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Jim Butcher's Storm Front. Pretty good so far, though not my usual kind of book, I guess.
Reading at t'moment?
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Posted 10 January 2007 - 06:24 PM
O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 01:34 AM
Just finished reading Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel. Splendid novel, head and shoulders above most of what comprises the market nowadays. Ysabel will certainly be one of the books to read in 2007.
Check the blog for the full review!
Patrick
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Check the blog for the full review!
Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 02:18 PM
The Space wolves omnibus - William King
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 08:16 PM
The Warrior Prophet, by R. Scott Bakker. Haven't found a copy of the third in Plymouth yet, but I'm still looking. I assume it's out here?
Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 08:19 PM
just about to finish lion of macedon and start on feast crows
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Posted 15 January 2007 - 02:07 PM
Vellum
Only about 50 pages in, but so far, so good. Disorienting? Yes. It's supposed to be. Jeez, look at the reviews on Amazon. They're pretty savage...
Mike
Only about 50 pages in, but so far, so good. Disorienting? Yes. It's supposed to be. Jeez, look at the reviews on Amazon. They're pretty savage...
Mike
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Posted 15 January 2007 - 02:10 PM
stone monkey said:
@ Tiste - I suspect the book you're thinking of is Tigana
Yeah that's the one. I did enjoy it.
Thanks, SM
Currently reading The Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. My housemate told me it was as good as Erikson*. Pfft. Whatever.
*Admittedly, she has never read Erikson, and she didn't actually say that... I was telling her how great Erikson was and how different he was etc. and she said "Oh yeah Robin Hobb is like that too..." How foolish I was... *sigh*
A Haunting Poem
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Posted 15 January 2007 - 05:00 PM
Yes, I could never enjoy Hobb. Just not my kind of book, I guess.
Now debating between Temeraire and Asher's Voyage of Sable Keetch while knowing full well I should be revising, not reading or posting here...
Now debating between Temeraire and Asher's Voyage of Sable Keetch while knowing full well I should be revising, not reading or posting here...
O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.
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Posted 31 January 2007 - 07:01 PM
I've just finished Hal Duncan's INK, and it's an incredible read! A frontrunner for book of the year, no doubt about it!
Check the blog for the full review!
Patrick
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Check the blog for the full review!
Patrick
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Posted 31 January 2007 - 07:35 PM
Any better than Vellum?
O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.
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Posted 31 January 2007 - 07:41 PM
I finished the Farseer Trilogy by Hobb. It wasn't bad. At least not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Still not as good as Erikson, by a long shot.
Reading "Churchill's Triumph" by Michael Dobbs.
Reading "Churchill's Triumph" by Michael Dobbs.
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Posted 31 January 2007 - 08:41 PM
caladanbrood;155026 said:
Any better than Vellum?
Just as good, I'd say!
Patrick
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Posted 31 January 2007 - 08:44 PM
City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer, for the third time, because it's that good.
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 31 January 2007 - 09:00 PM
pat5150;155050 said:
So equally annoyingly written, obtuse and vague? Thats a shame:(
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Posted 31 January 2007 - 09:35 PM
caladanbrood;155059 said:
So equally annoyingly written, obtuse and vague? Thats a shame:(
That's the beauty of it all, my friend!
Patrick
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Posted 31 January 2007 - 11:34 PM
sparky;151215 said:
Jeez, look at the reviews on Amazon. They're pretty savage...
That's no change. Most of the best books out there get torn to shreds in amazon reviews. I was simply stunned the other day when I saw that almost all the reviews for M John Harrison's Viriconium had five stars--finally, proof that there are reviewers on amazon who can appreciate a good book; if only the'yd show themselves more often.
I'm currently reading The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 12:21 AM
A Dame to Kill For - Frank Miller.
Comics ... oh how I love you.
Comics ... oh how I love you.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 05:25 AM
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke - a very fun read
Huh. I've been wondering whether to pick this up. Might give it a go...
Just finished Rick Cook's 2nd omnibus about magic programmers. Yes, that's right, magic software. Not bad.
