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« Reply #150 on: March 24, 2012, 07:01:21 PM »

Just finished reading porterhousseblues by Tom sharpe. Funniest books i have read tbh
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« Reply #151 on: March 24, 2012, 07:27:09 PM »

How did everyone else get on with House of Leaves btw?
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« Reply #152 on: June 24, 2012, 02:28:41 AM »

NNNNECRO!

Anyway, just finished re-reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Truly epic stuff, can highly recommend it if you're into fantasy. He's planned it to be a Wheel of Time style 10 book series, and hopefully he's young enough to make it there.

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« Reply #153 on: June 24, 2012, 02:32:29 PM »

I discovered a new SF writer the other day.  Bought an interesting looking book from a boot fair, read it and dug up the first two ommibus books in the series from Amazon.

The author is Louis McMaster Bujold and the books are The Miles Vorsigan Saga and there are tons of them. 

Probably best to read them in book time order and not published order.
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« Reply #154 on: June 26, 2012, 08:01:18 PM »

Ah yes, never took to her as much as I hoped though.

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« Reply #155 on: June 24, 2013, 08:11:00 PM »

bought great gatsby and slaughterhouse five the other week. Remains to be seen if I get round to reading them.

Also bought this and it arrived today Cheesy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Legend-Zelda-Hyrule-Historia/dp/1616550414/
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« Reply #156 on: June 24, 2013, 09:19:33 PM »

Close on a year since this thread was last updated there! The first post referenced Iain Banks. Fitting maybe. Perhaps this thread can sort of be his RIP.

Never read the Great Gatsby, odd...instead I read the Beautiful and the Damned and some of his short stories. I went through a period of 20s literature.

Currently I'm reading http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7775783-the-end-of-the-line.

Great for reading on the commute  Cheesy

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« Reply #157 on: June 24, 2013, 11:23:56 PM »

Oh ahoy there fellow book-readers

I recently finished reading A Dance With Dragons from GRRMartin, am in the middle of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov and I'm getting ready to start Times of Contempt from A. Sapkowski. I like to mix classic with more contemporary stuff to avoid getting bored with a genre or theme.
If any of you are into fantasy where it is difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys I would recommend those two series (A Song of Ice and Fire & The Witcher Saga).

Oh and Gatsby was pretty awesome, specially if you are familiar with the 20s American setting Berath, give it a try! It is a rather short book so you'll be done with it rather quickly but definitely worth it.
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« Reply #158 on: June 25, 2013, 12:47:01 AM »

I think you would like The People's Act of Love by James Meek, TNG. It's a thriller set in revolutionary Russia. What surprised me was that it was written in a Russian realism style, but with modern touches.
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« Reply #159 on: June 25, 2013, 02:37:24 PM »

Thanks Torgue, I'll have to add it to my backlog; I've been hearing good stuff about it and Karamavoz is the last of Dostoevsky's works that I had to fill my yearly quota of Russian bleakness. Oh and for anyone looking for a grim Russian post-apocalyptic future look no further than the Metro 2033 & 2034 novels.
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« Reply #160 on: June 25, 2013, 11:48:56 PM »

Just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter... (Jeff Lindsay) if you know the TV show of the same name its worth a read....
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« Reply #161 on: June 26, 2013, 07:13:46 AM »

can someone clarify if that's really junta or not.
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« Reply #162 on: June 26, 2013, 10:56:32 AM »

can someone clarify if that's really junta or not.

With my forum admin sleuthing tools it does appear to be Junta.
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« Reply #163 on: June 26, 2013, 12:30:19 PM »

Junta2 confirmed.
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« Reply #164 on: June 26, 2013, 03:41:28 PM »

Am i the only illiterate here?
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