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Starry Wisdom
doesn't sound to me like he considered it distasteful. more dis than mis i'd say
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Not in Martin's world. His use of 'mislike' got on my magic tits.
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Starry Wisdom
you were misliking it
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
His writing is not great from a literary pov but he does knock out a good page turner and you get much more involved with the characters instead of having to concentrate on remembering who is who and what their relationship with everyone else is. Kind of wish I'd followed someone else on here's lead in missing out the Daenerys chapters though. I kept thinking something really imortant was going to happen so I'd better not skip anything
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
'Mummers farce' did it for me. And all the trudging. He should have given them magic carpets or coconuts or something.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I like the books a lot for the internal monolouges of characters. Davos is particularly good for this, it gives his on screen character a damn sight more depth.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I must have read the word trencher instead of plate at least a half a hundred times.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
breaking of fasts.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Full Dornish Breaking Of Fast
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
they might also be difficult for people not on regular handshaking terms with high fantasy. Even though its not, it wears some similar clothing iyswim
Arnaldur Indridason's "Hypothermia", another Inspector Erlendur page turner. It's again concerned with missing people (but that's part of who Erlendur is) but this time around there seems to be some kind of supernatural undercurrent, which I wasn't expecting.
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Starry Wisdom
you've sold me on it, i'll give it a go
Some tedious tripe called The Days of the Deer (Liliana Bodoc) Have run out of reading stuff so will have to persist for at least one more night. Puff on the front from Ursula LeGuin (although she did call it 'meditative' which should have warned me as a synonym for boring).
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I've been summing up the courage to read that for a while but it seems a bit harrowing for my current mood
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I know what you mean. In an interview she gave, Yanagihara said that she has not cried once while writing the book. I am only 160 pages and I cried twice. I keep reminding myself not to get too misty eyed because of what she said but the writing is so good and emotionally accessible, it's hard not to respond.
Virtual Blue
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A couple of year late...but I'm reading The Rosie Project (why, I do not know).
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Graeme Simsion wrote it
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sovietwave
Boundaries of Utopia - Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin by Erik van Ree.
Voley
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For all that, I'm giving the first Game Of Thrones book another go. I figured that if I could get over some of the crap acting in the first season of the telly series I can probably live with GRRM's writing style. The storytelling is winning the battle so far - I've ploughed through half the book in the last couple of days and am enjoying it now. Glad I stuck with it.
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Heh. I just got to that bit last night and thought of you grimacing at it.
Shadows On Our Skin by Jennifer Johnston
Coming of age novel about a boy growing up in Northern Ireland in I guess the 70s, when it was published. It's shaping up pretty well and, aside from a bit of a hard to believe friendship the kid strikes up with a school teacher, I like the sense of realism about the characters. Something about it makes me think of the kind of books we used to read in English class at secondary school, and in fact I think it would be good for that. It reminds me in particular of one I did for gcse, Spies by Michael Frayn. at the time I didn't much like it, but I think actually it was a pretty good book.
Coming of age novel about a boy growing up in Northern Ireland in I guess the 70s, when it was published. It's shaping up pretty well and, aside from a bit of a hard to believe friendship the kid strikes up with a school teacher, I like the sense of realism about the characters. Something about it makes me think of the kind of books we used to read in English class at secondary school, and in fact I think it would be good for that. It reminds me in particular of one I did for gcse, Spies by Michael Frayn. at the time I didn't much like it, but I think actually it was a pretty good book.
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Stoner by John Williams
Handling the Undead - John Ajvide Linqvist. This is the author who wrote Let the Right One in, this one is about zombies.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Digging Up Mother by Doug Stanhope
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