Does your library do interlibrary loan? That's how Beorn and I got ahold of the entire cycle...I'm Murrin wrote:I do have the Tales from Earthsea collection to read some time. My order of The Other Wind went on hold and had no delivery in sight, so got cancelled.
What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
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Well, I'm reading The Algebraist by the apparently soon to be sadly lamented Iain M Banks.
Initially disappointed that it wasn't a Culture novel, I'm already enjoying it an awful lot. The kind of enjoyment where you wish it wasn't a stand-alone book.
But it is. So the enjoyment is tinged with regret that the story must be over so soon.
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Initially disappointed that it wasn't a Culture novel, I'm already enjoying it an awful lot. The kind of enjoyment where you wish it wasn't a stand-alone book.
But it is. So the enjoyment is tinged with regret that the story must be over so soon.
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Very sad news about Iain Banks. I really enjoyed The Algebraist, it's probably my favourite non-Culture novel. It has the span of a Culture novel and some really great characters and alien races.Avatar wrote:Well, I'm reading The Algebraist by the apparently soon to be sadly lamented Iain M Banks.
Initially disappointed that it wasn't a Culture novel, I'm already enjoying it an awful lot. The kind of enjoyment where you wish it wasn't a stand-alone book.
But it is. So the enjoyment is tinged with regret that the story must be over so soon.
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Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
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The Channel War by M. Edward McNally.
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The Eye of the Pyramid... the quality of which will be the basis for judging Avatar's character 
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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Greatly enjoying Tehanu still. It's a more grounded novel than the others, more domestic, and it is absolutely a feminist critique of the society Le Guin created in her earlier Earthsea books - and, by extension, real life patriarchal western society.
This article was shared on Twitter this morning, about "benevolant sexism", where people say things that are complimentary, positive, but that serve to reinforce sexist memes, and the message there resonates pretty strongly with scenes in Tehanu where Tenar talks to people about women's roles and power.
This article was shared on Twitter this morning, about "benevolant sexism", where people say things that are complimentary, positive, but that serve to reinforce sexist memes, and the message there resonates pretty strongly with scenes in Tehanu where Tenar talks to people about women's roles and power.
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Then you will find yourself ranking Avatar as one of the highest quality characters you know.Orlion wrote:The Eye of the Pyramid... the quality of which will be the basis for judging Avatar's character
Or the quality of your character will be in question.
On topic, though:
Bakker's "Prince of Nothing" series just now arrived at my door, and I will begin it this evening.
Qualitative judgments of several Watcher's characters are on the line.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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I totally have to read this soon (the Earthsea Quartet). It's sitting on my bookshelf like a box of fine chocolates waiting for me. Actually, that's a lousy simile. If it were a box of fine chocolates, hell, even if it were a box of not-so-fine chocolates, I would have read it long ago... and very quickly.I'm Murrin wrote:Greatly enjoying Tehanu still. It's a more grounded novel than the others, more domestic, and it is absolutely a feminist critique of the society Le Guin created in her earlier Earthsea books - and, by extension, real life patriarchal western society.
This article was shared on Twitter this morning, about "benevolant sexism", where people say things that are complimentary, positive, but that serve to reinforce sexist memes, and the message there resonates pretty strongly with scenes in Tehanu where Tenar talks to people about women's roles and power.
Nearly done with Terry Pratchett's Sourcery. Haven't enjoyed it quite as much as the others but there's still good stuff in it.
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Or maybe look around in some used book stores?Menolly wrote:Does your library do interlibrary loan? That's how Beorn and I got ahold of the entire cycle...I'm Murrin wrote:I do have the Tales from Earthsea collection to read some time. My order of The Other Wind went on hold and had no delivery in sight, so got cancelled.
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Listening to Mordant's Need read by Scott Brick. About 5 chapters in (I've got both Books, so will listen to them back to back)
I Never Fail To Be Astounded By The Things We Do For Promises - Ronnie James Dio (All The Fools Sailed Away)
Remember, everytime you drag someone through the mud, you're down in the mud with them
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain
Where are we going...and... WHY are we in a handbasket?
Remember, everytime you drag someone through the mud, you're down in the mud with them
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain
Where are we going...and... WHY are we in a handbasket?
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Huh?Orlion wrote:The Eye of the Pyramid... the quality of which will be the basis for judging Avatar's character
Why on earth would that be the case. 
Just remember, Illuminatus! is both the wheat and the chaff. You have to do the threshing yourself.
Wilson's comment on Zen Without Zen Masters applies equally to his own work:
If you read it and don't laugh, you missed the joke. If you read it and only laugh, you missed the point.
As I said before, my favourite of them all. Her writing grew a lot in the intervening time, and I find it much better than the earlier ones.I'm Murrin wrote:Greatly enjoying Tehanu still.
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Finished Existence by David Brin. Good book with lots of hooks to keep you interested right to the end (also leaving a few loose threads to conjure with). Noticed something that I noticed in some of his Uplift books, and that's his tendency to include lots of subplots. This caused the book to drag a bit for me and I started to skip ahead to follow the main plotline. (Hmmm, I did much the same recently with Life of Pi. I wonder am I beginning to catch that postmodern malaise of a short attention span )
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Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
well i'm attempting Gaiman's American Gods again. i tried it once a long time ago but it didn't hook me so i don't remember how far in i read before putting it down but my brother is a huge Gaiman fan and he's all excited cause Gaiman is coming to Lexington (dude is PAYing 32 bucks to see an author??? bizarre) and so i thought i'd give it a try again since my bro loves it so much. i'm in chpt 4 at the moment and i think that's further than i got last time. i'm moderately entertained thus far. 
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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Not really sure this counts as a book, since it is fanfiction and all posted online, but...
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
It was posted about in the JKR forum, but although I read everything there, I didn't really pay attention to it. However, SD recommended it as a good read as well, and since I've finished Gravid, decided to give it a shot. Seems to be well written so far, and I am up to chapter seven.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
It was posted about in the JKR forum, but although I read everything there, I didn't really pay attention to it. However, SD recommended it as a good read as well, and since I've finished Gravid, decided to give it a shot. Seems to be well written so far, and I am up to chapter seven.
Hey everyone. I've started on the "grand re-read" of TC as I think everyone is calling it. I looked back at my reading log and it has been 10 years since I last read through the 1st and 2nd chronicles. Currently I'm in the early stages of LFB.
Having gone through a divorce recently I'm feeling Covenant's pain at Joan leaving him acutely.
- "Did I do a whole life's laughing in that little time?"
- Where Covenent shows Atiaran his white gold ring and he thinks "I should have thrown it away, he muttered bitterly, a leper's got no right to be sentimental."
- In previous reads I missed how Lena was in awe of Covenent, how she didn't want a "small" life with Triock but how she wanted to become a Lord. I also now understand through personal experience how Lena's question "Are you married?" was so painful for Covenant.
- Covenant not realising that his leprosy was cured in the Land until *after* he rapes Lena.
- I now understand better Atiaran's thought regarding Lena - "Ah, Lena my daughter, I see what you have done. It is a brave deed, worthy of praise and pride." Lena hiding to protect Covenant from retribution for the rape.
I'm sure these are obvious things, but these are what is standing out so far on this re-read.
Having gone through a divorce recently I'm feeling Covenant's pain at Joan leaving him acutely.
- "Did I do a whole life's laughing in that little time?"
- Where Covenent shows Atiaran his white gold ring and he thinks "I should have thrown it away, he muttered bitterly, a leper's got no right to be sentimental."
- In previous reads I missed how Lena was in awe of Covenent, how she didn't want a "small" life with Triock but how she wanted to become a Lord. I also now understand through personal experience how Lena's question "Are you married?" was so painful for Covenant.
- Covenant not realising that his leprosy was cured in the Land until *after* he rapes Lena.
- I now understand better Atiaran's thought regarding Lena - "Ah, Lena my daughter, I see what you have done. It is a brave deed, worthy of praise and pride." Lena hiding to protect Covenant from retribution for the rape.
I'm sure these are obvious things, but these are what is standing out so far on this re-read.
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Yeah! C'mon May!Menolly wrote:Finished Gravid.
C'mon May!
Oh...wait. That means I have to write the bloody thing, doesn't it?
(About 20K words in, as of tonight. Tying in all these little ends is maddening. Remind me never to do a five-book series again.
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