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Hampton Roads, VA

Science and Method, by Henri Poincare.

"Hi, I'am Cthulu. I tried to call, but I kept getting your stupid answering machine."
Love's Eldritch Ichor

Blood is best stirred before battle, and nothing does that better than the bagpipes.

 
   
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Et In Arcadia Ego





Canterbury

Books recently finished :

Prospero Burns. A great Abnett book, won't win over anyone who doesn't like his style -- this one is quite like "legion" IMO -- but I found it very satisfying and intriguing.

I do think though the way it and Prospero Burns were sold or talked about was grossly misleading, almost criminally so perhaps.

God King was very good, best in that series, each book getting better as we went along. ..

... looks like we will be getting more, perhaps another series even, about Sigmar. I'm reasonably happy about that, but there's other areas I'd rather see them push into and explore a bit methinks.

Finished off Cornwell's warlord trilogy ( his sortof historic version of the King Arthur story) and, I'm not too ashamed to say, my eyes were a little moist at the end. Superb. I dipped into some of the Sharpe books years ago and wasn't too taken with them... but I think that might be age and period related perhaps. This series I loved though, it's vying with Lawheads' set of books as my favourite take on the story. I cannot recommend it enough.

It persuaded me to set off yesterday and buy his Uhtred series -- bless Waterstones and their 3 for 2 offers.

The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
 
   
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Plastictrees





Bonn

Recently finished books:

The first Heretic
Fate of the Jedi: Vortex

Now reading:
Dead men walking, followed by God King
   
Made in ca
Human Auxiliary to the Empire




Vancity

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

Sic vis pacem, para bellum. 
   
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter






Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)

Sharpe's Waterloo. Only this and Sharpe's Devil and I'm done!


Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.

"Good game guys, now lets hit the showers"
 
   
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Arch Magos w/ 4 Meg of RAM






In the Wasteland

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.



 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Wolf guy - Ookami no monshou

18+ manga, and even that may be a little mildly put. (not hentai mind you)

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Roaring Reaver Rider






Warwickshire

Redemption corps by someone.
   
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Stormin' Stompa





Rogers, CT

This Boy's Life for my English class.

Its safe to say the only book I really enjoyed so far was The Great Gatsby.

   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






I got the Last Chancers novels from a friend because he owed me. So I'm half though the second book after a few hours in the train and bus.
   
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Smokin' Skorcha Driver





I'm reading Things Fall Apart. Its OK, but I don't usually read actual novels, just Manga and Reference/Non Fiction books.

 
   
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Bryan Ansell





Birmingham, UK

The Inquisition War Trilogy & Hitlers Willing Executioners - ordinary Germans and The Holocaust.

I need to hit the sales and pick up some lighter reading.
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mesopotamia. The Kingdom Where we Secretly Reign.

I'm reading Classics Mutilated which is surprisingly good. It's a collection of short stories done in the whole "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" style, but I think they work better as short stories since the joke in each one doesn't have time to get stale. Anne-Droid of Green Gables... Little Women in Black... You get the picture.

I'm also reading Prospero Burns. It's not bad!

Drink deeply and lustily from the foamy draught of evil.
W: 1.756 Quadrillion L: 0 D: 2
Haters gon' hate. 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut




Swindon, Wiltshire, UK

Catch 22 again. Good book.
   
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Tail-spinning Tomb Blade Pilot






UK

I am currently reading bram Stoker's Dracula on my Kindle. Ace! Plus The Founding by Dan Abnett, good story but not so ace.

If I am not in my room, is it still my room?  
   
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Stormin' Stompa





Rogers, CT

I am now reading the Brunner omni. I now remember what I didn't like about C. L. Werner. He uses the same phrase for describing something the second, third, and sometimes forth time it is mentioned. Oh well.

   
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor






Gathering the Informations.

The Dust Tactics rulebook, again.
   
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Pyre Troll






just finished Kill the Dead-a sandman slim novel
   
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Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot





Minnesota

Just finished The Lost omnibus.

About half way through the Eisenhorn omnibus and a book called Well DUH, about stupid things people have done. Cool nuggets of info, just, not really my style.

It is a bathroom reading kinda book, just... not as entertaining as Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

After Eisenhorn, I might take a break from the Black Library and get back to finishing some of the Clancy novels. I have a nice collection (mostly free), and I want to finish it off, which means picking up some of the newer and missing books.

   
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Arch Magos w/ 4 Meg of RAM






In the Wasteland

The big sleep
Redemtion corps
started another book where I can't seem to remember the name of, and started a french book we have to read for school over the holidays. *grumble*



 
   
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General






Just finised Tales of Heresy: loved it.

 
   
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Fixture of Dakka





dead account

Currently reading stuff from the New Jedi Order (Yuuzhan Vong War). Also going through the Graphic Novels for Battle Vixens (Ikki Tousen).

I'm hoping to finish up the NJO series soon because I purchased a ton of Black Library stuff that I'm just itching to read (omnibi are my friends).
   
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Et In Arcadia Ego





Canterbury



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Song_(novel) -- spoilers there. A cracking read from a fine series.

The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
 
   
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Jovial Plaguebearer of Nurgle





UK

Propsero Burns - half way through and much like Legion, pretty much bugger all happens, not much burning or propsero

Jovial Nurglite

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Death-Dealing Dark Angels Devastator





Western Massachusetts

I'm Reading Dead Men Walking by Steve Lyons, really enjoying it so far!
   
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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot





In Revelation Space

Just read 2001: A Space Odyssey for the fourth time. (AS you can see by my avatar and sig, I am obsessed with this book)



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May the the blessings of His Grace the Emperor tumble down upon you like a golden fog. (Only a VERY select few will get this reference. And it's not from 40k. )





 
   
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Fireknife Shas'el






Richmond, VA

I'm reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Obviously, it's an omnibus type thing, and I just finished "A Study in Scarlet" (The first Holmes Novel/story) and am amused by how it portrays Mormons.

 
   
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Crazed Spirit of the Defiler





Two Rivers, WI

Not really a book, but I'm working my way through the Lucifer graphic novels, I'm on my third one and its been really good so far.

   
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chaplaingrabthar wrote:I'm reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Obviously, it's an omnibus type thing, and I just finished "A Study in Scarlet" (The first Holmes Novel/story) and am amused by how it portrays Mormons.


How does it portray Mormons?

 
   
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Fireknife Shas'el






Richmond, VA

As a cult-like Religion of Evil with Brigham Young being the villain of the piece

 
   
 
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