[JPK]

Abyss, on 14 November 2012 - 04:57 PM, said:

and after that Warren Ellis' GUN MACHINE.

I'm interested to find out what you think of this. Sadly, the only exposure I've had to Ellis' work was Freakangels. Read any of his other stuff already?

I'm about 100 pages from the end of The Blinding knife now, and I have to say, I LOVE the way that Weeks writes large battle scenes.

Also, after the way that Abyss and QT have been raving about Bitter Seeds, I just ordered a copy. Kinda edgey waiting for that to come in.

[Abyss]

The Incredible Kitsu, on 14 November 2012 - 09:46 PM, said:

Abyss, on 14 November 2012 - 04:57 PM, said:

and after that Warren Ellis' GUN MACHINE.

I'm interested to find out what you think of this. Sadly, the only exposure I've had to Ellis' work was Freakangels. Read any of his other stuff already?

His only novel to date is CROOKED LITTLE VEIN, which is a detective story/satire that i found extremely funny (the world needs more Godzilla bukkake!)and worth the dollars.

GUN MACHINE is supposed to be more of a thriller/mystery. In his comics work Ellis does well with crime/noir type stories, so i'm looking forward to it.

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Also, after the way that Abyss and QT have been raving about Bitter Seeds, I just ordered a copy. Kinda edgey waiting for that to come in.

Halfway through you're probably going to want to have bk 2 standing by. And then the wait for bk 3... Dammit QT i'll get you for this....

[amphibian]

The Incredible Kitsu, on 14 November 2012 - 09:46 PM, said:

I'm interested to find out what you think of this. Sadly, the only exposure I've had to Ellis' work was Freakangels. Read any of his other stuff already?

You NEED to go read Planetary. And then Transmetropolitan. They are two of the top ten comic series ever written. I'd rank Planetary as #2 myself (with Sandman being #1).

After those two legendary works, the "NEED TO READ THIS WORK" drops off considerably, but he's a very solid author with a tremendously enjoyable corpus of work.

[Abyss]

amphibian, on 14 November 2012 - 10:15 PM, said:

The Incredible Kitsu, on 14 November 2012 - 09:46 PM, said:

I'm interested to find out what you think of this. Sadly, the only exposure I've had to Ellis' work was Freakangels. Read any of his other stuff already?

You NEED to go read Planetary. And then Transmetropolitan. They are two of the top ten comic series ever written. I'd rank Planetary as #2 myself (with Sandman being #1).

After those two legendary works, the "NEED TO READ THIS WORK" drops off considerably, but he's a very solid author with a tremendously enjoyable corpus of work.

It's Planetary that makes me think he can pull off a mystery/thriller that starts with a roomfull of murder weapon guns dating back like a century.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 14 November 2012 - 10:20 PM, said:

amphibian, on 14 November 2012 - 10:15 PM, said:

The Incredible Kitsu, on 14 November 2012 - 09:46 PM, said:

I'm interested to find out what you think of this. Sadly, the only exposure I've had to Ellis' work was Freakangels. Read any of his other stuff already?

You NEED to go read Planetary. And then Transmetropolitan. They are two of the top ten comic series ever written. I'd rank Planetary as #2 myself (with Sandman being #1).

After those two legendary works, the "NEED TO READ THIS WORK" drops off considerably, but he's a very solid author with a tremendously enjoyable corpus of work.

It's Planetary that makes me think he can pull off a mystery/thriller that starts with a roomfull of murder weapon guns dating back like a century.

Absolutely PLANETARY and TRANSMET are must reads for the Ellis compendium. Both are extremely well written. I'll add GLOBAL FREQUENCY to the list because it gets a lot less love than it should, as it's a solid, solid read.

[polishgenius]

Global Frequency is amazing. One of the most focused pieces of writing I've ever come across in any medium, I don't think there's a single wasted line or panel in the whole thing.



Anyway, after giving a try to, and being unimpressed by, Miles Cameron's The Red Knight, I've started on The River of Shadows, the third of Robert VS Reddick's The Chathrand Voyage series. Although it's not a priority buy for me, I really enjoy this series and I'm unsure as to why it fails to get the attention that Brandon Sanderson, or even the likes of Adrian Tchaikovsky or Brent Weeks, who debuted at roughly the same time, do. I guess some people are put off by the teenage pair of leads, and it doesn't have their instant epic badassness, but in its own slightly hectic way it's probably more ambitious and just as cool as any of them. Plus it is in many ways deeply strange and certainly far different to any epic fantasy I've ever read. I like it.

[QuickTidal]

I thin Reddick loses his way 3/4 of the way into all three novels and that's why. I'm always blown away by the beginning and middle, but the final acts of his books are terrible.

[acesn8s]

Started A Red Country.

[Morgoth]

Yeah, I fell of somewhere during book two of Reddick's series. I can't exactly say why, I just didn't find anything that made me want to keep on reading. Might be the flat writing, but I can deal with that. Weeks has a prose even more bland and dull, and yet I did read through his trilogy.

[Tiste Simeon]

A Simeon update: decided to stick with The Stand, because I hate leaving a book halfway through. Am now only about 200 pages from the end and it has picked up somewhat. I think an Iain M Banks novel next to chill me. Should breeze through that fairly quickly & see where I am when I have finished it!

[JPK]

Finished The Blinding Knife a couple nights ago. Very anxiously awaiting the next one. I did get to start King of Thorns finally. Jorgy isn't annoying me as much in this book as he did previously. I feel a bit less like he's just evil for the sake of being evil.

I also wanted to thank you guys for all the recommendations on Warren Ellis' works. I will be obtaining Global Frequency, Transmetro, and Planetary as soon as I can.

[Use Of Weapons]

Currently having a blast with Neal Stephenson's _Reamde_. For such a monster (over a thousand pages), it isn't half a page-turner.

[yuna_anomander25]

been quite some time,

the books i have finished:

SMALL FAVOR & TURN COAT by Jim Butcher

still reading Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie, just reading 2-3 chapters per day, so its been slow going,

would really like to get back to Dresdencrack!!! may get CHANGES this weekend,

[stone monkey]

Rasputin's Bastards by David Nickle
Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds

And doing a re-read of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov - mostly for the giggles. Nabokov is a REALLY funny writer at times.

[Lost Marine]

Use Of Weapons, on 17 November 2012 - 10:32 AM, said:

Currently having a blast with Neal Stephenson's _Reamde_. For such a monster (over a thousand pages), it isn't half a page-turner.

I just finished a re-read of that one, it's a great book.

Going back through the Wise Man's Fear while I await the new Dresden novel.

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[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

Morgoth, on 14 November 2012 - 11:00 AM, said:

Just started the Passage after numerous posts praising it on the forum. I've gotten perhaps 30 pages in and I'm already hooked.

Ditto on loving The Passage from the beginning. I'm also currently enjoying The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

[QuickTidal]

So I picked this up this morning at Chapters. I think I'ma be readin' this!

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[Abyss]

I hate you so much QT.

...it's all envy, but even so.

[Baco Xtath]

About halfway through Red Country so everything's on hold. Just laughed my ass off at

Spoiler

the best sex scene

I think I've ever read. Also about 20 hrs (out of 30) into The Tower of Midnight and

Spoiler

Rand just went badass Godshit on the Trollocs- good stuff .

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[Abyss]

Just finished Ian Tregellis' BITTER SEEDS and THE COLDEST WAR back to back.

And fuck me but those were great. Seriously, awesome sf/espionage/alt-hist books, possibly the best use of sf elements in WW2 and the Cold War settings i have read.

Tregellis is brilliant. He writes realistic characters and incorporates supernatural/sf into the story in a way that makes coherent sense and keeps the reader engaged (as in 'it's 2am oh, one more chapter...).

Seriously recommended and you totally don't need to wait for the third book. You're going to wish you had, but you don't have to.

If you believed me and others about the Dresdencrack, the coCaine or The Breach (note to self: need a clever drug analogy for that series), then believe me now, this is worth your dollars.