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Posted 27 July 2011 - 07:26 PM

Bauchelain the Evil, on 27 July 2011 - 07:23 PM, said:

Finished Preludes and Nocturnes and Doll's House, the first two collected volumes of The Sandman . I have no idea why I didn't start it way before! ...Neil Gaiman is a genius.

Just wait.... what's to come will blow your mind.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:45 AM

Been busy. Finished The Puppet Masters by Heinlein and Shadow Games by Cook. I'm also about halfway through Blood Rites.

This book is amazing, even if a bit insane.
I mean:

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The more Dresdencrack I read, the more I want to start a World of Darkness game based off it. I mean all the pieces are RIGHT THERE.

Now i'm going to finish Blood Rites and jump into Dreams of Steel (though i hope it's better then Shadow Games, had to take three shots at that one...)

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 01:13 PM

Still reading ASOS...one...late night...chapter...at a time.

Finished Summer Knight, and I regret having started it. I was already Dresden-fatigued by Grave Peril and I pushed it too far. So, I didn't really enjoy this one.

Not having anything else in MMPB but Dresden #5-6, I decided to go back to my 80s fantasy roots and read a fantasy classic pretty much everyone but me read: The Elfstones of Shannara. I read Sword of Shannara 1.5 times (started it once, left it unfinished, then years later read it again start to finish) and I thought it was just dumb. So all these years, I have never read another Shannara book. I'm feeling nostalgic all of a sudden and want to go back and see about filling in those gaps in my fantasy lit education.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 01:22 PM

silvenquesti, on 28 July 2011 - 04:45 AM, said:

...jump into Dreams of Steel (though i hope it's better then Shadow Games, had to take three shots at that one...)

Ummm...

McLovin, on 28 July 2011 - 01:13 PM, said:

Bummer, but yah, it is possible to OD on the dresdencrack. Give it a rest and come back. #5 will reboot your addiction.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 01:23 PM

That's disappointing to hear. I thought Grave Peril was the most emotionally draining one I've read so far so I took a break after that one. Summer Knight is one of my favorites.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 01:29 PM

End of Disc One, on 28 July 2011 - 01:23 PM, said:

That's disappointing to hear. I thought Grave Peril was the most emotionally draining one I've read so far so I took a break after that one. Summer Knight is one of my favorites.

I had to read GRAVE PERIL twice (as the first time I only got halfway and stopped....I'd OD'ed)...after reading the first two one after the other by halfway through GP I was spent...the Dresdencrack can totally be OD'ed on...so after that I did never more than 2 books at a time with long breaks in between to let my mind settle...and yeah all the books after I restarted and finished GP were cream to me.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 03:53 PM

Halfway through STOVER's "Heroes Die" and really enjoying it so far. Curious as to how it plays out.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:13 PM

Binder of Demons, on 28 July 2011 - 03:53 PM, said:

Halfway through STOVER's "Heroes Die" and really fucking enjoying it so far. Curious as to how it plays out.

I love the end of that book. It's just totally one of those "did he just DO that?!" endings.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:32 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 28 July 2011 - 04:13 PM, said:

Binder of Demons, on 28 July 2011 - 03:53 PM, said:

Halfway through STOVER's "Heroes Die" and really fucking enjoying it so far. Curious as to how it plays out.

I love the end of that book. It's just totally one of those "did he just FUCKING DO that?!" endings.

Fucking right.

And while it starts slow, imnsho BLADE OF TYSHALLE fucking exceeds it.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:39 PM

Abyss, on 28 July 2011 - 04:32 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 28 July 2011 - 04:13 PM, said:

Binder of Demons, on 28 July 2011 - 03:53 PM, said:

Halfway through STOVER's "Heroes Die" and really fucking enjoying it so far. Curious as to how it plays out.

I love the end of that book. It's just totally one of those "did he just FUCKING DO that?!" endings.

Fucking right.

And while it starts slow, imnsho BLADE OF TYSHALLE fucking exceeds it.

I still gotta read BoT. Soon. Fucking Soon!

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 06:59 PM

Abyss, on 28 July 2011 - 01:22 PM, said:

silvenquesti, on 28 July 2011 - 04:45 AM, said:

...jump into Dreams of Steel (though i hope it's better then Shadow Games, had to take three shots at that one...)

Ummm...

I know I'm close to blasphemy here. I did enjoy Shadow Games by the end, but it took FOREVER to kick off. It's just that after the books of the north this seemed very drawn out.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 07:05 PM

I acknowledge the differing opinions out there, but for me the series took a serious nosedive after SHE IS THE DARKNESS and never recovered.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 09:48 PM

After disappointment with Dance with Dragons, I have (strangely) need of some good military sci-fi. Any ideas? Classics like Starship Troopers or Forever War are read, Im looking for some solid...maybe not with overreach like Heinlein so... just soldiers, guns...fighting... and if it could be without making aliens like human culture stereotypes (Asians, muslims etc).

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:25 PM

Ulrik, on 28 July 2011 - 09:48 PM, said:

I assume you've already read Scalzi?

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Posted 29 July 2011 - 12:06 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 28 July 2011 - 11:25 PM, said:

Ulrik, on 28 July 2011 - 09:48 PM, said:

I assume you've already read Scalzi?

Yup, it was really good

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Posted 29 July 2011 - 02:26 AM

Ulrik, on 28 July 2011 - 09:48 PM, said:

Armor by John Steakley, way awesome military "one man army" Starship Troopers-type stuff that's much deeper than you'd think.

Outpassage by Janet and Chris Morris, very strange, but good military sci-fi about mining, evil corporations and weird aliens spreading a message of peace.

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Posted 29 July 2011 - 07:43 AM

Currently reading Song for Arbonne by GGK, the Family series by Charles Stross (took a break after the second of six to start Song, so far so good), still progressing in Diplomacy by Kissinger, Farlander by Col Buchanan (stuck around page 45 or so) and Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles (good read).

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Posted 29 July 2011 - 08:26 AM

Military sci-fi? I have to nominate David Weber's current series, the Safehold series. Premise: humanity is at war with an immensely powerful, ancient alien civilisation, the Gbaba, who seem to do nothing except go around exterminating nascent space-faring races. Driven to the brink of extinction, man decides on a last gamble -- they'll send a fleet of colonists on a journey of light millenia, and restrict their technological level so that the Gbaba aren't drawn to finish the job by any emissions. Then, with time and knowledge of what they face, they'll build back up to a level where they can meet the threat.

Only, things in the colony don't go exactly to plan, when a megalomaniacal dictator decides that the religious basis for the technological restriction needs a God-figure, and he has the perfect candidate. Skip 800 years or so, and the Church of God Awaiting is firmly established, and technology is at a woefully pre-industrial level, and all knowledge of the Gbaba has been lost.

Or has it?

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Posted 29 July 2011 - 12:37 PM

I finished GHOST STORY by Butcher last night and now I find myself stuck in the same void-sucking hole that I was in after TCG. Nothing is comparing. I picked up no less than 5 books from my TBR pile last night afterwards and couldn't get into ANY of them.

Blerg.

Stupid awesome books making other books not compare. LOL

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Posted 29 July 2011 - 01:19 PM

Abyss, on 28 July 2011 - 07:05 PM, said:

I acknowledge the differing opinions out there, but for me the series took a serious nosedive after SHE IS THE DARKNESS and never recovered.

Definitely. Although the ideas were somewhat interesting, it just wasn't that compelling.

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