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Oestre sparagmos! Member  |
heh, i didn't know that. yeah, it strikes me as a little daft.. ____________________________________________________ Did you know? When it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can't be seen. wanted: someone to listen and respond to random opinions from a random personality. not TOO serious, please. people who think they're reeeeeeeally funny need not apply, because they so rarely are. ~ Limertilly http://www.flickr.com/photos/fionchadd/ - there are actually some photos here now (shock!) |
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I just finished reading "The Girls" by Lori Lansens. It is fantastic and I highly recommend it. It's a fictional autobiography of a set of conjoined twins. I couldn't put it down, it was so compelling.
______________________________ I wear the cheese, the cheese does not wear me. |
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I just finished Christopher Rice's Blind Fall. A big "*sigh* Come ON! Put your writing talents to GOOD use and you'd be GREAT!"
Currently reading Kurt Vonnegut's Armageddon in Retrospect and George R. Martin's A Game Of Thrones (yeah, yeah- shoot me now.). I am the one, the only, LORD GOD CHLISH OF THE TICKS! All hail. "What's green, hangs on the wall, and sings?" "Billy, the large-mouth singing bass." |
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Blood music by Greg Bear
Started this morning and already halfway through. i am really enjoying it. Just finished My Stars My destination |
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knows there is no spoon Member  |
Recently read Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, which was great and hilarious and I am recommending to everyone. I also read World War Z awhile ago, which is a writer doing interviews with people around the world about their experiences in a worldwide zombie outbreak after it largely gets under control... surprisingly good and readable. (Even if, as I saw one person put it, the fact that zombies being a threat to a modern army requires a lot of plot induced stupidity).
Finally bothered getting the latest Wheel of Time book, working my way through that. Afterwards it'll be some more Discworld stuff I haven't gotten around to, like Soul Music. James Wandering, but not lost. "You are a Knight Errant. All of the fun of rescuing damsels, and none of the paperwork." |
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Heh. There's no mindfuck quite like the sf mindfuck. Speaking of which. Got Greg Egan's Permutation City and Teranesia a few days ago. Permutation City's been on my wish list for a long time, but Teranesia was the surprise, the jackpot. |
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Assistant *fwap*er Member  |
Just started New Bedlam by Bill Flanangan. So far kind of meh, but I'm hoping it'll get better.
******************************** The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not so sure about the turnip. ~~ Terry Pratchett |
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
that's about the only way to describe it! the time period covered in this book is completely mind-boggling. but it was a very good book; I liked the heroine despite myself. oh, almost forgot! I'm now on Snow by Orhan Pamuk. ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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Wigber Member  |
she sounded like a right character from the amount included in the book i read. i read snow last year, quite enjoyed it, though it is kind of bleak. |
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
I was prepared to find her shallow and flighty. and she was a little shallow, but very tough and caring, anyway.
the blurb sounded pretty bleak, yeah. bleak kinda seems to be a trend in my reading material here lately.  ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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i guess given the circumstances she found herself in, she probably had to be a bit of a schemer and tough just to get by.
snow is really good, though its hard to explain why. |
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
I'm only a couple of chapters into Snow, but it feels weirdly personal and vivid, even though I can't pronounce half the place names and everything is so foreign to me—it may be that the town has become foreign to Ka, too.
~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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Great wyrm of Toronto Member  |
Jeff Smith's Bone: Treasure Hunters.
______________________________ Do not leave me with a bowl of anything for an extended period of time. |
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Dawn Treader Member  |
Wasn't that great? I add my voice to James' recommendations. ---------------- Never stare into a car's headlights and freeze, because you'll either be run over or shot. |
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Then we came to the end by Joshua Ferris.
Great book about work, colleagues and life, go read it if you haven't. |
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i think perhaps its a mix between foreign and intimate? there is certainly somethng detached about some of the impressions, while at the same time its got an element of being painfully personal. at least thats my lingering recollection. |
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
I'm getting the same vibe, and I've barely started it! it's intriguing. ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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Miss Kitty Fantastico Member  |
Since I finally found it, I'm almost done re-reading Neverwhere, by... that guy with weird hair.
I would very much like to re-read I See By My Outfit by Peter S Beagle, or at lease find it before Saturday, but... that book is kind of like a cat, it wanders into my life whenever it feels like it, never when I really want it. If I start looking for it I won't find it. I only find it by chance, when I looking desperately for something else. I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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Smartest woman in the world. Member  |
I gave a copy of that to my uncle for Christmas, the edition with the gold-leaf pages and faux leather binding, etc. And when he opened it, everyone looked at me a little funny, thinking I'd given him a seriously deep religious book (which would have been very out of character for my Uncle to get, and even more out of character for me to give). And I blurted out: "It's not too sacraligious." And I'm pretty sure my uncle thought that was funnier than the book itself. |
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
(hehe. my mom had several kittens when I started reading that book. I'm such a heathen!)
~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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Neil Gaiman www.NeilgaimanBoard.com www.NeilgaimanBoard.com The World's End Other Writers What are you reading now: Part Three
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