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#7561 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 11 December 2011 - 07:15 PM

JLV, on 11 December 2011 - 04:39 PM, said:

Started and finished Donaldson's The Wounded Land (2nd chronicles of Thomas Covenant #1) yesterday. Couldn't put the book down. I honestly hated the first book of the series, found the second interesting, was blown away by the third. Now on the second trilogy I like it even more. Very impressed.

I think The Wounded Land might be my favorite Covenant book; the Sunbane is just such a mind-blowing creation.

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#7562 JLV

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Posted 11 December 2011 - 08:35 PM

Do the books continue to get better, or level off? hopefully they don't get bad..

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Posted 11 December 2011 - 08:54 PM

JLV, on 11 December 2011 - 08:35 PM, said:

Do the books continue to get better, or level off? hopefully they don't get bad..

The books get better if you can trust in Donaldson about the Linden and Jeremiah stuff. It's an Erikson-style future payoff thing.

The most recent one (Against All Things Ending) has one of the best "fist-pump/awwww yeaaaaaah!" moments I've ever had while reading a book. They get intense. Looking forwards very much to the next book, which finishes the Covenant series once and for all.

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 12:26 AM

Cant decide...nothing is my cup of tea...

( Cold Commands? Not perfect for this moment. All You Need is Kill? Not in sci-fi mood. Pratchett? Not for humour of this type. Bakker? Dont remember first book... Abercrombie? Read all of it... Help!!!!

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 12:56 AM

Ulrik, on 12 December 2011 - 12:26 AM, said:

Help!!!!

Thunderer by Felix Gilman.

Just because it's awesome.

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 01:52 AM

Briar King, on 12 December 2011 - 01:18 AM, said:

I loved the 1st chron, but the 2nd I just couldnt get past it about halfway through. I couldnt stand Linda part in the story. The 1st should be on any Fantasy readers list though.

This is what I mean about trusting in Donaldson with the Linden and Jeremiah stuff. It pays off, but it takes a while - much like many Erikson plot threads.

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 12:59 PM

Finished Cornwell's Enemy of God - fantastic! Have now started Excalibur

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 01:03 PM

Steph Swainston's THE YEAR OF OUR WAR. This one's been on the TRP a looooooooooong time.

Plus still reading MAGICIAN'S GAMBIT.

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 12 December 2011 - 01:48 PM

Finished WOLF Of THE PLAINS by Iggulden (great stuff! And did you know that the Mongolian language has no "k" sound, and we anglicized his first name, moving it away from its origins, so Genghis Khan is actually pronounced Chinngis Haan?) You are duly edjumacated. I have the second book LORDS OF THE BOW ready to rock in the new year.

I read both THE VISCOUNT & THE WITCH (Ryria Short fiction) by Michael J. Sullivan and it was good, in almost an anecdote sort of fashion. Then I read THE BUTCHER OF ANDERSON STATION (short fiction in the Expanse Universe) by James S.A. Corey, which tells a bit of the back story of one of the main characters from LEVIATHAN WAKES, and it was EXCELLENT, and gets me really pumped for CALIBAN'S WAR!

I am therefore back into BROKEN ANGELS by Richard Morgan. Am about halfway through and it's really awesome so far!

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 02:47 PM

I have started the first Codex Alera book...so far, so good. I'm also trying to decide which books to buy next. I read samples of "The Sisters Brothers", "Ready Player One" and "Better Living through Plastic Explosives" on my Kindle but I can't decide which to choose. Maybe I'll just splurge and get them all.

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 02:52 PM

Maia Irraz, on 12 December 2011 - 02:47 PM, said:

Though I've yet to read it (it's on my Xmas list), I have heard that READY PLAYER ONE is fantastic!

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 05:06 PM

Ulrik, on 12 December 2011 - 12:26 AM, said:

Cant decide...nothing is my cup of tea...

( Cold Commands? Not perfect for this moment.... Help!!!!

COLD COMMANDS is perfect for all moment. go read it. thank me later.

Maia Irraz, on 12 December 2011 - 02:47 PM, said:

I have started the first Codex Alera book...so far, so good.

If you find it stalling a bit, push thru. I cannot overemphasize the magnitudes by which that series improves after the first book.

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 05:47 PM

Finished Charles Stross's Rule 34, loose successor to Halting State. Real fun but not mindblowing - it lacks the wtf factor of the awesome tech (and scottish accents) of the first novel. In particular, the return of Kemal was not required, imho. The Gnome and the Kyrgyzstan plot are awesome, though.
Ending looks and feels a lot like a cliffhanger.

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 05:56 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 12 December 2011 - 05:30 PM, said:

Abyss, on 12 December 2011 - 05:06 PM, said:

Primateus, on 11 December 2011 - 11:48 AM, said:

Finally finished Toll the Hounds! Onwards to Stonewielder or Dust of Dreams. I'm still confused which one it should be first...

chronologicaly it's Stonewielder then TtH.

Is it? SW is set at least a year (if not longer) after RotCG. Either way, I don't think it particularly matters. If I did choose to read RotCG > SW > TtH, it would be to keep ICE's plots more closely connected.

To Primateus' question, I'd probably read SW first, if only because I think DoD/TCG would work best read as a single novel.

Whoa! - my bad, totally mixed up four dif books there... SMZ has it right.

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 12:33 AM

Finished Proven Guilty by Butcher yesterday and once again enjoyed another book in this series- really liked the different style of ending that didn't explode with action but had a ton of uber-fantastic stuff crammed into the end. Good stuff.

Thought about going back to Martin with A Dance with Dragons but wanted to delay it by picking up a series I've been meaning to get to for a long long time and finally started Mistborn by Sanderson. Liked the beginining but only a few pages in so far.

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 05:29 AM

Finished Alloy of Law and Elantris by Sanderson and I'm now reading Warbreaker.

Next I might continue with the Dresden book (or 3... or 4 or however many I can afford).

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 06:13 AM

QuickTidal, on 11 December 2011 - 02:03 PM, said:

Gwynn ap Nudd, on 11 December 2011 - 02:06 AM, said:

Also managed to pick up a hardcover copy of Fool's Fate for $2 (I find Hobbs hit and miss with even the hits not being at the top of my list, so wouldn't pay full price). I'll be reading that next.

The Fool trilogy is not quite as good as the Farseer Trilogy, and it likes to wander, but the final book (FOOLS FATE) does have a VERY satisfying ending for the whole series.

Really? I found the ending to be one of the worst handled I'd read and totally spoiled a lot of the series for me. It was a hack ending that seemed to come from a completely different voice to the rest of the Fools trilogy. Of course Hobb went and completely put me off her writing with the Soldier's Son books, and I haven't bothered to pick up anything of hers since.

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 11:23 AM

Paran, on 13 December 2011 - 06:13 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 11 December 2011 - 02:03 PM, said:

Gwynn ap Nudd, on 11 December 2011 - 02:06 AM, said:

Also managed to pick up a hardcover copy of Fool's Fate for $2 (I find Hobbs hit and miss with even the hits not being at the top of my list, so wouldn't pay full price). I'll be reading that next.

The Fool trilogy is not quite as good as the Farseer Trilogy, and it likes to wander, but the final book (FOOLS FATE) does have a VERY satisfying ending for the whole series.

Huh, diff'rent strokes I guess. I liked it because:

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 05:02 PM

QuickTidal, on 13 December 2011 - 11:23 AM, said:

Paran, on 13 December 2011 - 06:13 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 11 December 2011 - 02:03 PM, said:

Gwynn ap Nudd, on 11 December 2011 - 02:06 AM, said:

Also managed to pick up a hardcover copy of Fool's Fate for $2 (I find Hobbs hit and miss with even the hits not being at the top of my list, so wouldn't pay full price). I'll be reading that next.

The Fool trilogy is not quite as good as the Farseer Trilogy, and it likes to wander, but the final book (FOOLS FATE) does have a VERY satisfying ending for the whole series.

Huh, diff'rent strokes I guess. I liked it because:

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I also liked the ending and felt it was very satisfying in the context of a nine book series.

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