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She does rule! I'm reading The Fall of Hyperion because I read the first one a while back and how come no one turned me on to Dan Simmons before I was 33? |
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free hubcaps posted:yea hyperion is one of my favorite books but Simmons is an irl shitbag Wait really? I heard that about Piers Anthony but not Simmons |
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Jul 4, 2020 21:48
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beer pal posted:u ever just stop & think sometimes like drat... hteres so many books and the thought usually ends with something like 'and I must read them all'. |
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Aug 19, 2020 03:47
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I started reading more nonfiction over the last few weeks, so here's what I've got on tap: - Empires of the Sky by Alexander Rose - The House of Beaufort by Nathen Amin - The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Fiction-wise I've got: - Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali - The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu |
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Sep 18, 2020 04:46
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I'm reading a collection of MR James ghost stories because it's spooky season they're very good and spooky |
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Oct 10, 2020 01:36
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I finished The Master's Apprentice by Oliver Potsch, which is a retelling of the Faust story. It was outstanding and I'm about to start the second book (The Devil's Pawn) tonight. |
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Jun 21, 2022 23:21
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Jinh posted:reading "I, Strahd" about the origin of the famous DnD vampire M.R. James's collection of ghost stories is ancient but it's extremely, extremely good. |
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Aug 13, 2022 22:10
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm just glad I was an Earthsea kid and not a dang Harry Potter kid. Only read LHoD for University - probably would've liked it as a kid too but for reasons I never got around to much sciffy. I was a Wheel of Time kid, most of my sci-fi was stuff I could swipe from my school library like Dune or Asimov, stuff they’d let me keep since no one else would ever read it. |
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Mar 16, 2023 16:22
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why didn't you just borrow them? I did, they just told me to keep them when I went to turn them back in. They’d do that every so often throughout the year, just let us English nerds keep some books to make room for new ones. Some godawful crap but some pretty good stuff like the Once and Future King, I still don’t know why they wanted to get rid of that, it owns. |
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Mar 22, 2023 04:20
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Started on the Reality Dysfunction which is the first book of the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton and I have no idea what's happening at all, it's nuts. I've heard the trilogy's a good read, so I'm gonna stick with it and see if the pacing evens out since I think I'm still at the 'holy crap, the scope here is insane and he's not letting anything breathe' stage. |
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Apr 18, 2023 19:38
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:It was published in November last year and says it has a lot of the latest research. It's also very wordy and I haven't gotten too far, but the pictures are nice. Here's a review: https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-c...s-evans-3930845 This was a birthday present to myself back in March, I think it’s next up on my list after Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy. |
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Jun 12, 2023 07:04
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I started reading Blood Music by Greg Bear last night and I didn’t realize that I’d gotten halfway through it until my girlfriend mentioned how she had to get up early this morning and could I kindly put away my kindle. It’s pretty good so far, I think I’ll finish it up tonight and recommend it to her since she’s the scientist and I think it’d be right up her alley. |
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Jul 8, 2023 03:30
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biosterous posted:catching up on the books i've been reading the Battletech novels in in-universe chronology (list here) and they vary wildly in quality, which is what you'd expect for tabletop wargame tie-in novels Blood Legacy by Stackpole got me into reading Battletech stuff as a kid, A Silence In The Heavens by Delrio was the only book about giant robots I couldn’t finish. Battletech fiction is a world of contrasts |
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Aug 24, 2023 20:25
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Blood Legacy and the Warrior Trilogy by Michael Stackpole were the ones I remember being pretty good. |
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Aug 25, 2023 17:56
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caspergers posted:i wish i could read this fast It’s a combo of adhd and an English degree, if I’m invested in something I’m reading I’ll stay up all night to finish it, but the downside is I’m always reading half a dozen things at the same time about god knows what. |
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it took me forever to figure it out too, but it makes sense I'd live in a library if I could tbh |
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