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Heroic Knight
 
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Just finished Ben Elton's Blind Faith, I heartily reccomend it to anyone who is a fan of his work. Thought provoking and unputdownable!
Started reading HHGTTG again, I'd lent it to my 15 year old son to read and found I'd forgotten so much of it when having the obligatory "What did you think of it" conversation when he'd finished, it's just as funny coming back to it after 20 odd years.
Nick
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I do talk a good fight
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I just finished "Angels on Fire" by Nancy Collins -- quite fun supernatural romance thing, very Gnostic. William Blake would approve.
Have started reading "Canopus in Argos" by Doris Lessing. It's the first in her SF series, which apparently she regards as her most important work, but of course the literary establishment ignores it.  Enjoyable so far. It's a delight to read, in fact; her command of language is awe-inspiring -- but it does require solid attention to be paid to it.
Also reading "The Book of the Courtier" by Castiglione -- a 16th century account of life at a Renaissance court. Great book.
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PD: Ghostdance ("The most irritating curse I've ever encountered" -- NPC played by H.)
Riftworld: Rossar Kuug ("Clearly mad, because he thinks he's a Com-Trow Skirmisher" - Aela)
Hyborian Tales: Crew, cook, dogsbody, general labourer, toilet cleaner ("Dangerously overoptimistic ref" -- Tom Nowell)
Otherwise usually crew ("Quite spry & fit, & willing to wear a big costume & run around a lot" -- various event organisers)
"My other oversized foam weapon is THE LORD" -- Questionable Content
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Heroic Knight
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Reading through the Dresden Files at the moment, currently on Grave Peril. Total bubblegum for your head in a private eye/wizard cross kind of a way. Both rubbish and awesome at the same time.
----------------------------- CP: Lions 1IC
PD: Litorius Primus Atrebus, Players Elect
Big Damn Heros: "Bar" Grace's Gunsharks RL: Ritch
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Wag
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Ian Sturrock (1/15/2008)
Have started reading "Canopus in Argos" by Doris Lessing. It's the first in her SF series, which apparently she regards as her most important work, but of course the literary establishment ignores it. Enjoyable so far. It's a delight to read, in fact; her command of language is awe-inspiring -- but it does require solid attention to be paid to it.
See how you manage with the Marriages between Zones Three, Four and Five (book 2). If you find it somewhat glutinous, don't worry, it's picks up with the next two (particularly The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire). I don't think the literary establishment ignore it so much as they focus on her more famous stuff (The Golden Book) and more recent stuff (The Good Terrorist) - but if you want to see a good fight, have a google for Ursula K Leguin's review of the series (some nice Grand Dame on Dame action).
Marios
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| My most recent reading is: - Social Psychology Matters (multiple meanings of that intended and discussed at length in the book). The text for my OU course - City & Guild - ArsM sourcebook on C13th cities, guilds and crafts, and using them as a roleplay setting.
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Just visited the first volume of The Arabian Night (out of 4) and the Centerary Edition of Conan.
I am on to Last Of The Mohicans and the second volume of The Arabian Night.
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Apprentice
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| A Collection of Ghost Stories by M R James (disapointing compared to Lovecraft) Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey Blood Red Roses (2nd Edition); the archaeology of a Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton AD 1461 (p.s. I'm the female archer in the picture on page 278 - fame at last!)
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“In these modern times, many men are wounded for not having weapons or knowledge of their use.”
- Achille Marozzo, 1536
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Heroic Knight
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| Tom Baker (yes, dr.who) the boy who kicked pigs Well, me and my little boy are reading this, its a short story detailing a very very bad boy who dies being eaten by rats. Perfik for bedtime! Laurel K Hamiliton - Anita Blake series is utterly fantastic if you like the vamp/supernatural stuff. Shes a necromancer and vamp executioner in a world were vamps are people too and works for a firm that raises the dead for cash. Includes a wearwolf and vamp threesome, amongst other kinki stuff! This is the best series ive read in bloody ages
Give me what I want and maybe no one gets hurt
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