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worry, on 14 August 2013 - 08:37 AM, said:
Serenity, on 14 August 2013 - 08:01 AM, said:
Fancied a break from fantasy books for a bit, so started To Kill a Mockingbird this morning. Been meaning to read it for years.
Boooooooooo!
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 01:38 PM
Moved onto Clines EX-PATRIOTS, and I'm already into the thick of it. As good as the first, and possibly better so far.
more notes in ded-thread.
more notes in ded-thread.
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 02:01 PM
I agree about Tad Williams needing a good editor. The first book of his I read was Otherland and I thought it was excellent. The second book was a bit drawn out and I have not gone back to it, though I do intend on finishing it at some point.
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 09:00 PM
Briar King, on 14 August 2013 - 08:56 PM, said:
I've got War of Flowers yrs ago and it's cloecting dust. May have to blow it off...
Just my $0.02cdn, but i think it's worth the eyetime.
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Posted 15 August 2013 - 12:57 PM
Started Justin Cronin's THE TWELVE. Been looking forward to this since finishing THE PASSAGE, and the first 100 pages have not disappointed.
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Posted 15 August 2013 - 01:17 PM
Put Deadhouse Gates on hold a few days running through Eye of God by Rollins and Kill City Blues by Kadrey. Eye of God was decent but not one of the better Sigma Force novels, not strange enough and not good enough bad guys. Kill City Blues was great but required some re-reading for me to get into.
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Posted 15 August 2013 - 02:09 PM
I'll never learn, will i....?
A friend lent me their MP3 player. It had a bunch of audio books, most wholly uninteresting to me, but hey, there's LK Hamilton's Anita Blake: SKIN TRADE.
...if that is a familiar author / series to you or you've seen my posts about this before then you know where this is going...
The book starts well enough... powerful vampire serial killer in Vegas, Anita called in to help, Edward and Olaf called in too... great supporting cast... then we get some well thought out weretiger politics, a fun mobster vampire, some neat new beasties... a human SWAT team made up of magic practicioners.... all good... ancient vampire power games in the background... fine, fascinating even... and then... around the 2/3rd mark, the sex starts... and it's awful... i ffwd, try to get back to the plot, MORE SEX, almost miss a key plot development because it takes place while Anita is having group sex with like seven guys, lo and behold her mighty sex powers free one of the key bad guys from the evil vamp's power (dont ask why he showed up for the orgy, just don't) so he can just spill (pun intended) the entire plot, move along, big finish scene, evil vamp has hostages, Anita goes in to try and free them... and i can't even type what happened next... i can't... it's just wrong on so many levels... gah.
I feel icky now.
Back to PRINCE OF THORNS... it's far less disturbing.
A friend lent me their MP3 player. It had a bunch of audio books, most wholly uninteresting to me, but hey, there's LK Hamilton's Anita Blake: SKIN TRADE.
...if that is a familiar author / series to you or you've seen my posts about this before then you know where this is going...
The book starts well enough... powerful vampire serial killer in Vegas, Anita called in to help, Edward and Olaf called in too... great supporting cast... then we get some well thought out weretiger politics, a fun mobster vampire, some neat new beasties... a human SWAT team made up of magic practicioners.... all good... ancient vampire power games in the background... fine, fascinating even... and then... around the 2/3rd mark, the sex starts... and it's awful... i ffwd, try to get back to the plot, MORE SEX, almost miss a key plot development because it takes place while Anita is having group sex with like seven guys, lo and behold her mighty sex powers free one of the key bad guys from the evil vamp's power (dont ask why he showed up for the orgy, just don't) so he can just spill (pun intended) the entire plot, move along, big finish scene, evil vamp has hostages, Anita goes in to try and free them... and i can't even type what happened next... i can't... it's just wrong on so many levels... gah.
I feel icky now.
Back to PRINCE OF THORNS... it's far less disturbing.
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Posted 15 August 2013 - 04:03 PM
Abyss, on 14 August 2013 - 09:00 PM, said:
Briar King, on 14 August 2013 - 08:56 PM, said:
I've got War of Flowers yrs ago and it's cloecting dust. May have to blow it off...
Just my $0.02cdn, but i think it's worth the eyetime.
+1 on this rec. It's the only Tad Williams I've enjoyed, besides Otherland.
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Posted 15 August 2013 - 11:07 PM
I finished Iain Banks' Raw Spirit, yesterday, and enjoyed it immensely.
It's a very informative read and interesting if you're in to single malt whisky. It's also really funny in the usual Banks stylee, and really shows what he was like as a normal person. There's also a cool little Easter egg, regarding events in The Bridge and Complicity.
You come away from it feeling like you know the man and it's kind of reinforced the huge loss of such a great writer and all round decent bloke.
Next up, I'm a couple of chapters into The Quantum Thief. Getting used to it but definitely enjoying it.
It's a very informative read and interesting if you're in to single malt whisky. It's also really funny in the usual Banks stylee, and really shows what he was like as a normal person. There's also a cool little Easter egg, regarding events in The Bridge and Complicity.
You come away from it feeling like you know the man and it's kind of reinforced the huge loss of such a great writer and all round decent bloke.
Next up, I'm a couple of chapters into The Quantum Thief. Getting used to it but definitely enjoying it.
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Posted 16 August 2013 - 12:58 PM
Finished up EX-PATRIOTS (really solid, see comments in Ded thread), and will be spending my weekend at the cottage reading 4 volumes of ONE PIECE manga covering the first 4 parts of the SKYPEIA Arc. I've also got EX-COMMUNICATION on deck....after which I'll probs find some classical fantasy....hopefully THE CROWN TOWER by Michael Sullivan is out by then.
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Posted 16 August 2013 - 01:30 PM
Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast, on 15 August 2013 - 11:07 PM, said:
I finished Iain Banks' Raw Spirit, yesterday, and enjoyed it immensely.
It's a very informative read and interesting if you're in to single malt whisky. It's also really funny in the usual Banks stylee, and really shows what he was like as a normal person. There's also a cool little Easter egg, regarding events in The Bridge and Complicity.
You come away from it feeling like you know the man and it's kind of reinforced the huge loss of such a great writer and all round decent bloke.
Next up, I'm a couple of chapters into The Quantum Thief. Getting used to it but definitely enjoying it.
It's a very informative read and interesting if you're in to single malt whisky. It's also really funny in the usual Banks stylee, and really shows what he was like as a normal person. There's also a cool little Easter egg, regarding events in The Bridge and Complicity.
You come away from it feeling like you know the man and it's kind of reinforced the huge loss of such a great writer and all round decent bloke.
Next up, I'm a couple of chapters into The Quantum Thief. Getting used to it but definitely enjoying it.
Yeah I read it straight after The Quarry & it was nice to see him being positive & enjoying life (as opposed to the bleakness of The Quarry...) Also I just flippin love Scotch!
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Posted 16 August 2013 - 07:55 PM
Work has been brutal this week. Slowed down reading a lot. On fiction side of things: I'm about 1 quarter into the last Nekropolis novel. I've lost interest, the plot here seems too predictable. I'll probably power through it this weekend just to get it done, but teh quality of this omnibus seems to dip once the novelty wears off.
on the non-fiction, side, I've recently finished Fedor Uspensky's excellent "History of Byzantium". Those Greeks were seriously messed up.
Now slowly making my way (about a chapter a day) through Piers Brendon's "Decline and Fall of the British Empire". Modern History is one of my weaker areas when history's concerned, so it's absolutely fascinating so far.
on the non-fiction, side, I've recently finished Fedor Uspensky's excellent "History of Byzantium". Those Greeks were seriously messed up.
Now slowly making my way (about a chapter a day) through Piers Brendon's "Decline and Fall of the British Empire". Modern History is one of my weaker areas when history's concerned, so it's absolutely fascinating so far.
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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.
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Posted 16 August 2013 - 08:15 PM
Tiste Simeon, on 16 August 2013 - 01:30 PM, said:
Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast, on 15 August 2013 - 11:07 PM, said:
I finished Iain Banks' Raw Spirit, yesterday, and enjoyed it immensely.
It's a very informative read and interesting if you're in to single malt whisky. It's also really funny in the usual Banks stylee, and really shows what he was like as a normal person. There's also a cool little Easter egg, regarding events in The Bridge and Complicity.
You come away from it feeling like you know the man and it's kind of reinforced the huge loss of such a great writer and all round decent bloke.
Next up, I'm a couple of chapters into The Quantum Thief. Getting used to it but definitely enjoying it.
It's a very informative read and interesting if you're in to single malt whisky. It's also really funny in the usual Banks stylee, and really shows what he was like as a normal person. There's also a cool little Easter egg, regarding events in The Bridge and Complicity.
You come away from it feeling like you know the man and it's kind of reinforced the huge loss of such a great writer and all round decent bloke.
Next up, I'm a couple of chapters into The Quantum Thief. Getting used to it but definitely enjoying it.
Yeah I read it straight after The Quarry & it was nice to see him being positive & enjoying life (as opposed to the bleakness of The Quarry...) Also I just flippin love Scotch!
It's actually a really expensive book, indirectly, considering the length of my To-Drink list now. Certainly, I'm curious to try the Glenfiddich Gran Reserva but it is £80 and Master of Malt don't sell it by the dram...
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Posted 17 August 2013 - 12:03 AM
If I still lived near you I would totally chip in 40 quid & go halfsies...
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Posted 17 August 2013 - 02:41 PM
Tiste Simeon, on 17 August 2013 - 12:03 AM, said:
If I still lived near you I would totally chip in 40 quid & go halfsies...
It probably could be done with a spare bottle and some extra postage—inelegant yet practical.
We should have a whisky / drinking thread! I don't think I've seen one...?
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Posted 18 August 2013 - 04:08 AM
Finished the PRINCE OF THORNS reread. Enjoyed it even more the second time. Now on to KING and EMPEROR. Psyched!
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Posted 18 August 2013 - 01:08 PM
Serenity, on 17 August 2013 - 07:08 PM, said:
Making a start on Cornwell's The Last Kingdom today.
That's one of my fave books by him in that series. Enjoy!
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Posted 18 August 2013 - 03:16 PM
I finished Ex-Communication several days ago, and it was excellent. I'm not sure if it was my favorite of the bunch, but there certainly was a lot of cool stuff happening. Now I'm looking forward to the release of the next, the blurb sounds really interesting.
Currently reading The Darwin Elevator by Jason M Hough. It is his debut sci-fi novel and It's about a future where aliens dropped a space elevator and vanished. Several years later a plague killed most life, or turned the survivors into zombie like creatures, except near the elevator- leaving one last human city. Now the elevator tech is failing, and that means trouble. It's a good concept and very enjoyable so far.
Currently reading The Darwin Elevator by Jason M Hough. It is his debut sci-fi novel and It's about a future where aliens dropped a space elevator and vanished. Several years later a plague killed most life, or turned the survivors into zombie like creatures, except near the elevator- leaving one last human city. Now the elevator tech is failing, and that means trouble. It's a good concept and very enjoyable so far.
