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#1461 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 13 October 2010 - 04:17 PM

Found Dave (Farland) Wolverton's Beyond the Gate and Lords of the Seventh Swarm at Half Price Books yesterday. They're sequels to The Golden Queen, which I had read a number of years ago and enjoyed.

Also got the third book of Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns off the clearance rack for $1. I've picked up three of that series' books this way thus far.

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Posted 13 October 2010 - 04:19 PM

Primateus, on 13 October 2010 - 04:05 PM, said:

... (I play Witch Hunters aswell, so if you know any good books with witch hunters, lemme know)

Sapkowski's Witcher: The Last Wish. Neat colection of short stories.
Tho i found the sequel Blood of Elves to be disappointing.

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Posted 14 October 2010 - 01:36 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 13 October 2010 - 04:17 PM, said:

Also got the third book of Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns off the clearance rack for $1. I've picked up three of that series' books this way thus far.

Are those Kevin J Anderson books worth even the $1 and the investment of my reading time?? Having suffered through his exposition of Frank Herbert's notes (i refuse to consider them true novels in the Dune tradition), i can't bring myself to read any of his books.

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Posted 14 October 2010 - 02:02 AM

I can't say. I think Apt did a review of them a long time ago saying they were okay, if nothing special. I can't pass them up for only a buck, though, since I've got some of them already. Will I ever read them is another question altogether; I own 5 KJA Dune books that I haven't read and doubt I ever will.

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Posted 14 October 2010 - 10:52 PM

The Dreaming Void, Hamilton
and
The Quantum Thief, Rajaniemi

Happy days.

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Posted 15 October 2010 - 02:56 PM

pre-ordered Butcher's Dresdencrack SIDE JOBS along with the last two Codex Alara books. PSY-CHED.

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Posted 18 October 2010 - 06:37 PM

Does anyone know if those "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" are any good?

Screw you all, and have a nice day!

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Posted 21 October 2010 - 10:09 PM

Abyss, on 15 October 2010 - 02:56 PM, said:

pre-ordered Butcher's Dresdencrack SIDE JOBS along with the last two Codex Alara books. PSY-CHED.

Wait....you haven't finished ALERA yet?!

Dude! Get on that! PRINCEP'S FURY has a chapter ending in the second half of the book that made my jaw drop and break on the floor. SOOOOO good! Not to mention FIRST LORD'S FURY is a balls out, non-stop thrill ride to the finish. Man, what I wouldn't give to be in your shoes with still two books to go.

As for me, I got an Amazon.ca package today! In it I recieved brand spankery new copies of THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi and CROWN CONSPIRACY, AVEMPARTHA, and NYPHRON RISING by Michael J. Sullivan...super excited!

That and SIDE JOBS comes out on Tuesday...the day before I start my new job! Excelsior!

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Posted 23 October 2010 - 10:07 AM

Picked up The Evolutionary Void second hand already! Plus Captains Fury.

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Posted 23 October 2010 - 12:39 PM

Sombra, on 23 October 2010 - 10:07 AM, said:

Picked up The Evolutionary Void second hand already! Plus Captains Fury.

Captain's Fury! Enjoy man.

Also, I know not of this Peter Hamilton fellow...should I jump on the bandwagon?

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Posted 23 October 2010 - 08:34 PM

QuickTidal, on 23 October 2010 - 12:39 PM, said:

Sombra, on 23 October 2010 - 10:07 AM, said:

Picked up The Evolutionary Void second hand already! Plus Captains Fury.

Captain's Fury! Enjoy man.

Also, I know not of this Peter Hamilton fellow...should I jump on the bandwagon?

Ta.

Peter F Hamilton writes 'space opera' crossed with 'mid sf' (wouldn't call it hard sf), that is surprisingly readable. Generally well-paced and some really cool plots and characters. His use of tech doesn't break your head - he tends to fit it into the story better than most rather than hit you in the face with it. Go check out Werts reviews for a quick intro. I was avoiding buying any more books as I'm moving interstate soon and didn't want to have to pack extra, but a good condition copy secondhand was too good to resist.

Of course you may ask what was I doing in a secondhand bookstore when I wasn't going to buy any more books and I would reply that it was a good question.

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Posted 25 October 2010 - 09:39 AM

Re: Hamilton -- there's also the earth-based local detective-cum-special-ops series that starts with Mindstar Rising. Great characters, and a cool vision of a near-future earth after calamitous climate change.

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Posted 25 October 2010 - 02:53 PM

QuickTidal, on 21 October 2010 - 10:09 PM, said:

Abyss, on 15 October 2010 - 02:56 PM, said:

pre-ordered Butcher's Dresdencrack SIDE JOBS along with the last two Codex Alara books. PSY-CHED.

That was sort of the point - i want to read the series in one fell swoop. I want the sort of buzz i got from reading the first seven Dresden books in a row.
I get the last two mmpbs with SIDE JOBS and then voila!

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Posted 26 October 2010 - 12:45 AM

Found William Shatner's Shadow Planet at Half Price Books today. I've got most of his Quest For Tomorrow series now, only missing one book. I also received the Swords & Dark Magic anthology from The Book Depository. Looking forward to reading this one, big-time.

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Posted 26 October 2010 - 09:05 AM

Mentalist, on 10 October 2010 - 10:32 PM, said:

birthday shopping for me today:

I saw (and immideately grabbed) Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy in a boxed set.
Tchaikovsky's Shadow of the Apr, Book 4 *ignores Morgoth and Aptorian*
Janny Wurts "Wars of Light and Shadow", volume 3 "Warhost of Vastmark"--I'm not sure if I like the series, yet, but I have made the error of buying volume 4 first,t ehn I bought and read volumes 1 and 2, and now, welll, I have to read 3, and then 4, since it's already in my posession.

also grabbed Ken Scholes' "Canticle", because I absolutely loved "Lamentation"

Only qustion becomes when will I ever have time to read any of these.....

Hopefully; never

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Posted 27 October 2010 - 03:48 PM

I bought C. L. Werner's Witchhunter omnibus.

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Posted 27 October 2010 - 05:49 PM

Just bought the Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney...I've heard good things and it has an Erikson endorsement on the cover so I was sold.

I almost bought the Gunslinger, or whatever that first book in that King series is, but I had no idea how long the series was and wasn't sure if I wanted to get dragged into a long one. Can anyone help explain it to me, because the concept (as far as I understand it) intrigues me.

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Posted 27 October 2010 - 06:16 PM

I recently ordered four books.

R. Scott Bakker - The Darkness That Comes Before
China Mieville - The Scar
Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
SL Farrell - A Magic of Twilight

I'm about 99% sure I'm going to start with The Darkness That Comes Before. Although I'm afraid that I'm going to fall balls deep into that shit and order the rest of the trilogy and not read the other three books I ordered. : /

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Posted 27 October 2010 - 09:18 PM

A word about Hamilton beyond what's already been said: he may actually have written the worst sex scenes I've ever read. I'm not a particular connoissieur of such things, but OH MY GOD MAKE IT STOP!!!

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Posted 28 October 2010 - 03:50 AM

Just got my copy of Michael Andre-Driussi's Lexicon Urthus in the mail today. It's friggin' AWESOME. Looking forward to my annual reread of The Book of the New Sun with this bad boy at hand.

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