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Posted 01 February 2013 - 01:20 AM

View Postyuna_anomander25, on 10 January 2013 - 01:47 AM, said:

catching up with my Malazan read from Orb, Sceptre, Throne up to Blood and Bone including this year's (hopefully) 2nd Kharkanas book and the Assail book

Dresdencrack - Changes up to Cold Days including Skin Game,
All Frank Herbert's DUNE
Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga
Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company



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I haven't actually touched most of those, only Hobb's & Donaldson's, added Morgan and Stover to my reading list
now that I've been acquiring books faster than I could read, I will add titles and authors I would very much like to read this year, or by next year, if I could manage it all

C.S. Friedman - ColdFire Trilogy and Magister
Micheal Moorcock - Elric of Melnibonne and other Eternal Champions books
Guy Gavriel Kay - starting with A Song for Arbonne and the rest,
China Mieville - ALL, starting with King Rat
Micheal J Sullivan - Ryria Revelations omnibuses
Daniel Abraham's - The Long Price Quartet & The Dagger & Coin
James S.A. Corey - The Expanse

also considering:
David Gemmel - starting with Troy trilogy then Druss and Rigante
Jim Butcher's - Codex Alera
J.V. Jones - Book of Words and A Sword of Shadow
Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Shadowmarch and Otherland
James Barclay - Ravens
Rachel Aaron - Eli Monpress

-those are the ones on my mind right now, may think of other books to include-
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 02:04 AM

View Postyuna_anomander25, on 01 February 2013 - 01:20 AM, said:

View Postyuna_anomander25, on 10 January 2013 - 01:47 AM, said:

catching up with my Malazan read from Orb, Sceptre, Throne up to Blood and Bone including this year's (hopefully) 2nd Kharkanas book and the Assail book

Dresdencrack - Changes up to Cold Days including Skin Game,
All Frank Herbert's DUNE
Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga
Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company



-edit-

I haven't actually touched most of those, only Hobb's & Donaldson's, added Morgan and Stover to my reading list
now that I've been acquiring books faster than I could read, I will add titles and authors I would very much like to read this year, or by next year, if I could manage it all

C.S. Friedman - ColdFire Trilogy and Magister
Micheal Moorcock - Elric of Melnibonne and other Eternal Champions books
Guy Gavriel Kay - starting with A Song for Arbonne and the rest,
China Mieville - ALL, starting with King Rat
Micheal J Sullivan - Ryria Revelations omnibuses
Daniel Abraham's - The Long Price Quartet & The Dagger & Coin
James S.A. Corey - The Expanse

also considering:
David Gemmel - starting with Troy trilogy then Druss and Rigante
Jim Butcher's - Codex Alera
J.V. Jones - Book of Words and A Sword of Shadow
Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Shadowmarch and Otherland
James Barclay - Ravens
Rachel Aaron - Eli Monpress

-those are the ones on my mind right now, may think of other books to include-
-edit-


I wouldn't start with King Rat. It's good but it's also arguably his worst. And Book of Words was basic basic fantasy. And, if I'm remembering correctly, almost the same as Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, just not as good. Also, wouldn't start with Song of Arbonne. I'd suggest either the Sarantine Mosaic or the Lions of Al'Rassan first. Otherwise, it looks like a great 2013.
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 03:47 PM

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now that I've been acquiring books faster than I could read

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Posted 01 February 2013 - 04:55 PM

View PostBaco Xtath, on 01 February 2013 - 02:04 AM, said:

... wouldn't start with Song of Arbonne. I'd suggest either the Sarantine Mosaic or the Lions of Al'Rassan first. Otherwise, it looks like a great 2013.


Just my $0.02, but if you read LIONS and SARANTINE first, most of his other stuff just isn't as good.

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now that I've been acquiring books faster than I could read

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Posted 02 February 2013 - 12:41 PM

For Kay, I'll agree with Abyss, except that I found the The Sarantine Mosaic better than Lions (but about the same level). I'll just repeat a former question, for Moorcock, which books are worthwhile / where to start?
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 06:39 PM

View PostMikkelinski, on 02 February 2013 - 12:41 PM, said:

For Kay, I'll agree with Abyss, except that I found the The Sarantine Mosaic better than Lions (but about the same level). I'll just repeat a former question, for Moorcock, which books are worthwhile / where to start?

I'm working on a read-through of most of Moorcock's books right now.

Start with the Elric books - http://www.goodreads...ror-of-melnibon - but be aware that you can kind of jump to the other books within that "universe" when you get your fill of Elric.

I jumped over to the Corum/Swords books after the Tanelorn rescue book and have finished the Knight of Swords and the Queen of Swords.

They're kind of cool to read, but very much emphasize the loneliness of the protagonist (Elric/Corum) as the protagonist fights against Evil/Chaos, but often loses his companions/friends/family along the way. So, the books are best read with breaks in between to go do other things and read other books to cheer you up again.
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Posted 18 December 2013 - 03:07 PM

Thread resureccted to see which ones I DID get through in 2013.

View PostQuickTidal, on 07 January 2013 - 06:18 PM, said:

Let's see. After AMOL I'll defo be tackling RED COUNTRY properly.


Nope. Started it and never got properly stuck in. It languishes in the TBR Pile.

View PostQuickTidal, on 07 January 2013 - 06:18 PM, said:

Above and beyond that, there are some ToRead Pile books that have been sitting a while. Sam Sykes 2nd and 3rd books BLACK HALO and THE SKYBOUND SEA... they stare at me.


Nope.

View PostQuickTidal, on 07 January 2013 - 06:18 PM, said:

The two remaining Alex Verus books (TAKEN and CURSED) by Benedict Jacka.


Read TAKEN, but not CURSED yet.

View PostQuickTidal, on 07 January 2013 - 06:18 PM, said:

THE TERROR by Dan Simmons


Yup. Read it and enjoyed it.

View PostQuickTidal, on 07 January 2013 - 06:18 PM, said:

Finally get around to reading WYRD SISTERS by Pratchett so I can properly get stuck into the Witches books (so far I've only read the Watch books of Discworld).


Reading right now actually. So I MAY get that done before the year is out.

View PostQuickTidal, on 07 January 2013 - 06:18 PM, said:

Re-start and finish William Dietrich's THE DAKOTA CYPHER which I started more than once and put down for other books I'd been waiting for. It was good, but suffered from me wanting to read other things first. Kind of like Sharpe meets Indiana Jones.


Nope. Tried at it one or two more times. No go. Might have to sell it to the used book store.

View PostQuickTidal, on 07 January 2013 - 06:18 PM, said:

Finally get back to both THE BLINDING KNIFE by Weeks and KING OF THORNS by Lawrence.


Got halfway through THE BLINDING KNIFE and still can't get settled into the world enough to enjoy it. Languishes on my shelf.

As to the last, I not only read KING OF THORNS but also EMPEROR OF THORNS as well!

So all in all, I didn't do too well on my list.
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Posted 18 December 2013 - 03:25 PM

FUN!!!

View PostAbyss, on 07 January 2013 - 04:19 PM, said:

Trying to keep it real...

the obvious reads for the year are
GUN MACHINE (in progress)


Read it. Loved it.
Whole other level of Ellis clever.

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MEMORY OF LIGHT


Read it. Enjoyed. Addressed in detail in the ded-thread.


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RED COUNTRY


Same.


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...then whenever they show up...
UNHOLY CONSULT
FALL OF LIGHT
SKIN GAME
and whatever Morgan's next LFFH book is called.


Still waiting on these. Bump to 2014.

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Then we have the 'commitments'...
Hearn's TRICKED and TRAPPED, because i have them and i just read the first three in the series.


Read. Liked enuf to get the next one whenever it comes out.

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The RIYRIA REVELATIONS, because they've been sitting in the TRP and i keep almost starting them.


Finally, and left a satisfied customer.

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And finally ANUBIS GATE, UNDER HEAVEN and the KETTY JAY trilo, because they're sitting in the TRP and have priority on an 'if i died and didn't read those i'd be bummed' basis.


Goin into 2014, all in the same place as last year. Dammit.
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Posted 18 December 2013 - 06:14 PM

View PostGraablick, on 08 January 2013 - 07:07 AM, said:

The goal is to read 50 books and the only ones I know I got to read is:

All the dresdenfiles.

A memory of light

Blood and bone.

The last argument of kings

The revenge of Eli Monpres

The Daylight War

All check, Think I'll end up reading about 90 books by the end of the year.
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Posted 18 December 2013 - 07:57 PM

View Postworry, on 07 January 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

Finish Black Company (2.5 books to go).
Tackle Wheel of Time, start to finish.
Finally read 2666.
Look at A Suitable Boy, perhaps even lift it from the shelf, and contemplate finally reading it "someday soon."


I finished Black Company and I did look at A Suitable Boy on my shelf, perhaps I even caressed it, but I didn't read it. The other two things I didn't even come close to doing.

This year I'll make it easy: I'll read the Broken Empire (which I've already started) and the Joe Abercrombie one-off books. And I think the Scott Lynch books too. Also Skin Game. Everything else I'll consider bonus points.
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Posted 18 December 2013 - 09:34 PM

View PostBrent-Man Weeks, on 07 January 2013 - 01:38 AM, said:

Out of the stuff I already own, I would like to take care of the following:

Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria Revelations
Abercrombie's First Law and Best Served Cold
Bakker's Prince of Nothing
Joel Shepherd's Trial of Blood and Steel
Ricardo Pinto's Stone Dance of the Chameleon
as much of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion/Elric stuff as I can

Well. I got Pinto's trilogy down, as well as the second Eternal Champion omnibus (Von Bek).

I'm still working my way up to Donaldson's Last Chronicles. And more Moorcock is definitely a priority. I just picked up GRRM's ADWD, so I'd like to get to that and AFFC. Glen Cook's entire Dread Empire as well. Of the stuff I missed from last year's list (I'm a poet and I know it) I think the Sullivan books get top priority, but then again we'll see how I feel when the time comes. I have probably 30-40 completed (or close to completed) series sitting on my shelves waiting for me to get to them.
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Posted 18 December 2013 - 09:40 PM

Had a damn good year; read 21 books and listened to 65 more. Only a couple were forgettable but thanks to this forum, most were superb.
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Posted 18 December 2013 - 09:47 PM

My favorites of the year were:
Blue Remembered Earth
Ready Player One
John Dies at the End
Finch
Emperor of Thorns
Grim Company
Blood Song
the Gap Cycle
Cold Days
Caine's Law
the Scar
A Once Crowded Sky

nods to: Memory of Light, the Black Company, Garrett P.I, Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, and the Milkweed Triptych
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Posted 19 December 2013 - 06:37 AM

Went through everything except my malazan re-read which failed catastrophically after Deadhousegate. Still got well over my expected 100 books read and listened to.

There where some really good ones.
Red Country
Necessary Evil
Low Town Series
Blood Song
Under Heaven
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Posted 19 December 2013 - 07:54 AM

View PostThe Incredible Kitsu, on 08 January 2013 - 02:18 AM, said:

You see, I'm kinda crazy but I've already plotted out all of my reading for 2013 (down to the number of pages of each book each day.) 2013 will be the year of halving my trp.

Notables:
Finishing my reread of the Covenant books (plus Against All Things Ending for the first time)
The first three WoT books.
The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Finishing The Long Price Quartet
The Foreigner novels (or at least the first 10 this year)
The Stones of Power novels.

I think it's going to be a good year.



I'm actually really proud of myself here, got through all of these except for The Silmarillion, Foreigner books 4-10 (which I don't think I'll ever get to tbh. The books just don't snag me as I'd hoped they would. Don't know how my ex fell so deeply in love with these books), and the last two Stones of Power books (which were pushed to January and Feb 2014).

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Posted 20 December 2013 - 04:28 AM

View Postyuna_anomander25, on 01 February 2013 - 01:20 AM, said:


C.S. Friedman - ColdFire Trilogy and Magister
Micheal Moorcock - Elric of Melnibonne and other Eternal Champions books
Guy Gavriel Kay - starting with A Song for Arbonne and the rest,
China Mieville - ALL, starting with King Rat
Micheal J Sullivan - Ryria Revelations omnibuses
Daniel Abraham's - The Long Price Quartet & The Dagger & Coin
James S.A. Corey - The Expanse

also considering:
David Gemmel - starting with Troy trilogy then Druss and Rigante
Jim Butcher's - Codex Alera
J.V. Jones - Book of Words and A Sword of Shadow
Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Shadowmarch and Otherland
James Barclay - Ravens
Rachel Aaron - Eli Monpress

-those are the ones on my mind right now, may think of other books to include-
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Friedman - nope,, still don't have any boOk of her
Moorcock - i've got Corum and Dreamthief's daughter lying in wait,
Kay - only read ARBONNE,, have yet to read the others,,
Mieville - I've only got KRAKEN,, haven't read it yet,,
Sullivan - i've got THEFT and HEIR waiting in the TRP,, no RISE yet,,
Abraham - read Shadow in Summer,, not likely to continue,, is the Dagger and Coin any good?
Corey - no Expanse book yet,,

Gemmel - haven't read, only got 1 Rigante book,,
Butcher - Alera nope,,
Jones - tried to read Baker's boy not interested,,
Williams - zero,,
Barclay - haven't read but only got as of now Elf Sorrow,,
Aaron - undecided,,
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Posted 20 December 2013 - 04:52 AM

I have to read TtH and on before Skin Game and Words of Radiance come out. After that I will start on Thomas Covenant.
I just remembered Wild Cards. I picked up the first one last book run.

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Posted 20 December 2013 - 06:19 AM

View Postyuna_anomander25, on 20 December 2013 - 04:28 AM, said:

Friedman - nope,, still don't have any boOk of her
Moorcock - i've got Corum and Dreamthief's daughter lying in wait,
Kay - only read ARBONNE,, have yet to read the others,,
Mieville - I've only got KRAKEN,, haven't read it yet,,
Sullivan - i've got THEFT and HEIR waiting in the TRP,, no RISE yet,,
Abraham - read Shadow in Summer,, not likely to continue,, is the Dagger and Coin any good?
Corey - no Expanse book yet,,

Gemmel - haven't read, only got 1 Rigante book,,
Butcher - Alera nope,,
Jones - tried to read Baker's boy not interested,,
Williams - zero,,
Barclay - haven't read but only got as of now Elf Sorrow,,
Aaron - undecided,,



The Dagger and the Coin is a more traditional setting and story compared to The Long Price. I've read the first two (The Dragon's Path and The King's Blood) - I thought book 1 was good and book 2 ridiculously so - and certainly plan on reading on. Well worth the read, I think. Then again, if you didn't like the Long Price, you might not care for this one either
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Posted 20 December 2013 - 07:37 PM

View Postyuna_anomander25, on 20 December 2013 - 04:28 AM, said:

Abraham - read Shadow in Summer,, not likely to continue,, is the Dagger and Coin any good?


Dagger and Coin is excellent and I had a hard time with Shadow in Summer when I tried it. It might be a traditional setting but its not particularly traditional in most other respects. Eagerly awaiting the fourth one currently.

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Posted 21 December 2013 - 06:29 PM

Dagger and Coin is way better then the long prince.. Asian settings isn't my cup of tea.
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