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#14941 Baco Xtath

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Posted 22 February 2015 - 03:29 PM

Finished listening to the Autumn Republic; good end to a good trilogy. I wasn't blown away but nor was I disappointed. Also 70% through the Naming of the Beast and 40% through Stray Souls. Both are really good. I was unsure of the Felix Castor series as I began it but it's quickly become one of my favorite urban fantasy series next to Dresden, Grant, and Swift.

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#14942 polishgenius

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Posted 22 February 2015 - 03:49 PM

I'm currently reading Mechanique: a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine. This is kinda blowing my mind. I've always been a sucker for stories about mysterious circuses and travelling fairs, and I've enjoyed a fair few but all of them have had at least something not quite what I was looking for. So far, this doesn't. It's pretty amazing.

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#14943 HiddenOne

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 04:04 PM

Assassin's Apprentice, caught it for $2 on Kindle

Seems pretty decent so far

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#14944 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 04:04 PM

I finished the last (chronological) Morlock book, The Wolf Age, over the weekend. Really good. I love James Enge's stuff: he writes with wit, heart, and likes to go to completely unexpected places with his stories. I'm definitely going to have to look into his prequel trilogy now.

Now I'm four chapters into Ancillary Justice. It's fine enough so far, but the narrator's insistence on referring to everyone as she/her regardless of actual gender (especially after starting the book by explaining that she has to be careful to reflect gender properly when speaking) is really distracting. I have no problem giving Leckie the benefit of the doubt for now, but at the moment it really feels like an authorial "Look at me!" decision.

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#14945 The Hust Legion

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 05:20 PM

got words of radiance today!! it looks hefty and i have to go to plymouth on friday on a 7 hour bus journey too. so thank god its huge i am really liking this stormlight series

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 06:28 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 23 February 2015 - 04:04 PM, said:

Now I'm four chapters into Ancillary Justice. It's fine enough so far, but the narrator's insistence on referring to everyone as she/her regardless of actual gender (especially after starting the book by explaining that she has to be careful to reflect gender properly when speaking) is really distracting. I have no problem giving Leckie the benefit of the doubt for now, but at the moment it really feels like an authorial "Look at me!" decision.

Keep going.

I finished this book last night. It is brilliant. I rate it as one of the finest books of the last 15 years in SF.

I'll order Ancillary Sword soon.

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#14947 polishgenius

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 07:05 PM

Ancillary Justice is fantastic, and could well go down as an all-time classic in the genre.

The 'she' thing can be distracting at first but while I didn't find it had any weight as any examination of perceptions of gender, it worked really well to accentuate the alien-ness of the main character and her culture from ours.

Finished Mechanique. Loved it.

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#14948 acesn8s

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 08:38 PM

Finished The Broken Kingdom, it was a fun read (4/5). Bought to The Kingdom of Gods to finish up the trilogy. Man, these books go down faster than Tad William's. Not saying either author is better than other, just that the books read differently.

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#14949 JPK

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Posted 24 February 2015 - 12:20 AM

Dropped Kill the Dead, it just wasn't doing it for me. I'm not starting another new one yet though, instead I'm opting to focus more on 1q84 as it has started getting very good.

#14950 Maark Abbott

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Posted 24 February 2015 - 11:35 AM

Onto The Last Wish. I presume that Wyzim is what the games would list as Vizima?

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#14951 Chance

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Posted 24 February 2015 - 03:39 PM

Finishing up the Providence of Fire the second unhewn throne book and its pretty good. I wonder if bad guys getting out of every damn problem until the last book has always irritated me this much or if its just this book and the crown of stars which has highlighted the problem. Some people just survive over and over again on the good guys inability to take vaguely competent decisions.

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Posted 25 February 2015 - 03:13 PM

I'm quite enjoying The First Collected Tales of Gerald of Riveting. Short stories aren't a format I'm hugely familiar with but I can see why this was recommended before Blood of Elves. A LOT of character building going on for ol' Gerald here.

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#14953 The Hust Legion

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Posted 25 February 2015 - 08:33 PM

im engorging myself on sanderson right now. also question do i buy/read mist born first or elantris
??

#14954 End of Disc One

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Posted 25 February 2015 - 09:44 PM

The Hust Legion, on 25 February 2015 - 08:33 PM, said:

im engorging myself on sanderson right now. also question do i buy/read mist born first or elantris
??

If you're already sold on Sanderson, might as well read Elantris first and go forward so you can see the improvement in his writing.

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Posted 25 February 2015 - 11:08 PM

Not very 'fantasy', but bloody good so far, and funny too:

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#14956 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 25 February 2015 - 11:11 PM

polishgenius, on 23 February 2015 - 07:05 PM, said:

The "she" thing is still very frustrating, but even with that, this book is darn near impossible to put down.

#14957 Andorion

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Posted 26 February 2015 - 01:46 AM

End of Disc One, on 25 February 2015 - 09:44 PM, said:

The Hust Legion, on 25 February 2015 - 08:33 PM, said:

im engorging myself on sanderson right now. also question do i buy/read mist born first or elantris
??

If you're already sold on Sanderson, might as well read Elantris first and go forward so you can see the improvement in his writing.

Lets ee.. the order I am following is Elantris=>Mistborn=>Warbreaker=>SLA.

Of this I have read Elantris, the Mistborn first trilogy + the 4th book, and am halfway into Warbreaker. These books are fantastic.

#14958 D'iversify

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Posted 26 February 2015 - 01:29 PM

500+ pages into The Name of the Wind. A bit slow in places, and Kvothe alternates at times between being hyper-precocious and overly immature, but he's an enjoyable narrator. The magic system in Rothfuss' series is also fairly clever without being exhaustively systematised. Overall a B+ read so far.

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