[Use Of Weapons]

Finished Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus over the weekend. Great writing, terrible ending. Loved the structure, loved the prose, loved the setting and the characters. Hated the feeling that he was doing it to show off.

[Abyss]

After a solid 2ndHB or two...

DAEMONS ARE FOREVER, Simon R Greene... because i enjoyed THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TORC for no good reason.

USE OF WEAPONS - Banks. Forum reco.

...and i couldn't resist aqcuiring an unblemished, first ed. Bantam TPB (the big paperback) of MoI for $10cdn.

[Salt-Man Z]

Hooray for Half Price Books' Memorial Day 20% off sale! For $1.60 each, I picked up the following off the clearance rack:

Moon of Skulls by Robert E. Howard
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
and the 3 volumes of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

[Abyss]

They were $5/ech so i couldn't resist picking up William Gibson's PATTERN RECOGNITION and SPOOK COUNTRY.

I used to love Gibson and devoured his entire NEUROMANCER related Sprawl books. But i really disliked VISIBLE LIGHT and the following Idoru related books and went off his work entirely.

But Warren Ellis says these two are worth the read, so my dollars the 2ndHBstore gets.

[LadyMTL]

I bought Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven and Michel Faber's Crimson Petal and the White. I'm not 100% sure about Petal but a friend who's taste I trust recommended it to me so...fingers crossed.

[Salt-Man Z]

More Half Price Books 20% off sale goodness! Half of these were on the clearance rack for $1:

The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard
Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
Whitechapel Gods by S. M. Peters
Star Wars: Death Star by Michael Reaves & Steve Perry
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Star Wars: Imperial Commando: 501st by Karen Traviss
The Gray Prince by Jack Vance
To Live Forever by Jack Vance
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

[champ]

Just bought:

Changes - Dresden - cannot wait to read

and

Chronicles of the Black Company: The Black Company - Shadows Linger - The White Rose

Black Company anygood anyone?

[Salt-Man Z]

Black Company is awesome.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

The Lost Fleet: Victorious, the last book in Jack Campbell's (a.k.a. John Hemry's) Lost Fleet series.

I also finished it today.

If you enjoy sci-fi, military fiction, or space battles, I'd suggest it. Also, I caught word of a two-part follow up series.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Salt-Man Z, on 18 May 2010 - 06:08 PM, said:

Found Glen Cook's The Swordbearer at Half Price Books for a couple bucks. Sweet.

There's a Half Price Books 3 blocks from my old apartment! I apparently go drunk bookshopping there.

[Abyss]

The entire THIEVES WORLD series. For about $1/book. I know the quality is a little all over, but this is a classic fantasy shared world/anthology series and i've always wanted to read it, so happy find!

- Abyss, somewhat geek'd but will get better eventually.

[champ]

Salt-Man Z, on 03 June 2010 - 02:50 PM, said:

Black Company is awesome.

first two books have been cracking!!

is the whole series worth a read anyone? and if so jst go to the South books next?

Mucho thanks

[Salt-Man Z]

champooon, on 07 June 2010 - 03:56 PM, said:

first two books have been cracking!!

is the whole series worth a read anyone? and if so jst go to the South books next?

Mucho thanks

A lot of people here love the Black Company series. You can basically break the series up into 3 major parts:

• The original trilogy: The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose.
  
• The Silver Spike - a spin-off of sorts that ties off some loose ends from the trilogy. I recommend reading this book immediately following the trilogy, though the omnibus editions have it in the sixth position.
  
• The Books of the South/Glittering Stone - These were published as two different series, but are really one single 6-book arc. (Glittering Stone was apparently the third book in the South trilogy, but ended up expanding to be its own quartet.) Shadow Games and Dreams of Steel, followed by Bleak Seasons, She Is the Darkness, Water Sleeps, and Soldiers Live.

The Silver Spike is widely held to be the weakest BC book, but part of that has to do with it not following the Company proper. It's not necessarily required reading, but as mentioned it does tie off some loose ends, and it does provide answers to a question or two that might pop up in the opening pages of Shadow Games.

The two main sequences (the trilogy and the Glittering Stone arc) are really very different. A lot of people prefer the early books to the later ones, but I'm not one of those people.

[Aptorian]

I remember Silver Spike killing any interest I had in reading more Black Company. I don't think I made it half way through that book.

[champ]

Salt-Man Z, on 07 June 2010 - 05:17 PM, said:

champooon, on 07 June 2010 - 03:56 PM, said:

first two books have been cracking!!

is the whole series worth a read anyone? and if so jst go to the South books next?

Mucho thanks

A lot of people here love the Black Company series. You can basically break the series up into 3 major parts:

• The original trilogy: The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose.
• The Silver Spike - a spin-off of sorts that ties off some loose ends from the trilogy. I recommend reading this book immediately following the trilogy, though the omnibus editions have it in the sixth position.
• The Books of the South/Glittering Stone - These were published as two different series, but are really one single 6-book arc. (Glittering Stone was apparently the third book in the South trilogy, but ended up expanding to be its own quartet.) Shadow Games and Dreams of Steel, followed by Bleak Seasons, She Is the Darkness, Water Sleeps, and Soldiers Live.

The Silver Spike is widely held to be the weakest BC book, but part of that has to do with it not following the Company proper. It's not necessarily required reading, but as mentioned it does tie off some loose ends, and it does provide answers to a question or two that might pop up in the opening pages of Shadow Games.

The two main sequences (the trilogy and the Glittering Stone arc) are really very different. A lot of people prefer the early books to the later ones, but I'm not one of those people.

cheers mate, think al check them out, half way through the final book of the first series n loving it!

[acesn8s]

Abyss, on 07 June 2010 - 03:15 PM, said:

The entire THIEVES WORLD series. For about $1/book. I know the quality is a little all over, but this is a classic fantasy shared world/anthology series and i've always wanted to read it, so happy find!

- Abyss, somewhat geek'd but will get better eventually.

Wow, great find for an awesome price.

[Aptorian]

The Hero of Ages, third book in the Mistborn Trilogy. I have to say, the books are a bit too sluggish for my tastes, but I need to find out how it ends.

[champ]

just bought - The Book of The New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw - Gene Wolfe

been wanting to read this for something like 10 years now figured i had bout time get around to it!

[Traveller]

I ordered Changes a few days ago, and it arrived today... bring on the Dresden.

[Arkmam]

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Storm Front by Jim Butchet
Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Perdido Street Station by Chine Mieville
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson


Checked various recommendation threads and thought I'd give some of the more interesting books a shot.

Re-reading Malaz is great and all, but I realised that I had not bought a book in ages and thought it was time to treat myself.

This post has been edited by Arkmam: 12 June 2010 - 09:29 PM