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Abyss, on 03 April 2013 - 01:38 PM, said:

personally i thought Clancy hit his high point with EXECUTIVE ORDER

Likewise. In fact, I started reading the series in 1997 when this book came out in mmpb. Thrillers were never my thing, still aren't, but this was a notable exception. Clancy could fill half of a 1000 page book with minute details and technical mumbo jumbo and still manage to keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time. I wish he would go back to writing his own books, instead of farming it out ala James Patterson.

[Morgoth]

Faith by John Love was delivered by the Amazon pixies today. I have no knowledge of what its about, or whether it's any good. I simply tagged it onto a different order because Amazon suggested I may like it.

So, fingers crossed.

[Salt-Man Z]

Morgoth, on 03 April 2013 - 03:11 PM, said:

Faith by John Love was delivered by the Amazon pixies today. I have no knowledge of what its about, or whether it's any good. I simply tagged it onto a different order because Amazon suggested I may like it.

So, fingers crossed.

It got rave reviews last year from the bloggers I follow. Let us know what you think.

[Abyss]

Graablick, on 03 April 2013 - 02:32 PM, said:

I think Without Remorse was my favorite when I were younger, who can't enjoy a former spec ops killing narcodealers.

and now over to Cursor's fury!

WITHOUT REMORSE was brilliant, but at root it was a 'lone ex-military dude goes rogue, kills bad guys' story with a dose of emo.
EXEC ORDERS presents a fairly viable multi-front attack on the US, and then Jack Ryan proceeds to personally parachute into the living rooms of those responsable and pimpslap them while singing God Bless America and fixing the economy, then goes home to eat a steak, smoke a cigarette and impregnate everyone's wives.

It's even more awesome when you picture Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan.
Slighlty less so with Alec Baldwin or Ben Affleck, but still impressive.

Kruppe, on 03 April 2013 - 02:59 PM, said:

Abyss, on 03 April 2013 - 01:38 PM, said:

personally i thought Clancy hit his high point with EXECUTIVE ORDER

Likewise. In fact, I started reading the series in 1997 when this book came out in mmpb. Thrillers were never my thing, still aren't, but this was a notable exception. Clancy could fill half of a 1000 page book with minute details and technical mumbo jumbo and still manage to keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time. I wish he would go back to writing his own books, instead of farming it out ala James Patterson.

I want to agree with you, but i think that he jumped the submarine well before he started farming out his name.

Morgoth, on 03 April 2013 - 03:11 PM, said:

Faith by John Love was delivered by the Amazon pixies today. I have no knowledge of what its about, or whether it's any good. I simply tagged it onto a different order because Amazon suggested I may like it.

So, fingers crossed.

For what it's worth, i thought it was a brilliant book and seriously enjoyed it.

[amphibian]

Without Remorse is a well done revenge fantasy/wish fulfillment. At its core, it is an evil book and I'm surprised people like it that much.

Think about it in the abstract - Marty Sue character for the older crowd has bunch of money, a boat in the Caribbean, does bondage flavored sex with two young coeds, rescues a drug addict prostitute because heart of gold, basically wifes her and has bondage flavored sex with her, finds her brutally murdered and then murders a dozen plus people in escalatingly complex manner until he has avenged the woman he loved, even though he loved other women who died too and didn't exact revenge for them.

It's not quite the Book of Gor, but it's not good either.

[Abyss]

It was written with a level of street realism and inner monologue that was atypical for Clancy's writing to that point, and it added a dimension to an interesting character who had been background until them.


Speaking of realism, the ongoing 'celebrity zombie kill points' thing in Clines' EX-PATRIOTS is cracking me up.

[Salt-Man Z]

Abyss, on 03 April 2013 - 04:34 PM, said:

Speaking of realism, the ongoing 'celebrity zombie kill points' thing in Clines' EX-PATRIOTS is cracking me up.

Recently found out I won a copy of that from the same place I won Ex-Heroes. Can't wait for it to arrive.

[Hound]

I thought that Ex-Patriots was even more awesome than Ex-Heroes. I so very much love reading the occasional popcorn-action-movie-turned-into-a-book-book.

Just put 20 ebooks on my brand new ereader and now not sure what to read....

[Morgoth]

Abyss, on 03 April 2013 - 04:01 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 03 April 2013 - 03:11 PM, said:

Faith by John Love was delivered by the Amazon pixies today. I have no knowledge of what its about, or whether it's any good. I simply tagged it onto a different order because Amazon suggested I may like it.

So, fingers crossed.

For what it's worth, i thought it was a brilliant book and seriously enjoyed it.

It is worth NOTHING


.. actually I'm rather enjoying it so far. Reminiscent of Cook's -or perhaps Watts'- sci fi, which is great.

[polishgenius]

Currently reading Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, a book with a great reputation and a Pulitzer controversy backing it up. I've not had as much time to read over Easter as I'd want, but it's really very good so far.

Morgoth, on 03 April 2013 - 03:11 PM, said:

Faith by John Love was delivered by the Amazon pixies today. I have no knowledge of what its about, or whether it's any good. I simply tagged it onto a different order because Amazon suggested I may like it.

So, fingers crossed.

Faith is awesome. T'was my favourite book of last year.

[Tiste Simeon]

Finished reading the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton, which was a vastly enjoyable and inventive novel, reminiscent of what made the Nights Dawn Trilogy such a good series... Without the totally lame ending!

Am now reading Cloud Atlas and it is... strange! It is keeping me very interested though even though I'm not sure what's going on. I mean I thought I was missing some pages at one point when the chapter finished mid sentence and suddenly we are a few decades later and in a completely different place. Can't wait to see what is coming!

[Ukjent]

Say what you want, but i hate Alera now.. It is just to fucking awesome! Complete ruined my sleep yesterday, and now I am 1/3 into book number 4 and thats just sad.. Guess that I will be done with Princep's by saturday morning

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[Tiste Simeon]

Flipping heck the more I read Cloud Atlas the more I love it! It has moved from slightly quirky novel where you keep guessing to what is going on to full blown "This stuff is amazing, I don't want to put it down!"

[Ukjent]

I gave up the book halfway in, it was just to boring and when I hit the 1800s bit i was not able to find any reason to continue.

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Abyss, on 03 April 2013 - 04:01 PM, said:

It's even more awesome when you picture Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan.
Slighlty less so with Alec Baldwin or Ben Affleck, but still impressive.

Harrison Ford IS Jack Ryan. The other two can suck it.

Abyss, on 03 April 2013 - 04:01 PM, said:

I want to agree with you, but i think that he jumped the submarine well before he started farming out his name.

I've not liked any of Clancy's co-authored stuff that I've tried, even the ones that allegedly predate his slide into mediocrity (e.g. op-center, net force, etc.). His later Jack Ryan books are still superior to those (minus the Jr. ones, of course).

Hound, on 03 April 2013 - 06:29 PM, said:

I thought that Ex-Patriots was even more awesome than Ex-Heroes. I so very much love reading the occasional popcorn-action-movie-turned-into-a-book-book.

I keep trying to buy Ex-Heroes, but when I put it in my cart, Amazon keeps jacking up the price $2 before I can pull the trigger.

It's starting to annoy me.

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[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

70. Evil & Malice Save The World by Jimmie Robinson - Graphic novel about a villain's two daughters who become superheroes; cutesy stuff for young readers.

71. Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science - from the Babylonians to the Maya by Dick Teresi - Interesting at first, but became too dry too quickly; not really recommended for the layperson.

72. The Alien Invasion Survival Handbook by W.H. Mumfrey - One of a long line of tongue-in-cheek guides. I enjoyed this more than most, but The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks is still the gold standard for this type of book.

73. Star Wars Legacy Of The Force: Bloodlines by Karen Traviss - Continuing my recent trend of really enjoyable SW books.

74. The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin - Didn't blow me away, but the plot and characters were interesting enough that I will probably continue the series.

75. The Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron - This one started out like it was going to be a run-of-the-mill anti-hero fantasy, but it got really good ~ 100 pages in. Ghosthounds that you can ride like a horse? Check. Strange and/or creepy little girl character (my favorite type of fantasy/horror character - Arya, Samara...you go, girls!)? Check. Wizards who can speak to inanimate objects, because everything has a spirit? Check. And now I see the three-book omnibus is cheaper than buying the remaining two separately, so thanks Orbit.

[Abyss]

Kruppe, on 04 April 2013 - 08:59 PM, said:

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Hound, on 03 April 2013 - 06:29 PM, said:

I thought that Ex-Patriots was even more awesome than Ex-Heroes. I so very much love reading the occasional popcorn-action-movie-turned-into-a-book-book.

I keep trying to buy Ex-Heroes, but when I put it in my cart, Amazon keeps jacking up the price $2 before I can pull the trigger.

...

I am utterly enjoying the fuckballs out of EX PATRIOTS. Clines writes snappy patter so fucking well, his characters are a blast, and he drops pop culture refs to comics and zombie flics in with a flare that nears Butcher's.

I need him to write more because i need a reason to give him my money faster.

[Tiste Simeon]

Briar King, on 04 April 2013 - 08:20 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 04 April 2013 - 04:36 PM, said:

Flipping heck the more I read Cloud Atlas the more I love it! It has moved from slightly quirky novel where you keep guessing to what is going on to full blown "This stuff is amazing, I don't want to put it down!"

It has a movie with Tom Hanks and Halle Berry(so hot) but I've not seen it or heard if its good. I've never read the book either.

Yeah I was going to see it but it lasted about a week in the cinema & I missed it...

[Dutch]

I'd say Red Storm Rising was one of the best Clancy books that I have read and yes HARRISON FORD is JACK RYAN!!!

Besides Jack Ryan, John "the Snake" Clark and Domingo "Ding" Chavez are my favorite chars in the books.

Ninjas, we own the night!!!

I'm 300 pages into A Storm of Swords now, it's getting better and better.

[Mentalist]

This week I've finally managed to make some time for reading. As such, I've finally finished Redemption Ark , the second Revelation Space novel.

This one was a slow burner. The story took a while to get me interested. Also, after the plot got going tehre were serious moments of astro- and quantum-physics information overloads. That being said, Reynolds writes an incredibly interesting galaxy, and the idea of centuries-old characters brings a whole new angle to the writing. By the end I was a bit annoyed by the fact that in the end, everything, always would get linked to aliens. And the whole

Spoiler

Time-manipulation thread

also went a bit over my head.

That being said, i felt the Antoinnette plotline was a really nice touch, interweaving a deeply human interest story into somehting far more epic and insane.

I'll take a bit of a break from Reynolds now. THink I'll reread "Last Argument of Kings" to refresh my mind before reading "The Heroes"

Briar King, on 04 April 2013 - 08:20 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 04 April 2013 - 04:36 PM, said:

Flipping heck the more I read Cloud Atlas the more I love it! It has moved from slightly quirky novel where you keep guessing to what is going on to full blown "This stuff is amazing, I don't want to put it down!"

It has a movie with Tom Hanks and Halle Berry(so hot) but I've not seen it or heard if its good. I've never read the book either.

Movie was mind-blowingly good. Have not read the book.

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