📖 What are people reading?

Its probably cheating but I'm listening to Demon Download on the Oldhammer Fiction podcast over on Spotify which I am really enjoying. All the Kim Newman/Jack Yeovil stuff is generally excellent.
Although i really ought to comment more as I've kicked the living hell out of that podcast
 
Mostyn said:
Its probably cheating
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Ditto, I'm doing some cheat reading with the podcast myself - thank you @Brother Meredith for mentioning it. Really wonderful to have the stories "to hand" so to speak when I'm doing some work and so forth.
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Talking of cover art, does anyone follow this blog? https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/
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I will now. Awesome. That main background cover image is very much like the art on my editions of Dune and The Golden Bough.
 
Drachenfels finished. Next is Wuthering Heights, or the Enuma Elish (Babylon creation myth).

My housemate just ordered 13 Vampire the Masquerade clan novels, some of those look interesting (apart from Tremere, screw those guys).
 
I suppose it should be over in the sales section, but randomly saw this Buy It Now over on ebay for some of the old GW books and whilst not the cheapest ~£50 seemed not too bad given you get a later copy of the Inquisitor trilogy along with the others https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/136237255308

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Thought it might appeal to someone here if you've not got those books.
 
Still reading my sci-fi, but I've done a brief diversion into book related model making that I thought could go on this thread.

Picked up a copy of Warhammer Armies (if patient you can get it for less than the stupid prices, this copy was £26 inc p+p) with part of the spine damaged and the normal scuffed up corners. So an evening with the glue out to reinforce the corners and get them back to the correct shapes combined with some paper (to bridge the spine) and card to replace the missing bit of spine started out a successful repair. A dab of paint this morning on the corners and spine and my best attempt at free handing the missing letters has I think produced quite a pleasing restoration. Certainly at a distance I'd not even notice.

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Have attached the original photos from the ebay auction and a couple of the repaired book. I did a similar if less extensive thing with a slightly battered copy of Slaves to Darkness (the book not our esteemed member here!) and thought I'd try again. Time will tell I guess how well it holds up. Next job is a little glue on some inner pages to pop them back in place and I'm done.
 

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Eric said:
Still reading my sci-fi, but I've done a brief diversion into book related model making that I thought could go on this thread.

Picked up a copy of Warhammer Armies (if patient you can get it for less than the stupid prices, this copy was £26 inc p+p) with part of the spine damaged and the normal scuffed up corners. So an evening with the glue out to reinforce the corners and get them back to the correct shapes combined with some paper (to bridge the spine) and card to replace the missing bit of spine started out a successful repair. A dab of paint this morning on the corners and spine and my best attempt at free handing the missing letters has I think produced quite a pleasing restoration. Certainly at a distance I'd not even notice.

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Have attached the original photos from the ebay auction and a couple of the repaired book. I did a similar if less extensive thing with a slightly battered copy of Slaves to Darkness (the book not our esteemed member here!) and thought I'd try again. Time will tell I guess how well it holds up. Next job is a little glue on some inner pages to pop them back in place and I'm done.
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I really love that you did this. I was lucky enough to do a creative degree and in my foundation we had a visiting bookbinder (Gavin Rookledge I think was his name - had a mohican on his actual car). Anyways up I learnt loads in that sesh and have big love for bookbinding/saving. Nice.
 
Bong0_clive said:
Currently reading this. It's quite astonishing, and a massive war I know almost nothing about.

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Yes that's the really surprising thing. It was one of the largest conflicts in history prior to the First World War, and I only learned about it through reading Flashman, despite having studied a little history at university (albeit with a very European slant).
 
Kallstrom said:
I loved reading Dracula, but then again I was after a slow burner so the pace did not feel slow to me. The concept of having various chapters being written like they were letters from one character to another, etc. was something that I also think added to the feeling and setting - and my enjoyment of the book.
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I am re-reading Dracula at the moment -how strange! I definitely appreciate the whole Victorian setting a lot more now. It's funny to think of Dracula with a moustache...and to imagine casual references to bats not raising alarm bells for the original readers. Plus the book was initially going to be called "The Undead"...
 
Tempted to re-read Dracula actually, curious to see how the journal (etc) narrative stacks up now I'm a little older.

Anyhow thought I'd draw attention to this auction https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177692783708
for 36 Warhammer books, currently at £21. Nothing Oldhammer, but if you want some pulp GW fiction it might be of interest.

One chapter left to go in my current book!
 
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