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Posted 02 November 2008 - 08:55 AM

We'd be very interested to know what you think DGG, let us know when you finish it would be good to have a perspective from somone who has recently read the yeard's work.

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Posted 03 November 2008 - 10:21 AM

Reading both Toll the Hounds and Starship Troopers. Needless to say the first is bloody awesome, and the latter is much, much, much better than the movie.

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Posted 03 November 2008 - 01:30 PM

cauthon, on Nov 3 2008, 11:21 AM, said:

Starship Troopers is much, much, much better than the movie.

I thought it was the other way around :killingme:

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Posted 04 November 2008 - 05:14 PM

I've just finished reading Matthew Stover's 'Caine Black Knife' which completely rocked on all levels. A fast moving story with a central character who is completely without morals but is strangely compelling at the same time. My full review is over Here.
I'm now reading 'The Way of Shadows' by Brent Weeks which is looking pretty cool so far...

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Posted 04 November 2008 - 05:41 PM

I bought and finished Neal Asher's Prador Moon on Saturday. If you liked the other Polity books (which I do), it's more of the same. It's a bit short though - novella length - and I expected there would be more to it than there was.

ps. At one time Neal actually used to pop up on this board (he might just have simply googled himself, of course) every now and again, haven't seen him for a while.

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Posted 04 November 2008 - 08:58 PM

Once more done for now with a History of World Societies...damn the book is unconfortable to read (2,5kg hardcover for the loss...)...

Hoping to get time to go into Blood of Elves at last and perhaps re-read Toll...

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Posted 05 November 2008 - 07:46 PM

Finished today In the Ruins by Kate Elliott (Crown of Stars series book 6)

Quiet good read. 4 out of 5. Would be 5/5 if not for repetitive

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His voice was hoarse, but then, he always sounded like that

and religious gibberish.

Started the last volume in the series.

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Posted 05 November 2008 - 08:56 PM

Good to hear. I picked the whole series up last year on Orson Scott Card's recommendation, but I couldn't bring myself to dive into such a massive series. My wife's currently on book 5, and enjoying them I guess.

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Posted 06 November 2008 - 04:46 PM

I've just finished reading Brent Weeks' 'The Way of Shadows', a tale of assassins, magic and intrigue... It's sometimes a little on the light side (for me) but is otherwise a fast paced and very entertaining read. My full review is over Here.
I'm now well into Stephen Deas' 'The Adamantine Palace' which is very good indeed!

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Posted 07 November 2008 - 10:51 AM

I've just finished Neal Asher's The Gabble and other stories, a collection of short stories from his Polity universe. Out of the ten stories there were two I wasn't quite convinced with, perhaps just because they were too slow moving, but the rest of them more than made up for it. It's definitely one of the better author specific collections I've read, although possibly not the best of jumping on points due to spoilers for some other books. Highly recommended for anyone that's read his stuff before though

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Posted 07 November 2008 - 05:49 PM

Finished A Storm of Swords. Best book I've read after Memories of Ice. I'll also add that Oberyn Martell is a complete idiot.
Also finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Loved the part were Wednesday talks about his favourite tricks to Shadow.

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Posted 11 November 2008 - 04:33 PM

Over the last couple of days I've finished reading Stephen Deas' 'The Adamantine Palace' (great plot and very entertaining, a little sketchy on the background detail though...) and John Scalzi's 'Zoe's Tale (Scalzi doing what he does best but a book that suffers from basically being a re-telling of events from 'The Last Colony...) Full reviews are up on the blog...
I'm finishing off Keith Baker's 'The Queen of Stone' and I'm now starting on an ARC of R. Scott Bakker's 'The Judging Eye' which is proving to be awesome so far...

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Posted 11 November 2008 - 06:52 PM

Deornoth, on Nov 11 2008, 04:33 PM, said:

Arse. My copy hasn't shown up yet. I'm hoping it's not some problem I'm having with the post, as Pan Macmillan had to send The Temporal Void three times before I finally got a copy. Hopefully The Judging Eye is just running late.

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Posted 11 November 2008 - 11:28 PM

Now reading Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind.

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 03:03 AM

Just finished the 4th of Neal Asher's Polity books featuring Ian Cormac. It was called POLITY AGENT, and while really enjoyable, it felt more like a filler in a series than the others did. BRASS MAN seemed much more like a standalone despite clearly being part of the the series. I was hoping to get the next in the series, LINE WAR but some inconsiderate person got it out from the library ahead of me!

However, I finally got my hands on a copy of RETURN OF THE CRIMSON GUARD and I'm flying through it.

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 10:25 AM

DarkGothicGirl, on Nov 11 2008, 11:28 PM, said:

Now reading Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind.

What do you think about it?

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 11:55 AM

I recently finished Chaos Space by Marianne de Pierres (the sequel to Dark Space). It's a great novel that expands on Dark Space in almost every way (and Dark Space wasn't bad). As a series I think this is looking to be one of the better Space Operas I've read in a while with plenty of characters and intrigue that just keeps the pages turning. Highly recommended.

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 04:10 PM

I've just finished reading Keith Baker's 'The Queen of Stone', D&D meets James Bond...
Normally a book will inspire some kind of reaction (good or bad) but 'The Queen of Stone' left me completely cold. The very definition of meh'...
There was no sense of... well... anything to the plot. Characters just got on with what they had to do and came ready equipped with the ideal spell for every situation. Fans will like it but it did nothing for me... My full review is over Here.
I'm now well into 'The Judging Eye' and might pick up something short to read on the train...

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 04:52 PM

Am getting into _1610: A Sundial in a Grave_ by Mary Gentle, after a slow start. Much more historical than fantasy, at the moment, but that's no bad thing in itself.

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