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Im reading The Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb, and am on book two, Mad Ship. I have read The Farseer and The Tawny Man, and I plan on reading the Soldier Son after I read the Malazan Book the Fallen series after I'm done reading the Traders.
Reading at t'moment?
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Posted 06 December 2008 - 02:30 AM
I just read David Wellington 3 Vampire Tale books. All great, if simple reads, except for a bad ending to the third book, where it seemed he just couldn't find a good way to settle the final fight
Going to read his 3 zombie novels, Blindsight, or Ender in Exile next.
Going to read his 3 zombie novels, Blindsight, or Ender in Exile next.
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Posted 06 December 2008 - 07:09 AM
Just finished reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and am now about to start Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Posted 06 December 2008 - 08:55 PM
Just finished Caine Black Knife last night, and it was fantastic. (See link for my review.) It's gonna be far too long a wait for His Father's Fist.
Tonight I'll be starting in on The Book of the New Sun. Wish me luck.
Tonight I'll be starting in on The Book of the New Sun. Wish me luck.
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
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Posted 06 December 2008 - 09:05 PM
Just finished reading Brandon Sanderson's The Hero of Ages.
Lots of revelations, cool concepts, unexpected plot twists, but crappy characterization shoots this one in the legs. A pity, as it could have been one of the fantasy books of the year. . .
Check out the blog for the full review.
Patrick
Lots of revelations, cool concepts, unexpected plot twists, but crappy characterization shoots this one in the legs. A pity, as it could have been one of the fantasy books of the year. . .
Check out the blog for the full review.
Patrick
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Posted 06 December 2008 - 10:17 PM
Gene Wolfe - The Book of the Long Sun
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Posted 07 December 2008 - 11:26 AM
Inbetween The Crimson Guard I'm reading Nation by Terry Pratchett. Which is a exceptional book.
But on the subject of Crimson Guard, Spoilers ahoy!
I don't want to sound exceedingly harsh or c*ntish, but this subject really annoyed me.
But on the subject of Crimson Guard, Spoilers ahoy!
Spoiler
I don't want to sound exceedingly harsh or c*ntish, but this subject really annoyed me.
This post has been edited by Cougar: 07 December 2008 - 09:56 PM
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Posted 07 December 2008 - 08:22 PM
At the moment I'm 130 pages into The Green Rider by Kristen Britain. I'm really not sure what to think of it.
"Ignoring him, she stepped back out of the ellipse and began singing in the Woman's Language, which was, of course, unintelligible to Iskaral's ears. Just as the Man's Language-which Mongora called gibberish-was beyond her ability to understand. The reason for that, Iskaral Pust knew, was that the Man's Language was gibberish, designed specifically to confound women."
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Posted 07 December 2008 - 08:28 PM
It takes me usually over half the book until I know I like something, but sometimes you just know very early on that you are reading something special...
I'm reading Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton and I'm just over halfway through and its not a bad book at all, but nothing special
I'm reading Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton and I'm just over halfway through and its not a bad book at all, but nothing special
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Posted 07 December 2008 - 09:29 PM
Or you really love the first part of the book, and then just finnish it...so you can say you made it through the book. That's what happened to me in Terry Brooks Elfstones Of Shannara.
"Ignoring him, she stepped back out of the ellipse and began singing in the Woman's Language, which was, of course, unintelligible to Iskaral's ears. Just as the Man's Language-which Mongora called gibberish-was beyond her ability to understand. The reason for that, Iskaral Pust knew, was that the Man's Language was gibberish, designed specifically to confound women."
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"What's wrong with the world? You ask a man and he says, 'Don't ask.' Ask a woman and you'll be dead of old age before she's finished"
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Posted 07 December 2008 - 10:32 PM
Chance, on Dec 7 2008, 02:05 AM, said:
Been so much noice about Stovers Caine books recently so...jumping into Heroes Die...
That makes two of us.
EsotericForest, on Dec 7 2008, 01:29 PM, said:
Or you really love the first part of the book, and then just finnish it...so you can say you made it through the book. That's what happened to me in Terry Brooks Elfstones Of Shannara.
That's the book that stopped me from reading any more books by Terry.
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Posted 08 December 2008 - 12:45 PM
murphy72, on Dec 7 2008, 11:32 PM, said:
Chance, on Dec 7 2008, 02:05 AM, said:
Been so much noice about Stovers Caine books recently so...jumping into Heroes Die...
That makes two of us.
Found Heroes Die to be brilliant while the Blade of Tyshalle was too long still good but too long...
Think they read like a Richard Morgan offering in a very good way...
Now how to get the third part when my local books shop is out of them
/Chance
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Posted 08 December 2008 - 02:11 PM
Finished Neal Asher's short story collection _The Gabble_ at the weekend. Some great stories, some not so good, but still readable.
Got Morgan's _The Steel Remains_ in my bag waiting for its first opening, now!
Got Morgan's _The Steel Remains_ in my bag waiting for its first opening, now!
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Posted 08 December 2008 - 02:34 PM
Finished Paul Kearney's Ten Thousand yesterday. It was excellent, for any of you who were wondering, very refreshing after slogging through that PoN trilogy! I'm now onto Adrian Tchaikovsky's Empire in Black and Gold.
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Posted 08 December 2008 - 02:50 PM
Bought and started reading Scar Night after hearing lots of good remarks here and on other sites. Hope it's true!
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I greet you as guests and so will not crush the life from you and devour your soul with peals of laughter. No, instead, I will make tea-Gothos
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Posted 08 December 2008 - 05:00 PM
I've just finished reading Elizabeth Bear's 'All the Windwracked Stars', a part detective/fantasy/sci-fi tale of Valkyries living in the last city on a dying planet. A great concept and plot but so damn slow that I kept nodding off and having to go back to re-read the good bits... My full review is over Here.
I'm now reading 'Raven: Blood Eye' by Giles Kristian.
I'm now reading 'Raven: Blood Eye' by Giles Kristian.
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Posted 08 December 2008 - 07:19 PM
Now reading Brisingr by: Christopher Paolini.
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Posted 09 December 2008 - 11:58 AM
Recently finished Azincourt the latest Bernard Cornwell book. This time it is about the battle of Agincourt. It was a great read as always fast paced, exciting, with a way of bringing the period and the bloody reality of the war to life. If you have read his books before you know what to expect and if you haven't, but have an interest in the battle then this is a good book to read.
Am now doing a reread of Toll of the Hounds.
Am now doing a reread of Toll of the Hounds.
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Posted 09 December 2008 - 02:51 PM
I'm doing some Middle English Poetry at the moment - the classic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight which is appropriately Christmas-y; Pearl which is both tragic and beautiful and Cleanness which I find to be a bit preachy.
I'm reading them in the Middle English: which is turning out to be a fairly brutal process. I've actually found that I'm having to sound some words out to myself to get an idea of what they mean - which, as it happens, turns out to have some advantages; as the metre comes out brilliantly when you do this. And the multiple spellings aren't helping the process at all.
I'm reading them in the Middle English: which is turning out to be a fairly brutal process. I've actually found that I'm having to sound some words out to myself to get an idea of what they mean - which, as it happens, turns out to have some advantages; as the metre comes out brilliantly when you do this. And the multiple spellings aren't helping the process at all.
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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. … So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. Bertrand Russell
