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17 Nov 2011, 6:55 pm

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The First Man in Rome -Colleen McCullough

It's.... thick.


1152 pages, according to Amazon. 8O

What happened to editors? They used to exist.
:o That is a thick book. Please let us know if it's a good book GoonSquad.

I think every book in the author's Masters of Rome series is 1000 pages or more. I'll definitely let you guys know what I think of the book.


.....it may take a while. ;)


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17 Nov 2011, 7:15 pm

GoonSquad wrote:
Taupey wrote:
Jory wrote:
GoonSquad wrote:
The First Man in Rome -Colleen McCullough

It's.... thick.


1152 pages, according to Amazon. 8O

What happened to editors? They used to exist.
:o That is a thick book. Please let us know if it's a good book GoonSquad.

I think every book in the author's Masters of Rome series is 1000 pages or more. I'll definitely let you guys know what I think of the book.


.....it may take a while. ;)
I understand. Thank you, GoonSquad. It sounds interesting. :)


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19 Nov 2011, 5:02 pm

Currently Reading Perdido City Station by China Mieville. Lets just say its an extremely unique and absorbing read thus far and im only like 40 pages into it so far.


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19 Nov 2011, 9:55 pm

I'm currently reading James A. Moore's Deeper. Very well written, first person horror novel. Consider it a sequel to Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

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22 Nov 2011, 2:04 am

Because of Romek:A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir by David Faber



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23 Nov 2011, 6:07 pm

"Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle" by Daniel Everett.

About the Piraha tribe in Brazil who apparently don't use numbers and live entirely in the present.



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23 Nov 2011, 6:30 pm

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"Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle" by Daniel Everett.

About the Piraha tribe in Brazil who apparently don't use numbers and live entirely in the present.

Sounds interesting, I'm going to make a note of it.


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24 Nov 2011, 5:48 pm

Ammonite was ok, though the science was iffy in places. Past memories are usually an automatic fail but the author had a reasonable go at it; the rest was good.
Now reading Big Dead Place, which is interesting. It sounds like it should be heaven.
Next up probably Gravity's Rainbow. It's a toss-up between that or The Stand; both are doorstoppers that I don't particularly want to read (got about a couple of chapters into GR last time I tried, and I'm pretty certain The Stand is s**t from hearing about it) but feel I ought to.


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24 Nov 2011, 7:56 pm

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I'm pretty certain The Stand is sh** from hearing about it) but feel I ought to.


I gave the first hundred or so pages a go and I thought it was pretty s**t

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24 Nov 2011, 7:57 pm

The Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore



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25 Nov 2011, 10:26 pm

I am reading Intensity by Dean Koontz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensity_%28novel%29



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25 Nov 2011, 10:58 pm

Ambivalence wrote:
I'm pretty certain The Stand is sh** from hearing about it


Based on what I constantly hear about Stephen King, The Stand is probably OMG THE GREATEST BOOK EVER.

Based on what I've actually read of Stephen King, yeah, it's probably sh*t.



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26 Nov 2011, 12:21 am

The Stand was good as a movie . . . just long. The Regulators is fantastic tho. It is a secondary book from Desperation, written as richard Bachman. The Dark Half is good, too.



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26 Nov 2011, 12:31 am

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The Stand was good as a movie . . . just long. The Regulators is fantastic tho. It is a secondary book from Desperation, written as richard Bachman. The Dark Half is good, too.


I think the best Stephen King book I've ever read was the first one I had picked up in junior high, which was Salem's Lot.

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27 Nov 2011, 3:00 pm

I am reading Nicholson Baker's The Fermata, which is about a dude who stops the universe sometimes and then undresses ladies and does other naughty things.

it's raunchier than it sounds!


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27 Nov 2011, 3:02 pm

anna-banana wrote:
I am reading Nicholson Baker's The Fermata, which is about a dude who stops the universe sometimes and then undresses ladies and does other naughty things.

it's raunchier than it sounds!

ooh, i wanna read it