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25th July 2013, 21:34 | #1881 |
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Broken Homes, PC Grant book #4 by Ben Aaronovitch, is now out.
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27th July 2013, 18:09 | #1882 |
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Ooh! Buying!
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30th July 2013, 10:49 | #1884 |
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See him interviewed by Fox while you're at it.
http://www.inquisitr.com/876082/reza...terview-video/
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12th August 2013, 22:18 | #1885 |
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Mark Tufo
If you like Zombie apocalypse novels or massively sarcastic anti-heroes (which I do), give Zombie Fallout a try. Tufo also does a few other novels around the same character and he really makes it work.
Zombie Fallout is 6 books and I could not put them down. Tufo could publish his shopping list and I'd read it. I love anti-heroes, but Mike Talbot is ........ spend the dollar and read it for yourself. http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Fallout.../dp/B003A022YO yeah yeah I'm a fanboy, fuck you.
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17th August 2013, 21:31 | #1886 |
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Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell.
Amazing, watching his videos on youtube as well. What an amazingly smart man. |
18th August 2013, 12:40 | #1887 |
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Snuff by Terry Pratchett, for the third time.
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25th August 2013, 21:44 | #1888 |
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Fantasy. All the main characters are bad guys. If they end up fighting it is hard to know who to back being they are all bad. Tis an interesting way to tell a story but you kinda just start waiting for people to start dropping. |
26th August 2013, 06:42 | #1889 |
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Fermets last theorem - Simon Singh.
I usually re-read The Codebook every 4-5 years, but I leant my copy to a colleague who died just before the quakes. Thought I'd mix it up this time and try another from Simon. |
19th September 2013, 13:49 | #1890 |
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...and when I don't have my Kindle handy, anything that I can dredge up from a pile of files that found their way onto my phone. I've done Jaws and Requiem for a Dream. Now on Fear and Loathing. If the wife correlated my reading pattern with getting SoHo just for BB she'd think I was obsessed with narcotics. On the plus side, she found Fear and Loathing at MightyApe and got the DVD for me.
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19th September 2013, 15:39 | #1891 |
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This is Reggae Music - Lloyd Bradley
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8th October 2013, 21:58 | #1893 |
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Republic of Thieves, the third Locke Lamora book by Scott Lynch was released at Amazon a few hours ago. Feels kinda momentous, given his personal battles and the long road to getting the book out.
I've been reading Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, which is the source of the articles you may have seen recently about how lucky the US was to not blow itself up with it's own nukes during the Cold War. Morbidly fascinating, even more so because of the USA's current domestic issues. They're all fucking nuts over there. |
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Steelheart was enjoyable YA stuff, started Red Country looking forward to that.
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23rd October 2013, 21:01 | #1897 |
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I'm really enjoying an anthology of mars based sci-fi put together by George r r martin called 'Old Mars', the collection could be classified as retro 50's sci-fi, if that makes sense, in the way each short story has been written.
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24th October 2013, 10:35 | #1898 |
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finally forgot the tv show enough to start reading through GoT... the lack of pictures makes for tough going tho.
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31st October 2013, 14:36 | #1899 |
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Designing Sound - Andy Farnell
Creating sound effects from first principles, rather than sampling/recording. Huge amount of math, physics, and example models that demonstrate how to create "procedural audio" objects using Pd. Demo sounds include rolling, creaking, bouncing, fire, bubbles, electricity, thunder, wind, motors, clocks, footsteps, and more! Models are described, built up, and explained along the way. Great combination of noise and nerd.
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15th February 2014, 21:32 | #1900 |
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Just finished the first two books from the Odyssey One series by Evan Currie. http://www.goodreads.com/series/79684-odyssey-one
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17th February 2014, 11:14 | #1901 |
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Anathem by Neal Stephenson (damn good) Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega A Theory of Fun in Game Design by Ralph Koster Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games by Stewart Woods The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses by Jesse Schell Media Semiotics: An Introduction by Jonathan Bignell Pixie
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17th February 2014, 12:31 | #1902 |
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http://expanse.wikia.com/wiki/The_Expanse
Just read 1,2,3 from this series. The author(s) both collarborate with GRRM. Not too bad really - quite light sci-fi space opera. |
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27th February 2014, 00:24 | #1906 |
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Long enough to be worthy of the reading thread: an amazing piece on Julian Assange by Andrew O'Hagan - the guy who was hired to ghostwrite Assange's autobiography.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/02/21/andrew-ohagan/ghosting TL;DR - Assange: what a prat. |
27th February 2014, 03:16 | #1907 |
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Pixie's post above reminded me to read Anathem, which is doing my fucking head in.
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27th February 2014, 12:25 | #1909 |
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Finally got around to reading Ender's Game, and I see why fans were disappointed in the movie. Anyone know if the sequels (and Shadow Saga parallel series) are worth going into?
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Ok thanks - I was borderline after reading Ender's Game; thought it was alright, nothing special. Apparently they get a lot more philosophical in nature, which sounds like a bit of a snorefest.
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27th February 2014, 18:01 | #1915 |
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That actually sounds not too far off the plot of Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy. Which is freaking awesome btw.
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Read Horatio Hornblower, re-read Horatio Hornblower, now reading Honor Harrington.
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4th March 2014, 10:28 | #1920 |
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I'm liking The Luminaries. Very much like Deadwood - in fact, if they end up making a mini series, I think a lot of the monologues will end up being just like Swearegen talking to the Indian in the box.
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