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PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 22:33 
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 Post subject: Re: Books
PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 9:21 
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Dan Brown. Cannot stand the stuff. Makes Larsson look erudite.

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"His eyes were as rugged as the topography of the landscape on which he was stationed."

Seriously.

The last book I read that I genuinely hated was Conman, by Richard Asplin. The writing style isn't bad exactly but the main character is almost completely unsympathetic in his selfish stupidity and the surprise ending is head-slappingly predicable from roughly 20 pages in. I wanted to throw the bloody book across the room.

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 Post subject: Re: Books
PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 9:33 
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I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't.


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 Post subject: Re: Books
PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 9:36 
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I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't.

:this:

Once you get over the initial conceit, it gets tedious pretty quickly.
'Oh, he's written down: 1 - make tea; 2 - make coffee; 3 - hold black mass; 4 - clean the car; 5 - read; 6 - sleep..... [rolls dice]... oooo... a 3! Bring on the virgin!'


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 Post subject: Re: Books
PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 12:23 
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Warhead wrote:
I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't.

:this:

Once you get over the initial conceit, it gets tedious pretty quickly.
'Oh, he's written down: 1 - make tea; 2 - make coffee; 3 - hold black mass; 4 - clean the car; 5 - read; 6 - sleep..... [rolls dice]... oooo... a 3! Bring on the virgin!'


I'd forgotten all about that book... it's one of the few I've read. Not sure if it was because I'm such an infrequent book reader, but I found it really heavy going. I imagine it'd make a decent enough film though.

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Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read.

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I better have mentioned The Hunger in this thread.

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Warhead wrote:
I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't.

I thought it was quite good although I think I too expected it to be a pure comedy (it was years ago).

It’s a damn good job that, like the matrix, he never wrote a sequel.


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MaliA wrote:
Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read.

I can’t believe you lived so long without reading this


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 21:43 
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MaliA wrote:
Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read.

I can’t believe you lived so long without reading this


Me, neither. Although second born was almost called Scout.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 1:52 
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Since this thread was active last, I have tried to read Catch-22. And it is indeed a pile of shite. The writing style is... ugh. And it jumps around too much.

I've read a couple of Neal Stephenson books too, I enjoyed The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon, but anyone else feel that, despite being one of the best at writing action scenes, he seems to avoid them at all costs in his later books?


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 Post subject: Re: Books
PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:32 
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MaliA wrote:
Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read.


I think you might have the wrong thread.

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 Post subject: Re: Books
PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:12 
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When I saw this thread title I thought of Catch 22, and then realised I'd already had a good moan about it some years ago.

I too have never read To Kill A Mockingbird. One day I shall get round to it. Other than kids books, I have barely read anything at all for many years, which is something I really should try and rectify.

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