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[Felix Sideris]

I'm SUPPOSED to be updating my character's journals to where they are currently and working on the RP Archives for my guild.

 

What am I doing? Playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Whoops

You can't even blame yourself. Reckoning is amazing.

[Jove]

Oh man if we're talkin' books, be very careful.  I can talk for hours on books.

 

Game of Thrones is great.  I don't get into the massive fantasy epics much these days though.  In no particular order may I suggest: Light (M. John Harrison), The Chronicles of Amber (Roger Zelazny), Mythago Wood (Robert Holdstock), anything by Hunter S. Thompson, (though I have a special place in my heart for Better than Sex, and Songs of the Doomed!), Glory Road (Robert Heinlein), etc.  

 

The list goes on and on and on.

Books? Give me a few ideas of what to read please? Been wanting to read a few new series lately.

 

What sort of books do you enjoy reading? I read from a very wide variety of stuff so I'm just as comfortable reading something like Gaiman's Coraline, as I am Ballard's Crash. But if you've got a preference to fantasy/scifi/nonfic/horror/whathaveyou, lemme know and I'll see what I can dig up out of the old library.

 

Gaimen!

 

I saw him yesterday at a book signing, he did a little talk and read from a couple of his books. I'm pretty sure his voice could put me to sleep in a thunderstorm. He even signed my copy of Good Omens with "Have a nice doomsday", which reminds me...

 

Any Terry Pratchett fans here?

 

I'm also going through two huge books of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P Lovecraft and I really, really need to get around to reading Neuromancer, I've been meaning to for weeks.

[Darien Cadell]

I saw some of you in-game as I was frantically flying by on my way to being so excited to be playing again. Excited!

 

I was going to play GW2 for the next few days, but my internet's decided to be a jerk, so I don't know. Maybe I'll go dust off FFXIII since I never really got into that one.

 

I'm just glad the jerkternet waited until the beta was over. 3102 had me locked out for about 24 hours, but I got to 20 on a JP server in the meantime, ha!

[Hali]

Nnngh. I have a few things I could do.

 

Finish Bioshock: Infinite... Keep playing The Last of Us... Skyrim... Keep working on making my RPGMaker game...

 

But my obsessive tendencies will not allow this. I will likely sit here and obsess over this game until it's out while doing little else. *puts the Limsa Lominsa music on repeat and rocks back and forth*

 

Though I will likely work on character profiles for Corelyn and few others I need to get working on. Hell, I think due to 3102 I wasn't even able to MAKE my other characters. D:

[CallmeYahweh]

Oh man if we're talkin' books, be very careful.  I can talk for hours on books.

 

Game of Thrones is great.  I don't get into the massive fantasy epics much these days though.  In no particular order may I suggest: Light (M. John Harrison), The Chronicles of Amber (Roger Zelazny), Mythago Wood (Robert Holdstock), anything by Hunter S. Thompson, (though I have a special place in my heart for Better than Sex, and Songs of the Doomed!), Glory Road (Robert Heinlein), etc.  

 

The list goes on and on and on.

Books? Give me a few ideas of what to read please? Been wanting to read a few new series lately.

 

What sort of books do you enjoy reading?  I read from a very wide variety of stuff so I'm just as comfortable reading something like Gaiman's Coraline, as I am Ballard's  Crash.  But if you've got a preference to fantasy/scifi/nonfic/horror/whathaveyou, lemme know and I'll see what I can dig up out of the old library.

If you ever read the sight or fell(it's sequal) or even the maximum ride series thoughs are the kinds of books I like. I don't know what genre they fall into.. Maybe fantasy I assume?

 

I'm actually familiar with both series! If you're looking for something similar to these, and you enjoy animals perhaps then, take a look at some of Brian Jacques' Redwall work. They're a little older these days but if you haven't read them, (Salamandastron, and Mattimeo in particular!) they are fantastic stories. And there are a lot of them! Easy reads, quick, and packing substance without getting too weighty.

 

I will always recommend Gaiman's work. Starting perhaps, with Stardust or Neverwhere and ending with one of my all time favorite novels, American Gods.

 

Let me know how those suggestions treat you! I've got a few more in mind but I want to see how you take to these first.

 

 

 

 

Gaimen!

 

I saw him yesterday at a book signing, he did a little talk and read from a couple of his books. I'm pretty sure his voice could put me to sleep in a thunderstorm. He even signed my copy of Good Omens with "Have a nice doomsday", which reminds me...

 

Any Terry Pratchett fans here?

 

I'm also going through two huge books of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P Lovecraft and I really, really need to get around to reading Neuromancer, I've been meaning to for weeks.

 

Oh man! He was in SanFran just a few weeks ago and I totally missed the visit. I almost got into a six week writing workshop with him a handful of summers back but had to back out due to some problems with funding on my end. Biggest disappointment of my life thus far.

 

I like Pratchett on occasion. I'm not sure I could read him all the time but he's definitely got a lot of really good stuff. (I'm a bit biased towards Douglas Adams though!)

 

Also love ACD and Lovecraft's work. I'm about to break into a few books by GK Chesterton I got a while back, but never got around to reading. Neuromancer though, I'm not sure I want to go near. William Gibson's stuff is so dense it takes me months to get through it all.

[Chickpea]

This actually works out okay for me since it's my birthday this week, as well as my boyfriends...and our anniversary...so yeah, we'll be plenty busy doing other things and spending time at the beach before the end of summer. Seriously looking forward to playing, though.

 

I guess just watching tv on netflix and more Animal Crossing!

[shotgunbadger]

Animal Crossing, Netflix, Amazon Prime, a Kindle full of books. I have plenty of options thankfully...

 

But none of them are FFXIV!:bomb:

[Raccoon]

There's always loads of anime. Saints Row 4 comes out tomorrow. I gotta finish up Sleeping Dogs and then move on to Asura's Wrath; forgot what it's about but it was apparently on my Gamefly queue, so I must have liked what I saw. Oh, and I still have the last few books of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, which my niece gifted to me on kindle and am therefore obligated to read.

[Jubilation]

Work mostly, graveyard convenience store work is fun right? right?...

 

I don't have the full early access anyway so

[Zyrusticae]

Another update for PSO2 comes out on Wednesday. The fall school semester is starting up as well. Then there's the piles and piles of anime piling up on my backlog...

 

And I still have to write the profile for my alt. :<

 

Too much to do, so little time... and I'll have even less of it when the launch arrives.

[Covikt]

Despite having dozens of games that I need to finish/start, I can't bring myself to do any of it...

 

I don't know why! Damn you XIV! Damn you all to hell! :tonberry:

[Nightsha]

Well, I have work all this week and it's extended so I won't get home until about 6 every night (exhausted), and then of course I should probably put focus on Dragon's Crown, Kirby Mass Attack, or Muramasa Rebirth or even the anime I have piled up.

 

Despite having dozens of games that I need to finish/start, I can't bring myself to do any of it...

 

I don't know why! Damn you XIV! Damn you all to hell! :tonberry:

Aha, I have the same problem all the time! When I get really excited for something and it's just so close it's hard for me to focus on other things of that genre (books, movies, anime, games, etc.)

[LiadansWhisper]

I really need to finish my character's background.  

 

I'm such a procrastinator.  lol

[Levi Druthers]

Already beat Tales of Xillia, so going do post game.  Have to do Bioshock Infinate DLC, and beat AC3 ...

 

I still have EQ2 to keep me busy.  And I burned my right hand a few hours ago so watching tv might be all I'll be doing.

[Navarre]

Well, classes will be starting up next week so I'll be working on syllabi and getting my readings and assignments up to snuff. And workshops as well. Funny the game comes out just as things get busy again.

[Random Encounter]

I should work on my char background....but ended up just messing with the char creator for a good 4hrs after I got home from work. Which...led me to find a new look I might like better.

 

 I already prepped Phae'ra with 3 classes to lvl 20 so he could just head toward monk the moment the game is out, so not sure what to do now....arg why do I do this to myself D:

[Chakha Malqir]

-Finishing up Burn Notice one episode at a time.

-Read a book for Honors Summer Reading

-Play some older BioWare games (Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, etc.)

-Make my way through some of the JRPG franchises that get me as excited as Final Fantasy (.hack//G.U. Vol. 1 Redemption and Suikoden V)

-Prepare myself for college.

[Jove]

Oh man! He was in SanFran just a few weeks ago and I totally missed the visit. I almost got into a six week writing workshop with him a handful of summers back but had to back out due to some problems with funding on my end. Biggest disappointment of my life thus far.

 

I like Pratchett on occasion. I'm not sure I could read him all the time but he's definitely got a lot of really good stuff. (I'm a bit biased towards Douglas Adams though!)

 

Also love ACD and Lovecraft's work. I'm about to break into a few books by GK Chesterton I got a while back, but never got around to reading. Neuromancer though, I'm not sure I want to go near. William Gibson's stuff is so dense it takes me months to get through it all.

 

I had no idea he was here until Thursday last week but fortunately the tickets hadn't sold out, which was surprising considering the place was packed. His talk ended at half eight in the evening but the book signing queue was so long I didn't reach him until about 11:30pm. I'm pretty sure he didn't go home until the early hours of the morning, but he signed all of our books with little drawings and quotes.

Such a wonderful guy.

 

Oh man, disappointment is certainly an understatement, a six week workshop with Gaiman would be... wow, basically.

 

I kind of grew up on Pratchett, well, Discworld, weirdly enough I just couldn't get into his kids books as a kid, but Rincewind? Yeah I totally got into that. Good Omens was the first thing I read that had a bit of Neil in it and it's what got me to read Neverwhere, American Gods and Stardust. I love those three books but I'd have to say American Gods is my favourite (despite not being American) followed closely by Neverwhere and Stardust.

 

I'm a pretty big Sherlock Holmes fan (and by extension, a Jeremy Brett fan), although Lovecraft is actually a bit more of a recent read for me. I mean I had always known about Cthulhu and such, because internet, but I'm really impressed by a lot of his other short stories, well the ones that go a bit more in depth than "it was too indescribable to write about".

As for Douglas Adams, again I'm also a huge fan, although it was kind of painful to read Mostly Harmless.

 

As for Neuromancer, that's okay, I'm pretty dense too :cactuar:

[CallmeYahweh]

Oh man! He was in SanFran just a few weeks ago and I totally missed the visit. I almost got into a six week writing workshop with him a handful of summers back but had to back out due to some problems with funding on my end. Biggest disappointment of my life thus far.

 

I like Pratchett on occasion. I'm not sure I could read him all the time but he's definitely got a lot of really good stuff. (I'm a bit biased towards Douglas Adams though!)

 

Also love ACD and Lovecraft's work. I'm about to break into a few books by GK Chesterton I got a while back, but never got around to reading. Neuromancer though, I'm not sure I want to go near. William Gibson's stuff is so dense it takes me months to get through it all.

 

I had no idea he was here until Thursday last week but fortunately the tickets hadn't sold out, which was surprising considering the place was packed. His talk ended at half eight in the evening but the book signing queue was so long I didn't reach him until about 11:30pm. I'm pretty sure he didn't go home until the early hours of the morning, but he signed all of our books with little drawings and quotes.

Such a wonderful guy.

 

Oh man, disappointment is certainly an understatement, a six week workshop with Gaiman would be... wow, basically.

 

I kind of grew up on Pratchett, well, Discworld, weirdly enough I just couldn't get into his kids books as a kid, but Rincewind? Yeah I totally got into that. Good Omens was the first thing I read that had a bit of Neil in it and it's what got me to read Neverwhere, American Gods and Stardust. I love those three books but I'd have to say American Gods is my favourite (despite not being American) followed closely by Neverwhere and Stardust.

 

I'm a pretty big Sherlock Holmes fan (and by extension, a Jeremy Brett fan), although Lovecraft is actually a bit more of a recent read for me. I mean I had always known about Cthulhu and such, because internet, but I'm really impressed by a lot of his other short stories, well the ones that go a bit more in depth than "it was too indescribable to write about".

As for Douglas Adams, again I'm also a huge fan, although it was kind of painful to read Mostly Harmless.

 

As for Neuromancer, that's okay, I'm pretty dense too :cactuar:

 

Oh, awesome! Yeah, I've heard that he's a pretty decent human being. Very nice to his fans and whatnot. I admire his style of writing greatly; spent a few years emulating it, as a matter of fact. He's what got me reading fiction again. That's pretty damn sweet that you got something signed by him!

 

I had a lot of pressure from friends/family to read and get into Discworld. Good Omens is probably my favorite of his stuff. It's the right mix of that dry humor, and whimsical narrative with Gaiman's flair for prose.

 

I owe a lot of my love for the noir and detective genre to Sherlock Holmes. He's where that all started for me. I especially love how his legacy has carried on. Lovecraft is a lot like that as well -- though I'd argue that Lovecraft's worlds have only gotten better after his death. Lovecraft was strange guy, and while his writing was pretty boring, the worlds and ideas he left behind were fantastic.

 

I like a lot of his stuff that isn't Cthluhu based. Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath is easily my favorite of his work. Herbert West is also really good. And I'm really sad that we will apparently never get to see Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness.

 

Gibson's stuff takes a herculean effort on my part to get through. I like his writing well enough, and the stories are killer, but what hangs me up is the amount of work you put into reading to make sure you catch everything. His books are huge, and generally take me a readthrough or two to make sure I'm on the page with them. A buddy of mine swears by Cryptonomicon though so I suppose I'll have to settle in for a few months and bite the bullet. It is definitely worth what you put into it.