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#5201 Abyss

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Posted 12 July 2010 - 04:01 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 12 July 2010 - 02:45 PM, said:

Finished Butcher's Changes last night, and WHAT.

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Astra, on 12 July 2010 - 02:48 PM, said:

Finished Twilight.

Started bleeding from my eyes

Fixed.

Am most of the way thru Cook's DREAMS OF STEEL. Cook really hits his stride with this book. solid improvement on the preceding volumes.

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Posted 12 July 2010 - 07:23 PM

teholbeddict, on 12 July 2010 - 03:26 PM, said:

Ugh! I'm trying to mentally block out the fact that you're reading Twilight Astra. I'm going to assume you're being forced to do this, rather than reading them voluntarily. Even if that's not the case don't burst my bubble!

I sort of enjoy it. There are a few drawbacks but otherwise I am devouring it. I have not read so much/fast since I finished Harry Potter a couple of years ago. Then again, I liked the movie

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Posted 12 July 2010 - 11:46 PM

Finished DragonAge: The Stolen Throne over a round trip at work, and i was quite surprised to find it was quite a good book! Not a masterpiece of literature by any means, but definitely not the cliche fantasy i thought i would end up being. Morally ambiguous, solid characters, and not overly heroic was nice to see. Gonna keep on going with my reread now of MOI, and take a break from fantasy after that for a military fiction novel of some sort. Any good authors in mind for me?

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Posted 13 July 2010 - 10:18 AM

Reading Transition by Iain Banks. I actually wanted a Culture novel but there weren't any so I bought that instead. The premise is interesting.

@Astra: I too read the Twilight series very fast but I think it was more because I wanted to finish them as quick as possible before someone found out about it( I was reading them for a bet,okay?). And yes they were horrible.

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Posted 13 July 2010 - 11:24 AM

Astra, on 12 July 2010 - 02:48 PM, said:

Finished Twilight.
Started New Moon

Ahh, I get it. Know thine enemy, right?

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Posted 13 July 2010 - 01:20 PM

Just finished reading J.L Bourne's 'Day by Day Armageddon', a diary account of a zombie apocalypse. The diary format doesn't really let us get to know the main character, as well as we could do, but Bourne has the grim post apocalyptic atmosphere spot on and gives his readers plenty of obstacles to wonder at and work our way round. My full review is over Here. I'm now finishing off Kage Baker's 'The Bird of the River'...

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Posted 13 July 2010 - 01:25 PM

Ain, on 13 July 2010 - 11:24 AM, said:

Astra, on 12 July 2010 - 02:48 PM, said:

Finished Twilight.
Started New Moon

Ahh, I get it. Know thine enemy, right?

The second book is a bit annoying so far.

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Posted 13 July 2010 - 01:35 PM

Was forcing my way through CJ Cherryh's Downbelow Station, which seems to be a great story with intriguing chracters, but bogged down by very thin and unconvincing worldbuilding (shades of Hobb) and rather terse and uncommunicative prose.

However, that has gone on hold due to the arrival of Peter F. Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void.

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Posted 13 July 2010 - 01:45 PM

I loved Downbelow Station -- it was the first Cherryh I ever read, and hooked me on the Alliance/Union universe. Still haven't read Regenesis though.

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Posted 14 July 2010 - 11:01 AM

The Seguleh 46th, on 12 July 2010 - 11:46 PM, said:

For military fiction you could try Tom Clancy, Without Remorse is a good starting piont.

Also you can try Richard Marcinko. His first book Rogue Warrior is more of an autobiography of his career as a Navy Seal, but his others (Red Cell onwards) are a blend of fact and fiction, and they are all very entertaining.

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Posted 14 July 2010 - 11:29 AM

2/3rds of the way through Blood Rites. Kickass.

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Posted 14 July 2010 - 04:12 PM

Reading Ash by Mary Gentle

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Posted 15 July 2010 - 03:50 PM

I tried resisting, but I just couldn't help myself. Last night I started Gardens of the Moon for the third time, to go along with the Tor.com reread series. SO GOOD.

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Posted 15 July 2010 - 04:25 PM

Picked up Perdido Street Station at the library this morning. Gonna give it a go tonight.

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Posted 15 July 2010 - 06:26 PM

It's good, SB. Give it a bit to get into it.

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Posted 15 July 2010 - 10:41 PM

I finished up the anthology that Pat edited, Speculative Horizons. Overall I was pleasantly surprised by the coherence of it considering such an eclectic mix of authors. The stories were variable in quality, though there are no duds and a couple of gems. (full review)

I'm now reading The Dervish House by Ian McDonald.

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Posted 15 July 2010 - 11:26 PM

Finished Mieville's Kraken last night. Great read. Next to SE, I think Mieville is my favorite author.

Still pacing through Simmon's Ilium until I pick up Reynold's Chasm City at the Library tommorrow. Also waiting for Urth of the New Sun and Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu, my ebay buys. I don't know how you people manage rereads. My to read list is enormous and growing each time I browse these forums.

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Posted 16 July 2010 - 09:38 AM

Have put aside Transition by Iain Banks in favor of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, which I literally devoured.
It was a fun read and I liked how he used the names of London's streets, stations etc to create his world. Oh, and Mister Croup and Mister Vandemar were great.

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Posted 16 July 2010 - 09:57 AM

Started TP's Going Postal.

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Posted 16 July 2010 - 10:57 AM

Am reading Summer Knight again (Dresden reread). Will finish it before starting Stross's The Fuller Memorandum which arrived today.

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