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#11041 Vengeance

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 01:38 AM

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Overactive Imagination, on 15 July 2013 - 11:33 PM, said:

Half way through Death Masks and it's getting REALLY good. Awesome sex scenes and Dresen goes off on some fool's knees, ankles, and wrists with a baseball bat. Fuckin awesome stuff

Many disagree, but I consider Death Masks to be the best thing Dresden has ever written. Keep reading, it gets better.

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 01:42 AM

Vengeance, on 16 July 2013 - 01:38 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 16 July 2013 - 01:20 AM, said:

Overactive Imagination, on 15 July 2013 - 11:33 PM, said:

Half way through Death Masks and it's getting REALLY good. Awesome sex scenes and Dresen goes off on some fool's knees, ankles, and wrists with a baseball bat. Fuckin awesome stuff

Many disagree, but I consider Death Masks to be the best thing Dresden has ever written. Keep reading, it gets better.

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 03:07 AM

Finished Death Masks and it was really good. Gonna start Bakker's Warrior Prophet tomorrow I think.

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 06:56 AM

Briar King, on 16 July 2013 - 03:19 AM, said:

Overactive Imagination, on 16 July 2013 - 03:07 AM, said:

Finished Death Masks and it was really good. Gonna start Bakker's Warrior Prophet tomorrow I think.

My $.02 skip Bakker for the moment and read the rest of Dresden back to back and have a braingasim.

i've gotta admit it's fuckin tempting. death masks was fuckin sick

but the rest of dresden is a fuckin lot. that's like.. yeah.

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 09:06 AM

The rest of the Dresden is done in a little over a week. Do it!

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 09:33 AM

I've got to throw my counter 2 cents in- the rest of Dresden is FUCKING AWESOME but I don't think there's any series I'd recommend reading what fifteen? books in a row of, and let's be honest, a lot of Dresden follows a formula structurally. I came into it when the first seven were out and mainlining those was fine, but I reckon conceivably much more than that and the later books might start to get repetitive. I know a couple of latecomers I persuaded into it have said so.

But I did reread something like 11/12 in a row when I did one a few years back, so who knows really.

There's nothing wrong with starting a bit of Bakker in between. I mean he couldn't possibly be more different and hell, that definitely being a series I'd recommend breaks in between (but not long ones), switching between Butcher and Bakker seems like a sound plan in my book.

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 10:05 AM

polishgenius, on 15 July 2013 - 09:39 PM, said:

Finished The Thousand Names by Django Wexler. Not quite as amazing as I was hoping from the start- it's just a little too comfortable for a military campaign and I think Wexler makes some odd choices about when to focus on which support character, making it difficult to get emotional over things that happen

That's pretty much the impression I'm getting at the moment, although I'm only a couple of hundred pages into it. It's not bad, but it's not grabbed me as I thought it might. The characters all seem a bit stereotypical to me at the moment.

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 03:45 PM

Finished Hearn's IRON DRUID 6 - HUNTED. It was.... fine. The first 2/3rds continue the story from the last book and are entertaining enuf. The last 1/3 is pure meh.
I'll pick up bk 7 whenever, but i found myself lacking interest towards the end. Not the strongest book in the series.

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 10:53 PM

Finished Broken Angels. First thing I noticed quite quickly into reading it was that he had obviously dropped the hardboiled detective/scifi crossover & it was more a straight military scifi book. Fair enough, I like them & it was nice to be in a different setting, despite it taking a bit of time to get used to (I loved the almost noirish feel of the first one).

However, there was a bit kind of in the middle where it dragged & I was beginning to get slightly bored but then it got supercool again, and it ended on a high so thats all good. Something I never got though. Tanya could have been one of the more annoying characters I've read for a while...

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Anyways, going to read Woken Furies now.

Edit: regarding the above Dresden discussion I read like the first 13 books back to back with no breaks. You don't have to use the word hero...

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 11:10 PM

Just finished reading Ghost Story because the audiobook isn't the normal guy. Now onto the audiobook of Cold Days and reading Abaddon's Gate.

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 05:23 AM

Been reading The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb and loving it! Almost as much as I loved Liveship Traders.

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 08:15 AM

Just finished Fatal Revenant. Some thoughts:

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Now I'm jumping into Precursor by Cherryh. Getting into this one a little later than I had planned.

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 12:51 PM

The Farseer series is one of those classic fantasy books I read when I was a youth just getting into the genre. It had everything I was looking for while being quite unique (at the time) as well. I have very fond memories of when I read it.

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 01:35 PM

I can't read Hobb. I've tried, but something about her style just leaves me bored and annoyed within ten pages or less.

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 01:39 PM

Finished The Black Company. That was great! I'm glad I was able to get used to the style. But there's one thing I'm confused about:

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 02:43 PM

End of Disc One, on 17 July 2013 - 01:39 PM, said:

Finished The Black Company. That was great! I'm glad I was able to get used to the style. But there's one thing I'm confused about:

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That's a great big RAFO right there.

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 07:45 PM

Abyss, on 17 July 2013 - 02:43 PM, said:

End of Disc One, on 17 July 2013 - 01:39 PM, said:

Finished The Black Company. That was great! I'm glad I was able to get used to the style. But there's one thing I'm confused about:

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That's a great big RAFFI right there.

Fixed.

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 08:16 PM

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 08:34 PM

The Incredible Kitsu, on 17 July 2013 - 08:15 AM, said:

Just finished Fatal Revenant. Some thoughts:

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Now I'm jumping into Precursor by Cherryh. Getting into this one a little later than I had planned.

It's a great point you make. The protagonist you want to see get assertive gets even more assertive in the next book.

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 10:04 PM

Ex-Communication is awesome so far. (Like, duh.)

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