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Posted 08 August 2011 - 03:04 PM

Solidsnape, on 08 August 2011 - 02:30 PM, said:

Read SW Death Troopers yesterday. Only took me 11 hrs, killed a shift at work nicely. Was half decent and done the trick as I hadn't read anything since finishing TCG.

A long long time ago in galaxy far far away........
Zombies!!!! Haha. Like it!!!

Hear the sequel RED HARVEST is even better.

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Posted 08 August 2011 - 07:48 PM

Finished Borges' Ficciones. Amazing stuff. Anyone who considers themself a fan of Gene Wolfe owes it to themself to check out Borges; Borges was a huge influence on Wolfe, and it shows. My two favorite stories in the book are "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "Death and the Compass", but "The Library of Babel" also blew my mind.

Starting in on Brent Weeks' Night Angel trilogy. I've got the SFBC omnibus hardcover, which is 1400 pages long and 2.75 inches thick, and just looks ridiculous. Not impressed with what I've read so far (holy Hannah, his characters' names are terrible) but it looks to be picking up. (I hope so, anyway.)

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Posted 08 August 2011 - 10:17 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 08 August 2011 - 07:48 PM, said:

Starting in on Brent Weeks' Night Angel trilogy. I've got the SFBC omnibus hardcover, which is 1400 pages long and 2.75 inches thick, and just looks ridiculous. Not impressed with what I've read so far (holy Hannah, his characters' names are terrible) but it looks to be picking up. (I hope so, anyway.)

I didn't care for the first Night Angel book until about 200 pages in, then I couldn't put it down. It does get a lot of criticism for amateurish prose, and I can understand that but it doesn't bother me.

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 12:55 PM

Finished up Carloz Ruiz Zafon's THE MIDNIGHT PALACE last night....not afraid to admit that it made me cry manly tears. Absolutely amazing book, MUCH more polished than THE PRINCE OF MIST, on par with SHADOW OF THE WIND, just on a YA level.

Started back into CANTICLE by Ken Scholes, which I had read a quarter of before and put down to read something I was waiting for. Restarted it though instead of trying to remember where I was in the narrative. Good stuff, I'd forgotten how quickly stuff happens in this one, considering the slow burn that LAMENTATION was. So far still really enjoying this series.

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 01:44 PM

Finished Watership Down over the weekend. Loved the ending.

Started reading The Cardinal's Blades by Pierre Pevel based on some reviews here. Love me the Swashbuckler novels, wish I could find more.

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 02:03 PM

acesn8s, on 09 August 2011 - 01:44 PM, said:

Started reading The Cardinal's Blades by Pierre Pevel based on some reviews here. Love me the Swashbuckler novels, wish I could find more.

Not brain-meltingly awesome or anything, but a lot of fun. You ought to enjoy it. I'll be picking up the sequel myself soon.

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 11:18 PM

Finished Shadowline the first book of the Starfishers trilogy by Glenn Cook and should have paid more attention to the dates on each chapter when I first started reading as there is a ton of backstory and plotlines that weave in and out of the book throughout. Really enjoyed it though and will finish up the trilogy soon but moved on to The Ones Who Hit the Hardest to get my American football fix on before the season starts. Will probably hit Dresden for book 6 and then get back into the second book of the Starfishers' trilogy after that.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 01:04 PM

Briar King, on 10 August 2011 - 06:50 AM, said:

Finished Turn Coat last night and started Changes today and Im already 204pgs in. Excellent shit!

You're going too fast BK.. LOL! Soon you will be caught up and have to wait a whole year between each volume like the rest of us dresdencrack addicts.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 05:57 PM

King Kazma, on 09 August 2011 - 02:03 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 09 August 2011 - 01:44 PM, said:

Started reading The Cardinal's Blades by Pierre Pevel based on some reviews here. Love me the Swashbuckler novels, wish I could find more.

Not brain-meltingly awesome or anything, but a lot of fun. You ought to enjoy it. I'll be picking up the sequel myself soon.

Pevel hooked me with this sentence, "The freebooters entered with a swagger, as thugs everywhere enter a room when they are certain they are danger personified." Can't wait to see what happens next.

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Posted 11 August 2011 - 10:12 AM

Finished Danny Wallace's Yes Man last week after which I started in GRR Martin's A Game of Thrones to do a complete reread before I start in DWD.

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Posted 11 August 2011 - 05:01 PM

160 pages into The Way of Shadows, and it's definitely improved. Not sure I "like" it yet, but I sure can't put it down.

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Posted 12 August 2011 - 12:40 PM

Just finished reading "The last werewolf", and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Posted 12 August 2011 - 12:46 PM

Into the first book of the CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK COMPANY by Glen Cook. So far, really enjoying.

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Posted 12 August 2011 - 09:55 PM

I finished up my review of The Urban Fantasy Anthology edited by Peter S. Beagle and Joe R. Landale. It's good, though it highlights that urban fantasy has an identity crisis more than explaining what urban fantasy is.

I'm now reading The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham.

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Posted 12 August 2011 - 11:29 PM

King Kazma, on 12 August 2011 - 12:46 PM, said:

Into the first book of the CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK COMPANY by Glen Cook. So far, really enjoying.

A re-read?

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Posted 13 August 2011 - 05:10 AM

Gatekeeper, on 12 August 2011 - 11:29 PM, said:

King Kazma, on 12 August 2011 - 12:46 PM, said:

Into the first book of the CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK COMPANY by Glen Cook. So far, really enjoying.

A re-read?

Nope, first timer.

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Posted 14 August 2011 - 04:20 AM

Okay, was about halfway through THE BLACK COMPANY...but I've noticed (and this was something I thought briefly during trying to read SHADOWS LINGER few years ago as well) that Cook's writing is umm....scattered and choppy/abrupt...like short sentences with the narrative skipping around willy nilly...

...is this something that's going to go away in future books? Cause right now it's putting me off. totally.

At any rate, I switched gears and dropped into the first Vlad Taltos book JHEREG by Steven Brust with much better results, having a blast with this one so far.

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Posted 14 August 2011 - 07:04 AM

Currently:

The Way of Kings - Branderson. Seems good so far.
Book 1 of the Long Price - Daniel Abraham. Slow, but interesting. Different.
An Empire Besieged - REF. Not too bad, he's taking things in a different direction, winding things up maybe?
Hounded - Kevin Hearne. Light and fluffy version of Dresden, but fun. The hero is a teensy bit ... Mary Sue-ish ... dare I say? I'll get Hexed though on the strength of this one.

Plus a few others. I need to focus. Although I did read Ghost Story straight through in 2 days while putting everything else on hold. Of course. 'Twas a good addition to the series, I like the introspective nature of it compared to the KABOOM of some others (even though it had it's own KABOOM moments), it was a nice pause for breath. So to speak.

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Posted 14 August 2011 - 09:34 AM

King Kazma, on 14 August 2011 - 04:20 AM, said:

I really liked that aspect of his writing - it made me think of him as fantasy's answer to James Ellroy (and I like Ellroy, so I suppose that's why I like Cook). I've only read the first trilogy, though, so I don't know if it continues beyond that.

I've finished Steven Saylor's Catalina's Riddle and am now reading Dan Simmons' Hyperion.

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Posted 14 August 2011 - 05:09 PM

Finally getting around to reading PANDORA'S STAR by Peter F. Hamilton.

Sad I didn't start it earlier, as so far it's quite impressive.

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