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#4561 QuickTidal

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Posted 29 December 2009 - 09:23 PM

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters - Rick Riordan

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#4562 LadyMTL

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Posted 30 December 2009 - 02:51 PM

I finished reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "One Hundred Years of Solitude" yesterday (wow...what a book!) and today I'm going to start George Carlin's autobiography, "Last Words". I need something completely different,

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Posted 30 December 2009 - 06:05 PM

Currently reading The War for Eternity by Christopher Rowley. Mainly because all the plot details I've heard about Avatar - catlike aliens with a secret (bearlike in this case, but still...), world-girdling forest with a deadly ecosystem (very deadly, in this instance, the place is a Deathworld; simply breathing without a filter will get you infected with something unpleasant and fungal), "magical" resource coveted by humans (immortality drug), invading space marines, human and alien resistance etc. - reminded me a lot of this book that I first read nearly 25 years ago...

It'll never win any prizes for style or substance, but it is a rattling good read. And would, dare I say, have made a fun film... Which will now never be made due to the comparisons it would draw...

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Posted 30 December 2009 - 08:16 PM

Right now I'm 150 pages into Midnight Tides.

"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 30 December 2009 - 08:37 PM

Banged out Eye of the World on the flight home (mostly in the three hours we had to hang out at LAX at least), and A Canticle for Leibowitz on the way there, with a nice skip of the second part. I think I'm gonna say screw it and wiki up some summaries for the other wheel of time books and skip to the new one though, since husband explained all of the major happenings of the few books after lord of chaos in about five sentences.

Been a while since I remember reading Neuromancer, I think that might be next up.

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Posted 31 December 2009 - 12:49 AM

Finished "Whitechapel Gods"...it was sooooo good, even if the ending got a bit predictable.

now i'm about to start Ian Irvine`s `Shadow on the Glass` I`ve heard a lot of REALLY bad things about it, but also one or two positive reviews, so i`m gonna give this volume 1 a shot.

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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 31 December 2009 - 09:09 AM

Mentalist, on 31 December 2009 - 12:49 AM, said:

now i'm about to start Ian Irvine`s `Shadow on the Glass` I`ve heard a lot of REALLY bad things about it, but also one or two positive reviews, so i`m gonna give this volume 1 a shot.

Good luck with that mate, that's all l got to say....

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Posted 03 January 2010 - 05:02 AM

A bit on a dare with Mark Charan Newton, I decided to give tie-in fiction a shot by reading the first chapter of The Horus Heresy sequence set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. And I have to say that I'm very impressed by Dan Abnett's intelligent and entertaining Horus Rising.

Will definitely read the rest of the series!

Check out the blog for the full review...

Patrick

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Posted 03 January 2010 - 05:07 AM

Finished "Rides a Dread Legion" by Raymond Feist.

While I enjoy reading them, Feist is formulaic. The one thing that makes this seem recommendable to me is that Feist seems ready and does kill of major characters, and that is a massive change from previous books. I'm guessing this might be the last series in the Midkemia universe, and would be happy to see it on a Eriksonian end, with tons of important character deaths.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#4570 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 04 January 2010 - 03:39 PM

Finally read Dust of Dreams. That book bled awesome.

Halfway through Ilium by Dan Simmons and decided to stop. I've bought it on the force of the sheer brilliance of The Terror and because everything with the war of Troy is good with me. But man this book is boring! There are some interesting parts(notably those set on Earth) but I'm really struggling. Probably the fact that I'm distracted by The Ten Thousand, The Blade Itself and The Book of the New Sun has something to do with it. So, once I've read all those books I'll give it another go.

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#4571 Deornoth

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 03:20 PM

Finished reading Troy Denning's 'Invincible', the last book in the 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force' series. It was a lot of fun to read but a loss of focus right at the end, along with a tendency for characters to 'bypass danger' when it suits the author, soured things somewhat. My full review is over Here. I'm now reading David Gemmell's 'Quest for Lost Heroes'...

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 07:27 PM

I finished up Servant of a Dark God by John Brown. It's a decent debut. It's uneven, but the good ultimately out weighs the bad and I am looking forward to reading the sequels to come. (full review)

I started Sleepless by Charlie Huston. If the first few chapters are any indication, this is going to be an outstanding book - depressing as hell - but outstanding.

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 09:08 PM

Mentalist, on 31 December 2009 - 12:49 AM, said:

Finished "Whitechapel Gods"...it was sooooo good, even if the ending got a bit predictable.
...

Rep given for excellent taste. That book doesn't get nearly the love it deserves. SM Peters' new one, 'Ghost Ocean', is in my to read pile but i'm saving it for upcoming vacation read.

I'm about halfway through THE DEVIL's TEETH by Susan Casey. Nonfic about some islands off the coast of San Francisco with the world's largest concentration of great white sharks. Am enjoying - she has a knack for bringing the reader into the headspace of people encountering the sharks that doesn't overdo it but does hit the right note to give you the shivers.

Also, nineteen foot long apex predators swimming just out of sight are damn cool.

- Abyss, may stay out of the water for a month or six...

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#4574 QuickTidal

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 11:27 PM

EYES LIKE STARS - Lisa Mantchev

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#4575 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 06 January 2010 - 11:09 AM

Currently towards the end of _Flat Earth News_ by Nick Davies, an exposé of the way standards in media reporting and print journalism have slipped until we've ended up where we are. Scary and accurate.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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Posted 06 January 2010 - 11:21 AM

I just finished Black Sun Rising, Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman. Liked it. I would give it 8/10.
I almost started When True Night Falls, the second book of the trilogy but then thought better of it and started a thriller? me? thriller? the last one I read maybe some 20 years ago? Anyway, I started The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver. A friend of mine says it is very good.

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Posted 06 January 2010 - 03:50 PM

Finished reading 'Quest for Lost Heroes' (David Gemmell). While it was very entertaining it also had the same themes that Gemmell always seems to tackle and his 'tell it like it is' approach undermined some of the more fantastical elements of the plot. My full review is right Here. No idea what to read next...

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Posted 06 January 2010 - 04:13 PM

Astra, on 06 January 2010 - 11:21 AM, said:

It's not too late. go back. if you liked Black Sun, the series only gets better.

Deornoth, on 06 January 2010 - 03:50 PM, said:

Good review. I agree with your thoughts on Gemmel. Some other good suggestions on the blog i gank'd for near future reads.

- Abyss, ....knows the evil of the thriller...*cue MJ soundtrack*

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Posted 06 January 2010 - 05:20 PM

Abyss, on 06 January 2010 - 04:13 PM, said:

Astra, on 06 January 2010 - 11:21 AM, said:

It's not too late. go back. if you liked Black Sun, the series only gets better.

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#4580 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 06 January 2010 - 05:44 PM

Finished The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney. Despite having sort of pinpointed the ending(which was very sad) it was a very good book. Kearney sure knows how to write a battle sequence and the battle of Kunaksa is one of the best I've read, up there with the Siege of Capustan or the Battle of Mengedda.

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