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#6261 King Bear

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Posted 03 March 2011 - 02:02 PM

And DFN (Dragonfucknuts) originated from Abyss, on this forum?

Is it being spread across the net, far and wide?

Once it goes viral, we can trace it back here and we will be awesome.

Well mostly Abyss will be, but as they say/sing:

everyone's a hero in their own way
you and you and mostly Abyss and you.

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Posted 03 March 2011 - 02:27 PM

Bombur, on 03 March 2011 - 02:02 PM, said:

Abyss is already pretty awesome, and he kind of leaks awesome down onto us plebs...

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Posted 03 March 2011 - 04:27 PM

Bombur, on 03 March 2011 - 01:42 PM, said:

Was going to read dresden while waiting on those orders, but C&P is now filling that gap.

Crime and Punishment is a great book, but it was a strange reading experience for me. For the first half or so, I recognized how good it was, but it didn't really affect me. I was reading it mostly to read it and then when I got to the second half, it was like "Oh shit! This is really good! I HAVE to keep reading!"

My mother had the same experience reading it a long time ago and she laughed so hard when she heard me talk about my C&P experience. I wish you the same or a similar experience.

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Posted 07 March 2011 - 03:16 PM

I am about 3/4 into The Girl Who Played with Fire [Millennium #2] by Stieg Larsson. This book is more fun than The Girl with the Dragoon tattoo. A lot more action. In hindsight the first book looks more like an introduction to the main characters.

After that.....I might start The Malazan Book of the Fallen.....*shiver*

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Posted 07 March 2011 - 03:18 PM

My copy of TCG...shipped on the 21st of Feb. Still not here.

Sigh.

I am reading THE BREACH by Patrick Lee and so far can't put the bloody thing down.

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Posted 07 March 2011 - 03:22 PM

The Crippled God.
that is all.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

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Posted 07 March 2011 - 03:29 PM

QuickTidal, on 07 March 2011 - 03:18 PM, said:

My copy of TCG...shipped on the 21st of Feb. Still not here.

Sigh.

I am reading THE BREACH by Patrick Lee and so far can't put the bloody thing down.

Ah mine too.

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Posted 07 March 2011 - 04:34 PM

Finished TCG over the weekend. I loved it but with reservations. Dunno how I'll possibly be able to write a review for it, but we'll see. After I was finished, I had a Malazan-shaped hole inside of me, so instead of moving on I finished the end of DG for the Tor.com reread. Man, I love that epilogue.

Now I'm rereading The Name of the Wind in anticipation of The Wise Man's Fear arriving today. I'm a quarter of the way through already, and it might even be better the second time.

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Posted 07 March 2011 - 08:58 PM

Bombur, on 03 March 2011 - 10:51 AM, said:

ALMOST bought Storm Front today. ...since this is DresdenCRACK, I assume I should order more than just the first book? The first three maybe? I'm not sure I want to buy them ALL at once, JUST IN CASE I DON"T LIKE THEM. ...

Stop talking crazy talk and get on with it.

Btw those prices are nonsense - do some shopping for a better deal, or consider the SFFBK collected editions.

MTS, on 03 March 2011 - 11:35 AM, said:

...As for Dresdencrack, maybe get the first one from a library or something? Then if you like it...

STOP TALKING CRAZY TALK.

QuickTidal, on 03 March 2011 - 01:50 PM, said:

...It is safe, nay... very safe and quite a good idea to order the first 3 Dresden books, as the first two are good, but the 3rd book will prove to you what we mean about Dresdencrack...

Trust me.

I'd even say go for 4. #3 raises the bar. #4 detonates it.

QuickTidal, on 03 March 2011 - 02:27 PM, said:

Bombur, on 03 March 2011 - 02:02 PM, said:

Abyss is already pretty awesome, and he kind of leaks awesome down onto us plebs...

:rofl:

...umm, yeah, sorry about the stains...

QuickTidal, on 07 March 2011 - 03:18 PM, said:

...I am reading THE BREACH by Patrick Lee and so far can't put the bloody thing down.

TOLD YOU!
And GHOST COUNTRY doesn't disappoint either. Moved Lee to my 'mostly must buy on release' list for sheer enjoyment.

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#6270 QuickTidal

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Posted 07 March 2011 - 09:04 PM

Abyss, on 07 March 2011 - 08:58 PM, said:

TOLD YOU!
And GHOST COUNTRY doesn't disappoint either. Moved Lee to my 'mostly must buy on release' list for sheer enjoyment.

Indeed you did. Hell,

Spoiler

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Posted 08 March 2011 - 03:28 AM

I got a little bit closer to ending my quest to catch up on all my reviews. Today I posted a review of The Dark Griffin by K.J. Taylor. It's mediocre at best.

I still owe reviews for The Fallen Blade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Never Knew Another by J.M. McDermott, and Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch. I'm currently reading Embassytown by China Mieville - it's interesting to see him write science fiction.

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Posted 08 March 2011 - 07:29 AM

Just finished Red Seas Under Red Skies and enjoyed it, not as much as the first, but nonetheless was an enjoyable read. Read about 125 pages into SW and about half of Furies of Calderon in the last couple days. The books of Malazan are pretty much bulit for me so I am enjoying SW so far. I haven't read any Butcher but I do have the first four Dresden books on stand by(read a bit of the first before I bought the other three and I already love the prose) and I thought I would kick it old school and read a coming-of-age story after a reading Malazan, Bakker and Lynch for the last year and Butcher's Codex series was recommened to me by a friend so I dived right in. It's a nice change of pace.

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Posted 08 March 2011 - 01:41 PM

I'm reading....THE mutha-fuzuckin CRIPPLED GOD which finally arrived last night!!

*fist pump*

Am teh happy now.

(special thanks should go out to THE BREACH by Patrick Lee for being such a fast-paced, enthralling read that I finished it in two sittings, which let me read the first chapter of TCG last night.)

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Posted 08 March 2011 - 05:21 PM

Studlock, on 08 March 2011 - 07:29 AM, said:

... I haven't read any Butcher but I do have the first four Dresden books on stand by(read a bit of the first before I bought the other three and I already love the prose) ...

The Dresdencrack... it growz...

QuickTidal, on 08 March 2011 - 01:41 PM, said:

I'm reading....THE mutha-fuzuckin CRIPPLED GOD which finally arrived last night!!
...

Took you long enuf. :rofl:

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Posted 08 March 2011 - 05:50 PM

Abyss, on 08 March 2011 - 05:21 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 08 March 2011 - 01:41 PM, said:

I'm reading....THE mutha-fuzuckin CRIPPLED GOD which finally arrived last night!!
...

Took you long enuf. :rofl:

I know right? I was trying to beat your record of "length of time to get book from UK".

:rofl:

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Posted 08 March 2011 - 09:38 PM

1984 since I haven't read it since high school, while I wait for my delayed copy of TCG god damn amazon for sucking all kinds of bad on that one.

#6277 King Bear

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 02:59 AM

My copy hasn't arrived either. But since it's only EXTREMELY late, plus has been only 5 days since they told me it would arrive in 2 days, I probably shouldn't complain. :admin:

Next time I'm ordering direct from the UK as that probably would be faster.

And cheaper too. The uk book depository sells the hardback for 15 pounds/$33 NZ, rather than the $40 I'm paying for it. And I shopped around for a good price! Elsewhere it's being sold for $60/27 pounds, and the paperback for $40. Fuck those prices. Bookstores here really love to rip off their customers.

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 03:20 PM

Finished Faded Steel Heat by Glen Cook, the ninth book in his Garrett P.I. series. I'm very biased as I am a big Cook fan, but I really liked it. Love this series!

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 03:31 PM

T77, on 09 March 2011 - 03:20 PM, said:

Finished Faded Steel Heat by Glen Cook, the ninth book in his Garrett P.I. series. I'm very biased as I am a big Cook fan, but I really liked it. Love this series!

The Black Company is all the Cook I've read. I'm intrigued by his P.I. series (what a fun premise!) and his sci-fi, so may have to give them a twirl sometime.

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 05:14 PM

Cook's Garrett books are great, they're completely different from the Black Company series.

Just a couple hundred pages left in my reread of The Name of the Wind. I should be starting in on The Wise Man's Fear (which arrived yesterday) by the weekend.