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Posted 05 March 2012 - 04:37 PM

Finished Broken Angels and moving on to Kovacs' 3rd adventure in Woken Furies.

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Posted 05 March 2012 - 09:45 PM

I finished up The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins a while back and just posted my review. It's good - well worth all the buzz out there. I've also finished up Orb Sceptre Throne by Ian C. Esslemont. It's only OK - he's simply no Erikson. Review forthcoming.

Now I'm reading Arctic Rising by Tobias Buckell. It's very good so far. And it appears that I'm reading yet another of the current 'hot topics' since it was just reviewed on NPR.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 12:45 AM

Finished Prince of Thorns and damn was that good. I haven't read a book in a day in a long time but I simply couldn't put this one down. For those that like Abercrombie, give this one a shot. Very much similar I thought, and every bit as good.....well, I'm still fresh off it and I can say that now. That was a lot of fun....though I do feel a bit dirty.....not as dirty as after Ringil's adventures but dirty none-the-less.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 09:24 AM

Finished Cowl, which I thoroughly enjoyed (I'm increasingly convinced, with each of his books that I read, that Neal Asher is mad, lol), and started Bernard Cornwell's Harlequin.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 12:51 PM

Finished DEPARTMENT 19: THE RISING by Will Hill..the first person who reviewed an ARC likened it to THE GODFATHER PART II of the YA world. That is an apt analogy. The book is flat out amazing!

Started into my thriller read THE TEMPLAR CROSS by Paul Christopher (who it turns out is Canadian author Christopher Hyde) and while he is a tad overzealous with descriptions, the story itself is pretty good. It's not quite on par with James Rollins, but it's a pretty darn good yarn so far.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 06:06 PM

Finished The Urth of the New Sun last night. I liked it a lot more this second time around. It probably helps that I've now read the original series three additional times since my last read. Anyway, it's not quite up to the level of the earlier sequence, but it's still a nice coda, and really fulfills the previous books.

I was planning on doing a full Solar Cycle read, but I'm going to hold off on The Books of the Long Sun and Short Sun for now. Maybe I'll hit them late in the year before rolling into my fifth BotNS read (if I decide to keep the annual reread thing going.)

And I had planned to petition the forums to tell me what to read next (complete with link to my catalog on LibraryThing) but I think I've decided that, with the new John Carter movie coming out, now might be the best time to read my Under the Moons of Mars omnibus I've been meaning to get to.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 06:29 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 06 March 2012 - 06:06 PM, said:

And I had planned to petition the forums to tell me what to read next (complete with link to my catalog on LibraryThing) but I think I've decided that, with the new John Carter movie coming out, now might be the best time to read my Under the Moons of Mars omnibus I've been meaning to get to.

Ah yes, Burroughs stuff is warm and inviting. I always love it!

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Posted 07 March 2012 - 02:14 AM

While reading my thriller, I have also started (finally) the BLADE OF fucking TYSHALLE by Matt mutha-fuzuckin' Stover.

FUCK YES!

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Posted 08 March 2012 - 07:02 PM

Just finished "The Blade Itself" By Abercrombie. Started "Grave Peril" by Butcher this morning. Probably going to read "American Gods" by Gaiman after it or maybe "The Ghost Brigades" by Scalzi, not sure which one though.

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Posted 08 March 2012 - 07:34 PM

QuickTidal, on 07 March 2012 - 02:14 AM, said:

While reading my thriller, I have also started (finally) the BLADE OF fucking TYSHALLE by Matt mutha-fuzuckin' Stover.

FUCK YES!

Pretty fucking jealous...

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Posted 08 March 2012 - 08:48 PM

just started Blade of Tyshalle myself

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Posted 08 March 2012 - 09:35 PM

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Posted 09 March 2012 - 08:54 AM

Morgoth, on 08 March 2012 - 08:48 PM, said:

just started Blade of Tyshalle myself

You and QT are in for a treat, if the utterly depressing situations of the early book won't deter you.
Read it on Kindle on my phone and imho, it is one of the most amazing genre books I ever read despite loathing almost everyone and almost every event in it.

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Posted 09 March 2012 - 01:39 PM

Tapper, on 09 March 2012 - 08:54 AM, said:

Morgoth, on 08 March 2012 - 08:48 PM, said:

just started Blade of Tyshalle myself

Yeah, parts of the opening were definitely bleak. But that didn't deter me as I'm still going strong, I think I'm just coming up to the part where the Company's "plan" is coming into play.

I still dig Caine, but I also gotta give credit to Kris now as well. Raithe seemed bizarre at first, but now he's making sense in my head.

Loving it so far, in fact I'm liking it even better than the first book.

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Posted 09 March 2012 - 05:01 PM

Finished the Price of Spring and I must admit, it brought a tear to my eye. I don't think since.....well, actually, I can't remember ever being so moved by a book before. Bravo Abraham. Next up Blade of Tyshalle (because everyone else is doing it).

#8036 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 09 March 2012 - 05:21 PM

Yeah, Blade of Tyshalle has probably the lowest lows of any book I've read (my third time through I had to take a break in the middle just for some relief) but man despite it, or possibly because of it, it's got some of the highest highs, too. I had to reread the big climactic confrontation at the end (@#$% yeah!) this morning just 'cause y'all were talking about the book. Stover totally outdid himself with this one.

Anyone else (Quick?) going on to read Caine Black Knife for the first time before Caine's Law drops in 25 days?

Added because relevant:

Tan'elKoth said:

"I fear Michaelson not at all. Michaelson is a fiction, you fools. The truth of him is Caine. You do not comprehend the distinction; and so he will destroy you."

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Posted 09 March 2012 - 05:25 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 09 March 2012 - 05:21 PM, said:

Anyone else (Quick?) going on to read Caine Black Knife for the first time before Caine's Law drops in 25 days?

That is the plan (though not immediately, probably in the next two weeks). I found a copy of the book at the store, so I've got it in the ToRead pile.

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Posted 09 March 2012 - 05:29 PM

Sweet. I'll be rereading it beforehand, probably right after I finish the John Carter omnibus. Though I confess I picked it (CBK) up last night and read the first chapter (as I like to do) and man if it wasn't difficult stopping there.

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Posted 09 March 2012 - 08:10 PM

I finished Woken Furies. I liked it better than Broken Angels, but not as much as Altered Carbon.

Going back to try and finish Perdido Street Station for 3rd time. I'm up to part 2 and I still don't know what the hell the book is about.

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