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« Reply #105 on: February 24, 2011, 01:48:13 PM » |
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Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Hey, I like Sandman. Thought I'd give it a whirl. I like it so far, not exactly great but a nice little piece.
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« Reply #106 on: February 24, 2011, 10:25:50 PM » |
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Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Hey, I like Sandman. Thought I'd give it a whirl. I like it so far, not exactly great but a nice little piece.
It's not one of my favorites by him but it's still a good book. I enjoy the way he handles mythology, both in Sandman and in American Gods. The sequel-ish Anansi Boys was good in an almost un-Gaimanish way. Reading all over the map, still on Kushiel's Dart in physical book but just finished The Scarlet Pimpernel as an audiobook (again *happy sigh*) and about to start My Man Jeeves. |
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« Reply #107 on: February 25, 2011, 08:15:30 AM » |
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I'm currently reading Harry Adam Knight's 1984 novel "Carnosaur" about an eccentric, British billionaire who secretly funds genetic research aimed at reviving and cloning dinosaurs which he then plans to place in his private zoo. However, things quick go to hell when a traitor on the inside turns off the zoo's power and releases all the dinosaurs.
Sound familiar?
Yeah....six years later Michael Crichton would steal.... I mean mysterious come up with the same idea and with the help of a movie adaptation courtesy of Stephen Spielberg get rich and famous because of it.
I really don't like Michael Crichton... ANyone have a shogoth we could mail him??? Bob |
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« Reply #108 on: February 25, 2011, 11:46:20 AM » |
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I really don't like Michael Crichton... ANyone have a shogoth we could mail him??? Don't bother. He went stir-crazy trying to convince everyone that global warming is a myth and died. Apparently stir-crazy gives you cancer. |
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« Reply #109 on: February 25, 2011, 12:11:16 PM » |
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I really don't like Michael Crichton... ANyone have a shogoth we could mail him??? Don't bother. He went stir-crazy trying to convince everyone that global warming is a myth and died. Apparently stir-crazy gives you cancer. Awwwww...guys...I'm bummed Michael Critchton isn't still with us...was so gunning to be the sixth Mrs Critchton!  Currently on my needs to get returned to the library bookshelf. -Jackie Collins Chances-Jackie Collins The World is Full of Divorced Women-Laura Ingalls Wilder The Long Winter-Joyce Carol Oates My Sister My Love |
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« Reply #110 on: February 25, 2011, 01:20:58 PM » |
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I really don't like Michael Crichton... ANyone have a shogoth we could mail him??? Don't bother. He went stir-crazy trying to convince everyone that global warming is a myth and died. Apparently stir-crazy gives you cancer. Awwwww...guys...I'm bummed Michael Critchton isn't still with us...was so gunning to be the sixth Mrs Critchton! You still can. Just head on down to Seep Cypress Swamp and dig up his mosuleum with one of your buddies hanging out up top with a cell phone. Oh wait, I think I just stole that entire idea from someone else.  Bob P.S. - Just finished "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Time machine" |
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« Reply #111 on: February 25, 2011, 06:04:06 PM » |
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Awwwww...guys...I'm bummed Michael Critchton isn't still with us...was so gunning to be the sixth Mrs Critchton! I've got 2 words for you: Essential Saltes.  |
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« Reply #112 on: February 25, 2011, 07:32:01 PM » |
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Finished The Monkey Wrench Gang. Didn't like it very much. I can see why the founders of Earth First! where inspired by it, and later broke with Earth First! and started "green" anti-immigration organizations.
In my quest to read more books with environmentalist themes, I've borrowed The Boat that Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat from my father. Mowat is one of Canada's most widely-read authors, member of the Green Party of Canada and had an anti-seal hunt Sea Shepherd boat named after him.
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« Reply #113 on: February 26, 2011, 07:18:14 AM » |
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Awwwww...guys...I'm bummed Michael Critchton isn't still with us...was so gunning to be the sixth Mrs Critchton! I've got 2 words for you: Essential Saltes. Three, actually (you forgot Ye!). |
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« Reply #114 on: February 26, 2011, 01:30:34 PM » |
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Because I have a short attention span, I'm reading at present:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - because I've somewhow never read one of his books and was slightly wary about my friend's near religious love of him. Also I'm on a quest to read some 'worthy' fiction as I tend to stick to non-fiction. Really enjoying it.
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates - short story collection, most excellent, varying degrees of quality but he certainly makes the journey worth it even if there's little punchline.
The Infernal Desires Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter - very trippy tale of a Dr. Hoffman's war against a very logical City's notions of reality and sanity. I'm sure there's alot more to it but I'm only a few chapters in. Loved Passion of New Eve so thought I'd give it a go.
Oxford History of England: 1870-1914 by Robert Ensor - what it says on the tin really. Definitive history of Late Victorian to Edwardian Britain, in political, economic and social aspects. Quite dry but surprisingly readable. Also has an interesting approach to a contents page. Effectively every point of note is marked in the contents, meaning rather than having Chapter 4 - Irish Home Rule p.199-227, it will have say Phoenix Park Murders - p.213 or Liberal Unionist split p. 215-6. I am studying the Edwardian period next year so I can imagine that will be a very handy revision feature.
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« Reply #115 on: February 26, 2011, 07:57:11 PM » |
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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - because I've somewhow never read one of his books and was slightly wary about my friend's near religious love of him. Also I'm on a quest to read some 'worthy' fiction as I tend to stick to non-fiction. Really enjoying it.
I just read Slaughterhouse Five a few weeks ago too - also on my friend's very strong recommendation - I think I liked it. It's a good read. But then I found myself thinking "And so it goes.." so apparently it got into my head in one way or another. More of a fan of Philip K Dick, but still - |
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« Reply #116 on: February 26, 2011, 10:43:48 PM » |
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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - because I've somewhow never read one of his books and was slightly wary about my friend's near religious love of him. Also I'm on a quest to read some 'worthy' fiction as I tend to stick to non-fiction. Really enjoying it.
I just read Slaughterhouse Five a few weeks ago too - also on my friend's very strong recommendation - I think I liked it. It's a good read. But then I found myself thinking "And so it goes.." so apparently it got into my head in one way or another. More of a fan of Philip K Dick, but still - Well, Dick is superb. I don't recommend the Slaughterhouse movie. They try to attach all kinds of meaning to it and don't let Billy actually develop that "and so it goes" mentality. Edward Derby's random silver teapot becomes a special Dresden china doll which is the exact duplicate of one he'd bought for his wife years ago and which was recently broken. Billy starts to look at him like he would a father, instead of knowing already everything that will happen. I wrote a paper on it, I could go on for a while.  It's actually kind of similar to how some people approach Lovecraft, like some of the things Derleth did with the "pantheon." |
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« Reply #117 on: February 27, 2011, 03:29:46 AM » |
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I'm currently reading Harry Adam Knight's 1984 novel "Carnosaur" about an eccentric, British billionaire who secretly funds genetic research aimed at reviving and cloning dinosaurs which he then plans to place in his private zoo. However, things quick go to hell when a traitor on the inside turns off the zoo's power and releases all the dinosaurs.
Sound familiar?
Yeah....six years later Michael Crichton would steal.... I mean mysterious come up with the same idea and with the help of a movie adaptation courtesy of Stephen Spielberg get rich and famous because of it.
I really don't like Michael Crichton... ANyone have a shogoth we could mail him??? Bob I actually have no problem with Crichton, my jab about him ripping off Carnosaur being somewhat tongue in cheek. There is no evidence that Crichton had ever even heard of Knight's novel when he started working on Jurassic Park in the late 80s. Also the two novels are actually pretty different when you read them with Carnosaur being a much more pulp treatment of the subject matter than Crichton's decidedly serious take. Admittedly the only two Crichton novels I've ever read are Jurassic Park and The Lost World so I don't feel that I can adequately judge his merit as a writer. I do however love both Jurassic Park novels. |
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« Reply #118 on: February 27, 2011, 10:10:34 AM » |
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Awwwww...guys...I'm bummed Michael Critchton isn't still with us...was so gunning to be the sixth Mrs Critchton! I've got 2 words for you: Essential Saltes. You, ma'am, are a scary, scary woman... Bob |
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« Reply #119 on: February 27, 2011, 11:46:48 AM » |
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I've just started Joe Abercombie's latest novel The Heroes, good stuff!
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'Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.'
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