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Post by GamerL on Oct 28, 2017 18:23:12 GMT -5
Kim Newman did indeed decide to split it up into two books by the way, while it's a little disappointing as I was expecting Anno Dracula 1999, Anno Dracula 1899 is still really good as well.
Hopefully it wont be too long till the next one is published.
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Post by edmonddantes on Oct 29, 2017 2:55:17 GMT -5
Klaid, yeah Silmarillion was uneven. I liked the mythology but I found the book itself tough to get through, largely because I don't like reading entire books in one day but for Silm its practically required, otherwise you won't remember who X is when he suddenly becomes important again 20 chapters later.
Apparently after finishing it, Christopher found notes indicating that his father planned for massive revision to the stories before publishing, and he said something like "if I had known this, the book we got would've been very different." I think those notes are published in the later History of Middle-earth books (which despite their misleading name, are basically an extended making-of that often covers alternative versions or what the drafts were like. Four of them cover the drafts of Lord of the Rings!)
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Post by moran on Oct 29, 2017 8:56:25 GMT -5
At the end of It, about 40 pages left. With the exception of one unnecessary chapter, I found it to be pretty damn good. Better than the miniseries or movie would make it seem.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Jan 15, 2018 2:23:06 GMT -5
IT was a great book, weird coke induced sex scene aside.
I just finished a couple of good books.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky was just excellent. It's set over a massive timescale, and involves the last remnants of humanity arriving in a lost colony ship at a terraformed planet only to find another sentient species already living there. Most of the book is about the evolution of that species in the absence of humans.
Other book I read was Damocles by S.G. Redling. An advanced, spacefaring humanity receives an ancient radio signal with a message from a progenitor race that seeded the galaxy with life, and where to find it. An expedition goes to investigate. It's essentially a first contact story, but humans are the aliens.
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Post by GamerL on Jan 15, 2018 4:55:41 GMT -5
I just got done reading another Kim Newman book, The Man From The Diogenes Club.
This collects short stories published originally from 1997 to 2007 following Richard Jeperson, agent of The Diogenes Club, the least known branch of the British government and his mission to protect the realm from various supernatural threats.
Most of the stories are set in the 1970s, it's basically The Avengers meets Doctor Who, there are even cameos from Anno Dracula characters though it's eventually made clear that this is an alternate universe separate from that continuity.
It's not even been a year and a half since I read my first book by him but I already consider Kewman my favorite author.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Jan 16, 2018 1:45:23 GMT -5
i need to get around to reading some Newman.
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Post by GamerL on May 27, 2018 5:35:38 GMT -5
I forgot to mention ANOTHER Kim Newman book I read a couple of months ago, An English Ghost Story, which was good as well.
However I'm disappointed there's been no word on the next Anno Dracula novel, it's now been over half a year since the last one (how has it been that long already?) and while it was good it felt like an appetizer since it started life as a prologue to a totally different novel before being expanded into a standalone novel.
Hopefully the follow up will be sometime this year but I feel like it was it would have been announced by now.
Anyway what I'm ACTUALLY reading at the moment if the latest Stephen King, The Outsider and wow, it's good.
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