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Post by Toadkiller Dog on May 6, 2010 23:04:33 GMT
Yeah man, the first book was amazing. The second is even better. I can't seem to put it down, even though I don't have much spare time right now. I always end up reading a lot longer than I originally intended to.
I dunno how far in you are, but I'm curious to know who your favorite character(s) ends up being.
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Post by Father Vincent on May 8, 2010 1:31:51 GMT
I'm only at about page 60 or so right now (Cornie the stable guy just ran off), but it's been the most exciting 60 pages I've ever read. As for my favorite character, it's between the delightfully bizarre One-Eye and the dangerously badass Raven.
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Post by Toadkiller Dog on May 10, 2010 3:52:49 GMT
One-Eye is a very fun character. Raven ended up being my favorite character. Though at first I didn't think I'd like him. While Croaker doesn't start with a lot of personality at first, he develops a lot more later and I began to really like him too. Can't help but really like Goblin too, if you like One-Eye it's almost required.
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Post by lemex on May 11, 2010 1:16:12 GMT
I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow - by Thomas Pynchon, Let Us Go then, You and I - a collection of poems by T.S. Eliot, The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry.
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Post by The Crimson One on May 18, 2010 4:43:09 GMT
Been reading and re-reading some Thomas Ligotti of course. Kinda wanna pick up some Franz Kafka. Anyone read any?
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Post by dreggnog on May 18, 2010 21:21:27 GMT
Read the bestseller Crank, which was depressing and good, and am now finishing up my favorite Stephen King book, Different Seasons, which I stopped for a long time because it's broken into novellas and there's nothin wrong with stopping inbetween em.
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Post by Valtiel on May 24, 2010 15:11:45 GMT
Right now I'm about half-way with Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami. I really love his stuff, read Audition before (the book that was used for the movie) and that too was good.
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Post by The Crimson One on May 24, 2010 23:31:28 GMT
Started to read some Franz Kafka. I'm not sure if I got lost in translation, but the first tale baffled me, however, I know there is something more there...
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Post by Toadkiller Dog on May 28, 2010 9:01:46 GMT
Onward to the third book in The Chronicles of The Black Company. "The White Rose".
I REALLY liked the first book, but the pacing and the way the second book was written actually hooked me harder. So far I'm liking this one but it's actually kind of depressing.
The characters in the books that I've grown extremely attached to are getting old, some have died. But the ones that are left are old, and they all know it too. The thing is, I know this is pretty much their last book. They're really too old to do much more after this.
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Post by Vio on May 31, 2010 3:19:51 GMT
Just finished a bio on Franz Schreker by Hailey, now reading "Hindemith, Hartmann, and Henze" by Guy Rickards.
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Post by SHSP on Jun 6, 2010 15:13:03 GMT
Currently I am reading a book I've read numerous times before: Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi.
I own the edited down version of the book, more or less the "Director's Cut". The author originally had it published in the 1950s to the Olympia Press and was forced to add in things he did not want. It was eventually republished with many things taken out back to the way he intended it.
As a matter of fact, my avatar is from the film adaptation starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton.
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Post by Vaan-Knight on Jun 8, 2010 17:17:22 GMT
I just finished again "The Silmarillion", by Tolkien, beautiful work. Also the tiny "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart", by Chrètien de Troyes, which really impressed me when I was a child.
As any spanish speaker should at some point of their lives, I'm reading now the Quijote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, I had read it before... but I was a brat and I'm sure it was a measly kid's edition. I saw a little while ago a faithful copy of the original, with the old spanish talk, so I got it and I'm enjoying it so much! It's even surprising how up to date are the happenings and most of the humor depicted in it. What I still need is to get more into Shakespeare, I've been wanting to read all his works since SH3... before that I never really payed much attention to it... I have read Macbeth and a part of Hamlet, and I must say I really enjoyed Macbeth, so what else do you recomend?
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Post by Father Vincent on Jun 10, 2010 3:46:02 GMT
@vk: Death of a Salesman, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors . . . take your pick.
I'm about two hundred pages into Shogun by James Clavell. It's a big, thick doorstop of a book, but just as tremendously satisfying.
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Post by piratemonkey on Jul 21, 2010 19:24:10 GMT
This week, I have mostly been reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville - it's somewhere between sci-fi and fantasy and has a very political vein running through the story.
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Post by Toadkiller Dog on Aug 2, 2010 10:59:04 GMT
Reading Come Out Tonight by Richard Laymon. Laymon horror is always a fantastic, yet brisk read.
Then on to the second trilogy of Black Company novels.
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