Re-opening of the Nocturnal Library

SueBoom · 23-08-2013 8:53pm

I just finished Good Omens. Amazing. Hilarious. Crowley and Aziraphale are the perfect double act. Loved it.

I'm about to start American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It'll be the first book of his I've read. Looking forward to it.

entropi · 23-08-2013 10:00pm

SueBoom wrote: »

Aren't they finished?

Not yet. There are at least two books that he has to finish but working on the TV version delayed him somewhat.

Going to get started on The Passage (by Justin Cronin) soon, since it came highly recommended as a different story about vamps and their interaction with the human race.

Lithium93_ · 23-08-2013 11:35pm

Started reading this for the 2nd time, damn entertaining book

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cyberwolf77 · 24-08-2013 1:19am

SueBoom wrote: »

I just finished Good Omens. Amazing. Hilarious. Crowley and Aziraphale are the perfect double act. Loved it.

I'm about to start American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It'll be the first book of his I've read. Looking forward to it.

keep a notepad handy so you remember the things you want to look up. I have read it five times and still find new things I want to check out.

FewFew · 26-08-2013 3:08pm

SueBoom wrote: »

I just finished Good Omens. Amazing. Hilarious. Crowley and Aziraphale are the perfect double act. Loved it.

I'm about to start American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It'll be the first book of his I've read. Looking forward to it.

American Gods is fantastic.

cyberwolf77 · 26-08-2013 5:19pm

FewFew wrote: »

American Gods is fantastic.

American Gods 2 is pretty damn good as well

salacious crumb · 30-08-2013 2:55pm

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

American Gods 2 is pretty damn good as well

Do you mean Anansi Boys, the Shadow short story in Fragile Things or has he actually started/finished the direct sequel he said he was going to write and nobody told me? :pac:

Currently reading Robert A Heinlein's JOB: A comedy of justice. First time I've read one of his books, it's a comedy about travelling through alternative universes. It's been quite entertaining so far.

FewFew · 05-09-2013 12:06am

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

American Gods 2 is pretty damn good as well

Say Whaaaaaaat?

cyberwolf77 · 05-09-2013 12:13am

I meant Anansi Boys

FewFew · 07-09-2013 7:11pm

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

I meant Anansi Boys

Damn straight ya did :cool:

Angron · 07-09-2013 8:41pm

Got two new books today,

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Starting Siege of Castellax first, it's quite good so far.

09-09-2013 11:58pm

Just starting 'Exquisite Corpse' by Poppy Z Brite.

Zwillinge · 13-09-2013 2:42pm

Finished City of Bones, what a pile that was...

Have since started The Count of Monte Cristo - so far, epic adventures

:D

SilverScreen · 13-09-2013 10:46pm

Finished this amazing and entertaining book:

Now reading this:
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Delirium · 13-09-2013 10:53pm

Currently reading The Moth - 50 true stories. The stories are a collection of some of the stories that have been told at Moth nights.

It's a varied selection of stories but all of them so far have been entertaining in their own way.

salacious crumb · 17-09-2013 12:50pm

That looks pretty interesting.

entropi · 25-09-2013 8:43pm

Bought 1Q84 books 1-3 today, looking forward to reading them once I finish The Passage

salacious crumb · 25-09-2013 9:13pm

After seeing a trailer for Filth, decided to re-read Irvine Welsh's Filth before the movie comes out.

30-09-2013 7:27pm

salacious crumb wrote: »

After seeing a trailer for Filth, decided to re-read Irvine Welsh's Filth before the movie comes out.

What a book! Wonder if they'll tone it down for the film version.

cyberwolf77 · 30-09-2013 8:39pm

Just finished The legend of Luther Strode. I really need his training materials

salacious crumb · 01-10-2013 9:09am

Deleted User wrote: »

What a book! Wonder if they'll tone it down for the film version.

I'd imagine they might have to :pac:

sammyjo90 · 08-10-2013 11:56pm

I haven't read the book but I went to see Filth last night..quite interested to see if they did in fact tone it down

Currently reading Needful Things by Stephen King

fenris · 09-10-2013 12:27am

Reading the Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker at the moment, it is good but making my head hurt because I read too much of it too late last night and now all the characters names are mixed u in my head.

salacious crumb · 09-10-2013 9:18am

sammyjo90 wrote: »

I haven't read the book but I went to see Filth last night..quite interested to see if they did in fact tone it down

Currently reading Needful Things by Stephen King

One of my favourite King books.

Filth was toned down a little, but not very much. They did leave a hell of a lot out of the movie, and the sequencing of events was wrong, but MacEvoy was great, as were Shirley Henderson and Eddie Marsan, and I did laugh out loud a lot of times.

sammyjo90 · 09-10-2013 11:58am

Yeah they were very good, must pick up the book so and find out what was missing!

salacious crumb · 09-10-2013 12:12pm

sammyjo90 wrote: »

Yeah they were very good, must pick up the book so and find out what was missing!

Have you read any of Welsh's other books?

sammyjo90 · 09-10-2013 12:19pm

salacious crumb wrote: »

Have you read any of Welsh's other books?

Nope, i kinda just got stuck reading the same genres for years so now im trying to break free!

salacious crumb · 09-10-2013 12:21pm

sammyjo90 wrote: »

Nope, i kinda just got stuck reading the same genres for years so now im trying to break free!

Which genres?

If you've seen Trainspotting, read Porno. It's the sequel set ten years later.

sammyjo90 · 09-10-2013 12:36pm

Mainly crime and thriller stuff.
I started reading Raymond Feists massive collection of books and quite enjoyed the first three but unfortunately the person I was getting them from no longer supplies me with them so I need a new source for them!

Oh nice, I will look that up

salacious crumb · 09-10-2013 12:56pm

sammyjo90 wrote: »

Mainly crime and thriller stuff.

Ever read any Elmore Leonard?

sammyjo90 · 09-10-2013 1:01pm

I know the name but nope, we will be here all day if we play this game! I spent the last while reading Tess Gerritsen's series

salacious crumb · 09-10-2013 1:16pm

Fair enough.

But seriously, read some Elmore Leonard, greatest crime writer there ever was :pac:

sammyjo90 · 09-10-2013 1:19pm

well I can hardly say no to that raving review can I? Maybe after a brief break away from the crime..im not one of these people that can read two separate book at the same time!

salacious crumb · 09-10-2013 1:22pm

To get back to your Feist post, I've never actually read any of his stuff, although I have been tempted. I used to work in a sci fi/fantasy book/comic/merch etc. shop and after encountering the f*cking anoraks who read Feist, I just couldn't bring myself to do it

sammyjo90 · 09-10-2013 1:29pm

haha I know what you mean, it was my ex that made me read them (he was one of those anoraks). I read Magician to be nice! I have to say I spent about two thirds of the book going this is bull**** as I wouldn't have been into fantasy stuff AT ALL..but towards the end it got really good and then just had to read the other two books that deal with the same characters.
Have no idea what all the others are about though (THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY!!)..so I may not like those ones as much,or it could just be the same case all over again, hate the first half of the first book, get invested, read the rest! unless they all have the same characters then i'm all for it!

salacious crumb · 09-10-2013 2:41pm

I may just give him a go so. The only fantasy books I've ever read were LOTR, I'm much more of a sci fi fan.

Angron · 09-10-2013 3:07pm

Currently re-reading the first omnibus, then I'll start re-reading the second one.

sammyjo90 · 09-10-2013 3:31pm

salacious crumb wrote: »

I may just give him a go so. The only fantasy books I've ever read were LOTR, I'm much more of a sci fi fan.

harry potter was about as fantasy as it got for me! no harm in trying them, you don't have to commit yourself to all 30 of them!

Sephiroth_dude · 09-10-2013 3:44pm

sammyjo90 wrote: »

haha I know what you mean, it was my ex that made me read them (he was one of those anoraks). I read Magician to be nice! I have to say I spent about two thirds of the book going this is bull**** as I wouldn't have been into fantasy stuff AT ALL..but towards the end it got really good and then just had to read the other two books that deal with the same characters.
Have no idea what all the others are about though (THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY!!)..so I may not like those ones as much,or it could just be the same case all over again, hate the first half of the first book, get invested, read the rest! unless they all have the same characters then i'm all for it!

salacious crumb wrote: »

I may just give him a go so. The only fantasy books I've ever read were LOTR, I'm much more of a sci fi fan.

I read faerie tale by Raymond Feist,A good book I must say,thats the only book Ive read by him though.

I'm still trying to get through The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two by Patrick Rothfuss,Such a great book,much prefer this one to the first one

.Hopefully book 3 will be out next year.

cyberwolf77 · 09-10-2013 11:32pm

You want a good fantasy read, give Jim Butcher's Dresden Files a go. Phillip Marlowe solving crimes with magic

SueBoom · 28-10-2013 3:08pm

I just recently started reading The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It's proved to be a wonderful distraction.

sammyjo90 · 03-12-2013 6:36pm

Starting the Dark Tower series by Mr King.. help me jebus!

salacious crumb · 04-12-2013 9:16am

Deus Irae - Philip K Dick and Roger Zelazny.

I love Dick :pac:

Ted_YNWA · 04-12-2013 9:18am

salacious crumb wrote: »

I love Dick :pac:

tee-hee

salacious crumb · 04-12-2013 9:21am

An oldie, but a goldie :pac:

cgh · 04-12-2013 12:36pm

Im just starting Game of Thrones Book 4......

anything by James Rollins or Matthew Reilly is good too

Delirium · 07-12-2013 2:28pm

Complaint: From Minor Moans to Principled Protests by Julian Baggini

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All major social advances started with a complaint: Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela each brought about change by protesting that the status quo was wrong and needed to be rethought. Complaint has revolutionised society - yet it is now associated primarily with trivial moans and frivolous litigation.

Renowned popular philosopher Julian Baggini shows that in order to reclaim complaint as a positive force, we need to know what we wrongly complain about, and why. He explores every kind of complaint, from the contradictory to the paranoid and the Luddite, and presents a unique and revealing survey into whether Britons complain more than Americans, men more than women, the old more than the young.

This fascinating, witty insight into an essential part of the human condition will help you find the best way to bridge the gap between how things are and how we think they ought to be.

Enjoyable and interesting read so far

liliq · 08-12-2013 2:46am

Has anyone read the Guillermo del torro/ chuck Harris (I think) trilogy, the Strain?
On the third one now, it's taken me ages to get started reading it, but it's a great trilogy.

I loved the Raymond E Feist books, Magician & the Riftwar Saga were the books that got me into science fantasy. I keep threatening to re read Magician, again, but I don't read now as much as I used to and it's a bit of an intimidating tome!
Hope I'm not one of the anoraks! ðŸ˜¦

Fluff is easier to read these days

fenris · 08-12-2013 3:47am

I enjoyed them, the last book was a bit hard to get back into because of the way the start was written but worth finishing

Lithium93_ · 04-01-2014 4:10am

Started reading this, have to admit it's a good read so far

Then i got this lined up for afterwards

Re-opening of the Nocturnal Library

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