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#6321 Abyss

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Posted 21 March 2011 - 02:06 PM

QuickTidal, on 19 March 2011 - 04:24 PM, said:

The malazan shaped hole in me after finishing TCG leaves me wondering what can I read next...
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Grace, on 19 March 2011 - 05:39 PM, said:

Same here... After TCG I don't feel like reading anything else,...

heh. i'm totally experiencing this. i've got a tonne of good stuff in the TRP, and instead i keep rereading random bits of TCG.

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Posted 21 March 2011 - 02:45 PM

Abyss, on 21 March 2011 - 02:06 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 19 March 2011 - 04:24 PM, said:

The malazan shaped hole in me after finishing TCG leaves me wondering what can I read next...
...

Grace, on 19 March 2011 - 05:39 PM, said:

Same here... After TCG I don't feel like reading anything else,...

heh. i'm totally experiencing this. i've got a tonne of good stuff in the TRP, and instead i keep rereading random bits of TCG.

I know you have THE HEROES kicking around...doesn't work...I tried that one as a followup...no one in that is heroic enough.

I'd suggest WMF but I seem to recall you having issues with NOTW...

...How about Alera?

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#6323 Abyss

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Posted 21 March 2011 - 04:14 PM

QuickTidal, on 21 March 2011 - 02:45 PM, said:

Abyss, on 21 March 2011 - 02:06 PM, said:

...heh. i'm totally experiencing this. i've got a tonne of good stuff in the TRP, and instead i keep rereading random bits of TCG.

Based on how much i enjoyed BEST SERVED COLD i'm likely going with HEROES next, then probably CODEX.

- Abyss, has so much good stuff in the TRP just now it's almost paralyzing...

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Posted 22 March 2011 - 10:37 AM

Dragons of Noor, very reminiscent of Avatar actually, and Jane Eyre. I don't care what anyone says, I don't believe for a second that ten-year-olds spoke and thought like that, even in that day and age...

Things and stuffs...and other important objects.

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Posted 23 March 2011 - 01:29 PM

WISE MAN'S FEAR (which is pretty awesome so far I must say) and I took time out yesterday while I was sick to read LEX TRENT FIGHTING WITH FIRE by Alex Bell (which was a pretty fun little romp)

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#6326 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 23 March 2011 - 03:32 PM

I'm reading C. J. Sansom's Dissolution, which I got from Amanda Rutter for World Book Night. It's about a lawyer in the 1500s solving a murder at a monastary. Good stuff so far.

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Posted 23 March 2011 - 09:36 PM

It's an excellent series, by all accounts. And probably the best book they gave away - at least in the top three :rolleyes:

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Posted 24 March 2011 - 09:34 PM

GGK's Under Heaven is my post-TCG book. In many ways, it could hardly be more different. In all the ways that matter (to me), it is every bit as good. I figured I had to move on from TCG with a top-notch writer and a beautifully writtne book. Looks like I made the right choice.

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Posted 25 March 2011 - 11:54 AM

Finished: Great Expectations. Really wasn't expecting how it turned out (and apparently Dickens revised his original ending, which was even bleaker, on the advice of a certain Edward Bulwer-Lytton (he of 'It was a dark and storm night...' fame))
Finished: The City And The City. This and Kraken in one year? Hats off to Mieville

So, now I've only got Infinite Jest to finish of the novels currently in train, and I can then start Weber's Off Armageddon Reef

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 02:21 AM

I too am getting over the post-TCG slump with a GGK book, Tigana. About 100 pages in and it is excellent so far! Next up are Crime and Punishment and Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. Time to actually read some classics...

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 05:42 AM

Finally mustered the interest in something else post TCG... reading GRRM and co's WARRIORS anthology. Only most of the way thru MYSTERY KNIGHT but it reminds me of why i like GRRM's work.

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 02:15 PM

Same, finally got the gumption to jump back to some good stuff after a fantasy time out with Lonesome Dove.

Started Wise Mans Fear last night. Only about a 1/3 of the way through, but digging alot it so far.

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 03:58 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 23 March 2011 - 03:32 PM, said:

I'm reading C. J. Sansom's Dissolution, which I got from Amanda Rutter for World Book Night. It's about a lawyer in the 1500s solving a murder at a monastary. Good stuff so far.

It is an excellent series. You might try Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall next to get another look at Cromwell.

I'm now reading Kings of the North by Elizabeth Moon.

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 05:12 PM

Slow Ben, on 26 March 2011 - 02:15 PM, said:

That was my post-TCG pick too...am nearly halfway. A VERY good read!

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 06:59 PM

Slow Ben, on 26 March 2011 - 02:15 PM, said:

I read Lonesome Dove a couple of years ago, finally getting around to it as I loved the TV series. The book is even better. Awesome.

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Posted 27 March 2011 - 05:12 PM

Fist Gamet, on 26 March 2011 - 06:59 PM, said:

I read Lonesome Dove a couple of years ago, finally getting around to it as I loved the TV series. The book is even better. Awesome.

Read the whole series. McMurtry does a great job with all the books. I loved Comanche Moon and even caught part of the mini-series last night too. Steve Zahn rocks.

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Posted 27 March 2011 - 07:44 PM

Just testing out the "free sample" feature for Kindle eBooks, and read the first bit of Neal Asher's GRIDLINKED (Super cool so far...)...and I think I've found the first book I am going to buy for my trip to Cuba in two weeks...and I think I may get the eBook of THE HOBBIT as well...and I'll probably need a third. Hmmm....

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Posted 27 March 2011 - 09:26 PM

amphibian, on 27 March 2011 - 05:12 PM, said:

Fist Gamet, on 26 March 2011 - 06:59 PM, said:

I read Lonesome Dove a couple of years ago, finally getting around to it as I loved the TV series. The book is even better. Awesome.

Read the whole series. McMurtry does a great job with all the books. I loved Comanche Moon and even caught part of the mini-series last night too. Steve Zahn rocks.

I haven't seen someone recommend the other books in the series; how do they compare? Lonesome Dove is incredible, but I tried to read Streets of Laredo some years ago and couldn't really get into it. The TV miniseries is also amazing; I have a lot of good family memories surrounding Lonesome Dove. I actually just bought the series on Blu-ray as a gift for my grandfather.

I took what I thought would be a short break from The Tempest to reread Dune, but ended up also reading Dune Messiah and Children of Dune for the first time. Not nearly as good as Dune, by comparison, but still worth reading, I think. I'll probably continue through the first six unless I get bored...

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Posted 28 March 2011 - 03:01 AM

Finished Mark Hodder's The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man. While maybe not as good as The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, it was still an entertaining read and I'll be lining up to read the final volume of this trilogy!

Check the blog for the full review.

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Posted 28 March 2011 - 03:13 AM

The original Dune series by Frank Herbert is absolutely amazing. IMO some of the best Sci-fi ever written considering the time he wrote it and how he blended computer-technology, religious, political and gender roles amoung others into his works.

I finished Abyss in the Fate of the Jedi series and quite honestly I've been pretty down on SW books but this one came pretty close to restoring my faith in the books. The too long establishing of Luke's and Ben's relationship as father and son that had been woefully addressed until this series finally is occurring and the scene at the end with the Lake and past people(don't want to print any spoilers) was the most emotional since Chewbacca's and Anakin Solo's deaths. Great stuff.

Finishing up Stonewielder now before The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge.