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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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 Posted - 30 Sep 2013 : 12:25:40
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Reading World war Z: An oral history of the Zombie War. Quite riveting. Its much better than the movie.
I just watched this movie with my wife last night.
This is one of those times where the movie was good enough to inspire me to want to pick up the book.
As I understand it from one of my friends, who has read the book and scene the movie, there is little in common betwixt the two, other than the title. Sadly, this is not uncommon for movies based on books... 
I've neither read the book nor seen the movie. Other than Shaun of the Dead or the Ex- series of books (which are a mashup of superheroes and zombies), I'm just not into the zombie thing. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 30 Sep 2013 : 13:41:04
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The movie is quite excellent, actually, IMO of course. Calling it a mere "zombie movie" is rather inaccurate, or not quite right. It's a survival movie. The zombies just happen to be the "cause." You can easily swap them with giant roaches, godzillas, armies of angry, walking catfish, etc.
The story, the tension, the conjuration of the fear for the inevitable, tinged with a sliver of hope, coupled with good acting--all make the movie work very well for me. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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Posted - 01 Oct 2013 : 14:06:24
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Originally posted by Dennis
The movie is quite excellent, actually, IMO of course. Calling it a mere "zombie movie" is rather inaccurate, or not quite right. It's a survival movie. The zombies just happen to be the "cause." You can easily swap them with giant roaches, godzillas, armies of angry, walking catfish, etc.
The story, the tension, the conjuration of the fear for the inevitable, tinged with a sliver of hope, coupled with good acting--all make the movie work very well for me.
I am not saying the movie wasn't good. It was a great movie IMO. However the book is better and they certainly don't have much in common. The movie leaves out a whole lot of stuff from social commentary to cool laser weapons. So even if you have watched the movie I would still encourage you to try out the book. At times it feels like you are reading a non fiction account of an actual war or it will at least make you wonder if you should not buy some preserved food and a machete , you know just in case. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 01 Oct 2013 : 14:16:41
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| About halfway through the Night circus by Erin Morgenstern. I have really enjoyed it so far. An enchanting fairytale but one that can be enjoyed by adults. The writer does a great job of creating an atmosphere of dreamlike wonder. |
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Clad In Shadows
Learned Scribe
Canada
158 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2013 : 22:01:45
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| Finally getting to The Last Threshold by RA Salvatore. |
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Renin
Learned Scribe
USA
290 Posts |
Posted - 05 Oct 2013 : 02:45:21
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Stopping 3 other books I had (although, I had just finished The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt), so that I could read THE GODBORN.
85 pages into and I'm loving it! |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36997 Posts |
Posted - 05 Oct 2013 : 16:57:12
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I'm finished with Harry Potter, now, and concentrating on William Shakespeare's Star Wars, which I just discovered has a "book trailer" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__E20tUsM3s
After that will be Midst Toil and Tribulation, the newest Safehold book, which is now out in paperback. |
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2013 : 01:05:49
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| This may count as blasphemy, but I passed up The Godborn (even at a 20% discount) to purchase Lost Souls, which is Book III of the Star Trek: Destiny series. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 06 Oct 2013 : 08:01:28
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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
This may count as blasphemy, but I passed up The Godborn (even at a 20% discount) to purchase Lost Souls, which is Book III of the Star Trek: Destiny series.
Blasphemy indeed! |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 06 Oct 2013 : 08:16:35
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Now in chapter 2 of The Godborn. I must say I'm both thrilled and apprehensive to pick this up. Four years (nearing five) of waiting is a test of patience. And it's inevitable that some readers (including yours truly) can't help but expect a lot from this book.
So far so good. I didn't see it coming that the Source would be in such predicament. Though, given the 5E general spoiler that Shade would be de-powered considerably, I guess I shouldn't be surprised if Sakkors falls from the sky toward the end of this book. |
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Drustan Dwnhaedan
Learned Scribe
USA
324 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2013 : 08:19:56
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| Took a break from reading The Sword of Shannara to read Winter Witch by Elaine Cunningham. It's been a long time since I read an entire novel in one day (I borrowed Winter Witch from one my friends, who expects me to return it to him tomorrow. This is why I (generally) don't like borrowing other people's books). |
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2013 : 10:52:01
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Originally posted by Dennis
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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
This may count as blasphemy, but I passed up The Godborn (even at a 20% discount) to purchase Lost Souls, which is Book III of the Star Trek: Destiny series.
Blasphemy indeed!
For what it's worth I finished Lost Souls and am in the clear to pick up The Godborn...just as soon as the rent check clears, that is.
Speaking of Lost Souls and the Star Trek Destiny series: what a brilliant book and a brilliant series. Just awesome the way he put it all together, weaving two centuries of continuity together into one set of books. David Mack can take me for a ride in the Star Trek universe anytime he wants.
If Ed Greenwood's The Herald can bring it all home for the Sundering series like Mack's Lost Souls nailed it for the Destiny series, then I daresay the Realms are going to be opened up to whole new vistas of story telling and roleplaying/gaming potential.
Hot damn that was a good book!  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36997 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2013 : 14:26:24
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Originally posted by Drustan Dwnhaedan
Took a break from reading The Sword of Shannara to read Winter Witch by Elaine Cunningham. It's been a long time since I read an entire novel in one day (I borrowed Winter Witch from one my friends, who expects me to return it to him tomorrow. This is why I (generally) don't like borrowing other people's books).
Winter Witch is a good one to read in a day.  |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2013 : 15:42:42
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| Currently reading the King Beyond the wall by David Gemmel. |
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Renin
Learned Scribe
USA
290 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2013 : 21:35:09
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AND I've finished The Godborn yesterday.
Ah....that's a sense of satisfaction.... |
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 07 Oct 2013 : 01:21:59
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| The Last Wish by Sapkowski. It's about a mage-assassin or Witcher named Geralt, who basically travels around slaying different monsters for bounty. It reads sort of like an anthology; there's self-contained chapters that're basically short stories. These chapters are connected by chapters dealing with Geralt's decline as a Witcher. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 07 Oct 2013 : 04:14:18
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Read White Fang and Call of the Wild....wow....that's great writing.
Just started 20,000 leagues under the sea.
edit: I think White Fang is now in my top five favorite novels.
Ah, those are some classics! I've not read the Jack London books in a long time (I don't even know, off the top of my head, if I replaced them after the fire), but they are books I quite enjoy. Ditto for 20,000 Leagues, the only Jules Verne novel I've read.
And these are some of the few books that I read because of school, and actually enjoyed. Most of that which was inflicted on us in school -- the other so-called "classics" -- were not enjoyable at all to me. I'm inclined to think that some "classics" are only called that because everyone has been told they are classics, and that more Americans would be inclined to read if they didn't have the "classics" crammed down their throat.
I forgot I just read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein before starting 20,000 leagues.....
What a GREAT story.......nothing at all like all the crap movies I've seen! Now I need to read the original Dracula as well!
When I told my friends that I intended to read Frankenstein and Dracula, I was told I'd really enjoy the former, and be bored by the latter. It was the other way around, though. Frankenstein just never really grabbed me, but I quite enjoyed Dracula.
One thing I found interesting in the novel of Frankenstein was how little of it was devoted to the animation of the monster. It the movies, it's always a focal point, with the lightning and the hunchback and the creepy castle and all... In the book it's like, "Okay, I had all the pieces, they were assembled, and then I animated it." There's plenty of coverage of everything before and after, but the animation itself is barely mentioned.
Just finished Dracula......awesome read. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 08 Oct 2013 : 03:23:48
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| Finished HP and the Deathly Hallows. Great series. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 08 Oct 2013 : 03:59:16
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Finished HP and the Deathly Hallows. Great series.
If Rowling reads FR, I would have hazarded a guess that she took inspiration of the Horcruxes from Aumvor's fragmented phylactery.
And yes, great series indeed--one I reread every once in a while. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 08 Oct 2013 : 04:01:47
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Originally posted by Dennis
Now in chapter 2 of The Godborn. I must say I'm both thrilled and apprehensive to pick this up. Four years (nearing five) of waiting is a test of patience. And it's inevitable that some readers (including yours truly) can't help but expect a lot from this book.
So far so good. I didn't see it coming that the Source would be in such predicament. Though, given the 5E general spoiler that Shade would be de-powered considerably, I guess I shouldn't be surprised if Sakkors falls from the sky toward the end of this book.
In chapter five now. Really pity Brennus. Gerak somehow reminds me of Kaspar.
This is proving to be a little bit darker than Paul's previous books. Not that I mind.
I just hope Telamont and Brennus get more face time than before. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 08 Oct 2013 : 13:21:10
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Originally posted by Entreri3478
Finished HP and the Deathly Hallows. Great series.
Glad you enjoyed it. I hope we can consider you a fellow fan of the HP universe. On a side note have you seen the movies? |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 08 Oct 2013 : 13:22:07
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| Reading Waylander by David Gemmel. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 08 Oct 2013 : 15:38:19
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I finished with Tarnished over the weekend. I'm now about half-way through Tracy Hickman's Embers of Atlantis -- a Fantasy Flight Games novel for the "Fireborn" setting.
I'm not really familiar with the "Fireborn" world beyond what I've read on the FFG website, but this book had been sitting in my "To-Read" stacks since 2011. Plus, it's a Hickman novel... which is usually a cause for instant-reading, but I kind of forgot about this one.  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36997 Posts |
Posted - 08 Oct 2013 : 21:12:51
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Originally posted by The Sage
I finished with Tarnished over the weekend. I'm now about half-way through Tracy Hickman's Embers of Atlantis -- a Fantasy Flight Games novel for the "Fireborn" setting.
I'm not really familiar with the "Fireborn" world beyond what I've read on the FFG website, but this book had been sitting in my "To-Read" stacks since 2011. Plus, it's a Hickman novel... which is usually a cause for instant-reading, but I kind of forgot about this one.
I've got that book in my to-read pile, too. Isn't it part of a series? That's why I've not read it, yet -- I've not gotten the other books. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 09 Oct 2013 : 03:15:10
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| Reading The Song of Troy by Colleen McCullough. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 09 Oct 2013 : 03:16:02
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Finished HP and the Deathly Hallows. Great series.
Glad you enjoyed it. I hope we can consider you a fellow fan of the HP universe. On a side note have you seen the movies?
Of course you can consider me a fan! I have seen the movies through OotP and need to see the rest now... |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 09 Oct 2013 : 03:30:28
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by The Sage
I finished with Tarnished over the weekend. I'm now about half-way through Tracy Hickman's Embers of Atlantis -- a Fantasy Flight Games novel for the "Fireborn" setting.
I'm not really familiar with the "Fireborn" world beyond what I've read on the FFG website, but this book had been sitting in my "To-Read" stacks since 2011. Plus, it's a Hickman novel... which is usually a cause for instant-reading, but I kind of forgot about this one.
I've got that book in my to-read pile, too. Isn't it part of a series? That's why I've not read it, yet -- I've not gotten the other books.
Aye. It's the first book in the "Fireborn" series. There's been two other novels published for the line since that time [with the last being in late 2012 as I recall.] I've also got them in my stacks as well, so that's partly why I started with Embers of Atlantis. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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Posted - 09 Oct 2013 : 11:43:04
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Originally posted by Entreri3478
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Originally posted by Thauranil
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Originally posted by Entreri3478
Finished HP and the Deathly Hallows. Great series.
Glad you enjoyed it. I hope we can consider you a fellow fan of the HP universe. On a side note have you seen the movies?
Of course you can consider me a fan! I have seen the movies through OotP and need to see the rest now...
Good to know. Hope you enjoy the movies as well. The last one... well err last two were pretty good. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Oct 2013 : 12:59:45
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Admittedly, part 1 of The Deathly Hallows film leaned toward being . . . boring. I think I dozed off in the middle part. Part 2 is awesome though. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Oct 2013 : 13:06:22
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Is it just me, or the Delete button is really not working?
Sage, Wooly, please delete my previous post (and this as well). Thank you. |
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