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#2681 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 11:18 AM

Briar King, on 09 January 2013 - 03:02 AM, said:

Use Of Weapons, on 08 January 2013 - 11:23 PM, said:

I got AMOL. Just finished it, after an entire day of reading. I'm...not sure how to feel about it.

You finished that fast?

Yeah. It was about a battle, right?

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#2682 Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast

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Posted 09 January 2013 - 12:36 PM

Nothing bought today BUT at the end of the week I'll use some gift voucher money to pick up The Scar. Also Lord of Chaos to recomplete my WoT collection, as someone I lent LoC to left it on a plane, bought me a replacement, continued borrowing said replacement and then never actually gave it to me...sooo I'm just gonna go get it myself.

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#2683 Alrin

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 03:06 AM

I saw AMoL at my local the other day. Couldn't muster the care to pick it up. One day.

I DID, however, get my copy of Warren Ellis' GUN MACHINE. If you're not reading this book, what the fuck is wrong with you?

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#2684 worry

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 04:10 AM

I'm blind, if you must know.

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#2685 Zanth13

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 06:09 AM

Just bought th 2nd Felix Castor book for kindle.

The first was decent enough to warrant another. I expect the series to improve.

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#2686 Obdigore

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 06:15 AM

Zanth13, on 10 January 2013 - 06:09 AM, said:

Just bought th 2nd Felix Castor book for kindle.

The first was decent enough to warrant another. I expect the series to improve.

You will be disappointed. It stays steady through the first three books, imo. Gets neither better or worse.

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#2687 Alrin

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 07:40 AM

worrywort, on 10 January 2013 - 04:10 AM, said:

I'm blind, if you must know.

No excuse. Buy the Braille edition.

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#2688 worry

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 08:11 AM

Okay, maybe, but who's Warner Ells anyway?

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 08:38 AM

worrywort, on 10 January 2013 - 08:11 AM, said:

Okay, maybe, but who's Warner Ells anyway?

One of the Warner Brothers.

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 05:19 PM

Obdigore, on 10 January 2013 - 06:15 AM, said:

Zanth13, on 10 January 2013 - 06:09 AM, said:

Just bought th 2nd Felix Castor book for kindle.

The first was decent enough to warrant another. I expect the series to improve.

You will be disappointed. It stays steady through the first three books, imo. Gets neither better or worse.

What happens after 3?

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#2691 Abyss

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 05:29 PM

Zanth13, on 10 January 2013 - 05:19 PM, said:

Obdigore, on 10 January 2013 - 06:15 AM, said:

Zanth13, on 10 January 2013 - 06:09 AM, said:

Just bought th 2nd Felix Castor book for kindle.

The first was decent enough to warrant another. I expect the series to improve.

You will be disappointed. It stays steady through the first three books, imo. Gets neither better or worse.

What happens after 3?

The series goes beserk and gets magnitudes better.

I thought 1-3 were good enough, but 4 is where Carey ties it all tgether and starts making sense and 5... 5 is just fucked.

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Posted 10 January 2013 - 08:08 PM

Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast, on 09 January 2013 - 12:36 PM, said:

I loved The Scar. I only read it recently, and it was the first Mieville I'd read, but I think it's my favourite.

I just got Summer Knight for my kindle. I need some more Dresden as I just finished Cold Days, which has left me somewhat in... need. A recap will be good, too.

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Posted 11 January 2013 - 01:26 AM

made a very random purchase in the 2nd hand bookstore, I'm actually finding books there that I have not noticed before,

Royal Assassin & Golden Fool - Robin Hobb

Rise of a Merchant Prince & Rage of a Demon King - Raymond E Feist

Cryoburn - Lois McMaster Bujold, i know it's like the last or something of Vorkosigan, hopefully i could buy and read all of her Vorkosigan

The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story & another copy of The Illearth War - Stephen Donaldson,

and for another, I picked up:

Woken Furies - Richard Morgan, just missing Altered Carbon & Broken Angels for me to start the Takeshi Kovacs novels

and finally, The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie,

another addition to my already growing pile, hopefully i could read all of them this 1st quarter of the year before the next installments of books that i want to follow and already following arrives,

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Posted 11 January 2013 - 02:31 AM

Blood and Bone arrived today. Not sure if I want to dive in now or finish the book I'm reading first.

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#2695 worry

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Posted 11 January 2013 - 02:36 AM

You should wait. Cuz once you're done you'll probably want to post about it too, and that's more time taken from the other book.

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Posted 11 January 2013 - 02:41 AM

Psh. I can just do that at work.

#2697 worry

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Posted 11 January 2013 - 02:48 AM

Oh yah!

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Posted 11 January 2013 - 02:57 AM

Abyss, on 10 January 2013 - 05:29 PM, said:

Zanth13, on 10 January 2013 - 05:19 PM, said:

Obdigore, on 10 January 2013 - 06:15 AM, said:

Zanth13, on 10 January 2013 - 06:09 AM, said:

Just bought th 2nd Felix Castor book for kindle.

The first was decent enough to warrant another. I expect the series to improve.

You will be disappointed. It stays steady through the first three books, imo. Gets neither better or worse.

What happens after 3?

The series goes beserk and gets magnitudes better.

I thought 1-3 were good enough, but 4 is where Carey ties it all tgether and starts making sense and 5... 5 is just fucked.

Awesome, I think I saw that review from you before part of the reason i gave the books a chance, and I thought the first book was pretty good and don't mind a few equally as good. They are pretty fast read.

If Abyss says its ok, I'll take it as ok.

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#2699 Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast

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Posted 11 January 2013 - 09:02 AM

Still only on chapter two of AMoL! Page 90-something. I'll get through a whole chunk tomorrow afternoon though and, to be honest, I don't actually want to rush it anyway!

Will buy The Scar when I actually have finished but I still have Blood and Bone, Banks's Transition (I think) and the B&KB novellas sitting in my cupboard.

I think I'll be reading The Scar but at least I have backup.

I also have an Italian copy of AGoT on my desk that I've been intending to have a crack at but haven't.

Finally, I can tell that--as well as my intended Malazan reread--I'm going to need to do a full WoT reread sometime soon.

So there you go, all the books that I either already have or haven't bought but nothing that I bought today...

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Posted 11 January 2013 - 02:04 PM

Blood and bone, Death Makes and last Argument of Kings arrived today, and AMOL is expected to arrive on tuesday. Just tobad that the school has started.