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#4861 QuickTidal

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Posted 20 March 2010 - 05:29 PM

Eff it. I am gonna order Chasm City, and the RS trilogy from BookDepository.co.uk....it's worth it methinks.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon

#4862 Baudinsballs

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Posted 21 March 2010 - 12:32 AM

On with Toll of the Hounds. When thats finished and I wait for the DOD paperback I can move on to the books I got for Christmas. Rats and Ruling seas Full Circle and Lamentation and Canticale.
I'll be glad when I'm done with the Malazan series. I've been reading it since july09

#4863 Morgoth

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Posted 21 March 2010 - 12:57 AM

Baudinsballs, on 21 March 2010 - 12:32 AM, said:

.. ahem

Take good care to keep relations civil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil

#4864 Ain't_It_Just_

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Posted 22 March 2010 - 10:28 AM

Just finished Perdido Street Station.

Spoiler

Suck it Errant!

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of gum."

QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

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#4865 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 22 March 2010 - 02:17 PM

Finished _The Long Price_ quartet (Daniel Abraham) last night, Perfect, perfect ending. What a great series.

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

#4866 Puck

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Posted 24 March 2010 - 11:48 AM

Finished Hearts in Atlantis yesterday. I really liked the second novella, but the first was quite cool, too :wacko:

Next up is Wolves of the Calla.

Puck was not birthed, she was cleaved from a lava flow and shaped by a fierce god's hands. - [worry]
Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]

#4867 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 24 March 2010 - 11:58 AM

Reading Andrzej Sapkowski's _Blood of Elves_ currently. Started off a bit YA, but that may have been the translation (which is a bit ropey occasionally). Interesting though.

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

#4868 pat5150

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Posted 24 March 2010 - 03:16 PM

Just finished Warriors edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, and it was pretty damn good. All killer and no filler in this anthology. :wacko:

Check out the full review on the blog.

Cheers,

Patrick

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#4869 QuickTidal

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Posted 25 March 2010 - 02:14 AM

Just finished the brilliant GALACTIC NORTH and DIAMOND DOGS, TURQUOISE DAYS by Alastair Reynolds. Both amazing. I've got CHASM CITY and the RS trilogy on their way to me from the States where my gf found them for me!

Anyways, in the meanwhile I am going to finish the Templar trilogy with the final volume THE FALL OF THE TEMPLARS (known in the UK by the better title REQUIEM) by Robyn Young. Enjoyed the first book ALOT...enjoyed the second one but not as much. Hoping for a strong finish!

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon

#4870 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 25 March 2010 - 02:23 AM

Currently reading Perdido Street Station, after having finished Canticle, by Ken Scholes. Canticle was okay, didn't like it was much as Lamentation, though.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#4871 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 25 March 2010 - 03:56 PM

Almost a third of the way through Dust of Dreams now. Man, this is so sweet.

"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

#4872 MTS

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Posted 25 March 2010 - 05:20 PM

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. It's pretty awesome. Staggering amounts of detail too.

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.

#4873 Avatar

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Posted 25 March 2010 - 08:37 PM

I'm going to start with the New Sun of Gene Wolfe right now! Looking forward to this one (thanks to some huge fans on this forum).

#4874 alestar

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 02:46 PM

Just started "Toll of the Hounds" by some guy named Erikson...

#4875 Illuyankas

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 03:15 PM

I bought the third of Neal Asher's Cormac series, bringing my total up to three out of five of them, as well as Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space, before 'acquiring' the complete works of Neal Asher and burning through them. I finished the last two Cormac novels (ok, I'll read Shadow of the Scorpion later) and The Skinner in one day each, and I'm partway through The Voyage of the Sable Keech. I'll probably finish that, Orbus, and the Cormac prequel before finishing off Revelation Space.

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.

#4876 murphy72

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 03:32 PM

Doing a reread of John Scalzi's Old Man's War. I'm liking it better on this second read through. Posted Image

#4877 Grief

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 06:05 PM

Working my way through the first black company omnibus.
Finished the black company, and will be starting shadows linger tonight or tommorow.

Enjoyinh it so far.

Cougar said:

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

worry said:

Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).

#4878 murphy72

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 04:46 AM

Finished my reread of Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades and now on to his The Last Colony for a first read through.

#4879 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 10:18 AM

Finished Charlie Stross's latest (and final, apparently) entry in his _Merchant Princes_ series, _The Trade of Queens_. Man, I love this series.

Currently embarked on Michelle West's _Cast in Courtlight_. Sapkowski is on hold, just not feeling it with _Blood of Elves_

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

#4880 kcf

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 10:35 PM

I finished up The Midnight Mayor by Kate Griffin last week. It's good - I love her version of urban fantasy and her vision of London. It's a bit repetitive, but overall a better novel than A Madness of Angels. (full review)

I also finished up Soulless by Gail Carriger - review coming soon.

Now I'm reading King Maker by Maurice Broaddus - an interesting novel.

Neth Space