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Posted 23 September 2016 - 12:15 PM

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Andorion, on 23 September 2016 - 11:04 AM, said:

Reading Magic Binds. I should have reread the last book, I am missing things

Go on ded-thread and ask questions in spoiler tags, I can probably help I think.

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Posted 23 September 2016 - 08:46 PM

Just read Revenger by Alastair Reynolds and enjoyed it thoroughly. It's really not like his other books at all. And, get this, it's essentially an old fashioned Pirate Story set in space. Even the language has shades of it.

All the tropes are there: the ingenue, the family fallen on hard times, the faithful servant, buried treasure, kidnappings and the rest. There's even a spaceship with black sails...

Apparently he's now working on a sequel to The Prefect. Which I want in my hands right now

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Posted 25 September 2016 - 10:48 AM

I've been reading the red Wolf Conspiracy but I'm stumbling at about 30%
I just can't motivate myself to read it at all.
Have reread the low town trilogy in between bouts of red wolf, just have zero interest in any of it. Is it a slow starter? Anyone else have the same unlimited issue with it?

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Posted 25 September 2016 - 10:12 PM

Home from vacation. I finished Byzantium Endures on the plane to Zurich. Will post thoughts in the Moorcock thread.

Also finished River of Gods Chalk me up as an Ian McDonald fan after that.

Currently halfway through Stand on Zanzibar and I feel I'll need to buy the other Brunner novels about his vision of our future. it's not a fast read, as the format requires work and slows the pacing down/ but I'm enjoying it.

Work's gonna be pretty brutal this week, so I'm throwing the second Kate Daniels book Magic Strikes into my backpack as a commute book.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 25 September 2016 - 10:54 PM

Mentalist, on 25 September 2016 - 10:12 PM, said:

Very true about Zanzibar. It took me a few months to read it a chapter or two per sitting. It's so dense that it requires taking time to parse the new ideas before going on to read more.

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Posted 26 September 2016 - 01:36 AM

Reading Courtney Schafer's The Whitefire Crossing. Pretty mediocre story so far, but interesting world

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Posted 26 September 2016 - 02:21 AM

High Geek of Crawfish, on 26 September 2016 - 01:56 AM, said:

Outlander?

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I have a bunch of big reads I need to organize - Outlander, the rest of Safehold, Bakker, Janny Wurts, the Dark Tower...

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Posted 26 September 2016 - 11:47 AM

Finished all the Eddings books. Sheesh, I'm glad that's over. I mean, yes. It was fun, and the nostalgia element helpd get me through, but it was painful at so many times! I finished on Polgara the sorceress and she was so insufferably smug and annoying, I just got annoyed on almost every page. Belgarath FTW (plus silk, obv).

So I'm thinking I might read the Troy series by Gemmell now, seen as Macros was insistent about it.

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Posted 26 September 2016 - 04:09 PM

Just finished No Return by Zachary Jernigan, because I was trawling through the archives for recs and saw Amph recommending the series.

Well worth it. Nice simple overall concept driving a pacy, high-action, high-magic plot with a good bunch of characters and some neat ideas. It's a bit odd coz he spends quite a lot of time building up the significance of a particular event only for it to be pretty by-and-by in the end, but where it does go is interesting enough that it doesn't matter too much.

Also: Amph, if you like the Malazan-like 'ascendant' idea that this plays with you should give the Miles Cameron Red Knight books a look if you haven't, a similar concept of power is one of the themes there. Also it's just an excellent series, though it's very different overall to this.

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Posted 26 September 2016 - 04:32 PM

Tiste Simeon, on 26 September 2016 - 11:47 AM, said:

So I'm thinking I might read the Troy series by Gemmell now, seen as Macros was insistent about it.

I will freely second the endorsement of the TROY trilogy. It's utterly fantastic.

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Posted 26 September 2016 - 04:36 PM

polishgenius, on 26 September 2016 - 04:09 PM, said:

Already got to that Red Knight series. Try out Marc Turner and KV Johanson.

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Posted 26 September 2016 - 05:21 PM

Way ahead of you.

Actually I do need to read the second Johansen.

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Posted 26 September 2016 - 05:24 PM

There's a third Johansen!

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Posted 26 September 2016 - 05:27 PM

There is (assuming I'm referring to 'Marakand' being a two-parter which I am).

Either way I still need to read the second Johansen first and the third Johansen second.

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Posted 27 September 2016 - 12:32 PM

The sequel to No Return is out, and has been for a while. I haven't read it because I have entirely too much on my plate but I will one day.

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Posted 27 September 2016 - 01:00 PM

Just finished my reread of the Low Town trilogy. still love the ending of it.

trying to force myself back into the red wolf conspiracy but I have a reread of deadhouse gates sitting at about 25%. it draws me more.

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Posted 27 September 2016 - 01:45 PM

Macros, on 27 September 2016 - 01:00 PM, said:

trying to force myself back into the red wolf conspiracy but I have a reread of deadhouse gates sitting at about 25%. it draws me more.

If you are flagging early on in Red Wolf...I'd give up for now. The first half was the bit I enjoyed most, the second half was pretty rough for me.

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Posted 27 September 2016 - 05:35 PM

I was the other way round. I struggled with the beginning of each book but once I got into them I enjoyed them all.

Does that mean Red Wolf gets a double-half-stamp?

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Posted 27 September 2016 - 05:42 PM

polishgenius, on 27 September 2016 - 05:35 PM, said:

I was the other way round. I struggled with the beginning of each book but once I got into them I enjoyed them all.

Does that mean Red Wolf gets a double-half-stamp?

Or like a full stamp, half from either of us? So like a multi-coloured stamp. Huzzah!

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