Wombat
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Marco Polo is wild fun! Try The Travels of Sir John Mandeville sometime, if you end up liking it.
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Jan '09: What Are You Reading?
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Marco Polo is wild fun! Try The Travels of Sir John Mandeville sometime, if you end up liking it.
Darkwolf71
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After reading Alas, Babylon last month, I picked up The Postman by David Brin to read earlier this week. It's interesting how close the movie was to the source material, especially considering that the folks who finally made the movie used ideas from the book not knowing that the script writers years before had in fact deviated from that very book.
Also, One Who Walked Alone, Robert E. Howard: The Final Years by Novalyne Price Ellis. This book stands apart from the other REH biographies in that it is actually more of a recounting of Ms. Ellis' relationship with Bob Howard in the last two years of his life, done via the journals that she kept at the time to practice her writing skills. It is most tragic to realize that, had their relationship been able to move forward it may (or may not) have given REH something to hold onto when he was told that his mother was in her last days. More tragic is that considering that she put the book together in the early/mid eighties and did not pass until 1999... Robert Howard could very well have lived and wrote for another 50 years or more, well into most of our lifetimes.
R.I.P. Robert Ervin Howard and Novalyne Price Ellis.
Also, One Who Walked Alone, Robert E. Howard: The Final Years by Novalyne Price Ellis. This book stands apart from the other REH biographies in that it is actually more of a recounting of Ms. Ellis' relationship with Bob Howard in the last two years of his life, done via the journals that she kept at the time to practice her writing skills. It is most tragic to realize that, had their relationship been able to move forward it may (or may not) have given REH something to hold onto when he was told that his mother was in her last days. More tragic is that considering that she put the book together in the early/mid eighties and did not pass until 1999... Robert Howard could very well have lived and wrote for another 50 years or more, well into most of our lifetimes.
R.I.P. Robert Ervin Howard and Novalyne Price Ellis.
bento
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I love this holiday break as I can usually get several books read during the two weeks off from work. I finished The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather, Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War by Kaveh Farrokh, and The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart.
On the nightstand now is Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union and Julius Ceasar's The Gallic War.
On the nightstand now is Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union and Julius Ceasar's The Gallic War.
S. Baldrick
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I am re-reading Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner.
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Non-fiction, I'm reading Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb).
Fascinating stuff.
Fascinating stuff.
Protagonist
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Game Night by Jonny Nexus and I'm enjoying it a lot so far, even though the pterry influence is very obvious. Which isn't a bad thing really, but it makes me think "oh that sounds familiar" occasionally. Despite this I would still say that the overall style is pretty original and I like where the story is heading right now.
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