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Started by Syt, March 16, 2009, 01:52:42 AM

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Eddie Teach

#2535
February 03, 2015, 02:09:44 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on February 02, 2015, 10:02:27 AM
Just read Sanderson books people.

A guy best known for giving us Robert Jordan's sloppy seconds?  :hmm:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Grey Fox

#2536
February 03, 2015, 08:49:37 AM
Just do it.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Ed Anger

#2537
February 03, 2015, 09:09:40 AM
No
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Sheilbh

#2538
February 03, 2015, 09:10:48 AM
Just finishing Magnus Magnusson's Story of Scotland.

Need to read some Walter Scott next.
Let's bomb Russia!

Gups

#2539
February 03, 2015, 09:16:42 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 03, 2015, 09:10:48 AM
Just finishing Magnus Magnusson's Story of Scotland.

Need to read some Walter Scott next.

This is a decent modern(ish) alternative.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Kings-Lymond-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B002TJLEQ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422972757&sr=8-1&keywords=game+of+kings


Am halfway through "What Hath God Wroght" by Daniel Howe, following an unusually astute rec by Tim. Have also enjoyed "Babylon" by Paul Kriwaczek, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz and the Short Gentleman by Jon Canter so far this year.

Grey Fox

#2540
February 03, 2015, 09:25:47 AM
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

celedhring

#2541
February 03, 2015, 12:07:04 PM
Harper Lee to publish a sequel of To Kill a Mockingbird  :w00t:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/03/harper-lee-new-novel-to-kill-a-mockingbird

jimmy olsen

#2542
February 03, 2015, 05:32:24 PM
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Eddie Teach

#2543
February 03, 2015, 11:27:57 PM
Anyone got good recommendations on recent Middle Eastern history?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Sheilbh

#2544
February 04, 2015, 08:07:18 PM
Quote from: Gups on February 03, 2015, 09:16:42 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 03, 2015, 09:10:48 AM
Just finishing Magnus Magnusson's Story of Scotland.

Need to read some Walter Scott next.

This is a decent modern(ish) alternative.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Kings-Lymond-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B002TJLEQ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422972757&sr=8-1&keywords=game+of+kings
Thanks, I'll get these.

The Magnusson book is excellent. It's really interesting the way Scotland's history which is as treacherous and two-headed as any nations has been moulded - largely into sentimental pap. I suppose it happens with all countries but it's kind of really extraordinary here because it seemed to happen so contemporaneously (how the Jacobites went from oppressors of Presbyterianism and the Covenant to a symbol of Romantic national identity for example) and because of the current debates - how apt that the vote for Independence was the 45.
Let's bomb Russia!

Capetan Mihali

#2545
February 04, 2015, 08:50:27 PM
Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich by Cinzia Romani
Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
Sabbatai Zevi: The Mystical Messiah by Gershom Scholem
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India by Siddhartha Deb
Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman Stolzoff
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Razgovory

#2546
February 09, 2015, 10:11:06 PM
I finished The Song of Roland.  I was surprised how short it is.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

mongers

#2547
February 09, 2015, 10:48:26 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 09, 2015, 10:11:06 PM
I finished The Song of Roland.  I was surprised how short it is.

What was the b-side like?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

The Brain

#2548
February 10, 2015, 11:08:37 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 09, 2015, 10:11:06 PM
I finished The Song of Roland.  I was surprised how short it is.

Synthesizers. :rolleyes:
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Barrister

#2549
February 10, 2015, 11:22:46 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 10, 2015, 11:08:37 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 09, 2015, 10:11:06 PM
I finished The Song of Roland.  I was surprised how short it is.

Synthesizers. :rolleyes:

:lol:
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