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3rd June 2007, 06:49 | #241 |
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Just finsihed "Brothers in Arms" and have moved onto "Memory". Several of the authors books have been re-released in audiobook format (my preference to drown out the otherwise grim reality of the Northern Express) and they've all been pretty good.
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3rd June 2007, 09:22 | #242 |
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Killing Pablo The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
For more about it http://archive.salon.com/news/featur...den/index.html
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Just about to start reading Nightwatch - will be a bit of a shift from my last book. My partner just finished it and went out and brought Daywatch straight away... I am a bit more sceptical though myself...
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5th June 2007, 10:41 | #245 |
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Nightwatch / Daywatch are great books, just be warned that if you've seen the movies, the second movie is more like Nightwatch Part II.
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5th June 2007, 11:34 | #247 |
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Just started Constant Gardener, mainly for a complete change from what I usually read. Very sloooow paced so far...
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5th June 2007, 19:21 | #248 |
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Just finished reading The Player Of Games by Iain M Banks. I dismissed it when I first saw it; it's smaller than his other books and all the blurb mentioned was that the main character plays games. Holy crap I was wrong to. Really enjoyed it.
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5th June 2007, 20:03 | #249 |
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More Agatha Christie. I'm on a roll.
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I just finished reading the Alexander books by Valerio Manfredi..awesome trilogy..
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6th June 2007, 09:21 | #253 |
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Freakonomics is really really good. If you've heard of it, read it now. My only problem with it is that it's too damn short, it could easily be twice as big.
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6th June 2007, 12:19 | #255 |
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onto book 2 of the Blood Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop....
spent $50 at J'ville Rotary's book fair a few weekends ago & got a heap of Lee Child from Riccarton market last weekend, so will be busy
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9th June 2007, 22:24 | #256 |
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Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
I normally hate novels and probably wouldn't have started reading this were it not for this being a gift from my best friend. Man, how bloody superb it is. |
5th July 2007, 10:27 | #257 |
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Just bought The Basic Writings of Nietzsche
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5th July 2007, 10:30 | #258 |
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The Peter Jackson biography. Picked it up marked down from $49.95 to $12 and thought I had a bargain until I saw it for $5 the next day.
Strange to read that as he was filming in Queenstown he envied the Vertical Limit shoot because they had all the facilities and were shootng "a real film". And the contiuing potential for Bad Taste II. |
5th July 2007, 10:38 | #259 |
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Still reading Nightwatch - promised my partner I'd finish it but am really having to force myself to pick it up - needless to say will probably not continue with the rest of the series (another 3 books ontop!)... Having said that I do understand that the English translation is a bit of a shambles compared with the original...
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5th July 2007, 11:03 | #260 |
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Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man who Led the Band of Brothers.
Really good biography. Also just finished Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose, interesting to see what changes were made to enable a screen play.
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5th July 2007, 13:04 | #261 |
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Just read 'The Kingdom Of Thorn & Bone'
'The Briar King' 'The Charnel Prince' 'The Blood Knight' Were really really enjoyable, top fantasy.
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5th July 2007, 13:12 | #263 |
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Warcraft: Day of the Dragon, by Richard Knaak.
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5th July 2007, 13:23 | #264 |
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We Were the Mulvaneys, by Joyce Carol Oates. She's an amazing novelist, kind of like a female John Updike (only much, much better imo). I think this is the 5th novel of hers that I've read, and all have been absolutely superb. My favourite so far would have to be You Must Remember This. That is the only book I've almost stopped reading half-way through, because the content was so provocative and challenging and emotionally draining. So glad I continued though, because I now have a love affair with her work.
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6th July 2007, 00:06 | #265 |
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Halfway into Peter F. Hamilton's - The Reality Dysfunction. Good space opera, keeps getting better with every page.
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6th July 2007, 22:05 | #266 |
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Just finished Mindstar Rising again.
Love them.
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6th July 2007, 23:29 | #267 |
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Call me a sadist but I have just finished reading "Hunters of Dune"...I loved the original Dune novels so much that I have endured Frank's son and his pal fucking Franks corpse and read every "New" Dune...I kinda see now what they were working towards with the prequel novels (as badly written as they are) if Franks outline for Dune 7 is to be understood..
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7th July 2007, 01:16 | #268 |
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'Chaos' by James Gleick - I'm learning about Mandelbrot and his discoveries, and can now use the phrase "symmetries of scale " with confidence
Also slowly going back through Sandman (in order this time) as my GF and I buy the series between us. (i.e. spend an evening every few weeks or so when one of us buys a new issue. Think its my turn next....) |
7th July 2007, 01:27 | #269 |
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Killing Pablo was awesome.
Just finished The Best of HP Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. Fear Cthulhu and the Elder Ones. Might get hold of My Tank is Fight next. |
10th July 2007, 20:30 | #270 |
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The making of Star Wars - this is spooge worthy. Big hard covered book filled with production photos, original script scribblings and musings from the seventies. I consider myself a bit of a fanboy, but was completely ignorant to the fact that Camie (You know, Luke's mate from Toshi station where he wastes time with his friends) was played by soft porn star and royal rooter Koo Stark. And there is an awesome pic of Hamil and Guinness sitting in his hovel with Luke looking straight down the hilt of his fathers light sabre. Last edited by StN : 10th July 2007 at 20:32. |
11th July 2007, 10:32 | #271 |
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memories of Major Richard Winters
by Major Richard Winters. Good read so far
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12th July 2007, 20:30 | #272 |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, written from POV of a 15 year old boy with Aspergers which is on the autistic spectrum.
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13th July 2007, 08:23 | #274 |
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Into A Dark Realm - Raymond E Feist
Second book for the Darkwar trilogy, the first being Flight Of The Nighthawks. After that, it'll be Renegade's Magic, by Robin Hobb
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15th August 2007, 10:40 | #276 |
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Im not much of a reader. But have started re reading A song of Ice and Fire.
I got about half way through the second book a year or 2 ago, and then stopped, so am starting again from the first book. I had almost forgotten how awesome it was.
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15th August 2007, 11:45 | #277 |
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15th August 2007, 13:59 | #278 |
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War of the Souls trilogy by Weiss and Hickman, almost finished the second book (Dragons of the Lost Star).
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15th August 2007, 14:23 | #279 |
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ERMA Decision Document - Reassessment of Sodium Fluoroacetate (1080)
http://www.ermanz.govt.nz/news-event...0_%20FINAL.pdf It's work related but I'm also interested in the outcome seeing as I was involved in helping organise the submission process. Pixie
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15th August 2007, 19:10 | #280 |
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Rereading the HP series, now I've read the last book. I'm noticing heaps of new detail now I've read Deathly Hallows, so I recommend a revisit
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