I've never read any L'Amour, but a few days back in some thread or other I mentioned I had a Louis L'Amour tape? It was a gag gift (along with Midwest Polka Band Hits) but it was actually totally awesome. Like, the best possible thing to listen to on a road trip. And then I found out that my grandfather loves Louis L'Amour, making him even more awesome than he already was.
I guess what I'm saying is I miss that tape, and I can't scoff at the Westerns section at the bookstore anymore.
My dad has an entire bookshelf dedicated to Louis L'Amour.
I have every Louis L'Amour novel ever written. I kid you not. Got them from my folks. I have read every single one.
Quoth - There's a series by a dude named Simon R. Green that's pretty decent. I didn't like it as much as Dresden, but it's pretty ok. It's set in the "Darkside" of London, which is basically a magical underworld version. Oh, and the amount of Dresden Files ripoffs in them is pretty funny as well.
That is one of my favorite scenes in the play, and any time I'm hanging out with a certain group of friends the whole script ends up being quoted extensively
Adding books to my kindle is fun. If you like Fantasy or Science Fiction and want to suggest stuff feel free to do so.
For some reason, three of the four books in this one series are available for the Kindle. The first, second, and fourth. Why not the third? Still a fun little toy
My collection of unread books grows. I bought The Graveyard Book, Lirael and The Hobbit yesterday. Since they were part of the 3 or 2 deal, and I had 8 euroes on my Waterstones card, they only came to 10 euroes total. I now have 26 books on my shelf I haven't read (not counting The Hobbit since I've read it before.)
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Man I have, without doubt, well over a hundred books that I own but have not yet read
Anyway, you can totally read The Graveyard Book and Lirael in one day's reading. So get on that! I occasionally go through periods of not allowing myself to be distracted by library books or new books, just so I finish older unread things at some point in my life.
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Man I have, without doubt, well over a hundred books that I own but have not yet read
Anyway, you can totally read The Graveyard Book and Lirael in one day's reading. So get on that! I occasionally go through periods of not allowing myself to be distracted by library books or new books, just so I finish older unread things at some point in my life.
Or by the need to sleep apparently.
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I've given it up
My leg is like, fucking, Jacob Marley's chain he forged in life, right now
just draggin' around with a big ol bandage rattling about how crappy life is as a ghost, that's me
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Hey people that were talking about The Scar a little while ago; do you need to have read Perdido Street Station first or will it make sense without it? I read King Rat thinking that was first and just got The Scar and realized that PSS was related to it and preceded it.
Hey people that were talking about The Scar a little while ago; do you need to have read Perdido Street Station first or will it make sense without it? I read King Rat thinking that was first and just got The Scar and realized that PSS was related to it and preceded it.
You can read The Scar without reading PSS first. Anything you need to know in the second book is explained (eventually). But if you can it is well worth it to do PSS first, both as a standalone enjoyable read and as a significant enhancement to your The Scar experience.
EDIT: And neither have any relation to King Rat, other than being written by the same dude. He grew a lot as a writer after KR, his first novel. I enjoyed it, but I think it's pretty clearly his weakest book.
Thanks Iolo. Now I have to decide whether to wait for PSS to come in from another library (both copies in the system are checked out so it could be a while), or just read The Scar and not worry about it. I guess the first thing is finish these last 300 pages of The Bonehunters and then decide.
Oh shit - I went on Amazon to try to tempt you with some preposterously cheap, used version of Perdido Street Station only to find that he's got a new book coming out June 29 -- Kraken! (Exclamation point mine. It's not a broadway musical... yet.)
That is awesome news, and unexpected since The City & The City just came out last May.
Hello book thread, I was looking at some Doctor Who books in the library yesterday and I just wanted to say how truly awful some of them are. The best ones are pretty good, but the worst ones seem to latch on to the most obvious 10th Doctor cliches - using the sonic screwdriver like a magic wand, "timey-wimey" descriptions of alien phenomena, "zany" behaviour - and just pour them on in buckets. The way they portray him it's a wonder he doesn't burst out of the TARDIS on a sonic pogo stick going YIPPEEE!
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I was just gearing up to watch the last episodes of the last season over here because I have been semi-desperate for new Who. Not desperate enough to actually go ahead and pick up any of the books yet but it's close to that point.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I know, I know, braid tugging and sniffing and skirt smoothing, but the best thing to happen to that series was Robert Jordan dying, the new writer picks up the pace and runs with it
I really liked it
but isn't it going to take another 3 books to finish the series?
I know, I know, braid tugging and sniffing and skirt smoothing, but the best thing to happen to that series was Robert Jordan dying, the new writer picks up the pace and runs with it
I really liked it
but isn't it going to take another 3 books to finish the series?
Jordan himself was pulling that "just a couple more books" bullshit since way back in the day.
And then he'd be all "Oh but there's just so much story to pack in I'm going to have to make it a couple books more, but before I even write those I'm going to go back to the first book and split that into two books and write like one new chapter for each."
Jordan could have lived to be 98 and still not finished this fucking thing.
The dude was 91 and a hermit. It's not like he was writing the next great american novel or anything.
edit: lost it in the database error: Although, looking at his wiki, it seems like him dying is the best thing for people who like his work. He did write, he just never published, and now it's all going to come out.
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My dad has an entire bookshelf dedicated to Louis L'Amour.
Quoth - There's a series by a dude named Simon R. Green that's pretty decent. I didn't like it as much as Dresden, but it's pretty ok. It's set in the "Darkside" of London, which is basically a magical underworld version. Oh, and the amount of Dresden Files ripoffs in them is pretty funny as well.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
That is one of my favorite scenes in the play, and any time I'm hanging out with a certain group of friends the whole script ends up being quoted extensively
it is essentially a better version of waiting for godot, which is one incredible accomplishment
Also there is so much innuendo that you could cut it with a butter knife
Check out Neal Asher and Richard Morgan.
I loved Sabriel and only recently became aware of the other books
Anyway, you can totally read The Graveyard Book and Lirael in one day's reading. So get on that! I occasionally go through periods of not allowing myself to be distracted by library books or new books, just so I finish older unread things at some point in my life.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Or by the need to sleep apparently.
My leg is like, fucking, Jacob Marley's chain he forged in life, right now
just draggin' around with a big ol bandage rattling about how crappy life is as a ghost, that's me
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
You can read The Scar without reading PSS first. Anything you need to know in the second book is explained (eventually). But if you can it is well worth it to do PSS first, both as a standalone enjoyable read and as a significant enhancement to your The Scar experience.
EDIT: And neither have any relation to King Rat, other than being written by the same dude. He grew a lot as a writer after KR, his first novel. I enjoyed it, but I think it's pretty clearly his weakest book.
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That is awesome news, and unexpected since The City & The City just came out last May.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
being played by Tony Curran.
Jordan himself was pulling that "just a couple more books" bullshit since way back in the day.
And then he'd be all "Oh but there's just so much story to pack in I'm going to have to make it a couple books more, but before I even write those I'm going to go back to the first book and split that into two books and write like one new chapter for each."
Jordan could have lived to be 98 and still not finished this fucking thing.
That's a pretty sick burn.
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edit: lost it in the database error: Although, looking at his wiki, it seems like him dying is the best thing for people who like his work. He did write, he just never published, and now it's all going to come out.
dang