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Post by housesparrow on Apr 5, 2009 21:45:21 GMT
I'm off now to listen to my audio tape, which will send me off to sleep and I'll have to find the place again in the morning. Sleep tight!
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 7, 2009 22:53:37 GMT
I'm a bit bored, so I'm gonna crack open the REH novel wot I got the other day, "Almuric".  Look at the cracking job that Paizo Publishiing did with the retro look of this novel...pure herioc sci-fi pulp!  paizo.com/store/paizo/planetStories/v5748btpy7x8bAH |
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Post by trubble on Apr 7, 2009 23:27:19 GMT
Night, Alph. Not tonight but tomorrow I will be cracking open Stalingrad. www.amazon.co.uk/Stalingrad-Antony-Beevor/dp/0140249850 My surrogate brother decided to read it because of David Mitchell's Peepshow obsession with it. My surrogate brother loved it and insists on lending it to me and now I am being educated! Via Peepshow.  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 8, 2009 15:37:21 GMT
The entire 6th army thrown into the cauldron and destroyed...three quaters of a million wehrmacht killed or injured, a hundred thousand or so taken prisoner.  Don't expect too many moments of hilarity, Trubb. AH |
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Post by motorist on Apr 8, 2009 15:38:48 GMT
Oi, you spoilt the ending!  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 8, 2009 15:57:40 GMT
Oops. Soz.  AH |
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Post by motorist on Apr 8, 2009 16:17:59 GMT
I shall be starting my collection of Lovecraft stories (in a compilation in sequence) but not right now as I have a shitty cold (I blame Patrick  ) |
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Post by everso on Apr 8, 2009 16:19:28 GMT
I shall be starting my collection of Lovecraft stories (in a compilation in sequence) but not right now as I have a shitty cold (I blame Patrick ) Moto, there are a lot of colds doing the rounds. Hope you're soon feeling better. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 8, 2009 16:23:39 GMT
Lovecraft will be by next big book score, I have a few of his novels lined up for purchase. As for my "Almuric" tale, I only managed to read the forward, due to a combination of thirst, hunger and then sleepiness. But tonight, I travel to another world, a savage world, a world of pure escapist adventure (and scantily clad love-goddesses). If the novel is half as good as the forward was, I reckon it's gonna be a stormer!!! AH |
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Post by Flatypus on Apr 10, 2009 11:51:21 GMT
Lovecraft can get overwhelming, definitely not the Hemingway school of prose. It helps to know the meaning of Squamous
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Post by motorist on Apr 10, 2009 11:52:56 GMT
flat cells that look like fish scales. Hmmm, I suspect those words are involved with hunting disguised Deep Ones |
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Post by everso on Apr 10, 2009 15:38:24 GMT
I'm getting to the last few pages of The Kite Runner. Man, it's a sad book and it's had me welling up a few times.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 10, 2009 22:04:14 GMT
flat cells that look like fish scales. Hmmm, I suspect those words are involved with hunting disguised Deep Ones AH |
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Post by trubble on Apr 11, 2009 20:38:37 GMT
Me and Alph are going for a kip now. We're exhausted from last night.
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Post by everso on Apr 11, 2009 23:08:07 GMT
Lovecraft can get overwhelming, definitely not the Hemingway school of prose. It helps to know the meaning of SquamousDear lord, was there ever such a boring author? We were forced to read The Old Man and the Sea at school. It was bloody torture. |
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Post by swl on Apr 11, 2009 23:23:11 GMT
Me & the wife visited his house. When they were renovating his favourite bar, he bought one of the urinals and set it up in his garden as a drinking fountain for his dog.
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Post by everso on Apr 11, 2009 23:30:49 GMT
Me & the wife visited his house. When they were renovating his favourite bar, he bought one of the urinals and set it up in his garden as a drinking fountain for his dog. This is Key West? Mr. E. and I were there a few years back. Great place! Did you see the cats with the extra toes? |
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Post by swl on Apr 11, 2009 23:48:12 GMT
Aye. I think I posted photos at one point of them cuddlng up to the wife.
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Post by luc on Apr 17, 2009 19:13:25 GMT
Lovecraft can get overwhelming, definitely not the Hemingway school of prose. It helps to know the meaning of SquamousDear lord, was there ever such a boring author? We were forced to read The Old Man and the Sea at school. It was bloody torture. Two words. George Eliot. There is clearly a special place in hell for her. |
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Post by everso on Apr 17, 2009 19:30:44 GMT
Dear lord, was there ever such a boring author? We were forced to read The Old Man and the Sea at school. It was bloody torture. Two words. George Eliot. There is clearly a special place in hell for her. I watched Middlemarch (the series) on t.v. and thought it was pretty good, but I've never read any of her stuff. I prefer Charles Dickens - his books always translate well to the screen (is translate the correct word? Probably not, but you know what I mean) |
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