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Post by CrepedCrusader on Feb 21, 2017 22:35:40 GMT
I've been reading a bunch of Star Wars-related stuff lately. This month I read Tarkin and Ahsoka and the short story "The Perfect Weapon". Right now I'm reading some SW universe short stories until I can get my hands on Aftermath: Empire's End.
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Post by mmexis on Feb 22, 2017 2:03:51 GMT
The Parcel by Anosh Irani. The parcel is a newly delivered, freshly sold young girl that will be introduced to the sex trade. No, nothing along the lines of 50 shades. No sex at all. Rather, an exploration of human trafficking. Despite the depressing subject, the book contains a lot of humour. the last wrinkle in this book is that the narrator is a "hijra" (someone of the third gender - transvestite, transsexual or hermaphrodite). Lots of meat in this book and lots of issues explored. About half way through.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 2:53:06 GMT
Realized about a 3rd of the way through 'The Judas Pair' that I remembered this plot clearly from the 'Lovejoy' television series (it has a really clever plot-twist) ruined the mystery and dispelled any tension in the plot- Oh-well.
So picking up on page 30 where I stopped two months ago with 'The Dragon Masters' by Jack Vance, it is a Hugo winning story, small book really, 137 pages.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Feb 22, 2017 3:08:50 GMT
I recently finished my first Steve Berry novel called The Emperor's Tomb. Frankly I don't think Berry is that good of a writer, kinda bland. Right now I'm reading The Blue Nowhere by Jeffrey Deaver and I like it a lot better. Into the first 90 pages.
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Post by darknessfish on Feb 22, 2017 14:13:31 GMT
Looks great. I wanna read that ! It's surprisingly readable, for what you have to accept is a pretty broad premise. His style is almost conversational, there's plenty of narrative and humour, it's not a dry academic exercise in anyway. His theories and explanations are backed up with easy to understand examples. Makes me wonder if there's equally valid alternatives he's not mentioning at times, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Feb 22, 2017 23:03:07 GMT
I've read The Year of Wonders. I've been reading IT by Stephen King and Dr. Mutter's Marvels.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 1:34:10 GMT
2) Ubik by Philip K. Dick - I am a bit over halfway done and still trying to figure out exactly what is happening; but that is about par for the course with Dick. I've like his other stuff and trust that this one will come together for me as well. I had the same reaction when I first read Ubik. It is my favorite Dick novel. Can't wait to see how someone adapts it to film.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 23, 2017 2:48:32 GMT
I just read two more short stories from the 1907 book "Under the Bowdoin Pines", which consists of short stories from a college magazine. The short stories were The Story of a College Clock, published 1896, by John Clair Minot, and The Ghosts in the Pines, published 1899, by Roy Leon Marston. The book is public domain and can be easily found online.
"The Story of a College Clock" is a semi-interesting pointless story about a clock which repeatedly survives being thrown out of a window, while "The Ghosts in the Pines" is a nice little ghost story which would make a fine half-hour TV anthology series episode (where are the half-hour anthologies? It's a genre which really needs to make a comeback).
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Post by midnitevulture99 on Feb 25, 2017 2:44:56 GMT
I'm a bit further along in "A Game of Thrones". So far the show was pretty accurate to the first book, from what I can see, with only a few minor changes here or there. I am realizing that, oddly enough, I seem to be hating Cersei more than Joffrey. Oh, don't get me wrong, Joffrey is an ass who deserves to die horribly, but the more I think about it, Cersei comes off as one of those bitchy moms who DOES know better but ended up spoiling the crap out of her kids when she should've been a real mother and learned how to discipline them. Putting that aside, I like how the book gives you a bit more insight into the characters, through narration, than the show does.
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Post by Two Socks on Feb 26, 2017 15:29:36 GMT
Right now I'm in the middle of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Some have a message, some are just gruesome.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2017 23:30:08 GMT
LOL- seems we have lost that new car smell, this board has slowed a bit- to be expected.
Finished 'The Dragon Masters' by Jack Vance, interesting little book, manages to build an imaginative alien world that mixes Fantasy and Science Fiction and weaves in a bit of philosophical discussions about the lasting merits of aggression versus passivity and who will inherit the universe.
Decided to take a break from large novels, don't have the time at the moment- so I have picked up a book recommended to me on the old IMDB Books board.
Futureshocks, an anthology of futuristic Science-Fiction tales edited by Lou Anders. Has a nice-wide selection of authors in it.
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Post by louise on Feb 27, 2017 7:15:17 GMT
I'm currently reading may Day Murder by julie Wassmer. one in a series of mysteries set in whistable, a seaside town not far from where i live. Fairly amusing, but not brilliant.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 27, 2017 13:30:35 GMT
Just finished issue 20 of The Phonogram, published December 1901. Some interesting points. The issue notes that playing music could help make work less tedious. This same concept was tried in the 1940s during WW2. A curious sort of burglar alarm is discussed, involving making a burglar think there are people in the house. The magazine is public domain and can be read here: archive.org/details/Phonogram20
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Post by midnitevulture99 on Feb 28, 2017 3:45:24 GMT
I just now finished "A Game of Thrones". Overall I liked it about as much as the first season of the show. There were a few additional scenes that weren't in the show (most likely due to budget constraints), and vice versa since the show clearly added some stuff, but it was mostly the same story.
I was expecting Jaime to be a POV character, but then I remembered that he wasn't present that much in season 1, nor in the first book. I'm wondering if he will become a POV character in a later book, or maybe that's Brienne.
Next up, "Clash of Kings".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 3:16:00 GMT
Is someone going to start a 'What are you reading in March' thread?
Wolf-Swordsman?
I will check back.
Should I????hmmmmmmm.....
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Post by mmexis on Mar 3, 2017 8:27:28 GMT
Have finished the parcel by Anosh Irani. Was a sad story overall. And you wonder who the parcel is in the end. It is beautifully written, but not a light read.
However, I would recommend it.
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