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Administrator Member  |
i am currently reading :
M is for Magic - gaiman Shadows Fall - simon r green The Devils Chaplin - richard dawkins Mirrormask - gaiman SFX issue 173 and loads of boring articles about feedback and assessments...but not as much of them as i should be.. ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. when's spring due?. |
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Miss Kitty Fantastico Member  |
because Wanderer mentioned it on the last page and I needed something to do whilst Dev is at football practice (it's far too hot to knit) I'm re-reading Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.
And I'm discovering that I missed some fairly important bits the first time I read it. Still laughing out loud though.  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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Only sounds like Keith Flint Member  |
The blue girl by charles de lint
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will crush you with her mighty shoe Member  |
Falling Up : Shel Silverstein
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River of Gods..an almost impossible read without knowledge of the customs of India and their lore.
"My life has been extraordinary, blessed and cursed and won."--muzzle-smashing pumpkins "Some wills are too strong to die. And there are powers to formidable to be contained." -Metall-x "How are you doing all this?""I never saved any for the trip back" (Gattaca) |
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none more black Member  |
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
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Wigber Member  |
i disagree. its like any fantasy/SF novel, you just need to accept it and go with the flow. if you really feel challenged there is a glossary at the back. but i just immersed myself in it and enjoyed it. but hey, i'm a big fan of his work |
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Wigber Member  |
Castle in the Air - Diana Wynne Jones
its about time someone wrote about wizards and their ilk as being real. and by "Real" i mean, bad-tempered and quarrelsome and human. and funny i loved Howl's Moving Castle, and i have House of Many Ways coming from the library soon. This message has been edited. Last edited by: green-robot, ____________________________ Future First Lady of Cyberspace Green Robot World the Canadian half of Minobot! |
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
finished those stupid soap opera vampire novels. loved them.
currently reading: Watchmen, which is, obviously, excellent; City of Falling Angels, which is intriguing; Snow has become my designated emergency reading and is sitting in my car at all times. ~ 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 |
emergency as in you'll only read it if you are desperate?
i usually have a copy of one of the monthly SF magazines sitting in the car for those odd moments. the watchmen is teh awesome! |
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
well, not desperate. but I always keep a book in the car for whenever I have to wait around for anything. you never know when you'll end up needing something to read and being stuck wherever you are.
the designated emergency reading is never intentionally chosen as such; really, I'd prefer a short story collection. but the choice is organic, destined by someone/thing other than me, and thus it has become Snow. it was Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman before. ~ 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 |
i really need to finish blind woman, sleeping willow. i love murakami, but too many of these stories seemed to be the stuff that i least like about his work. sigh.
i've ended up having short story mags/books kicking about at lunch time, since i only get half an hour and shorts are a suitable length. |
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Click here! Member  |
Human Smoke, by Nicholson Baker. Non-fiction.
Wikipedia describes it as a
And it is... unsettling, in many ways. And makes me wish my knowledge of the era were more detailed. As it is, I think I'm quite at the limit of being able to read the book and enjoy it (and be critical of it). Because it's composed of snippets and details, cut off from context, I find myself constantly scouring my memory for what I know about the events in the 1930's and during WW2. So, some of you history-wise knowledgeable people around here might find it interesting. (And I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.) ------------------------------------------------- Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here. |
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Great wyrm of Toronto Member  |
Finder - Sin Eater by Carla Speed McNeil.
A new friend of mine lent me the whole run. This one is a signed copy, and looks interesting so far. I wonder if this was the book Babylon started reading at one point. Hmm ... ______________________________ Do not leave me with a bowl of anything for an extended period of time. |
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
what is it that you don't like? because I didn't like it as well as I liked Kafka on the Shore, but I haven't been able to put my finger on the reason for that. ~ 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 |
yeah it was the sin eater hardback collected edition she was reading. it was originally published as two paperbacks (and well individual issues before that). she has stopped doing issues and you can read the new pages for free on her website, but i think you need to get them as they go up, and i'm totally out of sequence, so i keep need to remembering to check for new collections - i think i have them all to date.
i like the kind of magic realism that you get in a lot of his work, though even his longer stuff thats "real" has better dialogue and characters. too many of his shorts are "in the 60's when we were students listening to X. girl this girl that, mope, mope" - they are too retro, too straight forward, even when there is a quirk too them it feels too slight. something like that. and just they don't have the depth of his novels. *shrug* |
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has no member title Member  |
Oooh, I loved it. Especially the double page spreads and the things she does with the shape and placement of the writing. __ The brickchewing, camera flaunting restroom saint formerly known as Babylon the Bride |
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Oestre sparagmos! Member  |
the time traveller's wife (again again again again)
but it makes me sad. or rather, it emphasises my sadness. does that make sense? i'm probably not in the right frame of mind to read it right now. and it is making me very sad. i still adore it though. ____________________________________________________ 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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Miss Kitty Fantastico Member |
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones. I had to get it through amazon because my local Borders doesn't have it. ah well, I needed a tray thingy for my mixer and I needed a bit more to make the order qualify for free shipping.
It's OK so far. It's not really getting anywhere, but I assume that it'll start to pull it all in fairly soon. 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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Has no front teeth Member  |
Comix- Fables
______________________ Fandangling across the moony sky, went the Beezee bold as brass, side-saddle she sat, on a big painted bat, shooting moonbeams out of her a(censored)e. ~Joe ________________________ Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy¦ooh ooh ooh the sky's the limit! |
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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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