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#6861 POOPOO MCBUMFACE

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Posted 10 July 2011 - 08:29 PM

Reading Book of the New Sun for the first time, about fifty pages in. I hate to say it, but I'm... not really sure what I'm supposed to like about this book so far.

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Posted 10 July 2011 - 08:34 PM

POOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 10 July 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

Reading Book of the New Sun for the first time, about fifty pages in. I hate to say it, but I'm... not really sure what I'm supposed to like about this book so far.

My take on the book

Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm Not Sure About The Former.
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Posted 11 July 2011 - 12:50 PM

Still on my parallel reading tracks:

ASOS *kisses fingertips*

Summer Knight (Dresden #4) - wasn't going to go into the next Dresden, but I didn't have anything else, so I did.

I did wind up liking the ending of Grave Peril better than I thought I was going to. Still, it was my least favorite of the books so far.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 02:36 PM

THE HOBBIT...by some Tolkien guy...(never read it before...I know, sacrilege) and so far loving it!

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 03:11 PM

The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 03:53 PM

Read Blood Follows over the weekend (finally picked up the omnibus from the library) and was mildly disappointed. Nothing much happens, and the solution to the "mystery" is aleady known to any reader familiar with B&KB. Also, I'm not sure why there were so many players involved when nothing came of it at the end. Still entertaining, and well-written. Also, it doesn't gel with Stonewielder at all, does it?

Currently 2/3s of the way through "The Ziggurat", the longest story in Gene Wolfe's Strange Travelers. It's really good, and I only stopped reading last night because I knew I wouldn't be able to get through the last 30 pages before falling asleep.

"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 11 July 2011 - 06:41 PM

Halfway through ASOS re-read. Debating just diving into ADWD tomorrow.

Also reading Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business by Bob Lutz

"In 2001, General Motors hired Lutz out of retirement with a mandate to save the company by making great cars again. As vice chairman, he launched a war against the penny-pinching number-crunchers who ran the company by the bottom line, and reinstated a focus on creativity, design, and cars and trucks that would satisfy GM customers."

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 06:57 PM

acesn8s, on 11 July 2011 - 06:41 PM, said:

Debating just diving into ADWD tomorrow.

Debating? Why would you not? Just do Wert's AFFC recap post and you're golden!

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 07:52 PM

QuickTidal, on 11 July 2011 - 06:57 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 11 July 2011 - 06:41 PM, said:

Debating just diving into ADWD tomorrow.

Debating? Why would you not? Just do Wert's AFFC recap post and you're golden!

Looking for Easter Eggs I guess.

Spoiler

I know I'm going buckle like a belt one I get my copy.

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 07:02 AM

re-reading TCG, though I imagine I won't make it in time before ADWD arrives (expected on thursday).

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 12 July 2011 - 08:09 AM

Finished re-reading A Feast For Crows last night, then downloaded A Dance with Dragons to my Kindle this morning and started it on the way to work

Edit: Just been reading this thread on Amazon.co.uk - glad I didn't wait up till midnight to download it!

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 10:41 AM

Started Dostoevsky's _Crime And Punishment_ last night, book 3 of my resolution books. And I'm already further into it than I managed the first time I tried to read it, and actually enjoying the build up.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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Posted 12 July 2011 - 02:23 PM

POOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 10 July 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

Reading Book of the New Sun for the first time, about fifty pages in. I hate to say it, but I'm... not really sure what I'm supposed to like about this book so far.

I've started it twice in the past and haven't gotten past page 100.

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 04:12 PM

acesn8s, on 12 July 2011 - 02:23 PM, said:

POOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 10 July 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

Reading Book of the New Sun for the first time, about fifty pages in. I hate to say it, but I'm... not really sure what I'm supposed to like about this book so far.

I've started it twice in the past and haven't gotten past page 100.

I love it to bits, but It's definitely not for everyone.

I raved about it to a friend of mine, who later decided that he would buy it for his sister, an avid fantasy reader. I cautioned him that it might not be his best bet, since it's not to everyone's tastes and neither of us knew anything about hers. For some reason he wouldn't be dissuaded, and guess what happened? She thought it was thoroughly weird, did not enjoy it, and stopped at page 50.

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 07:45 PM

THE BUTCHER BIRD, by Richard Kadrey.

I do so love Kadrey's sheer irreverance... bynon-spoilerish example...

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“The Gytrash are nomads and escorts for travelers. They are a very practical race. They eat their dead for nourishment, but also as ritual. It’s their highest act of love and praise.”

“We’re almost there,” said Primo. “Shall we continue?”

“Let’s,” said Shrike. Spyder walked beside her trying to decide which member of his family, in a pinch, he could eat.

and his dialogue...

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“You’re a cute girl, Shrike. I can say that because your intestines are still on the inside.”

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 07:46 PM

acesn8s, on 12 July 2011 - 02:23 PM, said:

POOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 10 July 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

Reading Book of the New Sun for the first time, about fifty pages in. I hate to say it, but I'm... not really sure what I'm supposed to like about this book so far.

I've started it twice in the past and haven't gotten past page 100.

There's a point around the halfway mark in the book where it gets so damn gripping that you almost can't put the book down. It's a slow build book. If those who go into C&P knew that from the start, I bet we'd have a lot more people who'd actually read it.

Excellent book.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 03:33 AM

A DANCE WITH MUTHA-FUZUCKIN DRAGONS by GEORGE R.R. MARTIN!

BOOYAH.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

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