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- 15 Apr 2016, 03:23
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books you're reading now
- Replies: 1120
- Views: 121573
Re: Books you're reading now
Currently about two thirds of the way through Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Kind of the ultimate conspiracy theory book - it's mostly about how, if you try hard enough, you can pretty much connect any one fact to any other and have it be compelling. Lots of stuff on the Templars, the Rosicruci...
- 28 Oct 2015, 15:12
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books you're reading now
- Replies: 1120
- Views: 121573
Re: Books you're reading now
Finished up Memories of Ice, so I'm taking a break from utterly massive brick-like fantasy monstrosities for a while. Instead, I'm relaxing with a mere 600 page hard-sf in the form of Redemption Ark, the second book in Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space trilogy. So far, so hard-edged, chilling, and...
- 11 Oct 2015, 11:11
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for SF/Fantasy book recommendations
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4068
Re: Looking for SF/Fantasy book recommendations
Fantasy - China Miéville has some of this past decade's greatest fantasy under his belt, in my opinion, with his Bas Lag books (they're not quite a trilogy, as each is a self-contained story, but they are all chronological). Start with The Scar and see how you go - it's the most the reader-friendly....
- 28 Aug 2015, 03:02
- Forum: Corrector's Commentary
- Topic: Correctors Commentary - Sunshine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 40209
Re: Correctors Commentary - Sunshine
I'd be remiss if I didn't point people at the (renamed) School of Movies podcast, in which they have extremely long discussions about movies they love. Hell yeah. Adding it to the list. I'd also recommend people check out The Canon , which features in-depth, intelligent discussions of both classic ...
- 26 Aug 2015, 13:03
- Forum: Corrector's Commentary
- Topic: Correctors Commentary - Sunshine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 40209
Re: Correctors Commentary - Sunshine
I unabashedly love Sunshine a whole hell of a lot, perhaps especially because of that amazing, gripping, moving third act. I've never understood people's criticisms of it. So I'm glad to find a few more people who are on the same page. Love, love, love this movie. On that note, there's probably not ...
- 19 Aug 2015, 02:55
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books you're reading now
- Replies: 1120
- Views: 121573
Re: Books you're reading now
Thysane: I could NEVER read more than one book at a time. I don't know how someone can do it. I'd just get mixed up. I'd usually be the same, but luckily these two books are so profoundly different to each other, and both feature fairly short-form self-contained chunks of writing. No overall plotli...
- 14 Aug 2015, 04:19
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books you're reading now
- Replies: 1120
- Views: 121573
Re: Books you're reading now
Currently skipping back and forth between two books right now. The first is Imaginary Cities by Darran Anderson - a non-fiction essay-style book about theoretical and fantastical architecture, from historic myths to Le Corbusier to modern sci-fi. It's pretty great. Covers a lot of ground, and the re...
- 25 May 2015, 04:30
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ireland Approves Marriage Equality by Popular Vote
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1191
Re: Ireland Approves Marriage Equality by Popular Vote
I was in Dublin on Saturday, and the atmosphere there was electric. Seeing the spread of votes coming in from the different regions was incredible. Proud to call this country home
- 22 May 2015, 23:57
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Current Musical Obsession!
- Replies: 551
- Views: 45006
Re: Current Musical Obsession!
Holly Herndon's new album Platform was released just this past week and it is bloody fantastic. Challenging, weird, glitchy, futurist electronic meditation on our strange techno-corporate present. It's pretty out there, and pretty damn great. Even blindsides with a frankly excellent ASMR track that'...
- 22 Apr 2015, 02:50
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books you're reading now
- Replies: 1120
- Views: 121573
Re: Books you're reading now
Took a break from Malazan to read David Cronenberg's Consumed. It is incredibly messed-up and weird and I'm loving it.
- 23 Feb 2015, 08:45
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: IDDQDerp
- Replies: 540
- Views: 68938
Re: IDDQDerp
You know, I'm sure someone said this ages ago when he played through the new Thief, but I'd like to see Alex have a go off one of the classic Thiefs. Thief 3 might be a good pick, but that might just be me having fond memories of crapping my pants in terror at the Shalebridge Cradle.
- 15 Feb 2015, 15:19
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books you're reading now
- Replies: 1120
- Views: 121573
Re: Books you're reading now
I finished both William Gibson's The Peripheral and China Miéville's Looking For Jake and Other Stories over the past week. Both really great reads, for very different reasons. Now I am embarking on the third book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, which is over a thousand pages long and could proba...
- 10 Nov 2014, 17:02
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Siblings
- Replies: 56
- Views: 5343
Re: Siblings
I've one brother, two years younger than me. We used to absolutely loath each other, but now we've come full circle and are basically best buds. We tend to bond over good (and bad) movies, PC games, music and general weirdness. We somehow put up with each other's bullshit. I don't know how he deals ...
- 24 Oct 2014, 01:55
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books you're reading now
- Replies: 1120
- Views: 121573
Re: Books you're reading now
Finished up Joe Abercombie's The Blade Itself, book one of his First Law trilogy. I liked it a lot, an extremely entertaining and quite dark read in the way that only Abercrombie can really pull off, but the writing wasn't quite up to par with what I've grown to expect from him. Makes sense though, ...
- 16 Oct 2014, 01:49
- Forum: Bonus Video
- Topic: KickStarter Smoothie
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18124
Re: KickStarter Smoothie
This was fantastic, and fantastically gross. I do wish people were able to experience marmite in its natural habitat, though. Probably wouldn't get such a bad rep. That, or most of us Brits have major Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to yeast byproducts. EDIT: that natural habitat being thinly-sprea...
- 13 Oct 2014, 12:26
- Forum: Tabletop and D&D
- Topic: Describe your last tabletop session
- Replies: 142
- Views: 54412
Re: Describe your last tabletop session
I've started a western-themed Pathfinder game, set in the frozen north of Golarion. It's really weird, and really fun. Going into much detail as to double-crossing and such would be en exercise in long run-on sentences, so I'll summarise this as much as possible. There are two hobgoblins bounty hunt...
- 03 Oct 2014, 00:07
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Books you're reading now
- Replies: 1120
- Views: 121573
Re: Books you're reading now
Finished the behemoth that is the first Wheel of Time book, finally. I enjoyed it, to a certain extent (the weird gender-essentialist thing really rubbed me the wrong way), but I'm unsure if I'll check out the rest of the series. It's a big commitment. Might leave that decision for a bit. So, anothe...
- 28 Sep 2014, 13:55
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Share your Art with the world!
- Replies: 1858
- Views: 264891
Re: Share your Art with the world!
I did an illustration of one of my Pathfinder characters for my art blog, and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out:
- 26 Sep 2014, 03:15
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Runners International (?)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3837
Re: Runners International (?)
Ireland here. Cork, to be exact. A city of jazz, rain, George Boole (of Boolean Algebra fame), bridges, boats, drink, the Dutch, Huguenots, art, churches and creepy old dudes hitting on Elomin Sha.
- 26 Sep 2014, 02:58
- Forum: LRRcast
- Topic: LRRcast 2014-09-19
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1392
Re: LRRcast 2014-09-19
Re: the Corrector's Commentary discussion, I think I like Graham's idea better. Doing a commentary on a film where one or both people have never seen it before just seems like a recipe for painful, awkward listening and a severely diminished watching experience. Just like I prefer to have seen the m...
- 25 Sep 2014, 12:52
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Current Musical Obsession!
- Replies: 551
- Views: 45006
Re: Current Musical Obsession!
I'm kind of obsessed by Holly Herndon's music at the moment, in particular the latest track she put out quite recently (and he attendant video) "Home": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_3mCDJ_iWc My relationship with her stuff is a strange one, a mix of fascination, frustration, admiration...
- 15 Sep 2014, 07:11
- Forum: Tabletop and D&D
- Topic: Favorite RPG setting?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2413
Re: Favorite RPG setting?
I have a deep and abiding love of Warhammer and Warhammer 40k (yes, those do count), as well as the explicit setting material in White Wolf's Mage: The Awakening books, but I think my current favourite is Unknown Armies. Gotta love dat post-modern magic.
- 15 Sep 2014, 07:06
- Forum: LRRcast
- Topic: LRRcast for 2014-09-05
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1423
Re: LRRcast for 2014-09-05
Am looking forward to Temple of the Lava Bears with unreasonable excitement. Sounds like it's gonna be a lot of fun.
- 13 Sep 2014, 02:42
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Current Musical Obsession!
- Replies: 551
- Views: 45006
Re: Current Musical Obsession!
I've been on a kick recently of listening to a Spotify radio based on the (extremely brilliant) album "DROKK: Music Inspired by Mega-City One" by Geoff Barrow (of Portishead) and Ben Salisbury. Some pretty heady stuff, good ambient listening. Main musical obsession born from this has been ...
- 13 Sep 2014, 02:36
- Forum: Corrector's Commentary
- Topic: Corrector's Commentary - Prometheus 2012
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6205
Re: Corrector's Commentary - Prometheus 2012
Excellent as always, gentlemen. Brought up a tonne of good points, especially thematic ones that I had never even thought about before, particularly the Golden Bough stuff (actually reading that a bit now, far more interesting and entertaining than most of the movies that crib from it). I love these...