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#1781 Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast

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Posted 26 May 2011 - 07:43 PM

Anger at Joffrey -- the bastard needs his head kicked in!

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#1782 QuickTidal

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Posted 27 May 2011 - 01:01 PM

A signed copy of EMBASSYTOWN by China Miéville, from which I heard him read! Woot!!

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#1783 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 27 May 2011 - 03:47 PM

^ Nice!

Half Price Books is doing their Memorial Day sale, so this morning I snagged the 10th anniversary edition of Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana for $1.60.

This week's purchases also include:

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"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?"
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#1784 MWKarsa

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Posted 29 May 2011 - 11:50 PM

I had to hit Half Priced Books with the 20% entire purchase sale that's going on this weekend though I was short on funds.

I got:

Dead Beat : Dresden #7 by Butcher
Sailing to Sarantium : Guy Gavriel Kay
Earthlight and Prelude to Space : Arthur C. Clarke
1634: The Baltic War : David Weber and Eric Flint

#1785 King Bear

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Posted 30 May 2011 - 04:03 AM

I enjoyed Hero of The Imperium enough that I went out and bought the second Ciaphas Cain omnibus: Defender of the Imperium. I'm really getting into the WH 40K setting. Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series and his two inquisitor trilogies will be next. Thanks again to all those who recommended them. I would have been lost with where to start in the 40K universe without that.

Old Man's War. Time for some more space opera.

And continuing the ASOI&F theme, A Feast for Crows. Thanks so much to everyone on various threads about the preceding books and TV series who spoiled the ending for that, btw.

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#1786 Abyss

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Posted 30 May 2011 - 03:38 PM

Quick Ben, on 30 May 2011 - 04:03 AM, said:

...And continuing the ASOI&F theme, A Feast for Crows. Thanks so much to everyone on various threads about the preceding books and TV series who spoiled the ending for that, btw.

Btw, Darth Vader is Luke's father.

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Posted 31 May 2011 - 06:47 AM

No...no. That's not true. That's impossible!

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Posted 31 May 2011 - 06:34 PM

SEARCH YOUR FEELINGS...YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE.

I recently bought Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus just so my coupons wouldn't go to waste. I have let my book-buying lapse in the past few months, I need to pick up some steam again.

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#1789 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 31 May 2011 - 07:09 PM

Was it Illy raving about The Raw Shark Texts a while back? I just saw it on the clearance rack for $2, so I had to pick it up. I found the first of Gemmell's Troy books, too.

#1790 Abyss

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Posted 31 May 2011 - 07:35 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 31 May 2011 - 07:09 PM, said:

Was it Illy raving about The Raw Shark Texts a while back? I just saw it on the clearance rack for $2, so I had to pick it up....

That was moi and, my nitpicking aside, i'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it.
It's all kinds of text form mindfuck.

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#1791 QuickTidal

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Posted 02 June 2011 - 02:11 AM

Picked up James Rollins short piece THE SKELETON KEY starring Sigma baddie/goodie Seichan...ebbok for my Kindle for $.99. WOOT! starting it tomorrow

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#1792 Slow Ben

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Posted 02 June 2011 - 06:10 PM

Finally found Glen Cooks Garrett Investigates omnibus for less than 50 bucks on the interwebs.

Insanely excited to get to continue the series, its so f'ing good.

Love me some beer drinkin women chasin investigatin.

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

#1793 ansible

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Posted 02 June 2011 - 07:59 PM

Picked up Inverted World by Christopher Priest and The City and The City by Mieville. Very, very excited about these purchases.

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#1794 POOPOO MCBUMFACE

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Posted 06 June 2011 - 10:45 AM

Picked up Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias, Dune and Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun for a fiver from a second-hand bookshop around here. Good stuff.

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 05:11 PM

I have caved to peer pressure and have taken my first hit off the dresdencrack pipe.

(That's Jim Butcher's Storm Front, if you don't speak Abysstalk)

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 05:33 PM

McLovin, on 08 June 2011 - 05:11 PM, said:

I have caved to peer pressure and have taken my first hit off the dresdencrack pipe.

(That's Jim Butcher's Storm Front, if you don't speak Abysstalk)

the dresdencrack, it growz!!!

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Posted 13 June 2011 - 12:50 PM

In the death throes of Borders, I managed to rescue:

*Hilldiggers by Neal Asher
*Hellhole by Kevin J Anderson and some other fella
*Book One of The Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglas
*Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.

NAHT BAD.

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#1798 Illuyankas

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Posted 13 June 2011 - 12:55 PM

Bought Rowbowpockylips by the illegitimate son of Mel Brooks. Because there are people out there who can't hear or see, so they can't enjoy my jokes aurally themselves, and can't even lipread me to get most of it, having only a slightly enhanced sense of touch - feeling vibrations, like a truck passing by - so the least I could do to help is run the joke into the ground.

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#1799 Tsundoku

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Posted 15 June 2011 - 09:05 AM

Ain, on 13 June 2011 - 12:50 PM, said:

In the death throes of Borders, I managed to rescue:
*Book One of The Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglas

EJECT! EJECT! ABORT! ABORT! Dude, seriously I'd suggest you use that one as a present for someone you don't give a shit about but feel obliged to get a present for, or maybe a paperweight. It's really, really bad. :Oops:

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#1800 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 15 June 2011 - 10:09 AM

Sombra, on 15 June 2011 - 09:05 AM, said:

Ain, on 13 June 2011 - 12:50 PM, said:

*Book One of The Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglas

I completely agree (despite having read the read of the series). Douglass is a terrible author. She, along with Ian Irvine, is responsible for the death of Australian fantasy's good reputation. I bet you bought it on the strength of the cover art :Oops:

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