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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 22, 2006 19:48:37 GMT
Yep PG...me too also as well! I gave up on it and lent it to my Dad (another fantasy/sci-fi fan) he's been struggling through it (The Runes of the Earth) for about 6 weeks! He's also got my R.R. Martin (A feast for Crows)...he's reading that whilst I read the latest Robin Hobb! I think that I single handedly keep our Waterstones in business!
CPBx
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 22, 2006 20:04:12 GMT
4P I watched "The long way round "on tv. They put Ewan through the mill to make that didnt they? OH likes to watch the "American Chopper" on discovery and would watch it all the time if I let him. We have always had bikes OH has 19, all British. My 1958 AJS is currenly undergoing a heart transplant, but as I dont like riding in the rain I have told OH to take his time! Jonah, read "The Hobbit" first or you`ll be in the dark as to the plot. I still have the Green Knowe books and have tried unsuccessfully to get the kids to read them..maybe Ill read them again.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2006 20:25:56 GMT
I've managed to avoid reading Harry Potter, but I love Pratchett. Soul Music and Mort have got to two of the best.
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Post by piggingardener on Aug 22, 2006 20:38:06 GMT
Hello Dee
I liked Soul Music too - I have the video versions of that and Wyrd Sisters - absolutely hilarious. ;D ;D
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 22, 2006 21:51:03 GMT
Soul Music= music with rocks in that was a good one I just scanned the TP books and was shocked at how many there are, ( and worryingly some appear to be missing) the latest one is THUD! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2006 21:54:28 GMT
Anyone read His Dark Materials by Philp Pulman? any good?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2006 6:25:15 GMT
I tried with TP but failed miserably after a few books (the ex was a big fan and i used to buy him the new one every christmas). i have the narnia collection on the shelf though (as yet unread - and i bought them for my daughter 20 odd years ago  ). maybe i'll try them next. ;D |
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Post by rhodadendron on Aug 23, 2006 8:08:01 GMT
Hi Dee
The Dark Materials series is probably my favourite read of recent years and the OH was completely enthralled. I liked the first book Northern Lights best and then the second Subtle Knife not quite so keen on the last (which the OH thought was best). In books of this genre I think I always like the initiation of the 'quest' better than the final battles (felt the same with LOR) but Pulman manages to bring something new to each book. As OH and I had read the book and listened to the Audio version together it was really good to be able to discuss what we were feeling about it - rare that we like the same books.
The OH has always been an avid Pratchett fan and I can remember one of first holidays together in 1989 when we were sunbathing on a beach reading and he kept bursting out laughing. This was quite annoying for me as when asked what was funny he would say "You will have to read the book" and then 5 minutes later would burst out laughing again. THis scenario was repeated on just about every holiday since so Pratchett must have written a helluva lot of books!
I finally heard one of his audio books this year whilst we were travelling and despite being read by Tony Robinson (who I don't like) it was very funny and in fairness to Tony Robinson he does do that stuff very well.
Rhoda
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 23, 2006 11:09:02 GMT
Hlo Rhoda...I thought the first book of the Dark Materials trilogy was the best one as well... although all 3 have their moments...I'm not keen on audio books, although it was different with HP as Stephen Fry (wonderful bloke) read them....
I bought 'The Colour of Magic' (first Discworld book) to take on holiday in Cornwall (camping) about 456,000 years ago (seems like) OH pinched it, and giggled all the way through it..he reads r-e-a-l-l-y-s-l-o-w-l-y (not dim or owt...just likes to take his time) whereas I'm a mad-frantic reader....so I was spitting nails by the time I got hold of the book....at the END of the holiday!
Halcyon Days...
CPBxxxPS what are you guys reading at the moment?
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Post by piggingardener on Aug 23, 2006 11:32:13 GMT
Hi CPB
I've just finished reading The Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. It was a Richard & Judy bookclub jobby and actually very good. I am now reading Stephen Fry's autobiographical Moab is my Washpot. I have only just started it so can't really pass judgment yet.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2006 14:37:08 GMT
I read Labrynth too and thought it was the bigest load of old tosh since I don't know when - boring.
I readlly enjoyed Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, much better than the Davinci code which I found trite and predictable, there again I had read Holy Blood, Holy Grail.
If anyone is a LOTR fan I suggest you try to get hold of a copy of 'Bored of the rings' by Harvard Lampoon - absolutely hilarious.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2006 14:42:37 GMT
I re read the Folk of the Faraway Tree last year. Took me right back that did. I'm most upset because I've lost my Narnia box set...I've had it since I was ten and wanted to pass it on to my son but it's gone missing  I watched the all of the Lord of the Rings films back to back last night. Loved it! Funnily enough I posted a pic of Faramir on a4a earlier today...just to cheer myself up a bit Didn't get to bed until 3am. Kaypers you need a trip to the poison garden at Alnwick for your mandrakes lol! I have fancied having a look at Terry Pratchett...where do I start ?! |
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Post by rhodadendron on Aug 23, 2006 14:59:57 GMT
Hi Dee
I'm beginning to think that you and I were seperated at birth - I didn't care for Labrynth either. Also although I liked the Da Vinci Code (readable tosh) I also felt there was more to Angels and Demons - does the Vatican really hold all those ancient books and treasures that should belong to the world not be hidden away in their vaults.
I haven't read Bored of the Rings but we bought The Soddit on audio. THis is about as childishly silly as you could hope for, patchy but laugh out loud in some places.
I spent the entire time I was pretending to swat for my A levels reading Lord of the Rings and various stuff by Michael Moorcock who I guess comes under the heading science fantasy.
My current pile of started but not drawn in and might read on holiday when I have more time includes
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Cloud Atlas - David ??
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell - Susannah Clarke
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Are any of these worth me trying to get more involved in?
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Post by rhodadendron on Aug 23, 2006 15:23:01 GMT
UHH! Can I not put Michael Moorcock (genuine author name) it's changed to Moorthingy in my last post which sounds even ruder!
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Post by rhodadendron on Aug 23, 2006 15:24:06 GMT
Ha ha ha
Obviously not! The original name is Michael Moor c o c k
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Post by piggingardener on Aug 23, 2006 15:25:31 GMT
The first of the discworld series is called the Colour of Magic. Well worth searching out. Pratchett is unique, I don't know of anyone else who writes humourous fantasy and he is very funny.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2006 15:32:42 GMT
OMG - the wonderful Micheal Moorthingy.
Elric was my heart throb! and the fab Jerry Cornelius specially in 'Behold the Man' ;D
Long ago back in my distant youth I used to frequent a bookshop in Soho (NOOOOOOOOO! no that sort) It was called 'Dark They Were and Golden Eyed' taken from Ray Bradbury. It was the first (and best) Science Fantasy bookshop in the UK and run by a wonderful madman called Bram Stokes. I had the pleasure of meeting the mad Mr M several times.
There was another chap called Alan Moore, who is now a cult figure in the comic book world who lived five doors up from us and used to draw me birthday cards - wish I still had them, they'd be worth a fortune.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2006 15:34:59 GMT
The first of the discworld series is called the Colour of Magic. Well worth searching out. Pratchett is unique, I don't know of anyone else who writes humourous fantasy and he is very funny. Extremely clever with words that man too. Anybody ever tried recipes from Nanny Ogg's Cookbook? |
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Post by obelixx on Aug 23, 2006 16:02:55 GMT
Hi Rhoda - i've enjoyed all the HPs but do accept there are tedious parts. I loved the Dark Materials trilogy and want to know what happened next. Someone told OH about the Da Vinci code so he went out and bought all 4 books. i liked Demons and Angels best, thought the Da Vinci code had a very weak ending and have now ploughed through Holy Blood Holy Grail which was very interesting and had lots of Belgian connections in all the conspiracy bits.
We have just bought Labyrinth in one of those buy one get one free offers. Maybe I'll leave it till later. A Swiss lady we met in Italy last year recommended the Artemis Fowl series which is another kids and adults saga. Quite funny.
I've never come across the Prachett books but will keep an eye out for them now. Hated the Lords of the Rings stuff. Never got past page 2 despite several attempts and can't watch the films either though I do enjoy that dragon firework at the beginning of no 1 when Possum and OH decide to watch them all agian.
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Post by rhodadendron on Aug 23, 2006 17:02:47 GMT
Dee - I can't believe I have finally met someone else who read Moorthingy! It's all flooding back - wasn't it all terribly dark and the books always ended badly for the hero... Elric of Melnibone (?), a sword called the Stealer of Souls, the Hawkmoon trilogy, Prince in a Scarlet Robe.... and with it comes memories of too much cider, vodka and limes, brandy and babycham and teenage angst! We didn't need Buffy the Vampire slayer in those days!!!
Obelixx, I started reading Artemis Fowl and couldn't get into it - it might have been a bit 'boysy' as I remember. Did you know that one of Phil Pulman's other series of book was being filmed for BBC Tv? The Ruby in the Smoke featuring Billie Piper in the lead female role.
I read the book - less adult and complex than Dark Materials but still a good fast read and I can see it filming well.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2006 17:19:22 GMT
I still have a complete MM collection (something like 47 books) - up to about Gloriana then he seemed to lose it a bit.
I was and still am a total sci-fi/fantasy addict I'm afraid. Loved, Buffy, Startrek, V and Earth - Final Conflict.
I am ashamed to say I have 3 copies of LOTR too, a hardback set, a paperback set that a friend bought me for mt 21st, the huge Alan Lee illustrated version (so pleased he did so much work on the film.
One reason two of us have to live in 4 bedroom houses is to house my book collection - last time we moved it was just over 3200.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 23, 2006 19:30:38 GMT
I read 'Bored of the Rings' back in the seventies...all I can remember is 'Eorache'...made I larf it did...tried to read it again recently as son No.1 bought it for me...but couldn't.
I couldn't get on with that Labarynth book either...(Kate Mosse)..a friend says it 'gets better later on'...but I can't be bothered at the mo...
I am a bit of a treky too...for my 40th birthday(10 years ago) I had a sci-fi fancy dress party....I went as Beverley Crusher, son No.2 went as Scotty, son No.1 went as a space pirate and OH went as Dr Who...I've still got the phaser guns, tricorders, and communicators... ;D...and often wear the 'science officer' badge to work for a laugh....( work in a lab)
I tried to read MM but found them too difficult...a bit like that Modiseti (sp?) person...I really liked Guy Gavriel Kaye's early stuff too...Mostly I'm reading sci-fi/fantasy novels, but recently re-read 'Summer with Monika' by Roger McGough, and 'Birdsong' (Sabastian Fowkes) which made me howl.
At the moment I'm slogging my way through some James Barclay because I can't find owt else....AND I thought that 'Angels and Demons' was Dan Brown's best book too...
CPBx
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2006 19:35:13 GMT
Ursula Le Guin and Tanith Lee are another couple of favourites whoes books are re-readable.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 23, 2006 19:39:44 GMT
oooh 'The Wizard of Earthsea'...now where'd I put it...?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2006 19:41:33 GMT
LOL - That series just gets darker too. Just re-reading Red Moon, Black Mountain by Joy Chant.
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 23, 2006 23:40:34 GMT
Anyone read any L.Ron Hubbard?He famously invented Scientology, (as part of a book plot) and ended up being deified by the likes of Tom Cruise, cant remember the name of the book series though..it was something about mars.
PG, The colour of Magic is great, very funny/clever laughing innapropriately when reading it is the norm,well it is if people cant see what you`re laughing at.
TP himself is supposed to be an arrogant bloke (so says my local library assistant who met him), but maybe he was having a bad day!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2006 0:22:16 GMT
Never fancied reading Ron L's books. but I have read a biography - what a weirdo that man was at the end believed his own hype.
He apparently had the idea of the way to make money was to start a new religion, and oh boy how right he was.
Tom Cruise is still a radib scientologist, as are Lisa Marie Presley, John Travolta, Kirstie Ally and scarily Charles Manson.
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 24, 2006 7:18:56 GMT
Dee,I knew a man (in Devon) who mortgaged his house to pay for his own brainwashing... you have to, apparently, to achieve the next level of "enlightenment" , he was in the Navy, working on Submarines so not an uneducated man. Unsurprisingly, his wife left him. |
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Post by piggingardener on Aug 24, 2006 8:22:36 GMT
No - but I'd love to find the lyrics to her infamous hedgehog song.
;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 24, 2006 9:00:19 GMT
isn't there a Latin version 'Il porcupino nil b***** est' or sommat? ;D AND there's the 'Wizard's Staff' song that Nanny Ogg used to sing in the bath... I must admit to being a little bit in love with captain Vimes  ...and 'the Patrician'....and I think that Bl**dy Stupid Johnson' is working for the local council.... |
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...and 'the Patrician'....and I think that Bl**dy Stupid Johnson' is working for the local council....