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Post by kesher on Jan 8, 2014 11:29:24 GMT -6
They all do indeed.  However, reading the first book is correctly advertised as a "brain-shredding" experience... |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 17, 2014 8:16:07 GMT -6
They all do indeed. However, reading the first book is correctly advertised as a "brain-shredding" experience... Brain-shredding? I'm there! |
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Post by kesher on Jan 17, 2014 8:54:22 GMT -6
"Bob" does not disappoint.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 29, 2014 15:45:40 GMT -6
Re-reading this thread I noticed the dialogue on The Game of Thrones books and it led me to wonder about the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. I avoided it for years because there were so many books and the series remained uncompleted. Now that Sanderson has completed the series would anybody care to share some opinions about the books?
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Post by Merctime on Sept 29, 2014 18:38:18 GMT -6
I'm re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (but you probably knew that  ). I just love these stories, man... Great stuff. Hey, anyone know if the old "Legend" movie was ever a book? The one with Tim Curry, Tom Cruise, and Mia Sarah? THAT might be a killer read... |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 29, 2014 19:56:05 GMT -6
I'm re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (but you probably knew that ). I just love these stories, man... Great stuff. I'm actually looking for a lighter read after reading the 5 novels so far released in A Song of Ice & Fire by George RR Martin. Narnia would make a great choice! it's been a few years even. |
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Post by Merctime on Sept 29, 2014 19:58:27 GMT -6
Grab 'em up, man! They are a truly enjoyable light-hearted read. I adore the language C.S. Lewis writes to us in! It's been just a couple of nights, now... But I've been hard-pressed not to get all the way to the "Dawn Treader". It sure sucks one in!
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 29, 2014 20:05:57 GMT -6
LOL...they are actually sitting on my nightstand in my "reading soon" pile! I think they are going to the top of the list now. I bought a new set a year or so ago after listening to the BBC radio adaptation one of my buddies burned for me. I put them all in ITunes and would listen to the entire series on audio - THUMBS UP.
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Post by jeff on Oct 1, 2014 12:43:45 GMT -6
The Worm Ouroboros be E.R. Eddison
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Post by Merctime on Nov 29, 2014 20:22:18 GMT -6
Fellas, I came home today from work to an exciting discovery! A package from Noble Knight games. Inside that package lay my very own journey into the depths of fantasy with Boinger the halfling, Bardan the dwarf, and their friends. Tonight, I begin my literary adventures with them for the first time in my life... As I read Dr. J. Eric Holmes' "The Maze of Peril". ...And I can't wait to start it! P.S. Thanks to Zenopus for the link to this book that brought my attention to being able to buy it! |
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Post by Zenopus on Nov 29, 2014 21:59:06 GMT -6
Awesome. Please post a review after you finish it!
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Dec 14, 2014 19:27:18 GMT -6
I finished A Dance With Dragons earlier today and began reading Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. It seems like "something different" instead of the same old, same old...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 21:41:15 GMT -6
Lo and behold, for I take on Melanie Rawn this Christmas, (re-)reading the Dragonprince series!
Also, seriously eyeing the "Hawk & Fisher"/"Blue Moon" series, as my next big fantasy read. Did anyone try that one? Author Simon Green seems rather witty, but his works are relatively obscure.
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Post by ty on Jan 7, 2015 7:37:49 GMT -6
Revisiting HP Lovecraft stories. I can only take about one short per week, he gets awfully redundant.
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Post by tkdco2 on Jan 7, 2015 15:58:28 GMT -6
A Season in Carcosa, edited by Joseph S. Pulver Sr.
Bad Blood, by Arne Dahl
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Post by kesher on Jan 7, 2015 21:49:56 GMT -6
How is A Season in Carcosa? I've thought about buying it more than once...
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Post by tkdco2 on Jan 7, 2015 22:55:30 GMT -6
How is A Season in Carcosa? I've thought about buying it more than once... It's a fun read. There are some stories I found a bit harder to get through than others, but they're pretty good on the whole. |
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Post by Porphyre on Jan 20, 2015 6:49:28 GMT -6
Yann Le Bohec: Histoire militaire des guerres puniques (Military historic of the Punic Wars)
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Post by snorri on Jan 20, 2015 7:37:01 GMT -6
Yann Le Bohec: Histoire militaire des guerres puniques (Military historic of the Punic Wars) We lack a good rpg on carthage. Illustrated by Druillrt if possible. Currently, i'm reading : Hegel, lessons on the philosophy of religion. André Tossel, marxism in 20th century. I'm must admit the rpg value is limited But i got a pile of books on agincourt battle, for a campaign i'm about to publish (in french) for d&d5 and aventures fantastiques. |
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Post by Porphyre on Jan 20, 2015 12:26:37 GMT -6
Yann Le Bohec: Histoire militaire des guerres puniques (Military historic of the Punic Wars) We lack a good rpg on carthage. Illustrated by Druillet if possible. Druillet is mandatory ! |
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Post by tetramorph on Jan 20, 2015 16:31:40 GMT -6
I am reading JRRT's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo right now.
It is so nice to read ancient poetry without a hint of cynicism, sarcasm, or nihilism.
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Post by thorswulf on Jan 20, 2015 16:37:24 GMT -6
Prince of Sparta by Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling. Actually this is the latest in the Falkenberg's Legion series.
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Post by derv on Jan 20, 2015 19:25:22 GMT -6
I never played Runequest or Heroquest, so my knowledge of Glorantha is near zip. But I came across King of Sarta by Greg Stafford, first printing, in a used book store the other day. The mystery of Argrath now awaits me.
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Post by Porphyre on Feb 16, 2015 13:05:31 GMT -6
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Post by Otto Harkaman on Apr 5, 2015 7:53:48 GMT -6
I've been reading a mix of things from Katherine Kurtz "Deryni Rising" to Jim Bradbury's "Stephen and Matilda" The Civil War of 1139-53.   |
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Post by Otto Harkaman on Apr 5, 2015 8:12:55 GMT -6
We lack a good rpg on carthage. Illustrated by Druillet if possible. Druillet is mandatory ! Interesting I will have to find Druillet comics of Salambo. I've read Flaubert's novel which was awesome, have an audiobook of it that I am meaning to listen to at some free time. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2015 2:07:06 GMT -6
I am with Patrick Modiano's books, these days. I was sort of disappointed when he won the nobel prize, because I generally dislike novels of manners - but strangely enough,
I find his stories and books to be fairly original and entertaining. (If you accept that it's always about melancholy, Paris, and relationship dynamics between strangers.)
Next, I think I will read something lighter, though - eyeing R. L. Stevenson's "The Black Arrow".
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Post by terje on Apr 7, 2015 6:07:18 GMT -6
A few weeks ago I finished Vandermeers Souther Reach trilogy, really nice weird fiction with sense of wonder and a great deal of mystery. It reminded me of Roadside picnic by the Strugatskij brothers and Solaris by Lem.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2015 4:24:31 GMT -6
Let's keep this going!
Going full nerd with the second book of the "Witcher" series - in English, I think, known as "Blood of Elves".
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Post by Otto Harkaman on May 8, 2015 10:24:14 GMT -6
Finished Deryni Checkmate and now working on High Deryni   |
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