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Revan
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| erwin wrote: | | Since my sister has a copy, and I'm all out of things to watch (aside from daily TV), I'm watching FRIENDS season 1 - 10, currently at season 2. |
*ahem*
The mod in me must point out that this is the "What are you reading?" thread, not the "What are you watching" thread. A fine distinction, I'm sure, but a very important one in my opinion.
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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Just finished Thief of Time I borrowed from AAS. Took some time setting up but once the main plot got started, it was lol's all around. Actually dug through some secondhand bookstore piles looking for the other novels to no avail. 
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Knightingale
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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I re-read Orson Scott Card's Enchantment, which makes me wish the man wrote fantasy all the time. :[ The gritty tone of his prose melds incredibly well with the equally toothy Slavic(?) mythos. Yum.
I hope my friend finishes reading my copy of Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls so I can give it another read. That's a book that never fails to make me smile.
This is a bit of a shot in the dark (come to that, is this even the correct thread to ask this?), but I don't suppose anyone has Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist that I could borrow? I've been wanting to read the book ever since I saw the movie, as I heard it gives a really different perspective on the characters. |
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Isis
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Oooh, book talk! Me likey!
Reading Clinton Palanca's Landscapes (ohai local author) and Tana French's The Likeness. It's a sequel to In the Woods. Literary whodunit - in other words, a whodunit where brooding/subtle epiphanies > action/explosive confrontations. Lol.
I am excited to read House of Leaves, but right now I plan to dive into a bunch of comic books, borrowed from boy_bakal's book bin.  May start with IDENTITY CRISIS. Or MARVEL 1602.
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Very Young Dragon
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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I've been a bookworm this past week (thanks to the looong weekend).
Devoured Paulo Coelho's The Devil and Miss Prym and The Winner Stands Alone, Neil Gaiman's Odd and the Frost Giants, and Malcolm Gladwell's The Outliers (non-fiction) and now I'm halfway through Gladwell's Tipping Point (also non-fiction).
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 3:12 am Post subject: |
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I'm currently reading The Idea Book.
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Knightingale
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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erwin
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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the persona 4 comic accurately depicts the game's storyline. very accurate 
I've finished Ender's Game weeks ago, but it still lingers in my mind. Especially how it constantly reminds you that the main characters are kids, 11 to 15 years old to be more specific, and how often you forget about this detail as you read it.
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erwin
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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currently reading Transmetropolitan. Journalism is about the truth, whatever it may be.
and i've just read the new p4 comic by himdaisy. i didn't know there was a part3 already
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Revan
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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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This funk I'm in seems to be terrible for work, but it's great for getting some reading done apparently.
-Angels of Darkness (Gav Thorpe) (Warhammer 40k)
A fascinating look at the Dark Angels chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. Its insights on the nature of the Dark Angels, their monasticism, secrecy, and paranoia are creepy. The relationship between the Fallen Angel Astelan and Interrogator-Chaplain Boreas, while initially cliched, become much more interesting the more Astelan reveals about the Horus Heresy, the schism that led to the revolt of the Fallen Angels, and some creepy insinuations as to Lion El'Jonson, the Dark Angel Primarch. The canon nut arguments around this novel never fail to amuse.
-The Flanders Panel (Arturo Perez Reverte)
A young art restorer digs at the mystery behind a 500 year old murder encoded in a painting showing a game of chess, and things get complicated the deeper she delves into the painting's history and impending sale. Art, murder, greed, chess, and some interesting ruminations on the playing of games. The supporting cast is a joy to read. I'm feeling a peculiar affinity for the chess player, Munoz. A god of the chessboard, calm, focused, collected, and absolutely useless away from it.
-The Seville Communion (Arturo Perez Reverte)
A hacker infiltrates the Pope's personal computer and leaves a plea: Save Our Lady Of Tears, a crumbling church in the heart of Seville. Father Lorenzo Quart is sent to investigate, and stumbles into a maelstrom of conspiracy, blackmail, secrets, and murder. A mystery dealing with discipline, pride, honor, duty, faith, doubt, memory, mortality, and nostalgia, it asks: Where will you draw your line in the sand?
I'm not sure if it is the worst or best possible book for me to have picked up in the middle of my funk, but it's an awesome read, and it makes you think long and hard to see if you have your own little Nuestra Senora de las Lagrimas in your life or not.
Here's to those who smile the smile of the last Templar at the hills of Hattin.
-The Ghost In The Tokaido Inn (Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler)
A neat little YA crime novel set in the days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Ghost In The Tokaido Inn follows the adventures of Seikei, the son of a tea merchant who dreams of being a samurai. He gets his chance when he gets caught up in the theft of a ruby and the unfolding of a revenge drama years in the making. Neat period piece with great atmosphere while being very reader friendly. Great YA, and solid crime novel as well.
-Misspent Youth (Peter F Hamilton)
Transhumanism raises some interesting dilemmas. 2040. Jeff Baker, inventor and philanthropist, has just undergone the world’s first rejuvenation treatment, stepping out of the vats as a genetically twenty year old man with the wisdom of a septuagenarian. Only, he never counted on the return of the raging hormones and his rampant libido playing merry hell with his friendships and his relationship with his wife and son. I mean really, how the hell do you apologize to, say, your best friend for sleeping with his granddaughter? Or to your son, for sleeping with his nubile young girlfriend? Tragic, comic, erotic, and an interesting look at love, lust, family, age, and mortality. I so want to see how it turns out.
-Social Network Structures and the Internet: Collective Dynamics in Virtual Communities (Dongyoung Sohn)
A random booksale find that I'm digging through, pretty much a media studies look at the dynamics of online social networking. It looks interesting, if I can cut through the academic gobbledygook.
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:54 am Post subject: |
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Currently reading:
The Thousand Orcs by R.A. Salvatore
The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore
Currently rereading:
Dark Sun's The Brazen Gambit by Lynn Abbey
Dark Sun's The Darkness before The Dawn by Ryan Hughes
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erwin
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:26 am Post subject: |
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*REVIVE THREAD*
Currently reading:
Nemesis by Isaac Asimov (on-and-off reading for almost 2 months now)
Blade of the Immortal (manga)
Lone Wolf and Cub (I'm down to the last 2 volumes, but I don't want to finish it because I don't want to end to story  )
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BJ
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:31 pm Post subject: ASoIAF |
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I finally finished A Dance with Dragons.
The world of A Song of Ice and Fire definitely do not believe in hit points. No matter how important you may be, you are always one dragon-breath/crossbow bolt/dagger slice from death. That is, unless you have fire immunity. 
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:22 am Post subject: Re: ASoIAF |
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| BJ wrote: | I finally finished A Dance with Dragons.
The world of A Song of Ice and Fire definitely do not believe in hit points. No matter how important you may be, you are always one dragon-breath/crossbow bolt/dagger slice from death. That is, unless you have fire immunity. |
Maybe they are using vitality and wound points?
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