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Re: Books!
« Reply #585 on: July 29, 2017, 06:02:00 AM »
Read this month :
- Ender's game, Orson Scott Card
- Love in time of cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The holy terrors, Jean Cocteau
- I am legend, Richard Matheson
- Le grand méchant renard, a French comic strip, a funny one. There is a movie, I should try to see it before meetups...

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- Soul music, Terry Pratchett
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman
And I'm now reading The long earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. I think that I was in lack of reading...
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Re: Books!
« Reply #586 on: July 29, 2017, 08:02:15 PM »
Quote from: Luth Nightbreeze on July 29, 2017, 12:24:35 AM
Oooh, American Gods is great! They have a tv show now too, its even more gory and dark and grim, but good too!

I wanted to finish he book before watching it, I've heard it's great!
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Re: Books!
« Reply #587 on: July 29, 2017, 08:18:01 PM »
Well this is a bit late but A few weeks ago I finished House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewinski.  I'm not sure I can strictly... "recommend" it, but it was incredibly interesting and I liked it a lot.  It is a fantastically weird book, which does just about everything but what you would expect it to do.  It is a great example of manipulating the medium itself to convey the story, and there are so many more layers that I feel like I haven't even touched yet.  Pro tip though: reading it in a very quiet, dark old house at 2 in the morning will make you very jumpy. If its your kind of thing, you'll enjoy it to no end.  If its not, you will be very confused and frustrated.
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Re: Books!
« Reply #588 on: July 30, 2017, 05:16:54 AM »
Quote from: October Sky on July 29, 2017, 08:18:01 PM
Well this is a bit late but A few weeks ago I finished House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewinski.
Ooooooh, this one was weird.
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Re: Books!
« Reply #589 on: July 30, 2017, 02:15:35 PM »
Quote from: Mélusine on July 30, 2017, 05:16:54 AM
Ooooooh, this one was weird.
Yeah it really was.  I wound up having to keep notes, at least at the start.  I have some photography/filmmaking experience, which I think was really helpful.  I'm hoping to get a chance to write about it for school this year
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Re: Books!
« Reply #590 on: July 31, 2017, 10:46:36 AM »
And for a companion, listen to the Poe album "Haunted"

Currently reading Yoon Ha Lee's Raven Stratagem, the sequel to Ninefox Gambit.
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Re: Books!
« Reply #591 on: August 23, 2017, 01:32:24 AM »
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. It's an amazing book so far, the mood is reminiscent of The Old Man and The Sea, which is awesome - I've been looking for something similar since I first read it.

It teaches a great message - it's never too late to do what you love and follow your dreams. Life will go on without you, so don't be afraid to change and do something new.

 I like that. With all the fear-mongering and stress in most people's day-to-day life, it's good to have such a positive, hopeful message.  :)
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Re: Books!
« Reply #592 on: August 24, 2017, 12:12:55 PM »
I fell into the books, so this month I read 10 books. Five of them were written by Terry Pratchett - this is a series of books about Tiffany Aching. Love witches! Yet I read "A Jane Austen Education. How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship" by
William Deresiewicz and this book is very, very interesting! The other four books were Russian authors, and most likely their names will not tell you anything. But these were wonderful books. Over one of them I laughed so much that my tears began to flow.
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Re: Books!
« Reply #593 on: August 24, 2017, 05:10:19 PM »
Quote from: Prizrachniy_Gek on August 24, 2017, 12:12:55 PM
Five of them were written by Terry Pratchett - this is a series of books about Tiffany Aching. Love witches!
Aaaaaaah, these ones... :) *Cried in the Thalys reading the last one*
If you appreciated them and hadn't read the Discworld's books, you can spend more time with the witches ^^
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Re: Books!
« Reply #594 on: August 24, 2017, 08:30:25 PM »
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Re: Books!
« Reply #595 on: August 31, 2017, 12:29:58 AM »
I've finally got around to reading The Great Escape and it's absolutely enthralling. I've seen the movie (of course) and am familiar with the basic historical facts, but the determination and ingenuity of the prisoners was just amazing! It's also very funny in parts with the way that they continually outfox the guards.

The only downside is knowing how it all ends.
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Re: Books!
« Reply #596 on: August 31, 2017, 10:53:54 AM »
Now reading "The Stone Sky" by N. K. Jemisin.  This is the third and final Broken Earth book, following the brilliant "The Fifth Season" and the equally brilliant "The Obelisk Gate"

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Re: Books!
« Reply #597 on: August 31, 2017, 06:54:46 PM »
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Now reading "The Stone Sky" by N. K. Jemisin.  This is the third and final Broken Earth book, following the brilliant "The Fifth Season" and the equally brilliant "The Obelisk Gate"

I recently finished that one. It was soooo good.
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Re: Books!
« Reply #598 on: September 01, 2017, 10:15:22 AM »
Quote from: Lazy8 on August 31, 2017, 06:54:46 PM
I recently finished that one. It was soooo good.

Indeed. I finished it on the plane last night coming home.  I'm fully expecting Jemisin to get a Hugo Award threepeat for this.
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Re: Books!
« Reply #599 on: September 02, 2017, 12:57:59 PM »
Quote from: Mélusine on July 29, 2017, 06:02:00 AM
Read this month :
- Ender's game, Orson Scott Card
I know I might be a slow on the draw here, but are you intending to read the other books in the Ender's Game series?
They're..... interesting.
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