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#8141 QuickTidal

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 01:58 PM

So last night's futile second attempt at GGK's SONG FOR ARBONNE failed...again. LOL,. simply not in the mood for that one.

Thankfully I never got fully into Paul Kearney's THE TEN THOUSAND (when I bought it), which is currently entertaining me immensely. :wine:

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 07:26 PM

I don't know what versions of Black Company you have, but the cover art on the omnibuses is awesome, so that's a reason to keep them. You can use them to hide the Forge of Darkness cover behind them, when that comes out.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 07:47 PM

Tapper, on 26 March 2012 - 01:29 PM, said:

Abyss, on 26 March 2012 - 01:21 PM, said:

... I just don't see any reason to keep them.

nostalgia?

My bookshelves needed a pruning.
Physics + gravity > nostalgia.

worrywort, on 26 March 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

I don't know what versions of Black Company you have...

A few of the early paperbacks and then later versions, none of them in any particularly good shape.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 10:45 PM

Finished up Acacia and found it to be more of a modern narnia then GRRM clone it felt like for a while. Either way the later half certainly beat the first, still Durhams writing is annoying which make me hesitate in reading the next one.

Began a re-read of Lord of Light and it is greatness...

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Posted 27 March 2012 - 02:33 AM

Finished reading "Stormlord's Exile" by Glenda Larke. Thus, finishing off the trilogy.

I've gotta say, I really enjoyed it. It's not super-deep, and the ending's more generic then what i'm used to, but I really, really liked this series. Will definitely check out more works by the author.

Next up, "City of Hope and Dispair", by Ian Whates.

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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 27 March 2012 - 12:14 PM

I finished Death of Kings over the weekend. Uhtred is still "all outta bubblegum".

Moved on to Cook's Garret PI series. Started book 1 last night.

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#8147 QuickTidal

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Posted 27 March 2012 - 01:58 PM

Huh, over 100 pages into THE TEN THOUSAND by Paul Kearney...

- I knew it would be a fantasy retelling of Xenophon's story from classical greece/persia, but I assumed that the fantasy elements would bring something new to the table. So far this book has not really deviated from the story (both the Michael Curtis Ford book of the same name and events which I've read, nor the original text which I tried once to read but found it too ponderous) that I already know so well. In fact it's basically a carbon copy, and without any real surprises. This book should own the characters in this case (since the story is a rehash) but so far they are all still relatively faceless...Rictus, Gasca and Jason even aren't really much more than typical military archetypes...

I dunno, it's good, but it feels a little "been there, seen that" to me.

I read my second Susan Hill Gothic ghost story THE MIST IN THE MIRROR and it was another absolute cracker! Spooky and wonderfully crafted in equal measure.

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Posted 27 March 2012 - 02:30 PM

Just added The Girl Who Played With Fire to my reading list, and in the next few days, House of Chains should join the ranks as well :wine:

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Posted 27 March 2012 - 03:33 PM

I've started The Warlord of Mars (did I mention that already? I'm too lazy to check back) but last night I was itching to read The Bonehunters for the Tor.com reread. It was a day early (Chapter 4 is on Wednesday) but I read the chapter, and then spent next hour flipping around through the book and reading a couple pages at a time from all over (I've read it twice before.) Man, that is a huge book, with so much stuff that happens in it. I randomly flipped to the end of Chapter Whatever, ending with the line,

Spoiler

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Posted 27 March 2012 - 03:51 PM

Planning to start the Endymion omnibus sometime later, hopefully.

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#8151 QuickTidal

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 11:07 AM

STAR WARS FOTJ: APOCALYPSE by Denning finally showed up in-store, so I'm reading that.

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 02:22 PM

since the coCaine should arrive any day now, i'm keep it frivolous and reading MONSTER by Lee Martinez.
not exactly ground-breaking urban fantasy, but it's hard not to give a book a chance when a bunch of yetis (yeties? yetii?) are whacked in the face with a baseball bat in the first chapter.

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#8153 Pig Iron

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 07:17 PM

Abyss, on 19 March 2012 - 02:28 PM, said:

Halfway thru Watts' BEHEMOTH.
If there was a prize for writing ambiguous characters Watts earned it - virtually everyone in the book is at more or less equal turns hero, villain, victim, sympathetic and outright psychopath. Amazing.

Finished BONE - THE COMPLETE STORY. Possibly the Bestest collected comic GN e-v-e-r.

Fuck, pressed neg rep instead of pos on this post (Ipad).. Bone is fantastic. Looked at this thread for inspiration. Just waiting for Caine. Guess Ill just read job stuff while commuting.

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 12:47 AM

Finished The Fires of Heaven over the weekend and started Lord of Chaos...My read of the WoT continues, there are things that are starting to wear on me but overall I'm enjoying it.

Monsignor:...Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.
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Posted 30 March 2012 - 05:57 AM

Finished Crucible of Gold tonight (after being sucked into me3 for the last few days). I'm really glad that I read it. It felt like the series kicked back into gear with this one after Tongues of Serpents being a bit of a letdown (to me at least). Jumping into Heir of Novron to finish up the series now. Really amped up after all the pimping QT has done about how awesome the last book is.

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Posted 30 March 2012 - 12:02 PM

I finished up Cook's Sweet Silver Blues and have moved on to The Heroes by Abercrombie.

#8157 QuickTidal

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Posted 30 March 2012 - 12:47 PM

Troy Denning's STAR WARS FATE OF THE JEDI: APOCALYPSE is shaping up to be my favourite of the series. It's just wowing me from chapter to chapter.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 11:36 AM

After a reread of Clash of Kings by GRRM (awesome, very much looking forward to the 2nd season), now reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It's my 3rd try, but..... BLAAAH what a boring book..... So I'm now reading the 3rd Codex Alera book, Cursor's Fury.

Also read Ghost Country a couple of days ago, a very enjoyable read, now waiting for Deep Sky.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 01:14 PM

Hound, on 31 March 2012 - 11:36 AM, said:

now reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It's my 3rd try, but..... BLAAAH what a boring book.....

Yeah, that was a book I read and kept reading in the hopes it went somewhere...it really doesn't. David Mitchell wants more than anything else to be Haruki Murakami...but he pretty much fails...

even a previous book of his that I enjoyed (mostly) NUMBER 9 DREAM doesn't really ape the style well.

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