R.CAllen Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 I am 627 pages deep into Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford. It has been slow going. All in all, probably should have just been satisfied with the excellent mini-series and left the book well enough alone. However, a mark in its favour is the book's Old Faithful-ish ability to continually spout forth a cool word every two or three pages --- chiefly being outdated slang, Yorkshire regional vocabulary, materiel of the WWI era army, Frenchiness, or what dresses and foods and stuff used to be made of and stuff. For the sake of future generations here are some of those words for you why not : placket, serge, almoner, exordium, maussade, soggart, capercailzies, pi-jaw, divvy, garret, cretonne, gravid, byre, kedgeree, sloe gin, Gitana girl, haulms, maslie slots, niblick, hustings, epergne, galantine, attaindered, missel thrush, spikenard, stile, haw, ammer, sainfoin, paigle, burdock, briony, clematis, mullein, glaucous, paulo-post, ingle, constation, oasts, fleed cakes, ostler, matutinal, divagations, ormolu, expatiate, squits, asticoteries, rum-negused, quiff, quitamer, snaffled, hobbledehoys, Napoo finny, atrabilarian, gazetted, cully, begumboiled, moil, farriery, crape, cachinnating, fugally, lummy, Ghibelline, immure, baize, purdah, roan, crepitating, beanfeast, corncrake, reticule, aubade, puttees, euonymous, accouchement, parados, toper, obrieties, damascened, bully-beef, chevaline, peach (as in "to peach"), brise, nave, cagoules, revetted, catamount, diminuendo, agglomerations, objurgations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted May 12, 2013 Author Share Posted May 12, 2013 I'm looking forward to seeing the miniseries. GUESS WHY? I didn't know it was a book. Sounds like I should just revel in the period drama-ness and excellent casting of the miniseries and call it good. I'm finally reading Winter of the World. I have a love/hate relationship with Follet's villains. They're George R. R. Martin level despicable, and he kills them off about as frequently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I just downloaded Foundation and the first Discword book onto my Kindle. Probably read them next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bantha Trash Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Right now. The Australian Policy Handbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 That doesn't sound like pleasure reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bantha Trash Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Ah, but it is to me. Another book I have recently read and enjoyed is working with aggression and resistance in SW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 A little under halfway through NOS4A2U by Joe Hill and I am just not feeling it for the most part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 It's been awhile, but due tor recent events, I picked up Iain M Banks' Excession. (And most of that time is imagining how it can work as a movie.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Unicorn Western. If you have a Kindle you can start for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I just Netflixed an entire season of Miss FIsher's Murder Mysteries (je a'dore) and am starting on the books. The books are well written fun but I still for once liked the television production better than the books! Also i just learned what "ship" means. What a weird turn of phrase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 It comes from "relationship", no? I first heard of it with X-Files fandom in the early seasons when discussing The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name between Agents Mulder and Scully but I imagine it probably predates even that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 That is what I pretty much was able to figure out too. TV Tropes had the best definition though. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Shipping Something about worshipping. Which I do. For Jack and Phryne. Phryne is also perhaps the best old fashioned name EVAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Haha, I am clearly oot of the loop on this stuff because I seriously had no idea that "ship" had a definition other than the sea vessel one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I have passed on my knowledge. *bows* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 I have also learned what a cozie mystery is now. *sigh* I am so not edumacated any longer. I even took several writing classes in college because I still fancy myself a writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 That's another term I don't know. Definition, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 There's actually a whole website devoted to this "art". Cozy mysteries are a genre of the crime fiction where the actual gruesome crime and sex are toned down and the approach is more humorous. Think Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote fame from Cabot Cove or even Miss Marple. Even takes place in a small community and the detective is a local and not a professional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick NASA conspiracy theories!!!1!!1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Virul Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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