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Post by jklinders on Sept 18, 2013 20:30:52 GMT 1
Been too long. There are a lot of baths if I remember but I do not recall any shagging up to the point I read. Just as well as the prophesies point to a shitty ending for all concerned anyway.
the ogier are hippie types. that doesn't change the fact that they are 8 feet tall and solid muscle. Loial can and does ruin people's shit when the chips are down.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 19, 2013 14:11:36 GMT 1
Yeh just got to the part where he beat the crap out of Trolloks with a stick. First time the books mention him fighting btw, i always imagined him sitting in a corner.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Oct 15, 2013 16:25:05 GMT 1
The Sword of Destiny aka Geralt of Rivia's life day to day. Dude sure gets laid a lot despite him being a mutant. To be honest I like the short stories, they are really nice and you feel for the poor white haired bastard. also Yenifer is a bit of a bitch.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Oct 15, 2013 18:43:04 GMT 1
Carte Blanche, the newest James Bond novel. It's got that nice mix of subtle intrigue and action bits. The villains are believable, the research behind the work is well done (save for minor bitches I have regarding small details relating to firearms, but the author did a very good job nonetheless), and this version of Bond is a good depiction of a man who can do an investigation, disrupt the bad guys with a mix of subtle misdirection and a proper application of violence, can MacGuyver his way out of some hairy situations, and still make it with the hot ladies (strangely enough, I'm not getting a womanizer feel from him in this book, but it's a re-boot for the current world so that might be a factor).
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Nov 1, 2013 13:07:52 GMT 1
Call of Cthullu, like I do every Halloween. Little tradition of mine.
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Post by Mister Buch on Nov 1, 2013 14:19:50 GMT 1
You got me to read that last Halloween - it was great.
I'm reading Peter Pan. I'm doing a course in children's literature so I've been reading Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows and all that lot. Loads of fairy tales too.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Nov 1, 2013 15:56:53 GMT 1
You mentioned "The Wolf Among Us" to your lecturer person? Like in class you raise your hand and ask " Why doesnt Toad in the Wind in the Willows use the word "fuck" more often?"
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Post by Mister Buch on Nov 1, 2013 19:47:19 GMT 1
I haven't mentioned it no! I haven't played it. But if I had I could totally write an essay on it. xD
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Nov 1, 2013 20:35:08 GMT 1
I talked about Batman and TMNT and the Matrix with mine Hell my dissertation WAS about comic book superheroes and their connection to the Collective Conciousness and the American psyche.
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Post by Mister Buch on Nov 2, 2013 1:00:52 GMT 1
I remember your dissertation - it sounded very cool to write, and interesting.
My essays are going to be way less of both of those things. My one fun option is to compare an early version of a fairy tale to a retelling such as a video game or movie, but I don't fancy that one. And my dissertation will actually be a 7000 word short story instead of an essay.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Nov 2, 2013 11:55:02 GMT 1
Lucky bastard, mine was 10 000 words about facts and theories and Carl Jung's shenanigans!
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jun 14, 2014 0:40:57 GMT 1
I have become an full nerd and i'm reading Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series. A lot of talking, lot of things happening off screen and not much action but I do like the gist of this. I read "Pebble in the Sky" so I kinda know the world. I suggest you all pick it up, it's really good. It's the decline of the Roman empire, except in space.
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Post by Nord Ronnoc on Jun 17, 2014 8:27:46 GMT 1
Currently reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It's... actually a pretty sweet book. Easy to read, too.
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Post by Mister Buch on Jun 17, 2014 12:06:58 GMT 1
I'm re-reading 'Good Omens' - the old Terry Pratchett / Neil Gaiman comedy about the antichrist. Think it's been mentioned on this thread before. As recommended by Tillian back in the day. I love it.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jun 18, 2014 1:55:27 GMT 1
I've been reading the books in The Tudors series by Philippa Gregory... excellent novels, if a tad romanticized and slightly historically inaccurate... possibly... I just finished " The Constant Princess", which was about Catalina, the Infanta of Spain who became Queen Katherine of Aragon... it was a good book, but I thought it switched rather abruptly from Katherine leading the English armies to a victory against the Scots in the year 1513, to the trial before the Papal Legate at Blackfriars Hall in 1529 regarding "The King's Great Matter", preparing to defend herself against Henry's attempts to set her aside and annul their marriage. That's a 16 year time skip. I would have liked to read more about the events leading up to the King's Great Matter, and read from Katherine's point of view right from the start of Henry's affair with the Boleyn sisters. Though to be fair, that 16 year time skip is actually told from the Boleyn sisters' POV in the next book in the series, which leads me to... " The Other Boleyn Girl". I'm now about halfway through " The Other Boleyn Girl", and this is my first time reading that book - though I saw the movie starring Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, and Eric Bana as Mary Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, and Henry Tudor respectively. There was a LOT cut from the novel when the movie was made, and the events of the Boleyn sisters' affairs with King Henry were quite condensed in the film... making it look like he was only with Mary long enough to get one son on her, and completely skipping over the daughter he gave her first... and made it look like he switched right from loving Mary to pursuing Anne with no overlap between the sisters. In the book, he keeps Mary as his nighttime bedmate for the first while during his daytime courtship of Anne, and... that's as far as I've gotten so far in this book. We'll see how that turns out soon, but I know from history that Anne held out until she could secure the king in marriage and completely supplant Queen Katherine, before she finally agreed to go to the king's bed... according to the book, she was only 19 or thereabouts when she first starts flirting with the king, and is in her early 30s when she dies, having only been married to Henry for a few years... long enough to give birth to baby Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth I) and to have a couple of miscarriages, and lose the king's favor. The next book on my Kobo waiting to be read is " The Other Queen", which will be about Mary, Queen of Scots. I skipped a few books in the timeline there, but as soon as I can spare more money towards filling my Kobo, I'll be getting the other books in the series: " The Wise Woman", " The Boleyn Inheritance", " The Queen's Fool" and " The Virgin's Lover". I've got a bit of an obsession with Tudor history in general, really...
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