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BaroqueHyena
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Onager, are the books anything like the show? I've been meaning to give 'em a try sometime, I see them in the bookstore all the time.
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Finally started this and it's been well worth the wait
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I tried reading a couple of Beevor books but wan't that impressed - Cornelius Ryan covers a lot of the same ground with a lot more colour and detail.
Recently finished:
Very good even though I primarily read the footnotes first time through.
Next:
Recently finished:
Very good even though I primarily read the footnotes first time through.
Next:
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A story I have read over and overagain,across the last twenty years.I have been a Lovecraft fan for over half a century,the aforementioned story,The Rats In The Walls,The Call Of Cthulhu etc etc Fantasic stuff.Quiff Boy wrote:the mountains of madness?James Blast wrote:this way madness lies Boss
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The Land Leviathan won't disappoint either. I felt The Steel Tsar was dragging and I'd been there before but today (around 60 pages in) it took off. MM really is/was a damn fine writer of science fiction.Big Si wrote:
Finally started this and it's been well worth the wait
of course this rediscovery of WotA and its other twa parts are aw doon tae yirsel
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It may be childish, but that makes me snigger.czuczu wrote:I tried reading a couple of Beevor books...
I really enjoyed Greek Street. Apparently the series has been cancelled, though - there might be one more trade collection after this one, but that's it.czuczu wrote:
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On the pile to read this month are 3 novels by Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Fencing Master, The Club Dumas, and The Flanders Panel. Never read anything by Perez-Reverte, but heard good things about him and his intellectual thrillers.
Also coming up are Ink by Hal Duncan. I enjoyed Vellum, the first book in the The Book of all Hours series (think Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius meets China Mieville), so I'm hoping this continues the goodness.
Also coming up are Ink by Hal Duncan. I enjoyed Vellum, the first book in the The Book of all Hours series (think Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius meets China Mieville), so I'm hoping this continues the goodness.
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I really enjoyed The Club Dumas; it's quite funny in places. More than anything, it reminded me of Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
All I'm reading right now are academic philosophy books.
All I'm reading right now are academic philosophy books.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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Foucault's Pendulum is an all time fave of mine, so I'm looking forward to The Club Dumas even more nowsultan2075 wrote:I really enjoyed The Club Dumas; it's quite funny in places. More than anything, it reminded me of Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
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I guess I'd describe it as a less ponderous and more lighthearted version of Foucault's Pendulum. In fact.... Eco himself makes a very brief appearancelazarus corporation wrote:Foucault's Pendulum is an all time fave of mine, so I'm looking forward to The Club Dumas even more nowsultan2075 wrote:I really enjoyed The Club Dumas; it's quite funny in places. More than anything, it reminded me of Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
That's a very minor detail in the small text. I've done that so you can avoid it if you'd like.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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Excession is one of my favourites. Especially going back through afterwards and working out what order everything happens, and who is working for which Mind.
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same heremarkfiend wrote:Excession is one of my favourites
but it's not the best introduction to the Culture imho, partly because of the exchanges between the Minds and partly because of the nonlinear narrative style. the sheer number of characters can be a tad ovewhelming too.
Consider Phlebas aside, The Player of Games could also be a good intro to the Culture because it's more easily accessible than the other books. and it's got one of my favourite Culture characters, flere imsaho
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No you're probably right.
Probably the best thing to do is read them in publication order.
Probably the best thing to do is read them in publication order.
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that was the theory i as working towardsmarkfiend wrote:No you're probably right.
Probably the best thing to do is read them in publication order.
although i do think i've read a culture book a long time ago... maybe early/mid 90s... 'the player of games' sounds vaguely familiar so it could have been that one, but i can't remember anything about it now
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The Culture novels (in order of publication)
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art (Short story collection: only 3 stories are Culture-based)
Excession
Inversions (not labelled as a Culture novel by Banks but (Spoiler) two of the characters turn out to be Culture Special Circumstances agents)
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail (the new one I've not read yet)
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art (Short story collection: only 3 stories are Culture-based)
Excession
Inversions (not labelled as a Culture novel by Banks but (Spoiler) two of the characters turn out to be Culture Special Circumstances agents)
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail (the new one I've not read yet)
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
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