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05-04-2008, 06:12 PM
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Ink Slinger
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Anonymous - The Book With No Name. (Funny as hell!)
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05-04-2008, 09:15 PM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kittitas County, WA
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05-09-2008, 08:07 AM
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Am currently halfway through Mary, Mary by James Patterson. Am liking it so far.
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05-11-2008, 07:08 AM
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I'm curently reading book 1 of the death gate cycle.
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05-11-2008, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Fiction: Arrow of God, by China Achebe.
Non-fiction: The Leper King and His Heirs, by Bernard Hamilton (for fiction research purposes--EXCELLENT read, though).
Last edited by Sayuri : 05-11-2008 at 09:12 AM.
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05-11-2008, 10:46 AM
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Profound Writer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Gender: Female
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The Life of Pi
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05-11-2008, 11:52 AM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: A lonely little Farmer's Market called Kent.
Gender: Male
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Meat - Joseph D'Lacey
A pretty sick book. Just finished it.
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05-12-2008, 08:38 AM
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Prolific Writer
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Location: North of England
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My copy of "The Hellbound Heart" just came in (it's a lot shorter than I expected) so I'm just about to start reading that ^.^
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05-13-2008, 07:25 AM
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Writer
Join Date: Mar 2006
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I'm making my way through Lolita and The Peloponnesian War. I recommend both.
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05-14-2008, 06:08 PM
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Writer
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Stafford/ UK
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Dipping into a couple of Nick Hornby's books at the moment. In particular 'A long way down'. Just finished the tedious 'So he takes the Dog' by Jonathon Buckley.
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05-18-2008, 01:23 AM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Delgesu
Liar, by Stephen Fry. That man knows how to make a sentence more of an rollercoaster ride than anyone. Except perhaps Heller's Catch 22. For the same reason
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I am fool for not reading Catch-22 yet. I wonder if I'm the only one.
Is that Stephen Fry, the same one that was in the BBC series Black Adder with Hugh Laurie, and more recently-- V for Vendetta by the Wachowski Bros.? If so, I missed that he was a writer and I'm overjoyed. Any advice on which book to start with?
Speaking of Hugh Laurie: someone gave me a copy of his novel: The Gunseller, which I haven't had time to open yet. I'm wondering how that guy has time to do everything he does--all those degrees, rowing, a family, a tv series, a movie, a band, some humanitarian projects, looking so hawt, and somehow he wrote a book too. (I'm sure I missed some of his "hobbies".) Anyone read it?
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05-18-2008, 01:36 AM
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Best Seller
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Originally Posted by Jax1108
Im still reading the Dragonlance series...I know I know...but it sucked me in further when the MCs you grow to love have kids and they all end up adventuring together 
Noticed something though, and its something I've been wanting to mention but it probably doesn't deserve its own thread.
Mostly in like...the last 5 books, I've noticed alot of typos. Like...big, bad ones. Like the wrong character saying the wrong thing O.o
Is this common when the author already has a ton of books published? Do editors tend to look over those things accidently - more easily? It was strange |
Which DL authors' novels are you finding the typos in. I'll admit I'm a huge fan of the original arcs by Weiss and Hickman: Chronicles and Legends. Then there are some of the other authors/series I prefer-- Dalamar the Dark by Nancy Varian Berberick is a fav, she is a friend of my sisters too so maybe I'm biased. The only problem I've had was with pagination--a book that was missing 200+ pages. I wonder if they just got cheap with the distributors? I had to reorder whatever the book was from 3 places before I got a copy that wasn't hosed.
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05-18-2008, 07:28 AM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Out in the bush, Queensland, Australia, far from the madding crowd
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The Supermarine Spitfire Owners' Workshop Manual. A must for insomniacs.
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05-19-2008, 02:31 PM
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Best Seller
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Location: Keyport, Nj
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I am reading Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara.
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05-24-2008, 05:04 PM
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Prolific Writer
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Location: Kittitas County, WA
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