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Ironically, I just finished 'Last Argument of Kings', and have no idea what to read now...
Reading at t'moment?
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Posted 19 May 2008 - 02:38 PM
"A Clash of Kings" by GRRM.
The character I like the most so far, Hodor.
The character I like the most so far, Hodor.
The Pub is Always Open
Proud supporter of the Wolves of Winter. Glory be to her Majesty, The Lady Snow.
Cursed Summer returns. The Lady Now Sleeps.
The Sexy Thatch Burning Physicist
Τον Πρωτος Αληθη Δεσποτην της Οικιας Αυτος
Proud supporter of the Wolves of Winter. Glory be to her Majesty, The Lady Snow.
Cursed Summer returns. The Lady Now Sleeps.
The Sexy Thatch Burning Physicist
Τον Πρωτος Αληθη Δεσποτην της Οικιας Αυτος
RodeoRanch said:
You're a rock.
A non-touching itself rock.
A non-touching itself rock.
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Posted 19 May 2008 - 03:15 PM
Finally got round to buying and reading Night of Knives! Can't wait to not be scared of seeing thread titles in the ICE forums 
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Posted 19 May 2008 - 03:37 PM
On my way home tonight I shall be buying Incandescence by Greg Egan and therefore expect my brain to explode out of my ears sometime later when I start reading it...
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. … So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. Bertrand Russell
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Posted 19 May 2008 - 04:42 PM
Going to read NoK again this week, to work on the project for Dancer and Brood etc.
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
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Posted 20 May 2008 - 10:51 PM
I've finished with my Dragonlance fix for a while
"On the trail of the Black Wyrm"--volume 2 of the Taladas trilogy
Volume 2 lost some of the epicness of volume 1. There's more action, but the various plot threads carefully interwoven in volume 1 all come together in Volume 2 and the reader follows a group of characters, whereas in volume 1, each character had his/her plotline. IT was a bit of a dissapointment, since it largely failed to build on the unique more "Epic" style of volume 1, being istead a nod to the "traditional". "heroes-quest"-oriented story. I may pick up volule 3 at some point just to see how that story ends
Also I re-read War of the Souls trilogy, finally reading volume 3 for the first time. It remains the most mature Weis & Hickman work, imho, it's rather dark in tone, tries to be epic but gets stuck half-way. Oh, and the kender are important to the story and get lots of pages to them. A fair warning.
Next up, I shall finally go onto my Perumov binge with the entire "Swordskeeper" cycle. Thank god for e-libraries....
"On the trail of the Black Wyrm"--volume 2 of the Taladas trilogy
Volume 2 lost some of the epicness of volume 1. There's more action, but the various plot threads carefully interwoven in volume 1 all come together in Volume 2 and the reader follows a group of characters, whereas in volume 1, each character had his/her plotline. IT was a bit of a dissapointment, since it largely failed to build on the unique more "Epic" style of volume 1, being istead a nod to the "traditional". "heroes-quest"-oriented story. I may pick up volule 3 at some point just to see how that story ends
Also I re-read War of the Souls trilogy, finally reading volume 3 for the first time. It remains the most mature Weis & Hickman work, imho, it's rather dark in tone, tries to be epic but gets stuck half-way. Oh, and the kender are important to the story and get lots of pages to them. A fair warning.
Next up, I shall finally go onto my Perumov binge with the entire "Swordskeeper" cycle. Thank god for e-libraries....
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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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 21 May 2008 - 02:50 AM
Just finished re-reading Michael Scott Rohan's Winter of the World series. Anvil of Ice, Forge in the Forest, Hammer of the Sun, Castle of Winds. It's a nice read, an early civilisation of man between two ice ages pre-recorded history. It's told from the point of view of Elof, a smith of not insignificant power who has a habit of inventing and discovering quite a bit of what would be considered err "modern" knowledge, like the secrets of global navigation and carbon fibers and stuff. Love it to pieces, I try and read this series every few years.
Hmmm nothing new and exciting on my too read list, I might have to drop into the bookshop soon and restock. Nice to hear a new Greg Egan novel is out...he's one of my favourite australian authors, I'll have to pick it up. Permutation City rocked my socks, I love Diaspora and Schilds Ladder. Terranesia was okay I guess, Axiomatic is cool though dated. Disaster was okay, although not as transhumanist as some of his other stuff. I did like the GUT stuff. Quarantine was a cool concept, especially the little gadget they invented...oh and the spy mosquitos.
The only problem with his books I have is the maths can make my head explode at times trying to mentally visualise 6 dimensional objects turning inside out or weird escheresque physics esoterica undergoing lorenz transformations through across membranes and stuff like that. He often puts little java applets up on his homepage to help show what some of the stuff he writes about looks like. props for that, I wish more authors did it.
Hmmm nothing new and exciting on my too read list, I might have to drop into the bookshop soon and restock. Nice to hear a new Greg Egan novel is out...he's one of my favourite australian authors, I'll have to pick it up. Permutation City rocked my socks, I love Diaspora and Schilds Ladder. Terranesia was okay I guess, Axiomatic is cool though dated. Disaster was okay, although not as transhumanist as some of his other stuff. I did like the GUT stuff. Quarantine was a cool concept, especially the little gadget they invented...oh and the spy mosquitos.
The only problem with his books I have is the maths can make my head explode at times trying to mentally visualise 6 dimensional objects turning inside out or weird escheresque physics esoterica undergoing lorenz transformations through across membranes and stuff like that. He often puts little java applets up on his homepage to help show what some of the stuff he writes about looks like. props for that, I wish more authors did it.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 05:52 AM
Tiste Simeon;311599 said:
Going to read NoK again this week, to work on the project for Dancer and Brood etc.
Wait, what?
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 10:24 AM
Just picked up Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, fairly interesting so far.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 12:19 PM
I'm curious what you are reading this month.
I just finished "Through a Glass, Darkly", a horror novel by Bill Hussey. I also posted my review of the book on my blog:
"In my horror reading experience I never read a debut novel of the genre, every time I read authors that had made a name for themselves. When I picked up „Through a Glass, Darkly†I didn’t know what to expect, but I found the debut of Bill Hussey an impressive one."
Next read is a fantasy self-published novel, "The First Mother's Fire", but I'm having difficulties in finishing this one and I'm tempted to give up reading it. I like to finish my reads, but it's a tough job now.
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I just finished "Through a Glass, Darkly", a horror novel by Bill Hussey. I also posted my review of the book on my blog:
"In my horror reading experience I never read a debut novel of the genre, every time I read authors that had made a name for themselves. When I picked up „Through a Glass, Darkly†I didn’t know what to expect, but I found the debut of Bill Hussey an impressive one."
Next read is a fantasy self-published novel, "The First Mother's Fire", but I'm having difficulties in finishing this one and I'm tempted to give up reading it. I like to finish my reads, but it's a tough job now.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 08:53 PM
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I'm reading Reapers Gale. Finally
RG spoiler: L'oric is actually Mommy Dark. BAM! Take that!
Reading 'Furies of Calderon' by Jim Butcher. Have heard its not as good as the Dresden files, but not a bad series either, so am giving it a shot.
Monster Hunter World Iceborne: It's like hunting monsters, but on crack, but the monsters are also on crack.
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 05:07 AM
stone monkey;311446 said:
On my way home tonight I shall be buying Incandescence by Greg Egan and therefore expect my brain to explode out of my ears sometime later when I start reading it...
wait, what? i had no idea that was out yet. I've been looking forward to this for ages.
on topic, i've just started Last argument of kings.
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 05:15 AM
I finished the third Felix Castor book, Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey a little while back, and I'd just like to thank Pat again for sending me three such excellent books
*casting the shaved knuckle*
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 10:26 AM
I am reading Iron Angel the second deepgate codex book. It is excellent so far really enjoying it a step up from the first one and I enjoyed that one to. Also read Cursors Fury the third in the Codex Alera series by Butcher the series is getting better and better still not dresden levels but still a good fun read. I will also recommend Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost an excellent pulpy style book about the british empire in space fighting against the evil ghastian empire. A brilliantly amusing book I highly recommend.
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 01:41 PM
I hate you
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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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 22 May 2008 - 03:31 PM
Im currentl on a reread before TTH comes out an im BH and realised tht this is probably the weakest one of the series. HOC is very good in comparison really.
I aso bought recently ON WAR by Clause Von Clausewitz or sutton. Anyway its that Prussian soldier who wrote about modern tactics after the Napoleonic wars and is a respected strategy guide. Was also only 4 pound in borders so why not
I aso bought recently ON WAR by Clause Von Clausewitz or sutton. Anyway its that Prussian soldier who wrote about modern tactics after the Napoleonic wars and is a respected strategy guide. Was also only 4 pound in borders so why not
