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TheJovialGnome
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 295 Location: Boston
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:16 am Post subject: |
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Max Power wrote: |
Lizzy - Mark is *this close* to making you a paid member of his staff - good work!!! |
Does a dedication in the front of Jack of Ravens count
Glad you stuck with it Selik, you'll find it was well worth it in the end They're even better the second time around as you pick up bits you missed that enhance the story. By the way, how are you getting on with Gormenghast _________________ "Constant Vigilance!" |
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Selik
Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1524 Location: South Shields
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:36 am Post subject: |
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lol, the dreaded question. I've not got any further with it. Been that busy recently I just want something to read that I don't have to really think hard about and try to concentrate on, so it's sat on the bookshelf for when I feel slightly more intelligent. _________________ "I sit on my arse, not my head." - Baron Gresse. |
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Lizzy
Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 674 Location: the wilds of the West
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: |
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TheJovialGnome wrote: | Max Power wrote: |
Lizzy - Mark is *this close* to making you a paid member of his staff - good work!!! |
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LOL, I did see his comment on your myspace Max, and yes Jov, I reckon I have been 'paid' handsomely
Back to topic, I tend to finish books I start but the hardest slog I can remember of the last couple of years has been Gormenghastly.... _________________
Listen to Lizzy, she's always right! as said by Jovial |
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Kerela
Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 372 Location: Germany
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I once started to read Ulysses, I think I got till page 15 or so , I also didn't finish Dublin by Edward Rutherford, and I've started Master & Margarita months ago, and haven't read a page for ages... _________________ The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?
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Tk421
Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 275 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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I got to page 94 of that Orizon book I got free from Fancon. Way too preachy for my liking. Anyone else read it and managed to make it through? _________________ "Right so we're going to steal a bomb that can be remote detonated, take it back to our base and then huddle around it? That sounds like a great plan." |
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DarrenT
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 60 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I've dumped all of the following at various stages:
* The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Read the first one, hated it. Didn't go back. For some reason I just couldn't seem to identify with a perenially miserable rapist...
* The Wheel of Time - Got halfway through book one and realised that life's just too damn short.
* Shaman's Crossing (Hobb) - I was gutted because I've loved every minute of every Hobb book so far, and every Megan Lidnholm I've read as well, but I just can't stand the whole regency romance / manners thing, so when a large chunk of that loomed on the horizon, I just couldn't bring myself to go on...
* Dawnthief - Now, before you all lynch me, I put it down after a chapter, the first time I tried to read it... a bit too gung-ho American-esque for my frame of mind at the time... but I did pick it back up again once I got to know James and thoroughly enjoyed it the second time around.
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Fry
Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Somerset, United Kingdom
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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For me it was the classic - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring when I was a wee whipper snapper.
Book I wished I'd put down - David Eddings' The Treasured One. Groan.
I enjoyed his earlier works, The Belgariad & The Mallorean, but the new books are sooo boring. _________________ "Man, all this prolonged exposure to radiation is making me thirsty." |
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Denser1976
Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Posts: 42 Location: Hoekse Waard, The Netherlands
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Sonea
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 20 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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well actually lord of the rings (don?t kill me please)
i really love the story and the movies but the books....
probably too difficult to read for me _________________
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Denser1976
Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Posts: 42 Location: Hoekse Waard, The Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Sonea wrote: | well actually lord of the rings (don?t kill me please)
i really love the story and the movies but the books....
probably too difficult to read for me |
Read LOTR 10 years ago...took me a while but I've finished them....after the movies I tried again, got stuck in part 1 and never looked at it again. LOTR is pretty boring compared to modern fantasy.... _________________ http://stannicholls.web-log.nl
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Sonea
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 20 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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i think so too
but i love the story =) _________________
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Grace
Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 302 Location: Bristol
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Nah, I love the depth in LOTR. It's not boring, it's just geared more towards history and characters than violence.
Rock on Prof. Tolkien! _________________ Taking off is optional, landing is mandatory. |
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TheJovialGnome
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 295 Location: Boston
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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With you all the way there Grace and I love the slightly archaic writing style - let's face it, there's room for everyone _________________ "Constant Vigilance!" |
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Drizzt
Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Yet oddly enough a lot of publishers wouldn't touch it were Tolkien to try getting it published nowadays... werid how things change... _________________ Pagan Music |
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Saxx
Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 71 Location: Winterfell
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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3 times i have tried to read Eye of the World by Jordan, and three times i have failed. I even tried reading it when it was split into two books: from the two rivers and i couldnt finish that either! I don't know what it is, because the story sounds good, but i just can't finish it! _________________ Excuse me, is your refrigerator running? Because if it is, it probably runs like you - very homosexually - Peter Griffin |
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