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Post by cheeseandonion on Nov 7, 2017 19:02:51 GMT
Though really I'm in the mood for some Dynastic politics if anyone knows anything. Have you ever read any Dorothy Dunnett? The 'Game of Kings' is a good starting point for her books. I was looking at it earlier but the setting didn't really interest me. Already read the others, Masters of Rome was goat. I, Claudius had a pretty good tv show too.
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I've been diving into Robert E. Howard and Conan for the first time, but in doing so I have found myself wanting to take another vacation to Middle Earth... a journey I have not taken in many years.
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Post by frosted on Nov 8, 2017 6:24:20 GMT
Browsing some old Robert Service poems. An appropriately Alaskan thing to do this time of year...
This was published in 1907 in "Songs of a Sourdough". (A "sourdough", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.)
The Cremation of Sam McGee BY ROBERT W. SERVICE There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee.
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell."
On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail. Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail. If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn't see; It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee.
And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow, And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe, He turned to me, and "Cap," says he, "I'll cash in this trip, I guess; And if I do, I'm asking that you won't refuse my last request."
Well, he seemed so low that I couldn't say no; then he says with a sort of moan: "It's the cursèd cold, and it's got right hold till I'm chilled clean through to the bone. Yet 'tain't being dead—it's my awful dread of the icy grave that pains; So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains."
A pal's last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail; And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! he looked ghastly pale. He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all day of his home in Tennessee; And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee.
There wasn't a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven, With a corpse half hid that I couldn't get rid, because of a promise given; It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say: "You may tax your brawn and brains, But you promised true, and it's up to you to cremate those last remains."
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load. In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring, Howled out their woes to the homeless snows— O God! how I loathed the thing.
And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow; And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low; The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in; And I'd often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin.
Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May." And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."
Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire; Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher; The flames just soared, and the furnace roared—such a blaze you seldom see; And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee.
Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so; And the heavens scowled, and the huskies howled, and the wind began to blow. It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolled down my cheeks, and I don't know why; And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.
I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisly fear; But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near; I was sick with dread, but I bravely said: "I'll just take a peep inside. I guess he's cooked, and it's time I looked"; ... then the door I opened wide.
And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar; And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: "Please close that door. It's fine in here, but I greatly fear you'll let in the cold and storm— Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm."
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee.
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Random bits of Yeats.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Nov 12, 2017 20:02:55 GMT
I've finished 'Gridlinked' by Neal Asher, and I now want to modify my previous statement about this. I'm very pleased with how Neal Asher built the plot of that story. Delighted, even. It's been done how I think it should be done, and spits well established 'best-seller-formula' and writing school advice straight into the face. - Bloody well done! Otherwise, the SF elements are still just buzzwords, not particular scientific fantasy and an excuse for anchoring the story in whatever is convenient. But that's okay. I don't hold it against him.
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If you're into Zombies in any degree, I highly recommend looking up Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne. One of few books that legitimately had me gripped and turning the pages.
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Post by fiannawolf on Nov 14, 2017 19:26:54 GMT
Currently: So basically one alt history meets stargate type thing. Plus it has a German Shepherd in it. Space opera mish mash. And Sanderson.
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Post by Liadan on Nov 14, 2017 20:51:17 GMT
i`m reading "Gardens of the Moon" from Steven Erikson.
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Post by mattig89ch on Nov 15, 2017 18:51:03 GMT
Based off a post made by Otter, I picked up the miniature edition of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. I've only read the first chapter thus far, but...its not exactly difficult. Its all stuff I already know, and have known, for quite some time. So far at least. Though there is a world of difference between knowing the theory, and being able to apply it. Still, its an interesting read so far.
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Post by cheeseandonion on Nov 17, 2017 0:23:58 GMT
An English and Dutch crew are shipwrecked on Japan, the Portuguese want them dead for being protestant, the Japanese are torn being loving them for hating Catholics, hating them for being Christian and using them for political gain. It's a good book, but I was really surprised by the ease in which the Samurai would kill someone.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 15:24:58 GMT
The (Extremely) Short History of Africa.
I believe that the author, Gordon Kerr, set out to write a Wikipedia entry, but went twenty words over the limit, so he decided to see if some sucker would buy it as a book.
It got published.
No, seriously.
The book is a tiny paperback with normal font, is 151 pages long, and the subtitle reads: "from the origins of Human race to the Arab Spring". What a fu***g hack.
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Post by Liadan on Nov 22, 2017 18:17:12 GMT
I started reading "Mistborn-the final Empire" by Brandon Sanderson.
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Post by mousestalker on Nov 22, 2017 18:35:53 GMT
It's YA, but then again it's almost Thanksgiving...
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Post by mattig89ch on Nov 22, 2017 18:52:36 GMT
I started reading "Mistborn-the final Empire" by Brandon Sanderson. Neat! I've heard interesting things about that series. I just refuse to read anything before alloy of law. Are you on the 17th shard forums?
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I started reading "Mistborn-the final Empire" by Brandon Sanderson. Neat! I've heard interesting things about that series. I just refuse to read anything before alloy of law. Are you on the 17th shard forums? No, i´m not in that forum. Actually it`s the first time i`m reading a book from Brandon Sanderson, but i`m enjoying it so far .
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Post by cheeseandonion on Nov 23, 2017 15:02:04 GMT
Well Shogun was by far and away the best thing I've read in ages. One of the books were turning a page upsets you because you're one page closer to the end.
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"Oathbringer" by Brandon Sanderson
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Thrawn.
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I just finished reading this: And have just started reading this:
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War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice
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Post by Liadan on Dec 13, 2017 17:22:33 GMT
Just started the 2nd book of the Mistborn series - "The Well of Ascension" by Brandon Sanderson.
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I was reading this: But I actually hate the bad guys in this series. But its so much hate I have for them, that I put the book aside for now. Not sure if I'm going to continue with the book. I stopped in chapter 40... I did pick up dark disciple in the star wars series. Just as a backup book to read.
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Just finished reading this: Which was the 1st Dostoevsky book (novella) that I sort of didn't care for. Have just started reading this:
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