What Are You Reading 2

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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby pip » Tue May 22, 2012 1:57 pm

Sequel novel should be good. Seemingly Neil Gaiman is working on it at the moment :D

And before people correct me Anansi Boys is a Spinoff not a Sequel and Monarch of the Glen is a Novella not a novel :D
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby Who's Wee Dug » Tue May 22, 2012 8:11 pm

Pip have you Half sick of Shadows yet. :?:
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby pip » Wed May 23, 2012 7:17 am

I have . it arrived last thursday. i'm undecided. it doesn't look as good as Apocalypse Cow.
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby Catch-up » Wed May 23, 2012 12:14 pm

Cool! Didn't know he was working on a sequel. :D Haven't heard of Monarch of the Glen. Is it a short story or graphic novel?
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby Who's Wee Dug » Wed May 23, 2012 12:21 pm

Will you post a review when you have read it, Apocalypse Cow is really good so far, laugh out loud moments. :mrgreen:

Edited to add: I went into Waterstones in Stirling because the local one here did not have a copy of Half sick of Shadows, I read a chapter and flipped through a few other pages and have come to the conclusion I won't be buying a copy anytime soon, unless it comes down to a couple of pounds for a Kindle. :|
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby SpyViolette » Wed May 23, 2012 5:52 pm

American Gods hasn't arrived yet, but Unseen Academicals did, so I'm gonna read that first. My best friend is reading AG at the moment and I really want to read it!
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby pip » Thu May 24, 2012 8:32 am

Catch-up wrote:Cool! Didn't know he was working on a sequel. :D Haven't heard of Monarch of the Glen. Is it a short story or graphic novel?



Monarch of the Glens is about forty to fifty pages long and is set in Scotland with Shadow. It was published in Neils short story book Fragile Things. If you can get a cheap copy well worth it for this alone. :D
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby pip » Thu May 24, 2012 8:55 am

Who's Wee Dug wrote:Will you post a review when you have read it, Apocalypse Cow is really good so far, laugh out loud moments. :mrgreen:

Edited to add: I went into Waterstones in Stirling because the local one here did not have a copy of Half sick of Shadows, I read a chapter and flipped through a few other pages and have come to the conclusion I won't be buying a copy anytime soon, unless it comes down to a couple of pounds for a Kindle. :|

I will . Finishing Philip K Dick The Penultimate Truth and then will read Apocalypse Cow. Flicked Through Half Sick and not too drawn in to be honest .
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby Catch-up » Thu May 24, 2012 12:32 pm

pip wrote:
Catch-up wrote:Cool! Didn't know he was working on a sequel. :D Haven't heard of Monarch of the Glen. Is it a short story or graphic novel?



Monarch of the Glens is about forty to fifty pages long and is set in Scotland with Shadow. It was published in Neils short story book Fragile Things. If you can get a cheap copy well worth it for this alone. :D


Ah! Thanks. :D I'm pretty sure I read Fragile Things, but my memory is terrible. I'll have to get it from the library and read it again.
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby Bouncy Castle » Thu May 24, 2012 12:59 pm

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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby Antiq » Fri May 25, 2012 10:08 am

pip wrote:Much better than his Roman stuff where he rewrote History way too much

Oooh, don't like that. I like my historical bits to be pretty accurate, or close enough. I am enjoying this though. I don't know enough about the history of the Mongols to know how right or wrong it may be.
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby Tonyblack » Sun May 27, 2012 10:33 pm

Day of the Triffids for the umpty-umph time. :D

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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby author3 » Mon May 28, 2012 6:42 pm

I've finally gotten around to reading Dracula by Bram Stoker,it's very interesting so far :D
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby Antiq » Mon May 28, 2012 7:33 pm

author3 wrote:I've finally gotten around to reading Dracula by Bram Stoker,it's very interesting so far :D

I love that, all the heavy Gothic prose, yum :D
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Re: What Are You Reading 2

Postby chris.ph » Tue May 29, 2012 4:10 pm

zombies in the white house --- a free book i got for my kindle off amazon its quite good so far as well
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