What role do you see the hamster playing? I mean you've got the squirrels (elves), the moles (dwarves), the mice (men), the badgers (fuckass awesome), the hares (ok this analogy thing is breaking down). What are hamsters good for?
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edited July 2010
The otters were my favourite. Maaan I really wanna read the Bellmaker again. But I might get those kind of looks if I start going to the kids' section of the library.
Redwall was amazing. When I was in 7th grade we had Accelerated Reader, and we got extra credit appended to our English grade for reading books, most people were reading shit like "See Spot Run" or whatever. I read the first 17 or so Redwall books, and the first 14 or so of the Xanth series. I think I ended the year with about 120%.
i'm waiting to come across that right book i need to read
usually it happens that way for me but i've had a really dry spell
Could try The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, it is seriously one of the best things I've read in a long time. I couldn't stop reading it and I haven't had that feeling in a long time. Might resurface with Dune though, we shall see.
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Wow. Don't know what I was expecting, but it shattered whatever my expectations were as soon as I opened the book.
In a good way, or a bad way?
In a really good way. It's creepy and weird and off-the-wall and hilarious. I think it was in the foreword to Lolita that whoever was writing the foreword said that Nabokov wrote prose joyfully, almost ecstatically. That's the best way I can describe how David Wong writes.
Even before the prologue was finished I was hooked.
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edited July 2010
I enjoyed the Name of the Wind less as I progressed through it. I thought it was an interesting story and loved the way it was written, but Kvothe really got on my nerves by the end of it. All super cool but whining that he didn't feel as cool as he should or something. I really hope he gets a few more genuine flaws in the second book or he's going to put me off the rest of the trilogy.
What role do you see the hamster playing? I mean you've got the squirrels (elves), the moles (dwarves), the mice (men), the badgers (fuckass awesome), the hares (ok this analogy thing is breaking down). What are hamsters good for?
being fucking adorable is what!
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i'm waiting to come across that right book i need to read
usually it happens that way for me but i've had a really dry spell
Could try The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, it is seriously one of the best things I've read in a long time. I couldn't stop reading it and I haven't had that feeling in a long time. Might resurface with Dune though, we shall see.
thanks for the suggestion, but i don't read fantasy and i had a fight with rothfuss
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FandyienBut Otto, what about us? Registered Userregular
edited July 2010
I love Dune
The first movie with Patrick Stewart and Sting and oh Gosh I love it
The first movie with Patrick Stewart and Sting and oh Gosh I love it
My Dad and my brother were all about this movie, and I couldn't stand to watch it once. I haven't read the book yet, it was just too damn bizarre and weird.
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The first movie with Patrick Stewart and Sting and oh Gosh I love it
My Dad and my brother were all about this movie, and I couldn't stand to watch it once. I haven't read the book yet, it was just too damn bizarre and weird.
Read the book, watch the movie, and marvel at the depths of it's radness
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edited July 2010
Jacques didn't put hamsters in because they're fucking pussies. If anything they'd fill the role of hapless villagers who almost escape the rampaging vermin horde.
Guinea pigs would be the jolly fat guy who dies in the first act.
Jacques didn't put hamsters in because they're fucking pussies. If anything they'd fill the role of hapless villagers who almost escape the rampaging vermin horde.
Guinea pigs would be the jolly fat guy who dies in the first act.
The first movie with Patrick Stewart and Sting and oh Gosh I love it
My Dad and my brother were all about this movie, and I couldn't stand to watch it once. I haven't read the book yet, it was just too damn bizarre and weird.
Read the book, watch the movie, and marvel at the depths of it's radness
Or I will hunt you down
You know, I was going to buy a book by this Murakami guy you dudes rave about, but I have been meaning to read Dune for several years. I know my brother has a ton of Dune books, and I think he left them at our parents' place when he shipped out for the Navy. I will see if my parents can find the first one, as I have a nice vacation coming up soon.
I bought him Hyperion, and have yet to read it, so I will see if that can be located too.
i'm waiting to come across that right book i need to read
usually it happens that way for me but i've had a really dry spell
This is exactly how I am and how I've been lately. It's why I have such a completely ridiculous book collection - so the right book is right at my fingertips when I want it.
Well, that's one reason, among many.
But I generally find that when I finish one book the next thing that's juuust right somehow manages to find its way to my hands within a few days. But this past month has been one picked up and abandoned book after another. I can't seem to really stick with anything.
There is an expanding collection of books with bookmarks scattered around my bedroom, is what I'm saying.
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You have precisely the same inclinations I do, LS and bj
I have tons and tons and tons of books, dozens of bookmarks, and I'm stuck in a bookless limbo. Right now I'm trying out Orn by Piers Anthony because of my hard-on for science fiction.
Columbine flew by in only two posts pages ago before I could 'third' Pharezon's recommendation of it and say that it might actually be an important book for our modern times. I mean, I guess I've done that now. Still...
About a third of a way through Kraken and enjoying it, although the writing quality seems to fluctuate from awesome PSS/The Scar Mievielle to somewhat over-earnest King Rat Mieville from time to time. Who knew London was so wrapped around giant squid worship?
at every stop this little drama plays out. cute girl gets on: ok, you have my attention. glasses, book (!), serious expression? i like you already, tentatively! alright, here goes, check the book. if it's something good you'll have made my d... aw, it's an airport novel. welp, back to sleep till next stop.
Fandy, what kind of sci-fi are you looking for? Have you Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs books? Or Neal Asher's Polity books?
DO NOT GO TO ASHER'S BLOG
He found a dog that someone tried to burn and tried to save it, and took pictures of it as he was trying to heal it and everything and oh my god I am still torn up about this.
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FandyienBut Otto, what about us? Registered Userregular
Fandy, what kind of sci-fi are you looking for? Have you Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs books? Or Neal Asher's Polity books?
DO NOT GO TO ASHER'S BLOG
He found a dog that someone tried to burn and tried to save it, and took pictures of it as he was trying to heal it and everything and oh my god I am still torn up about this.
I haven't read either of those authors, putting them on my list
And I am into any kind of science fiction, I read it all. It's the one area of writing where I'm trying to build a legitimate expertise
Also fandy, if you like supercheesy, fun space opera scifi, check out Simon r. Green's Deathstalker series. It's lightweight trashy fun involving an evil empire and sword fights and espers and weird aliens and forbidden tech and space pirates and etc etc
Also fandy, if you like supercheesy, fun space opera scifi, check out Simon r. Green's Deathstalker series. It's lightweight trashy fun involving an evil empire and sword fights and espers and weird aliens and forbidden tech and space pirates and etc etc
you just gave me a boner
addin' it to the list for post stanislaw lem readin'
I think there is an order you should post cyberpunk stuff in. I kind of did it wrong, but I imagine things would be super-amazing if you were able to read the cyberpunk "canon" (gibson's sprawl, snow crash), then read some other stuff, then branch out into the nutso balls to walls overload of things like Death's Head or the hrrrggg nihilistic manliness of the Kovacs books.
I've been meaning to read Stanislaw Lem's stuff and Stainless Steel Rat.
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usually it happens that way for me but i've had a really dry spell
Could try The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, it is seriously one of the best things I've read in a long time. I couldn't stop reading it and I haven't had that feeling in a long time. Might resurface with Dune though, we shall see.
In a really good way. It's creepy and weird and off-the-wall and hilarious. I think it was in the foreword to Lolita that whoever was writing the foreword said that Nabokov wrote prose joyfully, almost ecstatically. That's the best way I can describe how David Wong writes.
Even before the prologue was finished I was hooked.
i just got y: the last man volume 1 and it's good so i will probably get the rest, thanks bale
1) Be in paperback and small enough to carry-on;
2) Likely available at my nearest B&N;
3) Longish (cross-country flight, 6 days away);
4) Have an awesome freakin' dragon on the cover (bonus points for actually being about dragons).
Just booked my ticket, I am squealing like a fangirl
Have you considered His Majesty's Dragon?
thanks for the suggestion, but i don't read fantasy and i had a fight with rothfuss
The first movie with Patrick Stewart and Sting and oh Gosh I love it
My Dad and my brother were all about this movie, and I couldn't stand to watch it once. I haven't read the book yet, it was just too damn bizarre and weird.
Read the book, watch the movie, and marvel at the depths of it's radness
Or I will hunt you down
here you go:
http://www.amazon.com/Knight-Book-One-Wizard/dp/0765347016/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
Guinea pigs would be the jolly fat guy who dies in the first act.
You know, I was going to buy a book by this Murakami guy you dudes rave about, but I have been meaning to read Dune for several years. I know my brother has a ton of Dune books, and I think he left them at our parents' place when he shipped out for the Navy. I will see if my parents can find the first one, as I have a nice vacation coming up soon.
I bought him Hyperion, and have yet to read it, so I will see if that can be located too.
I just read that chapter last night. I was quite affected by it. I wasn't really expecting the novel to address genocide, etc etc.
This is exactly how I am and how I've been lately. It's why I have such a completely ridiculous book collection - so the right book is right at my fingertips when I want it.
Well, that's one reason, among many.
But I generally find that when I finish one book the next thing that's juuust right somehow manages to find its way to my hands within a few days. But this past month has been one picked up and abandoned book after another. I can't seem to really stick with anything.
There is an expanding collection of books with bookmarks scattered around my bedroom, is what I'm saying.
"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 have tons and tons and tons of books, dozens of bookmarks, and I'm stuck in a bookless limbo. Right now I'm trying out Orn by Piers Anthony because of my hard-on for science fiction.
Currently reading 2666 by Roberto bolano. It's a bit intimidating, but pretty fascinating!
Columbine flew by in only two posts pages ago before I could 'third' Pharezon's recommendation of it and say that it might actually be an important book for our modern times. I mean, I guess I've done that now. Still...
About a third of a way through Kraken and enjoying it, although the writing quality seems to fluctuate from awesome PSS/The Scar Mievielle to somewhat over-earnest King Rat Mieville from time to time. Who knew London was so wrapped around giant squid worship?
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Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
Oh, I know his reputation, but I find even the trashiest science fiction from that era totally fascinating
I'm going to read Solaris next, or possibly now, if I don't get into Orn.
at every stop this little drama plays out. cute girl gets on: ok, you have my attention. glasses, book (!), serious expression? i like you already, tentatively! alright, here goes, check the book. if it's something good you'll have made my d... aw, it's an airport novel. welp, back to sleep till next stop.
DO NOT GO TO ASHER'S BLOG
He found a dog that someone tried to burn and tried to save it, and took pictures of it as he was trying to heal it and everything and oh my god I am still torn up about this.
I haven't read either of those authors, putting them on my list
And I am into any kind of science fiction, I read it all. It's the one area of writing where I'm trying to build a legitimate expertise
you just gave me a boner
addin' it to the list for post stanislaw lem readin'
I've been meaning to read Stanislaw Lem's stuff and Stainless Steel Rat.