[RangerSG]

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on May 26 2009, 10:57 AM, said:

Today I bought the first Dresden book - people keep telling me apparently I don't know awesome until I've read Dresden, so I decided to give it a crack.

Umm, crack is the right word for it, as in: addiction. It's definitely (even by Butcher's estimation) more "popcorn" than SE or Bakker. But there's quite a bit of meat under the fluff. And some awesome characterization. I liked the first book. But it was probably Grave Peril when I said, "oh yeah, I'm hooked."

I hate urban fantasy. But I'm sold 100% on Dresden.

[Mentalist]

I can't force myself to fork over the 32 dollars for the hardback Turn Coat. I feel I'll wait till mppb.

But yes, Dresden's light, but extraordinary addictive.

[Seraphina]

had a bit of a spree with my wage today. Bought the next couple of Malazan Book of the Fallen books, The Reader - Bernhard Schlink, Kushiel's Avatar - Jaqueline Carey, and Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind.

[alestar]

Yay...my Amazon order shipped today, by the end of the week I'll have:

Toll of the Hounds (Eriikson)

Last Argument of Kings (Abercrombie)

The Crime Trade (Kernick)

The Murder Exchange (Kernick)


Really looking forward to Last Argument...

[Dag]

Abercrombie's "Best Served Cold" just arrived... Yay!

[Tif the Barber Boy]

Sundays the day when they set up 2nd hand book stalls at the outdoor market nearby so I usually drop in to see what I can find. I was in luck today as they had a fair amount of F/Sf. I got:

- Stealing Light - Gary Gibson - looks like an entertaining stand alone space opera novel.

- Reckless Sleep - Roger Levy - looks like an entertaining stand alone noir cyberpunk novel! [If I recall correctly this once used to be mentioned in the same breath as Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan]

- King David's Spaceship - Jerry Pournelle - I dont usally like Pournelle but I did really like Mote in God's Eye and its sequel which he wrote with Larry Niven. This is set in the same universe so I went for it.

- The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro - I've heard Asaro's Skolian Empire books recommended to fans of the Miles Vorkosigan series and this won a Nebula award so I thought I'd check it out.

- Last Light of the Sun - Guy Gavriel Kay - I've heard this is one of his weaker books but I am a Kay fan and I figured, what the hey, it can't be worse than Ysabel, right?

- Club Dead - Charlaine Harris - so I havent read any of these books yet but I have seen a few episodes of True Blood and I'm intrigued.

- Plague From Space - Harry harrison - HH is fun.

- Heechee Rendezvous - Frederik Pohl - Earlier this year I read and really like Gateway. This is a sequel.

- The Bright Spot - Robert Sydney - Never heard of this before but it looks like another interesting SF noir.

- The Precipice and Privateers by Ben Bova - Not a big Bova fan, but reccently I'm finding fantasy less and less interesting and felt like getting my hands on more SF.

[Use Of Weapons]

Tif the Barber Boy, on Jun 14 2009, 02:15 PM, said:

- The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro - I've heard Asaro's Skolian Empire books recommended to fans of the Miles Vorkosigan series and this won a Nebula award so I thought I'd check it out.

Quantum Rose is much less SFy than the rest of the Skolian saga, though. While it's pretty standalone, it's not a great entry point to the series, IMO. If you don't like it, try _Catch The Lightning_ or _Primary Inversion_.

[Grief]

Ah happiness. Recently purchased, mainly based on recommendations from here:

-Rothfuss' Name of the Wind.

-Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before, Warrior Priest, and Thousandfold Thought.

-Mieville's Perdido Street Station.

-Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings.

I started with Last Argument of Kings as I wanted to finish the trilogy, but I don't enjoy Abercrombie that much. Wasn't too bad though. Have now started on The Name of the Wind, which I am enjoying considerably more.

It was a choice between getting all of these or all of the Dresden Books. Looks like they'll have to wait though...

[Mentalist]

on Wednesday, I paid my last goodbyes to Kingston.. and to the Chaptrs store, where I have spent so much money off my student loan.

I have ended up Purchasing

Neal Stepenson's "Snow Crash"
Stephen Lawhead's "Hood"
Chris Evans' "A darkenss forged in fire"
Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Butterfly Rising"
Neal Asher's "Hilldiggers"

also, a book by many authors called "Battles of the Ancient world"...which I have enjoyed immensely.

[Tapper]

Mentalist, on Jun 15 2009, 06:53 AM, said:

Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Butterfly Rising"

Is that a short story, or a pun on Dragonfly Falling?

Tapper, confused.

[Mentalist]

the second one... a pun.

no, seriosly.

Mentalist, would never make a mistake like that, unless he was making a clever joke... no, really.

[coltainereborn]

Grief, on Jun 14 2009, 05:38 PM, said:

It was a choice between getting all of these or all of the Dresden Books. Looks like they'll have to wait though...

Thats all right Grief- The Dresden books are good and all, I've enjoyed them, but they're pretty light reading compared to other authors

[alestar]

picked up:

Burgers, Fries and Shakes (Bobby Flay) ...I'm a cook book addict...

A Good Day to Die (Simon Kernick)

Ritual (Mo Hayder)

[Salt-Man Z]

Got some book-buying money as an anniversary gift, and picked up:

The Tyranny of the Night by Glen Cook
Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal by Aaron Allston
Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn
Star Wars: Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows by Michael Reaves
Star Wars: Republic Commando: True Colors by Karen Traviss

I also ordered (but haven't yet received) The Gormenghast Novels omnibus by Mervyn Peake

Also also, as an anniversary gift, I gave my wife

The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages, and Warbreaker by Sanderson

[Tif the Barber Boy]

jitsukerr, on Jun 14 2009, 03:28 PM, said:

Quantum Rose is much less SFy than the rest of the Skolian saga, though. While it's pretty standalone, it's not a great entry point to the series, IMO. If you don't like it, try _Catch The Lightning_ or _Primary Inversion_.

Thanks. Guess that drops down my the order in my 'to read' list... will keep an eye out for the other two.

[Fist Gamet]

The Name of The Rose
Don Quixote
and...a clinical textbook for work which there is no point telling you about

[stone monkey]

Don Quixote is amazing. It's like the first postmodern novel; that just happens to have been written about 400 years before postmodernism was even invented. The edition I own has, as a truly cool bonus, the Jorge Luis Borges short story "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote" Which, for those of you that know it, is the postmodern touch to end all postmodern touches. Genius!

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 22 June 2009 - 09:39 PM

[Traveller]

I'm having a dull day so I just went out and bought... Proven Guilty.

A shot of Dresden was required!

[alestar]

Went to Indigo today and picked up Joe Abercrombie's "Best Served Cold"...can hardly wait to crack it!

[teholbeddict]

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dragon Fly Falling, I'm hoping it will be as good or better than Empire in Black and Gold. I won't be reading it right away, as I'm doing a read of Farland's Runelord series with KM. Dragonfly Falling will be next up after that though.