:46 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


MKJ wrote:
lolth


that bugged me too. i got two different printings from the used book store, so in the first book it was Lloth and in the second it was Lolth. that bugged me. (<-- pun, get it? get it?)
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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 06:55 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


we got some serious wordsmiths in the house :disgust:
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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 06:55 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Mass Effect: Revelation

Can't put it down, I love Karpyshyn's writing :paranoid:
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PostPosted: 07-29-2008 11:29 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


menkent wrote:
MKJ wrote:
lolth


that bugged me too. i got two different printings from the used book store, so in the first book it was Lloth and in the second it was Lolth. that bugged me. (<-- pun, get it? get it?)


looks like youre stuck in a web of lies :idea:

[edit] it's "Lolth" btw, so sayeth the forgotten realms campaign setting [/edit]
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PostPosted: 09-08-2008 01:34 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


mac wrote:
asimovs foundation trilogy


I have a friend who's reading this right now, says it's pretty good. I might try it out at some point.

Just finished Timeline by Michael Chrichton. It's the first book of his I've read (or finished, at least -- Next was crap). It was good pulpy vacation reading. Once you just accept the 2D characters.

Also finished Blood Meridian a couple weeks ago. That was a fantastic book. I can't wait to read more of McCarthy's stuff.
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PostPosted: 09-08-2008 01:40 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I recently finished the last book in the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz. They were good and I'd recommend them as a light read. Use the library though. I was able to finish each book in one day--it's too expensive to keep buying books that are finished in a day.
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PostPosted: 09-08-2008 02:40 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Right is Wrong by Arianna Huffington
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PostPosted: 09-08-2008 06:19 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

My wife read it. So far very funny.
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PostPosted: 09-08-2008 07:21 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


"The October Country", a series of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Perfect Halloween season reading, some of the stories are pretty sick, all of them spooky.
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PostPosted: 09-08-2008 07:42 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Light in August by Faulkner.
FaulknerLite, for a relative contraction. Saturated in southern drama and lots of LOLRACISM-bombs.
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R00k wrote:
I've always liked the Dark Elf trilogy. It's such a unique and creative world. Having such a cold killer as the hero didn't hurt either.

You should check out The Sellswords trilogy, then. Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle are the main characters, both of which are evil protagonists. The writing is better and the story is complex enough to keep you interested throughout. :up:

Right now I'm reading Island in the Sea of Time. It's about the island of Nantucket suddenly and inexplicably being sent into the past (1250 BC) and trying to survive as a community of 7,200 in a world which is several millenia less advanced as theirs. So far it's not bad.



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PostPosted: 09-08-2008 08:31 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'm also going through "The Ancient" by RA Salvatore. I've only read a few of these types of books - pretty much only the LOTR books, the Hobbit, and the first few Robert Jordan books.
Figured I'd give one of Salvatore's books a shot since people say good things about his work. It's ok so far, but all these types of books sort of just blend together into one amorphous blob of wizards, dragons, dwarves, unlikely heroes, etc.
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PostPosted: 09-08-2008 10:54 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


still working my way thru iain m. banks culture novels in order they were released. up to excession

only the second lot of sci-fi books i've ever read, after frank herbert's dune books
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PostPosted: 09-09-2008 12:17 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Rant - Chuck Palahniuk

I'm pretty unsure about it. Has some funny ideas but i'm halfway through and the pacing is still slow... nothing happens, really :miffed:



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PostPosted: 09-09-2008 04:24 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
R00k wrote:
I've always liked the Dark Elf trilogy. It's such a unique and creative world. Having such a cold killer as the hero didn't hurt either.

You should check out The Sellswords trilogy, then. Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle are the main characters, both of which are evil protagonists. The writing is better and the story is complex enough to keep you interested throughout. :up:

Right now I'm reading Island in the Sea of Time. It's about the island of Nantucket suddenly and inexplicably being sent into the past (1250 BC) and trying to survive as a community of 7,200 in a world which is several millenia less advanced as theirs. So far it's not bad.


Thanks for the recommendation. :up:
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PostPosted: 09-09-2008 04:26 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ryoki wrote:
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk

I'm pretty unsure about it. Has some funny ideas but i'm halfway through and the pacing is still slow... nothing happens, really :miffed:


Yea, the way the interviews/oratories are sequenced, the pace of the book seems pretty slow at times, until you're near the end of it.
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PostPosted: 09-23-2008 05:45 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Well i finished Rant but i didn't like it - although things indeed got a bit better near the end.

New book:

Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb - Mike Davis

Short little interesting book.



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PostPosted: 09-23-2008 05:50 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


read Born on a Blue Day in mexico.

.. meh. first two chapters are interesting. the rest is just 'oh look at me im so gr8 oh im also gay lol'.
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PostPosted: 09-23-2008 05:52 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Who wrote that, also our dear friend Chuck?



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