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#4301 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 03:03 AM

Pig Iron, on 12 September 2009 - 07:45 PM, said:

Blade of Tyshalle and Caine Black Knife are great fun. I've picked up his Bronze Age novels Jericho Moon and Iron Dawn used, but not read them yet.

Yeah, those are the only two books of his I haven't read yet. I've got the SFBC omnibus edition sitting on my shelf waiting for me to get to it. Hopefully this year...

And speaking of Stover, you probably don't know it, but he's got a short story set in the HD/BoT/CBK universe available online. You can read it here. (I really wish he could get this thing published in the back of either CBK or His Father's Fist.)

"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?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

#4302 pat5150

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 03:18 AM

Just finished Harry Connolly's Child of Fire, and I really enjoyed this urban fantasy debut with a high bodycount. :lol:

It should appeal to fans of Green and Butcher.

Check the blog for the full review.

Patrick

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#4303 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 03:55 PM

Just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora last night. Wow! I spent the last two or three nights reading an hour longer than I should have, it was that good.

Not sure if I want to start in on Red Seas Under Red Skies yet, or read something else first.

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 04:07 PM

Finished reading Alex Bledsoe's 'Burn Me Deadly', sequel to 'The Sword Edged Blonde'. The balance still isn't quite right, between the fantasy and hardboiled detective elements, but the characterisation and plot made this one a compulsive read as far as I was concerned. My full review is over Here. I've got a few books on the go right now but it's 'Fast Ships, Black Sails' (a pirate anthology) that's getting the most attention at the moment.

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 06:04 PM

I'm doing a reread of Meeting at Corvallis by S. M. Stirling. It's the third book in the apocalyptic Emberverse series. I'm rather ambivalent about the theme of the book, although I sympathize with its basic premise, but killing off 9 out of every 10 people in the world to save the world is hard to take.

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Posted 16 September 2009 - 03:37 PM

Finished reading 'Bite Marks' (Terence Taylor), vampires in New York are trying to stop a newly turned vampire toddler revealing the secret of their existence... It's a lot of fun to read, with plenty happening, but I sometimes got the feeling that Taylor was trying to cram more in than the book was comfortable with. There was also a 'WTF?' moment that really spoilt the flow... My full review is over Here. I'm now reading Robert Holdstock's 'Avilion' amongst others...

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Posted 16 September 2009 - 04:19 PM

Well I've wrapped up Conn Iggulden's The Gates of Rome. It wasn't bad, but I certainly wasn't terrible, but it certainly wasn't the best historical fiction I've ever read. I think I prefer historical finction with a bit more content and accuracy to it. I did buy all of the Emperor Series at once though, so I'll finish it off.

Also Read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. It was surprisingly good! After reading the Edible Woman, I swore I would never read another one of her works again, because that was honestly the worst book I'd ever laid my hands on. However, I was hearing rave reviews abot it and decided to give it a go. Thankfully Oryx and Crake is nothing like Edible WOman and is a really intriguing read. I would recommend it to anyone who is a post apocolyptic lit fan.

I'm now on to Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill. So far, I'm disgusted, horrified and shocked and I'm only three chapters in. Should be a good read, although I doubt it will improve my opinions of Americaland.

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Posted 17 September 2009 - 03:30 PM

Finished reading Joe McKinney's 'Dead City' where a San Antonio cop must fight his way through a city full of zombies to reach his wife and child. The ending is a bit of a cop out but other than that 'Dead City' is a sweet read full of zombie carnage, just how I like it. My review is over Here. I'm now finishing off 'Fast Ships, Black Sails', 'Avilion is looking to be pretty good as well.

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Posted 18 September 2009 - 05:58 AM

Just started "Best Served Cold", by Joe Abercrombie...

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Posted 18 September 2009 - 03:21 PM

Finished reading 'Fast Ships, Black Sails', an anthology of science fiction and fantasy pirate tales. I found it to be a bit of a mixed bag but the good definitely outweighed the bad, my full review is over Here. I'm now well into 'Avilion' and a couple of others...

#4311 Sixty

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Posted 20 September 2009 - 04:10 AM

Finished the first 2 Bauchelain & Korbal Broach novels, starting on The Healthy Dead...

Followed by Best Served Cold by Abercrombie...

Then What is the What by David Eggers (for a Psych project, mainly)...

And finally RotCG since I never got around to reading that.

Then 1 other fantasy book I order with What is the What off B&N for free shipping.

I have a lot of reading to do. o.O

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Posted 20 September 2009 - 05:41 AM

@Sixty - dude, wtf you doing up at this hour?

Anyhoo, currently reading Look To Windward following the awesomeness that was DoD.

Victory is mine!

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Posted 20 September 2009 - 01:41 PM

The Fade, by Chris Wooding

#4314 Sixty

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Posted 20 September 2009 - 04:57 PM

Fist Gamet, on 20 September 2009 - 05:41 AM, said:

@Sixty - dude, wtf you doing up at this hour?

Anyhoo, currently reading Look To Windward following the awesomeness that was DoD.

Midnight on a Saturday? That tends to be pretty regular for me.

Oh, and I'm now 200 pages into Best Served Cold and am enjoying it. =) Might have to go back and read the First Law trilogy some time...

#4315 LadyMTL

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 11:55 AM

I'm also reading Best Served Cold !

Before that I read Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain (very interesting start to a vampire-related trilogy, if anyone is interested) and before THAT I read DoD. My only problem is that I have nothing new left to read once I've finished Cold. Hmph.

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 05:38 PM

Sixty, on 20 September 2009 - 04:57 PM, said:

Fist Gamet, on 20 September 2009 - 05:41 AM, said:

@Sixty - dude, wtf you doing up at this hour?

Anyhoo, currently reading Look To Windward following the awesomeness that was DoD.

Oh, on the page I saw it was posted at 05:10? Unless I got my locations mixed up as I thought you were in Engurland. I was near the tail end of a night shift, ya see.

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#4317 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 06:31 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 15 September 2009 - 03:55 PM, said:

Not sure if I want to start in on Red Seas Under Red Skies yet, or read something else first.

Well, I decided to mix things up, so now I'm halfway through Reynolds' Chasm City. I've already read the Revelation Space trilogy and his two RS-universe novellas, and man, this is such an awesome, interesting, terrifying universe he's put together. I might have to dive into Galactic North immediately after this.

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 07:31 PM

You should give The Prefect a go too. It's set in the same universe, at the height of the Belle Epoque.

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 07:54 PM

murphy72, on 15 September 2009 - 06:04 PM, said:

This is a great series, it scared the poop out of me!
Got the same feeling from reading this as I did reading World War Z.

The Devil and His had me down,
In love with the dark side I'd found,
dabbling all the way down,
up to my neck soon to drown.

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 08:56 PM

Three things at once:

-World War Hulk (graphic novel)
-The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip Jose Farmer
-Bauchelain and Korbal Broach collected stories by SE