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#3401 Blend

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Posted 09 December 2008 - 05:22 PM

Just finished Return of the Crimson Guard, moving on to Lord of Chaos, which is like book five or six of the WoT series. I find that I have to read WoT books alternately with other books. One WoT book, one other book, one WoT book, one other book.

I did Fires of Heaven before RotCG, and TtH before that, and the previous WoT book (Dark Lord Rising?) before that, and the second Soldier Son book by Robin Hobb before that.... and then the previous WoT book... etc.

Anyway, they're not great, but still fun and fairly easy to read. Gosh I'm sick of Nynaeve though!

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Posted 09 December 2008 - 05:23 PM

stone monkey, on Dec 9 2008, 02:51 PM, said:

the classic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sorry for hte double-post, but I just had to say....

EVIL!!!! PURE UNADULTERATED EVIL!!!!!!!!

I effing hated that crap when I had to read it. Ever try to read Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Mallory? That's a tough read.

#3403 Grief

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Posted 09 December 2008 - 05:24 PM

Dont worry about WoT.
The female character starts to improve after a few books.

Wait, what?!

Its one of the most common complaints about WoT. That there is one female character, that is the same, and gets fairly dull. Dont mind the books generally though.

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Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful

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#3404 Kazaman

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Posted 09 December 2008 - 11:41 PM

Kazaman, on Dec 5 2008, 09:06 PM, said:

Im reading The Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb, and am on book two, Mad Ship.

Book three now, Ship of Destiny.

I foud that the climax in Mad Ship was very very well done and exciting, and I can't wait for the climax in Ship of Destiny

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 02:31 PM

Just finished reading Brisingr by Christopher Paolini and I am now reading Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk.

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 03:40 PM

Just finished Kristin Cashore' Graceling.

Accessible and entertaining, but YA through and through...

Check the blog for the full review.

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 04:03 PM

I've finished reading Giles Kristian's debut 'Raven: Bloodeye', the tale of a boy with a mysterious past who falls in with a bunch of Norse marauders...
It's a fun read but I came away feeling like I'd read it all before... My full review is over Here.
I'm now reading Brandon Sanderson's 'The Hero of Ages'.

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 04:42 PM

I'm now 250 pages into The Green Rider by Kristen Britain. I'm starting to get more into it now, it's pretty good. No Lord of The Rings or Silmarillion by any means but still a decent fantasy story.

"Ignoring him, she stepped back out of the ellipse and began singing in the Woman's Language, which was, of course, unintelligible to Iskaral's ears. Just as the Man's Language-which Mongora called gibberish-was beyond her ability to understand. The reason for that, Iskaral Pust knew, was that the Man's Language was gibberish, designed specifically to confound women."

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Posted 11 December 2008 - 06:02 PM

Finished Scar Night.The first part was ,well,boring;but then it got better and better,so I think I will continue the trilogy.

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#3410 teholbeddict

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Posted 12 December 2008 - 05:12 AM

I've just finished Adrian Tchaikovsky's Empire in Black and Gold, which was fantabulous! Can't wait for book two to come out! I'm now on the first of Glen Cook's Black Company books. I was intrigued after hearing many of you rant and rave about it so I've decided to give it a try. I managed to get all of the series published to date for my Sony e-reader so if I like the first book I should be set for a while as far as reading materials go. I love my reader one of the best purchases I've ever made!

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Posted 12 December 2008 - 06:03 AM

Fist Gamet, on Dec 4 2008, 04:53 PM, said:

Just finished The Ten Thousand (which, though good, would have been better if it were longer, ended up like a kind of poor man's Chain of Dogs) and have now begun Musashi, which I have been meaning to read for forever!

If you really like Musashi, do Sun Tzu next and then these two books in this order: The 33 Strategies of War and Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. Then find a copy of Seth Godin's Free Prize Inside.

The Godin book, despite being about marketing and gaining people's attention, is strongly related to the others.

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Posted 12 December 2008 - 04:42 PM

I'm having trouble getting into 'The Hero of Ages' so I thought I'd take a short break and give 'Fool Moon' (the second book in the 'Dresden Files' series) a go. I found it to be a little bit predictable but still good fun and a book that I stuck with right to the end. My full review is over Here.
And now it's back to 'The Hero of Ages' again...

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Posted 12 December 2008 - 10:29 PM

Thanks, Amphibian, I have read Sun Tzu but I was not aware of the other two, I shall have a look. Cheers!

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Posted 12 December 2008 - 11:16 PM

Well, I finally got my review of The Judging Eye by Bakker written. This is a very good book - better than the previous books and I think more accessible to a wider audience without sacrificing the depth of his previous books.

Now I'm reading The Engine's Child by Holly Phillips. Next up will probably be Escape from Hell! by Hal Duncan.

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Posted 13 December 2008 - 02:28 AM

Reading Bloodring by Faith Hunter.

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 03:26 PM

Woken Furies by Richard Morgan.

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Posted 15 December 2008 - 02:09 PM

_The Books of the South_ omnibus by Glen Cook

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#3418 teholbeddict

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Posted 15 December 2008 - 03:32 PM

I finished off The Black Company by Glen Cook this weekend and really enjoyed it. So thanks to all of you who brought it up in various posts which got me interested. I'm now right on to Shadows Linger, so far so good!

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 11:07 PM

Dawnthief by James Barclay.

I hope this doesn't suck. Gollancz sent me all 7 books in the series at once, so I want to like it enough to get through all of them!

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Posted 17 December 2008 - 03:43 AM

@ Wert:
Is this the "Raven" series?

I heard mixed things about Barclay, but I liked "cry of the Newborn", escept possibly for the very ending, which left me confused.

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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.