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12.18.2011 10:42pm

Mavilu
Yep, still gaming

I finished that book of Lovecraft stories, I started another one, this one about the dream cycle, which I liked just as much and now that I finished it... well, I'm going into withdrawal; dying to get me another compilation, but I'm restraining myself in case my husband wants to give me some his books (Lovecraft's) himself for Christmas.
But I've become a Lovecraft fan through and through.
In the meanwhile, I've gone back to Post Captain of the Aubrey Maturin series.

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12.18.2011 11:16pm

judge_raz
Ceci n'est pas une lobster

I was reading Crime and Punishment. Then I discovered that the book app on my iPhone offers books in the public domain at no charge. So now I'm reading the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

"Of Christ's twelve Apostles Judas alone proved to be traitor. But if he had acquired power, he would have represented the other eleven Apostles as traitors, and also all the lesser Apostles whom Luke numbers as seventy." - Leon Trotsky

I have a blog. This is its URL. You should read it. It's about education and skepticism and books and it has a lot of pictures of Batman and Robin in it: https://baldermoon.wordpress.com/

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12.19.2011 1:29am

reido
(\/)(o,,,o)(\/)

Cherie Priest's Civil War era steampunks Boneshaker and then Dreadnaught, waiting on Clementine, then after that I have Ganymede waiting for me. And at some point the new Stephen King time-travel joint.

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12.19.2011 2:50am

Turhaya
The Batman

I'm reading The Last Unicorn. 8-)

It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

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12.19.2011 3:14am

Murasame
HALE YEAH

I finished up with Red Harvest, and frankly, I wasn't expecting it to end as it did. But it was still a good book. A little too episodic, though.

I then moved on to Ian McEwan's Solar, another book that was supposed to have been read during semester. The response in class to the book was overall quite negative, coming from people who had most likely read Atonement before. I have got to disagree with them, simply because this book is excellent at making me loathe the main character, and yet still want me to continue reading. McEwan is really quite good at the internal monologues, and is excellent at creating real believable characters. It's when he isn't doing this that his book suck. Ergo, Solar is a good McEwan novel. However, the "climate change" aspect of the novel is definitely overplayed in the portrayal of the book in reviews I have seen - it plays a complete back seat to the development (uh... "development") of the main character over nine years, and anyone approaching this book as a climate change novel is definitely going to be disappointed.

I am now reading, once again, another book I was supposed to read in the semester (three semesters ago), the good ol' Hannibal novel, The Silence of the Lambs. After reading Dashiell Hammett's incredible narratives, and then McEwan's well crafted prose, The Silence of the Lambs feels incredibly clunky. It feels quite slow moving despite the scene changes occurring far more rapidly, new characters being introduced, new evidence, etc. etc. I'll admit that this is full of suspense and action and all those things, it just... isn't nearly as fun to read as something that is written with something other than omniscient third person narrator. That said, I love Harris' switches from present tense to past tense. It's something we're told to avoid when writing, but I never really saw the problem with it.

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12.19.2011 2:05pm

Kal
yes

Well I just finished Dance with Dragons. Man, what a borefest. It took me longer to read than the first four books combined.
Dany's plot draaaggged. Tyrion's plot was okay up until he met that other dwarf and then it draaaaggged. Jon's plot draaaggged. Bran's story got nowhere, I kept expecting another chapter after his last, but nope.
The only chapters that were remotely interesting (and terrifying) were that of a certain prisoner of a certain notoriously cruel lord. Also, the Cersei chapters.
I loved Feast and the slow pacing didn't bother me at all in that one, because it had lots of characterization and interesting characters, but Dance was basically a giant book of everything that I hate about this series, Jon being angsty, Dany moping around pointlessly and fantasizing about a mysterious and scruffy bad boy (how original), endless travelogue and pointless exposition.

If GRRM keeps up this pace, he'll need 6 more books to finish this story. Hopefully, things'll pick up in the next. In 10 years.

Someone recommended The Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. The premise sounds interesting, however, I really don't like teenage anti-heroes, so we'll see...

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12.21.2011 12:40am

Free Spirit
Zetta Member

Haven't posted here in a while! I just finished The Last of the Mohicans. It was very boring, truth be told. Makes me want to not see the movie now.

Before that I read Interview with the Vampire, which was not very boring at all, and was in fact, very awesome. Puts Twilight to shame, that's for sure. It ended rather unsatisfactorily, but I guess that was the point.

Right now, I'm just starting The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights. Not sure how this will turn out, but I'm excited.

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12.21.2011 12:59am

(Edited on 12.21.2011 at 3:22pm)

Testament
Shamshot

Free Spirit said:

Haven't posted here in a while! I just finished The Last of the Mohicans. It was very boring, truth be told. Makes me want to not see the movie now.

Before that I read Interview with the Vampire, which was not very boring at all, and was in fact, very awesome. Puts Twilight to shame, that's for sure. It ended rather unsatisfactorily, but I guess that was the point.

I've never read TLotM, but the movie is great.

IwtV is fantastic. The next 2 books in the series are excellent, as well. Especially The Vampire Lestat. What's this Twilight?

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12.21.2011 5:10am

Mavilu
Yep, still gaming

Free Spirit said:

Haven't posted here in a while! I just finished The Last of the Mohicans. It was very boring, truth be told. Makes me want to not see the movie now.

Before that I read Interview with the Vampire, which was not very boring at all, and was in fact, very awesome. Puts Twilight to shame, that's for sure. It ended rather unsatisfactorily, but I guess that was the point.

Right now, I'm just starting The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights. Not sure how this will turn out, but I'm excited.

Really?, I really liked The Last of the Mohicans, action all the way, I thought. The film is an adaptation of an adaptation made for either an early film or the stage, if I remember correctly and it's a lose one at that, more of a chick flick, with Natty being a dashing, manly, awesome, romantic, handsome, tender but strong, etc., etc. hero and the romance (a different one from the book) made almost the central theme of the story.

I also tried reading the other two, but Interview, I tried to read when I was first learning english and I had to quit, because it was too much for me and A Thousand and One Nights started to irk me with what I perceived as misogyny and also had to quit.

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12.21.2011 5:19am

Amer
pew pew pew

After finishing Fellowship of the Ring, I'm back to some Dresden. Just finished Blood Rites and started Dead Beat. Two Dresden books in the span of a week will be enough for me for a whole year.

Then it's either The Hobbit, Two Towwers, finish American Gods, or finish Feast of Crows.

Yes this is how my brain works.

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12.21.2011 5:27am

Free Spirit
Zetta Member

Eh, there was action in Mohican...but besides the final battle at the end, I thought it was still told very boringly. I think I just didn't like the style the story was written in(which was just the way things were written back in 1800's America), as well as the plodding manner in which it flowed. It took 400 pages to tell something that happened over the course of a few days and in pretty much one single area. I could have told the same story in about 10 pages, I think, and not missed any of the major plot points. Add to that the fact that I've always found American history boring, and yeah..not too impressed, heh.

And what is Twilight? I'm hoping that's sarcastic. if it's not, then bless your heart for never knowing of such a thing.

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12.21.2011 7:36am

Testament
Shamshot

=)

Sarcasm, indeed.

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12.23.2011 9:48am

dem
Sing for me, little bird

For you Fantasy gurus: Is Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy any good?

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12.24.2011 7:32am

Southern Comfort
silently judging all of you

Just finished John Scalzi's Old Man's War series. It's light reading, but it's nice to see a sci-fi series where humans are the actual bad guys.

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12.24.2011 4:54pm

judge_raz
Ceci n'est pas une lobster

Holy shit. I can't stop reading Sherlock Holmes.

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