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I'm about a quarter of the way in FUCK this book is LOOOONG it's longer than the Fountainhead I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
I love Clive Barker's writing but I stopped reading Imajica after about 200 pages. I do want to finish it though, I should give it another go. Agreed though, it's fucking massive
Does this count?
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congrats on paying money to learn how to be better at a video game/gain ecred or something
[editline]24th June 2011[/editline]
you may be ownin noobs in video games, but youll forever be ownin ~urself~
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I loved reading Stackpole's X-Wing books back then, but I didn't get around to getting the other five books though.
Zahn > all other Star Wars EU authors
In the middle of reading Oath of Fealty. Mmm, just love me some political fiction.
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I'm more than halfway through this one and damn is it entertaining. Every chapter of it is filled with cool and awesome.
Just ordered
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I'm more than halfway through this one and damn is it entertaining. Every chapter of it is filled with cool and awesome.[/QUOTE]
don't worry it starts to degrade after the second half, and turns boring
I planned to read some Lovecraft novels and some of his shortstories. Any suggestion which book should I take?
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This book is fucked up. And I can't even understand half of what the fuck is going on.
Just finished this 1200 page long masterpiece by good ol' David Weber
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Its basically about to multiuniversal empires going to war with each other. One empire based on magic the other on science.
I suggest Welcome To The NHK if anyones interested in a really fucked up Japanese novel.
Just look it up, as I don't know how I should go about describing it in a summary.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;30699446]Zahn > all other Star Wars EU authors[/QUOTE]
I don't really like Karen Traviss, I've read 2 of her books and she has a ton of meme references to the movies that wouldn't make sense inside the star wars universe. Like in one part she said something along the lines of "It was, as one famous admiral put it, a trap".
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Just started reading this, interesting stuff.
reading
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it's pretty good, and the main character and setting is awesome.
Currently reading:
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It's a really good book, though I'm not that far into it.
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Serious read, the man was a monster but you just can but help admire him in a weird way. The shit he got away with is crazy.
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Why would you buy a book of The Call of Cthulhu? That thing was printed in magazines and the like because it was short and didn't equate (length-wise) the requirements for a book...
It probably comes in that collection of stories right there!
Some of my favourite books are, I have quite a few, erm..
Charles Bukowski's Factotum and Women
Nabokov's Lolita
George Orwell's 1984
John Steinbeck's East of Eden (which is probably my fav. book, it's truly a masterpiece)
I just started H.G. Well's Shape of Things to Come - but I think it's rather hard to get on with...
Not sure if it's already been posted, but had to do 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood, as part of my A level coursework.
It's very closely linked to Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World with the intrinsic themes of dystopia, but with an added dimension of feminism, that whilst at times can be laborious with her really (purposely done) fractured writing style, it quite worth looking at.
It's almost a reversion to the patriarchal theocracies of old set in the near future of America, where a religious revolutionary group has assassinated and subsequently taken control of the U.S congress and presidency.
Due to several biological and chemical wars ensuring a lack of fertility, women that can produce babies are treated as nothing more than glorified slaves, sent away to rich families in the vain hope that they can produce a child.
This is loosely based satire by greatly exaggerating the problem women face in society today (or the 80's when it was written) such as their objectification by men, but it also merited for its qualities as a novel as well
Naturally, this is what the protagonist is faced with and it is quite captivating and chilling - though not to the extent of 1984 - seeing the mental anguish of a person that can not openly voice her turmoil, nor seemingly escape from it.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;30775513]Just finished this 1200 page long masterpiece by good ol' David Weber
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Weber writes interesting universes, but christ I hate his characters.
The Safehold series: Look at how progressive and awesome Prince Caleb is!
just ordered
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Not really sure what to expect, but other people on Amazon's page for the book have said that it was an interesting read.
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This book is fucked up. And I can't even understand half of what the fuck is going on.[/QUOTE]
I haven't read that book but I have read White Noise by the same author. I thought it was pretty damn good. Funny too. It's a lot more coherent than that one.
I'm reading some Greg Egan. He's got a good brain!
Hey, i'm looking for a book set on world war two and based on a real story. Any suggestions?
Made it to Part 2 of Catching Fire. Its actually pretty different from The Hunger Games. It's a bit more "intense" then The Hunger Games. But now they are just milking the whole "HAYMITCH IS A DRUNK FUCK" thing.
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I've been reading[url=http://www.amazon.com/Fatherland-Robert-Harris/dp/0061006629]Fatherland[/url], and I have to say, it's a pretty good book. So far it seems it's a standard detective noire book, set in 1964 Nazi Germany.
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