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Posted 10 September 2012 - 12:05 PM

I finished the last of Glen Cook's Black Company books, Water Sleeps and Soldier's Live (at least, I think those are the last) and I did enjoy them even if the ending was a wee bit of a downer. I've now moved on to re-reading Return of the Crimson Guard while I wait for my latest Chapters order to arrive and once that gets here I'm either going to start with House of Leaves or Scalzi's Redshirts. Or maybe Ruff's The Mirage...I don't know, they all look so good!

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Posted 10 September 2012 - 02:34 PM

Finished The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick and found it a very average fantasy and probably won't continue with the next two books. I just started Homeland by R.A. Salvatore and so far it's not too bad.

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Posted 10 September 2012 - 02:57 PM

Holy crap, Ghost Ocean gets pretty freaky real quick. High-octane nightmare fuel, this stuff.

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Posted 10 September 2012 - 03:10 PM

Finished the last book in the City of a Hundred Rows trilogy. Nothing too extraordinary, but an enjoable read nonetheless.

now reading Neuromancer by William Gibson. Probably gonna be my last book for a while, because school readings are about to kick in with a vengeance.

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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 September 2012 - 12:48 PM

Finished my rereads of Storm Front and Fool Moon. On to Grave Peril. I can't believe I haven't reread the series before this.

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 02:12 PM

I'm on for a CHANGES and GS reread pre- CD but am seriously considering re-hitting the whole series.

Meanwhile, reading Kearney's SHIPS FROM THE WEST. Considering its been a few years since I read the first four Monarchies of God books, am surprised how easily I got into this book.

Its the omnibus version, so I don't know how extensively it was rewritten but so far pretty good.

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 05:04 PM

Dresden reread - Proven Guilty... so hard to follow the awesomely awesomeness of Dead Beat!

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 05:31 PM

champ, on 11 September 2012 - 05:04 PM, said:

... so hard to follow the awesomely awesomeness of Dead Beat!

Word.
Was in a second hand book store recently and found a copy, 45min later i've speed/re/read the last 100 pages standing in the genre section!

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 05:45 PM

Abyss, on 11 September 2012 - 05:31 PM, said:

champ, on 11 September 2012 - 05:04 PM, said:

... so hard to follow the awesomely awesomeness of Dead Beat!

Word.
Was in a second hand book store recently and found a copy, 45min later i've speed/re/read the last 100 pages standing in the genre section!

Ha, I don't blame you, it has to be done in one sitting... no matter where you are!

It's my first full reread of Dresden and it holds up really well which doesn't really surprise me, if you've got the time it has to be done for Cold Days...

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 05:57 PM

champ, on 11 September 2012 - 05:45 PM, said:

Abyss, on 11 September 2012 - 05:31 PM, said:

champ, on 11 September 2012 - 05:04 PM, said:

... so hard to follow the awesomely awesomeness of Dead Beat!

Word.
Was in a second hand book store recently and found a copy, 45min later i've speed/re/read the last 100 pages standing in the genre section!

i may just start it from the beginning after CD.

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 06:40 PM

Anyone recall the Venatori Umbrorum being mentioned again after book 2?

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 07:27 PM

Reading Aloha From Hell, the 3rd of Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim series.

For the uninitiated - imagine Harry Dresden with an attitude problem, a car theft habit, a liking for really bad (and not always human) girls and a worse knack for making enemies... Then put him in Hell for a decade, fighting demons in a gladiatorial arena, before he's made an assassin for one of the Dukes of Hell. And then send him back to the seamy side of L.A.

After all of that, you're where the 1st book starts...

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 07:34 PM

stone monkey, on 11 September 2012 - 07:27 PM, said:

The first one has been sitting in my TRP for ages... i love Kadrey (METROPHAGE) most of the time (BUTCHER BIRD not so much)... i think i must needs move it up a few notches.

Btw METROPHAGE is an author authorized freebie here .

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 08:02 PM

Finally finished my Hitchhiker's Guide reread. That took me way too long. Might have been because it was my fourth time through... Also finished Hunters of the Red Moon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I very highly recommend this. It's an older book and thus fairly cheap and short. Shouldn't really take anyone here more than an afternoon to polish it off.

Started up the Book Athyra by Brust to continue the Vlad Taltos books, and also kicked into a Lord Foul's Bane reread.

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 08:08 PM

Finished up Cornwell's first Grail book HARLEQUIN which was Cornwell goodness as per usual. Good series, want to see where it goes.

Currently finishing off the last 100 pages of Pratchett's THE WEE FREE MEN (which is still excellent), and then after my screening today Neil Jordan's BYZANTIUM put me in a vampire mood, which means I think I'll finally be grabbing Jasper Kent's TWELVE out of the ToRead pile and having a go at it.

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 08:15 PM

QuickTidal, on 11 September 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

Finished up Cornwell's first Grail book HARLEQUIN which was Cornwell goodness as per usual. Good series, want to see where it goes.

Have you read Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell?

There is a nod to Thomas of Hookton in that book.

For the rest of the series, you've got some quality battles to come!

Tehol said:

'Yet my heart breaks for a naked hen.'

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 08:56 PM

QuickTidal, on 11 September 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

Finished up Cornwell's first Grail book HARLEQUIN which was Cornwell goodness as per usual. Good series, want to see where it goes.

Wait, I thought you had already read this?

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 09:12 PM

acesn8s, on 11 September 2012 - 12:48 PM, said:

Finished my rereads of Storm Front and Fool Moon. On to Grave Peril. I can't believe I haven't reread the series before this.

Just finished Grave Peril.

Dresden re-reads f'ing rule!

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 10:09 PM

As QT (once) recommended, I'm about to start The Stories of Ibis (Hiroshi Yamamoto).

It also pleases me that, having finished FoD, my bag is much lighter!

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 10:45 PM

champ, on 11 September 2012 - 08:15 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 11 September 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

Finished up Cornwell's first Grail book HARLEQUIN which was Cornwell goodness as per usual. Good series, want to see where it goes.

Have you read Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell?

There is a nod to Thomas of Hookton in that book.

For the rest of the series, you've got some quality battles to come!

I have read AZINCOURT, when it came out actually. Really enjoyed it.

Salt-Man Z, on 11 September 2012 - 08:56 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 11 September 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

Finished up Cornwell's first Grail book HARLEQUIN which was Cornwell goodness as per usual. Good series, want to see where it goes.

Wait, I thought you had already read this?

Nope, the Grail series is the one Cornwell series I'd never tried out, I'd only read his Saxon books, Arthurian books, and Sharpe books.

Perhaps you are mixing up the Arthur series and the Grail series?

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