icemann on 29/7/2011 at 05:31
Retro Gamer Magazine issue 74. Very in depth articles with Retro Gamer. Usually takes me a fair while to get through each issue.
Only magazine worth buying these days and excellent if you want a insight into the development of the games of yesteryear, when fitting games within a finite amount of memory was paramount. Also excellent in covering computer/console systems you may never have heard of or never played.
Warren's Spectre on 31/7/2011 at 18:39
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien. The man drank himself to death because it wasn't published and then after he died they published it and it received a lot of acclaim. The surreal logic in it is so gloriously mind fuck.
theBlackman on 1/8/2011 at 01:44
The Well at the Worlds End. First real Fantasy novel written 1896 by William Morris. Some 228,000 words. Until Lord of the rings the longest fantasy novel written.
demagogue on 1/8/2011 at 02:07
Hans Kelsen, The Pure Theory of Law, muthafukas
theBlackman on 1/8/2011 at 22:05
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini CC 1927
Vasquez on 2/8/2011 at 03:45
This summer I finally started reading the great Finnish classic, (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_North_Star) Under the North Star by Väinö Linna. I still have about half of the 3rd volume to go, but I can easily say by now it's amazing - great storytelling, colorful yet credible characters, immersive depiction of life in those days and heartwrenching horrors of the Finnish Civil War and it's aftershocks like (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapuan_liike) Lapua Movement.
The sad part is to know all that has really happened :(
glslvrfan on 6/8/2011 at 15:24
Just finished Koontz. "Lost Souls" 4th in the Frankenstein series. I'm getting ready to start "At the Gates of Darkness" book 2 in The Demonwar Saga by Raymond Feist.
Anarchic Fox on 29/12/2023 at 23:28
I finished A Tale of Two Cities. It's a powerful book with some really powerful lines, although it's also a tad contrived. The characters of Defarge and her crew, bloodthirsty unofficial leaders of the revolution who knit while people are beheaded, were as chilling as I remember, and the stout servant Pross is still my favorite character. I was struck by Dickens' occasional wandering diversions about humanity, because such flights of fancy seem to be quite rare in writing of the last century.
mxleader on 30/12/2023 at 00:36
I read that a few years back but Dickens white washes so much of his prose that it's not as good as it probably seemed way back when he first published the story. It is interesting though.
I'm currently reading the Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst.