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Posted 17 December 2013 - 04:31 PM

amphibian, on 16 December 2013 - 06:25 PM, said:

I too an going through Dangerous Women. My thoughts:
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Megan Abbott - incredible. Best short story I've read in a long long time. Spooky, heart rending and very powerful.
...

Read that one last night and completely agreed. Author totally takes you in one direction, swerves to another and then swerves again and works it beautifully.

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Posted 17 December 2013 - 05:00 PM

Been told my family that I'm not allowed to buy anything before Christmas...and this included DANGEROUS WOMEN...ARG!

Anyways, so I'm reading THE CRYSTAL SHARD by Salvatore for the first time. Fun D&D fantasy book so far. Nothing special, but entertaining like a popcorn movie.

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Posted 17 December 2013 - 06:07 PM

Brent Weeks, on 17 December 2013 - 01:45 PM, said:

I'm think RD is one of my least favourites but I'm still excited!

Just a quick question on order.
You doing RoTG next?

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Posted 18 December 2013 - 04:27 PM

Since Sunday I have read the 2.5 first books of Codex Alera, still highly enjoyable. And today i started listening to the first hunger games book. Damn it sucks, The author just uses way to much time describing stuff that's aint important, and I'm not a fan of the writing. If it wasn't for the even more boring job I'll would have given it up.

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Posted 18 December 2013 - 05:07 PM

Over the weekend I finished Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear & Other Stories and Donaldson's The Power That Preserves. Man, the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant are so much better than I remembered.

Digging in for my fifth read of The Book of the New Sun, now.

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Posted 19 December 2013 - 07:47 AM

Solidsnape, on 17 December 2013 - 06:07 PM, said:

Brent Weeks, on 17 December 2013 - 01:45 PM, said:

I'm think RD is one of my least favourites but I'm still excited!

Just a quick question on order.
You doing RoTG next?

Yes definitely. It works best just before TTH.

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Posted 19 December 2013 - 08:06 AM

Just finished Crack'd Pot Trail. That... was NOT what I expected it to be. A very fun yet thought provoking book, but nowhere near what I expected.

On to The President's Vampire. After how much I enjoyed Blood Oath, as well as advice from the boards resident ~~pusher~~ err ~~overlord~~ I mean Infernal Canadian Cat-Beast, I am very very muchly looking forward to this one.

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Posted 19 December 2013 - 03:03 PM

Brent-Man Weeks, on 18 December 2013 - 05:07 PM, said:

Unrelated to this thread, I'm also on a small Lovecraft spin and forever-re-reading The Last Dark. My favorite new Lovecraft depiction is "great grotesque penguins". I love how everything, no matter if it were a rubber duck or a sentient snowball, is "a sinister, unnamed blasphemy lurking hideously in the eldritch elder-abysses of the earth".

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Posted 19 December 2013 - 05:54 PM

Finally watched THE HOBBIT: AUJ.

My reaction was to begin to re-read THE HOBBIT.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

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Posted 19 December 2013 - 06:15 PM

Finished up WYRD SISTERS by Pratchett. A very enjoyable intro to the Witches...though I fear I may have missed some Macbeth references as I've never read/seen that play. Great stuff though!

Until after Christmas I'll be re-reading SIDE JOBS as I've forgotten most of the short pieces since it came out.

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Posted 19 December 2013 - 06:40 PM

Currently ploughing through Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle. I actually began this years and years ago, but it's one of the many I started just before I went somewhere (uni in this case I think), and by the time I got back to it I remembered it too well to reread straight away and not well enough to just carry on from where I was. Enough time has now gone by though, and having been making my way through bits I half-recalled, I'm now, after 400 pages, into the parts that are entirely new to me.

It's really good but fuck me this book is long. I mean, I'm no stranger to 1,000+ page novels, but the pace that this moves at it really rams stuff in. Where I left it I could quite easily see ways to wrap it up within the next 100 pages or less, but it's not even a third.

Got 15 hours of journeying in the next two days though then some more after Christmas, so I'm glad I've got both this and the several other books I managed to buy last week.

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Posted 19 December 2013 - 06:52 PM

The Incredible Kitsu, on 19 December 2013 - 08:06 AM, said:

...On to The President's Vampire. After how much I enjoyed Blood Oath, as well as advice from the boards resident ~~pusher~~ err ~~overlord~~ I mean Infernal Canadian Cat-Beast, I am very very muchly looking forward to this one.

As you should be.
Now go line up RED WHITE AND BLOOD.

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Posted 19 December 2013 - 06:59 PM

You should read Macbeth. It's not that long and it's awesome.

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Posted 20 December 2013 - 04:04 AM

the other night I started reading THE LEES OF LAUGHTER'S END,, continuing on the misadventures of our dear old Bauchelain and Korbal Broach with the luckless manservant Emancipor Reese,,
although it's just a novella,, it may take a few days before I could finish this,, as I only read at night before i sleep,,

deciding what to read next after this,,

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Posted 20 December 2013 - 04:51 AM

Have you read Macbeth?

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Posted 20 December 2013 - 06:35 AM

QuickTidal, on 19 December 2013 - 06:15 PM, said:

Isn't Equal Rites the recommended entry point for the Witches books? Or does it not matter much? I bought Equal Rites a couple of weeks ago but haven't had a chance to get into it yet.

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Posted 20 December 2013 - 08:08 AM

Just finished 'The Red Knight' by Miles Cameron. Not bad at all.

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Posted 20 December 2013 - 06:25 PM

lastname, on 20 December 2013 - 06:35 AM, said:

Isn't Equal Rites the recommended entry point for the Witches books? Or does it not matter much? I bought Equal Rites a couple of weeks ago but haven't had a chance to get into it yet.

Of the Witches, only Granny Weatherwax appears in Equal Rites and her character is somewhat different from how she's later developed. And she's not the main character, Esk is (who doesn't appear in any later books as far as I recall). And the Lancre setting isn't developed in Equal Rites. So whilst Equal Rites is good fun, Wyrd Sisters is arguably a better starting place for reading about the Lancre witches.

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Posted 20 December 2013 - 06:34 PM

^ also liked The Red Knight. I really disliked the wild as the big bad, when I first started reading it, but it kinda grows on you as it goes..I think all his characters become way more likeable in the 2nd half..the 1st -third- didn't capture me at all.

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