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Posted: 04 Mar 2011, 15:25
by Carpathian Psychonaut
markfiend wrote:My copy is well loved. You'll find the cardboard over-cover very handy; it
will get muddy.
It also stops it getting battered when stuffed in a backpack too though that just adds a few pounds for your shoulders instead!
Posted: 07 Mar 2011, 20:25
by markfiend
I read H G Wells's
The Invisible Man over the weekend. (On the e-book reader on my Android phone, which is another story. Suffice it to say my eyes are still aching
)
Griffin (the invisible man) appears in Alan Moore's
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as "Hawley Griffin". However Wells never gives any name other than "Griffin".
"Odd," thinks I. To cut a long story short, Moore took the given name "Hawley" from... Dr Hawley Crippen
Posted: 07 Mar 2011, 23:42
by Debaser
Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:christophe wrote:methinks something
Iz, Si and
Carpy would be interested too
Added to my list - ta!
On the subject of Mr Cope's books my ex gave me her copy of this epic (and bloody heavy!) doorstop:-
It's a bit of a
all round.
GAVE?????? It goes for daft amounts on Ebay & Amazon. Saying that, the word on da street is that it's going to be re-printed again. High time too.
Posted: 08 Mar 2011, 09:10
by Carpathian Psychonaut
Debaser wrote:Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:christophe wrote:methinks something
Iz, Si and
Carpy would be interested too
Added to my list - ta!
On the subject of Mr Cope's books my ex gave me her copy of this epic (and bloody heavy!) doorstop:-
It's a bit of a
all round.
GAVE??????
Sigh. Yeah, we're not together now but she had plenty of
moments when we were. Thems the breaks.
Posted: 08 Mar 2011, 10:41
by Quiff Boy
currently geeking this error page:
http://proteys.info/404/
needs sound
Posted: 08 Mar 2011, 11:42
by Izzy HaveMercy
Posted: 08 Mar 2011, 12:26
by Quiff Boy
in addition to geeking i was also reading, watching & listening to that page
ahem
Posted: 08 Mar 2011, 12:55
by Izzy HaveMercy
Quiff Boy wrote:in addition to geeking i was also reading, watching & listening to that page
ahem
Currently Depressed now?
IZ.
Posted: 15 Mar 2011, 16:02
by Holly_DelRey
Posted: 19 Mar 2011, 16:57
by powerelectronics
Don't let the title give you wrong impression.
Posted: 20 Mar 2011, 21:04
by Izzy HaveMercy
A highly enjoyable read! A bit of Gaiman, a bit of humor/b-movie allusions, bit of Tarantino...
...and on the official website you can read the first 82 pages for free!
IZ.
Posted: 20 Mar 2011, 21:20
by Bartek
Leszek Kolakowski - Mini -wykłady o maxi-sprawach. (ethic, philosophy, about basic stuff)
Posted: 20 Mar 2011, 21:40
by christophe
Posted: 23 Mar 2011, 22:50
by Debaser
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 16:30
by markfiend
Just finished
on my new Kindle (birthday present)
Fantastic plot-twist with (quite literally) the very last
word of the book
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 16:38
by Quiff Boy
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 16:55
by markfiend
Yeah, the Ringworld isn't quite the same as a Culture O but it's easy to see that the inspiration for the latter came from the former.
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 17:02
by Quiff Boy
markfiend wrote:Yeah, the Ringworld isn't quite the same as a Culture O but it's easy to see that the inspiration for the latter came from the former.
there's a certain matter-of-fact-ness about the way niven talks about alien cultures and their technologies which reminds me of banks' culture stuff.
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 18:27
by James Blast
Quiff Boy wrote:then read this novella/long short story:
Hey Seuss!, you'll be diggin' Hawkwind soon
Boss
I'm currently enjoying dis
don't be put off by the cover, he was a very entertaining writer
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 20:56
by Quiff Boy
nah, i was just intrigued by how moorcock was playing with the jesus myth
i've also got philip pullman's "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ" in the pipeline for the same reason.
and yeah, the mcarthy book is a great read - he's very amusing
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 21:04
by James Blast
ye do ken aboot Moorcock's 'Eternal Champion' schtick don'tcha?
initials JC: Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian and his own early pen name James Colvin
just a thought, y'ain't gettin' religion on us are ye
Boss?...
Quiff Boy wrote:and yeah, the mcarthy book is a great read - he's very amusing
was, he popped his clogs far too early
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 21:12
by Quiff Boy
getting religion? hell no
i've always been fairly agnostic, and if anything it's making me more anti these days...
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 21:13
by James Blast
by 'religion' I do of course mean
Hawkwind
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 22:19
by Obviousman
James Blast wrote:by 'religion' I do of course mean
Hawkwind
Preach brother!
Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 12:24
by Silver_Owl
Behold The Man was the first story I read by Moorcock when I was about 12.
It got me collecting his stuff for the next 10 years.
I hold him responsible insome small part for making me who I am today.
