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I was taking an internet survey earlier today. It asked me to estimate how many books I've read so far this year. It would not accept my answer, because it was too large.
I broke the survey!
My name is KSC, and I am a bookaholic...
Anyway... Finished The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks. Crazy crazy good. Anything written by this guy will hereafter be placed immediately in my wishlist. Also finished and enjoyed Lamentation by Ken Scholes. Started The Strain. Too early to tell how good it is, but it's from the warped mind of Guillermo Del Toro, so how could it be bad?
Reading at t'moment?
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 06:56 PM
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 12:29 PM
starting the final macht book tonight or tomorrow morning.
I enjoyed the ten thousand, corvus even more so I'm looking forward to the conclusion to say the least
I enjoyed the ten thousand, corvus even more so I'm looking forward to the conclusion to say the least
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"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 12:59 PM
In a bit of a book hangover/slump and even Brent Week's THE BLINDING KNIFE wasn't helping. I tried out Connie Willis' BLACKOUT, but as much as ?I enjoyed TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG, BLACKOUT wasn't hitting it for me either. I don't know what to read next...
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"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 02:16 PM
QuickTidal, on 16 September 2012 - 12:59 PM, said:
I don't know what to read next...
Have you read that one with the King and the Thorns yet?
If you have, you should totally read Nick Harkaway's Gone-Away World (I feel certain I've said that to you before. Given how much I recommend it, chances are good...). That'll break any slump in the world.
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 02:22 PM
Thanks PG, yeah KING was one of the ones I could not get into during my slump...not that it wasn't good, but my slump is heavy this time.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 07:14 PM
Just read TAKEN by Benedict Jacka, the 3rd book in the Alex Verus series. Very enjoyable stuff, particularly if you enjoyed the first few at all (which I did).
Some aspects of the stories are really interesting (especially Luna's curse), and I enjoy how Verus goes about solving his problems, but it doesn't quite have the depth of a series like the Dresden files for me. Maybe this will improve in the series as it expands, but when it comes to the peripheral elements or more importantly species, there isn't the same feeling of well fleshed out characters.
This is my opinion obviously, maybe others will disagree. Curious to see what others think. Will definitely read the next book though. Nice easy, enjoyable reads.
Some aspects of the stories are really interesting (especially Luna's curse), and I enjoy how Verus goes about solving his problems, but it doesn't quite have the depth of a series like the Dresden files for me. Maybe this will improve in the series as it expands, but when it comes to the peripheral elements or more importantly species, there isn't the same feeling of well fleshed out characters.
This is my opinion obviously, maybe others will disagree. Curious to see what others think. Will definitely read the next book though. Nice easy, enjoyable reads.
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 03:13 AM
I'm gonna guess eBook version.
I got them all in epub and they're all seperate
I got them all in epub and they're all seperate
2012
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 08:31 AM
So I finished Shadow of the Wind, and it was amazing. One of my favourite reads this year I think.
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To speak friendly, Even to the devil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 01:22 PM
Summer Knight is done and I've moved onto Death Masks. Bring on the Denarians, baby!
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 01:27 PM
With everything slumping me bookwise I decided to finally go back and finish Benedict Jacka's FATED for the want of something shortish.
Passed where I had previously stopped (page 50) this morning and it actually made me nearly miss my subway stop...so that's probably a good sign. I'm still probably going to like Butcher better, but it gets better than it was to start off....
Passed where I had previously stopped (page 50) this morning and it actually made me nearly miss my subway stop...so that's probably a good sign. I'm still probably going to like Butcher better, but it gets better than it was to start off....
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"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 03:56 PM
Finished Ghost Ocean over the weekend, and loved it, even if I didn't always understand what was going on all the time. There's just a "feel" to S. M. Peters' stuff that I absolutely love. Dude needs to get a third book published, stat.
Started in on Courtney Schafer's The Tainted City, which is good so far.
Started in on Courtney Schafer's The Tainted City, which is good so far.
"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 17 September 2012 - 04:02 PM
I spotted The Lies of Locke Lamorra in my uni's library today and held a squeal. It was too late to pick it up today, but I'm definitely getting it tomorrow.
Otherwise I picked up The Big and the Little Prince by a local author, it's cute and relaxing.
Otherwise I picked up The Big and the Little Prince by a local author, it's cute and relaxing.
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 04:56 PM
Nocturnal, on 17 September 2012 - 04:02 PM, said:
I spotted The Lies of Locke Lamorra in my uni's library today and held a squeal. It was too late to pick it up today, but I'm definitely getting it tomorrow.
Prepare yourself for a totally stellar book...and then a sort of decent, but still paling in comparison sequel...and then you can stand with us in line as we await the VERY overdue 3rd book.
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"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 05:29 PM
worrywort, on 16 September 2012 - 11:51 PM, said:
Why did you read that one last? Not doing the omnibus versions? Just curious.
Well, I had read varying opinions on when to read The Silver Spike and decided to read it last since it veered off from the main plot line. I think it doesn't matter if you read it after The White Rose or at the very end.
I thought the first half of The Silver Spike was the best part of the entire Black Company series. The second half was very good, but not as good as the first half.
I own physical copies of the first and second Black Company omnibuses, then I made the switch to eBooks. Unfortunately the only Black Company eBook available is Soldier's Live, which I own. The eBook situation had nothing to do with my reading order.
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 05:38 PM
Real life is keeping me from reading more, but I'm about 100 pages into FoD. So far so good, now I just need to find a quiet place with no disturbances so I can finish it.
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 09:04 PM
T77, on 17 September 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:
worrywort, on 16 September 2012 - 11:51 PM, said:
Why did you read that one last? Not doing the omnibus versions? Just curious.
Well, I had read varying opinions on when to read The Silver Spike and decided to read it last since it veered off from the main plot line. I think it doesn't matter if you read it after The White Rose or at the very end.
I thought the first half of The Silver Spike was the best part of the entire Black Company series. The second half was very good, but not as good as the first half.
I own physical copies of the first and second Black Company omnibuses, then I made the switch to eBooks. Unfortunately the only Black Company eBook available is Soldier's Live, which I own. The eBook situation had nothing to do with my reading order.
The Chronicles of The Black Company is available to download on Amazon. It comprises The Black Company, Shadows Linger and The White Rose. I have it. A number of typos but not enough to get in a twist about
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Posted 18 September 2012 - 12:50 PM
Started Victor Hugo's _Les Miserables_ on Kindle yesterday. Starting slowly, but interesting nonetheless.
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 18 September 2012 - 02:25 PM
Fist Gamet, on 17 September 2012 - 09:04 PM, said:
T77, on 17 September 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:
worrywort, on 16 September 2012 - 11:51 PM, said:
Why did you read that one last? Not doing the omnibus versions? Just curious.
Well, I had read varying opinions on when to read The Silver Spike and decided to read it last since it veered off from the main plot line. I think it doesn't matter if you read it after The White Rose or at the very end.
I thought the first half of The Silver Spike was the best part of the entire Black Company series. The second half was very good, but not as good as the first half.
I own physical copies of the first and second Black Company omnibuses, then I made the switch to eBooks. Unfortunately the only Black Company eBook available is Soldier's Live, which I own. The eBook situation had nothing to do with my reading order.
The Chronicles of The Black Company is available to download on Amazon. It comprises The Black Company, Shadows Linger and The White Rose. I have it. A number of typos but not enough to get in a twist about
Maybe it's country specific, in the US no Kindle version exists, I just checked.
