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#2781 Vengeance

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 07:30 PM

I just finished "The name of the Wind". It was a good read...The narrative flowed well and the story moved right along...I would recommend it to others...

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 08:38 PM

Ok Just picked up books 6 and 7 of dresden, year of our war by steph swainston, and Iron Angel from Alan Campbell. Which do I read first. First poster gets to choose.

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 08:42 PM

just picked up a book called the Ninth Circle. don't really think I like it, but will reserve judgement for when I'm finished with it

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 09:33 PM

Obdigore;298143 said:

Ok Just picked up books 6 and 7 of dresden, year of our war by steph swainston, and Iron Angel from Alan Campbell. Which do I read first. First poster gets to choose.

Read Dresden. There can be no question of this.

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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 30 April 2008 - 10:12 PM

In a similar vein as Obdi, my summer break is coming up, I've got a huge reading list, but where to start?

I've narrowed it down to the following:

A Clash of Kings
The Uncrowned King
Ysabel

So then by which should I begin?

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 10:22 PM

have you read "A game of Thrones"?
if so, i'd suggest sticikng with Martn, esp, since book 5is finally due out in the fall...

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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 30 April 2008 - 10:33 PM

Yes I have.

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 10:50 PM

Yeas, A Dance with Dragons should out just in time to distract you from your mid-semester exams. Muwahaha...

Nothing like a 1,000 page book you just HAVE to read to throw off your studying...

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 10:52 PM

@ Slum:
I finished AFFC in one day
after all, at least 10% of the pages are the huge genealogy charts of the appendices....

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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 30 April 2008 - 10:57 PM

Yeesh...that's some fast reading. Are you related to Harriet Klausner, perchance? J/K

I'm just picking...I remember getting behind on schoolwork when I started reading for pleasure, but if you can handle it, more power to you. And knowing GRRM, it probably won't be out till Christmas anyway...

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 11:00 PM

lol, I actually bought it right after my winter exams...
lol, but when ADWD comes out, I'll buy it the first weekend i get and dedicate it to reading 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 30 April 2008 - 11:06 PM

kud13;298222 said:

@ Slum:
after all, at least 10% of the pages are the huge genealogy charts of the appendices....

I think you confused the GRRM novel with the Bible.

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 11:20 PM

DW: Trust me, I did not, lol

A feast for Crows, Hardcover--751 pages
Appendix starts on pg 689
(751-689)/751= 8.2 percent. Still!!

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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 01 May 2008 - 01:29 AM

Unfortunately this semester I have been subjected to reading a crap-load of novels... like 25, and that's just for 2 classes. :

Probably no one has heard of these... lol.

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Posted 01 May 2008 - 05:21 AM

i finished the 2-volume "Sarantine Mosaic" by Kay
It was awesome.
Having read a bunch of kay's work before (Fionavar, Tigana, Song forArbonne), I knew that Kay was good. I did not realize how awesome he was. i was left... awed by these books.
Kay manages to write truly amazing and life-like characters. certain elements present in other books as well REALLY come to the fore in "Sarantine mosaic"--despite everything, all the airs of Imperial Byzantium, with its fate being held by the Emperor and his court, Kay really conveys the story of ordinary citizens--and brings across the point that this is THEIR story. Dumas did something similar to this, but on a much lesser scale in his less-known novel "Ascanio"
KAy not only manages tomake you care about almost every character he ever mentions, he also tells you their story. The multiple Pov, jumping-in-time type narrative really works marvellously to achieve this. And now I finally have an answer to the question raised a while ago on this forum; "Which of the fantasy worlds you've read about you'd like to live in?" Now I can definitely say that Sarantine Empire would be on top of the list.
In short, absolutely awesome books. Highly recommend them. I say "books", because they read as 1, I did not feel a significant disconnection between the two volumes.

Next up-"The lies of Locke Lamora"

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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 01 May 2008 - 01:43 PM

Darkwatch, Lies of Locke Lamora is the next book for the book club.

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Posted 05 May 2008 - 12:03 AM

Finished "The Lies of Locke Lamora"
I can see why so many people appreciated it.
While no epic, it is packed with atmosphere, and Lynch tosses in lots of nice worldbuilding chunks into it.
While it seems a light read, it does become somewhat serious as it goes on, with some major bloodshed, quite comparable to GRRM's finest--both in terms of amount and in terms of the "omfg, that just hit me like a huge pile of trucks loaded with bricks"-type impact it has on the reader.
Having fianlly read this, "Red Seas under Red Skies" is now definetely on my reading list, and comparably high on it.
Now onto "Proven guilty"--the next Dresden files novel...

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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 06 May 2008 - 03:24 PM

Started The blade itself by Joe Abercrombie yesterday.. I'm about fifty pages in and love it so far...

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Posted 06 May 2008 - 09:40 PM

Lostara Yil;298259 said:

Currently reading The Invisible Man by Ellison for one class and just finished Ceremony by Silko for the other class.

Probably no one has heard of these... lol.

Give us some credit!

I'm considering a malazan re-read. Probably wouldn't be finished in time for TtH though, so I might put it off until the summer.

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