Jenny Haniver
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« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2010, 07:26:40 AM » |
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I’m slowly making my way through the complete Conan stories, chronologically (I'm on 'The Jewel of Gwahlur') - it's largely great stuff, though 95% of his female characters are utterly transposable. I'm also reading a collection of Clark Ashton Smith stories. The last thing I read before that was Infernal Devices by Phillip Reeve, from his Mortal Engines series, which is technically for 'young adults' but, dammit, it's just the coolest thing I've ever read.
I have a load of stuff stacked up to read, fiction and non-fiction - Our Friends Beneath the Sands (foreign legion history), Cosa Nostra (mafia history), Atlas Shrugged (no introduction needed), The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - the list goes on....
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Asenaith
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« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2010, 11:18:48 AM » |
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I just finished The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. I really enjoyed it and am already halfway through his other book Ship Breaker. I was looking for something different and this was it. He is great at world building and character development, I couldn't put it down!
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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal...
H.P. Lovecraft "The Tomb"
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
George R.R. Martin "A Game of Thrones"
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fishy
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« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2010, 05:34:16 PM » |
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By my bed right now: Crass - Love Songs
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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 #18 on: December 23, 2010, 05:39:17 PM » |
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I was helping my parents clean their garage today and found a pristine copy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (Penguin Classics edition) lying around. Somehow I never read it in high school or college, and it seems especially appropriate now with class stratification in America regressing back to 1920s levels.
Other than that, I reread Algeron Blackwood's "The Willows" on the night of the lunar eclipse, and I've been reading through a Sherlock Holmes omnibus for the past few months. I've read nearly all of the short stories and novels at this point. When I'm done I'm going to treat myself to Neil Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald," a Sherlock Holmes-Lovecraftian crossover that apparently is actually good.
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Dionysius8421
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« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2010, 06:47:50 PM » |
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I'm going through all of LOTR, starting with The Silmarrion
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Nightmare Happenings
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« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2010, 10:04:12 PM » |
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The works of Carlos Castaneda
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Ruth - CthulhuChick
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« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2010, 10:24:37 PM » |
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Currently?
On my Nook I'm alternating between Day of the Triffids and Terry Pratchett's Pyramid. I'm also listening to an audiobook of Dune (terrible start for the readers, but the story's so good that I'm thoroughly engrossed).
I'm also making my way through the Miles Vorkosigan series, devouring a couple at a time and then taking a short break. Dune is my break between Vorkosigans. Triffids & Pyramids should be pretty short reads. Triffids isn't as gripping as I'd hoped.
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old book
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« Reply #22 on: December 24, 2010, 01:36:29 PM » |
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Ruth: DotT, excellent. Check out the new BBC on Wyndham at http://www.mediafire.com/?12jc061a38t13f4Also, I heard on the podcraft you created an index of HPL vocabulary. I'd like a copy. |
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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 #23 on: December 24, 2010, 01:37:15 PM » |
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old book: see this thread. |
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« Reply #24 on: December 24, 2010, 05:57:49 PM » |
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OMG, I'm like totally reading the Twilight series! My bestie scored it for me, and it's sooo fetch . . .  Ok, no, but really, a friend burned a copy of The Silmarillion for me for the holidays. I think I'd go mad if I had to actually read the book because half of it is just names and genealogies, but as an audio file it's thoroughly engrossing. |
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The Colour scorched my lands
and burned away my family.
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« Reply #25 on: December 24, 2010, 07:01:33 PM » |
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Hm. That's a good idea. The Silmarillion can be a beast, but it's got some really great little stories in it, which I mainly remember by their associated songs on Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle-Earth. It's a Silmarillion concept album that I was listening to around the same time I was actually reading the book, and the two are kind of permanently meshed in my memory now.
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« Reply #26 on: December 24, 2010, 07:53:51 PM » |
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I found a really great site through Reddit the other day. It links to DagonBytes for Lovecraft and Poe, but has a TON of .pdfs to download. Basically it's got every classic of western horror you could ever want to read. Check it out. You'll keep yourself busy for a while! http://www.horrormasters.com/Themes/horror_classics.htm |
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Ruth - CthulhuChick
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« Reply #27 on: December 24, 2010, 11:19:30 PM » |
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I second or third the recommendation for the Silmarillion as audio. That's how I read it when I was a teen...I think I did a dramatic room cleaning/rearranging while listening to it. I really liked it, but I can't imagine reading it in book form.
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fishy
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« Reply #28 on: December 25, 2010, 06:13:20 AM » |
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Then (again!) i must be one of the few who READ "Silmarillion" in my youth and had NO problem whatsoever getting through it. To be precise i have read over 40 times...and 20 of them was before the age of 20 (i kept counting). Bought the audiobook some years ago to "keep it fresh". And i am in no way Tolkien-obsessed.
Silmarillion not a single book, it is really is a collection of "books" in one book. That confuses people.
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Ruth - CthulhuChick
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« Reply #29 on: December 25, 2010, 07:56:35 AM » |
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Silmarillion not a single book, it is really is a collection of "books" in one book. That confuses people.
This is very true. If one approached it as a collection of short-stories, one might do better. A cycle, perhaps. Also, I have been able to go back & read individual stories. I'm fond of Blind Guardian's "Nightfall in Middle Earth," which is based on the Silmarillion and when I first listened to it I had to look up references. |
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