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What book are you reading at the moment?
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:38 pmby Monsoon
Straken by Terry Brooks.
Only an average read as a few errors are coming into his work these days.
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:41 pmby Matbow
Triumph of the Sun, WS. Will reserve judgement until I've read more (Im only a few chapters in)
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:39 pmby Yakumo
When the Lion feeds.
Its... Its....
Its nearly hitting the spot but I feel the writer could do better.
Admittedly only at chapter 7 just now.
Given this was WS first book, thought I better read it first.
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Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:57 amby Matbow
So...out of interest what would you watch first:
Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace
or
Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope
If you don't understand it's not as criptic as you may think!
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Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:23 pmby Yakumo
Its got to be Phantom Menace.
Why do you ask?
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Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:41 pmby Matbow
Ahh...based on your answer you should of read Birds of Prey first. Not that it really matters.
"When the Lion Feeds" was WS's first novel but it is not the first, chronogically speaking, in the Courtney series. Much like "A New Hope" was George Lucas' first film but not the first in the series.
But as I said it doesn't really make that much difference. Birds of Prey, Monsoon, Blue Horizon is almost a sub-triliogy (that's the second time I've written that in a post today!) of the Courtney series.
NB: I can't claim the Star Wars comparison as my own, I read it somewhere and thought it was a good way of describing it!
Posted:
Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:32 pmby Bee
Am reading The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
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Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:50 pmby Nefer
Skystone by Jack Whyte. He's a great speaker and story-teller, so I thought I'd give his books a try
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:28 pmby Matt
I've read the first three of the Camulod Chronicles, the first-person perspective gets a bit annoying at times, and every chapter seems to end on a high, but generally they're good.
I'm reading The Magicians Guild by Trudi Canavan (nearly Caravan) at the mo, not a lot is happening. Got Queen of the Damned to read after that, then no more 'til Crimbo.
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:29 pmby Matt
<<< What the hell is this thing??? I didn't put it there!
Kinda cool though...
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:55 pmby Nefer
Yeah, that thing w/ the avatars happened to the mods too... You'll have to go into your profile to change it...
Posted:
Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:26 amby Monsoon
I think you are lucky to have it.. 27kb! i'm restricted to just 6kb
and the pic is a lot bigger than 80x80!
Posted:
Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:37 amby Matbow
Random Avatar:
Only a problem for those ppl who joined early on (nefer, bee and rhodesy). There was a known problem with this and I was under the assumption that it was corrected.
Avatar Sizes:
All the free forums on this server have access to a common avatar folder - if you upload an avatar it goes into this directory. Admins can change the max file size so some of the avatars in the common directory will be pretty big files.
I've changed the avatar settings so that you can have 100*100 and 15k if that helps.
Posted:
Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:50 amby Monsoon
Ah its not true what they say about you, you are a great guy!
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Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:22 pmby Matt
It's grown on me, I'm keeping Tedster!
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 12:16 pmby Nefer
I'm reading "The Eagle's Brood", the 3rd book in Jack Whyte's serious, and damn! It's finally getting good!
The historical detail is amazing!
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Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:34 amby Betty
Am reading The Dark Tower by Stephen King; the last one of the series.
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:47 pmby Monsoon
The Darkness That Comes Before by R.Scott Bakker
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Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:54 amby WSI
just read: Tad Williams, The Burning Man
still reading Doris Lessing, African Laughter
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Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:09 pmby Nicoadrian
I´m reading The Dante Club by Mathew Pearl, is a good book, not the best but is good, is the second time that I read it.