What are you reading?

[lothlann]

Useful tip about the spoiler quote, thank you.

Also I was reading all of the Robin Hobb series again. Damn those are some depressing but very good books. Now I'm working my way through discworld again.

 

[Jane]

Er... Jane? Didn't you want to hide that?

Hot darn. I knew there was something I forgot.

Let's try that again...

This spoiler box better work....Testing....River Song is gonna be really old by the time she meets the Doctor for the real first time.

 

[michelanCello]

It works now, Jane... but how do we know what the spoiler is about? I mean, maybe it's something I already know about, too, but if it's not and I read the spoiler than it's spoiled... er... never mind.

 

[Dotsie]

Usually when we write spoilers we say something first about the book/film. So don't worry too much!

 

[Jane]

Wow, I super fail at this! 8)

The funny thing is, that whenever someone tries to do a white text spoiler box, I highlight it no matter what the warning says. Just like those wizards in the university who can't keep their noses out no matter what.

Nathaniel/John Mandrake turns into a douchebag and saves the world, killing himself in the process. YOU WERE WARNED.

 

[michelanCello]

Wow, I super fail at this! 8)

The funny thing is, that whenever someone tries to do a white text spoiler box, I highlight it no matter what the warning says. Just like those wizards in the university who can't keep their noses out no matter what.

Nathaniel/John Mandrake turns into a douchebag and saves the world, killing himself in the process. YOU WERE WARNED.

This is the third book, right, not the will-be-published one...

 

[Jane]

Hey, you read it!

Yup, it's the end of the third book. If you haven't read it, then I pretty much spoiled the whole trilogy for you. Shame.

 

[michelanCello]

I've read them all, don't you worry...

 

[Jane]

Oh, goodie!
Random fact: The guy who drew the covers for the US Barti books did the pictures in the "Where's My Cow?" picture book.

Does anyone ever find themselves buying/reading books just because they want to see what happens, not because they actually like the series?
I found myself doing that with Darren Shan, and Animorphs, and Septimus Heap. And Artemis Fowl, of course. Maybe Eragon and Pern...

 

[michelanCello]

Lemony Snicket and Twilight. Thing is, I did like the Snicket books in a creepy kind of way, and Twilight was just a soap.... but I don't want to talk about those books again, so let's do as if I didn't say anything...

 

[Willem]

I did like the Snicket series, still have to get my hand on the last four though.

As for finding out what happens instead of liking the books: The Sword of Truth did that for me. First couple of books were pretty good, but the last ones... Eugh, his love for objectivist philosophy kept rearing it's head in every action, thought and word.

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Yeah, I felt I outgrew Lemony Snicket by the time I read the last book. Twilight and Sookie Stackhouse (true blood) were the same. I skim-read the last Sookie one in an hour and a half

 

[Jane]

Lemony Snicket books make me sad in the Rosemary-Sutcliffe-please-stop-killing-everyone-nice-and-important way.

Every time those darn orphans meet someone nice, they DIE!! :x :x :x
And the villains keep coming back, and you don't find out what the sugarbowl is, and the ending is just plain depressing.

 

[BatrickPatrick]

All the little quirky bits got tired after 13 books, too.

 

[michelanCello]

All the little quirky bits got tired after 13 books, too.

13 already? I only got to 11...

 

[BatrickPatrick]

All the little quirky bits got tired after 13 books, too.

13 already? I only got to 11...

Ja, book the thirteenth..."The End"
It came out in '06

 

[Jane]

I remember when book 12 came out. "Penultimate Peril".
The shop stocked them 3 days early, and my sister won the "guess the title of the new book" internet contest.


Reading: Making Money
It came in the mail today, and I have the suspicious feeling that the content has been messed with to make it suitable for US audiences (I got the US copy - it was cheaper). Everytime they mention Uberwald, there's an umlaut on top.

 

[michelanCello]

I love Making Money!

 

[Tonyblack]

I love Making Money!

Capitalist!

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Ba-boom-splish


I'm now reading Cold Mountain as well as Guernica and Spike Milligan.