The Book thread

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Re: The Book thread

Postby Bizza » Wed Aug 21, 2013 12:38 am

Just finished reading Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, that ending...

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I'm also now slightly freaked out by the fact that the bus I get to work every day is the number 19 :lol:
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Re: The Book thread

Postby Brendancoles » Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:53 pm

Bizza wrote:Just finished reading Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, that ending...

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I'm also now slightly freaked out by the fact that the bus I get to work every day is the number 19 :lol:


Ha excellent! After reading them they were only thing I could think about for around a week afterwards.


On a seperate note just finished the Lovely Bones- which was brilliant and now onto The Lord of the Flies which I'm halfway through only having started it on the tube this morning.

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Re: The Book thread

Postby Brendancoles » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:46 pm

Just started Game of Thrones today - mainly so no one can give away anymore spoilers than i'm already aware of.

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Re: The Book thread

Postby Darkweasel » Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:11 pm

Just started reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz.

Then Dee Snider's autobiography turned up in the post and now I don't know whether to jump straight into that instead.



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Re: The Book thread

Postby Bisset » Wed Oct 09, 2013 2:47 pm

Just finished Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart. Not as good as his other works but still enjoyable.

Back to the Silmarillion for me!
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Re: The Book thread

Postby skull-wart » Wed Oct 09, 2013 3:29 pm

Bisset wrote:Just finished Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart. Not as good as his other works but still enjoyable.

Back to the Silmarillion for me!


The Silmarillion is about as tedious as reading The Old Testament...
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Re: The Book thread

Postby CrappyMike » Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:12 pm

Started re-reading lion of Macedon by David gemmell. This and dark prince are right up there in my favourite books, both as a pair and individually.

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Re: The Book thread

Postby MetalBeast » Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:10 pm

skull-wart wrote:
Bisset wrote:Just finished Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart. Not as good as his other works but still enjoyable.

Back to the Silmarillion for me!


The Silmarillion is about as tedious as reading The Old Testament...


Just listen to Nightfall In Middle Earth, innit? :lol:
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Re: The Book thread

Postby Bisset » Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:51 am

Dove in and out of the Silmarillion and finally finished it. Thoroughly enjoyable!
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Re: The Book thread

Postby skull-wart » Mon Dec 30, 2013 2:17 pm

Two thirds of the way through 1984. The amount of listing in this book is ridiculous - there are lists with at least 9 or 10 words in them halfway through - normally describing some (almost ridiculous) overwhelming depressing totalitarian scenario.
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Re: The Book thread

Postby Applecore » Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:19 pm

Finished John Dies At The End, it was awesome.
Now a quarter of the way through the sequel - "This Book is Full of Spiders"
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Re: The Book thread

Postby Applecore » Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:29 pm

:lol:
Funnily enough, that's not too dissimilar to something that's just happened in the book.
So far it's essentially about a sort-of zombie apocalypse brought on by invisible parasitic spiders.
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Re: The Book thread

Postby metalsam » Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:22 pm

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tempted to also start Plutarch's account of Sparta. I finish Livy's first 5 books on the history of Rome and Malmsteen's biography last week.

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Re: The Book thread

Postby Tet » Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:44 pm

Just finished George RR Martin's two "A dance with dragons" books. Not sure what I'll read next.
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Re: The Book thread

Postby Applecore » Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:25 am

gandalf the red wrote:Are you sure you want to be reading about spiders whilst in Australia? :lol:

At least the giant Aussie spiders are visible, and as far as I'm aware, incapable of taking over your body :yes:
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