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#1861 Abyss

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 08:33 PM

and to be fair, he only wrote the one, which wasn't nearly as good or well received as ARMOR.

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 10:48 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 11 July 2011 - 07:38 PM, said:

Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber

Awesome. I predict you will swiftly be as addicted to these books as I am, even with the descent of the main villains into caricature.

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 12:15 PM

I downloaded ADWD to my Nook this morning.

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 01:16 PM

It just figures amazon picks now to stick with its 'we'll send it all to you in one package' policy.

Not that i really mind being able to read GHOST STORY before DWD, but still...

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Posted 12 July 2011 - 01:18 PM

Abyss, on 12 July 2011 - 01:16 PM, said:

It just figures amazon picks now to stick with its 'we'll send it all to you in one package' policy.

Not that i really mind being able to read GHOST STORY before DWD, but still...

Am I going to have this book before Abyss? Whoa! It's like a red letter day or sumthin'. Considering damn near everyone got TCG before me.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 01:56 AM

today I got ADWD
also, Stross' "Fuller MEmorandum" (Laundry Files #3) finally came out in paperback, so I grabbed that.

lastly, I've bought sa book called "Mardock Scramble". it was a bit of an impuse buy. the cover blurb gave me a noir cyberpunk-ish vibe, and it's translated from Japanese, which means I don't know what. it was a thick volume, though, and the cover looked pretty cool. we'll see if I regret it soon enough, I suppose.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 03:32 AM

Just received my copy of the (hard-to-find) Magic the Gathering: Test of Metal by Matthew Fucking Stover. I've never read a MtG novel (nor played the game) but dude it's Matthew Fucking Stover.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 03:33 AM

Picked up ADWD of course. Booyah!

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 03:38 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 13 July 2011 - 03:32 AM, said:

Just received my copy of the (hard-to-find) Magic the Gathering: Test of Metal by Matthew Fucking Stover. I've never read a MtG novel (nor played the game) but dude it's Matthew Fucking Stover.

Yanno, I never played the game either, but I randomly read one of the original MtG novels back in the day, ARENA, and I really enjoyed it. Granted, that was like 16 years ago and I was in high school, but whatever.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 04:06 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 13 July 2011 - 03:32 AM, said:

Just received my copy of the (hard-to-find) Magic the Gathering: Test of Metal by Matthew Fucking Stover. I've never read a MtG novel (nor played the game) but dude it's Matthew Fucking Stover.

The Kamahl books were actually pretty damned good reading - the character is much like Karsa Orlong in many ways, plus the authors tended to play around a bunch with the side characters. The Urza books were alright, although I thought the fundamental conflict in Urza's madness got a bit overplayed.

I read a Tetsuo Umezawa book, which was alright, but didn't get any further books. Haven't played the game in about six or seven years or followed along much. Haven't read any other MtG books since.

Hope your Stover book is awesome.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 06:18 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 13 July 2011 - 03:32 AM, said:

Just received my copy of the (hard-to-find) Magic the Gathering: Test of Metal by Matthew Fucking Stover. I've never read a MtG novel (nor played the game) but dude it's Matthew Fucking Stover.

I liked this book. It may confuse you because it plays directly off of events of an earlier novel, Agents of Artifice by Ari Marmell.

I as well got ADwD today, as well as The Scar and a pair of Heinlein books. Was a good day for my library.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 02:43 PM

QuickTidal, on 12 July 2011 - 01:18 PM, said:

Abyss, on 12 July 2011 - 01:16 PM, said:

...GHOST STORY before DWD, but still...

Am I going to have this book before Abyss? Whoa! It's like a red letter day or sumthin'. Considering damn near everyone got TCG before me.

Yep, but i am going to get my Dresden fix first if it kills you.

Briar King, on 13 July 2011 - 12:18 AM, said:

ADWD at WalMart today. Sweet!

$$$?

Mentalist, on 13 July 2011 - 01:56 AM, said:

today I got ADWD
also, Stross' "Fuller MEmorandum" (Laundry Files #3) finally came out in paperback, so I grabbed that.
...

Ummm... wasn't it only released in pb? I mean, that's what i got a year or more ago.

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Salt-Man Z, on 13 July 2011 - 03:32 AM, said:

Just received my copy of the (hard-to-find) Magic the Gathering: Test of Metal by Matthew Fucking Stover. I've never read a MtG novel (nor played the game) but dude it's Matthew Fucking Stover.

...
Hope your Stover book is awesome.

I still cannot read licensed property Stover books on the basis that they aren't CAINE Stover books.

I'm fucking petty, i know, i know.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 03:28 PM

Dude, Abyss! At least check out some of his Star Wars stuff. The man wrote what is arguably the most Star Wars-y entry in the SW canon, after the original trilogy: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, and his novelization of Revenge of the Sith is flat out amazing. (Not to mention the highly metaphysical Traitor, or his Mace Windu/Joseph Conrad mashup, Shatterpoint.) You're seriously missing out, man.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 03:48 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 13 July 2011 - 03:28 PM, said:

Agreed with both Mindor and Sith....those books are amazing.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 09:15 PM

@Abyss: first off, it's also available in hardcover.

second, I had both Atrocity Archives and Jennifer Morgue as mmpb. made no sence to get fuller as tpb.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 09:35 PM

Picked up Way of Kings in pb today, I read it when it first came out but that was a library copy, I was a fan so I figured I'd grab the pb when it came out (though i'm not sure how the pb even worked, the thing is 1258 pages)

And, I told myself I was gonna hold off on this because there isn't any rush to read it before the next one is gonna come out...but I grabbed ADWD. 40% off at borders plus I had $5 more on my account that I could use so I figured "$35 book for $16? screw it..."

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Posted 13 July 2011 - 09:39 PM

I bought ADWD as well, how could I resist after 834 years of waiting? (Ok, I exaggerate a tad). I also bought a book about samurai, just cos.

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 12:58 PM

Maia Irraz, on 13 July 2011 - 09:39 PM, said:

I bought ADWD as well, how could I resist after 834 years of waiting? (Ok, I exaggerate a tad). I also bought a book about samurai, just cos.

Curious: A non-fiction book about Samurai or a fiction one?

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 05:34 PM

Mentalist, on 13 July 2011 - 09:15 PM, said:

@Abyss: first off, it's also available in hardcover.

I recall that now - also it was damn hard to find.

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second, I had both Atrocity Archives and Jennifer Morgue as mmpb. made no sence to get fuller as tpb.

I got it as mmpb (albeit in silly 'big mmpb' format) just after release, hence my confusion. but no worries, enjoy! It was an awesome book, easily as good if not better than the prior two.

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 05:45 PM

So i broke like a twig and picked up ADWD along with ROBOPOCALYPSE, both in hardback, for just under $30CND, actually free with judicious use of gift card and coupon, so yay me and now i need to go add something to my GHOST STORY pre-order to get free shipping.

- Abyss, weak like weakling.

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