How often do you read books?

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I finished the Marco Polo target novel this evening and now I'm on The War Games. Going to be interesting to see how Hulke makes ten episodes worth of material fit into the regular word count limit.

[RobFilth]

Sept 8, 2022 19:41:02 GMT cyberhat said:

Read over a hundred during lockdown. A lot less since.

Yup, I read a huge amount of books during lockdown too, probably the most since I was at school where I was a voracious reader, often consuming at least a couple of books a week.

I went through about 30 of the Black Flame 2000AD related novels(roughly 2 to 300 pages each), about 10 or so of the Apocalypse line (roughly 400 pages each) and ploughed through most of the Virgin Judge Dredd range(around 200-400 pages long each).

I also went through a glut of 2000AD graphic novels too.

I still try to read a lot since, but don't have as much time to afford since Covid, but I do so by not playing video games or watching movie/tv anymore.

[Bernard Marx]

Books I've read/re-read recently: 

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem.
Utopia by Thomas More (re-read).
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (currently reading).

Books I plan on reading soon:
The Beast Within by Émile Zola.
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola.
Roadside Picnic by The Strugatsky Brothers.
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.
On The Eve by I.S Turgenev.
Hidden Agendas by John Pilger (might be postponed courtesy of my current detox from politics and its length- although this looks absolutely fascinating).
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt.

I don't read as much as I should, mind you. As much as I love reading, my disillusionment with the university experience (for innumerable reasons) has sadly set my reading pace back somewhat. I often felt like Henry in The Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last (after his glasses break) when studying there. 

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Currently writing my very dramatic and heart-pumping Doctor Who book at the moment. Here's a little sneak peak:

Peri's breasts hung like giant grapefruit on her delicate chest. The rest of her body was equally as immaculate. She hypnotised men with her voluptuous curves and charming blood-red lips which glistened when she smiled. Peri wondered over to the TARDIS console, the flesh of her thick thighs wobbling like tasty jelly, her tantalizing buttocks perched comfortably within a pair of blue shorts.


If you'd like to read more, go to my website: InnerSactumofPervertedWriters.co.uk

[RobFilth]

Sept 11, 2023 10:48:32 GMT @kengrubshaw said:

Currently writing my very dramatic and heart-pumping Doctor Who book at the moment. Here's a little sneak peak:

Peri's breasts hung like giant grapefruit on her delicate chest. The rest of her body was equally as immaculate. She hypnotised men with her voluptuous curves and charming blood-red lips which glistened when she smiled. Peri wondered over to the TARDIS console, the flesh of her thick thighs wobbling like tasty jelly, her tantalizing buttocks perched comfortably within a pair of blue shorts.


If you'd like to read more, go to my website: InnerSactumofPervertedWriters.co.uk

That sounds just like one of Andrew Cartmels books, the prose is very similar.

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Doctor Who and the Daleks - the first Doctor Who novelization.

Great read so far. I like the change from a meeting in a junkyard to a car accident in a foggy Barnes Common. It's just as mysterious as the televised version. I also like the fact that the whole thing is recounted from Ian's point of view. It's clearly the same set of characters (though Susan's surname is English here), but there are slight differences here and there that make it feel like a new experience. I love how there's a novel, a television serial and a movie of The Daleks. I think every version manages to make the story exciting.

[rushy]

I don't read as much as I'd want to, because I have an issue where I often feel like time is slipping away really fast, and I don't want to waste it so I either completely relax (usually by surfing the web) or completely dedicate myself to work.

That being said, I am currently doing a reread of A Game of Thrones, and really enjoying it.

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I'm actually reading The Talons of Weng-Chiang novel by Terrance Dicks. Despite an array of annoying editing mistakes on the hardback book I've got, the Essential Terrance Dicks compilations should definitely be on your Christmas lists if you don't have already have the novels. He makes reading so much more fun than other authors. This novel in particular perfectly replicates what happened on screen but adds a bit more depth to certain scenes and some nice descriptions of a foggy and eerie London.

[rushy]

Currently rereading A Song of Ice and Fire

[Spark Doll King]

"Refined with wartime propaganda and popularized through monster movies, tokusatsu is the art of Japanese cinematic special effects. From the dawn of cinema to the late 1970s, delve into the history of an underappreciated national art form. Discover the techniques used to bring tokusatsu films and television shows to life such as miniature sets, pyrotechnics, monster suit construction and innovative high-frame-rate cinematography. Follow the careers of such luminaries as Eiji Tsuburaya and Shotaro Ishinomori, underrated talents like Teruyoshi Nakano and Noriaki Yuasa, and figures little known outside Japan — Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Nobuo Yajima and many more. Discover how each generation of effects filmmakers mentored the next. Learn about unsung below-the-line heroes such as monster suit modelers, miniature makers and even pyrotechnicians who contributed much to the art with little credit. Get a candid look at the making of the effects sequences in monster classics like Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra and Gamera, along with iconic television franchises such as Ultraman, Kamen Rider and Sentai. Yet the medium of tokusatsu is not limited to monsters and superheroes; it also encompasses war films, disaster flicks and even religious epics."

Pretty great read so far.

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Reading Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch. I think this might be the best target novel ever written. Everything is so rich and multi layered. We get inside every character's head and the little flashbacks to the past to beef up the relationship between Gilmore and Rachel is a really nice touch. I've read this one several times, but it still rocks.

[rushy]

As often as I can. I've currently got a few ones to get through: the first Game of Thrones novel, Lucifer Genesis (third of Paul Darrow's B7 sequel trilogy), Bernard Cribbins' autobiography, a Sherlock Holmes collection and The Institute (Stephen King).

[Deleted]

I've not read anything substantial for ages. There's a Shakespeare volume and a book on classical harmony sitting next to my bed, I've just not been motivated at all.