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I am very happy and very excited. Why? These arrived today...

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[Obdigore]

If you haven't read Last Argument yet I would absolutely start with that one.

Brent Weeks is mehtastic. Side Jobs is good though

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Obdigore, on 24 October 2012 - 10:45 AM, said:

If you haven't read Last Argument yet I would absolutely start with that one.

Brent Weeks is mehtastic. Side Jobs is good though

I read Brent Weeks a year ago so would like to continue reading him. I'm saving Side Jobs to a week before Cold Days comes out. I have pre ordered Cold Days.

I am excited about The Last Argument I hope it is worth it. The second one will be a tough act to follow. (Before they are hanged)

[Abyss]

LAST ARGUMENT delivers, tho i thought BEST SERVED COLD was even better, as was THE HEROES tho marginally less so.

Still reading RED WHITE AND BLOOD, still have PRINCE OF THORNS standing by.

[Hound]

I agree about Abercrombie. Especially the bit about reading them in publication order.


Anyway, now reading THE LIONS OF AL-RASSAN by GG Kay. From the novels I read from him (Under Heaven & The Sarantine Mosaic), this could be his best. What a beautifully written book.

[polishgenius]

Just finished Deathless, by Catherynne M. Valente.

That's a book Neil Gaiman would have written if he was a better writer. It could do with a tiny bit more of Gaiman's type of warmth, I guess, but it's near perfect otherwise.

[Abyss]

polishgenius, on 24 October 2012 - 06:38 PM, said:

...That's a book Neil Gaiman would have written if he was a better writer....

You did NOT just write that.

[polishgenius]

Abyss, on 24 October 2012 - 07:01 PM, said:

polishgenius, on 24 October 2012 - 06:38 PM, said:

...That's a book Neil Gaiman would have written if he was a better writer....

You did NOT just write that.

It wasn't a suggestion that Gaiman is in any way not a quality writer.

Although it should have been 'better writer of novels' because Deathless isn't better than Sandman.

[Baco Xtath]

Just finished Deep Sky and I gotta say it was one hell of a ride. I'm actually glad it ended, though. Lee could have milked the whole concept for another ten books, easy.

Advice on what to read next out of:
The Forever War
The Wind Through the Keyhole
Feersum Endjinn
Whitechapel Gods
and
The Minority Counsel


I'm really torn so any rec's are appreciated.

[Abyss]

Baco Xtath, on 24 October 2012 - 08:47 PM, said:

Just finished Deep Sky and I gotta say it was one hell of a ride. I'm actually glad it ended, though. Lee could have milked the whole concept for another ten books, easy.

Advice on what to read next out of:
The Forever War
The Wind Through the Keyhole
Feersum Endjinn
Whitechapel Gods
and
The Minority Counsel


I'm really torn so any rec's are appreciated.

Done.


Now come to the Patrick Lee thread and tell us what you thought of Deep Sky. We need more brainsfucked on this book.

[polishgenius]

Baco Xtath, on 24 October 2012 - 08:47 PM, said:

Just finished Deep Sky and I gotta say it was one hell of a ride. I'm actually glad it ended, though. Lee could have milked the whole concept for another ten books, easy.

Advice on what to read next out of:
The Forever War
The Wind Through the Keyhole
Feersum Endjinn
Whitechapel Gods
and
The Minority Counsel


I'm really torn so any rec's are appreciated.

I've not read any of the others apart from Forever War, which I thought was unfortunately dull, but The Minority Council is awesome, a step up from the previous Matthew Swift books.

[Baco Xtath]

Alright, I think I'm gonna go Whitechapel Gods, Minority Council, Wind through the Keyhole, and by the time I finish those Ransom City and Red Country should be on my doorstep. Rep for the rec's.

[QuickTidal]

Let's see...I finished CALIBAN'S WAR by Corey which was awesome, although I think I liked LW better by a bit cause it was more horror oriented than the action sci-fi of the sequel. Still rollickingly good though.

Then I tried to read Richard Kadrey's first SANDMAN SLIM novel...and found it wanting. Tries to be Dresden and fails, and doesn't even hit the standard of Benedict Jacka. It's kind of like what would happen if Harry Dresden worked for hell, dressed like a 1980's teenager, and was a fairly unrepentant dickhead living in LA as a hired gun. It's well written as far as I read, but for me it wasn't particularly endearing. I think it might because stuff like SANDMAN or CONSTANTINE or the like have done the whole denizens of hell thing to a degree that my brain won't accept another person's vision when it's so incongruous? That's likely a cop out and I can't properly review it as it was a DNF, but I will say that is the vague reason I put the book down.

Got back into Rick Riordan's Greek Demi-Gods Percy Jackson series and read the 3rd book THE TITAN'S CURSE. It was about as solid as the first two YA books were. Make no mistake though, they aren't Harry Potter caliber, but perfectly enjoyable tales. Riordan is a humor guy, he hits the right beats with all his characters. A Fun series if you are looking for some really light YA stuff that won't overly challenge your brain.

Oh and I joined up at Audible and bought the 10th Anniversary AMERICAN GODS and listened to it in lieu of a re-read and realized I'd forgotten a lot of that story. Still as good as it was when I first read it years ago. Full cast audio REALLY pops and makes it come alive. I didn't do well with audio version of a Wheel Of time book, so it was nice to get an audio book that I could tolerate.

Dunno what I'm going to read next.

Either THE COLDEST WAR by Ian Tregillis (Sequel to BITTER SEEDS)

or the next Benedict Jacka Alex Verus book (CURSED I think?)

or Old school Warhammer Elves book I got last Xmas and haven't read. I have both DEFENDERS OF ULTHUAN and SONS OF ELYRION by Graham MacNeil.

[Abyss]

Finished RED WHITE AND DEAD and while i get why some people dislike the political elements, i actually thought it was the best of the PRESIDENT'S VAMPIRE series so far. Within the scope of what is essentially supernatural/urban fantasy action thriller silliness, this book had a great villain, nice character development, brilliant (brilliant BRILLIANT) action sequences, a couple of fun twists and a hell of a finale. Farnsworth plays fast and loose with all the usual slasher movie AND vampire tropes and has a hell of a fun time doing it and it feeds right back to the reader.

For some terriffic brain-off fun, i cannot recommend this series enuf and with the ending set-up for the next book, i may just move these up to pre-order level and i still don't believe i just wrote that.



Then i spent a little quality time purging books, including one stack of my TRP which i decided i was hanging on to without any interntion of ever reading so out they went.

Which leaves a TRP including roughly 100 books in it.
Fuck. Me.

[QuickTidal]

Can I ask which ones bit the dust?

*curiosity*

And I thought my T-Read pile was big with about 15 books in it.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 25 October 2012 - 06:08 PM, said:

Can I ask which ones bit the dust?

*curiosity*

And I thought my T-Read pile was big with about 15 books in it.

15... pft.... i purged about 30.... going from vaguest memory...

3 of Phillip K Dick's existential stuff (historically fascinating but not my cup of kelyk);
Various books i have in electronic form if i ever actually decide to read them, including a stack of Weber, White, and Ringo mmpb mil/sf books that i know are available online for free;
A stack of Harold Coyle, Leon Uris, Dale Brown and others military fiction books;
Some Daniel Silva's older non-Gabriel Allon books;
Some Jon Land actioners.... fun in their day but i've lost my taste for his writing and was buying them second hand more out of reflex;
Shadow on the Glass, Ian Irvine, because i am never going to acquire the rest of the series;
The original Chung Kuo series, which i concluded i will never re-read;
Ditto the Godless World series and a few others;
Some 'hard' sf books i started and put aside more than once, includes some Stross, Heinlein, other big 'names' (but none of their major works);
And a few detective novels i never got into.

[Baco Xtath]

Listening to The Gathering Storm and goddamnit

Spoiler

Semirhage just captured Rand. So fucking sick of him getting captured. Just balefire the bitch and be done with it.

It just happened at the end of my workout so I don't know how it plays out in the next little bit but anyway, that's how I feel about it.

[End of Disc One]

Baco Xtath, on 25 October 2012 - 08:55 PM, said:

Listening to The Gathering Storm and goddamnit

Spoiler

Semirhage just captured Rand. So fucking sick of him getting captured. Just balefire the bitch and be done with it.

It just happened at the end of my workout so I don't know how it plays out in the next little bit but anyway, that's how I feel about it.

OMGGGGGGG

[McLovin]

Started Justin Cronin's THE PASSAGE on a flight, and next thing I knew I was at my destination and a couple hundred pages in. It's been a long time a book grabbed me like that. I can't wait till tonight to pick it back up. Fantastic characterization and even though the plot (at least as far as I've gotten) has kinda-sorta been done, the execution is great.

[polishgenius]

Blade of Tyshalle.

Fuck Stover is fucking awesome!!!!!!!!