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#18641 User is offline   WinterPhoenix 

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Posted 19 September 2016 - 07:56 PM

View Postacesn8s, on 19 September 2016 - 11:57 AM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 18 September 2016 - 07:01 AM, said:

View Postworry, on 18 September 2016 - 06:30 AM, said:

The book is an A+. Riveting from start to finish, even if you've seen the miniseries. It's like the Chain of Dogs if most people were cows.


CHAIN OF Dragon COWS!!!!!!!!


FTFY


I saw Abyss' comment yesterday, thought 'need to insert something about dragon cows here' then got distracted and forgot about it, came back just now to post and I've been beaten to the punch, mightily disappointed. And then I imagined a horde of dragon cows crossing the Vathar....
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Posted 19 September 2016 - 08:38 PM

View PostWinterPhoenix, on 19 September 2016 - 07:56 PM, said:

I saw Abyss' comment yesterday, thought 'need to insert something about dragon cows here' then got distracted and forgot about it, came back just now to post and I've been beaten to the punch, mightily disappointed.



Haha, exact same.
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Posted 20 September 2016 - 01:37 AM

Lonesome Dove is an excellent book.

All his books are quality, but LD is in a league of its own. IMO
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Posted 20 September 2016 - 07:29 PM

I finished Kearney's Hawkwood and the Kings (books 1 & 2) and started Century of the Soldier (books 3, 4, & 5). I really liked the first omnibus.
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Posted 21 September 2016 - 03:19 AM

I haven't read or watched the sequels/prequels, but as an unabashed fan of Steve Zahn, he sounds like a terrible choice for Gus.
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Posted 21 September 2016 - 05:06 AM

Gus is a goofy, genial talker and kinda tall, yet intense when the action is on. Not many actors like that. Left field choice - Chris Hemsworth with a beard and not as muscular. I think he really could do this role right.

Call is a shorter, super wound up tight type. There's a few more of those in the actor pool than McCrae. Also, probably not as important to the audience glomming onto the story.
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Posted 21 September 2016 - 08:31 AM

Finished A Natural History of Dragons: The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan. Interesting idea, ok execution, botched last chapter.

Reading Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon and really like it so far.
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Posted 21 September 2016 - 11:29 AM

Finished (finally) GALAXY IN FLAMES by Ben Counter, thus finishing the initial trilogy in the Horus Heresy books. It was good, but not great. More thoughts in ded-thread.

Until I pick another book from the pile I'm reading the first trade of Mark Waid's run on LEGION OF SUPERHEROES.
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Posted 21 September 2016 - 12:00 PM

View PostWinterPhoenix, on 19 September 2016 - 07:56 PM, said:

View Postacesn8s, on 19 September 2016 - 11:57 AM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 18 September 2016 - 07:01 AM, said:

View Postworry, on 18 September 2016 - 06:30 AM, said:

The book is an A+. Riveting from start to finish, even if you've seen the miniseries. It's like the Chain of Dogs if most people were cows.


CHAIN OF Dragon COWS!!!!!!!!


FTFY


I saw Abyss' comment yesterday, thought 'need to insert something about dragon cows here' then got distracted and forgot about it, came back just now to post and I've been beaten to the punch, mightily disappointed. And then I imagined a horde of dragon cows crossing the Vathar....


Sorry, that was too sweet of a peach not to pick immediately. ;)
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Posted 22 September 2016 - 03:19 AM

Stay the fuck away from that monstrosity.

It was tv only, no McMurtry.

Besides that it's horrible tv, just.....horrible.
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Posted 22 September 2016 - 03:38 AM

1/5 into The Obelisk Gate, and NKJ brings it hard right out the gate. No wasted pages re-revving up the engines from cold. Still brutal without being exploitative, and elegiac without being mawkish. Plus the story's great!
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Posted 22 September 2016 - 10:13 AM

View Postworry, on 22 September 2016 - 03:38 AM, said:

...elegiac without being mawkish...


The?Fuck?
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Posted 22 September 2016 - 10:38 AM

Starting the latest Kate Daniels book MAGIC BINDS! Woot woot!
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Posted 22 September 2016 - 12:59 PM

Nice!
Am earbooking #6, MAGIC RISES. It's great. The time the Andrewses spent building up the supporting cast to this point really pays off here.
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Posted 22 September 2016 - 02:03 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 22 September 2016 - 10:38 AM, said:

Starting the latest Kate Daniels book MAGIC BINDS! Woot woot!



View PostAbyss, on 22 September 2016 - 12:59 PM, said:

Nice!
Am earbooking #6, MAGIC RISES. It's great. The time the Andrewses spent building up the supporting cast to this point really pays off here.


replies to the above moved to the ded-thread to avoid spoilers here.
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Posted 22 September 2016 - 02:11 PM

Finished Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon. Liked it a lot. Good characters, great action, colourful world.

Also Maria Snyder's Poison Study. Fast paced, entertaining, moderately predictable. Popcorn
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Posted 22 September 2016 - 05:38 PM

View Postworry, on 22 September 2016 - 03:38 AM, said:

1/5 into The Obelisk Gate, and NKJ brings it hard right out the gate. No wasted pages re-revving up the engines from cold. Still brutal without being exploitative, and elegiac without being mawkish. Plus the story's great!


This and the fifth season were both incredibly well done. Jemisin really stepped up as a writer in these compared to her early stuff which I was fairly ambivalent about. Need to go back and explore some of her older work.
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Posted 22 September 2016 - 08:56 PM

View PostAbyss, on 22 September 2016 - 10:13 AM, said:

View Postworry, on 22 September 2016 - 03:38 AM, said:

...elegiac without being mawkish...


The?Fuck?


What?
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Posted 23 September 2016 - 11:04 AM

Reading Magic Binds. I should have reread the last book, I am missing things
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Posted 23 September 2016 - 11:42 AM

View PostAndorion, on 23 September 2016 - 11:04 AM, said:

Reading Magic Binds. I should have reread the last book, I am missing things



Go on ded-thread and ask questions in spoiler tags, I can probably help I think.
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