What are you reading?

[Jubal]

They are excellent. The first few and the most recent few are a little less good, perhaps, but some of the middle ones are stunningly good. As a whole they're the best corpus of satire a single author has produced in the English language, for my money.

[Tom]

Man, the discworld is such a great universe

[TTG4]

Finished the R4 thing, good fun. Making a start on Ken Follett 'Winter of the World'. This series hasn't been as good as pillars of the earth, some of the characters are quite unbelivable (especially the children) but I do like the way he weaves the plotlines together with historical events.

[Jubal]

I'm reading lots of history (and odd bits of obscure Tolkien).

Has anyone else read Tal-Elmar here? It's an unfinished short story at the end of the Histories of Middle-Earth, and it's rathergood.

[comrade_general]

Have read everything of Middle Earth, but that was years ago so I not remember much. 

Can you expand?

[Jubal]

It's about some guy in the lower Anduin region at the time of the Numenoreans coming to settle, where the natives have this basically neolithic culture and Numenoreans turn up with bows and swords and suchlike. And it includes a guy called Hazad Longbeard, which is a) a fantastic name and b) the description of his pride in his beard is wonderful.

[comrade_general]

I scantly remember that one.

[Jubal]

Right at the end of Book 12 of the Histories, if you have them to hand. 

[comrade_general]

I don't, I libraried them way back when.

[Othko97]

Currently I am reading Periodic Tales, a book which talks more about the history of the elements, rather than their chemical properties. It is the latest in a LONG line of books which I got at Christmas

[Pentagathus]

Sounds wibulnib.

Hey what the fudge? Why has the common term for masturbate been replaced with wibulnib? I am outraged that my culture is being so blatantly offended!
Exilian isn't even exilian anymore!

[Othko97]

This brings whole new meaning to your title.

[Jubal]

I'm just kind of amused it's taken everyone this long to notice. I'll change it if you're that offended.

[Cuddly Khan]

I wonder what other stuff has been added to the custom language filter.

[Pentagathus]

Nah don't bother, I don't actually give many portugals.
Although having said that, does that particular word even need censoring?