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Parmenion
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 Posted - 02 June 2009 : 4:04:39 PM
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Ok bit of fun, i will collate it all into a list and set up a poll, but first i need nominations.
What for you has been the best book of the last year. And sorry no Scarrows (nominations, they can nominate and vote... ), i think given the audience we have a certain Bias, so lets all say that All Scarrow books are excluded they both walk on water and we love their writing and then move on for the sake of this poll...
So nominations: The book must have been published in the last 12 months....thats it, thats the only rule i can think of, i will close the nominations next week on the 9th and set up the Poll and then you can Vote.
My Nomination would be
Vlad the Last Confession by CC humphreys
Centurion Parmenion
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Slavkov
Dinosaur
United Kingdom
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LeeGregz
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
139 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2009 : 4:36:35 PM
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Im gonna go for Revelation by CJ Sansom.
There a great series, amazingly detailed and researched, different from other historical books, and i think this was the best in the series so far.
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother" |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2009 : 5:44:49 PM
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Slakov mate...not published in the last 12 months! can you name a read that was published within the last 12 months
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Slavkov
Dinosaur
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 June 2009 : 12:35:37 AM
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Ah....not read anything first published in the last 12 months but comics, graphic novels, roleplaying scenarios, and porn......which frankly simply isn't what it used to be.
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Titus Tullius Hibernus
Single Cell Organism
Ireland
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Posted - 03 June 2009 : 8:19:18 PM
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I'd nominate "Brisingr" by Chris Paolini but we should add Centurion for good measure
"I drink therefore I am" - Monty Python |
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John Prigent
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 June 2009 : 9:26:00 PM
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OK, I'l nominate one. The Last Centurion, by John Ringo (NOT the Beatle, and yes this one is related to the notorious Wild West outlaw). Not Roman, despite the title, it is a near future version of the Anabasis caused by a worldwide 'flu pandemic (bird, not pig flu)and the resulting breakdowns in society. Also somewhat of a diatribe against incompetent politicians!
Cheers
John
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Pykett
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 June 2009 : 6:49:48 PM
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Just finished the Fall Of Kings by the late and great steven Gemmell, RIP Sir.
''A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.''
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Lanista
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United Kingdom
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 23 June 2009 : 09:51:05 AM
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Pyket: who was it written by???
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Pykett
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 23 June 2009 : 2:13:04 PM
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I meant David Gemmell lol, sorry i have a mate called Steven Gemmell...my bad :p
''A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.''
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 23 June 2009 : 2:19:57 PM
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LOL...i guessed as much....well not the mate bit but you know what i mean..LOL
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scarrow
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Posted - 23 June 2009 : 2:34:42 PM
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I once worked in the games business for an American producer called Randy Wanch. And yup...he pronounced it, in all seriousness, to rhyme with, yup, you guessed it....'tank'.
Nice guy. He struggled though, when EA posted him UK-side to oversee our team. Everyone was always giggling at his name. |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 23 June 2009 : 2:44:09 PM
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i have to work with a client called richard rangler, and he is american and yup he likes to be called Dick Rangler! on a conference call people always snigger!!...its funny!!
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Pykett
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 23 June 2009 : 3:57:32 PM
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LOL!! Classic!
Did anyone watch ''Have it got news for you'' the other night?
They showed a bloke from America who's name was ''Randy Bumgardener'' I was in stiches! lol
''A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.''
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Beerswimmer
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Posted - 14 July 2009 : 05:17:34 AM
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The newest book by Tim Dorsey had me rolling on the floor! I hated to finish it! Awesome book by an amazing author who is a master of his genre.
UT ALII VIVANT!!!
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt |
Edited by - Beerswimmer on 14 July 2009 05:18:09 AM |
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