[QuickTidal]

Brent-Man Weeks, on 08 December 2013 - 05:27 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 07 December 2013 - 10:22 PM, said:

The latest TOR versions have volume I (WILD CARDS) and II (ACES HIGH) out already... and volume III (JOKERS WILD) comes out in February...and that collects all the old ones...and then I think the latest (also through TOR) continue in INSIDE STRAIGHT and onwards...

The are/were 17 Wild Cards books before Inside Straight...

Son of a...

And here I thought I was making kickass progress.

And after looking things up further it appears that TOR has made a deal with GRRM and Co. to continue to release the old ones in new trade paperback versions...

Apparently the next 4 volumes after JOKERS WILD are on their re-issued way over "the next few years".


Oh well, a new series to keep collecting is never a bad thing.

Thanks Chris, I stand corrected.

[Serenity]

Finished Sarah Pinborough's Mayhem, which I found a little disappointing. It's about the Thames Torso Murders that were happening at the same time Jack the Ripper was doing his thing, but I didn't know in advance that the story took a supernatural route to its explanation, so I was expecting lots of atmosphere from Victorian London - a bit Holmesian, maybe - and it ended up being a generic horror story.

Then I read Patricia A. McKillip's The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, which I found was nice and short and quite different and refreshing.

And now I've just about finished Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword, which I'm finding rather excellent

[Spoilsport Stonny]

Just finished Best Served Cold. This was an amazing and exciting read all the way through. I was completely captivated and pulled into the novel. Abercrombie seriously outdid himself here, taking the world he built in The First Law trilogy and ramping up the pacing, the character interaction, the twists and turns, the reveals, the violence, the voices, and the narrative was never dull. I won't say anymore except to say that if you haven't read this book yet, you are missing out on the closest thing literature can get to a Scorcese movie. One of my favorite books of all time.

I have loaded up Perdido Street Station on the ol' Nook Simple and will be starting that tonight. This is entirely based on recommendations from this forum, so I know I won't be let down.

[Abyss]

Spoilsport Stonny, on 09 December 2013 - 04:30 PM, said:

Just finished Best Served Cold. This was an amazing and exciting read all the way through. I was completely captivated and pulled into the novel. ...One of my favorite books of all time.

Glad you liked. it's my fave of his by far.

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I have loaded up Perdido Street Station on the ol' Nook Simple and will be starting that tonight. This is entirely based on recommendations from this forum, so I know I won't be let down.

Enjoy!
And then read THE SCAR.


Finished Tidhar's CAMERA OBSCURA... damn this was good. Countess De Winter was a great pov, the setting was brilliant, and i really really enjoyed the sheer over-the-top and then some of the finale.
With CAMERA Tidhar seriously outdid THE BOOKMAN... i liked so many things about this book so much more. The lead, the setting, the storyline, everything just worked so very nicely.
Will move on to GREAT GAME soon.

In the meantime, plunged into GRRM's DANGEROUS WOMEN anthology. Butcher delivered the dresdencrack with BOMBSHELLS, Abercrombie did nice work with Red Country's Shy, and i'm really enjoying the GRRM story. That said, i'm avoiding a whole lot of the 'lesser' authors so far, so i can't say whether the balance will shift for or against this collection.

[lastname]

Serenity, on 09 December 2013 - 01:47 PM, said:

Finished Sarah Pinborough's Mayhem, which I found a little disappointing. It's about the Thames Torso Murders that were happening at the same time Jack the Ripper was doing his thing, but I didn't know in advance that the story took a supernatural route to its explanation, so I was expecting lots of atmosphere from Victorian London - a bit Holmesian, maybe - and it ended up being a generic horror story.

Then I read Patricia A. McKillip's The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, which I found was nice and short and quite different and refreshing.

And now I've just about finished Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword, which I'm finding rather excellent

If you liked The Broken Sword, you might also dig Anderson's Hrolf Kraki's Saga.


Just finished Mort followed by Princep's Fury. I'm going to pick up either Proven Guilty or First Lord's Fury next.

[Jahdu]

About 180 pages into Prince of Thorns... really liking this book so far.
The only nit pick I have is how believable it is to have a 10 year old become
the leader of a band of sell swords but it's a great read none the less.

[Ukjent]

Reading Cain's black Knife and I highly enjoy it.

[Morgoth]

What book is that? Black Knife? Never heard of it.

Was it good?

[yuna_anomander25]

@ Morgoth - Caine Black Knife by Matthew Stover,,

FINALLY FINISHED with THE HEROES by Joe Abercrombie - it's ok,, not great but not overly bad,, this took quite sometime as i don't like this as much as the previous book, BEST SERVED COLD,,

didn't like pretty much most of it specially Bayaz,, the only characters i like in this one is Shivers (who don't even have 1 POV chapter) and Gorst, though i feel sometimes that Gorst is like a Glokta Ver 2.0,, what with the whole I'm broken (though not physically) and cynical POV,,

and lastly i feel that this book is:

Spoiler

just to show how evilly ruthless and more in control Bayaz is of the North,, and now they'll be waging war with Styria's Snake of Talins - Monzcarro Murcatto

deciding which book to read next,,

[worry]

I'm about to read "Bombshells" and then I'm gonna start Prince of Thorns. Planning to read more of Dangerous Women in between the Thorns books.

[yuna_anomander25]

I'm now updated in my reading of the manga of both KUROKO NO BASKET and MAGI: THE LABYRINTH OF MAGIC,, I so love the mix of Middle East/Oriental/Roman setting of this,, so i kind of thought of something like this,,

don't know where to ask of this,, but can anyone of you fellow Malazan Forumites, recommend to me any books that has a Middle-Eastern setting,, be it Persian, Arabian and so on,,

and any desert themed books,, like our dear DEADHOUSE GATES,,

thank you forum!!

[Aptorian]

The most obvious one that springs to mind would be the Prince of Nothing series. They are set in an area that might as well be our Middle East, during an era that is similar to the Crusades that took place around the first millenia. I believe the author is actually a scholar of middle eastern studies which lends the world building and culture a rich and beleivable character.

Also, there's Dune.

[amphibian]

My favorite ever bumbling detective noire book, A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger, takes place in futuristic Islamic North Africa in an urban desert-ish setting.

It has a prequel and a sequel, but neither is as good and neither is necessary to understanding the story. All you have to do is read that one and it's gold.

[Morgoth]

You have that Crescent Moon something book. Which was decent, but mainly interesting because of the middle eastern setting.

[Obdigore]

http://www.goodreads...45.Sword_Dancer

Mediocre to good (maybe that's nostalga) about some Desert Adventures.

[QuickTidal]

Started the second WILD CARDS anthology book ACES HIGH.

[Serenity]

lastname, on 10 December 2013 - 04:41 AM, said:

Serenity, on 09 December 2013 - 01:47 PM, said:

Finished Sarah Pinborough's Mayhem, which I found a little disappointing. It's about the Thames Torso Murders that were happening at the same time Jack the Ripper was doing his thing, but I didn't know in advance that the story took a supernatural route to its explanation, so I was expecting lots of atmosphere from Victorian London - a bit Holmesian, maybe - and it ended up being a generic horror story.

Then I read Patricia A. McKillip's The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, which I found was nice and short and quite different and refreshing.

And now I've just about finished Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword, which I'm finding rather excellent

If you liked The Broken Sword, you might also dig Anderson's Hrolf Kraki's Saga.

Thanks, I shall have a look!

I've currently got about 40 pages left to read of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, which I've thoroughly enjoyed. I'll probably read some more Gemmell of McCaffrey after that.

[Chance]

Going through the Winter King by Bernard Cornwall not certain about this one yet I like the premise but the way it is being told is decidedly unimpressive so far which however is just at the begining.

This post has been edited by Chance: 11 December 2013 - 08:32 PM

[Brujah]

I read 3 more pages in The Lies of Locke Lamora, which brought me to page........50.

I'm struggling with this one, and I'm not the type to leave a book, any book once started, unfinished. But I'm so bored with the story and I've literally just begun. It's taken me two weeks to read these 50 pages. And to put that into perspective using Butcher's simple and short Dresden series, I usually finish a Dresden File in one day/night sitting.

The only other book I had to really push myself to want to finish in the last year or so was Name of the Wind, and I just decided to not continue that series.

I can't not finish this Scott Lynch book, but I want to move on ahead to second Abercrombie book instead. I loved The Blade Itself. It sits in my top 5 favorite fantasy book/series so far. I haven't been as excited about a new series(new to me) since beginning Dresden Files.

Also debating which to begin next of these:
Thomas Covenant Chronicles
Acts of Caine - Stover
The Broken Empire Trilogy - Lawrence

[Brujah]

Also, I've been cleaning out closets and rearranging old books on even older bookshelf, and dusted off The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman. I just wanted to point out that it was one of my favorite series back in the day, in case anyone is interested. And I'm hoping my fondness for the series is genuine and not based on how much easier it was to please myself when I was younger.

However, it does begin with the main character sacrificing his own wife and children for greater power on like the very first page or so. It's been a long, long time, but I believe I would still recommend.