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#5321 Harvester

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Posted 13 August 2010 - 07:09 PM

Abyss, on 13 August 2010 - 06:05 PM, said:

Harvester, on 13 August 2010 - 01:34 PM, said:

R. Scott. Bakker - The Warrior Prophet (What happened to the battle scenes? I liked the Scylvendi vs. Nansur scene in the first book, but now it's just a battle of names, no really, IT'S A BATTLE OF NAMES AND NAMES AND NAMES. It's still a very, very good book, though.)

So true but if you just not care beyond the basics of whose on what side it doesn't matter.

That's what I did after reading the first page of the first battle

. The only thing that felt just right was Saubon's little POV.

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#5322 pat5150

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Posted 14 August 2010 - 02:59 PM

Finally read Dan Simmons' Hyperion and it was the shit!

Check out the blog for the review...

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#5323 Thalraxal

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Posted 16 August 2010 - 03:58 AM

Just started Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn: The Final Empire today. Completely hooked already.

#5324 Ulrik

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Posted 16 August 2010 - 09:17 AM

Finished Ruckley´s Godless World. Dull...average. Two "wow,WTF" moments in whole trilogy is not enough. Too many words for few "action". Zero character developement, author is repeating itself, final conclusion was served in half of second book...yep, Im a little bit disappointed.

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#5325 Abyss

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Posted 16 August 2010 - 01:56 PM

Harvester, on 13 August 2010 - 07:09 PM, said:

Abyss, on 13 August 2010 - 06:05 PM, said:

Harvester, on 13 August 2010 - 01:34 PM, said:

So true but if you just not care beyond the basics of whose on what side it doesn't matter.

That's what I did after reading the first page of the first battle

. The only thing that felt just right was Saubon's little POV.

It's also fun if you replace the 'Names"' with sports players names...

- Abyss, was very impressed when Gretsky took Lemieux's head and banner...

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#5326 QuickTidal

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Posted 16 August 2010 - 11:22 PM

Doing up Jim Butcher's Spiderman novel, THE DARKEST HOURS, and trying to get into THE WARDED MAN by Peter V. Brett as well (Does the name dropping in and around the village get less?...it started to be tedious...)

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#5327 Fist Gamet

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Posted 16 August 2010 - 11:56 PM

The Diamond Age by Stephenson. I think I am liking it

although I find I am skimming certain parts that bore the crap out of me. Hard to know where it is all heading.
I don't have a bathroom book but I do have a work book (for nightshift) which is currently Retribution Falls. Hell this book is a lot of fun. The characters are wonderful, selfish bastards and the story rips along with energy. Don't skim it if you have the pleasure as you will miss the hidden gem which is the surprisingly succinct and colourful descriptive prose.

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#5328 Grief

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Posted 17 August 2010 - 12:03 AM

Started Foucault's Pendulum, and it's great so far. Hoping to finish before I go back to school.

Cougar said:

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

worry said:

Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).

#5329 goldmill

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Posted 17 August 2010 - 02:53 AM

Just finished reading Teckla by Brust. Over the first three books, the mood has gotten much more somber. I will say his writing is getting much tighter as well.

Decided to take a break and read Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell. Only 10 pages in and I can tell this book is going to be a chore. Very weird writing style.

#5330 MTS

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Posted 17 August 2010 - 04:22 AM

Started Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveller. I've never read a novel that uses the second person, and I must say the alternating between first and second person is a great touch, and it's certainly a unique reading experience so far. Very meta-fictional.

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Posted 17 August 2010 - 07:30 AM

Finished jasper Kent's Twelve and while it started off brilliantly, it kind of fizzled out a 3rd of the way though. If it was a 100 pages shorter it would have been perfect.

Re-reading The First Law trilogy and then Neal Asher's Shadow of the Scorpion while waiting for my copy of Justin Cronin's The Passage to get in at the library.

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#5332 Puck

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Posted 17 August 2010 - 09:58 AM

Finished Bleak Seasons yesterday. Is it just me or is Bleak Seasons essentially Dreams of Steel, but from Murgen's point of view? Maybe my memory of Dreams of Steel is too fuzzy.. It's just that nothing really new happened.. Which doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. I tore through Bleaks Seasons

Anyway, off to She is the Darkness

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#5333 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 17 August 2010 - 02:35 PM

Puck, on 17 August 2010 - 09:58 AM, said:

Is it just me or is Bleak Seasons essentially Dreams of Steel, but from Murgen's point of view?

Nope, that's about right.

"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?"
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Posted 17 August 2010 - 06:53 PM

Finished HoC today.

I remember thinking the end of Cryptonomicon was odd but I still enjoyed it.

The other day I was in the bookstore and I came across an odd, thin book in the SF/F section. It was Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited. I was immediately struck by the cover (I'm a sucker for aesthetics), so I thumbed through it and read a page or two. Sufficiently intrigued, and with The Road being my only other McCarthy experience, I figured it could possibly have otherworldly elements that would place it in this genre. I sat down today and read the entire thing (it is a short play involving two characters). It does not belong in the sci-fi section, and I can only guess what turn of fate left it there for me to find, but I just wept at the end, and I loved it.

If I were to read more McCarthy, where would I start?

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Posted 17 August 2010 - 08:57 PM

Just finished the Last Argument of Kings and am now reading Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. I've already finished The Phoenix in the Sword, The Scarlet Citadel, and The Tower of the Elephant. Next up, Black Colossus.

I just got a Nook for my birthday and I've already side loaded most of Howard's stories (Kull, Conan, and Bran Mac Mor) plus a bunch of other classics.

If I get tired of the ereader I have Arturo Perez-Reverte's The King's Gold (book 4 of his Alatriste series).

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#5336 Knight of Darkness

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Posted 17 August 2010 - 09:14 PM

Reading "Mordant's Need" by Stephen Donaldson. While it's quite enjoyable and I'm getting into it, I feel like smacking Terisa with something hard at times

'None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering -all wondering- at my secret wellspring of wisdom...'
'Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.'

#5337 worry

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Posted 17 August 2010 - 10:30 PM

That's what I'm reading right now too...almost done with the first half of Mirror. And I'm pretty much in the same boat, minus the violent fantasies. But it's still strangely compelling, despite trying the reader's patience quite a bit. I've never read him before, but his reputation precedes him so I'm gonna have faith that she snaps out of it some time and the mysteries (which are pretty cool so far) pay off.

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#5338 QuickTidal

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Posted 18 August 2010 - 02:37 AM

The Black Prism - Brent Weeks

hehe...Indigo at Bay & Bloor had 20 copies sitting on the shelf a week early!! Woot!

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#5339 Knight of Darkness

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Posted 18 August 2010 - 08:21 AM

worrywort, on 17 August 2010 - 10:30 PM, said:

While it picks up after the 300 pages, before that she doesn't really do anything except whine about whether she's real or not.

#5340 Ulrik

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Posted 18 August 2010 - 08:28 AM

Now The Good, the Bad and the Uncanny by Simon R. Green. So far classic John Taylor = good

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