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#9341 Baco Xtath

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 03:06 PM

Abyss, on 22 October 2012 - 01:57 PM, said:

Baco Xtath, on 22 October 2012 - 01:54 PM, said:

.... When Fringe ends after this season, Tangent really needs to be created to take its place.

No network has enough money to produce that many explosions.

A child can dream.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 03:47 PM

Finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville and really liked it. I started it a while ago and put it down because his prose bothered me, I felt he was being overly descriptive and trying to show off. I got the urge to finish it and i'm glad I did. The overly descriptive prose was toned down. It was a great blend of fantasy/SciFi/horror. He kept the plot moving along at a good pace without being one action scene after the other. I don't want to judge someone based on one book, but he seems really talented and I look forward to trying more of his works.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 04:32 PM

The next book, The Scar, might be the best WEIRD SHIT book ever written.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 04:41 PM

Seconded.
LOVE that book. One of the bestest settings in fantasy lit ever.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 05:20 PM

Started Toll the Hounds last night for the first time. Awesome so far.

Gonna try and finish TtH, DoD and tCG within the next couple months.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 06:23 PM

Really wish Mieville would do some more Bas Lag books.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 06:26 PM

Baco Xtath, on 22 October 2012 - 06:23 PM, said:

Really wish Mieville would do some more KRAKEN SQUID GOD books. WORSHIP THE TENTACLE YOU MINDLESS BAITLINGS WORSHIP THE SQUID I SAY!!!!!!

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 06:41 PM

Baco Xtath, on 22 October 2012 - 06:23 PM, said:

Really wish Mieville would do some more Bas Lag books.

I was super-pleased with Embassytown, Un Lun Dun and Kraken. The City and The City was a bit too much of a "really now" conceit, but I understood it.

Have yet to read Railsea.

I don't mind him taking different paths and giving us great stuff like this at all - especially if it's stretching his abilities and imagination for a possible return to Bas-Lag in the future. I hope he does and that it doesn't end up in another Gene Wolfe/Latro situation where the hero is left up a croc-infested creek without a paddle and the author shows no sign of returning to that universe while being 80+ years old.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 06:47 PM

RAILSEA, while not his best work (that would be THE SCAR), is insane and fun and worth your time and dollars.

I've enjoyed everything i've read by Mieville and while i share the fondness for Bas-Lag, if diversifying leads to works like KRAKEN, EMBASSYTOWN and RAILSEA, i'm happy to see him continue.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 07:28 PM

Red Country! Nuff said!

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 07:41 PM

Abyss, on 22 October 2012 - 06:47 PM, said:

I fully agree. It's just that his last Bas-Lag was 2004 and I'm beginning to think he's done with it. I've loved every book he's written, though I've yet to read Railsea or Un Lun Dun, it's just that I like the Bas-Lag stuff best.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 09:57 PM

Finally got the time to start (and finish) Grave Peril. Good stuff.

Going to start Summer Knight in the next day or two. Given everything that happened at the end of the last book I want to start it right away, but that damn responsible side of me is telling me that I need to get my homework out of the way first.

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Posted 23 October 2012 - 02:18 PM

Good to see all of the Mieville love, I will probably read The Scar next.

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Posted 23 October 2012 - 02:22 PM

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Briar King, on 23 October 2012 - 01:24 AM, said:

Your in for a treat! That's really when Dresden bks finally completely SUCK YOU IN... Then you'll just be 1 bk away from the orgasm inducing greatness that is DEATH MASK bk 5!!!

Indeed. Here's how it goes.... the end of SUMMER KNIGHT is brilliant. It leaves you craving the dresdencrack. You want it. You need it. Alll other books pale before it.
And so you grab and read DEATH MASKS.

And then the dresdencrack, it owns you.

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Posted 23 October 2012 - 02:47 PM

I imagine Abyss usually lets girls borrow the first couple of books for nothing - just a friend, a nice guy, loaning a book. Then it's "Summer Knight? Yeah, but I told another friend she could borrow it. Oh, really? You will? Alright, you can borrow it first." One of eight copies goes her way. "Dead Beat? Yeah, but I've only got the one copy and I'm sorta in the middle of it? I don't know. Really, you'd do that? That's a little gross but I'm intrigued. Alright, you can borrow it." One of twenty copies goes her way. Fuck'n Dresdenpimp.

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Posted 23 October 2012 - 02:57 PM

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Posted 24 October 2012 - 01:41 AM

So I downloaded all of the Dresden Files in pdf and I'm 2 chapters into the first one and it's really fuckin good. Definitely gonna have to buy these books.

A question - with Abercrombie, do you have to start with the first book of the First Law trilogy? Or can you start from Red Country?

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Posted 24 October 2012 - 02:45 AM

Briar King, on 24 October 2012 - 02:32 AM, said:

From what I know these last 3 he did are standalones and can be read by themselves.

No it's best to start with The Blade Itself.

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Posted 24 October 2012 - 02:53 AM

Baco Xtath, on 22 October 2012 - 07:41 PM, said:

Abyss, on 22 October 2012 - 06:47 PM, said:

I have a LITTLE recent knowledge on this, as Mieville was at my local bookshop earlier in 2012 and he was asked specifically about more Bas Lag books and he said he always has stuff rattling about in his brain and that "if he were a betting man, he'd put money on him returning to the Bas Lag world for another book"

Take from that what you will. But I was there, heard it from the authors' lips.

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