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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Jun 8, 2010 15:29:42 GMT 1
Nps.
Reading "Girl with the crooked nose" again. A biography about Frank Bender the forensic artist. Some parts does want to make your stomach going flip flop, but it's an interesting read and a little sad at times if you reflect about the victims, espcially the Juarez mass homicide on women section.
Interesting read but not reccomended for last minute bed time reading. The deadly graphic scenes and the explict details of the Juarez case won't give you sweet dreams anytime soon...
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Post by Nemonus on Jun 9, 2010 3:45:14 GMT 1
Neuromancer is good. Very solid writing perfectly paired with an inventive world. It was too graphic for my taste, but very good.
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Post by ommadawn on Jun 10, 2010 1:41:49 GMT 1
It is! Don't forget it's the first part of a trilogy as well. Book 2 is Count Zero and book 3 is Mona Lisa Overdrive. Each book is fairly standalone in that they have links but tell their own stories. Oh, and I finished Star Dragon and have just started Greg Bear's Blood Music.
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Post by Mister Buch on Jun 22, 2010 0:42:23 GMT 1
I'm reading William Paul Young's 'The Shack' now. It's a book about a man who talks to God for a weekend, which sounded really interesting to me. I got it in a Christian bookshop, and it seems to be a massive hit in Christian circles. I'm an atheist as you may know, but I'm curious, and it sounded like a good book too. I'm halfway in now... not terribly impressed, you know. (Plug plug plug.) buchnknight.blogspot.com/2010/06/authors-are-filthy-lying-bastards-crs.htmlBut it's okay - I get the impression it's about to get interesting.
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Post by ommadawn on Jun 22, 2010 1:38:57 GMT 1
Blood Magic was quite good, I found. A very early treatment of the possible outcome of nanotech unchained, and up to Bear's usual standards. Since then, I've also read William Campbell's Dead Forever: Awakenings, which wasn't too bad, at all. Now, I've started David Weber's Apocalypse Troll and enjoying it a lot too (I'm a long time David Weber/Honor Harrington fan).
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Post by Knightfall on Jun 23, 2010 19:28:01 GMT 1
Now, I've started David Weber's Apocalypse Troll and enjoying it a lot too (I'm a long time David Weber/Honor Harrington fan). I was actually interested in starting that series. Almost picked up "On Basalisk Station" yesterday. Is it a good set of books? =O
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Post by ommadawn on Jun 25, 2010 0:33:02 GMT 1
Oh yeah, it's excellent, mostly. Some books are better than others, and Weber does have a habit making all his good guys amazing and the bad guys evil bumbling idiots, but he really does know how to write action and battles.
Pace yourself while reading them (ie, don't try and read all in a sequence, there are something like 12 books in the direct sequence and 8 or so other Honorverse books and anthologies) and you'll have a ball. On Basilisk Station is a favourite of mine - the next one, Honor of the Queen is even better!
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Post by ommadawn on Jun 25, 2010 0:43:12 GMT 1
Oh, and OBS is a free ebook from Baen's website! If you like it, you can pick up ALL of the HH books free of charge (and legally) from here: baen.ghostwheel.com/
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Post by Nemonus on Jul 8, 2010 15:47:24 GMT 1
Star Wars: Backlash. Saying Star Wars books need to be better is beginning to be redundant. I liked this series too, but this author...doesn't seem to be having any fun.
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Post by Knightfall on Jul 8, 2010 19:08:16 GMT 1
I'm reading "Star Wars: Heir to the Empire" for the first time right now. Fantastic novel. Timothy Zahn and Matt Stover are the best authors in the EU at the moment, I think.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Jul 9, 2010 6:02:50 GMT 1
Been reading "How not to write a Novel", while practicing so I can get ready to write "The human rider" (a steampunk fantasy story) properly this time.
It's quite humourous... and disgusting at times too whenever they write an example on bad writing...
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Post by Nemonus on Jul 10, 2010 2:28:28 GMT 1
I have been frowned upon many times when I say to another Star Wars fan that I don't like Timothy Zahn. Nothing about his books ever hooked me--I think it's the hard-military feel and the, well, Mara Jade. And you have to admit Allegiance was bad.
Stover, on the other hand, is a genius. His writing is so intense--probably sortof like the man himself, heh.
Tillian, I like your proposed novel's title, and one can never go wrong with steampunk.
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Post by Mister Buch on Jul 11, 2010 0:04:24 GMT 1
Till - the new title is good!
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Now I'm only a passing fan of the SW novels - I never read any Zahn, just a big bunch of Clone Wars books, the movie-novelisations and 'Shadows of Mindor'. I'm not sure I would call Stover a genius...
I just can't get over those melting rock men
... but the three of his I read are by far and away the best SW fiction I've seen since the original trilogy (and maybe Kotor, but maybe that's just sentimental...)
I'm not sure what my point was here. I just wanted to remind everyone about the melting rock men.
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I'm still reading 'The Shack' - I've been going very slowly because I'm not enjoying it any more. Once Mack finally got to meet God... well so far nothing has rally happenned. They had breakfast, they walked on water for no reason, they did some gardening... there were lots of hugs. God is behaving like Morpheus in the Matrix, just being very smug and evading questions while repeatedly impressing Mack with miracles. I'm getting that God is impressive, but I already assumed that, you know! So the book isn't giving me the clever debate I was hoping for, and certainly isn't challenging my beliefs. As an advocate for faith, this story is very weak I think. And today I read a chapter I tought was just downright sexist. And the dialogue is really unrealistic.
Rant over.
Rock men.
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Post by Nemonus on Jul 11, 2010 4:51:25 GMT 1
Yeah, 'Mindor" was....I'm not sure how much of it was parodying campy adventure stories and how much of it was unintentionally campy. But, but, Revenge of the Sith! Shatterpoint!
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Post by Mister Buch on Jul 11, 2010 23:49:20 GMT 1
Revenge of the Sith and Shatterpoint were very good. And so was Mindor, for that matter - I don't know why I was going off on one last night! The rock men took the brunt of it.
The Revenge of the Sith novel was brilliant. Really amazed me as well as inspiring me a bit. I love his insights into the characters and themes, particularly Anakin's fall and the stuff with Padme and the petition.
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