01-14-2013, 10:24 AM | #15226 |
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01-14-2013, 10:25 AM | #15227 |
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I'll try to be vague too, but inside spoilers just in case.
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If it seems I've missed something important then I'd welcome a PM (rather than risk getting more explicit in the open list and spoiling it for others). I think I'll put off reading more until I find the right mood ... though, of course, it can help just knowing what sort of thing to expect so you don't come at a book looking for something different. There's certainly nothing wrong with GRRM's writing skill, it was all very well done ... it was all just too spaced out or something to get me involved/absorbed. |
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In the mean time, I'll use Ms. Austen for the "Classic" category. |
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01-14-2013, 10:57 AM | #15229 |
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I've been largely just lurking in this thread, but it's so interesting to see what people are reading!
I finally picked up The Ask and the Answer, second book in the YA dystopian / science fiction Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness, after reading the first book (The Knife of Never Letting Go) last summer - I found it good (I can't say "enjoyed" it, really, as these aren't particularly feel-good books) but it was a bit of a struggle to read at times plus I felt like something lighter afterwards. The second book seems to be much easier to get into, though - probably because I'm now familiar with the style (a lot of it is first person narrative by an illiterate protagonist, with many words spelled out semi-phonetically), and because I'm familiar with the world. |
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01-14-2013, 11:53 AM | #15231 |
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01-14-2013, 11:54 AM | #15232 |
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Just started Ishmael by Barbara Hambly, which, oddly enough seems to be a crossover between Star Trek and another 60s TV series, Here Come the Brides.
The only obvious connection is that actor Mark Lenard played both Sarek and Aaron Stempel. |
01-14-2013, 12:42 PM | #15233 |
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I didn't even know he was British until the day I realized Bertie Wooster and House were the same guy. They seem nothing—or at least very little—alike, although you can see Hugh Laurie in both if you look close enough. He is, as they say, multifaceted.
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01-14-2013, 12:44 PM | #15234 |
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Of course, everyone knows Jeeves (Stephen Fry) is an author many times over.
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01-14-2013, 12:52 PM | #15235 |
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Yeah but I didn't know Stephen Fry was Jeeves.
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01-14-2013, 01:04 PM | #15236 |
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Have you never seen Fry and Laurie's Jeeves and Wooster series? Go and get it on DVD or Blue-Ray at once!
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01-14-2013, 01:48 PM | #15237 |
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...or rent the episodes at Amazon.
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