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Post by McBain on Nov 27, 2008 19:15:15 GMT
The Devil You Know, Full Circle and Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey are all good. Not as morbid as you might like but all set in London, all revolving around grissly deaths and they have a wide selection of supernatural beings involved.
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Post by Fire Bear on Nov 28, 2008 12:36:08 GMT
Oh, oh! I know one!
Wormwood by someone-I'll-tell-you-the-name-of-when-I-get-home-on-Sunday. It's got angels, magic and a huge meteorite that is meant to obliterate London. (Apparently if they get far away from London they'll be safe...) I think it's set in Victorian times and probably has nothing to do with anything...
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Post by Someguy on Nov 28, 2008 15:10:40 GMT
Victorian is close enough. The beauty of this book of mine is that the setting in time still isn't fixed (though it absolutely has to be before the Second World War, or at a stretch during.)
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Post by Fire Bear on Nov 30, 2008 22:16:28 GMT
If I ask my mum nicely (and if I can remember), I'll see if I can bring it in on Tuesday; if you want....
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Post by Someguy on Dec 1, 2008 0:07:44 GMT
If you can. I'll probably need it over the Christmas holidays to get through it on top of the other books I'm pilebunking into papery oblivion.
I have widened the criterion. Anyone who knows of any good post-apocalyptic or Soviet Russia-set books and books where the character bears the brunt of rascism/prejudice/sexism would also be appreciated.
Oh, and Pilebunking is a new word I made up, derived from the left-over weapon 'Pile Bunker' in FF7. I remember this particular weapon because a mis-type in the game's text has the weapon also called 'Pile Banger' which I found somewhat amusing *puff-puff-mnyah*.
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mojojojoe
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Post by mojojojoe on Dec 1, 2008 10:48:43 GMT
I am Legend! It's post-apocalyptic and it deals with the main character being discriminated against because he's not a vampire! They tease him with things.
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Post by kitty on Dec 1, 2008 11:30:39 GMT
Soviet Russia is a problem. There are fantastic books written during the time but aren't directly set because of censorship and whatnot and any I've seen set then has been bleh historical fiction. You might be better reading up on Soviet Russia and maybe looking at writers at the time for a feel of it. I'll second the Sally Lockheart series because they satisfied me when I was on a victorian kick. For racism I have Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry about a black family in the 30s. I don't remember much about it except the main girl befriends a white girl and then beats the crap out of her in revenge for being smug. I read a post-apocalyptic (kinda) novel online about a bunch of people who live in a reactor thing underwater. They are discriminated against because they are all crazy? For what it is it was pretty good but it is online and thus annoying to read. www.rifters.com/real/STARFISH.htm
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Post by McBain on Dec 1, 2008 16:51:02 GMT
I'm going to reiterate my original suggestions. An issue of discrimination is raised when you have to decide if ghosts have any rights or if they can be ignored. Quite the ethical dilemma.
Sadly, the dead rising is pre-apocalypse.
However, the main character wears a Russian Military Greatcoat, so that covers your soviets.
Oh, the ghost in the first book is from the Eastern Bloc and the main character is the most cynical bastard you're likely to meet.
All pointless, I know. I just think they're damn good books.
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Post by Someguy on Dec 2, 2008 11:14:40 GMT
Oh, I don't know. I love cynical bastards.
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Post by McBain on Dec 2, 2008 11:23:16 GMT
Who doesn't?
BTW, does anyone know how these threads always manage to dissolve?
Seriously, read the first and last post of any given thread and see how many stay on topic. Are we that shallow and uncaring that we can flit from topic to topic like vaguely intelligent bumble bees?
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Post by Fire Bear on Dec 2, 2008 13:54:16 GMT
Yes.
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Post by Someguy on Dec 2, 2008 16:46:05 GMT
It's a sign of our uber complexity that we refuse to be tied down to any particular topic.
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Post by mojojojoe on Dec 2, 2008 22:52:05 GMT
Oh, I don't know. I love cynical bastards. You've mastered them now!
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Post by kitty on Dec 3, 2008 21:52:51 GMT
Oh!
Gorky Park. It is a very good film about the KGB and murder or something, been a long time since I watched it but it fits your Soviet criteria. And I think it was based on a book of the same name.
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Post by Someguy on Dec 5, 2008 12:54:52 GMT
Excellent. I was doing some research myself when I stumbled across this name in a soft leather-bound tome. I now ascribe tis name to you, Joe:
Furcifer.
Not familiar? It's a name you know quite well, deep in your subconsciousness...
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