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Post by nogbad on Oct 8, 2019 13:22:17 GMT
Part of the Uthred series? I read the first four or five and then stopped, for no particular reason. I definitely want to resume one day. Indeed, the 12th, and as good as all the previous ones. You really should start on them again, you won't be disappointed.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 8, 2019 15:11:50 GMT
Part of the Uthred series? I read the first four or five and then stopped, for no particular reason. I definitely want to resume one day. Indeed, the 12th, and as good as all the previous ones. You really should start on them again, you won't be disappointed. The 12th book already? Man, that is one prolific writer! Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do. If I remember correctly I think I bought the first three together on a bit of a whim because I saw them on sale for a very reasonable price, read them all in quick succession, then went out and bought and read the remaining ones that had been released at that point. |
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Post by politicidal on Oct 12, 2019 1:45:41 GMT
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Post by darknessfish on Oct 15, 2019 12:51:30 GMT
 One of the 100 best books about Scotland, according to The Scottish Books Trust, or someone like that. Bit of a doorstop of a novel, which covers a 6 hour nocturnal broadcast on a Glaswegian Asian community radio station. Lots of pop philosophy, musings on the state of multi-cultural relationships, Trainspotting-esque dialgogue intertwined with Urdu, and a piss-poor playlist including Kula Shaker and The Beatles. |
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Post by politicidal on Oct 16, 2019 19:40:06 GMT
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 17, 2019 12:15:02 GMT
I was reading this one:  but then this one that I had reserved at the library became available, so I switched to it.  |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Oct 17, 2019 18:55:45 GMT
Just finished A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Pretty decent.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 17, 2019 19:05:35 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Oct 19, 2019 16:31:22 GMT
Pirates, smugglers, and eco-warriors, oh my!
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Oct 19, 2019 19:29:33 GMT
"Now You See Them" by Elly Griffiths the 5th book in the Brighton Mysteries (formerly the Magic Men series)I bought it on Amazon UK so I don't know when it will be published for the U.S., I also love her Ruth Galloway series.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 20, 2019 20:37:30 GMT
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
I think I read it before but only remember the fish-man bus driver.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 21, 2019 11:26:38 GMT
Reading 'Moby Dick' right now.
Very entertaining.
..just might become a classic someday!
Also reading 'Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine'. Heavy stuff. Whole chapter on cannibalism.
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Post by marco26 on Oct 21, 2019 17:53:47 GMT
Reading 'Moby Dick' right now. Very entertaining. ..just might become a classic someday! Would have been better if they made it about a shark. Peter Benchley knew that.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 22, 2019 15:14:46 GMT
Reading 'Moby Dick' right now. Very entertaining. ..just might become a classic someday! Would have been better if they made it about a shark. Peter Benchley knew that. I'm not sure. A shark is terrifying but doesn't have the same mystique as a leviathan from the depths.
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Post by marco26 on Oct 22, 2019 16:05:18 GMT
Would have been better if they made it about a shark. Peter Benchley knew that. I'm not sure. A shark is terrifying but doesn't have the same mystique as a leviathan from the depths. Man, I was clearly making a joke. However... A shark does have mystique about it. A creature on Earth still in existence from the age of the dinosaurs...a creature that is a known man-killer (a whale is not that), the sight of a dorsal fin moving through the water... Much mystique to a Great White shark. Benchley admitted when he wrote "Jaws" he was just trying to do a version of "Moby Dick." His Ahab is Quint (Quint's death is exactly the same), his whale is a shark. I never realized how much "Jaws" is similar to "Moby Dick" until I read Melville's masterpiece.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 22, 2019 20:33:05 GMT
I'm not sure. A shark is terrifying but doesn't have the same mystique as a leviathan from the depths. However... A shark does have mystique about it. A creature on Earth still in existence from the age of the dinosaurs...a creature that is a known man-killer (a whale is not that), the sight of a dorsal fin moving through the water... Much mystique to a Great White shark. Benchley admitted when he wrote "Jaws" he was just trying to do a version of "Moby Dick." His Ahab is Quint (Quint's death is exactly the same), his whale is a shark. I never realized how much "Jaws" is similar to "Moby Dick" until I read Melville's masterpiece. Sorry bro. Sometimes I'm just in 'automatic mode'. Interesting though, I'll remember Jaws as I keep reading. Hope you didn't just spoil some major shit for me... I guess now I know Captain Ahab is gonna die?
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Post by marco26 on Oct 22, 2019 20:39:37 GMT
Interesting though, I'll remember Jaws as I keep reading. Hope you didn't just spoil some major shit for me... I guess now I know Captain Ahab is gonna die? Now you're the one joking, right?
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 22, 2019 20:46:19 GMT
Interesting though, I'll remember Jaws as I keep reading. Hope you didn't just spoil some major shit for me... I guess now I know Captain Ahab is gonna die? Now you're the one joking, right? ..partly. It's not like I can be mad about a spoiler in a book this old. But alas it's true.. I did not know. LOL
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Post by marco26 on Oct 22, 2019 21:01:34 GMT
Now you're the one joking, right? ..partly. It's not like I can be mad about a spoiler in a book this old. But alas it's true.. I did not know. LOL Look, I'm not going to spoil the book for you either way...but there are some works of art where you know what happens even if you've never read or seen it. There are people who have never seen KING KONG, but I guarantee you they know that the big guy climbed to the top of the Empire State Building. "Romeo And Juliet"? I guarantee you that people know the ending to that without having read it. The ending of "Moby Dick" is not written for shock value. "Moby Dick" isn't a "Game Of Thrones" book, you know. I will say this -- the end of "Moby Dick" achieves a level of brilliance never before reached in literature. It is utterly astonishing. When I finished the last sentence of that book I put the book down and literally said, "Holy shit." True story. Just curious, are you aware of what is called the "interstitial chapters" in "Moby Dick"?
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Oct 23, 2019 2:56:27 GMT
Flowers for Algernon.
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