| book?; which? any? illiterate? | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: 12th January 2005 - 05:45 PM (433 Views) | |||
| Sammy the Squid | 13th January 2005 - 08:58 AM Post #16 | ||
![]()
Back to retirement!
![]()
|
Terry Pratchetts discworld series. That guy is a legend!!! | ||
|
"If the squidman can't do it, no one can!!" Wins/Losses/Draws Skaven Clan Rattenkrieg - 108/58/20 Dark Elves - 44/14/8 Hochland Empire - 33/14/4 Malkavian Vampires - 23/22/4 Beastmen - 50/25/2 Have not completed a Painting Vow since July 07!! | |||
![]() |
|
||
| vasquisk | 13th January 2005 - 10:21 AM Post #17 | ||
|
a.k.a. I-D-I-O-T (Dark Lords of the Overempire)
|
Yay! Watership Down! I loved that book! I've only just realised that I haven't read a proper book (i.e. not school textbooks) for ages... I've got a couple of book tokens somewhere, can anyone sugegst a good book to buy? |
||
| |||
![]() |
|
||
| Shiva | 13th January 2005 - 12:23 PM Post #18 | ||
![]()
Long Lost Warhammer Player
|
Dune. It is by in my opinion the greatest Science Fiction ever. On the cover it even calls it Sci-Fi's supreme masterpiece. It's excellent. | ||
|
I love getting Personal Messages... Send one today! Tell me to get my local league started. "See the world as it is. If you put on pink glasses, your eyes will tell you the world is rosy- which it is not." Shiva | |||
![]() |
|
||
| Skaskrit Venomclaw | 13th January 2005 - 12:54 PM Post #19 | ||
|
Ex-Councilrat
![]()
|
Dune indeed is great, although I never could get into the sequals. At the moment I'm reading "dying of the light" by George R.R. Martin, which is pretty good so far if a tad depressing. His "a Song of Ice and Fire" series has got to be some of the best fantasy novels ever, though. I've never seen characters half so complicated and realistic in this genre. Got lots of political plotting too, which ought to appeal to our black Skaven hearts. Best of all it manages to avoid all the usual fantasy cliches such as the Evil Lord of Darkness, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, the Farmboy who Becomes a King and Saves the World, the Mystical Thingamajick with Great and Mysterious Powers, etc. It's, for want of a better word, a 'realistic fantasy novel' where actions have consequences, the good and the innocent are as vulnerable as the corrupt and selfish, where no man is flawless, and no man is without redeeming features. No black and white, but rather a myriad shades of grey. I advice everyone to pick up the first book, "A Game of Thrones." 'When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.' -Cercei Lannister. (Slight warning, though. The books tend to be pretty gritty at times, and happy endings do not happen often. Nobody is immortal, and even the main characters can die. It's not really meant for younger readers, I think.) Others of my favourites include "The Farseer trilogy" by Robin Hobb, another book which is great on characterisation, but may not appeal to everyone due to limited action and slow moving plot. Oh, and it's another one in which bad things happen to protagonists. Then there's 'the Warlord Chronicles' by Bernard Cornwell. A healthy dose of war and battle for the Warhammer fans, his battle scenes are amongst the most lifelike and realistic I've ever encountered. The trilogy deals with the familiar story of King Arthur in an entirely new and refreshing way. Don't go in expecting the usual story, Cornwell's changed just about everything. Which matters not in the least, because the result is a tremendous book with interesting characters and a brilliant plot. It also feels real, although everything is made up I could easily believe these characters lived and loved in 5th century Britain, that these wars and battles actually happened, and gave rise to the later Arthurian legends most of us know. There are lots of great books out there, and these are some of my favourites. Get reading! |
||
|
"I have a post-Armageddon vision. We and all other large animals are gone. Rodents emerge as the ultimate post-human scavengers. They gnaw their way through New York, London and Tokyo... within 5 million years, a whole range of new species replace the ones we know. Herds of giant grazing rats are stalked by sabre-toothed predatory rats. Given enough time, will a species of intelligent, cultivated rats emerge?" Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale | |||
![]() |
|
||
| Stabmaster | 13th January 2005 - 02:39 PM Post #20 | ||
|
Unregistered
|
Those are by far the best Arthur books I 've ever read, in fact they are so good that they have ruined other Athur stories for me. I can't read other Arthur stories without thinking that they are just not good enough. If you liked the movie King Arthur, you 'll probably like the books even better, well, at least I did. |
||
|
|||
| Stinkhair | 13th January 2005 - 11:30 PM Post #21 | ||
![]()
Dabbling GM. Clanrat loon. 6th Edition Aficionado. Bitter.
![]()
|
i finished druss, in uder 48hours ive read a 346 page book! im a happy chappy not big on happy endings this laddie though...... |
||
| |||
![]() |
|
||
| Llamarama | 14th January 2005 - 12:12 AM Post #22 | ||
![]()
Retired CoXIII
![]()
|
You can't go wrong with Dune. I haven't got around to reading any of the sequels tho. Any good or no? How bout the Ringworld sequels? (Only read the original) On a side note once I read a WoT book in a single day....that was exciting ![]() @vasquisk: Book of Jhereg (My fav, I would say, I just never tire of them, great plots, twists, and turns. Assassination, sorcery, humor, everything you could ever want. The rest of the series is awesome too) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=books&n=507846 Chronicles of Amber (Oh my, you NEED to read these. Twists and turns, and an awesome premise. Those trump cards are sweet. ;)) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038...0296949-9767926 The Elric Saga (Link is for just part 1. Great characters, interesting read. Worth checking out.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books The Dark Elf Trilogy (What can I say? It rocks.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078...0296949-9767926 Heres some non-fantasy ones that are pretty decent: Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson is awesome. I mean he wrote the book Snow Crash, which featured a main character named Hiro Protagonist who was a Samurai Pizza-Delivery man for the Mob. Wow.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...d=I9YZ9PMTNGVBY Gun, with occasional music (Here's an interesting book, its a PI for the main character, only its in a strange kind of alternate reality. Gangster tommygun-toting kangaroos included.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books The Stainless Steel Rat (Fastest paced book you will ever read. Fugitive on the run, hes the greatest con artist in the universe. Quite interesting.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/185...0296949-9767926 I have TONS more I can recommend, but I need to get some other stuff done right now.
|
||
...And all this time I thought there was only one way to "retire" from the Council! What you call "retire", I call a "stay of execution"..whats in a word? DM Mik!![]() Please make an effort to read the stickies before posting. Use the 'mutate' button in the upper right of your post instead of posting another in succession. Forum rules, etiquette, and trade policy | |||
![]() |
|
||
| Baraduribagugar | 14th January 2005 - 07:34 PM Post #23 | ||
|
Custom member
|
Terry Pratchett books. The greatest humor. | ||
| tehtentacle | |||
![]() |
|
||
| Swingu | 14th January 2005 - 07:59 PM Post #24 | ||
|
Chieftain
|
Kripke. Putnam. Wittgenstein. Fodor. I slowly started working on my degree, which means that between painting and studying I don't have much time to read fantasy anymore
|
||
![]() |
|
||
| Driazine | 14th January 2005 - 08:07 PM Post #25 | ||
|
Clanrat
|
do you know: the testament, from grishen | ||
|
mi grammartic and spellink misteks be corpirited wiz al o ze rites reserft © my tactics here | |||
![]() |
|
||
| EtherealAlpaca | 17th January 2005 - 08:18 AM Post #26 | ||
|
Rambling ranter
|
Wheel of Time was excellent, right up until book ten, which is, frankly, crap. I won't spoil it for you, but I strongly suggest that if you want to read it, get it out of the library first, and read it through. After that, you probably won't want to buy it anyway.
Stop it! Stop it! Carry on like this and I'm going to go bankrupt... |
||
![]() Nil mortifi sine lucre... | |||
![]() |
|
||
| Skaven Lord Vinshqueek | 17th January 2005 - 08:27 AM Post #27 | ||
|
Bunny ear says flop
![]()
|
Although I'm really tempted to go and read some of Clive Cusslers books (I mean, with the movie Sahara coming up, I'm getting REALLY tempted)... But no... I went for literaturate ( is that a word?) works, and so decided to go and read The Lost World from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Next up will be "The Journey to the West", from some Chinese scholar whose name is too hard for me to spell... Greetz |
||
In the Horned One we trust, all others we monitor. ![]() Skaven track record [W/D/L] @ 17th of August, 2014: BB 34/19/55; MH 9/2/6; WHF 17/8/30 | |||
![]() |
|
||
| Thrask Vilepaw | 17th January 2005 - 08:40 AM Post #28 | ||
|
The Grim Squeaker
![]()
|
I have read all of the discworld books and all of the gotrek and felix ones, both of them are amazing but in very different ways. | ||
|
Official master of parades by Rattsu BEWARE THE GRIM SQUEAKER ![]() ![]()
8th member of the day 24 hour painting challenge : 30 clanrats in 10.5 hours SUCCESS | |||
![]() |
|
||
| Tera'skazi | 17th January 2005 - 08:55 AM Post #29 | ||
|
Unregistered
|
I was reading Watership Down, and it's very good read, as it contain obscure references to a few events that happened during the world war, but, nearing the end of the book, it goes into socialism. | ||
|
|||
| Verminous Fang | 17th January 2005 - 10:27 AM Post #30 | ||
![]()
|
I agree that Crossroads was sub-par, but I'm hoping it was a momentary lapse. Has anyone read the Honor Harrington series by David Weber? Fantastic series. Also, if you're intersted in fantasy/history crossovers, try out the darkness series by Harry Turtledove. Oh, and you can't beat Armor by John Steakly for great novels. |
||
|
Go forth my brethren, that we shall nibble at the roots of the old world! We are the rats in the shadows. We hold the blades of corruption, aimed at the very heart of the Old World. We are The Council of Thirteen. Second place in the UnderEmpire painting competition! | |||
![]() |
|
||
| Go to Next Page | |
| « Previous Topic · Off Topic · Next Topic » |

















is that a word?) works, and so decided to go and read The Lost World from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.




