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Apr 17, 2008 23:30:09 GMT
Post by Darkness on Apr 17, 2008 23:30:09 GMT
I've been browsing short story collections in the library and online. Does anyone have any favourite short story collections or recommendations?
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Apr 24, 2008 17:47:53 GMT
Post by lollipop on Apr 24, 2008 17:47:53 GMT
Neil Gaiman! ;D
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May 27, 2008 23:21:31 GMT
Post by Darkness on May 27, 2008 23:21:31 GMT
The Age Concern charity bookshop has yielded up its goods to me once again. Today I got "Lives of Girls and Women" by Alice Munro, and a short story collection by Margaret Atwood called "Wilderness Tips." £1.50 each.
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May 28, 2008 1:19:59 GMT
Post by lollipop on May 28, 2008 1:19:59 GMT
Reading Wild Swans at the moment. I wanted to read it when I went to China but it's banned there (unsurprisingly).
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May 29, 2008 17:54:34 GMT
Post by Goblin King on May 29, 2008 17:54:34 GMT
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May 29, 2008 20:07:10 GMT
Post by lollipop on May 29, 2008 20:07:10 GMT
Hmm that reminds me, I found an old adventure book somewhere, I meant to have a go at it. Where did I put it?
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May 30, 2008 0:55:34 GMT
Post by Goblin King on May 30, 2008 0:55:34 GMT
*jumps excitedly*  Which one? Which one? |
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May 30, 2008 1:49:28 GMT
Post by lollipop on May 30, 2008 1:49:28 GMT
One in that series, I have a few. I think it might actually be the Citadel of Chaos I was playing in the Easter holidays. You really need to make a map for it (which I have done *geeky*) or you end up falling to the same traps each time...
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Jun 1, 2008 20:48:51 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jun 1, 2008 20:48:51 GMT
Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a fine adventure! (insane 3D map of Firetop Mountain: gamebookmaster.hp.infoseek.co.jp/jpg/WoFM.jpg hardly any spoilers - no labels) edit: I think my problem with Citadel of Chaos is that I'm not interacting with the right characters in order to pick up the right artifacts. Interesting though. I have to play it every five years or so.  |
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Jun 18, 2008 21:59:06 GMT
Post by Darkness on Jun 18, 2008 21:59:06 GMT
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Jul 14, 2008 18:52:20 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jul 14, 2008 18:52:20 GMT
Darkness's rare copy of Brooker's TV Go Home was revolting me and making me chortle yesterday. Darkness treated me to " The Elfish Gene" (excerpt behind link) - all about a man's descent into D&D and away from the normal world of girls, music and proper man stuff in the late 70's. It's disturbingly close to the bone!  ;D |
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Jul 14, 2008 21:50:45 GMT
Post by Darkness on Jul 14, 2008 21:50:45 GMT
Darkness treated me to " The Elfish Gene" (excerpt behind link) - all about a man's descent into D&D and away from the normal world of girls, music and proper man stuff in the late 70's. It's disturbingly close to the bone! ;D That's what I was afraid of... |
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Jul 19, 2008 21:39:04 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jul 19, 2008 21:39:04 GMT
I've finished reading Northern Lights - the last third really rattles along at quite a pace, bear fights and zeppelins! - I found the early chapters very slovenly.  A cliffhanger at the end?!  Damnit! Back to Gormenghast or Elfish Gene, methinks ( Citadel of Chaos may have to be put away with it's dice) |
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Jul 20, 2008 21:56:33 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jul 20, 2008 21:56:33 GMT
^^ Edit: Titus GroanElfish Gene is making me giggle - it seems to be a tale of rites of passage for spotty power-crazed gaming nerds. |
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Jul 27, 2008 18:06:05 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jul 27, 2008 18:06:05 GMT
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Jul 29, 2008 11:15:04 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jul 29, 2008 11:15:04 GMT
I finished reading The Elfish Gene - found most of it funny and disturbingly familiar (although I resisted getting into Heavy Metal music and biker fashions were seriously over by the time I was heading into teen-hood). The last couple of chapters were very downbeat - I guess memoires often end like that, not read many, just guessing.
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Jul 29, 2008 13:27:23 GMT
Post by DAT500 on Jul 29, 2008 13:27:23 GMT
^ If only that was true about the biker fashions - don't make me start naming names! Having spent the wee small hours of Monday morning in Darkness's cauldron citadel amongst her lovely books, I've bought this: www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/2742764968 |
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Jul 29, 2008 21:59:02 GMT
Post by Darkness on Jul 29, 2008 21:59:02 GMT
^^ My "cauldron citadel"? Oooh, I like that!! |
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Jul 29, 2008 22:51:22 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jul 29, 2008 22:51:22 GMT
Ooh ... Lynch.  The books ... thems whisper things to me ... thems threaten to jump out and fall on me! |
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Jul 29, 2008 22:54:17 GMT
Post by Darkness on Jul 29, 2008 22:54:17 GMT
I have trained them to do so. I also have the ravens, crows and bats in my employ, too, so watch out as you pass by the big old church across the road.  |
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Jul 29, 2008 22:59:52 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jul 29, 2008 22:59:52 GMT
She's really crazy or all of these things are actually true - either way ... PLEASE SEND HELP NOW ...
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Jul 31, 2008 16:47:31 GMT
Post by Darkness on Jul 31, 2008 16:47:31 GMT
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Aug 3, 2008 14:13:32 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Aug 3, 2008 14:13:32 GMT
You can't blame her. She couldn't help herself - they drove a truck load of money up to her house ... Do D&D rule books count as books? |
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Aug 3, 2008 14:53:37 GMT
Post by Darkness on Aug 3, 2008 14:53:37 GMT
She doesn't need another truck load of money. She's got the last several truck loads of money still parked around the back of the mansion because she's got so much she can't think what to do with it all.
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Aug 3, 2008 15:15:06 GMT
Post by DAT500 on Aug 3, 2008 15:15:06 GMT
That's ace. I owned one of those Starsky and Hutch cars! If I was JK Rowling, I'd use those money-trucks to buy an island and get some Harry Potter obsessives to dress up as their favourite characters and re-enact Battle Royale. |
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Sept 1, 2008 22:49:12 GMT
Post by Darkness on Sept 1, 2008 22:49:12 GMT
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Sept 2, 2008 1:50:31 GMT
Post by DAT500 on Sept 2, 2008 1:50:31 GMT
The Story of Crass by George Berger - I'm certainly not a fan of Crass's music, but I've been doing a bit of research and there's a charming element to it all, which I'm currently investigating.
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Sept 2, 2008 12:47:31 GMT
Post by Tinkerbell on Sept 2, 2008 12:47:31 GMT
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Sept 5, 2008 23:02:44 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Sept 5, 2008 23:02:44 GMT
^^ Hacker espionage, eh? That cover really doesn't match the description. I thought it was a macho SAS thriller for a moment.
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Sept 5, 2008 23:07:08 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Sept 5, 2008 23:07:08 GMT
Darkness found this is a Sue Ryder shop, Tolkien Bestiary (similar cover) I was most pleased. I have a much crummier small black and white reprint edition, apparently it has been published many times it different formats. ( link with some piccies ) edit: Ian Miller is a very odd artist to say the least |
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A cliffhanger at the end?! 
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