The Book I bought today is...

#1421 Illuyankas

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Posted 21 August 2010 - 10:43 AM

I was going to buy Peter F. Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void but had forgotten it wasn't out til the 3rd of September, but I saw Neal Asher's The Technician on a shelf instead. I didn't even have the slightest idea it existed, so that was a nice surprise.

Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.

#1422 HiddenOne

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Posted 21 August 2010 - 12:37 PM

Just finished "Shamanslayer" by Nathan Long, a Felix & Gotrek novel which I must recommend if anyone hasn't read this series.
IMO the best of Warhammer books

HiddenOne. You son of a bitch. You slimy, skulking, low-posting scumbag. You knew it would come to this. Roundabout, maybe. Tortuous, certainly. But here we are, you and me again. I started the train on you so many many hours ago, and now I'm going to finish it. Die HO. Die. This is for last time, and this is for this game too. This is for all the people who died to your backstabbing, treacherous, "I sure don't know what's going on around here" filthy lying, deceitful ways. You son of a bitch. Whatever happens, this is justice. For me, this is justice. Vote HiddenOne Finally, I am at peace.

#1423 Fist Gamet

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Posted 21 August 2010 - 03:07 PM

The Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay, because Redemption Falls is brilliant.

Victory is mine!

#1424 Morgoth

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Posted 21 August 2010 - 03:57 PM

Fist Gamet, on 21 August 2010 - 03:07 PM, said:

The Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay, because Redemption Falls is brilliant.

Black Lung Captain is a great read. Predictable as crazy, but that takes surprisingly little away from the enjoyment of it.

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#1425 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 24 August 2010 - 11:15 AM

Neal Asher: The Technician
Glen Cook: The Return of the Black Company; The Many Deaths of the Black Company (Omnibus editions of the Glittering Stone books)

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
-- Oscar Wilde

#1426 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 26 August 2010 - 06:24 PM

Picked up C. J. Cherryh's Morgaine Saga omnibus, as well as Robin Hobb's Shaman's Crossing on clearance at Half Price Books today. I also saw Gene Wolfe's The Devil in a Forest there, but it was so beat up that I couldn't even justify spending the $1 on it.

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

#1427 Abyss

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Posted 26 August 2010 - 07:14 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 26 August 2010 - 06:24 PM, said:

Picked up C. J. Cherryh's Morgaine Saga omnibus,...

My condolences.

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#1428 Studlock

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Posted 01 September 2010 - 01:16 AM

Bought The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker, went crazy and bought the rest of the series without even reading the first book.

#1429 QuickTidal

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Posted 01 September 2010 - 03:05 AM

The Pretty, on 01 September 2010 - 01:16 AM, said:

Bought The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker, went crazy and bought the rest of the series without even reading the first book.

My condolences.

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#1430 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 01 September 2010 - 09:04 AM

The Pretty, on 01 September 2010 - 01:16 AM, said:

Bought The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker, went crazy and bought the rest of the series without even reading the first book.

My sincerest contrafibularities.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
-- Oscar Wilde

#1431 Abyss

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Posted 01 September 2010 - 01:52 PM

The Pretty, on 01 September 2010 - 01:16 AM, said:

Bought The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker, went crazy and bought the rest of the series without even reading the first book.

My congratulationisms.

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#1432 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 01 September 2010 - 01:55 PM

The Pretty, on 01 September 2010 - 01:16 AM, said:

Bought The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker, went crazy and bought the rest of the series without even reading the first book.

Coming a bit late but thirded in the congratulatiowhateverism.

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#1433 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 02 September 2010 - 05:10 PM

Hooray, Half Price Books 20% off Labor Day Sale! I actually found these the other day, but left them in the store, crossing my fingers that they'd still be there when the sale started today.

Starwater Strains by Gene Wolfe
Red Iron Nights and Petty Pewter Gods by Glen Cook
Rachel & Leah by Orson Scott Card

#1434 polishgenius

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Posted 02 September 2010 - 07:59 PM

I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett's latest. It's a good one but not one of the stellar entries, imo.

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#1435 Slow Ben

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Posted 05 September 2010 - 12:24 AM

Never read any Neil Gaiman, but i got American Gods at a used book store today for 7 books so i'll give it a go soon.

Also got The Battle of Jericho Hill graphic novel compilation by King.

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

#1436 Riot

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Posted 05 September 2010 - 07:06 PM

house of suns. pushing ice & the prefect - alastair reynolds
fool moon - jim butcher
imager - modesitt jr

#1437 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 06 September 2010 - 10:11 AM

I also got I Shall Wear Midnight, Pratchett's latest. This one showed its YA nature much more clearly than the previous entries in the Tiffany Aching series, I thought. Some great cameos though (and the return of my favourite character from early Discworld). But the language is still fantastic, the humour clearly serving the story, and the development of Tiffany and the Chalk shows PTerry hasn't lost much, if any, of his power to charm and make readers think.

Also picked up Kearney's Hawkwood and the Kings based on the review here.

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-- Oscar Wilde

#1438 Tapper

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Posted 06 September 2010 - 02:44 PM

Book 1, 2, 3 of Codex Alura - Jim Butcher
Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe - Laurel K Hamilton
King Rat, Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel Kay

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#1439 The Seguleh 46th

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Posted 08 September 2010 - 06:02 AM

Illuyankas, on 21 August 2010 - 10:43 AM, said:

Are those Hamilton books good? Neverheard of him before today, but i was at the bookstore browsing, and the back of the book summary (think it was Reality Dysfunction or something along those lines) made it really sound like a very intriguing read. Still have to finish my Malazan re-read, but looking for a new series to get into when i finish

#1440 QuickTidal

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Posted 18 September 2010 - 06:43 PM

OLD MAN'S WAR by John Scalzi (I hear good things)

SHARPE'S PREY by Bernard Cornwell (next book in this fairly addictive series)

I also picked up the first 3 issues of Judd Winnick and Sami Basri's run on DC Comics POWER GIRL....loving the story AND the art!!

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

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