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#3241 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 03:22 PM

Started Shadow Games (Fourth Chronicle of the Black Company) last night. No knock against The Silver Spike (which I enjoyed) but man is it refreshing having Croaker as narrator again.

"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

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 03:58 PM

I am now firmly in the midst of the Prince of Nothing trilogy by R. Scott Bakker.

Minor quibble: for a work that so heavily emphasizes philosophy, I find the lack of quotables in the first novel slightly disturbing. Dune had at least 10 awesome lines. The Warrior Prophet looks like it's doing a better job of that.

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#3243 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 11 October 2008 - 04:42 PM

I'm now 100 pages into Brisingr

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#3244 casrot

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Posted 12 October 2008 - 04:02 AM

Just finished All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. Bloody brilliant author.

Currently testing out three books:

The Shotgun Rule - Charlie Huston
King Suckerman - George Pelecanos
Children of the Night - Dan Simmons

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Posted 12 October 2008 - 06:29 AM

casrot, on Oct 12 2008, 12:02 AM, said:

Why not finish McCarthy's Border Trilogy? You're leaving The Crossing (by far my favorite of the three) and Cities on the Plain on the board here.

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 12:32 AM

Briar King, on Oct 12 2008, 05:21 PM, said:

I have Blood Meridian by McCarthy but have never read it yet. Is it any good?

Oh good lord.

Blood Meridian is probably the finest novel released in the last 50 years. I've bought four copies because I'll give a copy to a friend to read and never get 'em back.

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 01:03 AM

hmm
on the bus back from Uni, I finally got a chance to do some reading for pleasure, and not for classes
so now I'm halfway through "Broken Angels" by Richard Morgan. Loving it so far.

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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 13 October 2008 - 01:43 AM

I bought a nice 60-year-old copy Joyce's The Dubliners for $3 at a book sale today. I've been reading some of that. Just read "Little Cloud." Joyce is much more palatable in short-story form, if you ask me. I remember a few of these stories from Uni, but I've never read the whole book before. It's quite good (duh!).

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 01:13 PM

I got Terry Brooks' 'High Druid of Shannara' trilogy out of the library. Meh. I like Shannara, and I like how he's tied the Word and the Void world to Shannara, but this is too young for me now. I'll still finish it though... :/

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 01:45 PM

The Gap Series by Stephen Donaldson. I'm currently on the first book of the new print releases.

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 01:57 PM

I've just finished reading Brandon Sanderson's 'Mistborn'. I loved the ideas, the characters and the very cool fight scenes using Allomancy (magic through ingesting certain metals) but it was a real shame that the rest of the book felt like it really dragged in between these points. There was plenty there to persuade me to give the next book a go though. My full review is over Here.
I'm now reading Neal Asher's 'Prador Moon', not only is it a nice short 'commuter read' but it also features giant carniverous space crabs! You can't beat giant carniverous space crabs...

#3252 DarkGothicGirl

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 05:11 PM

Rereading Unquiet Dreams by Mark del Franco.

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 06:25 AM

finally got around to reading Reaper's Gale (which is why i'm back for a bit)

and now i'm going to start Catch 22

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 01:57 PM

Now reading 'The Last Argument of Kings'.

Also got Peter F Hamilton's 'The Temporal Void' waiting for me after that. Then 'Straken', the third book in the Brooks series above.

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 02:18 PM

I've just finished reading Neal Asher's 'Prador Moon', the tale of the beginning of the human Polity's war against the Prador, a race of giant carnivorous space crabs! I'm going to say that again because it just sounds so cool...

Giant carnivorous space crabs!

'Prador Moon' is a quick and fun read that's full of action and things blowing up (mostly giant sentient crabs that have had explosives stuck to their backs...). There's plenty going on but this does come at the expense of the human characters having a chance to fully develop. My full review is over Here.
I'm done with giant carnivorous space crabs for the moment, now it's onto zombies with Jonathan Maberry's 'Patient Zero'...

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 02:59 PM

rlfcl, on Oct 14 2008, 07:25 AM, said:

and now i'm going to start Catch 22

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 05:41 PM

I finished up Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover last week and finally got a review up. It's a very good book and lives up to the hype that's built over the years.

I'm now reading Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan.

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#3258 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 05:50 PM

Started reading the first part of A Storm of Swords(in Italy it has been divided in3 books)

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 10:05 PM

Just finished Revolvo by SE. I will need a reread, I think because the number of names in the novella is quite large for 91 pages. But I liked it a lot, it was funny, absurd and very entertaining.

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