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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 25, 2018 14:24:38 GMT
While I love the TV series, I haven't read any of the Game of Thrones novels up until now because I don't want to invest the reading time in a series that may not be completed. My stance has been I'll read it when it's all out there.
However, I have succumbed to buying the new prequel, 'Fire & Blood', because I can take it as a prequel to the TV series rather than as part of the series of novels. I know it's supposed to be the Silmarillion to the main series' LOTR, and I know it's made fans of the books angry that he's written this rather than the long-awaited next chapter in the main series, but I suspect it's the kind of thing I might enjoy.
Lots of nice pictures of dragons in it, anyway.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 12, 2019 11:53:23 GMT
I have been sucked into the world of specialist dictionaries,
Strangely compelling more than fictionaries.
The Oxford ones have such a lovely trade dress,
That is sure to impress!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 26, 2019 19:49:49 GMT
Andu loaned me a novel approximately 7.5 years ago. I finally got round to reading it but gave up about a hundred pages in. Not at all my cup of tea. I now fear being hunted down and killed by Andu. Farewell...farewell...
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 26, 2019 20:01:49 GMT
At least you got round to it...eventually.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 26, 2019 20:02:16 GMT
Time waits for no man.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 27, 2019 12:31:15 GMT
Just make sure you give it back to Andy and not the charity shop!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2019 12:38:29 GMT
I have no memory of that!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 27, 2019 14:42:41 GMT
I do, foul book villain.
It is your 'pizza' incident.
Quack.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2019 17:59:38 GMT
I honestly have no recollection of it and it can in no way be conflated with the pizza incident!
I deny the Stross Force!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 27, 2019 18:54:57 GMT
Hurrah, five years since the last one, a new Frederick Forsyth novel out in paperback. Happy Martin.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 11, 2019 19:19:18 GMT
'Chermobyl: History of a Tragedy' by Serhii Plokhy. Making my way through this. Utterly gripping narrative style. Presented without theatrics but with good detail on the people involved and clear explanations.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 11, 2019 19:20:09 GMT
Just make sure you give it back to Andy and not the charity shop! Andy: did I give you back that book before I moved? -Ralph |
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 21, 2019 18:35:53 GMT
Currently, whenever I get chance, I'm reading...
THE RIK MAYALL AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
BIGGER THAN HITLER.
BETTER THAN CHRIST.
I... I think the title is all you really need to know...
It's... utterly bonkers. The Great Rik Mayall in book form. Full-on, eat my shit, look at me I'm Rik Mayall and if you dare look at me I'll kick you in the balls, book of insanity. It makes you wish you were his word processor. I bet he had a lot of fun writing it. It's outrageous. As you'd expect....
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 21, 2019 20:56:15 GMT
So not Operation Delta Force...
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 21, 2019 21:39:27 GMT
Rik Mayall owns Delta Force. And their Daddies. And... babies...
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 10, 2019 16:02:12 GMT
I am about to start reading 'The President is Missing' by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 10, 2019 18:22:25 GMT
I am about to start reading 'The President is Missing' by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. I am also starting Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars Trilogy. Martin |
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Post by Benn on Oct 10, 2019 18:43:42 GMT
Currently reading 'Girl In A Band' by Kim Gordon, and it's lovely stuff. I'm about halfway through, and Sonic Youth hasn't even formed yet. The woman has had a life...
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 5, 2020 18:59:25 GMT
Making good progress with Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars Trilogy. Finished A Princess of Mars, and now part way through The Gods of Mars. Then just The Warlord of Mars to go.
Also still working my way through John Grisham's legal thrillers in the order that they present themselves to me in charity shops. Finally found my way to his first novel, A Time to Kill, and now half-way through that.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 23, 2020 20:40:10 GMT
Making good progress with Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars Trilogy. Finished A Princess of Mars, and now part way through The Gods of Mars. Then just The Warlord of Mars to go. Finished! Enjoyed it, very effective in portraying a rich and exotic alien fantasy world. But unsurprisingly quite dated in certain aspects (such as the utter uselessness of the heroine except as a damsel in constant need of rescuing by the male hero/narrator). And the hero/narrator constantly signposted his own stupidity, by drawing our attention to clearly important details and then ignoring/overlooking/forgetting them and predictably suffering as a result while I slap my forehead. He could have saved himself so much trouble if he paid attention to his own words. Nevertheless, an admirable body of work. Now most of the way through its sequel, Sycamore Row. Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 5, 2020 7:19:46 GMT
So far during the lockdown I have read 'Blue Moon' by Lee Child and yesterday I read the first ten chapters of 'The Guardians' by John Grisham. I expect to get through it pretty quickly.
My secret weapon for filling my reading hours is the 'Game of Thrones' prequel 'Fire and Blood' by George R.R. Martin, my first bit of reading in the GoT universe. It's quite absorbing in small doses, and I will probably stretch it out over a couple of months.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 5, 2020 9:04:27 GMT
I have to juggle reading books I can use with, or recommend to, ten-year-olds with the books I want to read, which slows it all down a bit.
However at the moment I've just started Terrance Dicks' Star Quest trilogy. Which technically could count for both categories, but I'm not lending this to any of my class!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 5, 2020 9:15:13 GMT
I got that ages ago super cheap in a sale but haven't got round to reading it yet.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 5, 2020 9:18:09 GMT
Snap, same sale if I recall. Which is why now is the time to pull it off the shelf. It's Elite you see, I'm all about 70s/80s children's space adventure at the moment.
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Post by KnightBeat on Apr 21, 2020 21:07:34 GMT
The Virus Vanguard seem to have been created by a 1980s Transformers fan - Circuit Breaker, Fake News Buster, and Care-Lee (Carly?) Dee. The character profiles are oddly specific. MAWA Man is a “fanatical Manchester United fan who grew up in the 80s when Liverpool kept winning titles and he was constantly taunted by his two Liverpool fan brothers”. |
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Post by The Doctor on May 22, 2020 19:40:49 GMT
Ralph has discovered that Titan have been reprinting 90's Marvel novels in the Omnibus format. On impulse, picked up X-MEN AND AVENGERS: GAMMA QUEST by Greg Cox, whom I know from his Star Trek books. Just the fun tosh I needed. Straight away we get attacks by puppets, sinister deer and evil clothing! Loads happens in the first 50 pages. Iron Man shows his amazing power by being able to convert VHS tapes to holographic projections and his armour can even connect to 'the Internet'.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Jul 22, 2020 22:00:56 GMT
For my 42nd birthday my wife got me the 42nd anniversary editions of the Hitchhikers books, so I’ve been rereading those this week. Such a pleasure, it’s been far too long.
RTD’s foreword is quite good as well, if brief.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 23, 2020 8:55:12 GMT
The forewords are from a previous reprint set. These do look nice though and my 80's copies are long since lost so I should pick them up at some point. I've really been waiting for nice HC's though previous HC release had HORRID covers so passed.
-Ralph
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Post by Slack on Aug 21, 2020 21:04:07 GMT
I'm a huge fan of epic fantasy fiction. I know it is far from highbrow but it feels like home to me.
I have currently been re-reading a lot of David Eddings, I find his writing style quite basic and frankly infuriatingly repeated at times but I just like to complete a universe by reading everything written about it. Then I found out about his year in prison for Child Abuse (Non-Sexual, not that it helps). I was planning on reading Marion Zimmer Bradley but her crimes are even worse. In better news I have finished the Shadowmarch Trilogy (4 books in the end) by Tad Williams which was excellent and I think I may read The Lone Wolf novels next
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2020 15:15:10 GMT
I was mocked (mocked!) for acquiring Stratford-Upon-Avon Wills 1348-1701 but the intro piece is fascinating.
-Ralph
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