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#8241 worry

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:27 AM

I started The Blade Itself. Slowly but surely, I'm catching up to you guys on the nerd front. Well probably not, but I like to kid myself.

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:45 AM

McLovin, on 17 April 2012 - 06:50 PM, said:

Abyss, on 17 April 2012 - 04:13 PM, said:

Don't worry McLovin... we've gotten WAY better at the whole textorcism thing. the last one had hardly any brain damage...

Can't damage what ain't there, mate.

that's what you thought.

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 03:26 PM

I stopped reading Hunter's Black Light, just couldn't get into it.

I pulled Gemmel's Lord of the Silver Bow off my TBR pile. It's a nice easy read. Once I gobble this one down like the brain candy it is I'll probably tackle Caine's Law.

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 03:40 PM

I finally got my review for Arctic Rising by Tobias Buckell written - it's very fun and very good. I still owe a review for The Throne of the Crescent Moon. I'm currently reading Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Stove - I'd forgotten just how good the Caine books are.

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 06:06 PM

worrywort, on 18 April 2012 - 12:27 AM, said:

I started The Blade Itself. Slowly but surely, I'm catching up to you guys on the nerd front. Well probably not, but I like to kid myself.

Persevere. I gave up twice after about fifty pages before having one last go...and what the hell was I thinking! Awesome, all of them, just awesome! I really wish there were another four or five Abercrombie books out there atm.

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 06:45 PM

kcf, on 18 April 2012 - 03:40 PM, said:

... I'm currently reading Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Stove - I'd forgotten just how good the Caine books are.

Watch your back.
Fucking heretic.

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#8247 rhulad

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 09:17 PM

Just started Summer Knight by Jim Butcher. Next up is Heroes Die by Stover.

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 12:10 AM

rhulad, on 19 April 2012 - 09:17 PM, said:

Just started Summer Knight by Jim Butcher. Next up is Heroes Die by Stover.

If that is your first read of each, then you are one lucky bastard!

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 01:21 PM

Briar King, on 20 April 2012 - 01:52 AM, said:

Cool Summer Knight is really imo when Dresden books really start amping it up.

Couldn't agree with this more.

About a quarter of the way into Broken Angels now. Finding this go around with Kovacs to bea lot easier to get into. I suspect it's the military spin that everyone kept mentioning.

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 04:36 PM

Well, my new daughter arrived two days ago. My wife was in labor for 24 hours, during which time I read the Lions of Al'Rassan front to back. The book was phenomenal. My only complaint is that I like to have a bit more of the exotic/esoteric in my fantasy than this had. But still, it was a masterpiece. After I finished that, I started Titus Groan which is just insane thus far (80 pgs in) but it is hard to give it the attention it deserves (being as how my new little girl demands and deserves more). So, I'll be finishing Echo City, instead, and may go on to a Garrett P.I. until things calm down a bit.

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#8251 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 05:19 PM

Baco Xtath, on 20 April 2012 - 04:36 PM, said:

I started Titus Groan which is just insane thus far (80 pgs in) but it is hard to give it the attention it deserves

Yeah, Peake's prose definitely demands attention. His books are all about the language.

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 05:53 PM

About 100 pages in Heroes Die (Stover) and really enjoying it thus far ^_^

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 07:12 PM

Just finished Paradise Lost. Really bloody good, but I can't say I actually enjoyed reading more than a handful of parts. Don't think epic poetry's really for me. Think it's something I'd really enjoy analysing for a class or something... maybe wasn't the best choice of things to read during studying for exams.

Reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat now. Interesting, if terrifying. Surprisingly well written for a book of its type.

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Posted 23 April 2012 - 09:17 PM

Hound, on 20 April 2012 - 05:53 PM, said:

About 100 pages in Heroes Die (Stover) and really enjoying it thus far ^_^

I envy you for the pure fuckingly awesome you are about to read for the first time.

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Posted 23 April 2012 - 10:04 PM

Bright side of flight out of Boston being delayed by over an hour yesterday...I'm a hundred pages into Carey's VICIOUS CIRCLE and thoroughly enjoying my second dose of Castor!

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Posted 23 April 2012 - 11:05 PM

Decided i wanted to have an enjoyable read i could dip in an out of, so I started a Neal Asher re-read. Already finished as far as Brass Man, and have just begun Polity Agent (Book 4 of the Agent Cormac novels). I love me some hi-tech sci-fi.

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 12:05 AM

Finished "The Clockwork Vampires Chronicles".

The last book was kinda "meh", though Remic's approach to ancient evil powers who think they're all that is quite similar to MBotF, which was a bit refreshing. Decent series, it gets a 7.5/10, with the extra .5 exclusively for the bitterswet ending. And the donkey.

not too sure what to read next. Next time I go to Chapters i'll need to pick up the last "City of a Hundred Rows" book, as well the latest Shadows of the Apt.
In the meantime, I'm gonna give "The Unremembered" by Peter Orullian a shot.

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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 24 April 2012 - 08:30 AM

Over the weekend I read David Gemmell's Sword in the Storm, which I loved, probably my favourite of his that I've read to date.

Now reading Death Masks, by some bloke whose name I can't remember ...

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 01:40 PM

Anyone here read Brian Ruckley? I'm a third of the way through Winterbirth, and while I enjoy the writing and style there's really nothing to set it apart from any other fantasy so far.

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 02:17 PM

Finished with Darth Plagueis, and still haven't decided if it was any good or not. It's very much Palpatine's book, and goes behind the scenes for all of The Phantom Menace as well as its prequel novels, so I figured now would be a good time to read those.

Currently reading Luceno's Cloak of Deception, and so far it's pretty fun.