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Old 01-12-2007, 08:32 AM   #661
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Oh....Oh oh...Sean McMullen rocks! I recently read the two Moonworlds books.I am so impressed with this writer. Mind you, Australia does produce more than its fair share of quirky, quality sci-fi and fantasy. Greg Egan springs to mind. (up til five minutes ago, I was mistakenly under the impression that Jonathan Lethem was Australian.....apparently he isn't:P so God knows whose author biog details I've got that from

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Old 01-13-2007, 03:53 PM   #662
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I am now officially reading Book 1 of The Dresden Files, Storm Front, by Jim Butcher.
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Old 01-13-2007, 05:31 PM   #663
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Finally finished "A Feast for Crows" and have now started "The Time Traveler's Wife." Someday I may finish the books I got for my birthday and get into the stack of books from Christmas...
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Old 01-13-2007, 05:35 PM   #664
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Currently Reading:

The Android's Dream, John Scalzi
Theodore E. Roosevelt, <something> <initial> Pringle
The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp
The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
The Pickaxe Book, Pragmatic Programmers
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Old 01-13-2007, 05:45 PM   #665
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The Time Traveller's Wife, is a wonderful book.

Right now, I am being a total geek/fan-girl and reading a Torchwood book I am also dipping in and out of Councils and Synods of the English Church 871-1204
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Old 01-13-2007, 10:46 PM   #666
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My mom just finished that book, dana. I guess we still have it somewhere. Should I read it?
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Old 01-14-2007, 05:22 AM   #667
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Fobble, Evelyn Wood is now available in book form. Gotta read it through one of these days myself.

I think The Light Fantastic was the last Pratchett I read, couple months back -- typical enough, a light confection to enjoy once and give back to the public library.

Early Julian May was more my meat, though I haven't maintained nearly as much interest in his later books.
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Old 01-14-2007, 10:41 AM   #668
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Early Julian May was more my meat, though I haven't maintained nearly as much interest in his later books.
Do you consider the Galactic Milieu stuff to be earlier or later? (Julian May's a she, BTW...) Those were definitely my favorite of hers.
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Old 01-14-2007, 11:35 AM   #669
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Just started The Absolute Sandman, Vol. I

I don't really get the comic book (or graphic novel) thing. There are so few words and you have to rely on someone else's interpretation of what things look like. Few illustrations are ever as compelling as the image in my mind's eye.
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Old 01-14-2007, 01:28 PM   #670
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The Time Traveller's Wife, is a wonderful book.
i loved that book, too. what a neat concept.
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Old 01-14-2007, 04:23 PM   #671
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I don't really get the comic book (or graphic novel) thing. There are so few words and you have to rely on someone else's interpretation of what things look like. Few illustrations are ever as compelling as the image in my mind's eye.
On the other hand, a good artist can give a character an expression that if fully described in prose would be clunky and unweildy, but as a single frame of art is eloquent. There are many such instances in Sandman... I wish I could read that again for the first time.
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Old 01-14-2007, 06:23 PM   #672
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On the other hand, a good artist can give a character an expression that if fully described in prose would be clunky and unweildy, but as a single frame of art is eloquent. There are many such instances in Sandman... I wish I could read that again for the first time.
I'm another 50 pages in. Now I completely get it. Fantastic.
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Old 01-14-2007, 07:46 PM   #673
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Dana, you might like 'British Summer Time' by Paul Cornell - he wrote a couple of the DrWho episodes.
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Old 01-14-2007, 09:55 PM   #674
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i loved that book, too. what a neat concept.
Pete loved that as well. Are you approving it for the bits and pieces crowd?
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Old 01-14-2007, 10:09 PM   #675
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the bits and pieces crowd...?

short attention span? limited reading time?

i listened to it on mp3 in the car, and it was compelling. It's about a guy who has an involuntary condition called temporal displacement. He time travels to different periods of his own life, forward and backward, at random times. He has no control over where or when he goes. He meets his wife when she is 6 years old and he is ?40. Then he meets her for the first time when she is 18 and he is 26. She knows him, but he doesn't know her.....although she's known him practically all of her life. You get accustomed to the flow of it pretty quickly.

read it.
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