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Hom_Corleone wrote:Behold The Man was the first story I read by Moorcock when I was about 12.
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Yes I am. In some people's eyes. :innocent:

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...which I supsect is going to become very addictive. :P
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Spotted this lurking in Waterstones this afternoon...looks good :D

pic is a clicky for info from Titan Books
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an illustrated version? ooooh....

i have the original book "the talisman" - read it 10+ years ago - it's one of my favourite books of all time. it's amazing :notworthy: :notworthy:

the sequel - black house - is really good too 8)

edit: found this preview of the graphic novel - http://is.gd/g9r3Rk
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Quiff Boy wrote:an illustrated version? ooooh....

i have the original book "the talisman" - read it 10+ years ago - it's one of my favourite books of all time. it's amazing :notworthy: :notworthy:

the sequel - black house - is really good too 8)

edit: found this preview of the graphic novel - http://is.gd/g9r3Rk
We have a well thumbed copy here - is it the one where it starts on a beach......and they guy is STILL walking along the same fecking beach about 103 pages later :roll: Couldn't be doing with it. And now it's got pikkytures? :eek: What the hell could a picture add to the endless bloody description of a grain of blimmin sand?

There's only a few Steven King books I enjoy - and they are usually the ikkle ones when he doesn't prattle on and on and on and on and on about the minutia. I just want to slap the guy about with a wet kipper and yell 'GET ON WITH IT'

The Dark Tower mularky? Just doorstops clogging up my bookshelves. eeeeeeeeh, you lot'll be telling me 'Weaveworld' is a classic too :wink:
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the Stephenie Meyer series. saw the movies *thanks to my kids* before realizing it was some what of a craze in the masses of all ages.

bought the hardcover series and that was hauled across half the globe :lol: but it's easy reading & having seen three of the movies already will finish it before the next movie is made.

half way through eclipse already then only have two more books to go!

:notworthy: lovely light reading in a fantasy world of love.
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does it have pictures?
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no dear, the mind is enough.
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is that like films on the radio?
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:lol: yes it is! but you know if this was read like films on the radio it would have been all the ladies like Molly and her friends listening and you sound in bed sleeping...that would take at least a year to get through & Molly would get you tucked in early at night!
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I'm going through Project Gutenberg reading the source material for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (or at least the ones I haven't already read).

I find the casual racism a bit disconcerting...
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markfiend wrote:CR: H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines

I'm going through Project Gutenberg reading the source material for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (or at least the ones I haven't already read).

I find the casual racism a bit disconcerting...
Any mention of his little problem? :wink:
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Heh. None at all. ;)
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markfiend wrote:Heh. None at all. ;)
How strange. :lol:
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what, he wasn't a Mission fan was he?
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James Blast wrote:what, he wasn't a Mission fan was he?
:lol: It wasn't that bad - he was only an opium addict. :wink:
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markfiend wrote:CR: H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines

I'm going through Project Gutenberg reading the source material for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (or at least the ones I haven't already read).

I find the casual racism a bit disconcerting...
I loved that book when I was younger. I read it in a post-colonial literature course as an undergrad, and wrote a paper arguing that there was no deep meaning at all, it was just intended to be an adventure story for boys, no more, no less.
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finished the first one, Ringworld and was a little taken aback by it's rather abrupt ending, so i decided to crack straight on with the sequel:

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more of the same, basically, but i'm enjoying it :lol:
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markfiend wrote:CR: H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines

I'm going through Project Gutenberg reading the source material for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (or at least the ones I haven't already read).

I find the casual racism a bit disconcerting...
I loved that book when I was younger. I read it in a post-colonial literature course as an undergrad, and wrote a paper arguing that there was no deep meaning at all, it was just intended to be an adventure story for boys, no more, no less.
Oh, I would agree with that. It's definitely a cracking good yarn.

Actually, thinking about it, it's far less racist than a lot of its near-contemporaries (Kipling or Tarzan, for two examples); for a book published in 1885 it's pretty progressive. Quatermain (and by extension Haggard) obviously has a great deal of respect for the "native" cultures he describes.

But there are still references to "savages" dotted around, and Gagool the "witch-doctress" is straight out of the Victorian stereotype factory.
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markfiend wrote:
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markfiend wrote:CR: H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines

I'm going through Project Gutenberg reading the source material for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (or at least the ones I haven't already read).

I find the casual racism a bit disconcerting...
I loved that book when I was younger. I read it in a post-colonial literature course as an undergrad, and wrote a paper arguing that there was no deep meaning at all, it was just intended to be an adventure story for boys, no more, no less.
Oh, I would agree with that. It's definitely a cracking good yarn.

Actually, thinking about it, it's far less racist than a lot of its near-contemporaries (Kipling or Tarzan, for two examples); for a book published in 1885 it's pretty progressive. Quatermain (and by extension Haggard) obviously has a great deal of respect for the "native" cultures he describes.

But there are still references to "savages" dotted around, and Gagool the "witch-doctress" is straight out of the Victorian stereotype factory.
It's been ages since I've read it. Remind me: do they actually behave savagely? I've got no problem calling those who behave savagely "savages." It seems like an eminently sensible judgment to make. The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, for example: they were savages.
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...which I supsect is going to become very addictive. :P
Waiting for the hardback of the last volume, its a cracking read. :notworthy:
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It is isn't it? :D
Only picked up the first 2 volumes so far.
Scouring ebay for the rest. :wink:
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sultan2075 wrote:It's been ages since I've read it. Remind me: do they actually behave savagely? I've got no problem calling those who behave savagely "savages." It seems like an eminently sensible judgment to make. The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, for example: they were savages.
:lol: when you put it like that...
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Recently downloaded & read (yeah, I'm all Kindle-ised these days):
  • Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
  • Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
  • Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
and downloaded in the "to read" file:
  • The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
  • The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett
  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
  • The World That Never Was by Alex Butterworth
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