The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins.
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins.
I'm reading a book by Cornwell, it's called The Archer's Tale.Originally Posted by Arrowhead
Have you read that by any chance ?
I'm about half way through and I'm enjoying it more with each page I read.
Though the way he writes is certainly different from other books I recently read.
I've just finished Reading "Put What Where?: Two Thousand Years of Sex Advice" by John Naish. Freaking hilaroious book. I got that as a Christmas present. Currently reading a Chinese novel (trans into Eng) "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Its damn thick and I'm only at Vol 1.
My name is Asinius Commodus, son of the Eagle.
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KoW: Erm, LLB, Asinus means 'ass' in Latin
LLB: Really? All the better for a story of how an ass became a great leader is alwasy a bestseller.
The Dragon Rebory, #3 in the Wheel of Time
Ajax
"I do not yet know how chivalry will fare in these calamitous times of ours." --- Don Quixote
"I have no words, my voice is in my sword." --- Shakespeare
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." --- Jack Handey
A Chinese novel? Teh Chinese Novel, that is! That book is like The One in many Asian countries, the door to China's most fascinating war, even though their National Epic(no s) is Rayamana of native variants. Liu Bei might as well become our next Prime Minister. He's the perfect politician.Originally Posted by littlelostboy
I'm reading Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, by Clive Barker. It's great, simple fun, without heavy literature weight. I'm not in the mood for philosophy right now, and won't be for a long while, no doubt.
Quackenbush!
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LotR: The Fellowship (2nd time )
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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have you sung the Tom Bombadil song yet?Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
check out http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/lord_rhymes for an 'alternative' take...
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Currently reading 'The eight'. My sister gave it to me. It is a complete ripoff of the already terrible Davinci code, and to make it even worse, it's translated into dutch. I have never seen a translation as bad as this one, it is like reading english in dutch, it makes no sense at all. It is really a very very bad book, horrible. It is obvious that is was written in the hope someone would make a movie out of it, atrocious. So why do I keep reading? Not sure, very bad things can be fun from time to time.
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Originally Posted by matteus the inbred
Bro is listening a metalish german group sometimes; they have neat songs based on The Hobbit/LotR themes.
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
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and of course Led Zeppelin songs are full of LotR references, there's a web page on it somewhere...
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Gardens of the Moon by Stephen Erikson (*sp??, bah who cares ) I really like his books, there is so much depth and forethought gone into writing them, the guy must have some imagination. Third time reading this series I think.
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LotR: The Fellowship (2nd time )
Silmarillion (arrived today )
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
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Tell me what you think of the book, once you've started.Silmarillion (arrived today )
Been interested in the book for some time now, like to know what you think.
The Rise And Fall Of Rome
and writing Lucky Number Seven and HC
We do not sow.
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OK. I'm only at Christopher's prefaces yet.
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
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I just finished reading Ghengis Khan an The Making of The Modern World, by Jack Weatherford. Basically it's a revisionist history of Ghengis Khan and the Mongols in general and places them in a much better light then most history books. I'm no expert on the Mongols but I did find the book to be enjoyable and even if you disagree with the revisionism, the accounts of his childhood and young adult-hood were eye opening.
I've got a couple on the go....
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - it won the 2005 Pulitzer prize for fiction. If you want a "different" sort of read...it's worth looking at. For a start, it's got no chapters (which I found hard to get used to at first) but more than that there's something unique about her style....she seems to achieve a sort of beautiful simplicity, but the level of insight and poignancy that jumps out made we want to read slower, and reread some passages.
The other one is one of Dean Koontz's - One Door Away from Heaven he's one of my favourite author's. For the genre, I reckon he's got pretty good depth, and always plants a redemptive theme through his nightmarish stuff!
Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Just finished Les Trois Mousquetaires. Great, great book. Dumas was a genius.
The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
It's a Roman Republican novel about Gaius Marius and Sulla Very in depth drama, great descriptions, awesome atmosphere, I'm only on chapter 2 but I'd seriously recommend it
Silverknight, I just finished that series. All eleven million pages, or however many it is. Me and Dutch Guy were talking about it earlier, if memory serves ... let us know what you think as you progress, if the spirit moves you ...
It's called the Harlequin in English and it is a a good book (I like the time setting and thefact that the hero comes from the same place that I do). Highly recommend the Pale Horseman. Edington is his best battle yet, even though the characters are getting repetitive (see thread in the Mead Hall).Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
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"We were not born into this world to be happy, but to do our duty." Bismarck
"You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other. Not both." The Right Hon. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication" - Lord Byron
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." - C. S. Lewis
I still have quite a way to go! I'm reading "First Man in Rome" first, then "The Grass Crown", and then "Fortune's Favourites"...afterwards I start on the Caesar's ones I'll let you guys know how it's coming. I'm enjoying it thusfar!Originally Posted by Lemurmania
I finally started Boudica by Manda Scott, but I'm only a chapter or two into it.
3/4ths of the way through: A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin, Brilliant read so far, however, I am sort of dreading reading A Feast for Crows as I heard, and someone here told me, it wasn't as good as the last three.
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Ordered The Unfinished Tales. It's mine next week, hopefully!
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
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I've moved on to light fare, something to balance out the technical things I have to read for work. Terry Pratchett is fitting the bill, just finished Thud, moving on to Men at Arms.
Like I said, I need a little break.
How did you like "Thud!"? I finished "Going Postal" two months ago, but it wasn't not nearly as good as "The Truth". Is "Thud!" an improvement?Originally Posted by Lemurmania
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I think Thud is an improvement on Going Postal, but you know how it is. Pratchett just does his thing. His books are always better than they need to be, but they also seem to fall short somehow. I don't mind -- he makes the best light reading of any living author. When my brain needs a break, he's there for me.
"Shadow" by K J Parker
Quite interesting really, this Chappie wakes up with the standard Amnesia background story and travels about trying to find out what on earth has happened.
It is made staggeringly more interesting than it sounds because as he pops off on his little journey he seems to be mimicking that of an ancient fairy tale (that he knows nothing about) in which a God comes down to earth and without any malice intended, utterly destroys the world.
I heartily recommend it.
The review incidentally, may well contain spoilers, just read the first paragraph if interested, it pretty much sums up the book.
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Veni, Vermui, Vomui.
I came, I got ratted, I threw up.
Morale outrage is the recourse of those who have no argument.
I see. Thanks for the answer.Originally Posted by Lemur
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