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On 18 April 2017 at 1:02 PM, nudge said:

ooooh I love the Triffids, one of the most underappreciated scifi novels of all time. The premise of mobile, flesh eating plants is very weird, but somehow it works, hehe. There's actually a sequel as well, albeit by a different author...

Yeah, it’s called Night of the Triffids, by Simon Clark, and I think it’s supposed to be set some 30(?) years after the events that occurred in Day. Published in 2001. Meant to be written well, inasmuch that as Clark mimics John Wyndham’s narrative voice to a pleasing degree, but I don’t know if the quality of the plot or social commentary matches those raised in Day. I’ll add it to my epic, ever-intimidating To-Read list, but I’m in no rush to read it next.

At the moment, I’m halfway through High Society by Ben Elton. I’m a fan of Elton; his books are easy and fun to read, the characters loathsome and equally hilarious. Maybe I’m biased because I’m a huge Blackadder fan…

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I've recently read Coraline (Gaiman), The Time Machine (HG Wells) and Ernest Hemingway's 'On Paris', which is a collection of newspaper articles he wrote when he lived there in the 20s. Enjoyed them all.

Read the opening few pages of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf a few days ago but haven't got back to it yet. It had a pretty heavy beginning, it was like "oh, the monotony of life, each day like the last...what's the point? Maybe I should do the same as that other guy and end it all with an accidental slip of the razor". Wasn't in the right mood for that. xD

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Took me longer than I thought to finish High Society, in part due to the phonetic language used by many of the character’s dialogue. No way near as intense as trying to almost decipher the narrative in Trainspotting, but it does make you almost mouth or sound the words out as you read!

Now moved onto some classic fantasy, with Robin Hobb (Assassin’s Apprentice). I remember trying to read this a couple of years back but found it a little cliched and so stopped about 50 pages in (unusual for me; I’m usually stubborn and insist on finishing a book even if I’m not enjoying it). However, maybe it felt that way because in the 20-or-so years since its publication, many authors have jumped on the ‘kid learns to be assassin’ trope, flooding the market with trash.  

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1 minute ago, Panflute said:

In the light of my exploration of more, political literature I've ordered the selected works of Kim Il Sung and the Green Book by Muammar al-Gaddafi. :cardY:

I smuggled some of Mao's work out of China, and some old Stalin work if you need to add to your collection.

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On 4/6/2017 at 10:46 AM, nudge said:

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Got this today. Haven't read proper science fiction for a long time, and this apparently got good reviews, so decided to give it a go...

How was it?

Started this Last week.

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Berserk

Possibly the most violent material Iv'e ever read. Shame the manga is still ongoing twentynyewrs later because the author is a lazy hack.

Also there is a lot of rape or attempted rape.

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35 minutes ago, Eco said:

How was it?

It's brilliant! I'm not a big e-book reader as I hate not having a proper book in my hands, but I couldn't put it down. Extremely well written, well developed characters, good story. Definitely one of the best modern sci-fi books!

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I used be read loads of SF but haven't for years. Got me interested though @nudge. Looking online though it says that the book is part of The Interdependancy series. Can it be read on its own as I hate reading something if there are others before it that I haven't read yet?

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7 minutes ago, Large said:

I used be read loads of SF but haven't for years. Got me interested though @nudge. Looking online though it says that the book is part of The Interdependancy series. Can it be read on its own as I hate reading something if there are others before it that I haven't read yet?

Oh absolutely; I never read anything of Scalzi before, and I think this is actually the first part of the Interdependency series anyway! 

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1 minute ago, nudge said:

Oh absolutely; I never read anything of Scalzi before, and I think this is actually the first part of the Interdependency series anyway! 

Nice! I've been in the mood for some Sci-Fi, so I'll need to add this to my list of books.

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32 minutes ago, nudge said:

Oh absolutely; I never read anything of Scalzi before, and I think this is actually the first part of the Interdependency series anyway! 

Okay, thanks. I'll give it a go.

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On 23/04/2017 at 10:05 PM, ...Dan said:

You read anything else by him? I loved Nana and Thérèse Raquin.

Zola is one my favourite authors, Therese Raquin is brilliant but the beast within and Germinal are my favourites. Good socialist too.

 

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7 minutes ago, nudge said:

Started Patrick O'Brian's The Mauritius Command today, a part of historical naval fiction series set during the Napoleonic Wars. 

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He wrote Captain and Commander correct?

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Just now, nudge said:

Yes, if you mean Master and Commander :P This is the 4th book in the same series.

That's the one. I was trying to go off of memory. xD

Let me know what you think, I'm typically not into those kinds of books, but I'm thinking of giving them a try as well.

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4 minutes ago, Eco said:

That's the one. I was trying to go off of memory. xD

Let me know what you think, I'm typically not into those kinds of books, but I'm thinking of giving them a try as well.

I love historical fiction and sea novels in particular (although more nautical adventures like Jules Verne), so I've been enjoying this so far :) There's a lot of investment in nautical detail though, so it can get a bit exhausting sometimes due to all the terminology, descriptions of the ships, maneuvers, etc. 

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