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Azrael · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:54 am

just finished Anansi Boys. excellent read.

i am now book-less :(

Tlaloc · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:22 am

I just bought a whole stack of books for my holiday reading:

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Short Stories by Guy De Maupassant
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Radagast · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:22 pm

Finished Fight club, it was good.

*is bookless* :sad:

Fingon · **Joined:** Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:11 pm **Posts:** 3207

some fucking useless books for French, Dutch, English and German class. Besides that, i'm really looking forward to the new ASOIAF book, does anyone know when it's planned to hit the shelves?

thedirtyporthole · **Posted:** Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:20 pm

Now reading David Gemmells Stones of Pwer Series. I just learned that he died a few months ago. He was only in his late forties I think. Its sad. He was by far my favorite fantasy writer. If anybody here likes some good heroic fantasy (assassins and big axes and little to no magic) check it out. Especially the books about Druss and Waylander. Awesome stuff.

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

Fingon wrote:

some fucking useless books for French, Dutch, English and German class. Besides that, i'm really looking forward to the new ASOIAF book, does anyone know when it's planned to hit the shelves?

George said in his most recent update that he's hoping to finish by the end of the year- in which case it'll come out in late Spring/summer 2007. We can hope.

Ya, and R.I.P. Gemmell. He was a pretty damn good writer.

FlyByNight · **Posted:** Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:22 am

In the middle of Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky for the 3rd time. One of my favorite books ever.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:09 am

Would one of you muthafunknuggets read this book?

Azrael · **Posted:** Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:09 am

i hated C&P. maybe it was the translation that made the whole thing damn near impossible to read or maybe it was the fact that i never got into the dilemma that seemed to tear Raskolnikoff apart.

Radagast · **Posted:** Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:49 pm

Tlaloc wrote:

I just bought a whole stack of books for my holiday reading:

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Ready yourself for some awesome early 20th century POV. Faithful but dim negroes? Untrustworthy Latin sorts? The idea that man has the divine right to pwn nature out of sight? Its all there.

-

David Gemmell was 57 when he died. I loved his stories - they got very repetitive, but he had such a damn compelling style of writing and his dialogue was wonderful. Druss the Legend > you.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:36 pm

Eyesore wrote:

Would one of you muthafunknuggets read this book?

mememememmeme

loved it. though the characters were deep and well thought out. Also the rape scenes are kewl. It also gives a pretty good sight into the lifestyle at that time.

thedirtyporthole · **Posted:** Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:58 pm

Radagast wrote:

Tlaloc wrote:

I just bought a whole stack of books for my holiday reading:

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

David Gemmell was 57 when he died. I loved his stories - they got very repetitive, but he had such a damn compelling style of writing and his dialogue was wonderful. Druss the Legend > you.

I mixed up the age. Gemmell is the best pure storyteller I have ever read. The stories are somewhat repetitve in the way most fantasy novelists get repetitive. he lived in his own niche in the literary world. Each heror had his own deal though. Plus who else can write about somebody getting a backwards axe smash to the face with such passion. Waylander the Slayer>you.

Radagast · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:54 pm

Ha! Yeah he totally loved writing about face pwnage. :sad:

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

thedirtyporthole · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:19 pm

Cornwell is a real good author. I recently read his Holy Grail series that begins with the Archers Tale. It was one of the better things I have read in the last few years.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:12 am

Weehee, done with Lolita... Now on to:

Antonakis · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:17 am

Antonakis wrote:

Right now I'm reading:

Fritz Leiber - The First Book of Lankhmar (Fantasy Masterworks Series)

This is a long book and because it is fragmented in shorter stories it takes me longer to read (and I'm a very slow reader).

Fritz Leiber's work is classic medieval themed sword and sorcery fantasy in its early form (most of it was written about 30 years ago). If you like fantasy litterature then this is a very nice change from the unending series and the cliché writing styles of modern fantasy writers. This guy is very original, fresh, uses a lot of realism and avoids clichés (and if there are any, you can be sure that he was one of the first to ever use them in fantasy litterature). This book deals with the adventures of Fafhrd (a big barbarian warrior) and the Gray Mouser (master thief and swordsman) in the land of Nehwon and more often in the capital city of Lankhmar.

If you don't like fantasy litterature then this won't make it any different. But if you do and would like a change from the modern "page-turner" endless and sometimes boring series/trilogies then give it a try, you might love it.

Damn still reading that one. To be honest I haven't devoted much time reading during the last month because of the so many new computer games being released in october. 90 pages to finish! I hope I'll be done by next week!

noodles · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:00 am

I finished the Terry Pratchett book (THUD!), just like all of his books - entertaining writing, good storytelling and a nice underlying message. Now I'm reading Clockwork Orange and once you get used to the writing in it (malenky horrorshow!) it's damn addictive. I'm like halfway through in 2 days.

Tlaloc · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:07 pm

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Ready yourself for some awesome early 20th century POV. Faithful but dim negroes? Untrustworthy Latin sorts? The idea that man has the divine right to pwn nature out of sight? Its all there.

Long live the British Empire!

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