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#4961 caladanbrood

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 08:32 AM

Tapper, on 26 April 2010 - 08:39 AM, said:

Devoured Night Watch, Day Watch and am now starting on Twilight Watch. Lukyanenko is in my book officially awesome.

Twilight Watch is still waiting to be read, but these three books are brilliant :Urb:

I dipped back into Crack'd Pot Trail yesterday... and it's still boring.

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#4962 Astra

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 12:51 PM

A couple of days ago finished The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1) by Brent Weeks
Started Shadow's Edge (Night Angel, #2)

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 04:14 PM

caladanbrood, on 27 April 2010 - 08:32 AM, said:

Tapper, on 26 April 2010 - 08:39 AM, said:

Devoured Night Watch, Day Watch and am now starting on Twilight Watch. Lukyanenko is in my book officially awesome.

Twilight Watch is still waiting to be read, but these three books are brilliant :Urb:

I dipped back into Crack'd Pot Trail yesterday... and it's still boring.

Huh, I thoroughly enjoyed Crack'd Pot Trail. It's probably my favourite of his B&B novels.

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#4964 Powder

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 07:21 PM

I just started reading Dune. Good so far, no sand worms yet but I am expecting some as they have been mentioned. Any dune fans here?

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 07:44 PM

Powder, on 27 April 2010 - 07:21 PM, said:

I just started reading Dune. Good so far, no sand worms yet but I am expecting some as they have been mentioned. Any dune fans here?

Interestingly, no Dune thread in the forum - I searched.

I read the first book and liked it, but weirdly, never picked up the sequels. Did watch the SciFi miniseries Children of Dune though, and IIRC that was pretty good.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

#4966 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 07:53 PM

Powder, on 27 April 2010 - 07:21 PM, said:

I just started reading Dune. Good so far, no sand worms yet but I am expecting some as they have been mentioned. Any dune fans here?

I've read Frank Herbert's 6 books twice; once in high school, the second time after graduating college. That was almost a decade ago. They're really good, and I'm one of those rare people who enjoys the second 3 books perhaps even more than the original trilogy. (I also own all of the prequel/sequels by KJA and Brian Herbert, but after reading the "House" trilogy, I'd recommend avoiding anything written by that pair.)

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#4967 Powder

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 10:24 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 27 April 2010 - 07:53 PM, said:

Powder, on 27 April 2010 - 07:21 PM, said:

I just started reading Dune. Good so far, no sand worms yet but I am expecting some as they have been mentioned. Any dune fans here?

So stick to the original 6 by the father?

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 09:51 AM

Heh, I'm actually re-reading the 6 Dune novels right now, am up to God Emperor.

Oh god yes, avoid Avoid AVOID all Dune novels (hell, all novels) written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson. Actually, avoid all novels with any involvement from Kevin J Anderson. They are utter drek, a travesty of Frank Herbert's vision, a betrayal of his legacy. AVOID!

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 02:42 PM

Powder, on 27 April 2010 - 10:24 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 27 April 2010 - 07:53 PM, said:

Powder, on 27 April 2010 - 07:21 PM, said:

I just started reading Dune. Good so far, no sand worms yet but I am expecting some as they have been mentioned. Any dune fans here?

So stick to the original 6 by the father?

Yes! Definitely!

It may mean, that the series will have an open end, but at least it's a worthy one.

The various sequels and prequels aren't worth the paper they are printed on imo, really... really!
Unless you would like to read something in the line of: Frank Herbert mixed up with "Spaceballs" but in a very splatter-movie way, watered down to a linguistic and philosophical kindergarten-level, flavoured with an unending amount of illogical characters summoned from thin air, which are then sold to the reader as Frank Herberts original own creations, his very own masterplan. :Urb:

Well It's your decision!

#4970 champ

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 03:11 PM

just started reading Summer Knight by Butcher

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#4971 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 04:08 PM

Started Q by the group of writers known as Wu Ming. The novel takes place in the Europe of the Reformation period. Some 70 pages in and liking it.

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#4972 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 04:39 PM

Finished up White Night yesterday, and it was great as usual. Also read Lovecraft's The Horror in the Museum, which was frightening, even if ridiculously obvious.

Also started in on an ARC of The Sword, which I'm reading for LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. It's the first book in the "Chiveis Trilogy", about a post-apocalyptic future that has grown back to a roughly-medieval society. And then someone discovers a Bible. Not too impressed after one chapter, but I find the premise intriguing.

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 04:55 PM

Rereading Love All The People, the updated collection of Bill Hicks routines, letters and interviews. He was the man and you know it.

Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.

#4974 caladanbrood

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 05:08 PM

Morgoth, on 27 April 2010 - 04:14 PM, said:

caladanbrood, on 27 April 2010 - 08:32 AM, said:

I dipped back into Crack'd Pot Trail yesterday... and it's still boring.

Huh, I thoroughly enjoyed Crack'd Pot Trail. It's probably my favourite of his B&B novels.

But why??

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 07:04 PM

Zanth13, on 22 April 2010 - 06:04 PM, said:

...I still have not even ordered Dust of Dreams...

I swear, it's like we don't even know you...

Astra, on 27 April 2010 - 12:51 PM, said:

A couple of days ago finished The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1) by Brent Weeks
Started Shadow's Edge (Night Angel, #2)

Enjoy. The series only gets better. Fun read.

Powder, on 27 April 2010 - 10:24 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 27 April 2010 - 07:53 PM, said:

Powder, on 27 April 2010 - 07:21 PM, said:

I just started reading Dune. Good so far, no sand worms yet but I am expecting some as they have been mentioned. Any dune fans here?

So stick to the original 6 by the father?

Yes.

I'm about 30 pages into Rollins' SANDSTORM. It's his first Sigma Force novel i picked up on a forum reco. Liking so far. It's kind of like a cross between Indiana Jones and Fringe as written by Jim Butcher after he ate Dan Brown's brainz.

- Abyss, ...what? after THE LOST SYMBOL we can only hope someone eats Dan Brown's brainz and does something useful with them because he sure as hell isn't...

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 08:44 PM

Abyss, on 28 April 2010 - 07:04 PM, said:

- Abyss, ...what? after THE LOST SYMBOL we can only hope someone eats Dan Brown's brainz and does something useful with them because he sure as hell isn't...

But...but...why would you want to torture some pour soul by having them ingest such filth? Never mind that it might spread through them like a virus and turn a good writer into Dan Brown v2.0. No-one wants that!

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 10:06 PM

I finished up Kraken by China Mieville - as expected, it was great (full review).

Next up is Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor.

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Posted 29 April 2010 - 12:01 PM

Reading Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding. It's fantastic so far. Got a bit of a Firefly-esque vibe, which is cool.

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#4979 caladanbrood

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Posted 29 April 2010 - 12:57 PM

MTS, try "The Fade" too. Completely different, but just as awesome

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Posted 29 April 2010 - 01:19 PM

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