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That seems pretty cool. Man Turtledove has written a lot.
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Lord_AsmodeusgoeticSobriquet:Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered Userregular
edited April 2012
Oh man
this guy is way worse at British accents than the last guy was
Like
it's kinda funny
I mean, they're not TERRIBLE
They just sound so
CLICHE
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I'm going to have to miss out on tiny chat on saturday sorry guys I'll be away from a good Internet connection and my only Internet would be from my iPad or iPhone and they don't work with tiny chat regardless.
@Grey Ghost You're welcome! Just glad that someone other than myself can get some use out of it. Let me know if there's anything else you would like.
I'm getting back into reading older Norwegian literature, which basically doesn't exist in ebook form, and the little that does is usually just copied straight from Project Gutenberg without any formatting. A couple of the works I listed on the previous page I had to type up by hand from a physical copy. It's kind of satisfying to be the first to put something decent like that.
I finished book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire, and it feels weird not fervently reading the series anymore.
So I started The Wind Up Bird Chronicles.
My god. The first impressions I have of these few chapters is that Jim Jarmusch dropped enough acid to send his ethereal creative perspective back in time to dance with Akira Kurosawa's brilliance. Is that weird? These chapters drift in and out with some minimalist and surreal dream like wonder.
Anyone else read the book? I'm not that far in yet.
I mean we could talk about other stuff if you wanted, the weather or fashion or what goes well together on pizza. Just not that book. And I guess not in this thread.
I'd just hate for you to think I don't want to talk to you. It isn't that. You seem swell.
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BOOK CLUB
Okay everyone, this is the weekend to start discussing our book, Gentlemen of the Road! This evening (my Friday, your whenever) I shall be putting up a list of questions in case everyone has forgotten the details already, in order to just help things along. Feel free to discuss the book in-thread as you like! It might be helpful to give your book-club posts a big bold Book Club title, but since this thread generally doesn't move as fast as some, you could probably get away without that.
ALSO, for those who are able and interested, starting Friday at 8 p.m. EST (that's Saturday at 9:00 a.m. my time, GMT +9, figure out your own zones as you can) we will be tinychatting the book up at http://www.tinychat.com/seplusplusbookclub. Just like old drunk socialites must do. It'll be great. If you can't make it don't worry, it's just a fun little bonus and I thing I thought we'd try out.
"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
Oops I guess I could have checked this thread for details instead of sending out a PM to the list. Sorry!
I am insanely excited about the new Dark Tower book. I may actually purchase it instead of waiting for the library to cough up a copy of it sometime next year.
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Book Club Questions
1. Gentlemen of the Road pays homage to the popular adventure stories and serials of the past. Do you feel that Chabon’s effort fits in well with the genre? What parallels did you draw while reading between this book and others that you may have read? (Re: tropes, characterization, language use, etc.)
2. In your opinion, was Chabon’s goal to simply recreate and adapt the mood of adventure stories like Robert E. Howard’s Conan or Edgar Rice Burrough’s Barsoom series’, or is he using the genre as a vehicle to deliver a deeper message?
3. The book was originally titled ‘Jews with Swords’ – do you feel that a different title would have altered your approach to the book or your opinion upon finishing it?
4. Who was more awesome, Amram or Zelikman? Or someone else entirely?
5. If you had a badass axe, what would its badass name be?
And obviously consider important questions like, Did you like the book? If so, what did you like? If not, why not?
It turns out making up questions for discussion is quite hard. If anyone has other things they want to talk about don't be hemmed in by these last-minute nonsenses, please!
"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
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edited April 2012
I am leaving in about 5 minutes to go camping and climbing in the rain for the weekend. Which is probably a good thing because from the sound of those questions you guys are gonna be having some Real Book Talk and I don't know crap about books except if I like 'em. But I look forward to reading all your thoughts when I get back!
So, re: Gentlemen of the Road - mild spoilers ahead.
I liked it! It felt very much like a homage to classic adventure shorts, right down to being first published as a serialization and then compiled into a book. Which is great because I love those.
One quirk I noticed, which we talked a little about, is how except for the first fight between Amram and Zelikman, most of the fights happen off-stage, which I think is an interesting divergence from the genre. You hardly expect Conan to arrive at the battle, throw himself into it, and then have Howard spend several passages describing the point of view of someone else somewhere else while Conan gets on with the fighting.
@Lost Salient pointed out how Hanukkah felt more like a Spaghetti Western sidekick, which I felt is pretty apt. He's essentially a C3-P0 character. Most of the time in adventure fiction, you don't get sidekicks who are also POV characters.
Or who have any chance of making it out alive. I was confidently awaiting his death the entire story. But since he's the bumbling sidekick, not the assistant red shirt, he's fine.
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I feel like writing a really great action scene is actually quite difficult, now that I think about it.
So many pop novels that I devour in a few hours these days, I find myself skimming the action because it's virtually nonsense in its composition.
Chabon's quite a good writer so I don't feel that's necessarily the reason in this case, but it did occur to me when we were talking about it.
"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
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guess who just ordered that library of america noir collection (the two volume one, not the six book version with chandler and hammett)
hmm
i should get this gentlemen of the road book for my road trip and read it on my kindle
and also the second joe abercrombie logen and friends book, or maybe that one that has the dog man in it
or the farfad and the mouser stuff
maybe i should try that stuff out
One quirk I noticed, which we talked a little about, is how except for the first fight between Amram and Zelikman, most of the fights happen off-stage, which I think is an interesting divergence from the genre. You hardly expect Conan to arrive at the battle, throw himself into it, and then have Howard spend several passages describing the point of view of someone else somewhere else while Conan gets on with the fighting.
Even the fight between Amram and Zelikman glosses over a fair bit and cuts over to the onlookers at points.
I thought this was a good thing and really fit with the feel of the rest of the book.
Also it probably would have been kinda gory if he went into as much detail on the fights as he did with some of the other elements of the story.
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fake edit: I was thinking of the Darkness series
this guy is way worse at British accents than the last guy was
Like
it's kinda funny
I mean, they're not TERRIBLE
They just sound so
CLICHE
Satans..... hints.....
I'm getting back into reading older Norwegian literature, which basically doesn't exist in ebook form, and the little that does is usually just copied straight from Project Gutenberg without any formatting. A couple of the works I listed on the previous page I had to type up by hand from a physical copy. It's kind of satisfying to be the first to put something decent like that.
what the fuck is this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1612182364/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=10MRNKFP31QXGBGAZA0Z&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470939291&pf_rd_i=507846
it's neal stephenson and a bunch of other dudes doing mongolian historical fiction
what of it
i guess they hollywooded it maybe
"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
Is Raymond Chandler's last name pronounced with a "ch" as in church or a "c" as in candle
"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'd hate to think I'd been sounding like a fool for years
So I started The Wind Up Bird Chronicles.
My god. The first impressions I have of these few chapters is that Jim Jarmusch dropped enough acid to send his ethereal creative perspective back in time to dance with Akira Kurosawa's brilliance. Is that weird? These chapters drift in and out with some minimalist and surreal dream like wonder.
Anyone else read the book? I'm not that far in yet.
I'd just hate for you to think I don't want to talk to you. It isn't that. You seem swell.
I love it so
But yeah, it's not very grounded in reality
Okay everyone, this is the weekend to start discussing our book, Gentlemen of the Road! This evening (my Friday, your whenever) I shall be putting up a list of questions in case everyone has forgotten the details already, in order to just help things along. Feel free to discuss the book in-thread as you like! It might be helpful to give your book-club posts a big bold Book Club title, but since this thread generally doesn't move as fast as some, you could probably get away without that.
ALSO, for those who are able and interested, starting Friday at 8 p.m. EST (that's Saturday at 9:00 a.m. my time, GMT +9, figure out your own zones as you can) we will be tinychatting the book up at http://www.tinychat.com/seplusplusbookclub. Just like old drunk socialites must do. It'll be great. If you can't make it don't worry, it's just a fun little bonus and I thing I thought we'd try out.
"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
A new Dark Tower book comes out next Tuesday. This excites me.
I still need to finish the Courts of Chaos. This vexes me.
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There are two Witcher books that have English Editions.
One is a short story collection and the other is part of the saga.
I am insanely excited about the new Dark Tower book. I may actually purchase it instead of waiting for the library to cough up a copy of it sometime next year.
1. Gentlemen of the Road pays homage to the popular adventure stories and serials of the past. Do you feel that Chabon’s effort fits in well with the genre? What parallels did you draw while reading between this book and others that you may have read? (Re: tropes, characterization, language use, etc.)
2. In your opinion, was Chabon’s goal to simply recreate and adapt the mood of adventure stories like Robert E. Howard’s Conan or Edgar Rice Burrough’s Barsoom series’, or is he using the genre as a vehicle to deliver a deeper message?
3. The book was originally titled ‘Jews with Swords’ – do you feel that a different title would have altered your approach to the book or your opinion upon finishing it?
4. Who was more awesome, Amram or Zelikman? Or someone else entirely?
5. If you had a badass axe, what would its badass name be?
And obviously consider important questions like, Did you like the book? If so, what did you like? If not, why not?
It turns out making up questions for discussion is quite hard. If anyone has other things they want to talk about don't be hemmed in by these last-minute nonsenses, please!
"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
Cool beans. I think I'll get the short story collection, since there's no real point buying one book in a saga if the other aren't translated.
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Fair warning, I have already imbibed certain quantities of alcamahol.
"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 liked it! It felt very much like a homage to classic adventure shorts, right down to being first published as a serialization and then compiled into a book. Which is great because I love those.
One quirk I noticed, which we talked a little about, is how except for the first fight between Amram and Zelikman, most of the fights happen off-stage, which I think is an interesting divergence from the genre. You hardly expect Conan to arrive at the battle, throw himself into it, and then have Howard spend several passages describing the point of view of someone else somewhere else while Conan gets on with the fighting.
@Lost Salient pointed out how Hanukkah felt more like a Spaghetti Western sidekick, which I felt is pretty apt. He's essentially a C3-P0 character. Most of the time in adventure fiction, you don't get sidekicks who are also POV characters.
So many pop novels that I devour in a few hours these days, I find myself skimming the action because it's virtually nonsense in its composition.
Chabon's quite a good writer so I don't feel that's necessarily the reason in this case, but it did occur to me when we were talking about it.
"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
this guy
i should get this gentlemen of the road book for my road trip and read it on my kindle
and also the second joe abercrombie logen and friends book, or maybe that one that has the dog man in it
or the farfad and the mouser stuff
maybe i should try that stuff out
Listen to summoning.
Even the fight between Amram and Zelikman glosses over a fair bit and cuts over to the onlookers at points.
I thought this was a good thing and really fit with the feel of the rest of the book.
Also it probably would have been kinda gory if he went into as much detail on the fights as he did with some of the other elements of the story.
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