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03-09-2006, 10:37 PM
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#181 (permalink)
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Re: what are you reading?
King Rat by China Mieville
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03-10-2006, 03:14 AM
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#182 (permalink)
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Re: what are you reading?
Reading: "Wizards and Glass [The Dark Tower Part IV]" by Stephen King and "Eats (,) Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss" Just finished "the Pirates of Venus" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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03-10-2006, 04:32 AM
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#183 (permalink)
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Re: what are you reading?
I'm reading Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons, by Ben Fong-Torres. Interesting, but I'm wondering how much is sensationalized. And also about how much is accurate, considering that I've found a couple of factual errors - simple things that could have been confirmed by fact checking. For example, the author calls the town of Pear Blossom "Pearl Blossom" instead. That kind of thing really bugs me. But, I'll persevere, as I also recently read another book about Parsons, that one co-written by his daughter and so possibly sentimentalized (although the authors of that one are fairly unflinching about his excesses), and I'm interested in comparing the two - I figure that the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
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03-12-2006, 11:45 PM
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#184 (permalink)
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Alien investigator
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Re: what are you reading?
The Twany man again. I know how the story ends, but the last part of the story has not been published in French yet. As I have all the other volumes in French, I'm eager to have the entire collection
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06-05-2006, 08:48 AM
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#185 (permalink)
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The Cat
Join Date: May 2006
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Re: what are you reading?
An odd book called Book of the Werewolf edited by Brian J Frost that contains stories spanning about 130 years. It's really quite interesting to see the evolution of the tales and no one's going around with silver bullets either.
Also reading Weathermonger by Peter Dickinson about an England that's suddenly taken a grave dislike to all things mechanical.
Dante Club by Michael Pearl (abandon every hope, ye who enter here).
Kingdom Come - the graphic novel.
Club Dumas and The Fencing Master ... both by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
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06-05-2006, 11:40 AM
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#186 (permalink)
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Re: what are you reading?
That's some scary multi-tasking. I bet you're posting at several other forums, too.
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06-05-2006, 11:57 AM
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#187 (permalink)
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The Cat
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Re: what are you reading?
Have books for different places ... there's a book I read at the office in between editing; there's a book for downstairs at home and there's several books for upstairs at home depending on my mood. I used to have a travel book too for the bus/train before I started driving last year. And there's a book in my bag for when I'm out walking. Have always read several books at the same time. 
Only other forum I post in is The Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums. It's where I found this site. 
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06-05-2006, 10:02 PM
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#188 (permalink)
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Re: what are you reading?
-Squares of the City by John Brunner
-A french antology around Elric the Necromancer.
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06-06-2006, 01:28 AM
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#189 (permalink)
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Re: what are you reading?
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Originally Posted by nesacat
Only other forum I post in is The Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums. It's where I found this site. 
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If you ever get bored let me know. I've got 14 of them bookmarked.
I'm finally getting into "The Hidden Stars" (100 pages in) and Reading "Time Crime" by H. Beam Piper on my palm pilot (discression at work).
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06-06-2006, 01:37 AM
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#190 (permalink)
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Alien investigator
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: what are you reading?
I finished yesterday "L'enigme sacrée (The holy blood and the holy grail)" by M. Baigent, R.Leigh & H. Lincoln and began "Le message (The messianic legacy)", by the same authors. I have the last volme of the trilogy on stand-by, "La révélation des templiers ( The Templar revelation)", by Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince.
In other words the books used by Dan Brown as an inspiration for his "Da Vinci code"
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