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Post by Betrayer Of Hope on Feb 9, 2007 5:57:57 GMT 1
Since I really enjoyed this thread at IWD, I decided to start another one here. *New thread initiation dance*
Currently, I'm reading the Brothers Karamazov. It look intimidating, and what with the lack of free time I've had lately, I'm quite unsure on whether I want to continue, but the ideas that the introduction in the front mentioned intrigue me greatly, and I've been waiting for such a psychological, intellectual read.
Soo...What are YOU all reading?
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Post by ShadowDucky on Feb 9, 2007 7:41:15 GMT 1
Currently, many things, most notably Tam Lin and a book called Of Two Minds: Poets Who Hear Voices - this one is very interesting, exploring a theory that poets actually do hear and have always heard inspirational voices when writing their poetry, though it's a great deal more complex than I'm making it sound . Being a poet myself, and more than a little cracked, I'm finding it a fascinating read.
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Post by Betrayer Of Hope on Feb 9, 2007 18:31:51 GMT 1
That sounds extremely intriguing, Shade. Who's the author, and perhaps more importantly, would I like it?
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Post by Taika of Narfell on Feb 9, 2007 20:26:43 GMT 1
Well, Betrayer, do keep reading Karamazov. I read it over the course of a year and while I won't claim I caught every little thing I did still get a lot out of it. It moves so slowly that you won't want to read more than a few pages at a time anyway before needing to think them through and digest them. So don't worry about the time. It worked for me Myself, I'm reading The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens for a university course. I think the book is absolutely hilarious, though so I've read way ahead of the rest of the class I'll be reading The Old Curiosity Shop and Oliver Twist a well to get a broader horizon for the comparison I plan to be doing in my research project in May. I've just started Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. This is so recent that I've read no more than the prologue, but that certainly did sound promising. I'm between books in Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, and I don't want to start Grail for real till I've had time to review Pendragon. I don't want to get them mixed up in the review. I'm also between books in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Having just reviewed Shadow of the Torturer I'll be starting Claw of the Conciliator very soon. I am in the middle of The Road to Xanadu, a literary crit work that traces all the roots of Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner. I've only read snippets of it for my papers, and I've liked them so very much that I bought just before Christmas and began reading it cover to cover. I am still in the middle of Dublin: Foundations. The first part of Edward Rutherfurd's Ireland/Dublin saga. I haven't touched it in almost a year And I am as always somewhere in the middle of Lord of the Rings. And no, I don't get confused. I multitask in all aspects of life
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Post by Scar on Mar 28, 2007 19:19:16 GMT 1
Currently I'm reading The Halfling's Gem. On the book's very last pages, in fact.
So far I've loved it, and the ending looks to be great. But one thing that bothers me about the book (The collector's edition - the trilogy in one book, paperback) is that they have used a scanner to get the book on to a computer. And the proofreading has been more or less failing. I've found many many errors in letters. Such as replacing an obvious 'm' with 'rn' and 'I' with 'l' and suchlike. I even saw a full stop (period) replaced by a 'β'. While it has no impact on the story itself it does annoy me a bit. Would it be too much to ask to get them to proofread it a bit more thorough - if they even did it at all? These mistakes seemed to be more concentrated in the second and third book, and not in the first book.
I also found some other flaws in the logic of the book, but I'll not go into detail about those here.
Anyways, got two chapters left, and I'm then moving on to Legacy of the Drow. Can hardly wait!
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Post by ShadowDucky on Mar 28, 2007 20:37:45 GMT 1
Argh, I know what you mean with lack of proofreading.
Let's see . . . right now I'm reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Emma, some stuff by Rabelais (french monk from the 1500s), The Figure in the Shadows, and a few odds and ends mostly involving Thoreau . . . woot . . .
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Post by Taika of Narfell on Mar 29, 2007 8:34:34 GMT 1
*cries*
I'm not reading anything at the moment other than texts needed for my papers this summer. I simply haven't had time to do any leisure reading - and it's killing me.
I want to get back to Perdido Street Station and I want to finish Dublin: Foundations. Bah, gimme the rest of the spring and some of the summer to get to that point.
*sniffle*
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Post by Scar on Mar 29, 2007 18:45:02 GMT 1
Well, as I predicted I finished The Icewind Dale Trilogy last night, and I've now started Legend of Drizzt.
Yay for spare time. Sorry Jem/Taika, just had to. >_>
Now, if only Amazon.com would get a new supply of Paths of Darkness and I'll be happy. Ordering two books from that place is cheaper than buying *one* book here in Norway. Planning on ordering the Cleric Quintet books, Paths of Darkness and Hunter's Blades trilogy.
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Post by Taika of Narfell on Mar 29, 2007 21:10:57 GMT 1
Oi, Scar. Check out play.com. They ship from UK, and you pay in Euros (if you register your order in GBP rather than Euros they won't ship out of UK - oddness), but you don't pay shipping, so for fantasy books, which they have a lot of they're far cheaper than Amazon. Check them out
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Post by Scar on Mar 29, 2007 22:36:27 GMT 1
I did check it, and as far as I could see the books were cheaper at Amazon. I'll check again to be sure.
EDIT:
Checked. Cleric Quintet Collector's Edition costs me 140NOK at Amazon.com while at Play.com I'd be paying 164NOK. And that was on *one* book, the more books I order the more I save.
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Post by Taika of Narfell on Mar 30, 2007 10:05:39 GMT 1
Is that the price listed on Amazon? or is it the final price on Amazon?
'Cause when you check out Amazon adds taxes and postage to what you need to pay - and Play does not. Amazon *seems* cheaper at first view to me as well - but Play always wins - mainly because they don't charge extra for postage.
Cleric Quintet at Amazon: 14.22 GBP = ca 170 NOK *excluding* taxes and postage Cleric quintet at Play: 20.99 € = ca 170 NOK *including* taxes and postage
I don't know where you looked, but Play looks cheaper to me.
Play doesn't have Paths of Darkness it seems, but that one is pretty cheap on Amazon in paperback. So if you want Paths collector's ed it's Amazon alright, but be careful with "the more you roder..." 'cause Amazon's postage goes up accordingly.
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Post by Scar on Mar 30, 2007 17:35:32 GMT 1
Think I know why you think Play.com is cheaper. I'm talking Amazon.com (US) here, not Amazon.co.uk I'll do some more research on the prices today, if I remember. See what the price would be for Paths of Darkness, Cleric Quintet and Hunter's Blades trilogy (hardcover). Maybe I'll be surprised. EDIT: Hunter's Blades isn't available at Play.com, so I'll leave that book out for now. Cleric Quintet and Paths of Darkness cost a total of 328NOK at Play.com. The same books cost 253NOK at Amazon.com. With shipping included. And taxes are irrelevant in this matter - books fall outside the rules and are not taken in for customs.
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Post by Taika of Narfell on Apr 1, 2007 13:32:18 GMT 1
Bah, you and your Norwegian customs...
Amazon always charges the Danish VATs even though they technically aren't allowed to. Thus adding to the price 25% of the item's value. Play does not do this. I figured Amazon would do the same with VATs to Norway, but apparently not. Bah... I say
Edit: Hmmmz, postage is higher from the US, but they charge no VATs. With big orders it'll end up being cheaper to have them shipped from US than from UK when it comes to Amazon. For most fantasy books Play still is cheaper, though - at least for me. How curious...
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Post by Scar on Apr 1, 2007 17:21:35 GMT 1
Any order that costs more than 200NOK will be taken in for customs. Anything below that won't. But books are an exception - don't ask me why.
So for me it's a lot cheaper to buy books in the states than buying them here in Norway. Yay for logic?
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Post by ShadowDucky on Apr 5, 2007 10:49:38 GMT 1
*blows the trumpet of thread back on trackness* Current works of literary browsing, anyone? I'm reading Red Dwarf XD, Heart of Darkness (which is actually better the second time around, oddly. I'm finding myself greatly attracted to how dark the language is.), and some random book whose title is eluding me >.>;
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