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Your Text Here wrote: »Reading A Storm of Swords now, slightly obsessed with ASOIAF.
ZOMGZZZZ ILY JON SNOW!!!
/fangirl
There are so many great characters in the series. Arya, Sandor Clegane, Robb, Jaime, Tryion. All brilliant.
I read these three brilliant graphic novels in the last three days.
All were sublime. The Dark Knight Strikes Again was my favourite, though, almost purely because of the chaos towards the end. Love it.0 -
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Your Text Here wrote: »Reading A Storm of Swords now, slightly obsessed with ASOIAF.ZOMGZZZZ ILY JON SNOW!!!/fangirlThere are so many great characters in the series.Arya, Sandor Clegane, Robb, Jaime, Tryion.All brilliant.
Do you mind spoilering them as I now know who is going to survive through the last 100 pages or so of A Clash of Kings. Too late for me now (not that bothered but would have preferred not knowing) but others may prefer not to see.0 -
KnifeWRENCH wrote: »
^ Alas, the cover of my edition isn't as cool as that one.
I'm just about halfway through. Very strange book, and a little difficult to get into at first, but really really good. The Satanic Verses was great too, so I'll definitely be getting more of Salman Rushdie' stuff when I've finished this.
Finally finished this tonight. I think Salman Rushdie is a little demented; he's an excellent storyteller but his stories are flippin' mental. This was quite a difficult book to read and definitely requires a little patience and determination to get through it. But it was well worth it.
I think I preferred The Satanic Verses though.
Not quite sure what to read next; have a big stack of books on my desk, just waiting for me. Om nom nom books.....0 -
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I finished Magician by Raymond E. Feist last week. I really enjoyed it, it was easy to read, and it held my attention for the most part, and I really liked the way Feist skipped bits that really didn't matter, like when people were travelling for weeks between cities. A lot of fantasy books, especially, seem to give every single little detail of the story, which is rarely necessary.
If you liked that try anything by Maggie Furey. Start with the Artefacts of Power books, Aurian, Harp of Winds, Sword of Flame and Dhiammara. They're amazing. I was never really into proper fantasy until my Dad gave me these...I've read the series 4 times now
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SarahBeep! wrote: »Saw this in Brown Thomas and I couldn't leave it behind.
+1
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Your Text Here wrote: »Oh I'm sorry Jackobyte! I'll keep that in mind
No bother, you are fine. I was just saying that stating who is going to survive through A Clash of Kings should probably be spoilered.0 -
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I once read "A Clockwork Orange" followed by "American Psycho". Never been right since. :pac:
Heh I did the same, except for me it was the other way round.
Should have finished it off with Nineteen Eighty Four; I'd probably still be huddled in a dark corner, weeping. :pac:
American Psycho is pretty good (though the clothes descriptions get so boring.) A Clockwork Orange is one of my all time favourite books, must reread it at some point.
I'm almost finished Notes on a Scandal; very good book, though it gets increasingly more serious as it goes on and so some of the laugh out loud dark humour at the start evaporates a little bit. Still a great read though.
Gonna read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep when I'm finished.0 -
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Banjo Fella wrote: »The most recent book I read was "A Clockwork Orange". It was a fun book, mostly because of the challenge involved in riddling out the meaning of each of the hundreds of semi-nonsense/semi-Russian slang words the author invented for it. On the other hand, delving so closely into a first-person account of a psychopath's tolchockery got to be fairly unsettling eventually... I didn't quite feel right for a few days after finishing it. Which's a sign of a good book, I suppose, when it affects you like that! One of the main ideas at the end of the book was that the character's violence was excused by his youth, which I really don't think I agree with... I liked the significance of the book's title, though, the idea of something natural, capable of sweetness and goodness being insidiously forced into behaving like something cold and mechanical. It's a good one, anyway, but fairly damn disturbing too!
I couldn't read the damn thing because I had no patience for the nonsensical vocab employed! Nontheless I will go back to it eventually.
Half way through this atm, its fun!
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We are doing Macbeth in school and the teacher was explaining how the witches had no definitive sex when a guy in my class with Aspergers put up his hand and asked the teacher could they be summed up in the term "Humanoid transsexuals". She reckons they could be.Our teacher pointed out these before we'd even started the book. Great man. 0
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