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#7281 Abyss

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Posted 05 October 2011 - 02:57 PM

QuickTidal, on 05 October 2011 - 02:34 PM, said:

After I finish my re-read of TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT I have a few books in my TRP, but I haven't the foggiest which I'll go for.

I've got the following:

THE NIGHT CIRCUS - Erin Morgenstern...

Would be interested in your view on this. Wert raved.

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Posted 05 October 2011 - 02:58 PM

Abyss, on 05 October 2011 - 02:57 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 05 October 2011 - 02:34 PM, said:

After I finish my re-read of TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT I have a few books in my TRP, but I haven't the foggiest which I'll go for.

I've got the following:

THE NIGHT CIRCUS - Erin Morgenstern...

Would be interested in your view on this. Wert raved.

I started it the night I bought it and got about 30 pages in. Seemed interesting, but I wasn't in the mood for it then...perhaps I will be when I pick it up. Will let you know.

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Posted 05 October 2011 - 03:03 PM

Just finished The Persian Boy, by Renault and a cheeky re-read of The Misplaced Legion, by Turtledove. Two good reads. Now started Sailing to Sarantium, which has started well, as expected.

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Posted 05 October 2011 - 07:01 PM

Abyss, on 05 October 2011 - 02:57 PM, said:

Would be interested in your view on this. Wert raved.

I'm not QT (obviously) but I bought last Thursday, to read over the weekend as I needed to get some stuff done and get to bed early before an all-day course on Friday. I stayed up to two in the morning of the Friday and did virtually none of the stuff.

So yeah, it's good.

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Posted 05 October 2011 - 07:50 PM

polishgenius, on 05 October 2011 - 07:01 PM, said:

Abyss, on 05 October 2011 - 02:57 PM, said:

Would be interested in your view on this. Wert raved.

I'm not QT (obviously)

Are you sure? because i am allegedly Apt, Illy, Sombra, Rodeo and/or SE depending on the day of the week, so you may, in fact, be QT and not even know it.

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but I bought last Thursday, to read over the weekend as I needed to get some stuff done and get to bed early before an all-day course on Friday. I stayed up to two in the morning of the Friday and did virtually none of the stuff.

So yeah, it's good.

Noted.
The reco's are piling up on this book.

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Posted 05 October 2011 - 09:45 PM

Currently reading Royal Assassin, in the last three weeks or so I have read:

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Gunslinger - Steven King
Magician: Apprentice - Raymond E. Feist
Magician: Master - Raymond E. Feist

Need to pick up Assassin's Quest, and the last two from the Riftwar Saga for my October reading. SO NICE TO HAVE TIME TO READ AGAIN!!!

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Posted 05 October 2011 - 09:49 PM

hah! Slump broken. Figures it'd take a fucking reread of Heroes Die to get me over this.

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Posted 06 October 2011 - 05:57 PM

Just finished Butcher's Welcome to the Jungle graphic novel. Holy crap, that was amazing. I couldn't believe how much it felt like just reading another Dresden novel. Good stuff.

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Posted 07 October 2011 - 01:23 AM

Well, I got about 180 pages into Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding and I gave it up, which I hate because I really wanted to like this one. The characters seemed too one dimensional and cliche and the writing was a little sub par. I've got entirely too many good books lined up to waste time on something I'm not enjoying. No offense to Wooding, it just wasn't my mug o' beer. So now I've picked up Thunderer by Felix Gilman and after about 30 pages, I'm enjoying it. Also, I've decided to start a bathroom book for which I've begun with Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer. I'm about 20 pages in and really liking it (very trippy stuff - think China Mieville mixed with Kurt Vonnegutt and Chuck Palahnuik). On the down side, I've also been taking 15 to 20 minute bathroom breaks.

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Posted 07 October 2011 - 03:05 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 06 October 2011 - 05:57 PM, said:

Just finished Butcher's Welcome to the Jungle graphic novel. Holy crap, that was amazing. I couldn't believe how much it felt like just reading another Dresden novel. Good stuff.

Ah fuck, I was planning on reading this in publication order with the series but totally forgot. I'll go ahead and order it right now.

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Posted 07 October 2011 - 03:33 PM

Baco Xtath, on 07 October 2011 - 01:23 AM, said:

... Also, I've decided to start a bathroom book for which I've begun with Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer. I'm about 20 pages in and really liking it (very trippy stuff - think China Mieville mixed with Kurt Vonnegutt and Chuck Palahnuik). On the up side, I've also been taking 15 to 20 minute personal health de-stressification intervals.

Fixed to justify.

Salt-Man Z, on 06 October 2011 - 05:57 PM, said:

Just finished Butcher's Welcome to the Jungle graphic novel. Holy crap, that was amazing. I couldn't believe how much it felt like just reading another Dresden novel. Good stuff.

Very much so. and how perfectly awesome was

Spoiler

End of Disc One, on 07 October 2011 - 03:05 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 06 October 2011 - 05:57 PM, said:

Just finished Butcher's Welcome to the Jungle graphic novel. Holy crap, that was amazing. I couldn't believe how much it felt like just reading another Dresden novel. Good stuff.

Ah fuck, I was planning on reading this in publication order with the series but totally forgot. I'll go ahead and order it right now.

It doesn't matter. the story takes place earlier in the actual series that it was published so it's out of sequence anyways.

Am about halfway thru THE STRAIN. Like. Not love, but totally like.

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Posted 07 October 2011 - 03:42 PM

Abyss, on 07 October 2011 - 03:33 PM, said:

Am about halfway thru THE STRAIN. Like. Not love, but totally like.

Told ya. The second one is more of the same. Entertaining when there isn't anything else to read, or it works as a palate cleanser after more complex reads.

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#7293 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 07 October 2011 - 05:10 PM

Abyss, on 07 October 2011 - 03:33 PM, said:

Very much so. and how perfectly awesome was

Spoiler

I was also very much a fan of

Spoiler

Actually, I loved the way Butcher tied all the jungle stuff all together, starting with Upton Sinclair's metaphor of Chicago as a jungle, and working it all the way through the end.

Oh yeah, and

Spoiler

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Posted 07 October 2011 - 05:20 PM

QuickTidal, on 07 October 2011 - 03:42 PM, said:

Abyss, on 07 October 2011 - 03:33 PM, said:

Am about halfway thru THE STRAIN. Like. Not love, but totally like.

Told ya. The second one is more of the same. Entertaining when there isn't anything else to read, or it works as a palate cleanser after more complex reads.

Totally.
I'm likely to pick up THE FALL in mmpb if i don't spot it second hand somewhere.

Salt-Man Z, on 07 October 2011 - 05:10 PM, said:

Abyss, on 07 October 2011 - 03:33 PM, said:

Very much so. and how perfectly awesome was

Spoiler

I was also very much a fan of

Spoiler

Actually, I loved the way Butcher tied all the jungle stuff all together, starting with Upton Sinclair's metaphor of Chicago as a jungle, and working it all the way through the end.

Oh yeah, and

Spoiler

Loved it all. That particular GN deserves more dresdencrack addict acclaim. It was way more entertaining than the STORM FRONT adaptation (which was fine, but not as much fun as reading an original work).

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Posted 09 October 2011 - 12:15 AM

I have had it for a while, but I finally got around to reading PRISONER OF THE DALEKS by Trevor Baxendale, I love me some DOCTOR WHO peripheral media!

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Posted 09 October 2011 - 12:19 AM

Finished The Magician King, second Fillory book by Lev Grossman. He sure knows how to write self-absorbed irritating characters. Boy does he know how. Plot seemed pretty shot-gunned.

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 09 October 2011 - 12:45 AM

Picked up Carey's first Felix Castor book at B&N this afternoon after recommendations in another thread. I dont remember which one, we have alot of book threads.

It is now my bathroom book.

Usually I dont have a seperate bathroom book when i'm rereading Malazan, because its ya know, its awesome. But now i live in a place with stairs and DG is all the way up there!

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Posted 09 October 2011 - 10:56 PM

Halfway through Justin Cronin's _The Passage_. Wow, this is seriously awesome.

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Posted 09 October 2011 - 11:54 PM

Finished The Last Hero and the illustrations really added to this, I enjoyed both them and the story itself. I'm still waiting for Blood Rites to arrive and so in the meantime I am reading Electra by Euripides and man but it is so dramatic, every second line is WOE IS ME, SERIOUSLY I'M TOTALLY EMO IN THIS SCENE. I'm not sure it was supposed to read as a comedy but I kind of like taking it that way.

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Posted 10 October 2011 - 01:03 PM

Finished _The Passage_. That's some good shit.

Amazon delivered _How Firm A Foundation_, the latest in David Weber's Safehold series, this morning. Looking forward to starting it when I get home.

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