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#4661 Tsundoku

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Posted 30 January 2010 - 06:44 AM

Riot, on 29 January 2010 - 09:04 PM, said:

the reality dysfunction - peter f hamilton. fancied a big sci fi book, and its pretty big

I hope you realise it's the first of a trilogy of equivalent sized volumes. You'd better put aside a couple of weeks to get through it unless you're a speed reader.

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#4662 MTS

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Posted 30 January 2010 - 06:51 AM

Reading Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for school. I've heard good things about it though.

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Posted 30 January 2010 - 01:15 PM

Re-reading all of the Harry Dresden books, because they are awesome and l feel like it....

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Posted 30 January 2010 - 05:29 PM

Getting back into Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and reading JINGO.

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#4665 Lucky Revenant

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Posted 01 February 2010 - 04:05 AM

Recently started She is the Darkness by Glenn Cook. Got it for Christmas, but only recently got around to reading it. Not sure which of the dozens of unread books I have scattered around my house I'll read next. Probably the next Black Company book.

#4666 caladanbrood

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Posted 01 February 2010 - 05:37 PM

Sombra, on 30 January 2010 - 06:44 AM, said:

Riot, on 29 January 2010 - 09:04 PM, said:

the reality dysfunction - peter f hamilton. fancied a big sci fi book, and its pretty big

I hope you realise it's the first of a trilogy of equivalent sized volumes. You'd better put aside a couple of weeks to get through it unless you're a speed reader.

Took me a while longer than that! Worth it though, very good trilogy.

I started reading Crack'd Pot Trail this morning, and it was rather strange... I'm not in the right mood to be reading that sort of book right now I don't think, so I'm gonna start The Gathering Storm instead I reckon.

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Posted 01 February 2010 - 05:42 PM

Just finished "Gathering Storm". Not bad, kinda slow but seems to be leading up to some good stuff. Surprisingly Egwene was my fav character in this book. Besides Mat of course.

Started the 2nd trilogly of the Black Company last night. Good stuff.

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Posted 01 February 2010 - 08:29 PM

Last night I started The Hunt For the Eye of Ogin. The plot (so far) is pretty standard fare, but Doud's prose (the author's a poet) is enjoyable--much preferable to the usual first-time novelist hackwork.

At the same time, I'm finishing up the Gormenghast trilogy at work. I was expecting Titus Alone to be a big disappointment, but 1/4 of the way in, it's definitely holding my interest.

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Posted 01 February 2010 - 10:49 PM

Heroes Die, just to make Abyss happy

A couple of chapters in and very promising.

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Posted 01 February 2010 - 11:21 PM

Reading Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson. Pretty good and interesting.

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Posted 02 February 2010 - 12:06 AM

I just finished up Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch - which I thought was pretty good (full review).

Now I'm reading Spiral Hunt by Margaret Ronald. It's supposed to be a short, easy read while I'm waiting for what I really want to read. So far it's only OK, but I'm not that far into it yet.

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Posted 03 February 2010 - 06:56 AM

Just finished Hidden Empire or Orson Scott Card.

I've seen OSC get a lot of heat from his stance on certain sensitive topics, but I always said as long as his politics don't leak into his writing what he believes is fine, free speech and all that.

Half of Hidden Empire though felt like I was having a political view, and a hazy one at that, rammed down my throat, I did not enjoy it.

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Posted 03 February 2010 - 02:41 PM

I finished reading 'Death & Dishonour', a collection of fantasy stories set in the 'Warhammer' universe. Not all of the stories did it for me but there was enough blood n' guts to keep me happy on the whole; Paul Kearney's 'Broken Blood' was the highlight! This book is a good place to start if you're looking to get into Warhammer fantasy fiction for the first time. My full review is over Here. I'm now finishing off 'Star Wars: Crosscurrent' (Paul S. Kemp).

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Posted 03 February 2010 - 05:45 PM

NK Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, one of the year's hyped debuts. About 100 pages in, good stuff so far.

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Posted 03 February 2010 - 08:51 PM

Now reading David Devereux's Hunter's Moon, an urban fantasy. The book cover reads "Magician by profession, bastard by disposition" and he is. In the prologue he slices the throats of 3 or 4 guys, cuts the heart out of another so he can call up a demon to dispose of the other 15 or so terrorists. Then he blows up the cave that is their hideout. Pretty good read. Posted Image

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Posted 04 February 2010 - 01:21 PM

Finished Paul S. Kemp's 'Crosscurrent', a Star Wars novel about time travel and a new threat to the Jedi order. While the 'new threat' bit makes it sound like a rehash of other Star Wars books, Kemp's take on this is refreshing and could lead to an intriguing series of books. I hope it does. 'Crosscurrent' takes a while to get going but once it does... Star Wars fans won't be disappointed with this one as it's full of all the stuff that made the films great. My full review is over Here. I'm now working my way through N.K. Jemisin's 'The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'...

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Posted 04 February 2010 - 09:38 PM

Starting James Barclay's Shadowheart.

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But its end is the way of death.

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Posted 05 February 2010 - 02:19 AM

THE FIFTH ELEPHANT by Terry Pratchett

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Posted 05 February 2010 - 10:35 PM

HEROES DIE Matt Stover....because Abyss seems to like it some...

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