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#3101 Dark Wolf

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Posted 30 July 2008 - 01:29 PM

I posted my review of "Indiana Jones Omnibus Volume 1" which I recently finished. It gathers three graphic novels featuring Indiana Jones and I really enjoyed two of them. They are adventures in the true Indiana Jones style.

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#3102 Dr Trouble

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Posted 30 July 2008 - 02:45 PM

GotM is no where near as good as I remembered. I use to rate it best in the series. No way.

It's still thoroughly employable, but Erikson has improved so much over the past Eight years it is hard to see why people rate The Bone Hunters and Reapers Gale as his weakest books.

I hope when he is done with the series he decides to go back and do a re-write.

Kinda how Fiest did with Magician.

#3103 Dark Wolf

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 10:34 AM

I posted my interview with Dorothy Hearst, the author of "Promise of the Wolves" which I finished this month.
It will be vacation time next, so I hope I'll see you soon

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#3104 Deornoth

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 01:42 PM

'The Force Unleashed' turned out to be better than I expected in the end. It still reads very much like a computer game, with its 'beat the boss and get to the next level' approach in the first few chapters, but it's great fun at the same time with pretty much everything that a Star Wars fan (like me) wants from a Star Wars book. My full review is over Here.
I'm keeping it sci-fi, for the time being, with Walter Jon Williams' 'Implied Spaces' up next but I'm also going a little bit retro with the Michael Moorcock novella 'The Jade Man's Eyes'.

#3105 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 02:44 PM

I hadn't even realized TFU was out yet...

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

#3106 Obdigore

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 03:13 PM

The game isn't. I am guessing this is the book telling the story of the game? I dunno. The game itself has the best acronym ever, SW:FU.

Monster Hunter World Iceborne: It's like hunting monsters, but on crack, but the monsters are also on crack.

#3107 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 05:24 PM

Just picked up Reaper's Gale from the library last night. 60 pages in, and it's awesome.

#3108 Vengeance

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 05:32 PM

Right now I am doing another reread of TOH. Then I have "What Happened" and the Monster of Florance on my list.

How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
Hinter - Vengy - DIE. I trusted you you bastard!!!!!!!
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#3109 pat5150

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Posted 01 August 2008 - 12:40 AM

Just finished Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

Ambitious, complex, insightful, hilarious, action-packed -- all in all, one heck of a read!

Check the blog for the full review!

Patrick

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#3110 moridin

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Posted 01 August 2008 - 02:13 AM

Currently rereading Orwell's Animal Farm(one of my alltime favorites), then I will move into 1984(which I have never read).

Might read the Watchmen graphic while I'm at it also.

#3111 Deornoth

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Posted 01 August 2008 - 02:25 PM

Salt-Man Z;362749 said:

I hadn't even realized TFU was out yet...

I think the book is due out in the next couple of weeks (I'll have to double check that)

I've finished reading Michael Moorcock's 'The Jade Man's Eyes', at only seventy four pages long it didn't exactly take long! What looks like a quick and easy 'Sword and Sorcery' tale turns out to be a lot more with an exploration of Elric's complex nature and events that are pivotal to the whole sequence. Definitely one for any Elric fans who haven't already read it in 'The Sailor on the Seas of Fate', my full review is over Here.
I've still got 'Implied Spaces' on the go which should be enough to keep me going through the weekend...

#3112 Illuyankas

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Posted 01 August 2008 - 05:55 PM

Finally went out and added to my Peter F. Hamilton collection with Pandora's Star. Enjoying it so far, at least.

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.

#3113 Ayrin

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Posted 01 August 2008 - 07:54 PM

moridin;363060 said:

Currently rereading Orwell's Animal Farm(one of my alltime favorites), then I will move into 1984(which I have never read).

Might read the Watchmen graphic while I'm at it also.

Do that, and while you're at it, read V for Vendetta too (if you haven't already, that is

). *Very* good comic. In some aspects, I like it even better than the movie

.

And, it must be said... Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

#3114 DarkGothicGirl

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Posted 02 August 2008 - 05:23 PM

I am reading Dragonborn by: Jade Lee.

#3115 frookenhauer

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Posted 02 August 2008 - 05:35 PM

Illuyankas;363393 said:

Finally went out and added to my Peter F. Hamilton collection with Pandora's Star. Enjoying it so far, at least.

Found it to be a pretty darn good yarn

. Interesting how it all pans out

I'm reading Bakkers the darkness that comes before, so far so good...

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#3116 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 02 August 2008 - 05:37 PM

Re-reading Deathouse Gates.
Ever heard of it ?

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#3117 McLovin

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Posted 03 August 2008 - 12:22 PM

The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil.

What? I like wine.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

#3118 thrinidir

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Posted 03 August 2008 - 07:39 PM

A wonderful set of books! (check out Trin's review)

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Posted 04 August 2008 - 09:43 AM

This weekend I read:

Modessit: 'Natural Order-mage'. Excellent, must get the sequel immediately.
Simon R. Green: 'The Unnatural Enquirer'. Latest in the Nightside series, great fun. Dresden fans will love this.
Steven Brust: 'Jhegaala'. Vlad Taltos is awesome. I really didn't understand why this book was called 'Jhegaala' though, as no one of that House features. :-/

Back to 'Origin of Species' now.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
-- Oscar Wilde

#3120 Deornoth

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Posted 04 August 2008 - 02:25 PM

I've got 'Jhegaala' on the 'to be read pile', is it one you can read without having read others in the series?

I've just finished reading Walter Jon Williams' 'Implied Spaces'; a space opera/hard(ish) sci-fi tale of pocket universes, AIs, pod people and zombies! I don't get hard sci-fi stuff at all but 'Implied Spaces' wasn't too hard to follow at all, plenty of entertaining stuff to get into and the intrigue was particularly... er... intriguing...
'Implied Spaces' is a short read though (261 pages) and at times it felt like too much was being crammed into too small a space, there were bits that I definitely thought could do with some expansion. My full review is over Here.
This week is a week for reading fairly short books so I've got Robert Buettner's 'Orphanage' and John Scalzi's 'Old Man's War' on the go.