[April] What are you reading?
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Mark, all you need is a thread asking us what we're wearing and you'd be the perfect overly attached partner 
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I'm re-reading Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem. It's a book about making contact with another species and the extreme difficulties the crew face when confronted with something truly alien.
I remember playing the Battle of Poitiers using the old 2nd Edition Mass Combat rules. Is it an historical retelling or more of a fictional account with the battle as a backdrop?
.I'm re-reading Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem. It's a book about making contact with another species and the extreme difficulties the crew face when confronted with something truly alien.
I remember playing the Battle of Poitiers using the old 2nd Edition Mass Combat rules. Is it an historical retelling or more of a fictional account with the battle as a backdrop?
delericho
Legend
"A Crown Imperilled" by Feist. I'm about halfway through and it's... okay. Good enough for me to continue with (and finish out the series), but probably not good enough for me to recommend to someone who hadn't read Feist before - my recommendation there would be to stop after the Serpentwar series.
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
Mark, all you need is a thread asking us what we're wearing and you'd be the perfect overly attached partner
Particularly since I'm wearing nothing but a smile.
tomBitonti
Hero
Mark, all you need is a thread asking us what we're wearing and you'd be the perfect overly attached partner
I'm re-reading Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem. It's a book about making contact with another species and the extreme difficulties the crew face when confronted with something truly alien.
I remember playing the Battle of Poitiers using the old 2nd Edition Mass Combat rules. Is it an historical retelling or more of a fictional account with the battle as a backdrop?
Fiasco's a great read. Where did you find your copy? There was a line in print some years ago, but I don't see them on the stands anymore.
Still needing to read Invicible, and a couple of others. I rather liked The Futurological Congress and Eden. The four are in a similar style, a bit different than the Cyberiad, and different than his fictional reviews (which I find I dislike).
Thx!
TomB
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Mark Chance
Boingy! Boingy!
Still reading Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth. Also reading Cervantes by Jean Canavaggio, which my son is also reading for a report he's doing for this Renaissance & Reformation class. Finished up Dungeon World last night.
EricNoah
Adventurer
Started The Map of Time by Felix Palma http://www.amazon.com/Map-Time-Novel-Felix-Palma/dp/1451683030
But put that aside to read some non-fiction: Devil in the White City http://www.amazon.com/Devil-White-City-Madness-Changed/dp/0375725601
Listening to Cryptonomicon (42 hours long!). http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B0036NK9D6&qid=1365019301&sr=1-1
But put that aside to read some non-fiction: Devil in the White City http://www.amazon.com/Devil-White-City-Madness-Changed/dp/0375725601
Listening to Cryptonomicon (42 hours long!). http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B0036NK9D6&qid=1365019301&sr=1-1
They have them in stock in the American Book Center in Amsterdam. Otherwise Amazon has it in stock.
My friend is buying all of Lem's stuff, so I'll be reading them once I plow through the Song of Ice and Fire tomes.
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
Aaaaaaaaaaaand DONE!
Some well described combat scenes, a solid story, fun characters (even if a couple were a bit thin), and a magic sword; what's not to love?!It was worth it, IMO, and the stopping and starting was due to other commitments on my time, nothing to do with the actual book. I think I'm going to tackle the first book of his Saxon Chronicles now.
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