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Philip Obaza
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I'm in the process of reading through X-Men (Volume 1 a.k.a. Uncanny) #1-143. Picked up all the necessary "Essential" volumes for it. On issue #7 at the moment.
So far, pretty solid. I didn't realize how often Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants appeared in that first year of stories, nor did I know that Magneto had mental powers (like transforming his mental energy into an illusory figure of himself and traveling to Namor's castle, as he did in issue #6).
I can't wait to get to the Byrne/Claremont era. So many classics that I've always known and heard about, but never read before!
Edited by Philip Obaza on 28 November 2012 at 2:34am
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John Byrne
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THE MOUSE ON THE MOON by Leonard Wibberly. Sequel to "The Mouse that Roared".BABBITT by Sinclair Lewis. Satire on middle class life in a fictional Midwestern city in the early 20th Century.
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Derek Cavin
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Exile - (Book Two of the Dark Elf Trilogy) - R.A. Salvatore
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Peter Martin
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Finally finished 11.22.63 by Stephen King. Now I've started Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 28 November 2012 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | 5
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I've started Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny.•• I was about 19 years old when I read that one. I think 90% of it went right over my head!! "The man walks through his thousand year eve in the house of the dead…"
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Jason Mark Hickok
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| Posted: 28 November 2012 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | 6
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THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN by Fleming - Bond goodness.
ESSENTIAL SUB-MARINER volume 1 - really enjoying this. Never read much of his early adventures.
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Aaron Smith
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I've started Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny. •• I was about 19 years old when I read that one. I think 90% of it went right over my head!! "The man walks through his thousand year ever in the house of the dead…" *** That is probably my favorite novel. I think I was 22 or so when I first read it. It's one of those books that seems a little bit different each time I read it.
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Andrew Hess
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62) "Thunderball" by Ian Fleming, read by Simon Vance
The newly revealed international crime syndicate SPECTRE steals two nuclear missiles to blackmail the world, and only James Bond can stop them. More totally mindless fun.
Interesting slight change of pace novel, based on a screenplay Fleming and friends worked on prior to the first movie "Dr No": Bond's drinking and smoking is brought up as a detriment and he goes to a spa to dry out (and he feels better having forgone his vices); the Russian spy organization SMERSH, which has played a part in every novel up to this point, has disbanded in between books; and this time the threat is truly international.
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Robbie Parry
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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
This is one classic tale I've not read until now. And I'm a little bored with it. There are some good moments, but the chapters seem disparate and parts are fun, other parts are a little dull, in my view.
Perhaps I will enjoy an animated adaptation better, if there is one. Some of the chapters I've found dull, such as the animal's journey through woodland to find Badger, might work better on the screen, possibly.
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Gil Dowling
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Just finished "Best Served Cold" by Joe Abercrombie. I liked it. A stand alone story set in his fantasy world. Brutal with morally ambiguous characters. Looking forward to reading some of his other books.
"Cold Days" the latest Dresden novel by Jim Butcher is next up.
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Wallace Sellars
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THE SOUR LEMON SCORE
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Lars Sandmark
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| Posted: 29 November 2012 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | 12
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OOOOH that's a good one!
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