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#18021 Macros

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 06:03 AM

Given the orgy i'd say it most certainly does.

Sorry, spoiler

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#18022 QuickTidal

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 12:06 PM

Re-reading HoC. Continuing on a long-winded Malazan Re-Read which I started last year with GotM.

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#18023 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 03:15 PM

Nearing the end of Part Two of Seveneves and all I can say is that politicians are just the worst.

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#18024 amphibian

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 03:35 PM

SMZ, you uh... are going to find out just how bad it can get...

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#18025 Maark Abbott

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Posted 04 June 2016 - 12:20 PM

The Bakkakening is happening. Spurt spurt.

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#18026 Mentalist

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Posted 05 June 2016 - 10:32 PM

Finished "God of Clocks". Meh, 3/5. I wouldn't call it terrible. Campbell has an annoying tendency to keep coming up with interesting concepts non-stop, but with little follow-through--so lots of stuff ends up feeling Deus Ex Machina-y.

The time paradoxes and River of Failed were the concepts tacked on in vol 3, but vol 2 had its share, too.

In terms of dissapointing end to a series, this is still nowhere as bad as "The Born Queen"--I mean, here writer's diminishing quality was seen since Bk2.

I can't say I really enjoyed it, but it wasn't as eye-bleedingly bad as some here suggested either.

Next up, at home i'll finally read Aeronaut's Windlass. In commute, probably the next Elric book (EDIT: it's "Elric and the Sleeping Sorceress")

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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.

#18027 T77

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Posted 06 June 2016 - 01:48 PM

Finished FoL and thought it was very good. Just started DL.

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Posted 06 June 2016 - 02:10 PM

I couldn't get into Faerie Tale, so I threw it back on the pile and started Novik's Uprooted.

#18029 Baco Xtath

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 12:39 AM

Finished Dancer's Lament; loved it. Definitely my favorite ICE book. About halfway through Second Chance at Eden by Hamilton. If I drank every time he said 'polyp' I'd be an alcoholic -wait, I am. Maybe I do. Anyway, he uses that freak'n word like Erikson uses 'potsherds', or Stover uses 'fuck'.

Reading Merrimack #3. Still loving it.

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#18030 Mentalist

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 03:51 PM

"Elric: the Sleeping Sorceress" started out as a random collection-with the first entry being "The Eternal Champion!" Err, Gollancz, you already have "The Eternal Champion" in this collection- in the volume titled... "The Eternal Champion".

Anyhow, no onto the actual Elric + Moonglum story.

At home, only 5-6 chapters into "Aeronaut's Windlass", loving it. All hail our feline overlords

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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.

#18031 Itwæs Nom

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 06:43 PM

Anyone knows how long is Greatcoats series by Sebastien de Castell planned to be?

to stay on topic

I left Silmarillion at page 60, I might come back to it sometime in future when I got nothing else to read

Reading Purge of Ashes by Joel Minty at home and Lies of Locke Lamorra ebook when not at home

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#18032 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 07:18 PM

The Drawing of Three - Stephen King.

Made it through The Gunslinger - interesting story, infuriating writing style. Three is better, but Eddie annoys me for the exact same reasons the character of Jesse annoyed me in the couple of series of Breaking Bad I managed to get through. Hopefully he'll improve. I wouldn't say I'm loving the books but King is tantalising me with enough to keep me here for now (Gunslinger was my first King).

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#18033 Macros

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 07:56 PM

I think greatcloaks is a trilogy to start?
That might be a total guess

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#18034 Itwæs Nom

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 08:18 PM

Macros, on 07 June 2016 - 07:56 PM, said:

I think greatcloaks is a trilogy to start?
That might be a total guess

3 books are out so far

according to goodreads 4th volume "Tyrant's Throne" is expected to come out next year

Also I stumbled upon "Greatcoat's Lament", but it turned out to be just former title of 2nd volume "Knight's Shadows"

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 09:05 PM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 07 June 2016 - 07:18 PM, said:

Dad-a-chum? Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek? Did-a-chick? Ranks right up there with Dragon Cow in my book.

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#18036 Mentalist

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 09:23 PM

I stalled in my nth attempt to finish "Gunsliger" in French-somewhere in Part III. Once work gets less hectic in July-Aug, i'll have to try to get back to it.

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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 08 June 2016 - 01:28 AM

acesn8s, on 07 June 2016 - 09:05 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 07 June 2016 - 07:18 PM, said:

Dad-a-chum? Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek? Did-a-chick? Ranks right up there with Dragon Cow in my book.

You shut your mouth about the lobstrocities they are the greatest fantasy creature since the original kraken.

...both being quite tasty with butter and garlic btw....

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#18038 worry

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Posted 08 June 2016 - 03:35 AM

I'd agree with that. Loved book 4. And The Talisman. I kinda wonder how involved Peter Straub was in Black House cuz it is SO VERY much like King during that era. Like I wonder if King was like "Hey, mind if I write a sequel to The Talisman" and Straub was like "Go for it, buddy."

Other than that, King recos usually follow this order:
Good books with good endings.
Good books with bad endings.
Middle books with good endings.
Short story/novella collections.
Middle books with bad endings.
His non-fiction.
Bad books with interesting ideas.
Total disasters.
Other authors' books.
Hallmark cards.
Coffee books of art school freshmen po-mo works.
Medical pamphlets.
The Tommyknockers.

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#18039 amphibian

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Posted 08 June 2016 - 04:29 AM

On Writing is the best thing King ever wrote.

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#18040 Macros

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Posted 08 June 2016 - 06:12 AM

Itwæs Nom, on 07 June 2016 - 08:18 PM, said:

Macros, on 07 June 2016 - 07:56 PM, said:

I think greatcloaks is a trilogy to start?
That might be a total guess

Hah, and I've read all three as well!!
I had in my head there was one more to come and just assumed trilogy.
His website has a decent bit if info on it iirc

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