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Post by twistedspike on Apr 11, 2003 21:47:08 GMT
PK this is the list I've got on the back of one off the books
Guilty Pleasures The Laughing Corpse Circus of the Damned The Lunatic Cafe Bloody Bones The Killing Dance Burnt Offerings Blue Moon Obsidian Butterfly Narcissus in Chains and the latest Cerulean Sins.
Hope that helps.
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 11, 2003 22:47:31 GMT
Thanks Twistie, just what I was after! ;D And Will, your nan gave you that book?! About a deadly sexual game?! I can sure imagine either of my sainted grandmas giving me reading material like that, LMAO!
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Post by willowwood on Apr 11, 2003 22:57:01 GMT
Pk, Maybe you should take into account that it's Twisties Mom who gave me that book. Pervy-ness and crazy-ness seems to run on that side of the family lol.
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Post by azazel on Apr 12, 2003 5:00:07 GMT
Hey Twisty great choice of books, but hope you enjoy them half way through the series, thankfully a mate lent me the first one so got the full story from the beginning. LMAO @ Wils grans choice of books, just the sort of thing a gran should suggest ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 13, 2003 0:01:18 GMT
Oh hey, did I tell you guys that I finished reading my first book in like... 14 months or so?! Outrageous! but yeah, fisnished "Fool Moon", the second inthe Dresden Files. Didn't rate it quite as highly as "Storm Front" but then the first is always eciting, introducing you to new characters etc. Not nearly enough Bob or Mister in this second book! Grrrr! But FM did give some tantalising clues and hints to Harry's past and I am more than ready to start number 3, "Grave Peril". And I have a sinking feeling things cannot continue to progress between Harry and Susan... and I like her. She is so good for him....
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Post by marilyn on Apr 14, 2003 11:47:34 GMT
I am finished with the Harry series...waiting for the new one! I needed a paperback to read at the paintball tournament yesterday, and the latest Anita Blake is a hard back so I dug into my Barnes and Nobles bag and dug out the Tanya Huff books I had bought a while back.....reading Summon the Keeper....and it's really good....much more entertaining characters than I expected.....still in the magical world and still the sweet studly guy getting involved....the main characters are Claire and her talking cat, Austin.
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Post by SpikesToy on May 4, 2003 12:21:55 GMT
Two very good biographies to read are Ned Kelly - A short Life by Ian Jones Just saw the Ned Kelly Movie with Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom. Mmmmmmmmm, Orlando was deeeeeeelicious!!! The book is very close to the truth, and every fact is backed up with source information. Being an Aussie, (well close enough, I've lived here 32 years), it makes a great read and I must admit, I feel greatly for the Kelly family as they were persecuted for being poor and Irish. and Lewis Carroll by Morton N. Cohen. What a strange fellow, but very intelligent and articulate. A great read. Extremely well written. As you can see PK, I am still following my biography trend, I love real life drama
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Post by twistedspike on May 8, 2003 21:13:54 GMT
Brought myself a Buffy book at the weekend Blood and Fog. Obviously when I first saw it advertised I wanted it because it's got Buffy/Spike on the front. But I was reading on another board last week and they absolutely hated it, up to the point where they wanted people to buy copies and send them back stating there digust at the way Spike was portrayed. Now I don't know if anyone has seen or read this book but it's set in S6 somewhere between Tabula Rasa and Hells Bells. The people were complaining that the author was saying that Spike was still evil and Buffy was disgusted about her relationship with him. Now I must have been watching a different show or something but that seems to me exactly what was happening in that season Spike was still souless, still had his chip and was def not a total white hat then. I've read the book and I really enjoyed it. The Spike and Dru parts are really good. The dialogue between Spike/Buffy seems very true to character and it puts a whole new light on the legend that is Jack the Ripper. If anyone of you has read this book please tell me what you thought I might be in the minority.
For anyone who hasn't read it here is the summary " Buffy Summers is on the trail of a killer demon in Sunnydale, and reluctantly excepts the help of Spike. Anythings better than his moping around. But Spike- as usual- has his own agenda, and it involves something the demon is carrying: a vial of pure magical power. Spike knows plenty of people and demons who will pay top dollar for this vial: Doc, Rack...and an ancient evil known as The First.
Spike has encountered The First before. In the good old days in Victorian London, when Spike, Drusilla, Angelus, and Darla ran through the night in pursuit of dark fun, another evil being was stalking the streets, dispatching young women with brutal efficiency. But when the so called " Jack the Ripper " struck too close to their twisted " family " the vampires found themselves on the same side of the Slayer of that time. Working to bring down Jack, and running afoul of The First, Spike and the Slayer formed an uneasy alliance, which followed Spike all through the 20th century to present day Sunnydale, now blanketed in a mysterious fog....
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Post by PokerKitten on May 8, 2003 23:19:29 GMT
I think there were two main complaints abut the book Twistie - one was that yes, Spike is still chipped in this time frame on the show BUT he could hit Buffy at this time. Could have killed her - or tried - if he wanted. And that is important because, two, the book states more than once apparently that he is so evil still that as soon as the chip was out he'd have killed anyone and anything, including the Summers girls. Now that is just not what was happening on the show and is kinda shoddy.
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Post by twistedspike on May 9, 2003 12:22:33 GMT
Isn't that the point though he could have killed her...or tried...if he wanted to..... in the book, the same as in the show.... what's the diference. You can't say he didn't contemplate killing Buffy in S6 the same as he does in the book.... but that's all it is wishful thinking. He saved her life in the book more than once, and where was he at the end in the final battle.....watching her back like he always does. So how is the Blood and Fog Spike different than the Buffy S6 Spike.
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Post by PokerKitten on May 9, 2003 12:35:16 GMT
Trying to reply but keyboar not happy after tea thing.... Think it be a waste of time
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Post by marilyn on May 26, 2003 1:58:09 GMT
I tried to do this earlier but my computer went kerfluey!! I just wanted to say that I zipped thru the Tanya Huff books, Summon the Keeper and the Second Summoning....both really good and entertaining...very imaginative....strong but vulnerable heroine and the cat cracks me up!! Her job is called a Keeper and she has to fix any cracks in reality where hell is always trying to leak through..... with her own special brand of power..... Now I'm reading the Watcher by Dean Koontz, which I had earmarked for earlier reading but kept putting it aside.....glad I started it cos it's very scary....violent....makes you worry if anyone else is up to the same experimental highjinx as these scientist! But you gotta love the dog!
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Post by PokerKitten on May 26, 2003 16:34:42 GMT
Oooh, is that a newish Dean Koontz? I'm a big fan of his but because he has written so much I tend to get confused from just the title about what I have and haven't read There's another vampire series that keeps getting bandied about but I can never remember the author - Charlaine something maybe? Dunno...
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Post by marilyn on May 26, 2003 23:03:38 GMT
Hmmm....no not new one....think they actually made a (not so good) movie from this one! I'm not familiar with any more vampire series books, but I wouldn't mind hearing about them!
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Post by PokerKitten on May 26, 2003 23:11:07 GMT
I'm on the McAnally's list which is a Jim Butcher group (he often posts there - woohoo!) and they have been mentioned when folks are recommending other authors... and I'm sure they keep cropping up on my Amazon recommendations. Next time I am there I will bring back the info.
On a side note, JM has done the recording for "Fool Moon" now and it sounds like it went real well and everyone had fun in the studio ;D
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Post by azazel on May 30, 2003 4:20:14 GMT
Im going to have to get around to reading Jim Butcher just keep forgetting the name when ordering books. Jim Butcher Jim Butcher duh Oh PK just remembered to check my amazon.com list and that book 'They thirst' is still unavailable, but says it can be bought (When in stock) for .... wait for it ........ Ive made it a moving number so it flashes by quickly so its not to much a shock
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Post by PokerKitten on May 30, 2003 8:06:41 GMT
That is truly ridiculous!!! I'd rather pinch it from the library.... ;D J/k!
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Post by SpikesToy on May 31, 2003 16:17:05 GMT
No you weren't PK ;D ;D ;D :
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Post by marilyn on Jun 1, 2003 23:49:16 GMT
Hmmm....it better come with a bottle of champagne, and dinner for two!! Whoa, that's pricey!! I just went to B &N to get books for the trip and I found a third Summoning book by Huff and another one by her called Blood Debt (vampirey of course) and the first Discworld book by Terry Pratchett. I keep digging in the bag....I wanna read them now, but I have to save them....maybe!
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Post by azazel on Jun 2, 2003 8:46:02 GMT
Ok its incredibly late, but may be useful to know next time (If there is one) but PK you spilt tea on your keyboard you could of washed it in the sink and left it to dry on a radiator. Need to know these things with a brat that is constantly spilling coffee and food on his to mix with the drool (Urgh) re that book I was trying to see where you applied for the free concord tickets that should come with it lol bloody ridiculous that price, but bf was quoted about £200 for a first edition book he wanted. Before i FORGET m BF shocked me on satuday while recomending LKH to a friend he piped up oh yeah not bad books Ive read three of them. I was all didnt even know he had been reading them. So another convert and when I pass on my first book to my mate we may have another convert and with her been a journalist she may just may suggest it to others ;D
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