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[Dec] What are you reading?
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Maggan
Writer for CY_BORG, Forbidden Lands and Dragonbane
Ellroy
I'm one thirds into Suicide Hill by James Ellroy. Part of his LA Nori trilogy about Crazy Lloyd Hopkins. I like it, but the cases the hero cracks are kinda hard to find realistic.
After that I'll go for The Black Company. The books as well as the setting.
Cheers!
M.
I'm one thirds into Suicide Hill by James Ellroy. Part of his LA Nori trilogy about Crazy Lloyd Hopkins. I like it, but the cases the hero cracks are kinda hard to find realistic.
After that I'll go for The Black Company. The books as well as the setting.
Cheers!
M.
Wombat
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Let's see...
Last three books were The Wraiths of Will & Pleasure and The Shades of Time & Memory (both by Storm Constantine) and Lion in the Valley (Elizabeth Peters).
Currently reading The Edible Woman (Margaret Atwood). I love all of her writing (well, Alias Grace was not that good, but everyone gets a clunker or two if they write long enough), including her poetry.
Next up is going to be Rivers of Gold (Hugh Thomas) about the exploits of the Spanish in the New World. It's been too long since I've read a straight forward history book!
But after that it will probably be either Phil Rickman or Stanislaw Lem
Last three books were The Wraiths of Will & Pleasure and The Shades of Time & Memory (both by Storm Constantine) and Lion in the Valley (Elizabeth Peters).
Currently reading The Edible Woman (Margaret Atwood). I love all of her writing (well, Alias Grace was not that good, but everyone gets a clunker or two if they write long enough), including her poetry.
Next up is going to be Rivers of Gold (Hugh Thomas) about the exploits of the Spanish in the New World. It's been too long since I've read a straight forward history book!
But after that it will probably be either Phil Rickman or Stanislaw Lem
Cannibal_Kender
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Shadowmarch, by Tad Williams
Desdichado
Hero
Just picked up The Bloody Crown of Conan by, of course, Robert E. Howard, and recently compiled and released by Del Rey. I haven't actually started reading it yet, though.
In general, I don't like the art quite as much as Mark Schultz work in the earlier The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian compilation that Del Rey released last year, though. Gianni might be a better painter, but he's not nearly as good a pencil artist, and since pencil art outnumbers painted works by a 10-1 margin or more, the new book is just disappointing from an art perspective.
Of course, I can always look to my old Frazetta scans for a lot of the Conan artwork, though...
In general, I don't like the art quite as much as Mark Schultz work in the earlier The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian compilation that Del Rey released last year, though. Gianni might be a better painter, but he's not nearly as good a pencil artist, and since pencil art outnumbers painted works by a 10-1 margin or more, the new book is just disappointing from an art perspective.
Of course, I can always look to my old Frazetta scans for a lot of the Conan artwork, though...
Storm Raven
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I'm currently reading The Industrial Society by Raymond Aron. Next I'll probably read Communism, Fascism, and Democracy, by Cohen.
howandwhy99
Adventurer
I just picked up an interesting book called "The Discarded Image" by C.S. Lewis. He bills it as an "outfit" for those looking to read medieval and renaissance literature.
"His theme is the problem of world models and their influence on the mind. He is concerned with the medieval concept or 'image' of the universe, not as a curio or a series of footnotes to the hard passages, but for its emotional and aesthetic impact. This leads him in the end to the reflections on the character of all cosmic images, including our own, which he believes ought to be considered."
It is a nice write up of how medieval peoples in Europe viewed the world and themselves. I personally like the chapters on the heavens and the earth. Plus the one on Longaevi which he terms all long lived mythical folk. (faeries, elves, leprechauns, etc.)
"His theme is the problem of world models and their influence on the mind. He is concerned with the medieval concept or 'image' of the universe, not as a curio or a series of footnotes to the hard passages, but for its emotional and aesthetic impact. This leads him in the end to the reflections on the character of all cosmic images, including our own, which he believes ought to be considered."
It is a nice write up of how medieval peoples in Europe viewed the world and themselves. I personally like the chapters on the heavens and the earth. Plus the one on Longaevi which he terms all long lived mythical folk. (faeries, elves, leprechauns, etc.)
Laurel
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Trade in book places save my bank account 
Didn't want to spend a whole bunch of money on me this season (too much family) so I'm picking up old books I just have around.
For the umpteenth time: The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams
Still trying to see when it gets old
Didn't want to spend a whole bunch of money on me this season (too much family) so I'm picking up old books I just have around.
For the umpteenth time: The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams
Still trying to see when it gets old
Cthulhu's Librarian
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Krug said:
Hey! I was the Assistant Editor on that book! Look in the "Thank Yous" that Poppy lists, and my name is in there-Rich Miller. That was the first time my name made it into a book I worked on!
Oh, and I'm reading Orphans Preferred by Christopher Corbett, a history of the Pony Express. So far I've learned that nobody really knows much about it, other than when it started and ended, what cities it connected, and that it was a miserable failure that was pushed into a national myth by Wild Bill Hickock and his travelling western show (he was a former rider). Most of the ideas that people think of the Pony Express are the results of a few books and articles written years after it ended, by writers with a flair for the dramatic who took great liberties with the facts, making things up and changing things as they needed to tell a good story.
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