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#9801 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 26 December 2012 - 04:30 PM

Rereading my all-time favorite book, Richard Adams' Shardik, for the eleventh time. Love this book so much.

"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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#9802 MTS

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Posted 26 December 2012 - 05:00 PM

Received Cold Days for Christmas this year, but only had time to read it this evening because I was with family on Christmas and I was out/watching the cricket for most of Boxing Day.

It's now 4 a.m.

The crack, it's just so good!

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 07:53 AM

About halfway through Scalzi's REDSHIRTS and all i can say is BWAaAaaaahahaHAHaAhhaaaaAahahaahahahahahahaheeeeee.....

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#9804 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 12:04 PM

Finished Excession & Look to Windward by Iain M Banks. Man I love his Culture novels! Now on Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Still don't have Cold Days...

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#9805 rhulad

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 03:35 PM

COLD DAYS! Now leave me alone while I partake in some crack.

#9806 kcf

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 10:20 PM

I finished up A Memory of Light by Jordan and Sanderson last week. I've got review written, a spoiler discussion written and an interview with Sanderson in the works. But those won't go live until Jan. 8th. I'm currently finishing up The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman which is turning out great - why did I wait so long to read it.

I recently got reviews posted for Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht and Zoo City by Lauren Beukes. Both are good, but Of Blood and Honey is one of the best books I've read in a long time.

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 10:57 PM

kcf, on 27 December 2012 - 10:20 PM, said:

I finished up A Memory of Light by Jordan and Sanderson last week. I've got review written, a spoiler discussion written and an interview with Sanderson in the works.

Can you at least say whether you liked it or not?

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 11:06 PM

Finally starting to read ASOIAF while I wait for Blood and Bone to arrive in the mail.

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#9809 kcf

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 02:29 AM

End of Disc One, on 27 December 2012 - 10:57 PM, said:

kcf, on 27 December 2012 - 10:20 PM, said:

I finished up A Memory of Light by Jordan and Sanderson last week. I've got review written, a spoiler discussion written and an interview with Sanderson in the works.

Can you at least say whether you liked it or not?

I liked it a lot.

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#9810 Baco Xtath

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 04:06 AM

Just finished Wind Through the Keyhole. Personally, I gave it three stars - Average. I didn't dislike it. I don't regret having read it. I just didn't think it was extraordinary or anything. Par. Next up.....either finishing Faith, Minority Council or starting Ship of Fools, Appleseed, or Star Wars: Heir to Empire (I've never read any Star Wars books).

Edit: Until A Memory of Light comes in and then everything is on hold, eating and breathing possibly included. Oh, and Colonel, could you rub our faces in it a little more? Nah, glad you liked it, fucker.

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#9811 worry

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 05:40 AM

Three out of three stars is pretty good IMO.

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#9812 Abyss

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 08:37 AM

kcf, on 28 December 2012 - 02:29 AM, said:

End of Disc One, on 27 December 2012 - 10:57 PM, said:

kcf, on 27 December 2012 - 10:20 PM, said:

I finished up A Memory of Light by Jordan and Sanderson last week. I've got review written, a spoiler discussion written and an interview with Sanderson in the works.

Can you at least say whether you liked it or not?

I liked it a lot.

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#9813 kcf

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 04:25 PM

Baco Xtath, on 28 December 2012 - 04:06 AM, said:

Oh, and Colonel, could you rub our faces in it a little more? Nah, glad you liked it, fucker.

I could rub in a little more - with a secret spice recipe of sa'angreal, deaths, forsaken and the Horn of Valere.

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#9814 Baco Xtath

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 04:50 PM

kcf, on 28 December 2012 - 04:25 PM, said:

Baco Xtath, on 28 December 2012 - 04:06 AM, said:

Oh, and Colonel, could you rub our faces in it a little more? Nah, glad you liked it, fucker.

I could rub in a little more - with a secret spice recipe of sa'angreal, deaths, forsaken and the Horn of Valere.

Well.......you know what....... I don't even want to read it! There. I'll just re-read Confessor again. Take that!

#9815 Defiance

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 06:21 PM

The Shadow Rising. I've made good progress through the series so far, reading the first three books in 9 or 10 days, but then I look at my bookshelf and realize that I have another 10 books to read until I get to A Memory of Light. And that's not even counting New Spring, and I have no idea where I'm going to fit that one in. Maybe after Crossroads of Twilight, since it was published right after that.

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#9816 Defiance

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 07:57 PM

Hmm, alright. In that case, I think I'll read it after The Fires of Heaven; I currently own every book in hardcover besides 6-8, and hopefully by the time I finish New Spring I'll at least have Lord of Chaos in hardcover as well (the older I get, the more and more I hate mass market paperbacks).

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#9817 Captain Beardface

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 08:48 PM

Picked up an anthology edited by John Joseph Adams called Epic and just started with the first story called Homecoming by Robin Hobb, whom I've never read before. Hopefully reading some short fiction will reignite my reading of longer fiction as class, work, and obsessively playing Skyrim have really put a dent in my reading time... I still haven't finished FoD.

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#9818 Mentalist

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 09:18 PM

BLOOD AND BONE !!!!!!!!!!

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#9819 worry

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 09:22 PM

That's what I'm reading too. 1/3 in and it's pretty awesome so far.

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 10:58 PM

Hey, me too! Yay for Christmas books.
Also been working on Glen Cook's Garrett PI series. I'll resume that after Blood and Bone unless AMoL is already out.