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#6121 QuickTidal

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Posted 18 February 2011 - 08:49 PM

Obdigore, on 18 February 2011 - 08:42 PM, said:

Chance, on 18 February 2011 - 06:11 PM, said:

Re-reading Will of the Night and then on to re-reading Wise Man's Fear which was one of those books I just can't decide about after a single read.

Wait... Re-Reading Wise Mans Fear?

Did I miss the release ro did you get it super early?

Indeed. Were you on the early release bandwagon?

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 01:50 AM

The Viriconium stories, currently a Storm of Wings. Love how deliberately inconsistent the world is between the stories.

#6123 Chance

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 10:31 AM

Obdigore, on 18 February 2011 - 08:42 PM, said:

Chance, on 18 February 2011 - 06:11 PM, said:

Re-reading Will of the Night and then on to re-reading Wise Man's Fear which was one of those books I just can't decide about after a single read.

Wait... Re-Reading Wise Mans Fear?

Did I miss the release ro did you get it super early?

My store got ten or so hardcovers a bit early and they aren't particular with release dates.

Will be an interesting one to discuss it later (one of the curses of getting books early) I found it fairly diffrent from Name of the Wind in good and bad ways at first glance.

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 11:40 AM

So I finished re-reading Dust of Dreams today, and as my TCG copy hasn't arrived yet (grrrr...), I've started re-reading Feist/Wurt's Daughter of the Empire, due to the thread-talk about it lately making me nostalgic, which I will do until TCG or the next Monarchies of God omnibus arrives, whichever comes first.

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 12:28 PM

The Crippled God. It is so gooooood.

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 01:17 PM

Clockwork Apt, on 19 February 2011 - 12:28 PM, said:

The Crippled God. It is so gooooood.

I tried asking you in another thread, are you really in America? If so how did you get a copy?

#6127 MTS

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 01:21 PM

Apt lives in Denmark, I don't know why his location says America.

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 01:36 PM

I forgot to change location last time I did a character change.

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 04:12 PM

Finished Storm Front yesterday and I liked it. It's a very easy book to get into and it reads super quick as unlike a lot of first books in a series you don't have to wade through a massive amount of backstory or character development. This felt like you just meet this guy Dresden and and start to get to know him while the story moves along quickly while getting small bites of past history and a great explanation of the magic used. Very good start.

Now I finally got to start Stonewielder this morning as my uber-late order finally arrived a couple of days ago. So now my plan of getting to read SW before TCG will get to be fulfilled. :Brood:

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 07:50 PM

Whipping through Gene Wolfe's Peace right now. It's both entertaining and fascinating, with a sense of horror lurking just around the corner and growing as the book proceeds.

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Posted 19 February 2011 - 11:44 PM

Just finished Digital Plague, which was, of course, awesome (just wish it was longer). Also finished 'Counting Sheep' by Paul Martin, which was fascinating and just a little scary to shift workers like me.
Both recommended.

Now started 'The Young Hornblower' by C.S Forester in full knowledge that it will be interrupted when the CG pops through the mailbox.

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Posted 20 February 2011 - 12:26 AM

Finished Peace. It was enjoyable (4 out of 5 stars' worth of enjoyable) but I can't say that I "get" it. I was fully expecting the last page or two to change the way I looked at the entire story, but that wasn't the case at all. And yes, I've checked out some of the interpretations online, but I have to say it's all way too obtuse for me.

Looks like TCG won't be here until Monday (even though it's been in the Cities for a whole day now, according to the tracking site) so I'll be reading some more Sherlock Holmes stuff the next couple of nights.

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Posted 20 February 2011 - 12:28 AM

Currently doing up Ben Aaronovitch's MIDNIGHT RIOT (Rivers Of London to you British folk) and it is awesome so far!!

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Posted 20 February 2011 - 07:38 AM

Briar King, on 20 February 2011 - 03:48 AM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 20 February 2011 - 12:26 AM, said:

I was reading Peace a few yrs ago and finally just had to put it down. I fucking love Gene's work but I couldnt summon the will to finish that one.

I'm ambivilent about reading Peace. The premise intrigues me but also sounds so bizzare I don't know if I could get through it. I love New Sun though!

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Posted 20 February 2011 - 08:48 AM

Finished Towers of Midnight (pretty good, not as good as TGS, 4/5), just started Hodd by Adam Thorpe. Second try, let's see how it goes.

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Posted 20 February 2011 - 07:45 PM

Bombur, on 20 February 2011 - 07:38 AM, said:

Briar King, on 20 February 2011 - 03:48 AM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 20 February 2011 - 12:26 AM, said:

I was reading Peace a few yrs ago and finally just had to put it down. I fucking love Gene's work but I couldnt summon the will to finish that one.

I'm ambivilent about reading Peace. The premise intrigues me but also sounds so bizzare I don't know if I could get through it. I love New Sun though!

I found it engaging. I whipped right through it, anxious for the big reveal...that never came.

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Posted 20 February 2011 - 08:54 PM

MTS, on 19 February 2011 - 11:40 AM, said:

So I finished re-reading Dust of Dreams today, and as my TCG copy hasn't arrived yet (grrrr...)

I finished DoD a couple days ago. The great reread is complete. But still no tCG...and checking the mail is becoming a depressing ritual.

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Posted 21 February 2011 - 01:49 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 17 February 2011 - 04:12 PM, said:

cerveza_fiesta, on 17 February 2011 - 01:14 PM, said:

Really, really liking it so far. Tomas Covenant is such a prick.

Nice! Most people react to that book with one of those sentiments, but not usually both! :admin:

Oh, it's a good thing. Cool to have a primary protagonist in a fantasy book that isn't a starry-eyed come-from-nothing farmboy with big ambitions.

no way. Donaldson's protagonist is a crotchety psychotic rapist leper with no ambition or desire to really help anyone but himself. So great.

I also really really dig the way the world opened up so big in the space of only a few chapters, instead of being spoonfead little helpings town-by-town and lore in tiny parcels, Donaldson just goes to town on the history and actually manages to create a realistic and believable world in an extremely short amount of time.

And it's refreshing to have to look up words I don't know once in awhile. Dude is a master of the English language for sure.

Can't wait to finish though, so I can finally move on to TCG.s

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Posted 21 February 2011 - 02:24 AM

Since it took so long for Stoneweider to show up from the UK, I'm going to wait the week til it's in the bookstores here in the US. But I just finished Beyond the Shadow so I have to figure out something to read & finish in a week, timing this is gonna suck.

Edit: started Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age

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Posted 21 February 2011 - 02:59 AM

Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Halfway through and not really enjoying it. There is far too little happening and I dont even know what the major plot is. Just alot of talking (most of it pointless) and worldbuilding. Its like a slightly more simple version of GotM in that regard.

Is it worth it to continue reading? If this ends up being another hero saves the universe from voidbringers sort of book, I will be really pissed.