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#5421 Macros

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Posted 14 September 2010 - 10:43 AM

About half way through the first mistborn book.
Its ok, but hasn't really grabbed me, I can set it down for day or two all too easily

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Posted 14 September 2010 - 02:22 PM

Almost thru Cook's Water Sleeps. It was ok but I was hoping for better. Really just pushing thru to see how the series ends now.

I have LoEG: The Black Dossier standing by, and yes, yes, i know, but i'm curious enough to at least skim through it and read the parts i like.

Then an RCG re-read to complete and then will venture back into the TRP and see what calls to me. The spy and sf unreads are especially daunting in number.

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#5423 QuickTidal

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Posted 14 September 2010 - 11:29 PM

Still reeling after the pure unadulterated awesomeness that was Brandon Sanderson's THE WAY OF KINGS, I have sat down with the first volume in Kate Elliot's new Spiritwalker Trilogy COLD MAGIC, as I have heard good things. We shall see.

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#5424 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 17 September 2010 - 03:52 AM

Finished Gene Wolfe's Starwater Strains collection last night. It was goooood. Especially the final 50-page story, Golden City Far, which was pure magic. My second favorite story was a "Lovecraft" story with some creepy Egyptian themes, and a little bit of sci-fi mixed in for good measure. Good stuff.

Just started Paul Hoffman's The Left Hand of God. I'm prepared to be underwhelmed, but a dozen pages in it's intrigued me.

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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Posted 17 September 2010 - 10:28 AM

Finished King's Insomnia yesterday and it had some pretty cool concepts. I found it to be a bit long-winded in some parts and missed a distinct narrator's voice sometimes, but overall I liked it - not loved it, but certainly liked.

Off to read The Dark Tower now.

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#5426 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 18 September 2010 - 04:48 PM

Finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It was...different and unique, without doubt, yet, while there were some gripping scenes, I wasn't really committed to the book until the ending. The ending was so sad, so depressing, that after finishing the book I just sat there, drained.

Next: Legend by David Gemmell.

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Posted 18 September 2010 - 06:40 PM

SHARPE'S TRAFALGAR by Bernard Cornwell. Just starting this series, and really enjoying it so far!!

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#5428 Dag

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Posted 19 September 2010 - 10:17 AM

Finished Mieville's Kraken yesterday, and... nop, didn't like it. After the first hundred pages or so I already lost interest in what was going on. The most frustrating part was that I could feel the immense potential of this book lurking beneath the surface all the time; most of the ideas were brilliant - the giant god-squid and all the crazy cults fighting their secret wars in the underground and the Londonmancers and the gunfarmers and the Tattoo and, and, and - I mean, how awesome can it get? But the execution was poor, not a trace of the expected awesomeness to be found in the book, and all the typos and poor editing just added to my frustration.

A big disappointment, after hearing so much praise for this book.

Now on to Gene Wolfe's "An Evil Guest".

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Posted 19 September 2010 - 11:37 AM

Bauchelain the Evil, on 18 September 2010 - 04:48 PM, said:

Yeah, it can feel kind of aimless at times. And I agree-the ending is a massive tear jerker.

Suck it Errant!

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#5430 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 19 September 2010 - 10:51 PM

200 pages into The Left Hand of God and I'm pleasantly surprised. Even given a lot of annoying little things (mostly the bizarre worldbuilding: An empire ruled by "Memphis"? Neighbored by "Norweigans"? With a bizarro-world version of Christianity where Christ was hanged instead of crucified?) it's been a hard book to put down.

#5431 Harvester

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 01:49 AM

Started Gilman's Thunderer - is it any good?

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 08:54 AM

Reading the second omnibus of Kearney's Monarchies of God series. Wow, I am totally loving this!

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 01:49 PM

Moore's LoEG: The Black Dossier... and wow did that ever implode into badsauce.

Otoh, Chris Wooding's The Fade is exceeding all my expectations. Well written, interesting world, neat characters.

Kraken is on deck. I see the upthread comments but will have to make up my own mind. Been too long since i read any Mieville.

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#5434 T77

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 02:05 PM

Dag, on 19 September 2010 - 10:17 AM, said:

Now on to Gene Wolfe's "An Evil Guest".

I'm reading it now and really like it so far. Also, reading Urh of the New Sun and it is incredible, could turn out to be my favorite of the Sun books. There is no one else like Gene Wolfe.

#5435 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 05:42 PM

Finished Legend by David gemmell. It wasn't a great work but it was entertaining. Sometimes you just want to read a classic tale of heroism and good against bad and all of that.

Next: The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach by a guy called Steven Erikson.

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 09:14 PM

QuickTidal, on 18 September 2010 - 06:40 PM, said:

SHARPE'S TRAFALGAR by Bernard Cornwell. Just starting this series, and really enjoying it so far!!

The Sharpe's books are a lot fun. Brain candy if you will.

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 09:22 PM

Hey Salt, I quite enjoyed Left Hand of God, but given that you read Cryptonomicon I have to ask - have you read the Baroque Trilogy by Stephenson?

Quick - are you reading the Sharpe books in chronological order? they are good, but very easy to get through quickly, more brain Crack than candy.

Currently reading:

"Be Ready When The Sh*t goes down" by Forrest Griffin.

Damn that guy is funny. Crude as all hell, but funny.

meh. Link was dead :(

#5438 Defiance

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 10:09 PM

Night of Knives reread before I move onto The Bonehunters again.

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#5439 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 10:21 PM

Cocoreturns, on 20 September 2010 - 09:22 PM, said:

Hey Salt, I quite enjoyed Left Hand of God, but given that you read Cryptonomicon I have to ask - have you read the Baroque Trilogy by Stephenson?

The Baroque books are sitting on my shelf daring me to read them next. I want to, but I think I might end up diving into some lighter (shorter) fare next, as Crypto took me a month to get through.

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Posted 21 September 2010 - 08:03 AM

Beevor's Stalingrad and John Keegan's Fields of Battle: the Wars for North America, both of which I am currently reading more or less simultaneously.

My TRP is getting big, courtesy of my visit to the USA.

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