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Post by abbysdad on Dec 14, 2010 19:37:02 GMT -5
Winter is upon us, a time of year to catch up on all the things I've been meaning to read. I have a ton of comics I need to read in order now that the whole series is out in some cases. And some reference books for AE. And one or two things I've been meaning to read for my own enjoyment, not likely to make it into a game at all.
What are y'all reading? Anything you think other people should know about?
Post it here.
Cheers,
Chris
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Post by abbysdad on Dec 14, 2010 19:52:30 GMT -5
I'll start off:
Books:
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pinchon The Shallows, by some really smart PhD guy I forget now (ironic isn't it) Kingdom Under Glass, by Jay Kirk Hell to Pay, by J. Lee Butts Matthias Thulmann, by C. L. Werner (shameless plug, buy it today!)
Comics! I have a lot of subscriptions to catch up on:
Hellboy, the Storm BRPD, Hell on Earth, Book 1 Locke & Key, Mind Games Fables, last 25 issues with Mister Dark Mouse Guard, Legends of the Guard Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities, The Ghastly Fiend of London Daomu Turok, Dinosaur Hunter (new Darkhorse series) Jonah Hex (re-read last 20 issues)
Oh! And here's a comic that is sure to delight every Dad on the board. Not out yet, but coming soon. Super-Dinosaur, by Robert Kirkman, due out this April 2011. I can't wait.
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Post by varagon on Dec 15, 2010 0:11:06 GMT -5
Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World"
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Post by muddypaw on Dec 15, 2010 12:38:48 GMT -5
I have several books on the go at the moment.
For the Junk Food portion of my literary diet, I am ploughing through a set of Judge Dredd and other 2000AD novels I bought cheap on e-bay. Also a bunch of cheap 2000AD Graphic Novels brought from Mongoose. I needed a break after a 'serious' Summer/Autumn reading the Iliad and the Odyssey, and several academic works on the life and poems of Sappho. More intering that it sounds honest! ;D
My current 'serious' reading includes an account of Operation Goodwood, the British attempted breakout around Caen, and a rather fun fictional account of Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain by Germany.
And of course the usual game books that I keep out and flick through on a regular basis. At the moment top of the pile is AE Bounty and AEWWIII along with some of the 'Songs of..' books and some Runequest Glorantha stuff.
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Post by skorzeny on Dec 16, 2010 3:33:08 GMT -5
After finishing Corregidor by the Belote brothers, I am now reading Werewolves by Bob Curran.
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Post by varagon on Dec 16, 2010 9:28:27 GMT -5
Finished: Brave New World... Poor Mr. Savage.
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Post by pixelgeek on Dec 16, 2010 13:14:01 GMT -5
Finished: Brave New World... Poor Mr. Savage. Great. Now you've spoiled it for the rest of us
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Post by varagon on Dec 16, 2010 13:46:16 GMT -5
Finished: Brave New World... Poor Mr. Savage. Great. Now you've spoiled it for the rest of us lol... Ok. He's poor because he ended up attached to his SO for the rest of his life.
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Post by CmdrKiley on Dec 16, 2010 22:37:06 GMT -5
I'm about 1/2 the way through reading the latest in the Republic Commando Series for Star Wars called The 501st.
Yesterday I just picked up my stack of comics, mostly the Star Wars and Farscape stuff. A few new ones I just picked up were:
Captain America - Patriot - A 4 part mini series covering pre-war and post war superheroes.
Iron Seige - from IDW. It's a Weird War II story featuring American Airborne troops stuck in a French Village with their German Prisoners while some mutant beasts lay seige to the castle they're in.
Another one I started reading was Ultimate Thor. This is the origin story for the Thor of the Ultimate Universe, and looks a lot like the Thor movie trailer. The neat thing is this story has a Weird War II twist to it as it starts in 1939. Loki is disquised as Baron Zemo and get's Himmler's support, when he shows him some magic runes that open a gateway to Valhalla, to make an alliance with the frost giants.
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Post by evernevermore(john) on Dec 17, 2010 19:25:20 GMT -5
Im about to start Thomas Paine's Common Sense. Then on to Carl Sagan's Deon Haunted World
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Post by DthenB on Dec 19, 2010 11:27:58 GMT -5
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Post by skorzeny on Dec 20, 2010 3:18:29 GMT -5
Now into Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James - a bit of traditional Christmas blood-curdling.
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Post by Oberst van Beld on Dec 24, 2010 11:47:50 GMT -5
I´m reading "Hagakure" by Tsunetomo Yamamoto, this book is about the way of the Samurai. Then "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu and "The Secret War" by Brian Johnson. The last book is about technologies at the second World War.
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Post by CmdrKiley on Mar 8, 2011 12:02:50 GMT -5
I just started reading The End of the Beginning by Harry Turtledove. It's an alternate history story where Japan has conqured the Hawaiian Islands and established a puppet government.
The book opens up with the occupation of the Hawaiian Islands about 6 weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese pretty much sunk the entire fleet there, then destroyed 2 out of 3 carriers and sending the 3rd back to Seattle heavilly damaged, that were sent to retake the islands. There was also mentions of serveral raids on San Francisco.
I really got into his Balance trilogy books where an alien invasion occurs right at the height of WWII. It really got me, and all the friends I lent the books to, hooked into Weird War II. However I never got around the the sequel Colonization series which I heard were really not that good.
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Post by Darkson on Mar 10, 2011 17:20:54 GMT -5
Star Wars: Red Harvest
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