Saw Robin Hood. Not terrible, but a bit disapointing. Fairly historically accurate though, that was nice. I don't get the "wrong accent" thing. Sounded fine to my ears anyway.

It was OK. I did notice the accent though. Probably because I'm a Londoner myself.

Saw Kick Ass last night. What a great movie. Very adult, but very funny. Great plot, solid acting.

Though, I would imagine that in the intervening few hundred years the accent has changed somewhat....

I didn't see it, and wonl't unitl it is at a second run theater. Kick-Ass was great, just waiting for Jimmy Pilgrim vs. The World now... looks very fun.

Would suggest as reading material: The Old Man's War trilogy by John Scalzi, The Dahak series by David Weber, and the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Of course, I will always suggest (DEMAND, DAMM-IT!!) that everyone read the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (and now Brandon Sanderson).

Eh, I just saw teh trailer with those Higgins Boats (complete with the underwater shots), that was enough...all that was missing was Primo Victoria in the background.

Reading two books,

Metro 2033 and Altered Carbon. Tonnes of atmosphere, not sure if I am liking where things are going.

I played Metro 2033 on xbox. It was alright. The story had problems - in the game at least. It was really, really not clear what your motivation was and just why the fuck you should care about those dark being thingies. But the atmosphere was nice and gameplay was pretty good. I wouldn't spend more than 15-20$ on it though.

Saw Kick Ass, enjoyed the movie.

Recently re-read the Burma Chronicles, it's a book by Guy Delisle, a cartoonist who chronicles his stay in Burma in a comic medium. He's also done one on Pyongyang and Shenzen. I really recommend this one and the Pyongyang book. It gives a little insight of how those countries are messed up but in an easy read.

Just Read" Coyote Warrior: One man, three tribes, and the trial that forged a nation" by Paul VanDevelder. A nice read on the roots of Native American Rights( and the government that stomped all over them)

Watching "Bear in the big blue house" and "Stuart Little 3: Call of the wild"

Someone's got a three year old

dresden files is an always read, currently reading Carnifex which is Kratman's second book in the series, (the first being "A desert called peace") and pulling missions from Ringo's "Kildar" series for the game that i hope to get running,

anime, ashes to ashes and jepordy are my visual drugs right now

nah, was thinking of running a mouse shifter and was looking for inspiration.

Watching: Movies - Transsiberian (about the train, tourists, and drug smuggling); TV - Leverage, Supernatural, Burn Notice (soon!)

i love this movie there something called dejavu within me while i watch this movie.

Still going through a few of the SR books, waiting for Corp Guide to hit. Also waiting for Fort Freak, the next Wild Cards novel (AND if Wild Cards: The Hard Call #6 comic will EVER come out. Biut I'm still ordering the HC collection in Sept.).

I may go see The Sorcerer's Apprentice, depenind on which theater near me has the better matineee showing/price.

reading: Turncoat, harry dresden novel, been borrowing it from my friend as it comes out on paperback. he also lent me the unincorporated man, that looks interesting.

Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky, an interesting book where the humans of that world had to deal with huge bugs (from dog/cat sized to rodeo bull sized) and to survive they "learned" from these critters. So there are ant-kinden, beetle-kinden, dragonfly-kinden, etc.. Each with kit's own quirks and capabilities which are called Art. They even sort of take on their "parent" insects physical characteristics, like beetle-kin tend to be thick and squat with good endurance and a knack for technology, while spider-kin are lithe and graceful and extremely alluring (primarily the females). A wasp-kind empire arrises and begins to expand into the area dominated by various city-states of different bug-folk, with only a few individuals realizing that if the city-states don't band together they will all be conquered by the wasp empire. It is pretty-neat, not the best book I have read, but got some very interesting things in it.

Just finished reading Richard K. Morgan's Woken Furies, the third and last book in his Takeshi Kovacs series. Next up for my reading list is Peter Watts' Blindsight. My reading list lately is full of inspirations for Eclipse Phase, which has had me mildly obsessed with making characters for that game.

Just watched Moon, which was an awesome movie. I'm currently working my way through episodes of Firefly (again), streaming via Netflix to my PS3. I'm in a real "space" mood lately, I guess.

Very excellent stuff !!
Black Man and Market Forces are also good.

Have a crack at Neal Asher's stuff, too.

I love Moon! Sam Rockwell is such an amazing actor (though you couldn't tell from Iron Man 2).

I'm technically reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman, (for the 1 twitter 1 book thing), but I've lost interest. I'm also reading the short story Call of Cthulu.

Just finished Changeless by Gail Carriger, which is a part of the Parasol Protectorate series. I highly recommend it if you like Steam Punk and don't mind a touch (well more of a dollop) of romance.

I also really recommend Black Man. It's a bit "sooner" than the Kovacs series, but there are some really good ideas in there for Eclipse Phase.

Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin! Excellent read. Its a 7 book series and he currently has the first 4 published. 5th is coming soon.

I read the first of the Dresden files books and I would recommend it.

And the HBO series is in production to start in 2011.

I've heard '5th is coming soon' for about four years now.

Dresden Files is a good series; Butcher writes well.

Just finished Gardens of the Moon (Malazan #1) by Steve Erikson and really enjoyed it - a little busy at times, but a fun (if long) read.  Other books I've read over the past couple of months include Storm Front (Dresden #1) and Breakaway & Crossover (Cassandra Kresnov #1/2) by Joel Sheppard (really enjoyed these and Killswitch is likely next up).




AJC 

I liked the Cassandra Kresnov books, and got some inspiration.

I'm not a fan of military/gun obsession, so it didn't rank s high as it could with me.

I saw Book of Eli.

If you like playing Fallout, you'll like this movie. It's basically Fallout: The Movie, but less good. Little substance, nothing new in the post-apocalyptic genre, but visually ok and the combat is ok. Mediocre good. Like I said, if you liked Fallout, it's worth renting. My wife left to go take a bath 10 minutes in, so that sums it up for anyone else.

I'm in the middle of Soulless - and then I'll pick up Changeless. Just finished Naamah's Curse and also about to pick up MONSTER by A. Lee Martinez. I'm finding I've got a fondness for the books Orbit Press has been putting out lately.

I found the second novel to be a lot less about "the guns" than the first. I quite like that even after 2 books, the major "bad guys" are still really unknowns - keeps the mystery alive and well.

AJC

Just finished Cold Warriors and Ghost Dance, both by Rebecca Levene, and both published by Abaddon Books.

The 2nd is a sequel to the 1st, and are part of a series.

They involve supernatural government agencies in the modern world, fighting supernatural threats.
They read like James Bond novels, but with "extras" and are full of ideas.

Probably quite similar to Brian Lumley's E-Branch novels [which I've not read].

Of interest to Shadowrun players is the 2nd book, Ghost Dance, which involves someone being involved with their Totem, spirits, cults.
Of course, the title leapt out at me, so I'd probably have bought it even without it being a sequel to something I enjoyed.

Other points of interest in the series are that it's England focussed, has secret government departments, has spirits, artefacts, demons, zombies, and is quite gritty and streetlevel.

I enjoyed them both, and am looking forward to more books in the series, and borrowing ideas and the gritty feel of the setting.

I've always been a big fan of Richard Marcinko's Rogue Warrior novels, and I'm about to start reading them again. The guy founded Seal Team Six (the Navy's answer to Delta Force) in real life, so his novels have quite a grounding in reality. They get a bit self-aggrandizing at times, but I'm willing to overlook it for the sake of realism. They basically all follow a group of rogue SEALs who are trying to clear their name, A-Team style. In my youth I used them for inspiration in old 2E games when I was short on time.

I'm re-reading Midshipman's Hope which I haven't touched since, oh, 1995 or so. It's pretty gripping even if I disagree with, oh, pretty much everything the society Feintuch portrays runs on.

just read a bunch of warhammer 40k novels, including the first omnibus of ciaphas cain, redemption corp, and mechanicum. Man, I feel like playing in a warhammer 40k game.

Oh, just saw the film Despicable Me in 3D recently, it was okay. The minions made it memorable, otherwise...

I'm currently working through the cyberpunk novel Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley. I read it years ago and picked it up for nostalgia value.

I was moving some stuff around recently, and unearthed a copy of Mirrorshades - The Cyberpunk Anthology.

Inside is a receipt from an 1995, being used as a bookmark !!

I'm looking forward to rereading some stories from back when cyberpunk was a racy new concept.

Back then, Mirrorshades was the definitive collection of cyberpunk tales...
...So it'll be interesting to see how it holds up nearly 20 years later.

Just saw The Other Guys. It's funny. It should be cliché but Farrel and Whalberg are really funny together, they make it work.

Just started reading The Dervish House. Ian McDonald's River of Gods and Brasyl are among my favorite books, so I'm really looking forward to this one.

east of eden, steinbeck

Last weekend, the wife and I saw both Scott Pilgrim v. The World, which was an excellent adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel series, and Inception. With its "what is reality?" questions and gravity defying stunts, Inception is the spiritual heir to the Matrix without being bogged down in goth/S&M culture.

Has anyone else noticed that all of the Caucasian male protagonists in Christopher Nolan movies have slicked hair? I wonder if that's intentional.

read when you are young. I finished east of eden a coupla days ago and already it fades to the back of my mind like before.


guns germs and steel, the fates of human evolution. is next if i can find my copy, but if i forget this one too then its time for the rocking chair staring out my window.

saw The Expendables. Lots of action, explosions, bullets. not bad. Good for shadowrunning.

reading Warhammer 40k novels, this time about arbites upholding the peace.

Watched the last few parts of Being Human, series 2 - a series about a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost sharing a house.

There's vampire politics, deals with the police, obsessed churchmen, scientists, blood, angst, a little humour.

If you have any interest in urban fantasy, it's definitely worth a look...
...And it's a very British look on such things.


Enjoy !!

Started reading The Imager's Portfolio, a trilogy by L.E. Modesitt. I'm already a fan of his work, and he goes into the setting with enough detail to satisfy, but not enough to overwhelm. It reads much like the Recluce Saga.

Watching Boardwalk Empire.

VERY good. Fits nicely in with all the Chandler novels I've been reading.

I can't believe we're still posting in this thread.

Very, very little read recently, aside from a string of Ultimate Spiderman and Runaways comic books I picked up at my local comic store's closing (). I've had the new Good Thief's Guide to Vegas sitting on my entertainment center for like a month - I'm surprised the library hasn't started howling for my blood yet. I think I'm just being lazy on it.

No, wait, I've started re-reading Bleach, because man, that last bit was a doozy (no, I'm not spoiling it for you).

I started watching Kampfer: Abridged on Youtube, and it's gotta be one of the funniest things I've watched in awhile. Kampfer is the story of a magical girls - and one guy that turns into a magical girl when his little bracelet thing goes off. But the best part is, the magical girls are armed with either guns, knives, or magic - and they're all supposed to kill each other. It's...weird.

But the Abridged version not only plays up the main character as a huge clueless dumbass, but gives the other main character the voice of the Heavy from Team Fortress 2 - and my god, is it hilarious. "Aw, what is da matta da little babiez! Is you getzin scared?" This said by this five foot something twelve year old girl with a giant desert eagle. Yeah. It's that kind of show.

Oh. And Symbionic Titan. Because if you like giant robots, and you're not watching this? You have no soul.

I'm just finishing The Nano Flower, by Peter F Hamilton, the last part of his Greg Mandel near future/cyberpunk trilogy.

Still an excellent read, bursting with ideas...
...You've got Corp politics, Corp equipped combat teams, investigation, aliens, nanoware, powered armour, hacking, psychic powers, mercenary behaviour, hollowed out asteroids, courtesans, conscientious Corps, Corp conflict.

All there in one book...
...Fabulous !!

I felt for Suzi. The Mandel trilogy is fantastic, though the noirist in me prefers A Quantum Murder to Mindstar Rising and The Nano Flower.

Neutronium Alchemist was...I wasn't as impressed with it. Hamilton wrote desperation pretty well, but the end of the book was just a little too Deus Ex for my tastes. Mandel, though? That was a hundred percent delicious.

All excellent books !!

I managed to find someone's homemade rpg based on the books - not great, but has some interesting stuff.