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#1121 masan's saddle

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Posted 09 July 2009 - 10:56 PM

After reading so much about him I decided to buy Scott Lynch's "The Lies of Locke Lamora"

Yes i'm late to the party, however 30 pages in and its looking good.

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#1122 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 04:09 PM

masan's saddle, on Jul 9 2009, 05:56 PM, said:

After reading so much about him I decided to buy Scott Lynch's "The Lies of Locke Lamora"

Yes i'm late to the party, however 30 pages in and its looking good.

You're late to the party? I've had both of his books sitting on my shelf since October, just haven't gotten around to them yet. Some time this year is my goal...

In the meantime, my gift for being in my sister's wedding (writing a singing a song, actually) was a $10 Half Price Books gift card that I used to pick up Dan Simmons' The Terror and Alastair Reynolds' Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days.

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#1123 teholbeddict

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 04:23 PM

Salt-Man Z, on Jul 10 2009, 11:09 AM, said:

masan's saddle, on Jul 9 2009, 05:56 PM, said:

After reading so much about him I decided to buy Scott Lynch's "The Lies of Locke Lamora"

Yes i'm late to the party, however 30 pages in and its looking good.

Don't feel too bad, I'm late to the party as well. Lies of Locke Lamora has been sitting in my to read pile for about six months. I keep meaning to get to it, and then something else catches my eye. I will probably get around to reading it once I'm done reading the Codex Alera and the Runelord series with KM.

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#1124 RangerSG

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Posted 13 July 2009 - 02:30 AM

In the "I'm really late, but please forgive me, I'm taking a flier" department. I bought Alan Campbell's Scar Night yesterday. I was nervous about it when I got home. But some of the endorsements on it were impressive. Though I took points off it for Trudi Canavan's "recommendation." I will admit what really sold me was the word "Steampunk."

#1125 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 16 July 2009 - 10:11 AM

Yesterday I bought:

David Gunn's _Death's Head_,
Adrian Tchaikovsky's _Empire of Black and Gold_,
Charlie Huston's _Already Dead_,
and another that I've forgotten.

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Posted 18 July 2009 - 05:49 PM

Just bought The Fall of Kings by Gemell. Saving it for my trip to Canada. After all 10 hours on a plane is a lot of time.

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Posted 18 July 2009 - 08:41 PM

Bauchelain the Evil, on Jul 18 2009, 12:49 PM, said:

Just bought The Fall of Kings by Gemell. Saving it for my trip to Canada. After all 10 hours on a plane is a lot of time.

I really want to get that series. But my Barnes & Nobles was missing Book 2...don't you hate it when a bookstore stocks the 1st and 3rd books of a trilogy?

So I'll have to order that whole series off Amazon when I can afford it.

#1128 Aptorian

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Posted 19 July 2009 - 04:51 PM

Bought the first book in Brent Weeks Night Angel Trilogy, "Way of Shadows" Friday. I am nearly through it and it is an awesome book.

If you like the typical young urchin who becomes an assassin and saves the world type of books, you'll like it. If you think those kinds of books are stupid, you should still give it a try. It's a clever book.

When I go down to visit my parents for a week next month I'll be bringing the second and third book in the trilogy.

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Posted 19 July 2009 - 05:20 PM

My girlfriend, kind, sweet girl that she is, bought my a copy of BEST SERVED COLD by Joe Abercrombie! Cracked it today, and read the prologue. Great stuff so far!

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#1130 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 20 July 2009 - 10:41 AM

In my post above, the book I'd forgot I had bought was
_A Darkness Forged In Fire_ by Chris Evans. Started it at the weekend. Dreadful rubbish, gave up after 30 pages or so. Have started _Already Dead_ -- promising, like a dark Dresden without the humour. Annoying typography choices aside, it's a good read so far.

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Posted 20 July 2009 - 12:57 PM

'White Knight'... (I know, I'll read something else when there are no more Dresdens on the shelf.)

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Posted 20 July 2009 - 09:54 PM

Dust of Dreams.

Just under 50$ with 1-2 day shipping from the UK.

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 08:41 AM

Stop buying Adrian Tchaikovsky's books. You will all die if you read them

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 09:05 AM

Morgoth, on Jul 24 2009, 10:41 AM, said:

Stop buying Adrian Tchaikovsky's books. You will all die if you read them

That's a marked difference with the main characters then....

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 09:29 AM

Adrian Tchaikovsky reminds me of Goodkind is that he has original and interesting ideas, and then fucks them all up in a matter of 700 pages.

Strange thing is, this Darakyon box they reveal in the ending of the second book should have been the focus of the story all along. I will not be buying the last book just to find out how he ruins the concept of that thingamabob.

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 10:25 AM

Aptorian, on Jul 24 2009, 11:29 AM, said:

The idea/setting is magnificent. Execution isn't... I'll probably buy the third book, as I hate to leave series unfinished. But I pray for a grand brawl in the first ten pages that leaves only Tynisa and Tisamon standing and the rest of the cast ded and shredded.

to return the thingie back on topic: I bought myself Market Forces on wednesday. I have a feeling that I will hate the main character at the end of the book.

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