BOOKS!

[lollipop]

I've read up to L now. Nearly halfway! And I found an M I really liked when in Waterstones and got my ma to get it from the library for me for when I get home.

Also reading Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks.

[Darkness]

I'm re-reading the full set of all the Adrian Mole diaries for about the 3rd time. Struggling with concentration, so needing something familiar, and the diary format is also easier at the moment. Still finding them funny after all this time.

[Darkness]

Still reading the Adrian Mole Diaries. Am now on "The Cappucino Years", in which he's a 34 year old offal chef, and Pandora is the MP for Ashby de la Zouch.

[Goblin King]

^^ Far too close to home for my liking!

Although I'm still suspicious of the new D&D system, I'm really enjoying browsing through my collection of shiny new tomes. (Quite literally embossed and shiny).

[Goblin King]

Fighting Fantasy - Scorpion Swamp
(ooh, look it's in French as well)
I've just had to kill a Unicorn. I wasn't happy about that. I have chosen the "neutral" path - neither good nor evil, so I guess I might be able to get away with it.
Having fun drawing a map.

[Count Überquart]

Twilight - I'm ashamed. Just finished Eclipse - honestly, I can't remember anything that just happened...

[Goblin King]

Is that the teen-vampire stuff?

[Count Überquart]

yeah.
It's drivel, but it's gripping. At least, the first two were. Eclipse was fairly dull and I only just finished it but I can't remember the plot...

[Goblin King]

I think not remembering the plot might be a sign of good writing (or it might not). I spent quite a few months reading gripping Aliens books - I cannot distinguish one novel from the next, but they were still fun.

[Darkness]

I'm now on the last one - Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction. He's in his mid 30's, living back in Leicester and working in a second hand bookshop. Pandora is a goverment minister.

[DAT500]

^ Blimey I'd forgotten it was all set so close to home - didn't they set the TV series in Birmingham?

[Darkness]

It's full of local references, more and more so as the books go on. Pandora is currently MP for Ashby de la Zouch! Various streets and shops in Leicester are named. I think they did shift it to Birmingham for the tv series but I can't remember why.

[DAT500]

Probably because Birmingham accents are more recognisable...

and obviously funnier!

[Count Überquart]

I'm reading Breaking Dawn (4th book of Twilight Saga). The end of Jacob's view is a MASSIVE surprise - mainly because it doesn't make ANY SENSE and completely contradicts everything Stephenie Meyer previously told us.

I also bought a copy of Sickened yesterday, biography of the daughter of someone with Munchausen by Proxy... Saw it in the bookshop ages ago and went back to buy it two days later and it was gone... So I claimed it as soon as I saw it this time.

I'm also half-way through re-reading Animal Farm...
I'm BAD with books.

[Goblin King]

No, no, you sound good with books - well you sort of want to please them all by giving them all attention at the same time.

I've finished reading Titus Groan and am now on Gormenghast (book II of the trilogy). I still insist that Mervyn Peake invents words.
My guilty pleasure when I'm staying at Darkness's place is reading parts of the D&D 4th Ed. Players Handbook, which is slowly beginning to make sense. I'm still not sure about the 4th Edition rules - but the books are so colourful and shiny.

[lollipop]

Apr 12, 2009 15:43:04 GMT Count Überquart said:

Twilight - I'm ashamed. Just finished Eclipse - honestly, I can't remember anything that just happened...

I hate them. They're so depressing! She spends the whole of the second book crying her eyes out over Twatface leaving, just starts to get her life back with someone who might not be such an utter bastard, and then Twatface comes back and instead of going "you were such a wanker, I've found someone who treats me like a normal person now, f?ck off" she goes off with him and poor little Jacob is screwed.

The third book was really depressing as well, can't remember why. Think it was just in a "it sucks to be Jacob" kind of way.

Haven't read the fourth. I feel I ought to though because I've read the first three. I wish she'd stop writing them so I didn't have to read them!

[Count Überquart]

^ Haha.

I liked New Moon, because Edward left. Reading about her with Jacob was MUCH better.

Breaking Dawn is crap. Seriously.

[lollipop]

Is that the third one? I liked it when she was with Jacob too.
Which one's Breaking Dawn?
To be honest I don't think any of them are great, the storylines don't show a lot of continuity.

[Count Überquart]

New Moon is the second, Breaking Dawn is the 4th.

No, they don't. It gets worse, though. The 3rd and 4th don't make any sense at all.

[Goblin King]

May 1, 2009 18:14:32 GMT lollipop said:

I hate them. They're so depressing! She spends the whole of the second book crying her eyes out over Twatface leaving, just starts to get her life back with someone who might not be such an utter bastard, and then Twatface comes back and instead of going "you were such a wanker, I've found someone who treats me like a normal person now, fück off" she goes off with him and poor little Jacob is screwed.

I was just thinking how realistic this actually sounded.

[Count Überquart]

^ Hm, maybe, until the fourth book when Jacob falls madly in love with her daughter. :/

[Goblin King]

Ew. Awkward.

[Count Überquart]

And the bizarre idealism of it.
Like Stephenie Meyer was sitting there going, "I want Bella to get pregnant, but 9 months of pregnancy sounds super dull... I know! We'll make it a crazy fast-growing baby. But it won't grow really fast and then die, it'll grow really fast until it matures and then be immortal!"
I mean - what - the - smeg.

And we're told and told and told and told that the werewolves/Quileutes are the natural enemies of the vampires... And yet Jacob 'imprints' on this HALF VAMPIRE kid?
Pfffsht.

[lollipop]

May 2, 2009 12:01:19 GMT Goblin King said:

May 1, 2009 18:14:32 GMT lollipop said:

I hate them. They're so depressing! She spends the whole of the second book crying her eyes out over Twatface leaving, just starts to get her life back with someone who might not be such an utter bastard, and then Twatface comes back and instead of going "you were such a wanker, I've found someone who treats me like a normal person now, fück off" she goes off with him and poor little Jacob is screwed.

I was just thinking how realistic this actually sounded.

You better not be looking at me mister

[lollipop]

May 2, 2009 20:46:57 GMT Count Überquart said:

And the bizarre idealism of it.
Like Stephenie Meyer was sitting there going, "I want Bella to get pregnant, but 9 months of pregnancy sounds super dull... I know! We'll make it a crazy fast-growing baby. But it won't grow really fast and then die, it'll grow really fast until it matures and then be immortal!"
I mean - what - the - smeg.

And we're told and told and told and told that the werewolves/Quileutes are the natural enemies of the vampires... And yet Jacob 'imprints' on this HALF VAMPIRE kid?
Pfffsht.

Oh good God.

[Darkness]

I've just started reading "Friends Like These" by Danny Wallace.

[Goblin King]

I know I shouldn't encouraged, but I can't help comparing my own collection with this page of covers. I'm not far off having a full set!
www.fightingfantasycollector.co.uk/book_covers.htm

[Count Überquart]

^Oh... my... God.

I just finished reading Bill Bryson's autobiography. V. fun

[Goblin King]

I rather fancied reading the one where he talks the history and science of everything. What's it called again?

[Count Überquart]

A Short History of Nearly Everything.
I'd offer to lend you my copy, but...
Then I thought, "there's always a copy in the bookshop, I'll pick it up for him!" but...
Why've you got to live so... so not here?