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#7221 Gust Hubb

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Posted 21 September 2011 - 10:08 PM

Finished up the first book of the Thomas Covenant Chronicles. Moving onto The Black Company.

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#7222 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 21 September 2011 - 10:15 PM

Oh god the Black Company is so much win. I've just started the Tales of the South

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bla bla bla

Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french

EDIT: We has editted so mucj that5 we're not quite sure... also, leave britney alone.</div>

#7223 Slow Ben

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Posted 21 September 2011 - 10:47 PM

Adjutant Stormy, on 21 September 2011 - 10:15 PM, said:

Oh god the Black Company is so much win. I've just started the Tales of the South

You bet your ass it is!

Still re-reading. In case you didnt know, this Erikson cat is pretty talented.

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 01:35 AM

So I picked up and started THE FALL by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan (the second book in their "Blade II Reaver-style" vampire apocalypse series. Dug the first one for thriller fiction, and hope the second one is as good.

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#7225 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 04:06 AM

Briar King, on 22 September 2011 - 04:05 AM, said:

Del Toro the movie director?

Yep.

"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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#7226 Obdigore

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 09:14 AM

Cruel Zinc Melodies by the mighty Glen Cook.

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 09:18 AM

i'm not, i have the shakes, and i'm bored a lot. i'm getting steven king's series when i get paid

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 11:40 AM

Finished _Embassytown_ by China Miéville. Hmm. I'm not sure if I liked it. It seemed much more self-indulgent than his norm, though the trademark flair for imagery and strange societies was there, and his excellent prose carried me through. But I couldn't help but think that an entire book was a bit long for the central idea -- a very writery idea. It brought strongly to mind the thread here on rap battles, and why authors think they're such a good idea: well, here's another concept beloved of authors who want to put flesh on a linguistic fillip, that of the aliens who can only speak truth. The skill of Miéville was apparent in the genuine sensawunda he created in the final scenes, but I couldn't help but feel that this was fairly well-trodden territory, and expectations of Miéville these days lie beyond familiar grounds.

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#7229 Baco Xtath

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 06:07 PM

About 60 pages left in Leviathan Wakes; damn good book. Also about 50 pages left in Nightside of the Long Sun, finally picking up in speed. Next up Death Masks.

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#7230 Abyss

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 06:25 PM

Baco Xtath, on 22 September 2011 - 06:07 PM, said:

Next up Death Masks.

aka 'Next up Holy Dragonfucknuts.'

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#7231 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 07:03 PM

Finished Robopocalypse.

I'm happy for it and I'm a let others finish and review, but World War Z was the best apocalypse of all time!

(Kanye review.)

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....

#7232 End of Disc One

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 07:35 PM

Nearing the end of Turn Coat, and I feel like I'm watching The Sword in the Stone.

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Posted 23 September 2011 - 11:36 AM

Briar King, on 23 September 2011 - 03:49 AM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 22 September 2011 - 04:06 AM, said:

Briar King, on 22 September 2011 - 04:05 AM, said:

Del Toro the movie director?

Yep.

Shit I bet that is a twisted fucked up story then...?

It's kind of like his version of the apocalypse mixed up with the Reaver vampire plague from Blade II and components of the Dracula mythos...and yeah it's kind of messed up, but not in the same way his movies are...it's more messed up in that things happen in each book that make my jaw kind of drop. LOL Fun, fluffy horror action stuff.

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#7234 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 23 September 2011 - 01:22 PM

Still going through Butcher's Side Jobs. I just finished "The Warrior", and it just might be my favorite Dresden story ever.

#7235 D'iversify

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Posted 23 September 2011 - 01:36 PM

Finished A Dance with Dragons. Really enjoyed it for the most part, but agree with the criticism that it's got a little too much fat in it (compare the amount of 'meaty' content in it with what was squeezed into the only slightly longer ASOS), and that ending on cliffhangers wasn't particularly satisfying. Otherwise great, and excellent world-building too.

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#7236 mostly.harmless

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Posted 23 September 2011 - 06:49 PM

I finished Name of the Wind last week and am at a third of A Wise Man’s Fear.
Really enjoying this series so far. Too bad there isn’t a third book yet.

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 01:49 PM

Just finished the Illustrated Eric by Terry Pratchett and am already 60 pages into Death Masks, good times

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#7238 Gust Hubb

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 04:12 PM

The Blade Itself by joe abercromie

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#7239 MWKarsa

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Posted 26 September 2011 - 12:37 AM

The other day I finished A Clash of Kings and I cannot begin to say how much I've enjoyed the first books in this series- utterly amazing story, fantastic plots that are woven from the past to how they affect the present and will alter the future and such great GREAT characters. Tyrion is emerging as one of my favorites along with others. Simply amazing stuff. Really thought about plowing into the 3rd book but with a series this great I like to try and stretch out the enjoyment so I'm reading Conviction from the Fate of the Jedi series. It's decent but it's really hard to go from writing that great to a SW book. I may try and stretch it out and get back to the Dresdenfiles but I already want to get into A Storm of Swords.

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Posted 26 September 2011 - 01:18 AM

You probably should just knock out the rest of the series, unless you have another favorite author to get back to. Most stuff is gonna seem shallow in comparison. Dresden might be fine though because it's naturally popcorny while still being of high quality, so it'd make a good chaser.

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