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[Loerwyn]

I picked up the last two City Watch books (Thud! and Night Watch) from my nan today, so I'll get around to them once I've finished FoC, Jingo and Fifth Elephant. Oh, and if I fancy a break I've got the two Moist von Lipwig books, too.

On an aside, I tried to get into The Death of Chaos by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. again today, but I'm just getting nowhere with it. None of it made any sense to me, so I'll probably try again after I reread The Magic of Recluce at some point in the future.

[Morbo]

AllThatJazz wrote...

Unseen Academicals is what I'm reading now. Though it'll have to do a lot to get anywhere near the Watch books. I love Vimes.

Meh, Unseen Academicals. I've read all 38 Discworld novels now and Unseen Academicals is the first one that I've honestly been disappointed in.

I just can't stand how the UU faculty has turned out now. They've been among my most favourite book characters ever since Moving Pictures when Ridcully became Archchancellor, not many can make me smile like them.
But in Unseen Academicals, what with certain changes, I mostly felt apathetic towards them, and towards the whole book.

Luckily I Shall Wear Midnight convinced me that Pratchett hasn't lost it...yet (stupid hated Alzheimer's), as it was pretty good.

OnlyShallow89 wrote...

I picked up the last two City Watch
books (Thud! and Night Watch) from my nan today, so I'll get around to
them once I've finished FoC, Jingo and Fifth Elephant. Oh, and if I
fancy a break I've got the two Moist von Lipwig books, too.
On an aside, I tried to get into The Death of Chaos
by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. again today, but I'm just getting nowhere with
it. None of it made any sense to me, so I'll probably try again after I
reread The Magic of Recluce at some point in the future.

Ah, Night Watch. Together with Small Gods and Reaper Man in my personal top 3.
The Moist Von Lipwig books aren't bad either, though thanks to the Going Postal film I'm never gonna think the same of golems again, what with the horrible "men in rubber suit look" they had in that. At least it had a very fine looking Angua!

And I vaguely remember reading a few of the Recluce books YEAAAAAAARS ago. Well the main thing I remember is the sense of confusion I had when reading them.
Wasn't the order in which the books were published very different from the chronological order of the events in them?

[Loerwyn]

Morbo wrote...
The Moist Von Lipwig books aren't bad either, though thanks to the Going Postal film I'm never gonna think the same of golems again, what with the horrible "men in rubber suit look" they had in that. At least it had a very fine looking Angua!

Morbo wrote...
And I vaguely remember reading a few of the Recluce books YEAAAAAAARS ago. Well the main thing I remember is the sense of confusion I had when reading them.
Wasn't the order in which the books were published very different from the chronological order of the events in them?

Yes, very much so. The Magic of Recluce is the first book, Death of Chaos is fourth or fifth, I believe, but it's the only sequel to MoR. Modesitt's been jumping all over the history of the islands with his series, some books focus on Justen, some on various other characters and time spans.

[Loerwyn]

That's Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, and it's from Going Postal (The Sky One adaptation, and she's playing Angua von Uberwald).

[AllThatJazz]

Morbo wrote...

AllThatJazz wrote...

Unseen Academicals is what I'm reading now. Though it'll have to do a lot to get anywhere near the Watch books. I love Vimes.

Meh, Unseen Academicals. I've read all 38 Discworld novels now and Unseen Academicals is the first one that I've honestly been disappointed in.

I just can't stand how the UU faculty has turned out now. They've been among my most favourite book characters ever since Moving Pictures when Ridcully became Archchancellor, not many can make me smile like them.
But in Unseen Academicals, what with certain changes, I mostly felt apathetic towards them, and towards the whole book.

Luckily I Shall Wear Midnight convinced me that Pratchett hasn't lost it...yet (stupid hated Alzheimer's), as it was pretty good.

OnlyShallow89 wrote...

I picked up the last two City Watch
books (Thud! and Night Watch) from my nan today, so I'll get around to
them once I've finished FoC, Jingo and Fifth Elephant. Oh, and if I
fancy a break I've got the two Moist von Lipwig books, too.
On an aside, I tried to get into The Death of Chaos
by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. again today, but I'm just getting nowhere with
it. None of it made any sense to me, so I'll probably try again after I
reread The Magic of Recluce at some point in the future.

Ah, Night Watch. Together with Small Gods and Reaper Man in my personal top 3.
The Moist Von Lipwig books aren't bad either, though thanks to the Going Postal film I'm never gonna think the same of golems again, what with the horrible "men in rubber suit look" they had in that. At least it had a very fine looking Angua!

And I vaguely remember reading a few of the Recluce books YEAAAAAAARS ago. Well the main thing I remember is the sense of confusion I had when reading them.
Wasn't the order in which the books were published very different from the chronological order of the events in them?

Haven't bought I Shall Wear Midnight Yet. All the Watch titles are marvellous, though. And Death (plus Death of Rats) obviously legendary. So gutted for Terry Pratchett. Alzheimer's is utterly grim.

I just haven't been able to get into the tv adaptations, though. Despite having read all of the books televised so far, I find the films confusing and disorganised, and nowhere near as funny as they should be. I don't know what's happening, even though I know how the story goes. Weird. So much of TP's humour is about word-play and using language cleverly. I'm not convinced it translates brilliantly to screen 

Edit: Though yeah, Angua actress very very pretty

Modifié par AllThatJazz, 16 octobre 2010 - 10:22 .

[Loerwyn]

I'll (shamefully) admit that I've really only been reading Discworld for a few weeks now (I've started with the City Watch), and as such I'm not really clued up to how faithful they are. My nan really likes them, though (She's the one whose Discworld books I'm borrowing), so I guess they can't be too bad.

I do agree, though, a lot of Pratchett's humour lies within words and wordplay. Some does translate into film, but they were still enjoyable productions.

[Loerwyn]

Finished Feet of Clay last night (I think), and I'm taking a break from Discworld to read Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice, which has been sat on my shelf for absolutely forever.

[ObserverStatus]

Ryoko's blog

[mousestalker]

Robert Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century



What sucks is only volume one is out. It ends right when he marries Virginia Gerstenfeld. Really good read and has lots of interesting information about Heinlein.

[Morbo]

Hmmm, thinking about either rereading Martin's A song of Ice and Fire, in preparation of the HBO miniseries, or Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly (or perhaps watch the rotoscoped film version starring Keanu Reeves!)

Choices, choices.

OnlyShallow89 wrote...

Finished Feet of Clay last night (I think), and I'm taking a break from Discworld to read Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice, which has been sat on my shelf for absolutely forever.

Hobb's work is good stuff.
If you like it, also check out the Tawny Man trilogy, the sequel to the Farseer trilogy of which Assassin's Apprentice is part. Also the Liveship Traders trilogy, my favourite amongst Hobb's books, which takes place in the same universe but with new characters and all.

[AceTrilby101]

Well, just finished reading Mogworld by 'Yahtzee' Croshaw (hilarious book, by the way )

So now I'm back to reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy for my dissertation and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath for a study of the poet.
I kinda miss Discworld right about now... guess I'll get back to some Pratchett when all these essays die down

Also, Cpt Obvious, it depends what kind of time period you're looking at, or if you want something fiction or non-fiction.
In general, I'd say most of the books by Margaret Elphinstone are supposed to be pretty good, and for something non-fiction maybe Band of Brothers by Stephen A. Ambrose?

Modifié par AceTrilby101, 22 octobre 2010 - 08:24 .

[Loerwyn]

Morbo wrote...
Hobb's work is good stuff.
If you like it, also check out the Tawny Man trilogy, the sequel to the Farseer trilogy of which Assassin's Apprentice is part. Also the Liveship Traders trilogy, my favourite amongst Hobb's books, which takes place in the same universe but with new characters and all.

Doesn't it go Farseer > Liveship > Tawny Man? I know the last two link in some way and if you read them in the wrong order then you spoil the other.

AceTrilby101 wrote...
Well, just finished reading Mogworld by 'Yahtzee' Croshaw (hilarious book, by the way ../../../images/forum/emoticons/lol.png)

My copy should arrive either tomorrow or Monday! 

[Crippledcarny]

Capt. Obvious wrote...

I'm looking for books on history. If anybody knows any good books on history, well, let me know.

Like AceTrilby said, it fully depends on what point in History you are wanting to look at. I really would not recommend just picking anything up, as most history books are not meant for an average person to read. They're wrote by and for other historians and will often assume the reader knowns about events that could seem very obscure to a person without a solid background in the subject.

You might want to find someone like Gordon Wood who writes for everyone and not just other historians. He mainly focuses on pre Civil War America so if that doesn't interest you than I wouldn't recommend his writing.

[soignee]

"The Borgia Ring," by Michael White. My inner cynic is wondering how a toxicology report can be done in a day like it was in the book, but. It's action/crime fluff, and so far enjoyable.

After that one, "Sixty One Nails" by Mike Shevdon.



Huh, reading books by Mikes. lulz.

[Loerwyn]

Put Assassin's Apprentice on hold already. Why?

Mogworld by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw arrived this morning. Yesssssssssssssssss.

[Maria13]

Just finished Iain M Banks' "Surface Detail" on my new Kindle, great, great stuff.



Love The Culture, would apply for citizenship tomorrow...

[Maria13]

Capt. Obvious wrote...

I'm looking for books on history. If anybody knows any good books on history, well, let me know.

"Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel.  It's about Thomas Cromwell a commoner/merchant who became a prime adviser to Henry VIII it's very poetic in patches and a rollicking good read.

[RuiZuZaKuro]

Hmm... Right now I guess it's the Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce. Most be like the third or fourth time I'm reading them, I really like them. All of Tamora Pierce's books are good but I like this series the best.

And I also read The Gentleman Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch (for the second time) not long ago, also good books.

Modifié par RuiZuZaKuro, 23 octobre 2010 - 09:30 .

[soignee]

RuiZuZaKuro wrote...

Hmm... Right now I guess it's the Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce. Most be like the third or fourth time I'm reading them, I really like them. All of Tamora Pierce's books are good but I like this series the best.

And I also read The Gentleman Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch (for the second time) not long ago, also good books.

My favourite out of her work is the Protector of the Small series. Really, really liked Kel. She had no magic to fall back on, you see. Alanna always had Convinent Magical Abilities that helped certain situations.  One of these days I'll play a Cousland based on my love of Tamora Pierce heroines, her writing really shaped my teenage years. 

[Nerevar-as]

Maria13 wrote...

Just finished Iain M Banks' "Surface Detail" on my new Kindle, great, great stuff.

Love The Culture, would apply for citizenship tomorrow...

I´ve read Consider Phlebas and Matter. Are the others in the same line, or are they a bit more cheerful?

[Jiggasaurus]

House of Chains - fourth in the Malazan series, also have the second book in the Demon Trilogy 'The Desert Spear' by Peter V. Brett in waiting.

[Maria13]

Nerevar-as wrote...

Maria13 wrote...

Just finished Iain M Banks' "Surface Detail" on my new Kindle, great, great stuff.

Love The Culture, would apply for citizenship tomorrow...

I´ve read Consider Phlebas and Matter. Are the others in the same line, or are they a bit more cheerful?

I'd say "Surface Detail" has a happy ending...  Have you read, "The Player of Games" and "Use of Weapons"? They are two of his best.