[Primateus]

Finally managed to pick up my copy of Codex Alera book one from the store today even though I ordered it weeks ago.

[Ukjent]

champ, on 14 February 2013 - 12:46 PM, said:

Peter Brett - Daylight War - looking forward to this 1!

Don't to crush your hopes, but I'm about 190 pages in, and it have yet to impress me.

[champ]

Graablick, on 14 February 2013 - 03:29 PM, said:

champ, on 14 February 2013 - 12:46 PM, said:

Peter Brett - Daylight War - looking forward to this 1!

Don't to crush your hopes, but I'm about 190 pages in, and it have yet to impress me.

I had a feeling it could go this way...

About 100 pages in and it is all pretty bland atm, will stick with it though!

[QuickTidal]

Picked up an old book that's been re-released with a fresh translation (originally released in 1993 in Japan.

PAPRIKA - Yasutaka Tsutsui

And yes, it is the same story they used for the Satoshi Kon Anime of the same name a few years back....which pre-dated going into someone's dreams as you saw in INCEPTION...though in PAPRIKA it's for the purposes of helping or defining with neurosis or psychosis.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 February 2013 - 02:44 PM

[Mentalist]

Next week uni students in Canada are off for a week.

They call this "reading week", presuming we'll use it to catch up on schoolwork.

Accordingly, I visited Chapters today, buying:

The Way of Kings By Sanderson--mean to pick this one up a while ago, and with the possibility of a themed mafia game with the same theme, this was a good reason to finally do it.
The Heroes By Joe Abercrobie--likewise, been meaning to get this for a while, and hey, I got paid today, so why not?
Technician by Neal Asher--One of the few Polity books I don't own yet. Asher's easily one of my tp Sci-fi writers, so more Asher is better.
Age of Odin by James Lovegrove--I liked bot the Ra and Zeus books, and Odin was endorsed by the admin-cat, so looking forward to another mindless fun action book. I'm also a mythology junkie, so that just makes it better.

[yuna_anomander25]

picked up:

KRAKEN - China Mieville, this my first book of CM, but i will read his books from his first (King Rat) up to his latest (Railsea?),

have to wait 1 more week before i could buy more books again, hopefully i could finally get my copy of Forge of Darkness, and It'll be my birthday gift for myself, haha,

[Abyss]

yuna_anomander25, on 16 February 2013 - 01:24 PM, said:

picked up:

KRAKEN - China Mieville, ...

SQUID!!!

SQUIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

[Mikkelinski]

I find that Perdido Street Station is taking me forever to read (like the longest time to read a book since I read LotR in 4th grade, but that took nearly a year so), but at the same time that I truly like the book which just makes it wierder. I've even been re-read parts of Kingkiller Chronicles to break it up a bit so that I could keep going at all. Guessing it all comes down to having read too many books with lighter prose, like the aforementioned Chronicles, Butcher and Daniel Abrahams.

Despite this, I've now celebrated hitting 90% (I use a Kindle, to my dismay for the first time since it slows down the sense of progression) by buying a whole pile + some freebies. The first of which to be read is Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, which I've heard good things about (though not seen it mentioned on these boards). Also bought, Heroes & Red Country by Abercrombie, The Way of Kings by Sanderson, Long Price Quartet by Abrahams. Moby Dick, Illiad and the Odyssey were all free. So I'm set and quite stoked to be able to get onto new stuff, but I will be reading at least The Scar (which is the one everyone likes right? It's The Iron Council which divides people?) but that's for later.

[Chance]

Mikkelinski, on 17 February 2013 - 10:31 AM, said:

The first of which to be read is Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, which I've heard good things about (though not seen it mentioned on these boards).

While pretty well written I guess the main reason it gets good press is that its written with a very autenthish arabic-muslim point of view instead of the normal western-christian. It is certainly diffrent but not extraordinary and certainly feels a bit simple much of the time.

This post has been edited by Chance: 17 February 2013 - 11:30 AM

[Mikkelinski]

Heh, just up my lane then. I'll be looking for something quick-and-easy after Perdido I suppose. Plus, given a personal project I could do with learning a bit about the culture from the book.

[McLovin]

More Star Wars GNs plus Vol 2 HB of Justice League.

[Salt-Man Z]

Had great luck at the Half Price Books clearance rack yesterday, filling in some holes in my collection: I found Greg Keyes' The Charnel Prince (leaving me only the third book of the quartet to find), Robin Hobb's Assassin's Quest (completing the trilogy), and C. J. Cherryh's Fortress of Eagles (giving me the first two books in the series), all for $1 each. (In fact, all the books I have in those three series have come from the HPB clearance rack.)

[Macros]

Gonna top up my ebook a bit tonight, thinking of some Tad Williams, don't think Ibe read any of his stuff yet.

[Ukjent]

I have only read is thorn, sorrow, chair(?)-series, and it was okei, a bit to kitchenboy gonna save worldisj for my test.

[Macros]

regional bollocks, I have to wait until I'm back in the uk to d/l any of them.

still on my wishlist is now the gormenghast trilogy and several other books.

[Salt-Man Z]

Today's pickups:

Shadow and Betrayal by Daniel Abraham
Under Heaven by GGK
Elric: Swords and Roses by Michael Moorcock

[Macros]

I've only read the dragons path (book one of the dagger and the coin I *think*) by Daniel Abraham, and I was underwhelmed, is his other stuff similar/ better/ worse?

[Mikkelinski]

What exactly about The Dragon's Path did you find underwhelming? I found it quite great, but I read both one and two in rapid succession and was left waiting for more. I think one of the common complaints is that it sort of just ends a bit out of nowhere. I know at least that I first got excited with the characters after the second, but they were so short so it all went by naturally for me (kindle is awesome).

I have the Long Price Quartet set up as my next read, and I'm going to buy book 3 immediately as it gets out.

This post has been edited by Mikkelinski: 19 February 2013 - 11:13 PM

[yuna_anomander25]

Briar King, on 19 February 2013 - 11:22 PM, said:

Mikkelinski, on 19 February 2013 - 11:13 PM, said:

What exactly about The Dragon's Path did you find underwhelming? I found it quite great, but I read both one and two in rapid succession and was left waiting for more. I think one of the common complaints is that it sort of just ends a bit out of nowhere. I know at least that I first got excited with the characters after the second, but they were so short so it all went by naturally for me (kindle is awesome).

I have the Long Price Quartet set up as my next read, and I'm going to buy book 3 immediately as it gets out.

Whats the titles and reading order of the 2 series?

@Briar King:

The Dagger & The Coin:

-The Dragon's Path
-The King's Blood
soon to come: The Tyrant's Law

The Long-Price Quartet:

Shadow and Betrayal (omnibus title)
- A Shadow in Summer
- A Betrayal in Winter

The Price of War (omnibus title)
- An Autumn War
- The Price of Spring

- I also have these books on my radar for quite some time now, i put up an order just a few weeks ago of A Shadow in Summer, it still hasn't arrived,

i also put up an order for
Abraham's/James S.A. Corey's - Leviathan Wakes
Robert VS Redick's - The Rats and the Ruling Seas
James Barclay's - Dawnthief (already got an e-book, but i still like to have a physical copy, and i love Swanland's art)

and the other day, i got copies of 2 Feist books:
Magician: Apprentice and The King's Buccaneer

This post has been edited by yuna_anomander25: 20 February 2013 - 12:42 AM

[Salt-Man Z]

Briar King, on 20 February 2013 - 02:01 AM, said:

Awesome Yuna! So Dagger should be read before the Quartet then?

They're not related. Long Price was written first and is complete.