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Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

Started by Thurnez Isa, December 03, 2006, 04:11:35 PM

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Bella

Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 17, 2010, 08:37:16 PM
Quote from: Bella on February 17, 2010, 08:35:43 PM
I just started working my way through the entire works of Terry Pratchett because my father-in-law sent us his latest book and HFLS says it won't make any sense to me unless I read most of the earlier books. I finished the Wyrd Sisters mini-trilogy, Nightwatch, Strata, and a couple of others, and now I'm reading Monstrous Regiment.

i love Terry Pratchett. My favorite books in the Discworld series are the Rincewind books, followed closely by the Vimes ones.

Me, too. I haven't read any Rincewind books yet, but I've watched a couple of movies with that character, and he's great! Vimes is in the book I'm reading right now, and he also appears to be awesome.
just like in a dream
you'll open your mouth to scream
and you won't make a sound

you can't believe your eyes
you can't believe your ears
you can't believe your friends
you can't believe you're here

Freeky

Which one are you reading now? Goddammit, I'm a tard.

Monstrous Regiment was pretty good.

Bella

Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 18, 2010, 01:42:57 AM
Which one are you reading now? Goddammit, I'm a tard.

Monstrous Regiment was pretty good.

thanks. I haven't gotten very far into it, and I'm glad to hear it's a good one.
just like in a dream
you'll open your mouth to scream
and you won't make a sound

you can't believe your eyes
you can't believe your ears
you can't believe your friends
you can't believe you're here

Jasper

As far as Terry Pratchett, I thought Wee Free Men was his best work, but Thief of Time was his funniest work.

Bella

Quote from: Sigmatic on February 18, 2010, 02:30:16 AM
As far as Terry Pratchett, I thought Wee Free Men was his best work, but Thief of Time was his funniest work.

Cool, those are next on the list, then.
just like in a dream
you'll open your mouth to scream
and you won't make a sound

you can't believe your eyes
you can't believe your ears
you can't believe your friends
you can't believe you're here

Jasper

Quote from: Bella on February 18, 2010, 04:56:53 AM
Quote from: Sigmatic on February 18, 2010, 02:30:16 AM
As far as Terry Pratchett, I thought Wee Free Men was his best work, but Thief of Time was his funniest work.

Cool, those are next on the list, then.

Enjoy.  Did I mention I've read almost every single one?  :lulz:

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Muir

Terry Pratchett is fantastic!  I listened to some radio shows of a couple of his books a month ago on BBC radio.  Sadly, my easily distracted mind won't allow me to read much anymore.  10-15 minutes at a time is my limit lately.  Used to read a 400 page book everyday back when I was in high school and college.
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Pope Pixie Pickle

Just bought Porno by Irvine Welsh in futile attempt to wean myself off the crackberry for moar than 10 minutes. And for the therapeutic effect of reading in dialect. When I had an episode after my birthday Payne read me bits of Trainspotting to get me to sleep. <3

Jasper

Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Love Stoat on February 18, 2010, 07:05:55 PM
QuoteI thought Wee Free Men was his best work

hehe. yeah. it is pretty damn great. that and the amazing maruirce and his educated rodents, followed by anything about the witches I think are my top three(seven).

I've always identified more with the wizards because they're ridiculous old fools who think power is hilarious.

Iason Ouabache

Bought "Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History" by Chris Rodda for my Kindle. You know, cuz I don't have enough reasons to be pissed off right now.  On the plus side, I'm learning things about early American History like the Newburgh Conspiracy.
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Rococo Modem Basilisk

I finished A Calculus of Angels, and now I'm onto Empire of Unreason. It's terribly cheesy alt-history fantasy, but it's basically the reductio-ad-absurdam of steampunk: steampunk before steam. Oh, and they just introduced Euler as a character (the main characters for a good chunk of the series have been Ben Franklin and Isaac Newton, and for a while, Tsar Peter and Louis XIV).


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t.x. helot

I'm in part 4 of 5 of Robert Bolano's 2666. It's great (kind of hard to describe), but a very slow read, and sometimes emotionally grueling (part 4 is loosely based on the hundreds of (still unsolved) murders that have taken place in Cuidad Juarez of female factory workers). All the parts fit together, but just barely. Still, worth checking out.
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Cain

I like this guy, Roberto Bolano, and I've only read his bio.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/11/roberto-bolano-2666 has a review of the book which seems pretty good, too.

I'm still on my Malazan Book of the Fallen binge.  Midnight Tides, the fifth book, to be exact.  Three things strike me:

1) this is the funniest book in the series by far.  The dialogues between Tehol and Bugg are hilarious.
2) archeology is probably the single most dangerous profession in the Malazan Book of the Fallen Universe.  There is no telling what sort of evil horror from before the ascent of man you might dig up.
3) its very obvious this was written in 2002-3. Parts of it are an author tract against the Iraq War.

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Just started "Nightwatch" by Sergei Lukyanenko. So far the writing is very good considering someone translated it from Russian. Watched both the movies and can't wait to get to the third book. Been looking forward to this for a while. :D

-Kel-

AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!! Still struggling to finish American Psycho. It became a bathroom reader. And today the author went from 1st person to 3rd person mid paragraph and mid sentence. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.