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  • 10-08-2014 5:20pm
    #1
    GLaDOS
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    Only really finding this forum now somehow and a reading log sounds like something handy to go back to.

    So Without further ado

    Currently halfway through

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    Very funny so far, though finding it a bit lacking in variety.

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    #2
    GLaDOS
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    Next up

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    Having only discovered McCarthy through 'The Road' earlier this year and subsequently getting through 'Child of God' and 'No Country for Old Men', I'm looking forward to another tale of desolation.

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    Next:

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    Because I love Terry

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    GLaDOS
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    Next up is a book I've been anticipating eagerly since it was announced.

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    A direct sequel to her Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies, one of my favourite authors.

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    GLaDOS
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    As a kid I was always intrigued by Greek legend, finally getting round to reading some properly.

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    GLaDOS
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    From Ancient Troy to Mars, currently reading Andy Weir's The Martian

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    'Tis the season to be spooky, so I'm reading Mary Shelley's classic, Frankenstein

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    GLaDOS
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    Something light before moving back to darker subjects, Randell Munroe's "What If?"

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    GLaDOS
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    Moving onto another highly influential piece of fiction, Dante's The Divine Comedy

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    Up nest, back to Fantasy, Raymond E Feist's Shards of a Borken Crown

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    GLaDOS
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    Next up is another classic, The Count of Monte Cristo

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    After the long and heavy Monte Cristo, something a bit lighter (And with more pictures)

    Terry Pratchett's The Last Hero

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    Continuing with Terry Pratchett, but changing universe and adding Stephen Baxter, it's The Long Earth

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    GLaDOS
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    I loved The Secret History, so decided to try Donna Tartt's Latest book, The Goldfinch

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    GLaDOS
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    Back to Greek Legend, The Odyssey

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    GLaDOS
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    Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

    While it is a kids book, still very funny

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    wreade1872
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    The difference between Pratchetts kids and adult books has never been very wide :) . I havn't read this one might check it out.
    Oh if your into greek myth i highly recommend Dael Kingsmill, she tells a great tale.


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    GLaDOS
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    I'd never read any of his young adults books, but I wasn't really worried about it being anything less than brilliant :)

    That channel looks pretty cool, thanks for the recommendation!

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    Next book I've started is one I've debated about picking up for a long time. Finally decided to plunge into Herman Melville's classic, Moby-Dick.

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    Still reading Moby-Dick, but flew through Paul Gallico's novella "The Snow Goose" during a break in work today. Something I've been meaning to read because of the prog rock band Camel's album inspired by same. A thoroughly enjoyable quick read.

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    A book I've been dying to get stuck into for a long time, first time reading this highly acclaimed Author

    1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

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    I've never been a great reader of Science Fiction, so I've decided to remedy that with one of the all time classics of the genre: Dune, by Frank Herbert.

    And I'll finally have a notion as to what controlling the spice is all about.

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    Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men

    First book of his I've read since his passing :(

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    As a big fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, this book caught my eye a while ago

    John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids

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    I'm a big fan of Stephen King, I was intruiged when his son's work started getting good reviews. So I'm finally getting round to reading Joe Hill's Heart Shaped Box

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    wreade1872
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    So what did you think of 'Day of the Triffids'? I really liked it, was surprised at how effective a menace the triffids are as the fragments of television and film adaptations i'd seen always looked so silly. Also even the waking up in the hospital cliche managed to be nicely disturbing when written down.
    I also wonder whether the female writer's book is based on anything real, those bits were quite funny, they entire worlds gone to hell but she's still getting hassle over her 'Fifty Shades of Grey' or whatever it was :lol.


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    #27
    GLaDOS
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    wreade1872 wrote: »
    So what did you think of 'Day of the Triffids'? I really liked it, was surprised at how effective a menace the triffids are as the fragments of television and film adaptations i'd seen always looked so silly. Also even the waking up in the hospital cliche managed to be nicely disturbing when written down.
    I also wonder whether the female writer's book is based on anything real, those bits were quite funny, they entire worlds gone to hell but she's still getting hassle over her 'Fifty Shades of Grey' or whatever it was :lol.

    I really really enjoyed it :) I didn't realise there was on screen adaptions, but I was describing the book to a friend and I mentioned that I don't think it could translate properly to the screen. The premise sounds like a low budget movie from the Syfy channel, but (and it's probably a credit to the author) the book has a very natural feel to it. I think Wyndham does a great job of emphasising how normalised the Triffids became to everyone and as a result how it took so long for people to realise what a threat they are. I also enjoyed the slightly Lovecraftian mystery around the Triffids, their origin and behaviour is never fully explained and I think the atmosphere benefits from that.

    I thought Joella was a really good character and it was fun trying to imagine 1950's attitudes to a "sex author" :D

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    wreade1872
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    Have you seen the news, The Triffids have arrived!, all those Giant hogweed stories on sky and elsewhere are soooo much like the background for the Triffids :D .


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    GLaDOS
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    After Enjoying The Count of Monte Cristo I'm giving Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers a read

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    GLaDOS
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    Was away for the last 3 weeks, finished off the 3 Musketeers.

    Read all of Pratchett and Baxter's The Long War

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    And started on Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game

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    To my shame I've never read any Oscar Wilde

    Putting that right by reading his only Novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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