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#21381 User is offline   Macros 

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Posted 14 December 2017 - 02:00 PM

View PostStalker, on 14 December 2017 - 12:48 PM, said:

For any Gaunt's Ghosts fans, the newest book, The Warmaster, just released. It's been over 6 years since the last one so I'm thrilled to have my hands on it. Strangely, and I'm not sure if it's a UK thing, the hardcover has no dust jacket and the pages are really thick. I've had to look at the page number on top every time because it feels like I'm turning 2-3 pages each time.


Not sure how far I've read in the ghosts.
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Posted 14 December 2017 - 02:09 PM

View PostStalker, on 14 December 2017 - 12:48 PM, said:

For any Gaunt's Ghosts fans, the newest book, The Warmaster, just released. It's been over 6 years since the last one so I'm thrilled to have my hands on it. Strangely, and I'm not sure if it's a UK thing, the hardcover has no dust jacket and the pages are really thick. I've had to look at the page number on top every time because it feels like I'm turning 2-3 pages each time.


Chapters has the Canadian release date as February. Boo! Excited it's finally getting released though! Hope you enjoy it!
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Posted 14 December 2017 - 03:13 PM

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View PostMacros, on 13 December 2017 - 07:23 PM, said:

Any particular order to read Fritz Lieber, or just publication, specifically farfhd and the grey Mauser stuff


No specific order for F&GM. You can easily google pub and chron orders, but the stories are all standalones, jump around in time, and almost never cross-reference and then only in the most passing ways.


SWORD And DEVILTRY does appear to contain "origins" (as it were) for both Fafhrd and Grey Mouser before they met...but you wound't absolutely NEED to read it first. It sounds like everything else is well standalone.


I'd go one further... you don't need to read it first. Everything you need to know about Fafhrd and the Mouser is told quickly or obvious in each story. It's actually fun to read a few stories and then get the origin of how they met.


A chapter and a bit into PERSEPOLIS RISING earbook... wow. Shit is fucked beyond one particular gate.
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Posted 14 December 2017 - 03:57 PM

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A chapter and a bit into PERSEPOLIS RISING earbook... wow. Shit is fucked beyond one particular gate.


A few chapters in and everything has gone straight to hell.
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Posted 14 December 2017 - 04:12 PM

Finished Becky Chambers' A Closed and Common Orbit (her second "Wayfarers" book) and was not expecting to love it as much as I did. The first book was fun, if a bit meandering. This one is more tightly plotted, and follows two stories: Jane's and Sidra's. Jane's was engrossing from the get-go, and I kept being irritated when every other chapter cut back to Sidra. But by the end, Sidra's story was just as gripping, and the way they tied together was great. I, uh, may have been fighting back tears in a McDonald's booth when I finished it up over lunch break.
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Posted 14 December 2017 - 06:03 PM

View PostAndorion, on 14 December 2017 - 03:57 PM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 14 December 2017 - 03:13 PM, said:

A chapter and a bit into PERSEPOLIS RISING earbook... wow. Shit is fucked beyond one particular gate.


A few chapters in and everything has gone straight to hell.



I am so glad to reach that! :D
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Posted 14 December 2017 - 07:51 PM

Started The Never King, by James Abott last night

Interesting start anyway.
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Posted 15 December 2017 - 05:23 AM

Settled on my next at-home read. A non-fiction, "Guns, germs, and steel" by Jared Diamond.
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View PostJump 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 15 December 2017 - 06:04 AM

I read that a decade ago at Uni. A controversial book as far as I recall but very entertaining for non-fiction literature.
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Posted 15 December 2017 - 06:18 AM

Yah I read it about that long ago too, maybe a few years longer. It's interesting and there is some truth in what he argues. Critiques that it's too fatalistic or deterministic are off-base in my opinion (after all, he's not casting bones about the future, he's trying to determine causal factors of things that already happened). That said, and not that I read a lot of academic criticism, now or then, but I guess there are other critiques that he fudges (accidentally or conveniently) the historical record where it fits his thesis. Ignores things that don't fit. And it's definitely a book laser-focused on supporting its thesis. I guess ultimately I think it's worth reading -- and is very readable, for sure -- but not the gospel.

Edit: and it's always possible his sources were inaccurate, or have since been shown to be, etc.

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Posted 15 December 2017 - 09:01 AM

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Finished Oathbringer it just isn't that much to say the finish was an avenger movie finish with superpowers and all, something I expect in popcorn movies. Not going to rant more here the books simply reinforce my view that Sanderson really doesn't write much worthwhile most of the time.

Probably going to take one off Dancer's Lament, Persepolis Rising, Greatcoats series or A War in Crimson Embers next but perhaps I should take something with no expectations first to get Oathbring out of the system.


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Posted 15 December 2017 - 09:04 AM

Tiste, your humor game has been on fire lately. I think Worry's crown for most sarcastic forum member is seriously in peril.
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Posted 15 December 2017 - 11:14 AM

View PostAlternative Goose, on 15 December 2017 - 09:04 AM, said:

Tiste, your humor game has been on fire lately. I think Worry's crown for most sarcastic forum member is seriously in peril.


Plus there are days now and then when it seems Worry is phoning it in.
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Posted 15 December 2017 - 02:05 PM

In commute, in "Nightmare Stacks" I got to the chapter with all the death last night.

Spoiler


Might just keep reading when I get home tonight and finish the book.
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View PostJump 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 15 December 2017 - 02:34 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 15 December 2017 - 11:14 AM, said:

View PostAlternative Goose, on 15 December 2017 - 09:04 AM, said:

Tiste, your humor game has been on fire lately. I think Worry's crown for most sarcastic forum member is seriously in peril.


Plus there are days now and then when it seems Worry is phoning it in.



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Posted 15 December 2017 - 04:30 PM

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View PostAbyss, on 14 December 2017 - 03:13 PM, said:

A chapter and a bit into PERSEPOLIS RISING earbook... wow. Shit is fucked beyond one particular gate.


A few chapters in and everything has gone straight to hell.


A few more chapters in...

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Posted 15 December 2017 - 04:36 PM

Abyss, how are you liking the narrator for the Expanse earbooks? I've been thinking about catching up that way, but the audible sample made me hesitate because he seemed particularily dry and monotone. Does that hold true, or did they put up a bad spot for the sample?
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Posted 15 December 2017 - 04:50 PM

View PostJPK, on 15 December 2017 - 04:36 PM, said:

Abyss, how are you liking the narrator for the Expanse earbooks? I've been thinking about catching up that way, but the audible sample made me hesitate because he seemed particularily dry and monotone. Does that hold true, or did they put up a bad spot for the sample?


I think he's quite good actually. He keeps it a little dry for some povs, changes it up for others. I think he does Belters voices/accents really well, and doesn't make female characters sound like a man pretending to be a woman in a frat party skit.
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Posted 15 December 2017 - 05:11 PM

Halfway through Sarah Gailey's novella River of Teeth and I'm enjoying it quite a bit :D
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Posted 15 December 2017 - 06:09 PM

View PostAbyss, on 15 December 2017 - 04:50 PM, said:

View PostJPK, on 15 December 2017 - 04:36 PM, said:

Abyss, how are you liking the narrator for the Expanse earbooks? I've been thinking about catching up that way, but the audible sample made me hesitate because he seemed particularily dry and monotone. Does that hold true, or did they put up a bad spot for the sample?


I think he's quite good actually. He keeps it a little dry for some povs, changes it up for others. I think he does Belters voices/accents really well, and doesn't make female characters sound like a man pretending to be a woman in a frat party skit.

Sweet. I'll grab 6 and 7 then. Thank you.
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