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  • #52
    GLaDOS
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    Stephen King - Revival

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  • #53
    GLaDOS
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    A Classic Fantasy Series I'd been waiting awhile to get stuck into

    Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara

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  • #54
    GLaDOS
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    A big fan of his novels, I'm giving his latest collection of short stories a try

    Neil Gaiman - Trigger Warning

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  • #55
    wreade1872
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭wreade1872


    They had adaptations of 4 of Gaimans short stories on Sky Arts a few weeks back, they'll probably be repeated sometime if you missed them.
    They're called Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories.
    They were ok but i preferred the H.G. Wells short stories they adapted a few weeks before the Gaiman ones. Those were called H.G. Wells Nightmare Worlds.


  • #56
    GLaDOS
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    I'm sure they can be acquired online somewhere ;) Thanks for the tip

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  • #57
    GLaDOS
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    Another Ray Bradbury after reading my first earlier this year

    Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
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  • #58
    GLaDOS
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    Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts - Daughter of the Empire

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  • #59
    GLaDOS
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    Had stopped reading for a while since my last update as I was finishing up my thesis so October was a mental month for me.

    In the last few weeks I've been getting back into the swing of things.

    Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky

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    This was knocked out while away on holiday :D

    Since then I've moved onto a collection of Classics from Franz Kafka, including The Trial and The Castle.

    The Essential Kafka - Franz Kafka

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  • #60
    wreade1872
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭wreade1872


    You should know the Castle is unfinished so be prepared for a rather abrupt ending. I think i liked it much more a few weeks after finishing it, it tends to stay with you.

    Also there's a black comedy web series based on the Trial, its pretty decent i gave up on it after a few episodes because black comedy isn't really my thing but i also havn't read the Trial so maybe i'll look at it again if i ever get around to reading that.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWC3VbS1VRaG3MPMdo7PqEA


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  • #61
    GLaDOS
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    wreade1872 wrote: »
    You should know the Castle is unfinished so be prepared for a rather abrupt ending. I think i liked it much more a few weeks after finishing it, it tends to stay with you.

    Also there's a black comedy web series based on the Trial, its pretty decent i gave up on it after a few episodes because black comedy isn't really my thing but i also havn't read the Trial so maybe i'll look at it again if i ever get around to reading that.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWC3VbS1VRaG3MPMdo7PqEA

    Yeah I just finished The Castle, thoroughly enjoyed it, but to say it ends abruptly is putting it lightly! Its a pity, I really wanted to know what would happen. Reading Metamorphaseis now, which is a very different to The Castle and The Trial.

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  • #62
    wreade1872
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    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Yeah I just finished The Castle, thoroughly enjoyed it, but to say it ends abruptly is putting it lightly! Its a pity, I really wanted to know what would happen. Reading Metamorphaseis now, which is a very different to The Castle and The Trial.

    I have a whacky theory that you can read the career of Steerpike from Titus Groan (the first of the Gormenghast trilogy) as the unfinished part to this :confused: .

    It makes no logical sense but if you imagine he finally made it into the castle not by normal means but rather through a portal in a wardrobe, falling down a rabbit-hole or perhaps just dying, then it kinda works :P .


  • #63
    GLaDOS
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    Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

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  • #64
    GLaDOS
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    The Plague - Albert Camus


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  • #65
    GLaDOS
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    Following on from Greek Mythology I had read previously, the story of the birth of Rome

    The Aeneid - Virgil

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