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| 10 NOV 2002 at 3:24pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | This forum software is double plus good.
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| 11 NOV 2002 at 1:19pm |
| Deleted User | I got my grubby little hands on N i g h t w a t c h today!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! *Diabolical laughter*
It's mine! ALL MINE! *Diabolical acting*
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| 12 NOV 2002 at 5:00am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Well, I'm STILL reading 'The Witching Hour'...
But I also picked up a copy of 'Victorian Age Vampire', which I really do highly reccomend to RPG fans.
[url=http://www.justadventure.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1136331866/0#0]GAMES FOR TRADE!![/url]
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| 15 NOV 2002 at 9:56pm |
| Deleted User | Well - I've read the Amber series - and most of the Discworld.
I love Science Faction too -
I'm reading the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene at the moment.
It's about string theory (and quantum) -
and as the book says
"Anyone who thinks he understands quantam hasn't had it explained to him properly!"
It's a very readable/enjoyable work.
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| 15 NOV 2002 at 11:57pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | It's about string theory (and quantum)
I recommend "A Brief History Of Time" by Stephen Hawking. It doesn't treat specifically string theory but a lot of interesting theories. Superb book although some parts are really difficult to understand.
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| 16 NOV 2002 at 5:05pm |
| Deleted User | I tried it some time ago -
but I have to agree with you - it's difficult in places.
Quite a lot of places.
That's why I gave up with it.
Has anyone read Reginald Hill?
VERY funny - and the creator of Daziel and Pascoe (excellent police series on UK telly).
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| 16 NOV 2002 at 11:24pm |
paulieIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 32
Joined: 15 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Just noticed this thread. I do tend to read a lot of books, i probably spend more time reading books than playing adventure games.
I've just finished reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Thoroughly recommended. To quote the back cover:
"Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. Weaving together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital infomation in the present, Cryptonomicon explores themes of power, infomation, secrecy and war in the twentieth century in a gripping and page-turning-thriller."
I also enjoyed his book "Snow Crash" and have just started on his "The Diamond Age."
I can also heartily recommend the "Regeneration" trilogy by Pat Barker. I'm also going to read William Gibson's "Bridge Trilogy" books again.
For non-fiction i mainly read history and travelling books. I am certainly no expert but i love reading about ancient history and alternative ancient history. Have recently read Graham Hancock's "Underworld." The book explores the possibility that after the last ice-age many civilisations and cities were wiped out by the rising waters and that the remains of them are still to be found deep under the Ocean's and Sea's.
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| 18 NOV 2002 at 1:19pm |
RavensbreedSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By medicro (16 NOV 2002 5:04pm)
Has anyone read Reginald Hill?
VERY funny - and the creator of Daziel and Pascoe (excellent police series on UK telly).
When I'm not reading fantasy and science fiction I usually read mysteries and crime thrillers. I've read a few of the Dalziel and Pascoe stories (and watched the tv version as well). How can you not like Andy Dalziel, that great fat yorkshire bast!rd? I must admit that I didn't like the last but one in the series, Dialogues with the Dead. I picked up on who the killer was too easily and the ending left me unsatisfied.
If you like Reginald Hill, have you tried R.D Wingfield, the writer of the Frost series, the ones that inspired another really great TV version, A Touch of Frost, starring David Jason. The books are funnier and darker than the TV versions, and Frost is much more rumpled, forgetful and cynical than Jason plays him.
Some people are like a slinky. They might not be good for anything, but its fun to watch them tumble down stairs. &&
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| 18 NOV 2002 at 5:14pm |
CerberusPrivate Detective
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Just finished "Night-watch" last night. Excellent book but VERY bleak (like a lot of the Sam Vimes stories actually). Rather more serious and emotional than most of his books I thought, which was no bad thing. Still very funny as well though.
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| 19 NOV 2002 at 12:16pm |
BeaIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 11
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Just finished Nightwatch for Pratchett a serious and fairly dark book. But still good fun. Two other good reads
the latest Honor Harrington book by David Weber - great value - especially with the free CD with heaps of ebooks to read on it and C J Cherryh's latest - Explorer - still another three books to be written in that series
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| 29 NOV 2002 at 8:01am |
| Deleted User | Finishing Imajica by Clive Barker, whoooooo that's out there. He is really going more and more on the gay side :-/ -just a constatation, really don't care as long as his tales remains like a bloody acid trip in hell .
Going to read a book by UMBERTO ECO next (italian to french translation I think) : How to travel with a salmon (litteral translation). Seems weird.
Chronicles of Amber are awesome, at least the first serie (five first books) . The rest is a lot less interesting, in fact I think I stopped in the seventh. :-X
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 2:07am |
SCiVPrivate Detective
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Joined: 22 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Imajica is one of the earlier books, in 1991 it was first published.
I think you're referring to the Pie'oh'pah character when you say "he went to the gay side". If I remember correctly, Pie'oh'Pah changes to the vision/desires of the person who looks at him/her/it. And thoughts of bi/homo/sexuality is quite normal human behaviour.
In "The Books of Blood" there is also a story about two gay men, a couple. Luckily, Clive Barker describes the real world, not just the world some people want it to be (might have sounded like an attack, it's not).
And before anybody asks/suggests, I'm not bisexual, nor gay... just openminded
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Or did you mean "The Reconciliation: Imajica". I just discovered there's a second I should have kept reading Barker, well at least now I can catch up
Playing: World of Warcraft / Monkey Island SE&&Reading: Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance - Harry Turtledove&&Watching: Repo! The Genetic Opera
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 6:28am |
| Deleted User | It sure sounded like an attack ...
I was unclear on this (I'm very open minded -I think),it DOES NOT really bothers me or I wouldn't be reading his books, it's just taking more and more place. That's maybe due to the status of bestselling author he doesn't need to acquire anymore.
I know it's normal and all, c'mon I don't need moral lesson from you with your Larry avatar ,
but I do not start a book by saying "I sure hope there is a lot of hot and descriptive homosexual sex in this one!" :
Anyway there is also a lot of hetero sex so everybody is happy
That might have sounded like a counter-attack, it was not
Marc-A
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| 3 DEC 2002 at 1:36pm |
EvaGuild Master
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Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I just love anything by Diana Wynne Jones -
sort of fantasy but in her very own style - although I enjoy Harry Potter, these books are much better.
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| 3 DEC 2002 at 9:49pm |
josieIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I know "Samilla's Sense of Snow" is a book and I think it is a good one, I havent read it I dont like to read but I am going to watch it. It is going to be on the Bravo station Sat Dec 7th 7CT.
Josie
JOSIE
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| 4 DEC 2002 at 1:20am |
sennebecGuild Master
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Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | i'm currently reading "kitchen confidential"... a must for anyone who's ever worked in a restaurant... most pertinent to the up-and-coming linecook...
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| 4 DEC 2002 at 1:25am |
| Deleted User | Sennebec wrote "i'm currently reading "kitchen confidential"...
Don't miss his follow up - 'A cooks' tour'.
Same vein and just as enjoyable (mind you - I think twice about eating out now
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| 5 DEC 2002 at 12:34am |
sennebecGuild Master
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Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | hey medicro...
i already read "a cook's tour"... it was given to me last year and that's how i got turned onto anthony bourdain...
he really has a gift of bringing the reader into the culinary underbelly of the professional kitchen...
i loved working the kitchen...
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| 5 DEC 2002 at 10:20pm |
| Deleted User | I know a chef who met him when he was on his tour of the UK.
I think she met him in Scotland.
Anyway - she said he was an absolute honey!
Totally charming with a devastating smile. -
(as long as he can cook - he'll do for me )
Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving - only Xmas to go now...
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| 11 DEC 2002 at 1:50pm |
sennebecGuild Master
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Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By medicro (5 DEC 2002 10:20pm)
I know a chef who met him when he was on his tour of the UK.
I think she met him in Scotland.
Anyway - she said he was an absolute honey!
Totally charming with a devastating smile. -
(as long as he can cook - he'll do for me )
Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving - only Xmas to go now...
he sure looks like a cutie to me... BUT...
rumor has it that he's not so great of a chef ... bummer...
it was a terrific thanksgiving... first one in years i didn't have to cook... or clean-up...
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