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#6521 QuickTidal

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Posted 26 April 2011 - 02:40 PM

Abyss, on 26 April 2011 - 02:29 PM, said:

End of Disc One, on 26 April 2011 - 02:23 PM, said:

I have about 80 pages left in Dead Beat...my favorite in the series.

Told you so!
And that finale is so, so very awesome.

The finale is responsible for one of the most popular pics of Dresden ever, my avatar over at the Butcher boards is said pic.

Loves it.

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Posted 26 April 2011 - 03:22 PM

Ah, yes, SFBC's Wizard at Large omnibus cover: http://s3images.coro...tDuC_Tdqo5y.jpg

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Posted 26 April 2011 - 03:49 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 26 April 2011 - 03:22 PM, said:

Ah, yes, SFBC's Wizard at Large omnibus cover: http://s3images.coro...tDuC_Tdqo5y.jpg

Tho' awesome, actually somewhat unfortunate for spoiling one of the greatest Crowning Moments of Awesome in the history of the written word.

Tho it's probably brought in a tonne of new readers too, because, well... it's

Spoiler

FFS.

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Posted 26 April 2011 - 03:57 PM

Abyss, on 26 April 2011 - 03:49 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 26 April 2011 - 03:22 PM, said:

Ah, yes, SFBC's Wizard at Large omnibus cover: http://s3images.coro...tDuC_Tdqo5y.jpg

Tho' awesome, actually somewhat unfortunate for spoiling one of the greatest Crowning Moments of Awesome in the history of the written word.

Yeah that's what spoiled it for me. Oh well, I was reading Storm Front at the time I saw it and that picture convinced me to keep going.

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Posted 26 April 2011 - 04:07 PM

I love Dresden.

About halfway through Warrior Prophet by Bakker. So far i'm enjoying it more than Darkness, though i'm still not sure how i feel about the series as a whole yet.

PS- I love the Dresden novels.

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

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Posted 26 April 2011 - 04:16 PM

MY re-read of A CLASH OF KINGS is reigniting my love of the series...and I'm quite excited about finishing up AFFC in time for ADWD.

With that coming out AND Butcher's GHOST STORY....summer reading is going to be wall to wall balls out awesomery.

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Posted 26 April 2011 - 05:10 PM

Started The Heroes this morning. Think there has already been enough said about this one on here.

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Posted 26 April 2011 - 11:06 PM

I've finished Return of the Crimson Guard so now I've started on Toll the Hounds.

Screw you all, and have a nice day!

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Posted 27 April 2011 - 07:44 AM

Finished _The Master and Margarita_, and wrote a summary of my thoughts about it on my blog, which see: http://thurulingas.w...-blooded-woman/ (Oh, all my blog post titles are lines from songs, so sometimes it can be a bit of a strain seeing the connection

). I liked it, in a weird way, and am kind of at a loss as to what to jump to next. The space opera _Orphaned Worlds_ isn't grabbing me. Might dive back into _Infinite Jest_ and try to finish it off.

Apologies if the formatting on this post is fucked up -- I pressed a key combination and can't seem to undo it.

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Posted 27 April 2011 - 02:12 PM

Finished Dead Beat last night. Holy shit. Probably the best book I've read since The Bonehunters a few years ago. Even given the hype and my knowledge of a particular spoiler, it delivered on every level.

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Posted 27 April 2011 - 02:42 PM

The Master and Margarita is great. There's an old russian TV-series based on it and it's quite funny and nostalgic how they did some effects.

I finished The Book Thief, which was quite good, and delved into War and Piece. In Russian, of course, after my mom got a raging fit at seeing me with a translation and I wound up with a russian version two weeks after that. Well, War and Peace it is...

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#6532 QuickTidal

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Posted 27 April 2011 - 03:21 PM

End of Disc One, on 27 April 2011 - 02:12 PM, said:

Told ya...LOL...seeing how we all pimp that book out a lot as pure win. Glad you enjoyed it as much as we did!

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Posted 27 April 2011 - 03:22 PM

silvenquesti, on 26 April 2011 - 05:10 PM, said:

Started The Heroes this morning. Think there has already been enough said about this one on here.

No there hasn't... THE HEROES is great. Halfway through and totally enjoying it. Abercrombie keeps getting better.

Briar King, on 27 April 2011 - 12:20 AM, said:

Dragonfucknuts!

Im only like 100 pgs in Grave Peril and havent read a pg in 2 days cause I ve felt like SHIT with Strep Throat!

Unless your eyes are in your throat you have no excuse. The dresdencrack, it will make you feel better.... go to it... go to it now... just a page or two... go on... just to the end of the next chapter... go ahead... you know you want some... everyone else is reading it...

End of Disc One, on 27 April 2011 - 02:12 PM, said:

A. Men.
That finale just raises the bar for all action books, ever.

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Posted 27 April 2011 - 06:27 PM

Finished Fool Moon. No problems reading it without having read Storm Front (but thanks for the offer of explanations, Briar King!). Very entertaining. Not amazing, IMO, but certainly good enough that I'd be perfectly happy to carry on with the series even if I hadn't heard everyone saying how much better it gets. Judging by the above comments about Dead Beat should I assume that the reason my library doesn't have a copy is because someone read it and just couldn't give it back?

Anyway, I'm starting Abercrombie's The Blade Itself next. Hopefully I'll even finish it this time. With 2 long boring coach journeys in the next week I might even get onto the next in the series.

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Posted 28 April 2011 - 03:13 PM

You have convinced me to try Kraken after Deadhouse Gates

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Posted 28 April 2011 - 11:39 PM

Just finished Backlash the 4th book in the Fate of the Jedi series and it definitely wasn't my favorite of the series so far though it had some good parts in it. Aaron Allston writing for one of the young characters made me think I was reading a book in the kid's series. Now back to Dresden and just started Fool Moon earlier today.

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Posted 30 April 2011 - 03:21 AM

Abyss, on 27 April 2011 - 03:22 PM, said:

silvenquesti, on 26 April 2011 - 05:10 PM, said:

Started The Heroes this morning. Think there has already been enough said about this one on here.

No there hasn't... THE HEROES is great. Halfway through and totally enjoying it. Abercrombie keeps getting better.

I completely agree with you. I'm head over heels for Abercrombie's writing and have been since I first read The Blade Itself. All I was saying is that I couldn't really add more to the praise that the book has already got on the forums.

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Posted 30 April 2011 - 03:54 AM

Briar King, on 30 April 2011 - 03:34 AM, said:

I ve been hearing alot about this Abercrombie fella. Is The Blade Itself and Heros related in a series and has he written others besides those?

The Blade Itself, Before they are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings make up the First Law trilogy. The Heroes and Best Served Cold are novels based in the same world, containing some of the same characters, as the First Law. Having read the trilogy enhances the standalones. Abercrombie plans on another trilogy, I believe, set in the same world, with the other two as kind of bridges? Good stuff.

Finished Kraken. Weird. I might like it more on a reread. Which I'll never do. But I still quite liked it. Felt a little bit like GotM, honestly.

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 30 April 2011 - 06:26 AM

Briar King, on 30 April 2011 - 03:34 AM, said:

I ve been hearing alot about this Abercrombie fella. Is The Blade Itself and Heros related in a series and has he written others besides those?

I've read the first two of the trilogy and definitely recommend it. I thought the first book was pretty average, but for some reason I just loved the second. It's sort of satire-ish. There's a lot of humor in it, in a sense that the joke is on the characters.