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#7861 Fist Gamet

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 07:08 PM

Abyss, on 09 February 2012 - 06:54 PM, said:

Fist Gamet, on 09 February 2012 - 06:45 PM, said:

...Now I must know! Yet I am not around enough to know what the ded'thread is; please reveal :unsure:

'dedicated thread' in the Otherlit forum - linky but note there are full blown, not blocked, balls out for glory SPOILERS there.
I'd suggest avoiding until you're thru the book.

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 02:27 PM

Reading INSURRECTION by Robyn Young. Story of Robert The Bruce and the Scottish wars of independence. So far it's quite good.

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 09:10 PM

Finished The Warrior Prophet and moving on to The Thousandfold Thought.

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#7864 Mentalist

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 10:52 PM

Finished "Antiphon". The plot really thickens in this one. There are some answers... but also many questions.
THis series is turning out to be something truly amazing.

next up, "the City of Dreams and Nightmare"

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 11 February 2012 - 05:37 PM

Well, I picked up _Cold Magic_ by Kate Elliott again, hoping it would improve. And you know, it kinda did, enough to get me to the end anyway. don't know whether it's enough for me to pick up the sequel, but I might grab it from the library.

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Posted 12 February 2012 - 12:24 AM

Just finished Darth Plagueis by James Luceno and for a Star Wars it wasn't all bad but it took forever to getting moving and had one of the most unintentional ridiculous scenes I've read it quite some time. At the point where Darth Sidious reveals himself for the first time he actually threatens to force-strangle a pet bird(that he had given as a gift no less) as proof of his "powers"- not since Harry's pet parakeet gets his head ripped off in Dumb and Dumber has a bird scene inspired as much sheer terror. Comically horribly written stuff right there.

On to Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card- haven't read anything by Card before and I figure I can breeze through the light fare quickly. Then I'll have to decide whether to finish the last book in the Mistborn trilogy or Orb Sceptre Throne.

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Posted 12 February 2012 - 01:28 AM

MWKarsa, on 12 February 2012 - 12:24 AM, said:

not since Harry's pet parakeet gets his head ripped off in Dumb and Dumber has a bird scene inspired as much sheer terror.

There's an evil chicken would like a word with you.

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Posted 12 February 2012 - 01:06 PM

I finally grabbed DRAGONFLY FALLING (Tchaikovsky) out of the ToRead pile and started it.

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Posted 12 February 2012 - 07:07 PM

QuickTidal, on 12 February 2012 - 01:06 PM, said:

I finally grabbed DRAGONFLY FALLING (Tchaikovsky) out of the ToRead pile and started it.

just remember: it gets better.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 12 February 2012 - 09:23 PM

Mentalist, on 12 February 2012 - 07:07 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 12 February 2012 - 01:06 PM, said:

I finally grabbed DRAGONFLY FALLING (Tchaikovsky) out of the ToRead pile and started it.

just remember: it gets better.

I'm thinking about starting this soon. First one was pretty good

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 03:49 AM

Currently on a chronological order Sharpe reread (got them all on the reader)
always loved the Sharpe books (although the last book, Trafalgar, prey and escape?) were milking the series a bit but still enjoyable enough fare)
Currently on Trafalgar, projecting a book a day maybe a little slower, can't wait to get to rifles, gold and eagle because they rock.
Anyone who hasn't should.
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Posted 13 February 2012 - 08:54 AM

Finished reading "City of Dreams and Nightmare"
I'm sensing a trend, in that a lot of the "New Weird/steampunk-ish" writers tend to make a "the city" their setting: Mieville, Van der Meer, Gilman, Camplbell with Deepgate Book 1....
This isn't a bad thing, btw, just something i've noticed.

in any case, this book was the first in a series "A city of a Hundred Rows". It was a quick-paced, actiony book, in a novel enough setting, with some neat ideas, and some cliche ones, but used in a pretty good way. Not really anything extraordinary, but for a light read, it was really enjoyable, and had some genuinely likeable characters. I'll be looking to pick up the sequels.

next up, I will pick up the second hand of Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet. I read the first half and started this a while ago, but then somehtign came up, and it ended up being discarded.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 08:59 AM

Got started on Bill Bryson's "Down Under". Let the funny commence!

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 12:08 PM

Macros, on 13 February 2012 - 03:49 AM, said:

I can wholeheartedly support this. The Sharpe books are really great reads.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 01:33 PM

Another Sharpe's fan, although I would recommend starting with Rifles.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 01:38 PM

I've got about 40 pages left to read of Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light. The first chapter threw me completely - I didn't think I was going to like the book at all - but the second chapter was all kinds of awesomeness and it's continued in that vein ever since. Hoping the ending will not disappoint!

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 04:49 PM

Man, I have tried to get into no less than six different fiction books in the last few weeks and couldn't make nay of them fly.

So I decided it was probably Non-Fiction book time again. So I started Mitchell Zuckoff's LOST IN SHANGRI-LA which is a story about a WWII plane that goes down in a secluded/seemingly hostile valley in the mountains of New Guinea with various people aboard and how they survive and get home. I started it this morning and I'm already about 50 pages in. It's fascinating!

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 05:15 PM

I bought 'Echo City' the other day, since I'm waiting for House of Chains to arrive, and I needed something to read during my wait (and because SE's comment on the cover caught my eye). I don't know what to think about it so far, about 130 pages in.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 05:20 PM

Finished OST, am selectively re-reading.

Not sure what i'm in the mood for next... Sullivan's Ryria series is standing by in its entirety is tempting but i may go sf or spy first...

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#7880 polishgenius

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 11:31 PM

Abyss, on 13 February 2012 - 05:20 PM, said:

Not sure what i'm in the mood for next... Sullivan's Ryria series is standing by in its entirety is tempting but i may go sf or spy first...

I reckon you should make room at the top of your SF to-read pile for Faith by John Love. A mysterious and invincible alien spaceship starts harassing the human Commonwealth so they send their own highest-tech warship to deal with it, crewed by sociopaths, psychopaths and various other murderers and criminals. At the same time some great space opera action and a complete head-trip - it gets weird. But it's the best SF debut I've read since Altered Carbon.

Also it has a fantastic cover. Manages to merge modern slickness with some proper old-school nostalgia.

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