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#5121 teholbeddict

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 03:15 PM

Reading Dresden atm, Changes to be exact. There are a few things that are way too convenient in this one, it's kind of starting to irk me a bit. It's still a fantastic read though and I'm zipping through it, I'll probably finish it by tonight. Have to love Butcher for his simple, straight forward and highly entertaining reads. You really can't go wrong with his stuff.

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#5122 Aptorian

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 10:01 PM

teholbeddict, on 11 June 2010 - 03:15 PM, said:

Yeah, check out my thread in the Butcher sub forum, I also thought there was some strange things in this one.

#5123 worry

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 10:19 PM

I'm on book 7 of the Dresden books...Dead Beat. This series is just very impressive in terms of character building as well as setup and payoff of story threads.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#5124 MTS

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 10:39 PM

I'm on no. 4 at the moment, really enjoying them so far.

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Posted 12 June 2010 - 01:27 AM

teholbeddict, on 07 June 2010 - 08:09 PM, said:

control them with cock rings - yes I said cock rings

"trembles"

MTS, on 11 June 2010 - 10:39 PM, said:

I'm on no. 4 at the moment, really enjoying them so far.

Same here-or more accurately, I am waiting for Book 4. My dad's friend has them all, so I'm waiting on his generosity for the next installment.

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Posted 12 June 2010 - 01:34 AM

Endymion.

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....

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Posted 12 June 2010 - 03:56 AM

Yay! Another wave of dresden-ites. Love it.

Reading Sam Sykes "Tome of the Undergates" atm, bout 1/4 way through. Highly entertaining thus far. Very gritty.

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Posted 12 June 2010 - 01:53 PM

Just finished Butcher's Full Moon. I'm 4th in line at the public library awaiting Mieville's Krakken. Think I'll read either some more Dresden files, Snow Crash, or Mythago Woods next. Anybody read Mythago, and is it worth getting into? By the way, Love Endymoin. Simmon's Hyperion Cantos is brilliant.

Always reading Steven Erikson, China Mieville, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Dan Simmons, Alastair Reynolds, Joe Abercrombie, and Christopher Moore.

#5129 teholbeddict

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Posted 12 June 2010 - 09:13 PM

Aptorian, on 11 June 2010 - 10:01 PM, said:

teholbeddict, on 11 June 2010 - 03:15 PM, said:

Yeah, check out my thread in the Butcher sub forum, I also thought there was some strange things in this one.

I'm will definitely check it out and comment. I had noticed the thread before but didn't go in as I wanted to avoid spoilers. Now that I have finished it I have a feeling I'm going to agree with a lot of what you had to say.

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Posted 14 June 2010 - 10:24 AM

Last Friday, I finished The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson.
Beautiful book

Started Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay, but I have a hard time to get into it. The first chapter was very boring. On top of that I am still under the impression of The Gargoyle.

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Posted 14 June 2010 - 02:01 PM

Just finished Shadow Games, book 4 in the Black Company series, and I thought it was incredible. Books 1, 3 and 4 are some of the best books I've ever read. I thought book 2 was a little weak. Cook is a great writer. He creates characters that are very likable, the books are just the right length (300-500 pages), there's not a lot of unnecessary information and he adds in just the right amount of fantasy elements, there aren't spells and creatures every other page. Looking forward to finishing the series.

Next up i will finish The Tyranny of the Night.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 05:52 AM

I'm on book 2 of the Black Company right now. I bought the first two omnibuses so I'm just gonna alternate each novel around reading other stuff. So far I like them, he's definitely got a unique voice in fantasy as far as my experience goes.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 09:32 AM

Finished reading Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders' 'Swords & Dark Magic', a collection of new 'Sword & Sorcery' tales from new writers as well as writers established in the sub-genre. A fewof the tales didn't quite hit the mark but the majority did and the collection as a whole is thoroughly entertaining. What is perhaps the longest review I've ever written is over Here. I'm now having a go at Lynn Flewelling's 'The White Road' but I haven't read the rest of the series and this is proving to be a larger obstacle than normal...

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 11:38 AM

Dad's friend came through-seven or eight of the next Dresden files books! "salivates"

Will read them ASAP, I just started Name of the Wind.

Suck it Errant!

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QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 03:01 PM

More than halfway into "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch, superb so far :thumbsup:

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 03:07 PM

It takes a turn for the worse half way through.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 03:34 PM

just about to start volume 2 of the new sun saga, gene wolfe, devoured the first 2 books really enjoyed them!

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#5138 teholbeddict

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 03:44 PM

Astra, on 14 June 2010 - 10:24 AM, said:

Well with a review like that I'll have to go pick the book up then. I was leery before but I'll give it a try.

Hope you get into Under Heaven, it grabbed me right away. It does start to pick up within the first few chapters, so stick with it. Maybe as you say, it's the lingering impression of The Gargoyle.

Just starting White Teeth by Zadie Smith, so far it's really good, very humorous.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 03:51 PM

About halfway through the fourth Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi book. I consider SW to be my "guilty pleasure" reading, and this series (set roughly 40 years after the Return of the Jedi) is enjoyable enough. Some nice resolutions to the last series, and an intriguing mystery as well.

I'm on the library waiting list for the next SW book (9th place for 6 copies) and the latest Dresden (16th place for 10 copies) so next I'll probably be trying Whitechapel Gods since it's gotten so much good press 'round these parts.

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