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Posted October 15, 2013
Should be reading Numenera pnp rpg core rule book, but havent had the time to even remove it from plastic. Sucks really.
Posted October 15, 2013
A very weird book which I'm not sure I'm liking all that much... "Damned by Logic" by Jeffrey Ashford...guess I'll let you know when I finally finish it...
Posted October 16, 2013
Los Archivos Del Terror, something like Archives of Terror, it's about a tragic decade that my country had to endure (1948-1958), politic prisoners, tortures, exiled persons, facts and stories that get disturbing by the minute.

It basically talks about how crude and bloody a dictatorship can be.

Excellent book by José Agustín Catalá.
Posted October 16, 2013
Carl Hiaasen's latest: Bad Monkey. His tales of dysfunctional Floridian life are as entertaining as ever, especially when you mix them with his morbid comedic dash of fiction. That said, after reading so much about that kind of stuff, including some of the real events that have inspired such books I really got to wonder: why would anyone want to move down there? People must be nuts.
Posted October 16, 2013
Nearly a quarter of the way through The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. My wife bought me Penguin's lovely clothbound edition, so far it is very, very good.
Posted October 16, 2013
As usual, I'm reading several simultaneously:
The Bloody Crown of Conan
Homo Faber
Miasma
Der Junge, der Träume schenkte
Posted October 17, 2013
Reading the Thieves' World books. Don't have them all yet but working on it; just got three more from Amazon.

I like the "old school" approach - no boring world history, no pages and pages of relationship fluff, just nice, short stories that stick to the point.
Posted October 17, 2013
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Crsldmc: Los Archivos Del Terror, something like Archives of Terror, it's about a tragic decade that my country had to endure (1948-1958), politic prisoners, tortures, exiled persons, facts and stories that get disturbing by the minute.

It basically talks about how crude and bloody a dictatorship can be.

Excellent book by José Agustín Catalá.
That sounds really interesting and I would like to read it. Sadly, I haven't found a way to get that book here.
Posted October 17, 2013
Harry potter and the Deathly hallows
Posted October 17, 2013
Novels:
Nation (Terry Pratchett)
A Madness of Angels (Kate Griffin)

Manga:
Kekkaishi
Horimiya
Posted October 17, 2013
Somehow I'd made it this far without reading any Hemingway, so I read _For Whom the Bell Tolls_ over the past few weeks. Sadly, I somewhat had to force myself to slog through the last 1/3 of the book to get to what I thought was a pretty exciting ending.

Reading something interesting now called _Self Made Man_ by Norah Vincent where she dresses up and acts/lives as a man for 18 months and shares interesting observations on what it's like.
Posted October 17, 2013
Recently read For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Brilliant novel, if not a little on the long side (I can sympathize with ya, fartheststar!). Right now, I'm reading The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, but I'm really excited to read Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick, which I picked up last weekend.
Posted October 17, 2013
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Crsldmc: Los Archivos Del Terror, something like Archives of Terror, it's about a tragic decade that my country had to endure (1948-1958), politic prisoners, tortures, exiled persons, facts and stories that get disturbing by the minute.

It basically talks about how crude and bloody a dictatorship can be.

Excellent book by José Agustín Catalá.
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Piranjade: That sounds really interesting and I would like to read it. Sadly, I haven't found a way to get that book here.
It is mate, unfortunately his work was kinda limited to Venezuela and certain countries from South America, this happens often with works published here, I'll leave some links so that you can read about that decade in my country's history, since nowadays history of it is just too silly with this failed communists running my homeland.

Too many ignorant people and some that believed in their lies hoping to finally achieve democracy gave them the power back in 1999, and then everything went south.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela,_1948_-_1958

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Agust%C3%ADn_Catal%C3%A1
Posted October 17, 2013
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Crsldmc: It is mate, unfortunately his work was kinda limited to Venezuela and certain countries from South America, this happens often with works published here, I'll leave some links so that you can read about that decade in my country's history, since nowadays history of it is just too silly with this failed communists running my homeland.

Too many ignorant people and some that believed in their lies hoping to finally achieve democracy gave them the power back in 1999, and then everything went south.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela,_1948_-_1958

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Agust%C3%ADn_Catal%C3%A1
Thank you very much, I'll look into it. I spent 11 months in Venezuela in 1997/1998.
Posted October 17, 2013
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Crsldmc: It is mate, unfortunately his work was kinda limited to Venezuela and certain countries from South America, this happens often with works published here, I'll leave some links so that you can read about that decade in my country's history, since nowadays history of it is just too silly with this failed communists running my homeland.

Too many ignorant people and some that believed in their lies hoping to finally achieve democracy gave them the power back in 1999, and then everything went south.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela,_1948_-_1958

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Agust%C3%ADn_Catal%C3%A1
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Piranjade: Thank you very much, I'll look into it. I spent 11 months in Venezuela in 1997/1998.
Awesome, work or pleasure? :)
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