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timmccloud · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject:

Just finished:

Just started

Star Healer by James WhiteIn the Queue

Ambulance Ship by James WhiteMassive coolness points to the readers of Terry Pratchett's discworld and Anne McCaffery's Pern series.

Looking forward to Worldcon where I plan to drop a couple hundred on more books... and seeing Joe Haldeman and Terry Pratchett in person again at the Hugo Award winners/losers party (I am an offical Hugo award acceptor for Brad Foster in the Fan Artist Category).
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JohnnyStrider · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject:

I've been on a binge:
(arranged by order of completion/progress)

Aloha - Mark Christensen
The Worst Case Survival Scenario - Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht
Lullaby* - Chuck Palahniuk
The Prince - Machiavelli
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare

*This is actually the 3rd go around for this book. It's gotten to the point where I've got a screenply forming in my head along with how it should be shot.

Dro · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 3830

I read, whilst traveling, Intuition by Allegra Goodman and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Both good.

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15474 Location: under the bed

man, it's all i can do to keep up with anna karenina - and when i think how much i used to read.... Crying or Very sad

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Teh Digital Dragon · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject:

Kate Atkinson – Behind the Scenes at the Museum

I like the other stuff of hers I’ve read and this is one of her most highly praised, and there are some brilliant parts, but so far it’s mostly been depressing and kind of tedious. I have no interest in genealogy and I can’t remember how everyone in the book is related to everyone else.
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Teh Digital Dragon · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject:

Also, I’m like a hundred pages in and the main character HAS JUST BEEN FUCKING BORN.
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eureka00 · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1777 Location: Pretzel City

I'll get through Snow Crash by Stephenson eventually.
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Uncle Taylorbell · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3191 Location: Northern England

Doll's House by Neil Gaiman, thus gaining hitherto unexpected geek points.

A pretty girl saw me reading this on the train, and I cringed. It better not be shit.

Teh Digital Dragon · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject:

Sandman is cool dude, I’m up to Fables and Reflections.
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Lasairfiona · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject:

Sandman is much better at the beginning than at the end. Oh, and Doll's House is the second book in the Sandman series and I liked the first book the best. It doesn't matter too much but it is referenced a lot.
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Teh Digital Dragon · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

It is the second, the first is called “preludes and nocturnes”. The blurb says you don’t have to read them in order, that each is a complete work, but I can’t do that and I think the first really explains things.

Some people find The Sandman books pretentious, and generally I find pretension of any sort utterly unbearable, but it’s not something I get from sandman. It's probably cliched though. Sort of.
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Teh Digital Dragon · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

Y’know what? There’s one story, from one book, that I think you need to read to know if you like sandman. I’ll go find it.
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Lasairfiona · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject:

The reference to Disney world amused/disturbed me. I do like that convention though.

See, it wasn't pretentious at the time (well, not super pretentious). The idea has been copied a lot. I read it all the way through and the end irked me perhaps because it was pretentious but probably more so because it was so damn emo/goth.
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Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
After much deliberation he gave her a giant comfort zone. - Michael