BOOKS!

[lollipop]

I can't hear of Ray Bradbury now without thinking of the Rachel Bloom song.

[Goblin King]

I've just googled that. Very rude! ;D I reckon that's what killed him!

[lollipop]

Jun 13, 2012 8:14:39 GMT Goblin King said:

I've just googled that.

I knew you would

[Goblin King]

I'm getting the to end of Iain M Banks Matter.

He's started killing off characters, even in his sci-fi he seems to like putting in a bit of torture.

[someone]

Because of all the hype I downloaded 50 shades of grey. It's bloody awful.

[lollipop]

Well, what did you expect?

[Goblin King]

Who the what...? Is this a celebrity thing or something?

___

I've just been lent this: J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
Apparently he doodled many designs on used envelopes. Beautiful stuff.

Darkness has bought me this: Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook

My photo of it for the blog / tumblr: here

Darkness is ace.

[Darkness]

Why, thank you, my Liege!

[lollipop]

GK - it's a Twilight fanfic that for some reason got published.

What's Pathfinder like?

[Goblin King]

Pathfinder is almost exactly like D&D3.5 ;D with cool art. I've bought it to be sure that when I'm reviewing Pathfinder compatible adventures that I'm not missing anything. PF has become a sort of D&D counter-culture brand when 4th edition D&D came out. I had the beta rules on PDF but the hard back is much nicer to hold.

[Goblin King]

That 50 Shades of Grey is getting memed and spoofed all over the place, so I decided to look in up, I hate to say it Lollipop, but I think you must be confusing it with something else. (Amazon)


I love massive hardbacked rulebooks - I may have to give in and get the Bestiary as well.

[Count Überquart]

It was based on Twilight fanfic. Sorry GK. This depressing fact is a true one.

[Goblin King]

Interesting. Middle class Amazon hid that fact well. The good news is that Wikipedia confirms this strange reality of which you speak.

[Count Überquart]

It reduces the barely-concealed sex references in Twilight to just unpleasant sex, sex, and sex.
He's not a vampire who can't kiss her because if he did he'd have to eat her whole, he's just a dirty old man with a "Red Room of Pain".

I wish I did not know this. I have not read it. I would like people to shut up about it.

On the subject of actual, y'know, BOOKS, tho...
I downloaded the first half of Josh Sundquist's audiobook for free. Now I have to buy the whole thing, because it is BRILLIANT. The physical item doesn't want to be shipped to the UK, which is a bit sucky because I want to read as well as listen.
He so perfectly portrays a nine-year-old boy. I don't feel like I am listening to a memoir, but that I am listening to him as it happens. In his childlike naivety, it swaps in seconds from tragic and horrible to hilarious and touching and sweet.
AND YOU CAN LISTEN TO LIKE THE FIRST 12 CHAPTERS FOR FREE! JoshSundquist.com So I see no reason why you wouldn't all give it a listen and see if it grabs you.

I'm loving it.

[Thrin]

Details on the upcoming film version of 50 Shades of Grey: it will star Maggie Gyllenhall and James Spader, will be called 'Secretary' and will be made 10 years ago.

I just read The Hunger Games. Must go and read something sensible and high brow now to make up for it.

[Goblin King]

Jul 18, 2012 21:49:36 GMT Thrin said:

Details on the upcoming film version of 50 Shades of Grey: it will star Maggie Gyllenhall and James Spader, will be called 'Secretary' and will be made 10 years ago.

;D

[Goblin King]

Books
last week the books Darkness ordered for me arrived:


They have gold edging.

And ...

-The art in which is gorgeous.


I've just ordered the following book for myself (despite the fact that it has zombies in - man, I find zombies boring)

Blood of the Zombies

[Goblin King]

Eep, Blood of the Zombies is very grown-up horror. It starts with you being repeatedly kicked in the chest in a cell. Lose 3 Stamina points.

I think I need to contact Amnesty International!

[Goblin King]

Fabled Lands 5 arrived this week.
They've changed printers so the paper is a different shade of cream/white to the others in the series, but the covers still pretty much match.

bit.ly/fabledlands5

[Darkness]

Just finished "I, Partridge - We Need To Talk About Alan". Twas exceedingly funny.

[Darkness]

Watched a BBC2 programme last night about JK Rowling and her first foray into adult fiction, "The Casual Vacancy". Wasn't too interested before, but now I'm thinking I might give it a go.

[Goblin King]

I've been following Mattias on DA and blogger, he uses inks and water colours and this book is a selection of his sketchbook doodles.



Mattias Adolfsson Sketchbook

Awesomesauce.

[Darkness]

It really is a wonderful book - the artwork is amazing ^

[Goblin King]

Postapocalyptic RPG book, Mutant Future, arrived yesterday. Shiny hardback flavour.

adventuresandshopping.tumblr.com/image/34231769861

[Darkness]

Due to my mentalness affecting my concentration span, I've mainly been just reading glossy magazines lately. But in the past week or so, I have managed to get through Marie Claire, Glamour, and Cosmo. So I am going to start reading one of thhe lovely books I asked for and GK bought me for Xmas - Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart.

[someone]

I got that for Christmas Jo and I struggled to put it down! It's given me a bit of faith that if she can do well then maybe I can too!

[Darkness]

Same here, lol. Am almost half way throguh and loving it. Haven't read a book this quickly for such a long time. Gives me hope that maybe I'll be able to concentrate on others too. Must carefully select them. Next on my list is David Mitchell's autobiography.

[Darkness]

Currently reading Wintering, by Kate Moses. Got so many gorgeous books and I want to read them all at once.

[Darkness]

Loved Wintering.

Yesterday and today I have been reading Sylvia Plath's Ariel (the restored edition, with an introduction by her daughter, the poet Frieda Hughes, and facsimilies of Plath's original drafts of some of the poems).

Soon I shall be moving on to reading The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (my battered and abused but much loved old university copy), alongside reading Birthday Letters, by Ted Hughes.

I'm a bit obsessed with the whole Plath-Hughes thing.

[Count Überquart]

Summer With Monika arrived.


16
It's got to be done
be done right away
monika don't argue
do as i say

i've put out the milkman
and wound up the maid
its well after midnight
so don't be afraid

yes leave the light on
theres so much to see
now monika fetch the razorblade
and lie next to me

Also I've recently read Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell. It was really good; mega well-written. Lots of feelings. I enjoy the 1980s teen fiction (also read The Perks of Being A Wallflower not long ago).
And I started To Kill A Mockingbird this morning (or afternoon technically, I sleep a lot).