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Going to wrap up The Hobbit very shortly. I really wish I would have read this when I was 15 cause I'm pretty sure that I would have loved it then. Now, even though I understand the importance of this book to fantasy in general, it just feels like it's only half there.
Next up is S.M. Stirling's Dies the Fire.
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 12:02 AM
8% into Emperor of Thorns, 7 hrs into listening to Bitter Seeds, 3 hrs into listening to The Skinner, 9 hrs into listening to Perdido Street Station, and just downloaded Tyrant's Law to my kindle.
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 12:31 AM
Over half way through Dust of Dreams and reading I am Not A Serial Killer.
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 01:12 AM
Baco Xtath, on 10 August 2013 - 12:02 AM, said:
8% into Emperor of Thorns, 7 hrs into listening to Bitter Seeds, 3 hrs into listening to The Skinner, 9 hrs into listening to Perdido Street Station, and just downloaded Tyrant's Law to my kindle.
That's quite a mix of reading there Baco. I know that you enjoy multiple stories at once from past comments, but do you ever feel you're pushing it? Just a little?
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 01:54 AM
Well seems to me that "READ IT!!" Has pipped the line on the Otherland topic.
Thanks for replying. Appreciate it. It's now on the list.
About 100 pages into DG. I'm so excited to finish this shift and get home to read it.
Thanks for replying. Appreciate it. It's now on the list.
About 100 pages into DG. I'm so excited to finish this shift and get home to read it.
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 02:30 AM
The Incredible Kitsu, on 10 August 2013 - 01:12 AM, said:
Baco Xtath, on 10 August 2013 - 12:02 AM, said:
8% into Emperor of Thorns, 7 hrs into listening to Bitter Seeds, 3 hrs into listening to The Skinner, 9 hrs into listening to Perdido Street Station, and just downloaded Tyrant's Law to my kindle.
That's quite a mix of reading there Baco. I know that you enjoy multiple stories at once from past comments, but do you ever feel you're pushing it? Just a little?
With audiobooks, hours and hours of the same thing can be exhausting. I listen to one thing while I drive and divide 2 between working, housework, work......etc. Then I read one thing between 8:30 - 10 and another once I hop in bed at 10:30. I look at it like watching a couple different t.v. shows. So 4-5 isn't stretching it......at least in that light.
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"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of a lack of wisdom." - Terry Pratchett
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 02:48 AM
Briar King, on 10 August 2013 - 01:25 AM, said:
Tiste you think the Kovacs sex scencs are awkward? I thought those were hot as hell compared to a lot I've read. Granted I've not a lot but yeah those were cool to me. Lol
The hot as hell opinion is one I concur with.
Tiste might be coming at this from an unusual vantage point as he remained celibate until marriage, so his way of looking at the scenes might be pretty divergent from ours.
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 02:31 PM
amphibian, on 10 August 2013 - 02:48 AM, said:
Briar King, on 10 August 2013 - 01:25 AM, said:
Tiste you think the Kovacs sex scencs are awkward? I thought those were hot as hell compared to a lot I've read. Granted I've not a lot but yeah those were cool to me. Lol
The hot as hell opinion is one I concur with.
Tiste might be coming at this from an unusual vantage point as he remained celibate until marriage, so his way of looking at the scenes might be pretty divergent from ours.
Meh. They seemed a little unnecessary, despite (to some extent, I admit) being a bit sexy.
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 04:13 PM
Hmmm... Blade of Tyshalle...
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Posted 10 August 2013 - 05:01 PM
Have faith, my friend!
"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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Posted 10 August 2013 - 09:14 PM
I trust you, SMZ! ;-)
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 05:52 PM
Briar King, on 11 August 2013 - 01:04 AM, said:
You ll hate bks 3 and 4 then where Caine travels through the desert going from oasis to oasis hunting insects to eat on his quest to vanquish the dark lord then. Better bail out now.
Is the main antagonist of those books a volcano or something? If so I'm definitely out.
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 06:30 PM
Tiste Simeon, on 11 August 2013 - 05:52 PM, said:
Is the main antagonist of those books a volcano or something? If so I'm definitely out.
No, no, they just have to take a package to the volcano. Super special delivery and so on. The CareBears and SparklePonies only have a few sporadic cameos now and then, so don't worry about them too much.
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 06:43 PM
amphibian, on 11 August 2013 - 06:30 PM, said:
Tiste Simeon, on 11 August 2013 - 05:52 PM, said:
Is the main antagonist of those books a volcano or something? If so I'm definitely out.
No, no, they just have to take a package to the volcano. Super special delivery and so on. The CareBears and SparklePonies only have a few sporadic cameos now and then, so don't worry about them too much.
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 07:13 PM
Just finished Ex-Heroes. It was awesome. As always, thanks for talking it up, the book recs here are usually very good. Now I'm about to start the Ex-Patriots, and have Mark Lawrence's King of Thorns set for a reread before the newest one.
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Posted 12 August 2013 - 09:19 AM
Was about to make a generic joke about a volcano on Myanus but realised this wasn't the poop thread.
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