11-10-2006, 02:41 PM | #16 |
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That's not far off, except it doesn't seem to be trying to scare ... it just treats the vampires, werewolves, etc. as regular characters. Rather more odd than scary.
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11-13-2006, 10:49 AM | #17 |
Pac-Man caught my iLiad.
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Yesterday I converted Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale" [1953, first James Bond novel, in near future as motion picture in the cinemas world wide] via LaTeX to iLiad compatible pdf.
Novel isn't bad, I will see when I finish today. Last edited by yokos; 11-13-2006 at 10:52 AM. |
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11-13-2006, 12:22 PM | #18 |
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Today is Circles of Displacement by Darrel Bain.
Alien created "bubbles" of time accidently send chunks of modern-day Earth back in time (along with the poor souls who were on those chunks of earth). |
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11-14-2006, 02:31 PM | #21 |
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Just finished the first of the Cyteen series. Much better than it promised in the first 100pages. I guess I'll continue with the two others...
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11-15-2006, 11:00 AM | #22 | |
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?three? volumes of Cyteen?
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11-15-2006, 11:29 AM | #23 | |
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11-16-2006, 01:05 AM | #24 | |
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11-18-2006, 01:29 AM | #25 |
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Tonight I finished my first complete ebook, Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. It's early 90's cyberpunk and lots of fun. I got it at Connect.
I, too, recently read from the Hyperion series - the first two books, in paper, which I really enjoyed. I've put off reading the last two, since I have so many other books on my shelves waiting to be read (literally more than a thousand - if I can just live that long). Next, I'll be reading a new author, Cherie Priest's Four and Twenty Blackbirds, an atmospheric southern gothic ghost story. There have been many good reviews of this as well as the sequel. Paper. I've been buying up some of the supernatural/mystery/detective/fantasy/romance/comic hybrids too, although I come from the urban fantasy side, not so much the romance side. There are so many of these series out now, I've only dipped into a few so far: Anita Blake (2), Merry Gentry (1), Women of the Otherworld (Kelly Armstrong) (3), Southern Vampires (1), Dresden Files (2), Tanya Huff's Summoners (2). I still look forward to trying Kim Harrison, L.A. Banks, Rachel Caine, and several others. Btw, the Kim Harrison series is for sale in ebook on Connect as a bundle. One series of this type that really stands out as a success is Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, which will incidentally be adapted as a tv series on the SCIFI channel in a couple of months. It features a male lead and is not focused on romance as much as supernatural/wizard/detective. It's been a book series for years, and is one of the forerunners of the recent bligh...glut of new offerings by other authors. I'm also reading bits of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at bedtime (on my Reader). Last edited by Michele; 11-18-2006 at 01:34 AM. |
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I am reading two books:
1. Part 2 of the Rifters books: Maelstrom 2. "The Two Swords" by R.A. Salvatore |
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11-20-2006, 03:09 AM | #28 |
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Now reading Bob Woodward - State of Denial Bit dry and long-winded.
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11-20-2006, 03:32 AM | #29 | |
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