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Posted by Crono on Tue Jul 19th at 6:35am 2005

? quoting Orpheus

No insult to Mr. Nicholson but, the book rulz. The movie was good, the book was awesome.

THE BOOK IS ANAL GARBAGE.


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Posted by Hugh on Tue Jul 19th at 9:01am 2005

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My granmother and his rich Swedish husband are somewhere in England at the moment. Think they're trying to pick up the book for me.


Grandmother? His husband? Moving on...

I've been reading books my brother leaves lying around again, this one was called something like "Understanding the opposite sex" (in reference to ladies), and it's like 50 years old, which means it's just written in that lovely old-skewl style. It didn't make me understand the opposite sex that much more since I agreed with most of the stuff the guy said... generally about women being narcissists. :P



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Posted by jaardsi on Tue Jul 19th at 10:41am 2005

Yes Hugh, we got through this on IRC already: she is very manly. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by $loth on Tue Jul 19th at 5:32pm 2005

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? quoting Orpheus
No insult to Mr. Nicholson but, the book rulz. The movie was good, the book was awesome.

THE BOOK IS ANAL GARBAGE.


I've only read the first chapter, yet I have to dissagree. His style of writing and introduction of characters is done very well.
Please elaborate your opinion. Unless it was suppose to be in this colour.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Jul 19th at 6:54pm 2005

We had this discussion about the Shining already in the movie thread. Crono backed it up there.




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Posted by French Toast on Mon Aug 22nd at 9:55pm 2005

I just started reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It's hilarious, just great. Read it now.




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Posted by FatStrings on Tue Aug 23rd at 12:35am 2005

all books by christopher moore
great comedies
especially Lamb and his newest- The Stupidest Angel




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Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Aug 23rd at 2:06am 2005

Just finished what is available of the Wheel of Time Series by robert Jordan. Dynomite!

John Gardner's GRENDEL is funny for any Beowulf fans.




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Posted by WarloK on Tue Aug 23rd at 10:08pm 2005

My friend Joanna wrote a novel called "The Better of Two Evils". I'm half way through chapter one, its a big book. It's quite good, really brutal aswell.

Its about a young half-mage tennager who attend a school for blood born mages. The demons that live outside the school break the spell that protects it and slaughter all the little kiddies, BRUTAL! Selia, as is the main characters name, is saved by a Vampire. She is turned and taken to a frozen wasteland with all the other Vampires. She is on a quest to kill said vampire for making her sister stab herself in the chest, ouch! Her and her friend Azrial have to go oin lots of adventures, warning: things can get pretty passionate, and equally gory.

If anyone wants a copy i will e-mail it to them.





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Posted by French Toast on Tue Aug 23rd at 11:32pm 2005

Don't mean to be offensive, but it sounds like another Harry Potter. Which is bad.




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Posted by rs6 on Wed Aug 24th at 12:26am 2005

MY summer reading list this year consists of:

Devil in the white City: A nonfiction historical book set in teh 1880's/1890's in Chigaco during the building of the world's fair there. It tells the story of the head architect for the fair, and a sociopath killer living in chicago during the fair. Good read

A lesson before Dieing: Read 6 chapters in and wanted to kill my self, so I read the spark notes instead. Its supposely about a "dim witted" man who gets charged with murder and sentenced to death. His mom doesn't want him to die like a hog as one of the prosocuters referred to him during the trial. So she makes her nephew who is a teacher go to the jail everyday and try to teach the "dim witted" man to be a man and not a hog when he get excuted. CRAP book.



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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Aug 24th at 1:11am 2005

Crap book because it was crap? Or harsh?


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Posted by rs6 on Wed Aug 24th at 3:02am 2005

I didn't like the way it was written, and I didn't like the plot either. My main grudge agaist it was when it described characters it would do in TOO much detail, it would describe every detail (like to the extend of how many hairs where on there head type stuff) making the book unnecesarily long.



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Posted by FatStrings on Thu Aug 25th at 12:40am 2005

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Just finished what is available of the Wheel of Time Series by robert Jordan. Dynomite.


Ditto
an excellent series
also in the same genre
David Eddings- the Belgariad, hes got some more but i cant think of them right now




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Aug 26th at 10:24pm 2005

I was very anti-harry potter until i read the first book a couple weeks ago. I just finished the fifth book today. I like them. They usually get me to laugh out loud 5 or 6 times over the course of a book, which is not something I do often whilst reading.

As for the wheel of time series... i read about a 100+ pages of his first book and decided I coudn't take any more of Jordan's writing style. He was so overly dramatic... look at his dedication in the first book:

To Harriet
Heart of my heart,
Light of my life,
Forever.

The rest of the book doesnt get any better than that... makes me want to puke. I dont understand how the New York Times raved and said "Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal." The world (geography wise) that Jordon has created in his books just seems like a blatant rip-off of middle earth and all of Tolkien's work. Mountains of Dhoom in Jordan's book? Coincidentally (I'm sure) there's a Mount Doom in LoTR.






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Posted by WarloK on Fri Aug 26th at 11:13pm 2005

? quoting French Toast
Don't mean to be offensive, but it sounds like another Harry Potter. Which is bad.

I've finished reading it. Its nothing like Harry Potter.

I was gonna' write a book but the thing is i'm one of these people who gets bored really easily. I would write a paragraph and then i would'nt bother with the rest.





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Posted by French Toast on Sat Aug 27th at 4:21am 2005

I'm into writing short stories. I almost won a publishing contest when I was in Grade 2, up against adults <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Nickelplate on Sat Aug 27th at 6:18am 2005

Reading:
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian, by Robert E. Howard. It's pretty good if you're a Conan Fan. I am because he's very chauvenistic, As am I. Also, he's described as having a strong jawline, like me.


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Posted by Crapceeper on Sat Aug 27th at 7:20am 2005

I might afford the new (still?) Artemis Fowl. Part 4 already; But it got some bad reviews. I'll see. I enjoed the previous 3 pretty much. So I DON'T WANT TO GET DISAPPOINTED!!!


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Posted by ReNo on Fri Nov 4th at 10:20pm 2005

I'm currently reading through the Waylander series of Drenai books by David Gemmel. I've read most of the rest of the Drenai series and enjoyed them all, so figured it was about time I tucked in to the Waylander trilogy. I'm on the thrid book, and while I wouldn't say that they have been his best books, they are certainly enjoyable and have been tying up more backstory and family trees than I could ever have expected.

After playing through Call of Cthulhu on the Xbox, I decided to pick up some Lovecraft work as I was impressed by the style and athmosphere of the game. There were 3 omnibus edtions selling on Play.com for ?5 each, so I pcked up the set which apparently covers almost all his published (and some unpublished) work. I've only read one story so far - At the Mountains of Madness - and it was a very strangely told story. The story is written as if it were a letter, discouraging an expidition to the Antarctic from a scientist who recently returned from one, and in it he describes a whole lot more than you would perhaps expect. I had expected a dark and forboding horror story in a similar style to the game, but it is as much a technical diary of the science expidition as it is a frightening tale. It was a good story despite being hard reading, and I'm looking forward to reading more, but I guess you can't go into Lovecraft's work expecting the normal horror yarn.




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