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#5401 Tapper

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Posted 07 September 2010 - 02:37 PM

Am currently reading Academ's Fury, and not too disappointed. It is typically Butcher, fast paced, easy readage, quite entertaining, but something in the back of my mind is also screaming how much this reminds me of Eddings, as after 1.5 book of Codex Alera, the world is entirely black and white with good and firmly sorted out, also by character.

And unless he pulls a 180 out of somewhere

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Posted 07 September 2010 - 03:05 PM

Tapper, on 07 September 2010 - 02:37 PM, said:

Yes, but -- isn't that the point? We know Butcher can do shades of grey, he's proved that excellently in Dresden. His purpose in writing the Codex Alera was to write a classic fantasy series, with good and evil clear from the outset.

however: spoilers for later boks -- read at your peril!

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Posted 07 September 2010 - 03:20 PM

Bauchelain the Evil, on 07 September 2010 - 09:00 AM, said:

I also wonder how in the future the story of Romulus and Remus gets mixed with the Jungle Book.

I'm not sure if you've gotten to it yet, but eventually someone tells story which mixes up the Minotaur with the USS Monitor. :veryangry:

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Posted 07 September 2010 - 08:13 PM

Just finished The Well of Ascension, now onto The Hero of Ages!

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Posted 07 September 2010 - 08:28 PM

Thalraxal, on 07 September 2010 - 08:13 PM, said:

Just finished The Well of Ascension

I am 1/5 into it.

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Posted 07 September 2010 - 11:32 PM

Abyss, on 07 September 2010 - 02:32 PM, said:

jitsukerr, on 06 September 2010 - 10:15 AM, said:

...so Water Sleeps is on hold until I find it.

Just finished Rollins' MAP OF BONES (the 2nd Sigma Force book). WAY better than the first one. Rollins keeps the sci-fi to a workable minimum and his characters are less archetypal and more interesting in this novel. I was on the fence after SANDSTORM but i really enjoyed MAP. Solid fun series.

@Quicktidal, iirc, your Rollins reco makes us even for me sending you to Dresden.

*bows* Agreed sir. :veryangry:

Glad you enjoyed it brother! Black Order is good too, though things really break out into awesome by The Judas Strain and The Doomsday Key.

BTW....didn't MAP make you want to learn more about the Seven Ancient Wonders?

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 04:19 AM

Midnight Tides reread, about halfway through. Fun stuff.

I'm amazed that I've resisted the urge to read RotCG. I've had it since I finished DoD, but I'm saving it until I finish RG on my reread.

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 09:05 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 07 September 2010 - 03:20 PM, said:

Bauchelain the Evil, on 07 September 2010 - 09:00 AM, said:

I also wonder how in the future the story of Romulus and Remus gets mixed with the Jungle Book.

I'm not sure if you've gotten to it yet, but eventually someone tells story which mixes up the Minotaur with the USS Monitor. :veryangry:

That was in The Claw of the Conciliator. I had gotten the part of Theseus, what with his father throwing himself in the sea, but not the rest.

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 10:23 AM

Bauchelain the Evil, on 07 September 2010 - 09:00 AM, said:

I also wonder how in the future the story of Romulus and Remus gets mixed with the Jungle Book.

Pretty obvious: Romulus and Remus were raised by wolves, in the legend (or suckled by wolves, at least). The Jungle Book has Mowgli raised by jungle animals. One small step for an anthropomorphic talking bear...

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 02:25 PM

QuickTidal, on 07 September 2010 - 11:32 PM, said:

Abyss, on 07 September 2010 - 02:32 PM, said:

...@Quicktidal, iirc, your Rollins reco makes us even for me sending you to Dresden.

*bows* Agreed sir. :veryangry:

Conveniently, i have all those books in my TRP so it's all good.

And yes, it did. I also thought the various interpretations of the Three Magi/Kings was totally fascinating.

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 07:58 PM

Currently reading Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon, which is far more accessible than a lot of his other stuff. I guess it also puts to bed the rumour that he and JD Salinger were the same person, as he wrote it after Salinger died iirc...

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#5412 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 07:55 AM

Finished Sword and Citadel. Wolfe's superb writing and intriguing ideas made this an interesting read. Sword of the Lictor was rather slow-paced but it didn't bother me that that much and anyway the last chapters made up for it.

Next: The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan.

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 01:56 PM

Bauchelain the Evil, on 09 September 2010 - 07:55 AM, said:

I just finished these too and I thought they were great. I'm about 20% into Urth of the New Sun and it is very good so far. This is on pace to being one of the best Wolfe novels.

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 05:35 PM

Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding, the follow up to Retribution Falls. Same good fun, same crazyness, same problems with the writing. Definitely worth the read :veryangry:

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Posted 10 September 2010 - 11:38 AM

The Steel Remains annoys me, back to the Dresdenmobile!

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Posted 10 September 2010 - 06:18 PM

I finished up The Chamber of Ten by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon a while ago but only just finished up my review (I was pretty uninspired). It is only OK at best - basically a cheap Dan Brown knock-off.

I'm currently reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Posted 13 September 2010 - 08:22 AM

Finished The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan. I really liked it. It was witty and original, the three characters were interesting an well written and the last chapters were simply epic.

Now reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

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Posted 13 September 2010 - 10:42 AM

Reading 1984 for scuhl. Dreary.

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Posted 13 September 2010 - 07:54 PM

Gonna give Gaiman a go for the first time tonight.

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Posted 13 September 2010 - 09:45 PM

Finally finished Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon last night. It was good. It ended kind of abruptly, but I like how everything tied together at the end. And it was enjoyable reading the entire way, even if the plot itself was pretty elusive.