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« Reply #270 on: April 12, 2012, 10:02:04 AM » |
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I'm just heading over to the library to pick up a copy of Twilight. I figured it's about time to see what all the hub bub is about.
NNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Don't be fooled by the glittery vampires! They are not what you think. Read those books and you will devolve into a 12 year-old girl!!  Bob [whispering]omg the horror |
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« Reply #271 on: April 12, 2012, 11:40:32 AM » |
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Still working on Imajica (it's a doorstopper), while simultaneously working my way through A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings of M.R. James, which includes all of his ghost stories, the novel The Five Jars, a collection of "12 Medieval Ghost Stories" that he translated, and a bunch of essays he wrote on the proper care and feeding of ghost stories.
I agree, Imagica is a brick of a book. I think I got through about half and had to stop for some reason, and found it was hard to pick up again. I might give it another go at some point. I'm really enjoying the hell out of it. A friend has been pestering me to read some Clive Barker for years now, and I finally acquiesced. I'm glad I did. It's some solid fantasy. |
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« Reply #272 on: June 06, 2012, 12:06:46 AM » |
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Am working on, and enjoying, Melville's Typee.
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« Reply #273 on: June 06, 2012, 09:57:44 AM » |
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Unga binga bunga!
Bugs Bunny reference?? Bob |
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« Reply #274 on: June 06, 2012, 05:30:58 PM » |
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Unga binga bunga!
Bugs Bunny reference?? Bob That's right, Doc! (Typee concerns natives in the South Seas, so you probably recall the Bugs episode.) |
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« Reply #275 on: June 07, 2012, 08:08:02 AM » |
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Write now I'm reading a bunch of stuff on witchcraft in old Pennsylvania. I'm thinking of working up a long essay on the subject. Not sure what I'll do with it - maybe stick it on Amazon for $1.99. But the research itself is pretty fascinating.
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« Reply #276 on: June 07, 2012, 02:07:13 PM » |
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I'm also working on Clive Barker's Imajica, which reminds me of Neil Gaiman way more than I thought it would. It's good so far.
Barker's been writing the stories that Gaiman would eventually write, for years  Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show should be next on your queue. |
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« Reply #277 on: June 08, 2012, 06:56:25 AM » |
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Right now I'm reading F. Paul Wilson's The Keep (Nazi vs...eldritch things? I'm not yet sure what the mysterious big bad is) and Scalzi's Redshirts, which is a must for any Trekkie or anyone who just watched a lot of it back in the day. Esp TOS or TNG.
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« Reply #278 on: June 08, 2012, 08:07:42 AM » |
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Right now I'm reading F. Paul Wilson's The Keep (Nazi vs...eldritch things? I'm not yet sure what the mysterious big bad is) and Scalzi's Redshirts, which is a must for any Trekkie or anyone who just watched a lot of it back in the day. Esp TOS or TNG.
Let's here your thoughts after your done. I love The Keep as it stands alone, but absolutely cannot stand the extended cycle Wilson wrote it into. |
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« Reply #279 on: June 08, 2012, 11:53:47 PM » |
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I'm always reading too many things, but the active reads are:
1) The Trail of Cthulhu RPG core book and Shadows over Filmland
2) Dragons of Autumn Twilight (started a reading/reaction blog and am reading it with my girlfriend who has never read the series)
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« Reply #280 on: June 09, 2012, 01:54:05 AM » |
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Right now I'm reading F. Paul Wilson's The Keep (Nazi vs...eldritch things? I'm not yet sure what the mysterious big bad is) and Scalzi's Redshirts, which is a must for any Trekkie or anyone who just watched a lot of it back in the day. Esp TOS or TNG.
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« Reply #281 on: June 09, 2012, 11:33:48 PM » |
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Right now I'm reading F. Paul Wilson's The Keep (Nazi vs...eldritch things? I'm not yet sure what the mysterious big bad is) and Scalzi's Redshirts, which is a must for any Trekkie or anyone who just watched a lot of it back in the day. Esp TOS or TNG.
Let's here your thoughts after your done. I love The Keep as it stands alone, but absolutely cannot stand the extended cycle Wilson wrote it into. Wilson wrote sequels to The Keep? I'm intrigued. Yeah, it's listed as book one of the X cycle. I'm not recalling the name offhand (Adversary?). But The Keep was the only one recommended to me so I'll probably stop there (so many things to read!). So far I'm finding it gripping. Much preferring it to Stross (shame face). Also just picked up The Weird because people keep raving to me about it and I don't already have enough to read.   |
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« Reply #282 on: June 11, 2012, 08:19:34 AM » |
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Right now I'm reading F. Paul Wilson's The Keep (Nazi vs...eldritch things? I'm not yet sure what the mysterious big bad is) and Scalzi's Redshirts, which is a must for any Trekkie or anyone who just watched a lot of it back in the day. Esp TOS or TNG.
Let's here your thoughts after your done. I love The Keep as it stands alone, but absolutely cannot stand the extended cycle Wilson wrote it into. Wilson wrote sequels to The Keep? I'm intrigued. Yeah, it's listed as book one of the X cycle. I'm not recalling the name offhand (Adversary?). But The Keep was the only one recommended to me so I'll probably stop there (so many things to read!). So far I'm finding it gripping. Much preferring it to Stross (shame face). Also just picked up The Weird because people keep raving to me about it and I don't already have enough to read. Yup. It is called the Adversary Cycle. Wilson tried to build a whole Mythos-style universe around the Keep. And I just don't care for it. For me it's OTT. Check it out here. Warning, spoilers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adversary_Cycle |
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« Reply #283 on: June 11, 2012, 08:40:00 AM » |
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I'm always reading too many things, but the active reads are:
1) The Trail of Cthulhu RPG core book and Shadows over Filmland
2) Dragons of Autumn Twilight (started a reading/reaction blog and am reading it with my girlfriend who has never read the series)
Wait a minute here, there is a reading/reaction blog to the Dragonlance Chronicles? Wow, that was the first novel I ever read, and it was contemporary at the time. I still have my original copy complete with taped up spine and detached front cover. Bob |
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« Reply #284 on: June 11, 2012, 02:28:07 PM » |
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waiting for two books to come in from the library:
All is Grace: a Biography of Dorothy Day by Jim Forest
Love Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy.
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