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| nihilcreative wrote: | | I ran into him randomly once in the Queen street mall and said hello. I asked for his autograph and he followed me to a book shop where I bought a copy of Johnny and the dead and he signed it 'Read it and Reap'. |
haha, that is cool.
i'm sure it doesn't happen all the time, as there would obviously be occasions where he has his own thing to do, but it's pretty cool that he'd side-track his own day for a moment to sign an autograph. i can't imagine JK Rowling doing something like that - she'd probably have a henchman beat you with a stick.
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| ObsoletE wrote: | | i can't imagine JK Rowling doing something like that - she'd probably have a henchman beat you with a wand. |
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wands are more poking implements imo.
but i suppose with enough henchmen, that could still be quite severe.
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Oh, I was just thinking that they might use 'wand' as a cute name for a stick of +1 savage beatings.
Oh my, Harry Potter and ADnD in the one thread? I think I've just exceeded my daily quota of geekery.
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Argh! Still can't get Edding's last work out of my head, has such an intriguing storyline!
Trying to read another one of his works: The Elder Gods. Hard to get by it, but i'm sure it'll be solid.
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Still struggling through The Theory of Relativity.
God its confusing.
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| ObsoletE wrote: | | nihilcreative wrote: | | I ran into him randomly once in the Queen street mall and said hello. I asked for his autograph and he followed me to a book shop where I bought a copy of Johnny and the dead and he signed it 'Read it and Reap'. |
haha, that is cool.
i'm sure it doesn't happen all the time, as there would obviously be occasions where he has his own thing to do, but it's pretty cool that he'd side-track his own day for a moment to sign an autograph. i can't imagine JK Rowling doing something like that - she'd probably have a henchman beat you with a stick. |
TP is a very cool guy, I've seen him weather giant signing lines several times with a smile. He signed my beaten copy of Colour of Magic with "Burn this book" and drew a neat scythe in my copy of Mort. Neil Gaiman is another author who goes out of their way to make fans happy, I was at a con where he was continually followed by swooning goth girls, but he didn't blink an eye 
On-topic, I just finished reading The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (still awesome) and have started on William Gibson's latest, Spook Country. That last retains the writing style of his sci-fi works but is (so far) set in the 2006 we all lived through. Interesting stuff.
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I finished reading The Silmarillion today and found it to be a great book. I was at first daunted by it but it was worth the read. I still have some things I want to know more about so I'll have to track down the other Tolkien books.
Now I'm back on to The Hobbit. After this I don't know what to read next lol! I will probably get around to reading Michael Palin Diaries: The Python Years even though I bought it early this year!
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Yeahy for Pratchett! Like you nihil, I would consider myself up to speed on his works but if you get technical there's a gooD number outside of the Discworld series that are still outstanding. Y' have to be committed, he seems to get them out at a rate slightly faster than my 'to-read' stack can accommodate. I met him too and proudly have a personalised "Not Fade Away" and an official stamp in my copy of Soul Music. I consider Pratchett to be my fall back, I slot hiswholly enjoyable books between post cold war sci fi, modern fiction and agonizing classics.
As for me right now, before I give Wintersmith a crack, I'm reading Flashman at the Charge. Flashman is a scurrilous antihero thrown into various historical settings by author GM Fraser: in this case the Charge of the Light Brigade. Fun stuff, but as yet not quite fun enough!
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Blood and Memory by Fiona McIntosh.Aint far into it, it's all backstory first 50 pages.
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The Zombie survival guide. (max brooks)
very interesting read, pretty informative too.
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i dont read books, i havent read any since i left school in 1983.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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^ Thanks for sharing that...
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| Tommy1303671 wrote: | | i dont read books, i havent read any since i left school in 1983. |
Thats not good.
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Lets see... my latest read is Dreaming Void by Peter Hamilton and straight after that i re-read the earlier Commonwealth series written by him (which is awesome). I cant wait for the sequel to Dreaming Void
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Finished the Eye of the World, took me a long time to get through it (uni commitments) and now I'm about 1/4 through the Great Hunt (me ignoring uni commitments). Liking it, and it picks up right where the last left off, which is nice.
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I've been reading The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, again. See, I used to read a lot, then with studying + starting work full time, not so much. So I left the last book in the series, Phantom, for quite a long time - now I'm completely out of the loop. I'm reading my way back through the series so I know what's going on.
I've actually read the first book in the series The Wizard's First Rule about five times anyway. Up to the fourth one now... six to go!
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| Dani wrote: | I've been reading The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, again. See, I used to read a lot, then with studying + starting work full time, not so much. So I left the last book in the series, Phantom, for quite a long time - now I'm completely out of the loop. I'm reading my way back through the series so I know what's going on.
I've actually read the first book in the series The Wizard's First Rule about five times anyway. Up to the fourth one now... six to go! |
I always thought that series would be difficult for a girl to read. Not meaning to stereotype or anything by saying that, but I was honestly taken aback after reading the majority of that series at how much Goodkind has a sick fascination with ****/sexual assault/violence against women. The books are terrific otherwise, but that one thing keeps coming up and it seriously hinders the books potential...it was way too excessive and unnecessary, and looking back- though I loved the story it seriously made me ill at times.
On another note, I was pretty shattered when I found out Robert Jordan passed away a few weeks ago  Such an inspiring and awesome writer, and he didn't quite get to pass on his final story. I heard that as far as the books and The Wheel of Time go, he sat down with his family and told them everything, so maybe one day we'll see a finish to it.
Most recent read: The Innocent Man by Grisham. His first non-fiction story, and I tell you what, it's really intense. It's about the death penalty in america and the failure of the criminal justice system. Really interesting, but definitely not for the faint hearted. Highly recommend it if you have an interest in that area though.
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| Windburn wrote: | | I always thought that series would be difficult for a girl to read. Not meaning to stereotype or anything by saying that, but I was honestly taken aback after reading the majority of that series at how much Goodkind has a sick fascination with rap*e/sexual assault/violence against women. The books are terrific otherwise, but that one thing keeps coming up and it seriously hinders the books potential...it was way too excessive and unnecessary, and looking back- though I loved the story it seriously made me ill at times. |
On the contrary... it never shocked me much. I was more inspired by the way he didn't "wrap them up and lock them safely away", which would have been rather demeaning. Instead he expressed the strength of a woman being no less than a man; the way the Mother Confessor led her army and how ruthless and merciless the Mord Sith were. This is highly controversial, especially since (I'm assuming, I don't know the statistics) the majority of his readers would probably be male. While it might have seemed excessive... it didn't really exaggerate the cruelty present in the world today. IMO, he reflects humanity rather well in his books.
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| Dani wrote: | | On the contrary... it never shocked me much. I was more inspired by the way he didn't "wrap them up and lock them safely away", which would have been rather demeaning. Instead he expressed the strength of a woman being no less than a man; the way the Mother Confessor led her army and how ruthless and merciless the Mord Sith were. This is highly controversial, especially since (I'm assuming, I don't know the statistics) the majority of his readers would probably be male. While it might have seemed excessive... it didn't really exaggerate the cruelty present in the world today. IMO, he reflects humanity rather well in his books. |
That's true, I was meant to make note of that too, he does also show the other side, promoting the power and ability of women to fight right alongside men. I guess I was just really sick and tired of seeing Kahlan or Cara or the other Sisters being subjected to sexual violence in like EVERY book! I just felt he shot down all the great points he had to make by constantly going back to that.
And as a self-respecting male, I would hope that most women don't believe that's how men behave in this day and age. You do have your bad apples (and it's definitely a major concern for society that this be dealt with), but one can hardly say it reflects humanity as a whole.
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I'm reading "A Short history of the 20th Century" by Geoffrey Blainey. Its a really interesting read and it succeeds at being accessible to everyone. It never gets deep at all and reads more like a casual novel.
Mr. Blainey is/was a lecturer at Melbourne Uni and he also wrote "A short of history of the world" which covered every important event since mankind walked on the earth. Also a great read.
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Letters From The Inside-John Marsden, it was an alright book, but the ending majorly sucked.
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Just finished The Great Hunt, definitely getting into the Wheel of Time series, and I can see myself caught up with the rest of the books by Christmas.
Was also glad that most of the mini plot events are kept tied up inside the book, instead of making me salivate to point of needing to read book 3 straight after to find the conclusion (of sorts) from book 2.
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currently reading Clive Barker's Mister B. Gone, which i won (along with Clive Barker's Jericho for PS3) a few weeks ago.
it's quite an interesting read. it's written as though the book is talking to you, or rather, the protagonist has been bound to the book and is "writing" it's story in order to communicate to you, the reader.
what does the protagonist want? to die. for the reader to burn the book.
it's quite interesting the way Barker writes the character though, he doesn't simply speak to you, he tells you what you're feeling, or doing. like he'll describe something and say "oh, did that get to you? i'm sure i felt your grip on the book tighten" (although more poetically, this was just a laymans example).
it's probably not for everyone, there are some extreme parts, although i've read far worse and seen far worse on TV, but i suppose caution might still be warranted.
i haven't finished it yet, so i'm interested in how he concludes the tale, but it's definitely been worth reading up to now.
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At the moment I'm halfway through A Clash of Kings, book two of the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin. Probably some of the best novels you could ever pick up in the fantasy genre.
The first book, A Game of Thrones, blew me sideways and made me ejaculate three times within a minute before I finished it. Definitely one to hit up for those fantasy buffs.
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