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#10681 Primateus

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Posted 23 May 2013 - 06:00 PM

I'm rereading Deadhouse Gates because the Chain of Dogs story is so fucking awesome!

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Posted 24 May 2013 - 05:17 PM

Reading Metro 2033, maybe I also have to finish the game in the future...

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Posted 25 May 2013 - 02:26 PM

In Hyperion just read Kassads story (life is busy & having to read when possible atm) and seriously,

Spoiler

Enjoying it immensely though!

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Posted 25 May 2013 - 03:53 PM

Just finished Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven - is it me or did the guy who wrote Paprika (I'm assuming the book's fairly similar to the film) definitely read this at some point (not total resemblance but the ending certainly has similarities [although Le Guin seems quite pro-mysticism, whereas it's a mystic idealism that seems behind the Chairman's disdain for the DC Mini project]).

Edit: Of course, it may be a case of a shared primary source, e.g. perhaps Chuang Tsu and his philosophical thoughts on dreams.

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Posted 25 May 2013 - 05:14 PM

Considering I've never read him, and he's such a big name I picked up THE LORD OF LIGHT by Roger Zelazny...reading it now. Hope I like it.

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Posted 25 May 2013 - 07:02 PM

QuickTidal, on 25 May 2013 - 05:14 PM, said:

Considering I've never read him, and he's such a big name I picked up THE LORD OF LIGHT by Roger Zelazny...reading it now. Hope I like it.

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Posted 25 May 2013 - 08:58 PM

QuickTidal, on 25 May 2013 - 05:14 PM, said:

Considering I've never read him, and he's such a big name I picked up THE LORD OF LIGHT by Roger Zelazny...reading it now. Hope I like it.

It's a great book, though you need to have some rudimentary knowledge of Hinduism and Buddism to get the full experience I think.

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Posted 26 May 2013 - 11:00 AM

I got about 40 pages into LORD OF LIGHT and was baffled. LOL. I will give it another go down the line, as I'm not in the mood for "baffling" "sort it out" fiction right now...

So I've gone and started SAILING TO SARANTIUM by GGK. This will be my first book of his I've read after LIONS that actually does take place in the same world, just in a different time. Excited to get into it.

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Posted 26 May 2013 - 02:18 PM

You better be.. Sailing and the follow up are perhaps his best work.

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Posted 26 May 2013 - 02:38 PM

Oh the 50 page prologue already whetted my whistle. Enjoying it already.

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Posted 26 May 2013 - 04:07 PM

QuickTidal, on 26 May 2013 - 02:38 PM, said:

Oh the 50 page prologue already whetted my whistle. Enjoying it already.

It's brilliant. If you don't have bk2 lined up, get it. You wont be disappointed.

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Posted 26 May 2013 - 05:08 PM

Abyss, on 26 May 2013 - 04:07 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 May 2013 - 02:38 PM, said:

Oh the 50 page prologue already whetted my whistle. Enjoying it already.

It's brilliant. If you don't have bk2 lined up, get it. You wont be disappointed.

Yeah, I'll probably spin out and get the second this week, as I'm already digging this one heavily.

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Posted 26 May 2013 - 07:21 PM

Glad to hear it. Done with Metro now and over to The king's blood by Abraham.

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Posted 27 May 2013 - 01:37 AM

started the other night The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie, i only have a minor quip, cause the other night before i started reading this, i was reading the blurb and thought,
but since not everyone has read this, i'll put it on spoiler mode:

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 12:59 PM

Well, I guess I'm not done with Shannara just yet: FIRST KING OF SHANNARA.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 01:39 PM

McLovin, on 28 May 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

Well, I guess I'm not done with Shannara just yet: FIRST KING OF SHANNARA.

Though I am totally in the minority, that is actually my fave volume of the entire series. I just found the story of the precursor events SO much more compelling than the original trilogy.

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 02:20 PM

QuickTidal, on 28 May 2013 - 01:39 PM, said:

McLovin, on 28 May 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

Well, I guess I'm not done with Shannara just yet: FIRST KING OF SHANNARA.

Though I am totally in the minority, that is actually my fave volume of the entire series. I just found the story of the precursor events SO much more compelling than the original trilogy.

S'funny - i found it one of the least interesting, with Brookes just churning out his usual archetypes and situations with minimal effort at making anything new or different. It wasn't 'bad', but far from my favorite SHANNARA book.

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 02:24 PM

Abyss, on 28 May 2013 - 02:20 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 28 May 2013 - 01:39 PM, said:

McLovin, on 28 May 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

Well, I guess I'm not done with Shannara just yet: FIRST KING OF SHANNARA.

Though I am totally in the minority, that is actually my fave volume of the entire series. I just found the story of the precursor events SO much more compelling than the original trilogy.

It should probably be noted that it was my first Shannara book. I didn't read the original trilogy and beyond till after...since it was a prequel I thought it best to start there. It made me view the original trilogy (written so many years before) feel utterly cliched, where FIRST KING felt fresh to me.

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 04:09 PM

QuickTidal, on 28 May 2013 - 02:24 PM, said:

Abyss, on 28 May 2013 - 02:20 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 28 May 2013 - 01:39 PM, said:

McLovin, on 28 May 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

Well, I guess I'm not done with Shannara just yet: FIRST KING OF SHANNARA.

Though I am totally in the minority, that is actually my fave volume of the entire series. I just found the story of the precursor events SO much more compelling than the original trilogy.

Which is the exact opposite for me, since i read FIRST after the original trilo and the LEGACY quad, at which point there was for me nothing in it that hasn't been done in the prior seven books.

I did enjoy the VOYAGE trilo, tho i haven't read an SHANNARA since then.

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 05:23 PM

Abyss, on 28 May 2013 - 04:09 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 28 May 2013 - 02:24 PM, said:

Abyss, on 28 May 2013 - 02:20 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 28 May 2013 - 01:39 PM, said:

McLovin, on 28 May 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

Well, I guess I'm not done with Shannara just yet: FIRST KING OF SHANNARA.

Though I am totally in the minority, that is actually my fave volume of the entire series. I just found the story of the precursor events SO much more compelling than the original trilogy.

I read the first one that came out after the VOYAGE trilogy. It threw out anything that made VOYAGE interesting and went straight back to all the Shannara tropes. I haven't read any after that.

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