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01.27.2012 10:43pm

Mavilu
Yep, still gaming

I'm reading the classic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in modern english, of course, I have the original but is nearly impossible to decipher.
I also read a little book about enlightment and re-read Anne of Green Gables for the umpteenth time. Oh, and I tried reading The Age of Innocence but it didn't hold my attention.
As soon as I finish Sir Gawain (today, most likely), I'll move on to The Last Days of Pompeii, a victorian novel that it was inmensely popular in it's time and is an integral part of the Pompeii experience as whole.

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01.29.2012 1:26am

Raphael
Eternal Lurker

The movie trailer made me want to give the books a try, so I got The Hunger Games on my Kindle and simply can't put it down. I'm almost done with the second book now, wondering what'll happen in the third one.

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01.29.2012 9:10am

Milky Ore
Kickin' it old school

^ Cool coincidence, I just finished the 2nd book today. I was even trying to not finish it until next week, but yeah, it's definitely a page-turner, so that didn't work out.

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01.29.2012 11:39pm

Free Spirit
Zetta Member

Just finished reading Crime and Punishment, and then sat down and read Watchmen in one sitting. Good stuff. There's actually a lot of parallels between the two. Ozymandias is totally like what Raskolnikov was trying to be.

Now I am reading Shadows in Flight, the (finally) new book in the Ender's Game series. Hopefully it doesn't take Card much longer to finish the next one, since that one will be incredible, now that the Ender's Shadow series is coming together in time with the main series for nice giant descolada-stomping showdown. There will be piggies and beans everywhere!

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01.30.2012 1:41am

Milky Ore
Kickin' it old school

^ I didn't know the series was still going. How many books are there? I've only read the first, and I have number two sitting around somewhere, eternally stuck on my "I will get to that someday...." list. :/

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01.30.2012 3:28am

Free Spirit
Zetta Member

Well, the Ender series is alot like the Kingdom Heart series, in that there are a few "main" stories which take forever to actually move forward, with a bunch of little side-stories, prequels, in-betweeners and whatnot all over the place.

The main line of books goes: Ender's Game (1985) > Speaker for the Dead (1986) > Xenocide (1991) > Children of the Mind (1996)

Then there is a parallel storyline featuring Bean(the smarmy runt from the first book, who is actually even smarter than Ender) that goes: Ender's Shadow (1999) > Shadow of the Hegemon (2000) > Shadow Puppets (2002) > Shadow of the Giant (2005) > Shadows in Flight (2012).

And then there are a bunch of little side-stories that take place all over the place in the rather vast timeline between Ender's Game and Children of the MInd. You can see a flow chart of the whole tangled mess on the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender_series

From what I understand, Shadows in Flight will bring the Ender's Shadow series up to the current time period of Children of the Mind, and the next book in the pipeline (Shadows Alive) will finally bring Bean's storyline together with Ender's storyline again and actually move the overall plot forward. And seeing the way he left Children of the Mind, it will be glorious.

You should definitely pick the series back up, it really is unbelievably good. All the little side-stories and prequels aren't as good, but if you really like the series, you'll enjoy them as well, and they're all really short.

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01.30.2012 4:17am

Crono
Crono can cross dimensions too!

I finished Jurassic Park a few days ago and read Alice in Wonderland since it was a real short book. JP was a good read, AiW was weird but good to have under my belt.

Next up I'll either read Shardik or The Art of Running in the Rain. I'm a sucker for books with animals.

Currently Playing: Dark Cloud 2: 3 hours.
Also Playing: CT, FF VI, Solatorobo, Secret of Mana, Halo 4.
Just Finished: Fable II: 7 hours.

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01.31.2012 9:14am

Mavilu
Yep, still gaming

In my effort to expand my knowldege of all things Lovecraft, I have just gotten all of Robert E Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and Lord Dunsany stories.
The Kindle is great, but at this point, I already bought books to last me well into my nineties, heh.

Oh and before starting The Last Days of Pompeii, I decided to read At the Mountain of Madness; thrilling!.

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01.31.2012 9:56am

Kal
yes

At the mountains of madness is the best. There is a bit of a huge infodump halfway through, but still, it's one of the creepiest stories.

I'm re-reading the Walking Dead - Compendium 1. I don't read a lot of comics at all, but this is awesome.

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01.31.2012 1:29pm

Sanna
What a Tedious fight!

Murasame said:

Hunger Games is teen fiction in the realm of Harry Potter, except with the subject material of Battle Royale.

Agreed! I'm currently reading it and that's pretty much how it is. I'm enjoying it so far.

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02.01.2012 2:03am

Mavilu
Yep, still gaming

Kal said:

At the mountains of madness is the best. There is a bit of a huge infodump halfway through, but still, it's one of the creepiest stories.

Yeah!, I just went through all that great info last night, the two characters have now left all that and are finding some pretty creepy stuff in some rooms, as you say; I accidentally scrolled down a whole lot of pages at the same time and so I had to read a line here and there until I was able to go back to my page and I read hints of some pretty exciting stuff happening before the story ends. God, I love this guy.

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02.01.2012 11:32am

Murasame
HALE YEAH

You know, I love Lovecraft's subject material, but he is nigh on unreadable. He uses long sentences far too often, and his rhythm is way off. He feels like a relic of the Victorian era, despite being a 20th century writer. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath was abhorrent. Absolutely abhorrent. This is despite a lavish and exciting dreamscape. But then I read The Silver Key which is, I guess, a sequel of sorts and it's a short story, and I liked it a lot better. Simply because the writing was much improved, and though his fatiguing style was still there, it was more readable knwing that the ending wasn't too far.

He had imagination. But he had no skill for writing things any longer than twenty pages. Ugh.

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02.02.2012 10:41pm

Mavilu
Yep, still gaming

Well, I'm not too complex when it comes to analyzing writers, either I like them or I don't.
That said, I have had problem comprehending certain books or authors, mostly due to the usage of old english, but I haven't had any problem with Lovecraft, reading his stories ( I have only two left and then I can say I've read them all) has being very easy, just sailing page after page. And I adore The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath!, as much as I loved The Silver Key, even though the second was more subdued.
Even though you can say that his themes are repeated over and over, with the two friends, and the one that starts acting rather weird and they aaaaall seem have something to do with the Miskatonic University and so on, the only one I can say I didn't care much for was The Dreams in the Witch House, which I found rather bizarre. Figures.

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02.08.2012 4:59pm

Testament
Shamshot

Just finished Song of Susannah on my DT reread.

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02.12.2012 9:29pm

Crono
Crono can cross dimensions too!

The Art of Running in the Rain was pretty good. it will make you wonder what your dog is really thinking.

Tucker Max just put out his 3rd and 4th books at the same time and the 4th is free. I know what I'll be reading over and over for the next few months.

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