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#6821 Fist Gamet

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Posted 02 July 2011 - 10:15 PM

Ah, the magnificent Lonesome Dove...me, I just finished the terrific American Gods (which could've been twice as long, imho) and have started Surface Detail by Banks.

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#6822 Serenity

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Posted 04 July 2011 - 11:02 AM

I just finished American Gods. I thought it started really well but I started to get a bit fed up with it at around the halfway mark. It was a bit too long and strangely unfulfilling - like wanting a juicy fillet steak with all the trimmings but ending up with a Big Mac and regular (not even large) fries.

Now re-reading A Feast for Crows.

#6823 MWKarsa

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Posted 04 July 2011 - 03:01 PM

Just finished Summer Knight by Butcher and just like the first books in this series I throughly enjoyed it. Great fast and fun read. Now I need to decide which book to pick up next. Decisions, decisions...

#6824 QuickTidal

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Posted 04 July 2011 - 06:10 PM

MWKarsa, on 04 July 2011 - 03:01 PM, said:

I'm in this boat too...I've recently finished BLOOD OATH and now I don't know what to read between now and next Tuesday when ADWD comes out. Sigh.

I wish it was like When CHANGES was out 2 weeks early for GHOST STORY, I could do with a good Dresden fix right now.

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#6825 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 05 July 2011 - 09:09 AM

While on cruise i found both Storm Front and Fool Moon in the ship's library and wow! I can understand why people here call it desdencrack. I'm really itching to read the others now! I found them both fast-paced,gripping,amusing novels with perhaps Storm Front as the best one overall. Best supporting character: Bob,hands down. And yes I know the series is supposed to truly kick off by book 3-4.

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#6826 QuickTidal

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Posted 05 July 2011 - 01:50 PM

Well, I needed something to occupy me till next weeks ADWD release, so I picked up DRAGON WING by Weis and Hickman but couldn't get into it yet...

...also picked up my very first Brust Vlad Taltos book DRAGON (which I realize is mid-series but they never have the first book) which I am reading now and enjoying. I think my only issue so far is that I think Brust uses the word "said" too much....other than that I am enjoying it...but I do feel kind of lost as to what the houses are and why there's a castle flowing in the air ect....

but I read Erikson so I have no problem with feeling lost. I'll figure it out.

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#6827 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 05 July 2011 - 02:31 PM

QuickTidal, on 05 July 2011 - 01:50 PM, said:

...also picked up my very first Brust Vlad Taltos book DRAGON (which I realize is mid-series but they never have the first book) which I am reading now and enjoying. I think my only issue so far is that I think Brust uses the word "said" too much....other than that I am enjoying it...but I do feel kind of lost as to what the houses are and why there's a castle flowing in the air ect....

Taltos rocks. But you won't get any explanations for stuff like that unless you read the earlier books. The origins of Castle Black are also not found in the Taltos novels, but in the Khaavren romances, specifically _The Lord of Castle Black_. You also get a much better idea of how the Dragaeran Houses work.

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#6828 QuickTidal

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Posted 05 July 2011 - 02:35 PM

UseOfWeapons, on 05 July 2011 - 02:31 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 05 July 2011 - 01:50 PM, said:

Ah thanks for the info. I found a collection of the first 3 books in the series is at the bookstore down the road so I think I'll pick it up as I am quite enjoying DRAGON so far.

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Posted 05 July 2011 - 02:59 PM

QuickTidal, on 05 July 2011 - 02:35 PM, said:

Ah thanks for the info. I found a collection of the first 3 books in the series is at the bookstore down the road so I think I'll pick it up as I am quite enjoying DRAGON so far.

Just be warned that if you pick up the Khaavren books on the strength of the Taltos books, they're written in _very_ different styles. The Khaavren novels are pastiches of the high-court style of Dumas in _The Three Musketeers_ and _20 Years After_, and in fact the titles are deliberate homages also (_The Phoenix Guards_ and _Five Hundred Years After_ being the most obvious). I love them both, but the transition can be more than a bit jarring.

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#6830 MWKarsa

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Posted 06 July 2011 - 12:45 AM

Decided to go back to SW with Vortex and so far pretty good. It's helping to address some of the crap I thought was terrible in the last installment of this series- hopefully it finishes well as I'm about 100 pages into it.

#6831 QuickTidal

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Posted 06 July 2011 - 12:29 PM

Back into my re-read of GOTM, just reached the Phoenix Inn/Baruk n Rake convo bit. Man this book is like a completely different animal on a re-read. I can't get over how much, and what an incredible experience it is to know what is going on ect. Loving the begiining of my re-read...if you couldn't tell. This should sufficiently take me up until next Tuesday when some book or another is coming out... :no

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#6832 T77

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Posted 06 July 2011 - 02:54 PM

Finished She is the Darkness by Glen Cook, the 8th novel in his Black Company series. It was awesome! Few are better than Cook IMO. He just nails it all - interesting and unpredictable plot without being overly complex - great and compelling characters - and always just the right length. On to the next book in the series Water Sleeps.

#6833 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 06 July 2011 - 04:02 PM

Finished The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington. An okay book,nothing exceptional. The ending was a big letdown.

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#6834 Cyphon

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Posted 06 July 2011 - 07:54 PM

The Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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#6835 pat5150

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Posted 06 July 2011 - 10:56 PM

Just finished Mark Lawrence's dark, fun, and entertaining Prince of Thorns. I think he could be the next Joe Abercrombie...

Check out the blog for the full review.

Patrick

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#6836 King Bear

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 06:47 AM

I'm up to the fifth book of Monarchies of God. By almost all accounts (the author's included) it is disappointing, so I'm not looking forward to it even though I've enjoyed the series so far - some of it is just fantastic. I have the revised edition, so at least I'll be reading the least disappointing version.

After that, I think I'll read Neverwhere, for something a bit different.

#6837 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 03:52 PM

Picking through Gene Wolfe's Strange Travelers collection. So far I really liked "Bluesberry Jam" (about a traffic jam that's been going on for so long that children have been born and grown up there, with the stream of immobilized vehicles turned into a kind of community) as well as "Counting Cats in Zanzibar".

"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

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Posted 08 July 2011 - 12:10 AM

Just finished ~~Dead Beat~~ Grave Peril (long long day) and I finished my reread of a clash of kings earlier this week. Been trying to read Evil for Evil by K J Parker, but I need a particular mindset for her writing. Oh well, I guess it's onward to Summer Knight....

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#6839 End of Disc One

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Posted 08 July 2011 - 12:53 AM

silvenquesti, on 08 July 2011 - 12:10 AM, said:

Just finished Dead Beat and I finished my reread of a clash of kings earlier this week. Been trying to read Evil for Evil by K J Parker, but I need a particular mindset for her writing. Oh well, I guess it's onward to Summer Knight....

You read Dead Beat before Summer Knight? Why?