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I pre-ordered from amazon.ca along with a few other items to get free shipping. first chapter here http://www.jim-butch.../cold-days-ch-1 They're actually really good w new dresden books (first chapter of which is here http://www.jim-butch.../cold-days-ch-1 ).
and i've received the last few ahead of the expected delivery date. Go here to read the first chapter. http://www.jim-butch.../cold-days-ch-1 .
MMPBs are at least a year later. TPBs.... i can't remember if i've ever actually seen one for the books. The GNs yes, but not the books. Speaking of books, first chapter of Cold Days is here http://www.jim-butch.../cold-days-ch-1 .
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 07:48 PM
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 09:32 PM
Hmm, I'll probably wait until the mmpb to read it, then (which I guess I did for Ghost Story without even realizing it). A hardcover would just look too weird next to the current row of matched mmpbs.
worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:
I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 09:57 PM
I just check 'em out from the library and then buy them cheap at Half Price Books a couple years later.
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 10:21 PM
Briar King, on 05 November 2012 - 10:11 PM, said:
D, on 05 November 2012 - 09:32 PM, said:
Hmm, I'll probably wait until the mmpb to read it, then (which I guess I did for Ghost Story without even realizing it). A hardcover would just look too weird next to the current row of matched mmpbs.
I was gonna do the same. Just wait till GS came out in pb...then I got to the end of Changes and knew I was going to cave. I went to Walmart and got the HC GS.
Proven Guilty got me. Actually it was Dead Beat... I had just finished an extended first read binge culminating in DB... and PG had just been released in hc... i think i lasted about as long as it too for me to get to the enarest book store the next day. It's been all pre-order hc's ever since, incl Cold Days. And the first chapter is right here http://www.jim-butch.../cold-days-ch-1
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 11:14 PM
As of tonight, there is less than zero chance of me giving in -- as the latest Vorkosigan novel has been released! If Dresden is crack, then Vorkosigan is crystal meth!
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 12:23 AM
Tell me about it, I bought the arc from baen a few months ago (which by the way is a brilliant initiative, ebook copy 3 months before release, yes please) and I ended up staying up until 3am to finish it!
Chapter 2 goes up soon right?
Chapter 2 goes up soon right?
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 05:09 AM
Maintain your ranks! Stay on target!
Don't listen to the false prophets.
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Don't listen to the false prophets.
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"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 02:20 PM
Vorkosigan.
Where should I start?
Where should I start?
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 02:48 PM
QuickTidal, on 06 November 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:
Vorkosigan.
Where should I start?
Where should I start?
Right HERE.
...unless of course that's a link to Cold Days chapter 1....
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 02:55 PM
Abyss, on 06 November 2012 - 02:48 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 06 November 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:
Vorkosigan.
Where should I start?
Where should I start?
Right HERE.
...unless of course that's a link to Cold Days chapter 1....
Sneaky Abyss... I. Will. Hold. On.
Apt is the only one who reads this. Apt is nice.
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 02:56 PM
I'm on your team Abyss, I've already read it. 
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 03:08 PM
Briar King, on 06 November 2012 - 04:39 AM, said:
Oh shit! Halo 4 bitches! Oh wait this is the Dresden thread... 
Think you need this...
Halo 4 Thread
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 03:46 PM
Rejoice, friends, chapter 2 is upon us... http://www.jim-butch...-days-chapter-2
@QT - Start with Cordelia's Honor, an omnibus. It's the proper start to the story and where the author recommends starting. She has this whole internal order that doesn't work with the published orders of the books. Read the note on the amazon page. Conceivably you could also start with the Young Miles collection, if that was more your fancy. Now back on topic.
http://www.jim-butch...-days-chapter-2
@QT - Start with Cordelia's Honor, an omnibus. It's the proper start to the story and where the author recommends starting. She has this whole internal order that doesn't work with the published orders of the books. Read the note on the amazon page. Conceivably you could also start with the Young Miles collection, if that was more your fancy. Now back on topic.
http://www.jim-butch...-days-chapter-2
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 04:15 PM
Chapter 2 was great fun... but now I've got to wait a whole week to find out
Re: Vorkosigan, I started with the young miles duology, which I highly enjoyed. The cordelia's honour duology is good, but doesn't quite reach the levels that the miles books do, I read that duology after all the others and enjoyed them, but I could see myself not being particularly intrested in continuing the series if I started with them. Oh and civil campaign by bujold is possibly my favourite book ever, edging out even dead beat and memories of ice, it's just such a perfectly plotted and written book.
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Re: Vorkosigan, I started with the young miles duology, which I highly enjoyed. The cordelia's honour duology is good, but doesn't quite reach the levels that the miles books do, I read that duology after all the others and enjoyed them, but I could see myself not being particularly intrested in continuing the series if I started with them. Oh and civil campaign by bujold is possibly my favourite book ever, edging out even dead beat and memories of ice, it's just such a perfectly plotted and written book.
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 04:44 PM
And lo, I was nearly tricked by my own brain by reading the username of a demon impersonating Imperial Historian and nearly clicking on the spoiler tag because the Imperial Historian I know would never try to tempt me with spoilers.
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 06:12 PM
QuickTidal, on 06 November 2012 - 02:56 PM, said:
I'm on your team Abyss, I've already read it.
I know. It's these poor deluded souls who apparently believe in no snacking before dinner, no cocktails before wine, and probably no sex before marriage, whom i'm trying to help.
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And lo, I was nearly tricked by my own brain by reading the username of a demon impersonating Imperial Historian and nearly clicking on the spoiler tag because the Imperial Historian I know would never try to tempt me with spoilers.
He's doing it for your own good.
Stop fighting what you know is right and inevitable and good and pure and just.
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 06:15 PM
Abyss, on 06 November 2012 - 06:12 PM, said:
I know. It's these poor deluded souls who apparently believe in no snacking before dinner, no cocktails before wine, and probably no sex before marriage, whom i'm trying to help.
I'm a firm believer in one of those things, I hate alcohol anyway, and also I haven't cracked yet, either.
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 06:45 PM
I'm just going to point out that if you don't read the promo chapters, the terrorists win.
Do with that as you will. Just saying is all. No pressure.
Do with that as you will. Just saying is all. No pressure.
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 09:06 PM
Abyss, on 06 November 2012 - 06:12 PM, said:
I know. It's these poor deluded souls who apparently believe in no snacking before dinner, no cocktails before wine, and probably no sex before marriage, whom i'm trying to help.
I love and support all those things dearly.
I also believe in the awesomeness of opening Cold Days for the first time and having no idea what i'm getting ready to start and being blown away by it.
Plus, i watched Vanilla Sky for the umpteenth time recently, so i'm really into "pleasure delaying".
I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.
