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Post by captainhooker on Feb 3, 2010 15:33:51 GMT -5
Not bad so far. Kind of a "Paradise Lost" meets "Faust" in modern London kind of thing. If nothing else, it's witty.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Feb 3, 2010 15:38:13 GMT -5
Voyage au centre de la terre - Jules Verne.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Feb 4, 2010 22:20:34 GMT -5
At this exact moment I'm reading volume 3 of Love Com.
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Post by Vypernight on Feb 5, 2010 6:06:24 GMT -5
Currently I'm reading Thinner by Stephen King. I found that book boring when I attempted to read it. I seriously found the movie to be better and I didn't even finish the book. I feel the same way about pretty much all of King's books. It's hard to be scared when he spends 5 pages describing a chair. I'm currently rereading Star Wars X-Wing: Solo Command. Let's take Wraith Squadron, a commando squad form by Wedge out of a bunch of misfits and troublemakers whose group mentality is somewhere between unorthodox and purely psychotic. And who's in charge of said squad? Han Solo. Actually, Solo is in charge of several squads in the book, but he seems to have a soft spot for the Wraths. Granted he did tell an Imperial warlord, "Kiss my Wookie!"
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Post by Deimos on Feb 5, 2010 6:18:13 GMT -5
Dark Harbor by David Hosp. And yet another strong female cop, a feminist among a many profession. Dear god this character is already boring me
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Post by Bezron on Feb 5, 2010 9:51:11 GMT -5
Re-reading William Gibson's stuff at the moment.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Feb 5, 2010 22:58:06 GMT -5
I found that book boring when I attempted to read it. I seriously found the movie to be better and I didn't even finish the book. I feel the same way about pretty much all of King's books. It's hard to be scared when he spends 5 pages describing a chair. Thinner was the only book I found boring. I literally read at least twenty pages of just some guy standing on a scale and then eating a cheese burger.
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Post by captainhooker on Feb 12, 2010 12:35:07 GMT -5
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Post by davedan on Feb 14, 2010 21:02:55 GMT -5
Monkey by Wu Cheng-en
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Feb 14, 2010 22:16:38 GMT -5
Naked Lunch by William S. Burrough.
The restored text, whatever that means.
Little under halfway through the main story (the rest is edits and things that didn't make it into the original). It's fucking awesome. Although the part about the computer controling to town malfunctioning and releasing all IND's and what they were doing while they were rampant all over the place was pretty damn gross.
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Post by captainhooker on Mar 1, 2010 15:38:56 GMT -5
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Post by SimSim on Mar 1, 2010 15:41:27 GMT -5
Your first image is borked, Cap'n.
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Post by captainhooker on Mar 1, 2010 16:27:51 GMT -5
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Post by disgruntledcolonel on Mar 1, 2010 17:31:29 GMT -5
Currently page turning my way through Michael Connolly's 'The Brass Verdict" - Thus far a quality follow on from 'The Lincoln Lawyer if Orion do seem to be slipping into that annoying publisher's trick of making larger than usual paperbacks with bigger type than necessary, grrr.
Next up I'm feeling the need to return to a great american novel or 2, probably starting with Dom Delillo's 'Underworld" one of my favourite books ever, then perhaps some Mailer.
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Post by SimSim on Mar 1, 2010 17:36:59 GMT -5
What's the plot of Ecstasy, Captain? I've read several of Welsh's other books and enjoyed them.
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