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Offline StarSlayer

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Wrapped Up:

Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear

Started:

Dan Simmons' Hyperion

Canterbury Tales...  In Space!
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Wrapped Up:

Dan Simmons' Hyperion

Dan Simmons' The Fall Of Hyperion

Dan Simmons' Endymion

Started:

Dan Simmons' The Rise Of Endymion
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
Currently reading through George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series after getting hooked on the TV show.

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014


wild cards

 
Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
it'll all end in tears, and not the delicious kind
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
Ranger's Apprentice. On book seven now. Love the way the characters are done :yes:
Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move." - Captain America

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Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius - Silent Threat: Reborn - Operation Templar - Sync, Transcend, Windmills - The Antagonist - Inferno, Inferno: Alliance

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Wrapped Up:

Dan Simmons' Hyperion

Dan Simmons' The Fall Of Hyperion

Dan Simmons' Endymion

Dan Simmons' The Rise Of Endymion

And with that folks I have finished the Hyperion Cantos.
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”

 
Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
Finished: Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw

A pretty good adventure/comedy story, with some meaningfulness thrown in too. A recommended book.

Starting: God Engines by Jhon Scalzi

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Right in the middle of "Consider Phlebas" by Banks.

If you haven't read any of the other culture books yet I can just recommend to keep on going :)

One of my favorite universes and most favorite authors ... who sadly left this world way too early.

 
Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
Starting: God Engines by John Scalzi

Well that was quick. What's a word for a book that's too long to be considered a short story, but too short to be considered a novel?

 

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What's a word for a book that's too long to be considered a short story, but too short to be considered a novel?
Novella.
« Last Edit: April 25, 2014, 05:17:46 pm by Lorric »

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
Just finished Against A Dark Background by Iain M. Banks. Currently re-reading Solo Command by Aaron Allston.

...It greatly saddens me that both of those authors are dead.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Codethulhu GitHub wgah'nagl fhtagn.

schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

 

Offline An4ximandros

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
Reading Dune again. After a long ass-period of being practically a void in terms of creativity (due to depression, THANKS OBAMA), re-reading the first book makes me feel like my imagination is firing up again...

Now I need to re-watch some drawing vids and draw some Sardaukar dropping off dragonfly ornis blowing **** up with lasguns!

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Started:

Cpt. Hara Tameichi's Japanese Destroyer Captain
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”

  
Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
For he past week or so I have been burning through Worm.  I'm nearly 2/3 through it and I'm pretty sure the time I have spent reading it could be measured in days now...
Find me as Hojo Norem elsewhere...

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Offline LordMelvin

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
I have been burning through Worm.

That story was one hell of a trip, I got linked to it last fall, about a week before the final epilogue chapters started going up, and caught up just as it was finishing, and my word, but that's what serial fiction should be.

_____

Speaking of serialized stuff, I just finished the latest Jim Butcher novel (Skin Games, just released today), and have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
I just finished Resident Evil: City of the Dead by S.D. Perry and Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn (per HLP's recommendation). Both of which were very good, especially City of the Dead, I can recommend both.

Right now I'm reading BattleTech: Way of the Clans by Robert Thurston with my book club. I'm about four chapters in and it's not bad, but I'm feeling somewhat disappointed given all of the good things I've heard about it. It's still a page turner at times though and I plan on finishing it. I'm not sure what the other book club members think yet.

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Wrapped Up:
Cpt. Hara Tameichi's Japanese Destroyer Captain
This was a very interesting memoir written by one of the most successful Japanese destroyer captains of WW2.  Aside from the 2nd Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, which was such a confused bar fight no single witness could probably clearly describe, his descriptions were typically very accurate.  In addition he's a uncharacteristically outspoken and frank about the actions and errors of his superiors.

Maurice Druon's The Iron King (Book I THE ACCURSED KINGS)
A Historic Fiction account of the fall of Capetian dynasty in France.  It is cited by George R. Martin as one of the inspirations for Game of Thrones.
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
just over  3/4 of the way through Kim Stanley's Red Mars
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2014
I feel like I need some stimuli for writing, and I keep telling myself I should read more, but I'm not really sure what's good and what isn't. Can anyone recommend some scifi/fantasy books/stories with good writing? I know there was a thread for something like this a while back but I couldn't find it.
[16:57] <CommanderDJ> What prompted the decision to split WiH into acts?
[16:58] <battuta> it was long, we wanted to release something
[16:58] <battuta> it felt good to have a target to hit
[17:00] <RangerKarl> not sure if talking about strike mission, or jerking off
[17:00] <CommanderDJ> WUT
[17:00] <CommanderDJ> hahahahaha
[17:00] <battuta> hahahaha
[17:00] <RangerKarl> same thing really, if you think about it