[Rhand]

Apparently my post from last night has dissapeared. Finished Martin's A Dance with Dragons last night and all I got to say is "damnit Martin, fuck you!".

[QuickTidal]

Finished up my re-read of GOTM last night and got back into THE STEEL REMAINS by Morgan....which I had put down at the halfway point for whatever reason. I saw it last night and picked it back up.

[Use Of Weapons]

Got a couple of books after joining the local library, and have dived right into Paul J McAuley's _The Quiet War_.

[Mentalist]

Yeasterday I finished Asher's "Polity Agent" (the 4th Cormac novel). Damn, that series got good.

since I have a day off today, I'm about halfway through "The Fuller Memorandum" (Laundry files #3). And today, the Amazon Fairy delivered me the 2 omnibus volumes of Daniel Abraham's "Long Price Quartet", so I'll probably read that next

[QuickTidal]

Holy sweet shit... on the last 100 pages of THE STEEL REMAINS and this book just went from really good to fucking amazing!

[Mott]

Finally I have finished Great Expectations! I really enjoyed it but dammit Dickens stop making me cry at every single books of yours I read! The ending was rather melancholy but it was a really well put together story and although some of the characters seemed slightly toned down in it I was especially fond of Wemmick, the castle and The Aged (which I am going to start calling my mum, undoubtedly I'll be homeless withing the week).

Onto Summer Knight now and hopefully this will be a much quicker read.

[amphibian]

Mott, on 01 September 2011 - 01:16 AM, said:

Finally I have finished Great Expectations! I really enjoyed it but dammit Dickens stop making me cry at every single books of yours I read! The ending was rather melancholy but it was a really well put together story and although some of the characters seemed slightly toned down in it I was especially fond of Wemmick, the castle and The Aged (which I am going to start calling my mum, undoubtedly I'll be homeless withing the week).

Onto Summer Knight now and hopefully this will be a much quicker read.

Go watch the 1998 Great Expectations movie with Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow and director Alfonso Cuaron. It really does a great job with the source material and in creating its own stance.

[Dolmen 2.0]

due to forum based raves and rants i just restarted my read of dresden files. I also just ordered a few of the black company books with a wisemans fear sp?? thrown in for good measure. I had hoped to get the love for these books.

Sadly this has all been flung to the side. My uncle just lent me a copy of tCG. I havent managed to read anything else.

Dammit.

[Rhand]

Sean Russell's The One Kingdom

[worry]

I'm reading Ghost Story. About 100 pages in, and so far so awesome.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 01 September 2011 - 12:10 AM, said:

Holy sweet shit... on the last 100 pages of THE STEEL REMAINS and this book just went from really good to fucking amazing!

so true. SO psyched for COLD COMMANDS

Mott, on 01 September 2011 - 01:16 AM, said:

...Onto Summer Knight now and hopefully this will be a much quicker read.

Hee hee.

Dolmen, on 01 September 2011 - 05:33 AM, said:

due to forum based raves and rants i just restarted my read of dresden files. ...My uncle just lent me a copy of tCG. I havent managed to read anything else.

Dammit.

Heads have 'sploded over lesser conflicts.

worrywort, on 01 September 2011 - 06:50 AM, said:

I'm reading Ghost Story. About 100 pages in, and so far so awesome.

Just. Wait.



I paused Millar's DRAGONS OF BABEL because the library coughed up the SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH urban fantasy anthology. Sadly the Dresden story was in SIDE JOBS and so far the rest of this collection have sucked mightyly. The upside is a list of authors for me to avoid avoid avoid.

[MWKarsa]

Rhand, on 01 September 2011 - 06:18 AM, said:

Sean Russell's The One Kingdom

I read that trilogy last year and thought it was decent- not great but a fairly good read and story.

I'm currently reading A Game of Thrones(about 600 pages in) and I'm freaking loving this book. It had me hooked by page 20 and I'm blown away how much I like it. I normally don't praise a book before I finish reading it but this is the best first book of a series that I've read in a long long time. Fantastic stuff.

This post has been edited by MWKarsa: 01 September 2011 - 01:21 PM

[Tattersail_]

I bought an Abercrombie book a few months back and haven't read it, I don't even recall what it is called.


I spent an hour on Tuesday in the Sci Fi section/fantasy section of Waterstones and decided to by 3 books by Brandon Sanderson.


The first one is called "The Final Empire", 230 pages in and i'm addicted. I really like it. I am unsure on the girls name being Vin as one of my best mates is called that and I picture him when the name crops up which is annoying ha, but this book is great.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 01 September 2011 - 01:18 PM, said:

The upside is a list of authors for me to avoid avoid avoid.

Could you be a bit more specific?

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 01 September 2011 - 02:02 PM, said:

Abyss, on 01 September 2011 - 01:18 PM, said:

The upside is a list of authors for me to avoid avoid avoid.

Could you be a bit more specific?

Sure - So far Jo Beverly, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland have all failed to impress, but there are still Gaiman and Jacqueline Carey stories (among others) ahead that may salvage this.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 01 September 2011 - 02:42 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 01 September 2011 - 02:02 PM, said:

Abyss, on 01 September 2011 - 01:18 PM, said:

The upside is a list of authors for me to avoid avoid avoid.

Could you be a bit more specific?

Sure - So far Jo Beverly, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland have all failed to impress, but there are still Gaiman and Jacqueline Carey stories (among others) ahead that may salvage this.

I've oft wondered about Vaughn and Hanover and figured I should steer clear, so I'll continue to feel that way now. Thanks Abyss.

[polishgenius]

MLN Hanover is a pseudonym of the mighty Daniel Abraham, you utter heathen.

I can't comment on his Hanover work, not having read it, but he is perhaps my favourite current author with his proper name, so I'll get round to it eventually, though it's not as highly regarded as his regular fantasy work.

[Abyss]

A short story in an anthology should be an oportunity for an author to blow a potential new reader's mind and make them want or better yet DEMAND to read more of that author's work. Yet I find that the vast majority of anthology shorts are just plain bad or worse. In particular the urban fantasy collections that include Jim Butcher's Dresden short stories seem to be a colecting point for by-the-numbers bad urban fantasy.

[Use Of Weapons]

I'm partway through Modesitt's latest (?) in the Recluce saga, _Arms-Commander_. Frankly, the politics are trite and superficial, the characters 2-dimensional at best, and the writing barely rises above competent. Modesitt's trademark dialogue tics are frustratingly evident. But I still love the world and the order/chaos system he's created.

[Serenity]

I'm reading The Three Musketeers - about halfway through at the moment.