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What are you reading?

Started by Mcrow, May 14, 2008, 09:23:04 AM

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Pierce Inverarity

#60
May 19, 2008, 12:34:16 PM
Quote from: PseudoephedrineHoL is a lot of fun. If you like it, try Only Revolutions, also by Danielewski.

I checked it out at the store. Quite frankly, it looked like shit. There's a difference between experimental and gimmicky. But I'll have another look, depending on how I like HoL.
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Jackalope

#61
May 19, 2008, 03:10:29 PM
I'm currently reading Eric Flint's 1635: The Cannon Law. Sixth book in a great alt.history series about a small West Virginia coal mining town that gets thrown backwards through time and space and lands in the middle of the Thirty Years Wars.

I've been reading the series in order for the last few months in my spare moments, and it's really making me want to run a D&D campaign all about pikemen and arquebuses.
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flyingmice

#62
May 19, 2008, 04:01:11 PM
Quote from: JackalopeI'm currently reading Eric Flint's 1635: The Cannon Law. Sixth book in a great alt.history series about a small West Virginia coal mining town that gets thrown backwards through time and space and lands in the middle of the Thirty Years Wars.

I've been reading the series in order for the last few months in my spare moments, and it's really making me want to run a D&D campaign all about pikemen and arquebuses.

Then pick up "A Mighty Fortress." It's for AD&D, but it's utterly brilliant, and has very little system specific info, much like a GURPS supplement.

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Hackmaster

#63
May 19, 2008, 11:07:58 PM
Just finished A Game of Thrones. It was an enjoyable read, although I really didn't like any of the main characters. They all have serious flaws and are rather shortsighted at times, making it hard to empathize with them.
 

Jackalope

#64
May 22, 2008, 01:11:44 AM
Quote from: flyingmiceThen pick up "A Mighty Fortress." It's for AD&D, but it's utterly brilliant, and has very little system specific info, much like a GURPS supplement.

-clash

I actually already have that, but haven't looked at in years.  I think I will dig it out!
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flyingmice

#65
May 22, 2008, 09:35:21 AM
Quote from: JackalopeI actually already have that, but haven't looked at in years.  I think I will dig it out!

When I gave away my D&D books last year, the ones I kept were A Mighty Fortress and Vikings. I USE those! :D

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Balbinus

#66
May 22, 2008, 10:21:23 AM
Quote from: flyingmiceThen pick up "A Mighty Fortress." It's for AD&D, but it's utterly brilliant, and has very little system specific info, much like a GURPS supplement.

-clash

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Balbinus

#67
May 22, 2008, 10:28:36 AM
Quote from: Thanatos02I just picked up Murakami's Kafka on the Shore to read as I try to sleep. Not that it's boring, because I'm really enjoying it.

In a big way, though, most of Murakami's stuff is really similar to his other works. That's both compelling and a little dissapointing, but I still enjoy reading him.

I read a couple of years back South of the Border, West of the Sun.  I've read a few of his previously, but this one contained no surreal elements, no magical realisty stuff, just a fairly sad tale of choices made in life and choices not made.

Personally I thought it fantastic, I'm planning to read more of his non-surreal stuff as a result.

jswa

#68
May 22, 2008, 10:41:45 PM
The Last Cavalier - Alexandre Dumas

Hominids - It escapes me

Hackmaster

#69
May 23, 2008, 07:41:43 PM
Small Favor - Jim Butcher

The latest book in the Dresden Files. Tore through it in one day. It was fairly straightforward with some good action and a compelling plot. There weren't many twists or gotchas, but it didn't have some of the ridiculous elements that the previous book had.

I give it a thumbs up.
 

Seanchai

#70
May 24, 2008, 07:22:54 PM
Quote from: GoOrangeThere weren't many twists or gotchas, but it didn't have some of the ridiculous elements that the previous book had.

I liked the one with that instrument Harry normally uses. Overall, I liked Small Favor. It's not my favorite, but it's better than the first few...

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mhensley

#71
May 28, 2008, 01:56:07 PM
Quote from: GoOrangeJust finished A Game of Thrones. It was an enjoyable read, although I really didn't like any of the main characters. They all have serious flaws and are rather shortsighted at times, making it hard to empathize with them.


If you don't like Tyrion, there's something deeply wrong with you.  Of course, I don't remember if he's a main character in the first book.

flyingmice

#72
May 28, 2008, 02:44:38 PM
Hmm... I finished the books I was reading before a while back. Right now I'm reading Military Jets and Arab Historians of the Crusades, both non-fiction. Reading the former has me jazzed to run Wild Blue again, and reading the latter has me hyped to run something set in Outremer. Outremer is a bit earlier than I like, but the clash of cultures is fascinating.

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Hackmaster

#73
May 31, 2008, 05:36:38 PM
Quote from: mhensleyIf you don't like Tyrion, there's something deeply wrong with you.  Of course, I don't remember if he's a main character in the first book.

Well, by the end of the first book, I don't know where he really stands and so I don't know if I like him. When push comes to shove, will he stand by his family, do what he considers ethical, or betray anyone and everyone to best suit himself.

He's interesting, but I don't really like him at the end of the first book. My guess is that he's 100% self serving and would gladly betray anyone if it benefited him. I would personally put a much higher value on loyalty and so can't empathize with Tyrion at this point. Friends who have read the books always say he was their favorite character but I'm not sharing that opinion.
 

Aos

#74
May 31, 2008, 08:03:56 PM
Quote from: GoOrangeWell, by the end of the first book, I don't know where he really stands and so I don't know if I like him. When push comes to shove, will he stand by his family, do what he considers ethical, or betray anyone and everyone to best suit himself.

He's interesting, but I don't really like him at the end of the first book. My guess is that he's 100% self serving and would gladly betray anyone if it benefited him. I would personally put a much higher value on loyalty and so can't empathize with Tyrion at this point. Friends who have read the books always say he was their favorite character but I'm not sharing that opinion.


I have the same problem with the books that you do. I don't really like any of the characters in them, except maybe Jon Snow, and he is the only decent character that isn;t completly headfucked and/or stupid.
Oh, and just in case you can't work it out, Queen Cersi is evil, really- I swear.
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