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Post by shmitty on Mar 23, 2011 16:50:04 GMT -5
Just finished The Wise Man's Fear. It's the sequel to The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. If you like fantasy novels at all, you should read these.
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Post by noblehero on Mar 29, 2011 14:59:54 GMT -5
I recently started "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway
The autobiographical story of the battles in Ia Drang valley in 1965.
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Post by Darkson on Mar 29, 2011 21:32:50 GMT -5
Just finished the Dark Tower book 6 Song of Susana and Dispaches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper. (Very good book)
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Post by abbysdad on Mar 29, 2011 21:46:01 GMT -5
So much reading lately...The Osprey fighting men at arms series for the native American western tribes and the Indian wars. CthulhuTech. Oraon Scott Card's collected anthology "Cruel Miracles." Elastic plastic dynamic stability analysis techniques for modeling earthquake loads in concrete and steel structures. And more books and papers on inferential statistics than I care to admit. My brain feels like a bloody, beaten sponge at this point.
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Post by varagon on Mar 30, 2011 9:50:53 GMT -5
Waiting on Superman Warlord Rising by Michales Joy
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Post by widowmaker93 on May 20, 2011 23:42:04 GMT -5
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.....best book series I have ever read...ever...in the history of books.
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Post by varagon on May 21, 2011 0:29:28 GMT -5
Yeah, it's great hardcore fantasy. None of that fancy magic stuff (ok, so a little) in this storyline!
Currently planning on reading The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater. Neil Gaiman calls Pinkwater the "...best secret writer in the world."
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Post by maverickman5 on May 22, 2011 21:53:27 GMT -5
Just finished: "The Death and Life of Miguel Cervantes", a good autobiographical novel that lends some interesting light onto the subjects life. Quite enjoyable.
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Post by varagon on May 22, 2011 23:22:38 GMT -5
Just finished: "The Death and Life of Miguel Cervantes", a good autobiographical novel that lends some interesting light onto the subjects life. Quite enjoyable. Can you shed some insight into his early life compared to his later life? I know he wrote Don Quixote in two books separated by a number of years, and the style of writing (and focus) was quite different in both based upon Cervante's life experiences. I just haven't explored that part yet and I'm curious to see what you found out.
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Post by CmdrKiley on May 23, 2011 0:06:07 GMT -5
Dr. Who and the Sontaran Games
Grumpy Monkey got me hooked on the new Dr. Who series. Any slow down in my work on stat cards and other projects can be blamed on him.
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Post by abbysdad on May 23, 2011 22:26:34 GMT -5
No reading for me lately. Too much writing. Got several stories out of my head and on to the page though.
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Post by Cilionelle on May 23, 2011 22:42:32 GMT -5
Love to read 'em, if/when you get the time!
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Post by CmdrKiley on May 24, 2011 9:08:03 GMT -5
Well Dr. Who and the Sontaran Games turned into a very quick read. It was the first book I DL'd after setting up my wife's Kindle. Not too deep, read more like a young adult book.
Also I just caught up and finished Season 5 of the series last night. So now after that obsession is over I can probably get more DD projects done.
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Post by maverickman5 on May 24, 2011 15:17:14 GMT -5
Just finished: "The Death and Life of Miguel Cervantes", a good autobiographical novel that lends some interesting light onto the subjects life. Quite enjoyable. Can you shed some insight into his early life compared to his later life? The book was very much about his early life and his many, many, many failures at trying to be a poet and playwright before DonQ. He was injured in the military as a young man trying to follow his older brother's success as a soldier. Miguel was not a natural or good soldier. He was imprisoned for 5 years. He was given some leniancy while imprisoned the first time to work as a barber/healer, since his father had been a barber/healer. Miguel attempted this. He was not a natural or good barber/surgeon, but it was during this time he developed his skill as a storyteller. Unfortunately, he had to flee his newfound success when a patient died while having a story told to him. He later tried to work in information exchange(i.e spying) to follow in his younger brothers success. Miguel was not a natural or good spy. He was caught and imprisoned for 3 years. He was continually working out his demons with his almost incestuous feeling toward his sister, and stayed on the road to control his urges. He worked as a Tax Collector for the government to raise military funds. Miguel was not a natural or good tax collector and rarely convinced his clients to pay their taxes. He gave up and "sold" the position to a friend of the family's nephew. This nephew was excellent at tax collecting and also forgery. Which led to Miguel being imprisoned for not paying a large amount collected but not not given to the gov't, since the job was technically still his and "his" signature was on the documents used to collect. Miguel was imprisoned indefinately, since there was no proof to either convict or free him on his charges. It was during this time he wrote DonQ, while an outbreak was affecting the country. Soon the prison was empty of guards and other prisoners due to death from the outbreak and Miguel just left on his own. He sold the novel for a pittance to a publishing house that made a fortune on it. A competitor hired an author to write a sequel to DonQ that villianised the charachters to diminish the popularity of the original work. By the time Miguel finished the real sequel and sold it(for much higher this time)the work was no longer as popular and wouldnt get correctly added to the original until after his death. He died childless, his wife had joined the convent during one of his imprisonments and was celibate since. The money eaned from writing was used to pay family debts with little remaiining to improve conditions. He was given very little noteriety as a writer and generally seen as senile when he passed away.
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Post by abbysdad on May 24, 2011 23:10:46 GMT -5
I have to say the two Hellboy one-shots this month are excellent. "Buster Oakley Gets His Wish" might be the strangest comic I have ever read.
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