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#1 Baco Xtath

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Posted 13 November 2015 - 05:14 AM

I'm a list guy. I love making collections on my Kindle. Also, I love making lists of what I'm going to read next. Right now, on my Kindle, I have these collections of what I'm going to read next: 2015 Must Reads, On Deck, THE bucket TRP list, and Odd Men Out (which is my weird/popcorn/guilty pleasure list). Also, I've a list of audiobooks I own and that are lined up to read. If any of these books aren't worth it and genuinely suck ass, please speak up as I could use some culling.

Anyway, here are my next books to read (no definitive order):
The Stars My Destination
The Bohr Maker
Weaveworld
Iron Night
Lagoon
Something Coming Through
Full Fathom Five
Thraxas
The Alchemy of Stone
The Years of Rice and Salt
The Reality Disfunction
Against A Dark Background
the Myriad
Anathem
TAGGED: THE APOCALYPSE
Hard Luck Hank: Basketful of Crap

Also, I have my Audible to Listen to Next list which goes:
A Deepness in the Sky
Blood of Elves
Gods War
Sword of the North
Aurora
When the Heavens Fall
the Grace of Kings
Mountain of Black Glass
Mechanique
The Killing Moon
1Q84
the Peripheral

So what are yours?

This post has been edited by Baco Xtath: 13 November 2015 - 05:15 AM

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Posted 13 November 2015 - 05:19 AM

Oh boy. My Goodreads To Read List is 118 books and actually way more than that because if I like a series I just mark Book 1 of that series so I remember. Probably somewhere in the 200s

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Posted 13 November 2015 - 10:40 AM

Baco Xtath, on 13 November 2015 - 05:14 AM, said:

Sword of the North
the Grace of Kings

The only two I can activly agitate against.
Sword of the North is a better book then its predecessor but really that doesn't say much.

Grace of Kings was a great disapointment because it really did have potential. It could have been an awesome book but Ken Liu isn't the author to pull it off and is really not that interested in important things like characterization and descriptions of crucial events. It holds about three novels worth of events and stuff compressed into a single novel giving very little space to any of it. Also people somewhat familiar with the source material he is working with won't exactly get any surprises, he is also completly brain dead when it comes to working out the repercusions of the many very powerful inventions that are introduced during the novels. Then there is the pretend language and so on.

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Posted 13 November 2015 - 05:15 PM

On the shortlist:

The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer (reread) (started)
The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer (reread)
The Labyrinth of Flame by Courtney Schafer
The Gods of HP Lovecraft ed. Aaron J. French
William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher
The Swordsman of Mars by Otis Adelbert Kline
The Roads Between the Worlds by Michael Moorcock

I've got close to 200 books on my LibraryThing "to read" list that I haven't bothered maintaining for a while. I can't plan any farther out than what's listed above, because I'll change my mind by the time I'm through with those, I'm sure.

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Posted 13 November 2015 - 10:28 PM

Interesting.

My immediate TRP (in non-definitive order, as i sometimes skip ahead in it):

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits - David Wong (I liked John Dies at the End, and this looks like a Charles Stross inspired near future fiction book)

Meditations on Violence - Rory Miller

In Dark Service - Stephen Hunt (this is a re-read, leading into -
Foul Tides Turning - Stephen Hunt

The complete works of George Silver - George Silver (old English self defence and fighting manual - and i mean OLD - originally published 1599)

Swords and Scoundrels - Julia Knight (no idea, picked it up on a whim)

Re-read of By the Sword by Richard Cohen - an excellent history book detailing, unsurprisingly, the history of sword use....

The Black Guard and The Dark Blood by A.J. Smith (Both re-reads, leading into -
The Red Prince - A.J. Smith

Possible a re-read of the Safehold Series by David Weber as the new one is out and i need to pick it up (that means a re-read of seven books, followed by an 8th)

Plus any other new books i may pick up on a whim - so that's the next 20 or so planned reading.

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 14 November 2015 - 04:39 AM

My TRP (Ordered by author surname)

Reading Now: ASoIaF: A Clash of Kings

Fantasy

Peter Grant - Midnight Riot
R Scott Bakker - Prince of Nothing. Aspect Emperor (Waiting for the final book)
Katherine Addison - The Goblin Emperor
Tim Akers - Heart of Veridon
Stephen Aryan - Battlemage
Leigh Bardugo - Six of Crows
Bradley P Beaulieu - Twelve Kings in Sharakhai, The Winds of Khalakovo
Octavia Butler - Wild Seed
Kristi Charish - Owl and the Japanese Circus
Glen Cook - The Black Company - The Book of the South, The Return, The Many Deaths
D.M. Cornish - Foundling
Cindy Dees - The Sleeping King
Seth Dickinson - The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Chris Evans - A Darkness Forged in Fire
Lev Grossman - Magicians
Rachel Hartman - Seraphina
Scott Hawkins - The Library at Mount Char
Mitchell Hogan - A Crucible of Souls
Jonathan L Howard - Carter and Lovecraft
S A Hunt - The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree
Stephen Hunt - In Dark Service, The Court of the Air
Elliott James - Charming
N K Jemisin - The Killing Moon, Fifth Season
Joshua Johnson - The Cerberus Rebellion
Paul Kearney - Hawkwood's Voyage
Jay Kristoff - Stormdancer
Mark Lawrence - Prince of Thorns
Sharon Lee - Crystal Dragon
Tom Lloyd - Stormcaller
Sergei Lukyanenko - Night Watch
Claire North - Gamehouse
Naomi Novik - Temeraire
Benjamin Percy - Red Moon
Brandon Sanderson - Shadows of Self
V.E. Schwab - Vicious
Brian Staveley - The Emperor's Blades
Michael Sullivan - The Crown Conspiracy
Patrick Weekes - The Palace Job
Martha Wells - The Element of Fire
Gary Whitta - Abomination
Will Wight - Of Shadow and Sea, House of Blades
Fran Wilde - Updraft
Chris Wooding - The Weavers of Saramyr

Science Fiction

Margaret Atwood - Onyx and Crake
Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
C.J.Cherryh - Downbelow Station
Wesley Chu - The Lives of Tao
Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem
Michael Cobley - The Seeds of Earth
James S A Corey - Babylons Ashes
Samuel R Delany - Nova
Gary Gibson - Stealing Light
Carolyn Ives Gilman - Dark Orbit
M John Harrison - Light
L J Hatton - Sing Down the Stars
Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land, Moon is a Harsh mistress
Jean Johnson - A Soldiers Duty
Amie Kaufman - Immuminae
Marko Kloos - Terms of Enlistment
Sarah Lotz - The Three
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
Linda Nagata - First Light
Daniel Polansky - Those Above
Robert Repino - Mort(e)
Alastair Reynolds - Poseidons Children
Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy, Aurora
John Sandford - Saturn Run
John Scalzi - Old Mans War
Karl Schroeder - Sun of Suns
Neal Stephenson - Seveneves
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep
David Weber - Off Armageddon Reef
Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Roger Zelazny - Nine Princes in Amber

Historical

Gordon Doherty - Strategos

Thriller

Douglas Preston - Blue Labyrinth

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Posted 14 November 2015 - 04:55 AM

None of you are gonna post your Erotica list?

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#8 Baco Xtath

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Posted 14 November 2015 - 07:24 AM

These are the ones I've read and would highly recommend.

Coco with marshmallows, on 13 November 2015 - 10:28 PM, said:

Interesting.

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits - David Wong (I liked John Dies at the End, and this looks like a Charles Stross inspired near future fiction book)
- while not as good as his previous two works, it's still a damn good book that his hilarious as fuck.

Andorion, on 14 November 2015 - 04:39 AM, said:

My TRP (Ordered by author surname)
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Fantasy

Peter Grant - Midnight Riot ABSOLUTELY AWEOMSE
R Scott Bakker - Prince of Nothing. Aspect Emperor (Waiting for the final book)
Katherine Addison - The Goblin Emperor
Lev Grossman - Magicians
Scott Hawkins - The Library at Mount Char
N K Jemisin - Fifth Season
Mark Lawrence - Prince of Thorns
Sharon Lee - Crystal Dragon
Tom Lloyd - Stormcaller
Sergei Lukyanenko - Night Watch
Brian Stavenley - Emperor's Blades

Science Fiction

Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem
Marko Kloos - Terms of Enlistment
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
Alastair Reynolds - Poseidons Children (unbelievably good)
Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy, Aurora
John Scalzi - Old Mans War
Roger Zelazny - Nine Princes in Amber

This post has been edited by Baco Xtath: 14 November 2015 - 07:31 AM

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Posted 14 November 2015 - 06:16 PM

Baco Xtath, on 13 November 2015 - 05:14 AM, said:

We seem to have a few books in common.

The books in your list I have read:

Full Fathom Five: Max Gladstone at his usual consistent level of goodness
Reality Dysfunction: I don't know... I loved Hamiltons Void and Commonwealth books, but I felt this one was too long and frankly did not like the general theme. Others love it though

When the Heavens Fall: Very good for a debut, verging on great

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Posted 14 November 2015 - 09:34 PM

Just finished Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits - it's a good read. Not up to "John Dies at the End" levels of brilliance, but then it's a different style of writing. Worth a read, and yes, funny as hell as Baco says.

Jumped into Swords and Scoundrels now.

meh. Link was dead :(