The Books thread.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:55 am

S4ur0n27 wrote:
johnnygothisgun wrote:I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
Yes! I've read the 3 books of the serie, and they were all equally great. Brilliant books.

Three books? It's a Trilogy? I know about I, Claudius, obviously, and now I want a copy of Claudius the God, but what's the third? Oh the suspense! Tell me!

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:24 pm

johnnygothisgun wrote:
S4ur0n27 wrote:
johnnygothisgun wrote:I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
Yes! I've read the 3 books of the serie, and they were all equally great. Brilliant books.

Three books? It's a Trilogy? I know about I, Claudius, obviously, and now I want a copy of Claudius the God, but what's the third? Oh the suspense! Tell me!

Claudius, God Emperor of Rome.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:38 pm

Right now, Leaving Las Vegas.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:15 pm

Dhalgren

Thanks Nico

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:11 pm

What?

Currently reading House of Leaves and Panzram: A Journal of Murder, both of which are pretty bueno alright.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:12 pm

You know what

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:20 pm

Weren't you going on about how you were reading Dhalgren back in November?

Jennifer · Post by **Jennifer** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:11 am

god, i couldn't get past the first chapter of dhalgren. i keep trying, but i just don't have the patience for deciphering all that nonsense :O and it's a shame because delany's other stuff was pretty neato

box · Post by **box** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:53 am

panzram fuckin' RAWKS

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:02 pm

Anyone read Dune7 yet?

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:12 pm

Hunters of Dune? Ho ho. Avoid it like the plague.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:19 am

but its DUNE SEVVVEEN!!!! It's not a prequal but the actual conclusions. I'm intrigued but ive heard nothing but bad things about the son and his boyfriend.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:48 am

I just finished re-reading The Aeneid, Fitzgerald's translation. Pure awesome.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:10 am

dune 7?

err... I gave up after #4.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:31 pm

johnnygothisgun wrote:
S4ur0n27 wrote:
johnnygothisgun wrote:I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
Yes! I've read the 3 books of the serie, and they were all equally great. Brilliant books.

Three books? It's a Trilogy? I know about I, Claudius, obviously, and now I want a copy of Claudius the God, but what's the third? Oh the suspense! Tell me!

Isn't the third Claudius and his wife Messalina?

Anyhow, I'll check it out once I'm home, I have the 3 books.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:46 pm

No, I'm pretty certain you have the titles confused. The second book is Claudius the God: and His Wife Messalina. It's not a different book.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:10 pm

I checked 'em out yesterday, and it seems the first and second books I have are actually the first book divided in two. The second one starts at chapter 16.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:18 pm

Nicolai wrote:Hunters of Dune? Ho ho. Avoid it like the plague.

I had high hopes for this one, it's been known that they found the outline for this one after FH died, so they only need some moron to connect the dots. But given how the prequels are just laughable, transparent, shallow attempts to cash in this one is going to be even worse. First of all, they're splitting it into 2 books to milk it. Then, I've heard many of the original characters are returning (as clones), which is going to be impossible to pull off. This one's a recipe fpr disaster.

box · Post by **box** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:38 pm

Yeah, that Kevin Herbert Dune stuff smells. Why they can't just let FH rest in peace is beyond me, I guess because there's green to be made, somewhere. When you're so much teh assholes that WOTC won't even work with you, holy shit man, something is wrong. Of course, in the end, I'm actually quite glad there's no D20 Dune, considering how truly awful and jedi-centric that Star Wars D20 shit is. What ever happened to Harrison Solo saying, "Nothing beats a good blaster" ?

Furthermore, fuck D20

Anyone here ever campaign any Dune action with that Last Unicorn core book? I have a master copy printed out, ring-bound, and sheet-protected, but I have to convince my asshole friends to drop that worthless star wars shit for something a bit more, uhh, sophisticated.

No gay ass hero characters. No Gurney, no crazy stupid mega-powers, and the campaign would be run almost how like the rulebook sets it up, but with a full House Mentat character doubling as GM. Might be any fun.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:49 pm

boxy brown wrote:What ever happened to Harrison Solo saying, "Nothing beats a good blaster" ?

Han was wrong... he got his ass kicked by Vader, remember?