What Are You Reading? - Page 10

jedipencil · 11-02-2007, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike225

Thanks for reminding me, Newt, I meant to add this: The Bartimaeus Trilogy is fantastic. If you like reading about magic and djinns, this is the book for you. It takes an interesting look at it in a way I hadn't seen before. Jonathan Stroud is a very good writer, too.

Sounds interesting...I've never heard of it. How does it read?

Mike225 · 11-02-2007, 04:30 PM

Very well. Highly recommended.

Newt · 11-02-2007, 05:05 PM

I'm re-reading the first book of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I've been kicking around the idea of adapting parts of this series to comics just to practice actually making sequentials, and I think I'm finally ready to get started. I'll put up some sketches in the Artist Showcase soon.

knockedoutpanzer · 11-04-2007, 07:21 AM

Bitterwood was excellent. Now onto "Shadow Kingdoms" a Robert E.Howard anthology. Fun so far.

HaphazardJoy · 11-12-2007, 04:03 AM

Read The Innocent Mage/The Awakened Mage (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker duology) by Karen Miller. It was pretty bad. Oh well. Also reading The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart before bed... I've started the Arthurian Saga a few times, mostly when I was in middle school, now I started over and I'm liking the book a lot more.

jedipencil · 11-12-2007, 07:50 AM

Finished Greenwitch - book number 3, and am a quarter of a way through The Grey King....number 4. I'm not ashamed to say I'm having a great time reading this series.

Newt · 11-12-2007, 09:38 AM

The girl got me a reprint of the illustrated folio of Seba's cabinet of curiosities, one of the most important early natural history collections. It's frickin' awesome!

J.D. Lombardi · 11-13-2007, 05:37 PM

I'm currently finishing up Anthony Bourdain's "The Nasty Bits." Like the more silly Dave Attell from Insomniac, I'm envious of any man who is able to travel the globe eating, drinking and enjoying himself while calling it a career.

chaosgoat · 11-13-2007, 05:59 PM

"A History of the End of the World" by Jonathan Kirsch and "American Jesus" by Stephen Prothero

FA · 11-13-2007, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by chaosgoat

"American Jesus" by Stephen Prothero

How are you finding it? I was thinking of picking this up.

Comix Obsession · 11-14-2007, 11:15 AM

I'm working on 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac (might I note, the newly published 'Original Scroll' Hardback copy - which is so lush, to coin a phrase). It's beautifully presented, with 107 pages of notes, introductions and history (all of which I'm quite sure I will never read).

I've read the first few pages. I'd read them before on the published version, but stopped. For some reason, it's quite reassuring reading a pretty much untouched version of an author's original manuscript - the sentences that go on for about a page, the names shortened to just initials, the overly long descriptions that just beautifully describe a scene. Yeah, I like it.

knockedoutpanzer · 11-18-2007, 06:06 AM

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. Hooked so far.

chaosgoat · 11-19-2007, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FA

How are you finding it? I was thinking of picking this up.

It's pretty good. Have you read any of Prothero's other stuff?

FA · 11-19-2007, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaosgoat

It's pretty good. Have you read any of Prothero's other stuff?

Nope, not a thing. Just had this one recommended to me.

chaosgoat · 11-20-2007, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by FA

Nope, not a thing. Just had this one recommended to me.

If you like it, you should read "Religious Literacy"

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11-02-2007, 04:30 PM	#137
Mike225 low brow B1Tch Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Right in the brainpan squish! Posts: 5,719	Very well. Highly recommended.

11-02-2007, 05:05 PM	#138
Newt Common cold fusion Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: On the mighty Cumberland Posts: 5,136	I'm re-reading the first book of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I've been kicking around the idea of adapting parts of this series to comics just to practice actually making sequentials, and I think I'm finally ready to get started. I'll put up some sketches in the Artist Showcase soon.

11-04-2007, 07:21 AM	#139
knockedoutpanzer Hails Cthulhu! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: england Posts: 970	Bitterwood was excellent. Now onto "Shadow Kingdoms" a Robert E.Howard anthology. Fun so far.

11-12-2007, 04:03 AM	#140
HaphazardJoy BANGARANG! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Worcester, Massachusetts Posts: 5,878	Read The Innocent Mage/The Awakened Mage (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker duology) by Karen Miller. It was pretty bad. Oh well. Also reading The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart before bed... I've started the Arthurian Saga a few times, mostly when I was in middle school, now I started over and I'm liking the book a lot more.

11-12-2007, 09:38 AM	#142
Newt Common cold fusion Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: On the mighty Cumberland Posts: 5,136	The girl got me a reprint of the illustrated folio of Seba's cabinet of curiosities, one of the most important early natural history collections. It's frickin' awesome!

11-13-2007, 05:37 PM	#143
J.D. Lombardi Writer/Photographer Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: East Coast Posts: 311	I'm currently finishing up Anthony Bourdain's "The Nasty Bits." Like the more silly Dave Attell from Insomniac, I'm envious of any man who is able to travel the globe eating, drinking and enjoying himself while calling it a career.

11-13-2007, 05:59 PM	#144
chaosgoat Uh-huh... Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,441	"A History of the End of the World" by Jonathan Kirsch and "American Jesus" by Stephen Prothero

11-14-2007, 11:15 AM	#146
Comix Obsession Missing In In-Action Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Southend, UK Posts: 1,852	I'm working on 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac (might I note, the newly published 'Original Scroll' Hardback copy - which is so lush, to coin a phrase). It's beautifully presented, with 107 pages of notes, introductions and history (all of which I'm quite sure I will never read). I've read the first few pages. I'd read them before on the published version, but stopped. For some reason, it's quite reassuring reading a pretty much untouched version of an author's original manuscript - the sentences that go on for about a page, the names shortened to just initials, the overly long descriptions that just beautifully describe a scene. Yeah, I like it.

11-18-2007, 06:06 AM	#147
knockedoutpanzer Hails Cthulhu! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: england Posts: 970	The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. Hooked so far.