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Lianhaun
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Posted - 2004.05.06 15:02:00 -
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I just adore Terry Pratchett, and I have never read anything that makes me concider favouring other writers above him. Although Robin Hobb good as well but her most famous sago just...ended 
And I trust Miso's judgement
I think Joshua is working or something, bit dissapointed he wont hijack his own topic 
This is not a hijack
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Jadrut
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Posted - 2004.05.06 15:22:00 -
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I need a lesson in formal thread hijacking.
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Maud Dib
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Posted - 2004.05.06 15:31:00 -
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What did Banks and or Prichete(sp) write? I admit I'm not a huge Sci-Fi fan but but I don't think I've ever heard of them.
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Friday Dillinja
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Posted - 2004.05.06 15:53:00 -
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 Originally by: Maud Dib
...Prichete(sp)...
Terry Pratchett. He is famous for his Discworld Books. Maybe you have heard of Rincewind...?
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Riddari
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Posted - 2004.05.06 16:03:00 -
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I think Miso doesn't have the patience needed for Iain M. Banks.
Banks, Pratchett and a couple of other writers hog my bookshelves. Thorougly reccomend both as well as more names (there was a big book thread a few months ago).
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Dust Puppy
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Posted - 2004.05.06 16:24:00 -
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R.A. Salvatore has actually been hogging my bookshelfs lately, among the nights dawn trilogy (Almost finished though  ).
Are you gonna declare war on m0o then Josh 
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Miso
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Posted - 2004.05.06 16:49:00 -
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Originally by: Riddari
I think Miso doesn't have the patience needed for Iain M. Banks.
Wow, thats not at all patronising is it?
Banks is ok. Earlier stuff was enjoyable, later stuff is dull. Feersum was basically Banks saying "I've read Flowers For Algernon". His non-sci-fi stuff seems to be groping to recreate Lanark, but its not quite good enough. Just an opinion.
Pratchett writes the same book over and over again, just does FIND and REPLACE in his Word document manuscript for the char names, and gives the book a new title. *yawns*
Feel free to flame away...
Miso x
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Maud Dib
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Posted - 2004.05.06 16:59:00 -
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Originally by: Friday Dillinja
Originally by: Maud Dib
...Prichete(sp)...
Terry Pratchett. He is famous for his Discworld Books. Maybe you have heard of Rincewind...?
No I can't say that I have but I'll google it. I am a big fan of the cyberpunk style sci-fi ie William gibson, Bruce Sterling etc. Is it anything like that?
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Friday Dillinja
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Posted - 2004.05.06 17:01:00 -
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Originally by: Maud Dib
Originally by: Friday Dillinja
Originally by: Maud Dib
...Prichete(sp)...
Terry Pratchett. He is famous for his Discworld Books. Maybe you have heard of Rincewind...?
No I can't say that I have but I'll google it. I am a big fan of the cyberpunk style sci-fi ie William gibson, Bruce Sterling etc. Is it anything like that?
Nah... "Discworld" is more like "Hitchhikers Guide..." in a fantasy setting.
But i love Gibson, too. Neuromancer is one of my favorite books of all times. 
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Jade Constantine
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Posted - 2004.05.06 17:07:00 -
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Funnily enough I'm with Miso on Terry Prachett, I found the first couple of books quite funny but to be honest, there is just so much riotous comedy fantasy histrionics one can read before going ho-humm.
"Feersum" is nothing whatsoever to do with the subject matter of Flowers for Algernon by the way. (apart from in the most surface textual composition first glance analyis). Thats like saying all books where the character suffers flashbacks are the same ;)
I found it hard to read, but with good ideas trying to get out.
But for quality Banks science fiction I would really start with "against a dark background" Maud ... I love that book.
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Miso
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Posted - 2004.05.06 17:19:00 -
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Yeah, Against a dark background was very good.
I also recommend reading Viz Maud. Excellent literature
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Lianhaun
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Posted - 2004.05.06 17:23:00 -
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I'm really not much of a s/f fan, I really prefer fantasy
And your all a bunch of humorless old geezers
This is not a hijack
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Halseth Durn
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Posted - 2004.05.06 17:26:00 -
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1. Josh, did you even get your first paycheck, or will they be billing you for the tailor-fit uniform?
2. Admit it, you people havent read a book since your deep eve addiction set in.
If you want PvP, bring even numbers.
If you want to control the situation, bring friends.
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Seleene
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Posted - 2004.05.06 17:26:00 -
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R.A. Salvatore
I just picked up his new hardback, "The Highwayman". It's excellent.
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Jade Constantine
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Posted - 2004.05.06 17:34:00 -
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Originally by: Halseth Durn
1. Josh, did you even get your first paycheck, or will they be billing you for the tailor-fit uniform?
2. Admit it, you people havent read a book since your deep eve addiction set in.
If you want PvP, bring even numbers.
If you want to control the situation, bring friends.
Lol Halseth, that so isn't true ... I just finished "newton's wake" today and managed Richard Morgan's yuppy mad max-esq "market forces" last week ;)
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Dust Puppy
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Posted - 2004.05.06 17:40:00 -
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Originally by: Halseth Durn
2. Admit it, you people havent read a book since your deep eve addiction set in.
You have a point there First when I started EVE I tried out mining and due to my low skills and crappy lasers it took me a long time to wait for the ore to get to my hold so I used to read a bit while I was playing. I also did agent missions and didn¦t have a afterburner fitted so I could again read a bit while traveling. During this ca 3 month period I read the Dark Elf trilogy and 2 books in the Icewind Dale trilogy. I then lost internet and computer for 2 months and in that time I finished Icewind dale trilogy and added to it 8 other books about the same characters plus the Reality Dysfunction (which is kind of long). Schoolwork went straight to hell though.
That is I don¦t stop reading but it is drastically reduced when I have access to EVE
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Riddari
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Posted - 2004.05.06 17:40:00 -
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Miso, I think I forgot the tongue-in-cheek emote there. Sorry about that.
As for Pratchett, his books are social commentary, pointing out idiocy in modern society by making the events happen in a fantasy (not a sci-fi) world. Each book grapples some idiotic aspect of the human race and hits it with a hammer for us all to see it.
Tom Holts works are somewhat not far from Pratchett, however his historical novels are the apex of his work (The Walled Orchard, Olympiad, Alexdaner).
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Maud Dib
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Posted - 2004.05.06 18:14:00 -
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Originally by: Lianhaun
I'm really not much of a s/f fan, I really prefer fantasy
And your all a bunch of humorless old geezers
LOL I am not humorless.
I also prefer fantasy over sci-fi but I prefer good examples of either genre as opposed to bad fantasy.
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Neil Crow
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Posted - 2004.05.06 18:38:00 -
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This thread is gonna go into the new 2005 dictionarys under "Hijack"!
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.05.06 19:24:00 -
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I've been so busy today.
Hardly any time left to browse online after making 3 grown men cry and getting away with extra tomato on my Greggs' sarnie.
Iain M Banks is great, Terry Pratchett sucks, and please don't hijack threads without me in future, k?
Oh, and yeah, you'll find my employment history smacks strongly of Iain M Banks influence.
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Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2004.05.06 20:35:00 -
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Originally by: Jadrut
I need a lesson in formal thread hijacking.
you just got an A+
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Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2004.05.06 20:38:00 -
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Originally by: Miso
Originally by: Riddari
I think Miso doesn't have the patience needed for Iain M. Banks.
Wow, thats not at all patronising is it?
erm, it did come off a little odd, dinnit... watch yet back Rid
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Banks is ok. Earlier stuff was enjoyable, later stuff is dull. Feersum was basically Banks saying "I've read Flowers For Algernon".
HAH! I think he'd laugh to hear you say that actually
wait, you didn't like Excession?? Did you object to the phrase "Outside Context Problem" catching in your head like a virus perhaps
i suppose drone fetishism and an unhealthy obsession with machine-minds is sort of a requirement...
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Jadrut
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Posted - 2004.05.06 20:38:00 -
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Originally by: Bad Harlequin
Originally by: Jadrut
I need a lesson in formal thread hijacking.
you just got an A+
nobody apart from you reads what i write so it seems
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Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2004.05.06 20:43:00 -
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Edited by: Bad Harlequin on 06/05/2004 20:50:36
Originally by: Friday Dillinja
But i love Gibson, too. Neuromancer is one of my favorite books of all times.
"the sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel."
i knew as soon as i read that right from the start i was in for it
i also greatly enjoyed walter jon williams Hardwired, and it's cure lil corporate-manipulation-via-rumour-and-missiles theme, which come to think of it should be rather Eveish.. his ******e is an amazon, the Cowboy the only dude taller than she  , i wondered about this obsession with height until one day, the following verbatim convo took place:
me talking to random man behind "info" table at signing: excuse me, do you know where Walter Jon Williams is supposed to be?
7'+ tall giant behind table: no, and i wish i did, 'cause i'm him...
edit - H E R O I N E DAMMIT! H! E! R! O! I! N! E! FEMALE HERO!!! OKAY??!?! PUT THAT IN YOUR ***** PIPE AND SMOKE IT!
argh.
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Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2004.05.06 20:45:00 -
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Originally by: Lianhaun
I'm really not much of a s/f fan, I really prefer fantasy
And your all a bunch of humorless old geezers
hey, i'll have you know i'm one funny motherf!er, fyi!
And i'll chainspawn me own topic if i want to, So There!
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Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2004.05.06 20:46:00 -
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Originally by: Neil Crow
This thread is gonna go into the new 2005 dictionarys under "Hijack"!
SUCCESS!
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Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2004.05.06 20:47:00 -
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Originally by: Jadrut
Originally by: Bad Harlequin
Originally by: Jadrut
I need a lesson in formal thread hijacking.
you just got an A+
nobody apart from you reads what i write so it seems
which is really quite ironic 
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Jadrut
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Posted - 2004.05.06 20:51:00 -
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*geordie accent* Day 227 in the big brother house.....
Bad Harlequin gets verbal diaghorrea
Lianhun admits she likes the hamster wheel Miso installed in her tempest
Joshua Calvert DOESNT have verbal diaghorrea
Miso admits shes a phantasy/sci-fi geek
Jadrut continues to post completely pointless posts as no one reads them
(BTW im a WW2 non-fiction fan, stuff by Stephen e. Ambrose [RIP] and Antony Beevor)
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Jazz Bo
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Posted - 2004.05.06 21:39:00 -
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Originally by: Jadrut
Originally by: Bad Harlequin
Originally by: Jadrut
I need a lesson in formal thread hijacking.
you just got an A+
nobody apart from you reads what i write so it seems
/says "there there" and reads Jadrut's post
Originally by: DB Preacher
Celestial Apocalypse - Brave souls fighting the endless smak.
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Miso
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Posted - 2004.05.06 21:41:00 -
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Originally by: Jadrut
*geordie accent* Day 227 in the big brother house.....
Miso admits shes a phantasy/sci-fi geek
Whoa! steady on chap! that there's fighting talk where I come from...Fantasy novels? FANTASY NOVELS?!
*takes glove and slaps jadrut in the face* you sir, are an imbeccile!
I'll have you know the last book I read had pop up flaps and big writing.
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