📖 What are people reading?

Well I tried 3 times to read this:

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I found it either badly translated or badly written, or both.
I managed about 30 pages over my 3 attempts.
The use of some words is very poor, which is why I suspect bad translation, also many of. The sentences are. Split into several. Sentences when in fact. They should. Be. Just one. Sentence.

And as for women just being there to rub themselves on Geralt...

I guess if I want to explore what seems to be an interesting world then I should go back to The Witcher 3 video game.


Back to this:

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didn't think much of what I saw of the games, they tried to make a big deal that it was a 'Independent game designer' which is.. erm.. yeah.. clearly not going on the merits of the game or anything.. and then cause it was a hit with the kiddies who never played the stuff it was clearly based on, went mad and they started doing soo much rubbish.

cause it took a while.. erm.. if you have what they estimate is 71 minutes, I know a nice read ^_^ my latest blog entry. Comparing the Original Hero Quest to the USA version. SOOO many changes.. Just felt like going through most of them and listing and talking a bit about them. god, it took far longer than expected to write.
 
As far as The Witcher goes, the games are fun enough but I don't understand the praise they get for writing, although I'd admit there were some real standout bits. And I loved the soundtrack on the Witcher 3. Tried the short stories and similarly to you lot just couldn't get on. Enough fun ideas and themes to get me to finish the book, but nothing more.

Watched the Netflix program as it came out with a girl I was seeing in uni (I'm aware I singlehandedly skew the age demographics of this forum). Didn't like it much; she did but then we ended up having very different tastes. Both being women we disagreed about whether it was a bit of a chauvinistic male power fantasy, or a covert feminist masterpiece, I think you can guess which side of that fence I was on.

Right now I'm re-reading Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword, maybe one of my favourite fantasy books. My inner feminist militant has some issues with it but that's understandable since it's based on medieval stories (or at least a 1950s understanding of medieval stories). Would very much recommend.
 
restoration theatre was a period around the late 17th Century, so called because under Cromwell (both Father and Son)'s strict puritan period, such things were banned, were now allowed an in fact, King Charlies II openly encouraged them to be more 'saucy' cause that was even more of an insult to Cromwell and his ike.

Generally, think of them as 17th Century second-era Carry On Films (I put all carry on Films into 3 eras. the first two are pretty clearly defined by the 'saucy' nature. Earlier ones up to Spying (so all the Anglo Amalgamated ones) are much less of this, though still there, when they moved to Rank, they started to up the level of smuttiness to what alot of people think of with the series.
 
Box sets, proscenium stages, and chamber dramas. :) Haven't thought about Restoration Theatre since I was first in college gawking at all the fancy books in the library. Of course, I'm the only one who's going to obsess more over the stage machinery than the contents of the show, but . . . well . . . that's me. :grin:
 
^I love it! There was a particularly fun show I worked many many years ago. This wasn't even really an illusion so much as just something that looked dreamy. It was Phillip Glass's Les enfants teribles. (Forgive my spelling.) The show involved a cast of maybe four vocalists performing downstage of a scrim, but each vocalist was shadowed by three dancers mimicking their movements upstage of the scrim. And all of this was below this oddball snow trough where you had a snow bag and a pair of high sides contained inside a clear plastic trough suspended from lines both upstage and downstage of the snowbag and the electric. The high sides lit the snow and the trough caught it before it fell all the way to the stage. And we had to snow for the entire two hour production! (Two flymen did it in shifts. Normally I ran followspot or sound, but I ended up as a flyman on that show. Nothing like pulling a rope that weighs, I don't know, maybe fifty or sixty pounds up and down six inches for an hour. It wasn't a heavy line, but man I recall I was pretty worn out at the end of it.) Complicated little show, but it sure looked neat!
 
I've just finished reading Inherit the Stars and The Gentle Giants of Ganymede by James P Hogan and thoroughly enjoyed both. No alien space battles or nerve biting races to save the Earth from impending doom or dystopian hell scape. Just very interesting believable optimistic science fiction, puzzle solving if you like. Might have to see if I have any other Hogan stuff around. Very much born I think of the time of writing (copyright is 1977 and 78) when I think we still assumed we might well be further ahead with things such as space flight than we have ended up, also everyone is constantly smoking :)
 
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Just finishing this, and I'm finding it very enjoyable.

Tom Holland is very hit and miss for me, I love half his books, and can't read the other half.

But this one was a winner.
 
Well seeing as I am a fan of Hammer Horror and I watch their films as part of a double bill date night with my wife every Saturday for enjoyment, and also as ideas for names and set dressing and colours and ideas for my WFB setting it would be very rude not to start reading this immediately which I just bought.

Leather Bound Hammer Horror Story

Signed by some of the great Hammer actors.

Ingrid Pitt
Caroline Munro
Barbara Shelley
Valerie Leon
Madeline Smith
Martine Beswick


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Currently be a bit annoyed. was reading the one comic series, released as 19 volumes, or into 6 Omnibus collections. the Omnibus collections were a great price and got the first 3 for Christmas (wanted to get this series as it was a direct/ish sequel to a series I love and I had read some of this one but not all). picked up the next couple.. then found out the company decided NOT to release the 6th and final one which ends the story. To get the volume versions, it would be 16 - 19... the cheapest price for volume 16 I've found? £80 (but with a £60 shipping). Mostly £100+.. If I could read Japanese well enough, or German, I could pick up the whole set for £60. So because this one company didn't feel like it (seriously, it's a popular work but they just stated they wouldn't release it) so I'm screwed.. the Omnibus which has like 4 volumes in each, were only £30 when released but you can often get them for £20-£25. Very not happy. It's one of these big story things, so the story builds and builds and... I can't get the rest unless I learn German ¬_¬;
 
Michael Stockin said:
Well seeing as I am a fan of Hammer Horror and I watch their films as part of a double bill date night with my wife every Saturday for enjoyment, and also as ideas for names and set dressing and colours and ideas for my WFB setting it would be very rude not to start reading this immediately which I just bought.

Leather Bound Hammer Horror Story

Signed by some of the great Hammer actors.

Ingrid Pitt
Caroline Munro
Barbara Shelley
Valerie Leon
Madeline Smith
Martine Beswick


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... Ingrid Pitt... anyhow... Just a heads up 'The Wicker Man' is still on the BBC Player at the moment. There is also a 1998 documentary alongside it with actors interviews, etc, and also Edward Woodward back on site meeting locals who appeared in the original film.
 
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