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Author Topic: What book are you reading at the moment? not manga.  (Read 18903 times)

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Re: What book are you reading at the moment? not manga.
« Reply #90 on: June 17, 2008, 01:45:23 AM »
Yes they do, I must admit it. Although the book which covers the first game doesn't quite hit it.  I think it was due to the fact you knew what was going to happen well before you read it.
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« Reply #91 on: June 17, 2008, 06:16:52 AM »
That's why I am more interested in reading the Halo books that didn't have anything to do with the games themselves, but the more backstory ones.  I generally don't expect much from books like those (like the Magic the Gathering books, which are almost always bloody awful), but my friends declare that "even I will like them."  I'm a harsh critic on most things :P.


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Re: What book are you reading at the moment? not manga.
« Reply #92 on: June 17, 2008, 02:50:21 PM »
I've been re-reading some of the Holmes books recently.
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Of fancy clients and good renown
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Re: What book are you reading at the moment? not manga.
« Reply #93 on: June 25, 2008, 05:29:43 AM »
I just reread the original MYTH Series by Robert Aspirin. Not as fun the second time around.
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« Reply #94 on: June 25, 2008, 05:44:28 AM »
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I just reread the original MYTH Series by Robert Aspirin. Not as fun the second time around.

I loved the MYTH series, but it doesn't age well, I tried rereading MYTH Inc. in action, but it just wasn't what I remembered.


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« Reply #95 on: June 25, 2008, 01:07:17 PM »
Sorry, I am a bit of a boring old sod, I enjoy reading about the old disused and abandoned railways of the united kingdom

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« Reply #96 on: June 25, 2008, 01:20:57 PM »
Currently reading my SIGNED copy of Anthony Horowitz' Snakehead.
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« Reply #97 on: June 25, 2008, 05:52:16 PM »
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I just reread the original MYTH Series by Robert Aspirin. Not as fun the second time around.

I loved the MYTH series, but it doesn't age well, I tried rereading MYTH Inc. in action, but it just wasn't what I remembered.

I think the problem wis that at the begining it was Skeeve and Aahz doing funny "Road to.." like stuff. But as the series progressed and the cast got bigger, it became a lot less about those two getting out of situations by talking and more about Skeeve being an idiot.

Also a liked Tananda more than Bunny.
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« Reply #98 on: June 26, 2008, 06:30:09 PM »
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I just reread the original MYTH Series by Robert Aspirin. Not as fun the second time around.

I loved the MYTH series, but it doesn't age well, I tried rereading MYTH Inc. in action, but it just wasn't what I remembered.

I think the problem wis that at the begining it was Skeeve and Aahz doing funny "Road to.." like stuff. But as the series progressed and the cast got bigger, it became a lot less about those two getting out of situations by talking and more about Skeeve being an idiot.

Also a liked Tananda more than Bunny.

Yeah, the whole flow got kind of old pretty fast, and the entertaining escapades became tiresome and rather juvenile as it became more about "watch Skeeve be a completely clueless moron."

Also, I second the Tananda > Bunny comment :).


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« Reply #99 on: June 27, 2008, 02:52:54 AM »
MYTH? is that a story based on the computer games?

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Re: What book are you reading at the moment? not manga.
« Reply #100 on: June 27, 2008, 06:45:03 AM »
MYTH? is that a story based on the computer games?

No, it's a humorous fantasy series by Robert Aspirin.  The titles are all puns, like "Little MYTH Marker" and "Hit or MYTH."


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« Reply #101 on: June 27, 2008, 10:23:58 AM »
There are books based on Myst. I haven't read them though.
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« Reply #102 on: July 01, 2008, 05:51:17 PM »
oh, it's myst? okay.
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« Reply #103 on: July 02, 2008, 10:37:35 AM »
No no no, you misunderstand. There's the MythAdventures Series by Robert Aspirin (R.I.P.) and the series of books based on the unrelated game Myst. We were talking about the former.
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« Reply #104 on: July 02, 2008, 11:12:40 AM »
Wow, I didn't even know Robert Aspirin was dead :(.

Right now I am reading two books, Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.  Again.


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