Reading Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, and it's fucking delightful, especially if you're interested in fauna and stuff. Definitely recommended if you want to take a break from heavier reading
The Lies of Locke Lamora is really good so far. I do get kind of annoyed how the author feels the need to curse randomly though. You'll go pages and pages without even an "ass" but then suddenly you've got a "fuck" or a "shit" just outta nowhere. It's like the guy is just tossing them around to be edgy. But it's a really minor annoyance, and since it happens fairly rarely you can safely ignore it.
The structure is a bit weird too, with every even chapter (called interludes) being set in the past and every odd chapter in the present. The present chapters focus on the main plot, while the interludes are one-shots that help refine characters and explain backstory. Haven't decided if I like that yet, but the mere fact that I look forward to each interlude just as much as continuing the main plot says something.
There are some other flaws besides that, but not a lot, and they're all to do with how it's (as I understand) the author's first book. If his first is this good, Scott Lynch will be worth following.
The Lies of Locke Lamora is really good so far. I do get kind of annoyed how the author feels the need to curse randomly though. You'll go pages and pages without even an "ass" but then suddenly you've got a "fuck" or a "shit" just outta nowhere. It's like the guy is just tossing them around to be edgy. But it's a really minor annoyance, and since it happens fairly rarely you can safely ignore it.
The structure is a bit weird too, with every even chapter (called interludes) being set in the past and every odd chapter in the present. The present chapters focus on the main plot, while the interludes are one-shots that help refine characters and explain backstory. Haven't decided if I like that yet, but the mere fact that I look forward to each interlude just as much as continuing the main plot says something.
There are some other flaws besides that, but not a lot, and they're all to do with how it's (as I understand) the author's first book. If his first is this good, Scott Lynch will be worth following.
I meant to say when you posted it in the other thread, and then I forgot, but I am totally interested in seeing your magazine when it goes out. It seems like a neat thing, and I... like... things that are neat? Is I guess what I am saying.
Hurr.
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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 meant to say when you posted it in the other thread, and then I forgot, but I am totally interested in seeing your magazine when it goes out. It seems like a neat thing, and I... like... things that are neat? Is I guess what I am saying.
Hurr.
i'm sure you'll hear about it!
if i'm making blog posts and facebook status updates about printing some dodgy images on adhesive paper, i won't stop talking about some actual content for weeks
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
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Dodgy images on adhesive paper sound pretty rad, too, in all fairness.
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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
The Lies of Locke Lamora is really good so far. I do get kind of annoyed how the author feels the need to curse randomly though. You'll go pages and pages without even an "ass" but then suddenly you've got a "fuck" or a "shit" just outta nowhere. It's like the guy is just tossing them around to be edgy. But it's a really minor annoyance, and since it happens fairly rarely you can safely ignore it.
The structure is a bit weird too, with every even chapter (called interludes) being set in the past and every odd chapter in the present. The present chapters focus on the main plot, while the interludes are one-shots that help refine characters and explain backstory. Haven't decided if I like that yet, but the mere fact that I look forward to each interlude just as much as continuing the main plot says something.
There are some other flaws besides that, but not a lot, and they're all to do with how it's (as I understand) the author's first book. If his first is this good, Scott Lynch will be worth following.
Reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. Good book. Dude went to my university, and they're naming the new residential college McMurtry. Apparently he owns and runs a couple bookstores in the DC area now, which I think is a cool day job for a famous author.
But yeah, Lonesome Dove is a pretty great western.
I just started Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series. I'm almost done with the second book. Pretty good stuff so far, although the second book has been a lot of Vlad sucking at criminal warfare and going, "Oh shit, I fail again! Now what?"
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I think there's going to be another sexy vampire show on the CW I think
Just heard about it in passing
But damn man
Up to our necks in sexy vampires
Hey, what's wrong with the True Blood books? :evil:
I read the first one and...eh. It was just okay. Maybe they get better, but it was basically a convoluted mystery novel with a few fangs up in it. I felt a bit let down by the ending.
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edited May 2009
Got the rest of my sci-fi reading list today. Count Zero, The Forever War, and Little Brother. I've heard of the former two (William Gibson and Joe Haldeman) but never the latter.
We're starting The Forever War next, I think, and I remember someone talking about it being good in the last book thread.
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It was pretty good.
I think afterward I might read 2001 Space Odyssey. Seeing as it's my favourite movie, I feel I should read the book.
Or I might read A Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov. Hmmm, decisions, decisions.
I got every single question correct.
i may just think that because i loved the movie
but i fucking loved the book
loved
2001
"stellar"
i crack myself up
totally on accident
accidentally awesome
edit - aww potato, you're a star.
problem is i already have like 4 books in a box that i need to start reading, but i suck and never make the time
every time i think about how i should be reading i recognize how much i suck
at least i've been reading through tank girl
that's something.....right?
The structure is a bit weird too, with every even chapter (called interludes) being set in the past and every odd chapter in the present. The present chapters focus on the main plot, while the interludes are one-shots that help refine characters and explain backstory. Haven't decided if I like that yet, but the mere fact that I look forward to each interlude just as much as continuing the main plot says something.
There are some other flaws besides that, but not a lot, and they're all to do with how it's (as I understand) the author's first book. If his first is this good, Scott Lynch will be worth following.
yeah
It's called "Twilight Blood" and it's about sexy vampires.
I figured we could discuss it here since this is the thread about books and literature.
i will post one internationally
edit: only one!
I meant to say when you posted it in the other thread, and then I forgot, but I am totally interested in seeing your magazine when it goes out. It seems like a neat thing, and I... like... things that are neat? Is I guess what I am saying.
Hurr.
"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'm sure you'll hear about it!
if i'm making blog posts and facebook status updates about printing some dodgy images on adhesive paper, i won't stop talking about some actual content for weeks
"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
But yeah, Lonesome Dove is a pretty great western.
Just heard about it in passing
But damn man
Up to our necks in sexy vampires
Amazon Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/BusterK/wishlist/3JPEKJGX9G54I/ref=cm_wl_search_bin_1
I read the first one and...eh. It was just okay. Maybe they get better, but it was basically a convoluted mystery novel with a few fangs up in it. I felt a bit let down by the ending.
I liked Grave Sight better.
Crazy awesome shit be happening, but I don't really care about any of the characters...
Are you suggesting that True Blood isn't the single greatest thing HBO has ever done?
Little did I know it was a sequel before I bought it
That just means you get to read American Gods.
We're starting The Forever War next, I think, and I remember someone talking about it being good in the last book thread.