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Finished Morgan's BROKEN ANGELS. Wow, that one was fantastic. Defo better than AC, and I look fwd to reading WOKEN FURIES next year.
Shocking Revelation Time: If you trawl back through this thread to the beginning of this year you will see I was reading TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT and got about halfway through, and then THE CRIPPLED GOD dropped onto my doorstep and I put ToM down to read that...
...and I never got around to reading the rest of ToM...
So yeah, I am now (a year after receiving it for Christmas, and since then having bought it on my Kindle as well so I don't have to lug the hardcover around) FINALLY getting back into it.
So yeah, reading that right now.
Reading at t'moment?
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Posted 14 December 2011 - 02:11 PM
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Posted 14 December 2011 - 05:32 PM
Finished _Black Man_ just now. Wow, great book. May be my favourite Morgan ever, closer to Earth-present than AC and WF and so more relatable (IMO). Loved it.
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 11:23 AM
Briar King, on 15 December 2011 - 04:15 AM, said:
Whats this one about? Im currently all about Morgan with Altered Carbon.
Keep going with Altered Carbon. Follow up with Broken Angels and Woken Furies. Go then and only then to Black Man, which is a prequel of sorts.
From that point, jump over to The Steel Remains and The Cold Commands. Then high five yourself for completing that much awesome reading.
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 12:13 PM
What he said.
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 15 December 2011 - 12:53 PM
The Bourne Identity.
Going pretty sluggish due to gaming overload
Going pretty sluggish due to gaming overload
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 15 December 2011 - 02:55 PM
wade-newb, on 15 December 2011 - 12:46 PM, said:
Alternating (with the obvious side heavily favoured) between The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Memories of Ian C Esslemont
I never quite understood the praise for that whole Millennium trilogy, to be honest. I read all three books and though I liked them, I didn't find them as ZOMGAmazing!Squee! as others seemed to. I can't really put my finger on why, other than that I just found the plot to be very average. Maybe the movie will be better?
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 03:45 PM
Maia Irraz, on 15 December 2011 - 02:55 PM, said:
wade-newb, on 15 December 2011 - 12:46 PM, said:
Alternating (with the obvious side heavily favoured) between The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Memories of Ian C Esslemont
I never quite understood the praise for that whole Millennium trilogy, to be honest. I read all three books and though I liked them, I didn't find them as ZOMGAmazing!Squee! as others seemed to. I can't really put my finger on why, other than that I just found the plot to be very average. Maybe the movie will be better?
Yeah, I couldn't even get past book 1. I just don't see what the attraction is.
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 04:55 PM
Only 100 pages to go in Weeks' Night Angel trilogy. Then it'll be time for my third annual Book of the New Sun reread (though this time I'll be tackling the full Solar Cycle!)
"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 15 December 2011 - 07:47 PM
Maia Irraz, on 15 December 2011 - 02:55 PM, said:
wade-newb, on 15 December 2011 - 12:46 PM, said:
Alternating (with the obvious side heavily favoured) between The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Memories of Ian C Esslemont
I never quite understood the praise for that whole Millennium trilogy, to be honest. I read all three books and though I liked them, I didn't find them as ZOMGAmazing!Squee! as others seemed to. I can't really put my finger on why, other than that I just found the plot to be very average. Maybe the movie will be better?
Ya, well, the writing is very, very terse, some of the characters are still pretty flat as it stands... But I'm enjoying it thus far. Like you said though, they're not mind-blowing, but I'm reading it in a kind of book-exchange with my gurlfrand. I gave her GotM, she gave me this
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 10:14 PM
Black Man and Thirteen are the same book. Different titles in different places.
Market Forces is skippable. Go for it if the completist in you wants it, but it's not quite meshed into the same gestalt as the others.
Market Forces is skippable. Go for it if the completist in you wants it, but it's not quite meshed into the same gestalt as the others.
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 11:48 PM
Whereas I _really_ liked Market Forces, and wouldn't suggest skipping it for a nanosecond. If you've ever worked in an office environment, you'll enjoy it.
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Posted 16 December 2011 - 12:09 AM
I just finished Dragon Tattoo, actually, in preparation for the movie. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The crimes were sufficiently brutal, the polyamory was treated frankly without some weird moralizing, and I thought the main characters were fairly well drawn (and the less well drawn characters made sense as personal impressions of the POV characters, rather than mere stock). I'd still give it a B rather than an A though, since it didn't do everything with the locked-room mystery type thing that it could have (a few more run-ins with potential suspects would have helped). He also switched POV within the same passage several times, which is a personal peeve of mine I guess. He even did the thing where intra-chapter passages were separated by spaces, but still did this.
Anyway, I am very excited for the movie, and Fincher is probably the single best choice to direct it. His efficiency will do the story well.
Anyway, I am very excited for the movie, and Fincher is probably the single best choice to direct it. His efficiency will do the story well.
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Posted 16 December 2011 - 01:09 PM
worrywort, on 16 December 2011 - 12:09 AM, said:
I just finished Dragon Tattoo, actually, in preparation for the movie. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The crimes were sufficiently brutal, the polyamory was treated frankly without some weird moralizing, and I thought the main characters were fairly well drawn (and the less well drawn characters made sense as personal impressions of the POV characters, rather than mere stock). I'd still give it a B rather than an A though, since it didn't do everything with the locked-room mystery type thing that it could have (a few more run-ins with potential suspects would have helped). He also switched POV within the same passage several times, which is a personal peeve of mine I guess. He even did the thing where intra-chapter passages were separated by spaces, but still did this.
Anyway, I am very excited for the movie, and Fincher is probably the single best choice to direct it. His efficiency will do the story well.
Anyway, I am very excited for the movie, and Fincher is probably the single best choice to direct it. His efficiency will do the story well.
My issues with the book were that the historical mystery (girl in the picture) aspect absolutely FASCINATED me....but then book spends FAR too much time establishing the other plot-threads which I didn't truly care about. I dunno. So I started off liking it and then really disliked it in the second half.
That said, I've seen the swedish versions of the films and they aren't great...BUT, David Fincher really is the perfect choice for the remake (and my best friend and his business partner are doing all the featurette's for the DVD and BluRay's for it when it comes out down the road...I bet you all didn't know that all gets done before theatrical release!) and so I'd be remiss if I didn't go to see it, so I certainly will.
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Posted 16 December 2011 - 02:55 PM
Started Spellwright by Blake Charlton. Anyone read this? It seems like it has promise.
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Posted 16 December 2011 - 03:02 PM
Finished The Great Hunt yesterday and then took a quick detour through the land of non-fiction with The Last Lecture, the wife had been on me to read it and it was quite moving. Now with that finished I'm moving on with my first reading of the Wheel of Time series with The Dragon Reborn. I am enjoying it so far but I have heard that it loses quality in the mid books.
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Posted 16 December 2011 - 03:22 PM
End of Disc One, on 16 December 2011 - 02:55 PM, said:
Started Spellwright by Blake Charlton. Anyone read this? It seems like it has promise.
I've heard that though the prose can be a bit amateurish at times, the story is well worth your time. Haven't read it myself yet, but that seems to be the consensus.
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Posted 16 December 2011 - 10:07 PM
Tried to read Terry Brooks _Bearers of the Black Staff_. God it was awful. No more Brooks ever. Faugh! I feel like I want to clean my mind out with soap and water. Made even worse by the fact that it was following my read of Morgan's _Black Man_.
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Posted 17 December 2011 - 12:11 PM
UseOfWeapons, on 16 December 2011 - 10:07 PM, said:
Tried to read Terry Brooks _Bearers of the Black Staff_. God it was awful. No more Brooks ever. Faugh! I feel like I want to clean my mind out with soap and water. Made even worse by the fact that it was following my read of Morgan's _Black Man_.
Yeah, the last two Brooks books were bad, and I'm a fan. BEARERS was tough enough to get through, but the most recent one was REALLY rough and I didn't even finish it.
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