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| Topic Started: Jun 9 2009, 07:35 PM (353 Views) | |
| Stravagante | Jun 9 2009, 07:35 PM Post #1 |
Veteran... Wait, what?
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Where is everyone? As an avid reader I come on a forum and see a topic space dedicated to literature, I'm happy. But then I see that out of at least fourty-five people, no-one has come up with anything. No-one has apparently read anything worthwhile.  Still, better late than never, so I ask all of you to come up with something to say, even if it's just an #/10, it's something. Here's mine: At the moment i'm re-reading the 'Old Kingdom' Trilogy by Garth Nix, one of my favourite authors, based in a magical country adjoining a rather similar-feeling technological one, the trilogy spans two sets of heros and heroines who must attempt to save the Old Kingdom from both Free Magic beings and the Dead. Pretty basic for a fantasy really, but the 'Charter' magic and well-developed characters make them one of my favourites. I would recommend Garth Nix books to anyone and I think you should start with the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen) and I'm going to give the trilogy... 8/10 Edited by Stravagante, Jun 9 2009, 08:26 PM.
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| Syrus | Jun 10 2009, 09:55 AM Post #2 |
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It's not that we've not read anything worthwhile; it's the fact that most topics created on this forum are ultimately ignored unless they have sprites in ._. I've heard of Garth Nix, and a few years back, people in my school were raving about him; I should probably read some of his work someday. As for books I've read: Recently I finished Terry Pratchett's "The Truth", and all I can say is, "I want more!" It was an absolutely brilliant book; well constructed, with completely outrageous (yet, oddly believable) characters, as one should come to expect from a world that floats through space on the backs of elephants on a turtle. Discworld delivered once more, with Terry's absolutely brilliant style of writing; in which he shows a much more human side than most other authors, by adding his own aside comments and remarks which reflect much more real-worldly aspects of the often exadurated situations. Simply put, Terry Pratchett can take a rather benign and menial part of our lives, (in this case, newspaper printing), and turn it in to something absolutely unputdownable. I would highly recommend it for anyone who is looking for anything different from regular Lord Of The Rings-clone fantasies. One problem I must point out, though, is that this particular book is not split in to chapters; it flows rather continuously, so it's often hard to set yourself a limit, where you would normally tell yourself "only to the next chapter, then I'll go to sleep". I found myself often staying up til 2 or 3 in the morning to read more and more of this book, but it was so worth it! 9/10 |
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| Fiereci | Jun 10 2009, 06:52 PM Post #3 |
Still keen on Keane
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I sadly have to agree with that yes Dx As for the topic. I myself am an avid reader, and usually read multiple books at the same time. I like all sorts of genres but usually prefer a slight -hint- of fantasy, it doesn't have to be 100% fantasy though. Books I'm reading at the moment are: - Inkweb (the second book in the Inkheart trilogy), it's a children's book, but highly enjoyable (and still 600+ pages XD). - Empire of Ivory, the fouth book in the Temeraire Septhology. It's basically about the time of the french revolution. A young man named Laurence has to fight in the -aerial- corps of his country, England. Namely: Dragons. It's such a series that says "what would have happened if..." - The Vatican murders (some sort of thriller book my mom gave me) So yeah... I'm especially exited about the first book! It's an amazing series. |
   
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| Morgoth883 | Jun 10 2009, 10:04 PM Post #4 |
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yeah, Thier may be 45 people technicaly on the forum but in reality thiers less than 10 XD I've not read anything in a while, although I did re-read War of the Worlds recently! |
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| Fiereci | Jun 11 2009, 08:39 AM Post #5 |
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Still keen on Keane
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We need to promote this forum better! more people joining! The last forum was way more active me-thinks. |
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| Stravagante | Jun 11 2009, 09:06 PM Post #6 |
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That's... kind of strange, I thought Inkspell was the second in the inkheart trilogy, (then Inkdeath) did you get your copy from outside the UK?  But, Fiereci, you appear to read the same books I read, have you tried the Discworld series? Or 'Nation' by the same author? (Pratchett) (Termeriaire is awesome, I want a dragon that spits liquid nitrogen or similar, but I'd settle for a Winchester.) |
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| Fiereci | Jun 11 2009, 10:36 PM Post #7 |
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Still keen on Keane
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oh XD Well you see.. I am Dutch so I read most of my book in Dutch (except for Temeraire, I read that series in English). The second installment of the inkheart trilogy in Dutch is called "Web van inkt", and since "Hart van inkt" translated to "InkHEART", I thought "Web van inkt", would translate to "InkWEB". So you're probably right that the English title must be Inkspell. The books are originally German anyway so who knows. Also, I havn't read anything from Discworld YET, but after so much recommendation from my friend Syrus here, I will as soon as I finished one of these three books I'm reading now XD Winchesters are cute <3 Also... The "Divine wind" sounds a bit mary sue-ish, don't you think? Still it's no more devastating than fire or acid methinks. I think I'd go for a longwing... female captains ^__^ |
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| Dyne-Amite | Jun 13 2009, 06:35 PM Post #8 |
To the victor go the spoils...
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'Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?', volumes one and two, by Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur This series could only have been written AND be popular in Britain since we have an innate appetite for the endearingly relentless grumpiness they contain. Really there nothing more than an A-Z of things which irritate the authors but it is simply so relentlessly bitter it becomes rather uplifting. Here's a choice segment: Filming gigs on phones You are at the gig. You don't need to film it. You can DOWNLOAD CLIPS LIVE RIGHT NOW - with your eyes and your ears. It is literally right in front of you. They really should put up some signs: NO PHONE-CAMERA TOSSERS! NO! NO! NO! AND ALWAYS! NO! (copyrighted to Steve Lowe, Alan McArthur and Sphere Publishing) |
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| Makku | Jun 15 2009, 01:58 PM Post #9 |
Yay,
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I'm not really that big on books, occasionally I'll pick something up from the local library if I find something interesting, otherwise I don't really read much. The last book I read was The Wind Singer, by William Nicholson. It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. It was really interesting in the beginning, it had some cool concepts, but after a certain point in the story it just became a stereotypical fantasy novel... Oh, and I'm going to borrow Twilight from a friend, just to see how terrible it is lol. |
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| DarkOverord | Jun 15 2009, 09:09 PM Post #10 |
"I am Bowser, businessman of legend! Fear my accounting!"
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Ironically, the most active topics on the forum don't have sprites in. Anyways. I'm not an avid reader I must admit. But I did like a book called "Rune" by Christopher Fowler. |
        
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| Fiereci | Jun 16 2009, 06:33 PM Post #11 |
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Still keen on Keane
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Hmm, it's getting slightly more active lately! let's keep it up this way! And I might advertise it more no? |
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| Morgoth883 | Jun 18 2009, 06:55 PM Post #12 |
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Thier does seem to be some blood pumping in the old girl yet. on the subject of awsome books, has anyone read 'Ubik' by Philip K Dick? Its the only one of this authors books I've read and aparently he was quite renowned. the Film Bladerunner, whcih I have alot never seen, was based on his wok. But yeah, its really qite interesting. Its Sci-fi, but of a sort not usually seen these days. Its alot more fantastical; its set in 1990s for example and they use hovercars and rocket ships XD |
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| Fiereci | Jun 19 2009, 05:51 AM Post #13 |
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Still keen on Keane
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Lol the old-school view on Sci-fi was so funny ^^ Like back to the future in books. Really cool... Definitely one of the types of books I yet want to read. |
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| Stravagante | Jun 20 2009, 11:39 AM Post #14 |
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Huh, never heard of 'Ubik' before. I'll see of it's in the library next time I mooch over there. As for sci-fi, right now I'm reading the 'Saga of Seven Sun' by Kevin J. Anderson, which is one huge m*therfucker of a space opera. (Not too sure where it stands up to dune in length, as I discovered I'm allergic to all Dune books and never look at them for any length of time, they're just painful to read.) In Saga there are at least seven books so far (at least I'm up to Metal Swarm - book seven) all about a couple of inches thick if you don't choose the tiny print books, and yet I love 'em. The books chronical the happenings of our galaxy, the 'Spiral Arm' where the human Earth-based Hansaic League the main players of human politics and trade in the 'Spiral Arm, the kind-of-cool-in-the-fact-they-can-talk-to-trees-with-telepathy Green Priests of Theroc and the enigmatic Roamers, none the worse of for being thought of as 'disorganised space trash' as they've found that living a live of considerable luxury and wealth as well as having closer-knit communites well worth the sacrifice. That and the fact that in interstellar travel their own home-made technology is far in advance of the Hansa's. As well as the light-loving Ildrians who invented the faster-than-light star drive, but despite the fact that the Ildrian Empire has been around for centuries, once the humans get a hold of the technology, they improve upon it. Possibly becouse we live for a much shorter amount of time than most Ildrians. The different civilsations all have their own backstory and the multitude of different characters are amazing, it is the 'Song of Ice and Fire' of sci-fi. I'll give it a... 9.5/10 <-Wow that was a long post |
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| Morgoth883 | Jun 20 2009, 01:18 PM Post #15 |
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That was a long post indeed XD quite interesting thiough. I've never read anything one might describe as a Space opera. The only length series I've read is Middle Earth books (lord of the rings, the hobbit, the silmarillion, etc) and I suppose Harry Potter as well... XD Not that I ahvent read some other awsome book series, like the entire diskworld series 8D I've not caught up with a couple of the latest ones though. I've never read a prattchet book I did't like XD Even picking a favorite group of characters is difficult. I am quite fond of the nightwatch and of the university Staff, though, and who couldn't love Death? XD However! the first pratchet book I ever read wa sno a diskwork one, but another book called 'Only you can save mankind' which was about a boy who buys the latest computer game, fighting an evil reptilian empire from space in a high tech astro fighter. But then he starts to play the game in his dreams, which start to efect the game in the real world and he soon descoveres the the aliens are not so evil aftrall, and that the humans paying the game all over the world are destroying thier race. Its pretty awsome XD I've not read it in yeaaarrrrs though. |
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