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Post by killerzzz on Aug 31, 2007 20:00:54 GMT
I'm 500/1138 pages through IT, and I think I need a break. ;D As good as it is, its hard to read for long extents at a time, especially with a lack of time to do so. So, I've wanted to re-read the Harry Potter books 1-6 before I read 7. I'll read a Harry Potter book then 100 more pages of IT then another Harry Potter, then another 100 pages, and so on. This way I'll be getting my proper dose of scary/hard-to-read and fantasy/easy-to-read. Killerzzz
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Post by Konrad Flameheart on Sept 3, 2007 7:47:28 GMT
Just started re-reading Talon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond E. Feist. (finally got my hands on the sequal so refreshing my memory before starting it.
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Post by Alrik on Sept 8, 2007 22:32:28 GMT
An exhibition catalogue on the Bronze Age here in the rather north-Rhine area. I got into the exhibition (small, but still interesting) one day before its official opening. ;D
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Post by Galadriel on Sept 9, 2007 11:45:03 GMT
An exhibition catalogue on the Bronze Age here in the rather north-Rhine area. I got into the exhibition (small, but still interesting) one day before its official opening. ;D Pics please Alrik!!
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Post by Alrik on Sept 10, 2007 22:52:55 GMT
I don't think I can give you pics, because I didn't take any. All I can do is give you a link to he web page of the small exhibition itself: www.clemens-sels-museum.de/gal31.htmUnfortunately, there is only a small German-language descriptive text and nothing else. This page is on the museum itself: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens-Sels-MuseumIt shows the "Oberturm" the "upper gateway", as I would roughly translate the name, one of the few remaining gateways of the town wall of Neuss. From the actual museum buoilding there is a small "tunnel" going over the street (3-4 Metres, I think) over into one of the both round towers of the "Obertor". So, with that, the gateway is through this incorporated as a part into the museum as well. I think the "tunnel" isn't shown in the photo (I'm not really sure from which angle the photo was made and ow old it is). So, sorry, but I cannot give you pictures. You can go and look into my Opera Photo Album instead.
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Post by grape on Sept 20, 2007 4:42:10 GMT
I'm in kind of a historical Britain phase at the moment. I am currently reading
The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain Hamlet Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (in Latin no less, and the going is slow) Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) A collection of poems by peots from the Lake District
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 21, 2007 16:10:24 GMT
Troy: Fall Of Kings. The novel was completed after the death of its author, David Gemmell, by his wife Stella. I have very mixed feelings, obviously, as he was one of my all time favourite writers, and it's kinda hard to read his last work.
Good novel, though.
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Post by grape on Sept 22, 2007 2:17:23 GMT
Mozart died before he completed his Requiem, and it was finished by someone else. As much as I wish he had been able to finish it himself, I would rather know the work in its quasi-legitimate form than not at all.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 22, 2007 10:01:42 GMT
I agree, Grape.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 22, 2007 17:52:03 GMT
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
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Post by Winterfox on Sept 30, 2007 14:49:47 GMT
Making Money by Terry Pratchett Oh, the next Discworld novel's out? Excellent. Probably going to wait for the paperback, since I never buy hardbacks, but hey. Reading The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge. A lovely novel if I can ignore all the "MUST HAVE BABIES!!!" sentiment long enough.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 30, 2007 16:26:28 GMT
Great to see you, Winterfox Making Money is... OK, but not one of Pratchett's better novels, IMO. I get the impression that Pratchett loves the main character, but didn't really have a great story to tell with him. It's not a bad book, more kind of... mediocre.
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Post by Winterfox on Sept 30, 2007 18:32:43 GMT
Hihi.
It cannot be more underwhelming than Monstrous Regiment. Or Wintersmith (but my... lack of enthusiasm for that book probably has more to do with the fact that I find Tiffany Aching a boring character).
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 30, 2007 19:08:57 GMT
Gotta admit I like Tiffany... But I much prefer Susan. Have loved her since Soul Music Monstrous Regiment... So good I'd forgotten it existed until you reminded me, so yeah ;D
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Post by Winterfox on Sept 30, 2007 21:30:15 GMT
I used to like Tiffany okay. But then she became this very, very special witch who's so very powerful she can fight back the Queen of Faerie and the Wintersmith's attracted to her, and look at her go, she's so shiny and more amazing than anyone else, and she's so sensible!
Susan at least is considerably older, and has had much more experienced. Child prodigies are not really my cup of tea.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Sept 30, 2007 23:07:04 GMT
Tiffany's stories are technically aimed at a younger audience. Not that you'd ever guess by reading them, I admit, as Pratchett doesn't write at all differently for children than he does for adults. OK, maybe a bit less philosophy but that's about it.
Susan's a better protagonist on every level for me though, I must admit. She's a far more rounded character, and she has great reason to be able to do all the special stuff she does. She's probably Pratchett's best character, IMO, because she's at that nice stage where she's strong enough to hold her own without being too strong to challenge.
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Post by Winterfox on Oct 6, 2007 10:56:13 GMT
Reading The Owl and the Nightingale now. Medieval poetry can be so quaint and cute.
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Post by Lews on Oct 7, 2007 4:55:58 GMT
I'll probably get the new terry pratchett book if I get time to go the mall. I just finished Good Omens. Not really a fan of it.
I liked Going Postal so hopefully I'll like Making Money.
I know alot of people didn't like Monstrous Regiment, but I enjoyed it. Not as good as my favorites, Reaper Man or Hogfather, but pretty good all the same.
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Post by Winterfox on Oct 11, 2007 16:09:44 GMT
The homoerotic overtones in A Picture of Dorian Gray are simply delightful and I love the dialogue. Oscar Wilde is love.
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Post by peterh on Nov 17, 2007 10:11:30 GMT
Right now I'm reading a thriller called Body of truth by David Lindsey. before that - meh, I've read too many these past weeks to even want to try and post them
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