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« Reply #240 on: February 29, 2012, 03:59:58 PM » |
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I'm re-reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time since I was 14 or so. I'm currently about 80% through The Two Towers.
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« Reply #241 on: February 29, 2012, 09:59:12 PM » |
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I'm listening to 'Carthage Must Be Destroyed' while driving, since I'm caught up on podcasts. Reading...I'm in the middle of a Brian Lumley collection on my kindle, and reading 'Womb of Time' by Brian Stableford, which has a nifty Cthulhu cover.
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"We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many columned Y'ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever."
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« Reply #242 on: March 01, 2012, 08:27:47 AM » |
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At the moment, I am reading A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and other Subversive Spirits by Carol K. Mack & Dinah Mack. So far, I am very disappointed with it. There is very little information about individual entities, and the entire introduction was trying to convince the reader that demons are just misunderstood. I was hoping for much more of a theological cataloging of historic deamons and supernatural creatures, this is just an expensive version of the "Spiderwick" book.
Bob
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If someone ever dares you to read the Necronomicon out loud... just say no.
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« Reply #243 on: March 01, 2012, 02:59:09 PM » |
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Browsing Ian Dallas's "Book of Strangers" and dabbling with texts in Greenlandic a wee bit. Didn't finish Joanna Kavenna's "Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule" but maybe I will, I made it past the Orkneys and into Iceland with her.
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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Esoteric Order of Dagon: Norwegian Chapter
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« Reply #244 on: March 08, 2012, 05:28:22 PM » |
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Alexandr Solszjenitsyns "Gulag Archipelago"....only he can make write about death-camps in a poetic way !
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I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you can not put downe; by the Which I meane, Any that can in Turne call up somewhat against you, whereby your Powerfullest Devices may not be of use. Ask of the Lesser, lest the Greater shall not wish to Answer, and shall commande more than you.
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« Reply #245 on: March 09, 2012, 03:47:23 PM » |
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Alexandr Solszjenitsyns "Gulag Archipelago"....only he can make write about death-camps in a poetic way !
Labor camps, but anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkE5ZkIMmpECan he make them funny and/or sexy???  |
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #246 on: March 21, 2012, 10:11:32 PM » |
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Just finished Hem's Across the River and into the Trees... Not recommended.
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Ready now with those switches?
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« Reply #247 on: March 22, 2012, 01:27:37 AM » |
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Nice to see another Hemingway fan here! But lately I've been reading Arthur Conan Doyle's Tales of Terror and Mystery.
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« Reply #248 on: March 22, 2012, 03:41:44 PM » |
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The most recent ebooks on the hard disk are a collection I found under LairdBarronology at archive.org in the Texts section. Everything except the LairdBarronology epub material I already had, and I can't make sense of the epub. It appears to be a bunch of stuff about his work. But this is not non-Lovecraft.
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #249 on: March 22, 2012, 09:36:45 PM » |
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does listening to an audio book count as reading? 'cause I'm listening to George R.R. Martins Game of Thrones.
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Bob Lovecraft
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« Reply #250 on: March 23, 2012, 08:31:01 AM » |
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does listening to an audio book count as reading? 'cause I'm listening to George R.R. Martins Game of Thrones.
Oh yes, it very much counts as reading. By the way, is this your first time reading "the Song of Ice and Fire" books? If so, brother, do you have a lot of listening to do.  Oh, and I got a copy of the "Malleus Malefecarum" the other day and am starting on it now. Holy crap that is some dry-ass reading. I really have to wonder about a person's ability to absorb the content of this book, even at the time of it's publication. I think i will be going back to this book quite a lot for the next few months, just reading little bits and then trying to digest them. Bob |
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« Reply #251 on: March 23, 2012, 11:37:41 AM » |
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does listening to an audio book count as reading? 'cause I'm listening to George R.R. Martins Game of Thrones.
Oh yes, it very much counts as reading. By the way, is this your first time reading "the Song of Ice and Fire" books? If so, brother, do you have a lot of listening to do. Oh, and I got a copy of the "Malleus Malefecarum" the other day and am starting on it now. Holy crap that is some dry-ass reading. I really have to wonder about a person's ability to absorb the content of this book, even at the time of it's publication. I think i will be going back to this book quite a lot for the next few months, just reading little bits and then trying to digest them. Bob yes it is my first time - all together the series is over 50 hours long. considering my bike ride to work is about 15 minutes, four times a day, that's an hour of listening a day, it probably will take me half a year to finish (assuming I strictly listen to it, which there are other things I may listen to some days as well - like this wonderful podcast!). |
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« Reply #252 on: March 23, 2012, 03:27:48 PM » |
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I listen to audiobooks at the office. As I am a draftsman by trade, it is generally no problem. You have no idea how many times I have "read" the same books this like this.
Bob
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If someone ever dares you to read the Necronomicon out loud... just say no.
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« Reply #253 on: March 28, 2012, 09:05:35 AM » |
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I'm reading "Storm Front" by Jim Butcher (the first in the "Dresden Files" series).
Damn good series. Stick with the books. When you go back and read them over, you will see a really good example of an author allowing his character to grow and change. I've got them all on audio and kind of fall back on listening to them when I don't have anything else, and I've spotted one or two examples of when Dresden was actually allowed to get too cocky and be beaten down for it, then bounce back a bit later on and learn from his screw ups. very cool. Bob I just finished Proven Guilty by Butcher. I've only listened to them on audiobooks (only thing I have time for these days) and was all out of order. I listened to Small Favor first so I was very confused. I actually ALWAYS expect Harry to be too cocky at least once in the book and cringe whenever he's confident. Bob, you wouldnt happen to be an air spirit in a skull would you? |
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Ruth - CthulhuChick
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« Reply #254 on: March 28, 2012, 03:33:39 PM » |
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I listen to audiobooks at the office. As I am a draftsman by trade, it is generally no problem. You have no idea how many times I have "read" the same books this like this.
Bob
Same, only different trade. Just finished Jekyll & Hyde, which I liked very much. Some rather Lovecraftian phrases (or perhaps ones that influenced him). Starting 2001. |
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