[Cougar]

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I have a question: Is there an accepted, designated period of time under which something is no longer considered a spoiler on this forum?

I think Mentalist probably picked it up, but I've posted a new guide to spoilers in this forum in particular.

For the book forums, you can only mention what has gone before, so if you were in the MT forum you could only discuss things from GotM, MoI, HoC, DG and MT itself. If you are in the forum you are assumed to have read the book.

With the other forums make sure you are clear on the thread you are entering; if for example it's a discussion thread on what you think of Heroes series 3 so far then expect spoilers. If it's a thread entitled 'has anyone read Legend' then use your common sense and realise any Legend spoilers are inappropriate. If it's a grey area and you aren't sure, then get the spoiler tags out, it can't hurt.

[caladanbrood]

Finished The Red Wolf Conspiracy, I really enjoyed it, though it was obviously aimed at a lower age. Still, it was a fun story and I'm interested to see where the series goes.

Next up is whatever I pick off the shelf tomorrow for the train. Probably Stross' Halting State or Brasyl by Ian MacDonald

[Mentalist]

Finished "broken angels" by Morgan, though stayed up till 6 AM to do it.. lol
well-paced story, with awesome humour, and lots of cyberpunk action. I loved it
this weekend I got some relief from coursework, so may read "Woken furies"--the last (so far) of the Takeshi Kovacs novels. then, in some foreseeable future I may start on "Reality dysfunction"...

[caladanbrood]

Mentalist, on Oct 25 2008, 12:53 AM, said:

Finished "broken angels" by Morgan, though stayed up till 6 AM to do it.. lol
well-paced story, with awesome humour, and lots of cyberpunk action. I loved it
this weekend I got some relief from coursework, so may read "Woken furies"--the last (so far) of the Takeshi Kovacs novels. then, in some foreseeable future I may start on "Reality dysfunction"...

You lucky bastard! I wish I could read any of those books for the first time again. So damn good.

[murphy72]

Just finished Mike Carey's The Devil You Know. It's about an exorcist in modern day London and seems to be a well-done mystery/horror story. Looking forward to the next book in the series. (And yes, this is the Mike Carey of comic book fame.)

Now reading The Crown Jewels by Walter Jon Williams. It's the first book in the Drake Maijstral trilogy and is about the only allowed burglar in known space.

[chitman13]

Currently reading Night of Knives, my first foray into the world of the Malaz. Looking good so far and at least I know how much more I can delve in to once it's out of the way

[Cougar]

chitman13, on Oct 27 2008, 02:18 PM, said:

Currently reading Night of Knives, my first foray into the world of the Malaz. Looking good so far and at least I know how much more I can delve in to once it's out of the way

NoK is not the best or most accessible way to start reading the Malazan Empire books. Even if you find some of the stuff a bit mystifying I'd highly recommend you persevere with Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates. A great deal of NoK will be made clearer by these novels (although you'll have boatloads of new questions) if you make it this far you'll be hooked, i envy the fact that you have so much stuff to read in the Malaz cannon. Even though it's the next in the series of Ian C. Esselmonts books I'd really recommend against reading Return of the Crimson Guard next, that book is definitley better after reading Eriksons Malaz books

Welcome.

[chitman13]

I was fairly aware that there may be quite a bit that I may be left with questions about, but with such a huge series I wanted to try and get a shorter taste of it - Night of Knives definitely meets that criteria. I was about to order Return of the Crimson Guard the other day, but when I read somewhere that it follows events from the forth or fifth in Erikson's series I decided against it. I'll be getting Gardens of the Moon anyway, as what I've read so far has given plenty of reason to invest more in the novels

[Use Of Weapons]

Rereading Dresden from Dead Beat. So many details I'd forgotten! (Like Harry's dad!)

Also finished 'The Credit Crunch' by Graham Turner. Not SF, but interesting analysis of the current financial crisis.

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[stone monkey]

I re-read Halting State over the weekend and have come to the conclusion that Charles Stross is just far too clever. The ARG stuff (and the SPOOKS game in particular) is so frightningly well thought out that if they

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the Security Services

aren't caught doing something very similar in the real world in the nearish future, then they just aren't trying...

That 2nd person voice is profoundly annoying, though.

[Mentalist]

Finished "Woken Furies" around 3AM yesterday
still a great book, but morgan seems to throw out a lot more sex scenes. in fact, througout the 3 Takeshi Kovacs books, there's a trend fro greater frequency of those. Gets a bit out of hand and annoying, imho

other than that, awesome book, as everything I've read so far by Morgan

next up--Reality Dysfunction... that monster will probably take a while, though..

[frookenhauer]

Have just started black company...Not bad so far.

And last night finished reading State of the Art from that Iain Banks duder (its how the Greeks say it ) Not bad for a novella. I'm starting to come round to liking him slowly, don't tell werty

[Skywalker]

Briar King, on Oct 13 2008, 01:49 PM, said:

Deornoth: Well of Acension is so much better than Mistborn! Also the third book comes out tomorrow: The Hero of Ages.

Been gone from the forums a while... just finished Mistborn 2 myself... and must second that description. Sanderson has my vote for characterization, worldbuilding, storytelling etc. His fight scenes need some work though... tend to get confusing (I thought). Grade A author and book overall. I'm buying me Mistborn 3

[Deornoth]

Briar King, on Oct 13 2008, 01:49 PM, said:

Deornoth: Well of Acension is so much better than Mistborn! Also the third book comes out tomorrow: The Hero of Ages.

I'll have to move it back up the pile

I've just finished reading L.H. Maynard & M.P.N Sims' 'Black Cathedral'; a story of a haunted island, shadowy government departments and... er... Jesuits! I loved the concept and the execution with some moments that were really quite scary. This was the case right up until the end when the entire thing was spoilt by the biggest cop-out ending I think I've ever read. Dammit... My full review is over Here.
I'm now reading 'Jake's Wake' by John Skipp and Cory Goodfellow which is turning out to be a lot better so far...

[Salt-Man Z]

I just finished She is the Darkness, which was great, and now have only 2 books left in the Black Company series. However, I have to stop there for now and go pick up Toll the Hounds, which is waiting for me at the library.

[pat5150]

Just finished Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth. . .

I should have known that things would go wrong at some point. It was to be expected. . . Losing a wager had never been this enjoyable, though I had to live with the fact that the Giants not only beat the Cowboys, but they added insult to injury by winning the Super Bowl. Early on, I was aware that I couldn't possibly like every book George R. R. Martin got to choose for me to review for losing that NFL bet. But I enjoyed both S. L. Farrell and Melinda Snodgrass' works, and I figured I couldn't go wrong with Jack Vance. After all, the Dying Earth novels are genre classics. The whole point of GRRM selecting books for me to read was to give exposure to older works which no longer get an opportunity to be in the limelight.

Unfortunately, the four volumes that comprise the omnibus Tales of the Dying Earth failed to do it for me on basically every level. A bet's a bet, and I always pay my debts. Otherwise, I would have quit midway through the second book, The Eyes of the Overworld. By the time I reached Cugel's Saga, I had lost all hope. It took everything I had in me just to finish the omnibus, and at some point I considered asking Martin to choose something else for me to read. Still, I'm a trooper and I pulled through. The last time I encountered a work so hard to finish was when I read David Bilsborough's The Wanderer's Tale. . .

Check the blog for the full review.

Patrick

[Deornoth]

I finished reading 'The Pilo Family Circus' (Will Elliott) last night, the tale of a man battling his murderous alter-ego in an inter-dimensional circus... Strangely unsettling yet absolutely hilarious at the same time, very atmospheric and full of characters that will get under your skin. My full review is over Here.
I'm now reading Kelley Armstrong's 'Living with the Dead'...

[chitman13]

Well, I finished Night of Knives (full review here), my introduction to Malaz (and my first straight fantasy book in years). I enjoyed it quite a lot, the descriptiveness of the city and the general feeling of danger was great, although there some things that I don;t think I got the full impact of simply for not reading the other malaz novels. I'll be picking them up in the future as this has given me plenty to look forward to from a full series. Although not the ideal introduction due to the events of the novel, I'd much rather go for something of this size rather than anything larger, especially as someone that doesn't read much fantasy and may be put off by the size of the full series.

[Binder of Demons]

I'm racing my way through Neal Asher's "POLITY AGENT" and i'm really enjoying it. But I kinda expected to since it's the third of his Agent Cormac novels that I've read.

But, now i have to read even faster cos I bought Return of The Crimson Guard today and I'm itching to get started on that. Such excitement.

[DarkGothicGirl]

I am now reading Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind.