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Post by Mr. Glow on May 16, 2015 1:19:58 GMT 1
I'm trying to read Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell before the adaptation starts airing on BBC1. Considering I've got 700 pages to go, limited access to the book and it's on tomorrow night, I'm not sure I'm gonna make it.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on May 16, 2015 9:19:57 GMT 1
You can do it man! Binge read the shit outta that book!
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Post by herrwozzeck on May 29, 2015 3:40:20 GMT 1
Man, it's been a bit since I posted here.
Anyway, in the meantime, I'm busy reading Dune by Frank Herbert. It's... actually a surprisingly easy book to read, and I'm enjoying it a lot!
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on May 29, 2015 9:45:07 GMT 1
Fear is the mind killer y'know.
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Post by jklinders on May 29, 2015 10:03:06 GMT 1
Man, it's been a bit since I posted here. Anyway, in the meantime, I'm busy reading Dune by Frank Herbert. It's... actually a surprisingly easy book to read, and I'm enjoying it a lot! Great book. One of the very best in sci-fi. Pretty damn impressive compared to other gennres as well. I could not stay with it after the first one though. Messiah was...unpleasant in many respects. Get as far as God Emperor of Dune and...you'll see.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on May 29, 2015 10:19:57 GMT 1
I'm more of a Foundation fan myself so should I give Dune a chance?
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Post by jklinders on May 29, 2015 10:55:08 GMT 1
yes. you should. Foundation was a pretty smart series so if you have not checked out dune you should. No one, and I mean no one ever has more successfully melded science, environmental politics, energy politics and religion all in one volume before or since.
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Post by herrwozzeck on Jun 4, 2015 16:50:41 GMT 1
It's actually been an interesting experience so far. I actually watched the David Lynch movie first, and I was like "huh... this is a bad movie, but it seems like it's trying to tell a story worth telling". So then when I saw a copy of the book stocked in my college bookstore, I was like "oh hey, reading material, let's pick it up".
I have to say, it's not hard to see why the Lynch movie is as bad as it is. There's just no way to fit the sheer amount of content in Dune into one two and a half hour movie while keeping everything else intact. (Like, you know, the compelling characterizations that the movie lacks.) It's way more complex than I thought it would be, but I'm loving it for that.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jun 4, 2015 17:34:40 GMT 1
FINE! I'll order it off Amazon, jeez!
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Post by herrwozzeck on Jun 4, 2015 18:09:14 GMT 1
Just a fair warning: it is very long. My edition clocks in at about 883 pages, including the appendices and the afterword by Frank's son Brian. From what I've skimmed (and had to check appendices over, since one of the appendices is a very handy dictionary that defines the various terms tossed around throughout the book), the actual book itself ends at around 795 pages.
It'll probably go by really fast, though. I had downed the entirety of Part 1 before I even knew it, so...
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jun 4, 2015 18:15:52 GMT 1
It's okay, I read the Foundation series and A Song of Ice and Fire, i can deal with silly amounts of pages.
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Post by herrwozzeck on Jun 4, 2015 18:23:39 GMT 1
Then there you go.
Dance parties for all!
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Post by jklinders on Jun 4, 2015 19:54:21 GMT 1
The appendixes are really important for understanding the background of the universe and how things got to that point. I dare say that fully comprehending the book is impossible without reading the appendixes, but reading the appendixes is full of spoilers. As such reading it twice is nearly mandatory.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Jun 30, 2015 0:53:14 GMT 1
Just started reading Batwoman.
Jesus Christ, that coming out scene is badass!
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Post by Cali on Jun 30, 2015 2:57:37 GMT 1
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