What are you reading now?

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I'm on Jingo again for the fifth or sicth time

Was going to start that soon! Good read then?

I like pretty much all of Pratchett's books after Pyrmaids to the point that I re-read them about once a year. Apart from the children's books which I less often listen to as audio books

[statichaos]

Re-reading Heinlein's To Sail Beyond The Sunset. He's like the bad relationship that I just can't let go of. "But his politics are ridiculous, his economic theories insane, the sexual focus on polyamory, underage sex, and incest disturbing, and the women in the stories are so badly written that you wonder just where he was getting his information from!"

"Yes, but I loooooooove him!"

[Wasted Tourist]

I'm on Jingo again for the fifth or sicth time

Was going to start that soon! Good read then?

I like pretty much all of Pratchett's books after Pyrmaids to the point that I re-read them about once a year. Apart from the children's books which I less often listen to as audio books

Yeah, it's around that time his books seem to 'normalize'. Pratchett finally gets a coherent grip of Discworld and his plots mature. Not that previous books weren't fun, but his idea of 'alternative histories' were just too discordant for a fantasy world.

[statichaos]

I'm on Jingo again for the fifth or sicth time

Was going to start that soon! Good read then?

I like pretty much all of Pratchett's books after Pyrmaids to the point that I re-read them about once a year. Apart from the children's books which I less often listen to as audio books

Yeah, it's around that time his books seem to 'normalize'. Pratchett finally gets a coherent grip of Discworld and his plots mature. Not that previous books weren't fun, but his idea of 'alternative histories' were just too discordant for a fantasy world.

I thought that started around Men At Arms.

[owtth]

Possibly my favourite book of all time, still don't know why and can never explain it to others without sounding like a dodgy star trek episode but FUCK what a mind blowing experience.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Possibly my favourite book of all time, still don't know why and can never explain it to others without sounding like a dodgy star trek episode but FUCK what a mind blowing experience.

Kurt is incredible! (Sorry - was )

Very few authors manage to develop such a distinctive style without sounding forced, or without sacrificing the story. Vonnegut was completely unique but it was all natural - it was all him. Even his worst books have that immediately identifiable touch to them that lifts them to somewhere above any genre.

So it goes.

[owtth]

So it goes.

I was gonna say that ye bastard.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

So it goes.

I was gonna say that ye bastard.

So it goes.

[tryllevegg]

Just started reading Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. (Trekkoppfuglen, as it translates to in Norwegian.) I managed to buy that book twice, since I thought I didn't have it (which it turned out I had, obviously, lol), so I gave one copy to my sister. Hopefully she will like it.

[nastler]

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Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore

This is a "magikal" work by Northamptons most famous shaman. Ambitious and accomplished premise and structure. 12 narratives spanning 6000 years and about 30 square miles, all given by nicely voiced characters that builds up a disturbing pattern of themes emerging "like trump cards in a tarot deck" as (Niel Gaiman says in the intro).

Recommended!

(Please don't get put off by the style of speech, in the first chapter. The subsequent chapters are all narrated by more eloquent characters. Moore himself sets aside artifice and addresses us directly at the books close, "this is a fiction, not a lie" after all...)

[Mac_Guffin]

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Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore

This is a "magikal" work by Northamptons most famous shaman. Ambitious and accomplished premise and structure. 12 narratives spanning 6000 years and about 30 square miles, all given by nicely voiced characters that builds up a disturbing pattern of themes emerging "like trump cards in a tarot deck" as (Niel Gaiman says in the intro).

Recommended!

(Please don't get put off by the style of speech, in the first chapter. The subsequent chapters are all narrated by more eloquent characters. Moore himself sets aside artifice and addresses us directly at the books close, "this is a fiction, not a lie" after all...)

I didn't know that Alan Moore wrote a novel... This is the Watchmen Alan Moore, right?

[leo-rcc]

[natselrox]

Virolution and Wonderful Life.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... _voice.jpg[/imgc]

Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore

This is a "magikal" work by Northamptons most famous shaman. Ambitious and accomplished premise and structure. 12 narratives spanning 6000 years and about 30 square miles, all given by nicely voiced characters that builds up a disturbing pattern of themes emerging "like trump cards in a tarot deck" as (Niel Gaiman says in the intro).

Recommended!

(Please don't get put off by the style of speech, in the first chapter. The subsequent chapters are all narrated by more eloquent characters. Moore himself sets aside artifice and addresses us directly at the books close, "this is a fiction, not a lie" after all...)

I didn't know that Alan Moore wrote a novel... This is the Watchmen Alan Moore, right?

Sounds interesting. I'd like to read this.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Castles of Steel, finally.