Reader's Corner

[Mystical_Titan]

I'm out of reading mode at the moment, have been for a while now.

[rustypup]

[CapNemo]

Still waiting for my 2 books to be delivered (Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont but not sure if it is still in stock and Live free or Die by John Ringo)

[Sakura454]

Trudi Canavan......I really love magical books.

[KatrynKat]

really liked those books...
read them a while back...

[THE_STIG]

I am waiting for my new Clarkson book ....How hard can it be to arrive .

[Sakura454]

I think their are some new Trudi Canavan titles out just need to get to an exclusive to go and verify.

[KatrynKat]

Still waiting for my 2 books to be delivered (Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont but not sure if it is still in stock and Live free or Die by John Ringo)

my xmas present.... me to me.....

[RuadRauFlessa]

I think their are some new Trudi Canavan titles out just need to get to an exclusive to go and verify.

That is one caravan that knows how to write. And new releases from her You mean there is something she has written which I haven't read yet.

[Sakura454]

I think their are some new Trudi Canavan titles out just need to get to an exclusive to go and verify.

That is one caravan that knows how to write. And new releases from her You mean there is something she has written which I haven't read yet.

I love the way she writes she gets to the point without boring details and all her stuff is really intresting. Their might be some new books available, a guy from exclusive called me yesterday to come and have a look.

[THE_STIG]

I did not know a Caravan could write

[Sakura454]

I did not know a Caravan could write

Check the spelling of the surname closely Stig. (Canavan).

[GreyWolf]

I am reading the last book in the Foundation series by Asimov. Used to love Asimov, and still hold him in high regard, but after reading Iain M. Banks, Asimov's universe seems so limited and old fashioned. For example, in the universe where the Foundation story is set, it has been so long since humans colonised the galaxy that they do not know where they came from, and yet they still use TAPE as a storage medium for digitised information. In the Banks universe, it would be rhubarbs, or the alien equivalent of, or something even more outrageous.

[Nuke]

Trudi Canavan books looks really good. What should I read first, Age of the Five or Black Magician?

[RuadRauFlessa]

Age of Five without a doubt. The rest of her books are all related in some way to the magicians guild and the history thereof.

[THE_STIG]

I did not know a Caravan could write

Check the spelling of the surname closely Stig. (Canavan).

Fail

[rustypup]

canavan never grabbed me... her protagonists come across as whiny, self absorbed, automatons whose only purpose is to smear the tissue-thin plot around the place for a few hundred pages before deciding to get down and do some work in the closing chapter...

i know Anakha56 enjoyed her books, but i barely made it through 2 before writing her up as "no thanks".

[Anakha56]

Right so here at work I have to write down a present I want from someone and it has to be R100 or less. So I was thinking a book now jee and rusty and some others know my sense of humour so they should be sorted for everyone else its dark and satirical so what suggestions are there? Failing that I will probably have to get a gadget thing idea...

[Sakura454]

Age of Five without a doubt. The rest of her books are all related in some way to the magicians guild and the history thereof.

I feel the same but do get all of them at some point because they are pretty darn good.

My best series is the magicians guild with Sonea.....its just amazing.

[Anakha56]

canavan never grabbed me... her protagonists come across as whiny, self absorbed, automatons whose only purpose is to smear the tissue-thin plot around the place for a few hundred pages before deciding to get down and do some work in the closing chapter...

i know Anakha56 enjoyed her books, but i barely made it through 2 before writing her up as "no thanks".

Ummm... Who is this author now? Never heard of her before...

[rustypup]

Who is this author now?

i'm almost convinced you suggested the magician series to me... don't say the meds are wearing off...

it has to be R100 or less.

most books are in the >R120 range...

how about a calvin and hobbes

or something from robert rankin..

[rustypup]

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[Anakha56]

Who is this author now?

i'm almost convinced you suggested the magician series to me... don't say the meds are wearing off...

Your meds are wearing off. Just did a quick wiki search on her and her novels and none of them sound familiar. Also from what I read it sounds like EA used her story for Dragon Age Origins. Sorry just the quick read over this book fails to grab my attention, sorry puppy...

[rustypup]

from what I read it sounds like EA used her story for Dragon Age Origins.

that makes so much sense now.. explains why i remained unaffected by the storyline.. apparently i have an "i hate canavan" gene...

<stops blaming Anakha56 for exposing him to the magician series>

[Anakha56]

robert rankin..

Rankin sounds awesome! Just did a quick search on Exclusive Books and these 2 grabbed my interest and its the right price:

http://www.exclus1ves.co.za/books/Dadad ... 575085480/

The Dadadedada -Code

DESCRIPTIONRobert Rankin, the world's Master of Far Fetched Fiction, takes us on a roller coaster ride in his brand-new bestseller, which focuses on the biggest conspiracy theory in the world, ever. Here, in the Da-Da-Di-Da-Da Code, you will find the music of the angels - and the music of the devil. Aliens, flying saucers from hell, the Multiverse, the Illuminati: every wacky, way-out conspiracy theory you've ever heard: they're all here, wrapped into a plot that will leave Dan Brown fans breathless, Michael Shea readers stupified, Raymond Khoury lovers incredulous ...Robert Rankin: the original and the best

and

http://www.exclus1ves.co.za/books/Witch ... 575085442/

Witches of Chiswick.

DESCRIPTIONWe have all been lied to. A great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep us from uncovering the truth about our past. Have you ever wondered how Victorians dreamed up all that fantastic futuristic fiction? Did it ever occur to you that it might just have been based upon fact? That THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was a true account of real events? That Captain Nemo' s Nautilus even now lies rusting at the bottom of the North Sea? That there really was an invisible man? And what about the other stuff? Did you know that Queen Victoria had a sexual relationship with Dr Watson? Or that the elephant man was a product of an E.T./human hybridisation programme? Or that Jack the Ripper was a terminator robot sent from the future? Read on: and learn how a cabal of Victorian Witches from the Chiswick Townswomen's Guild, working with advanced Babbage super-computers, rewrote 19th Century history, and how a 23rd Century boy called Will Starling uncovered the truth about everything.

@ rusty so I was not the only one who was meh with DA:O storyline, thats nice to know. Only played it for the RPG sense and even that was a let down...