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#2861 MTS

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Posted 21 April 2013 - 05:20 AM

Ordered River of Stars today, but because the publishing date has been pushed back here I won't get it for another two weeks, which makes me sad.

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Posted 21 April 2013 - 06:47 PM

Alrin, on 21 April 2013 - 01:44 AM, said:

Pre-ordered my SubPress edition of Lynch's REPUBLIC OF THIVES. Been a long time coming.

I can't handle doing that haha. If I acknowledge that it's coming, I won't stop thinking about it, and September is to far away for me just yet

I am stoked for this though!

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Posted 27 April 2013 - 10:24 AM

Necessary Evil - Ian Tregillis. Arrived a few days early!

Doesn't help, though, cos I won't be starting it until I've finished East of Eden . . .

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Posted 27 April 2013 - 11:56 AM

Justin Cronin - THE TWELVE.

Also pre-ordered WOLVERINE: SEASON ONE.

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 30 April 2013 - 02:12 AM

got my copy of Blood of the Mantis, now i could continue my Shadows of the Apt read, still deciding which graphic novel to buy on my local bookstore's Free Comic Book Day

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Posted 30 April 2013 - 11:16 PM

Paid my last visit to the Winnipeg Chapters today, since i'm moving back home in 2 days. Didn't have anything spectacular, but I haven't bought books in a while, so I splurged a bt, picking up to Angry Robot omnibus collections I told myself I wouldn't get unless they were on sale:

"The Knights of Breton Court" by Maurice Broaddus--Urban fantasy meets Arthurianesque mythos meets gangs'n'ghetto.
"Bookman Histories" by Lavie Tidhar--this one had some forums recommendations and its steampunk, so there's that.

Both are total randoms, but both are huge books, and last time I did this I bough "Clockwork Vampires", which was entertaining, if not the most cerebral read.

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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 01 May 2013 - 04:09 AM

Mentalist, on 30 April 2013 - 11:16 PM, said:

Tidhar just crept to the upper levels of my TRP, so I'll be interested in what you think whenever you get to it.

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Posted 03 May 2013 - 04:05 PM

Bought Chris Wooding's The Iron Jackal and Daniel Abraham The dragon's Path.

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Posted 04 May 2013 - 08:55 AM

Just bought on a whim the complete Amber chronicles, codex alera 1-6 and the full first law trilogy, Plus Consider Phlebas and Guards! Guards! as a bonus.

Maybe i should be sad looking at the wasteland that is my wallet right now but i'm almost out of dresdencrack and i need some stuff to help me overcome the addiction.

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Posted 04 May 2013 - 07:06 PM

Tehol the Only, on 04 May 2013 - 08:55 AM, said:

You should be happy to have invested your money wisely. I'm not as fond of Codex Alera as some of the others here, though it was an enjoyable read, but Consider Phlebas, Guards!, The First Law and the Chronicles of Amber are all excellent.

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Posted 05 May 2013 - 12:30 AM

got my copy of Salute the Dark, found in the 2HS - Memory - Lois Mcmaster Bujold

went to Free Comic Book Day, got these as freebies:

Superman - Last Son of Krypton

Infinty - Marvel, &

The Walking Dead

and bought a Hard-Cover Thor: For Asgard, in the end it is the only one i bought, but next i'll be buying Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk, just curious about this 2,

#2872 MTS

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Posted 05 May 2013 - 11:43 AM

My order for River of Stars came in, so I went and bought that today. Just starting it now. :apt:

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Posted 13 May 2013 - 03:25 PM

Tregellis' NECESSARY EVIL, because i enjoyed BITTER SEED and COLDEST WAR too much not to grab the end of the trilo as soon as it became available.

Mary Gentle's ASH. People have been reco'ing this to me for ages, so a used tpb in a 2ndHS for $3 was irresistable.

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Posted 13 May 2013 - 05:26 PM

Abyss, on 13 May 2013 - 03:25 PM, said:

Mary Gentle's ASH. People have been reco'ing this to me for ages, so a used tpb in a 2ndHS for $3 was irresistable.

I picked this up last year, and had almost forgotten about it. Maybe I'll try to squeeze it in this year...

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Posted 13 May 2013 - 06:14 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 13 May 2013 - 05:26 PM, said:

Abyss, on 13 May 2013 - 03:25 PM, said:

Mary Gentle's ASH. People have been reco'ing this to me for ages, so a used tpb in a 2ndHS for $3 was irresistable.

I picked this up last year, and had almost forgotten about it. Maybe I'll try to squeeze it in this year...

The level of praise was huge a few years ago.
I have no idea if it will deliver, but i guess we'll find out.

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#2876 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 13 May 2013 - 06:30 PM

Yeah, it was Wert's review four years ago that got me interested. We shall see...

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Posted 13 May 2013 - 07:31 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 13 May 2013 - 06:30 PM, said:

Yeah, it was Wert's review four years ago that got me interested. We shall see...

Yah i think Wert started it. If it sucks we'll blame him.

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Posted 13 May 2013 - 08:00 PM

I read half of Ash a few years ago. It was fucking awesome, but I left it somewhere inaccessible at one point and it's so massive that by the time I got it back, it was in that really annoying state where I remembered it too well to reread but not well enough to carry on from where I left it. Your little discussion there may have given me the impetus to start it again now that time has passed (I'm a pre-Wert reader...

), so cheers muckas.

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Posted 21 May 2013 - 02:12 PM

Back from my vacation
these are the many books I hauled back with me, all in Russian:

Victor Hugot- "Les Miserables"

Thomas Mayne Reed-- the South African trilogy, the Himalayan books "Plant Hunters" and "Cliff Climbers" and also "the Castaways".

Valentin Pikul-"Bayazet"--A historical nnovel about the last Russo-Turkish War.

And a bunch of Non-fiction:

Piers Brendon decline and fall of the british empire 1781-1997--My English history is somewhat spotty, looking forward to reading this!
Fedor Uspensky-"History of the Byzantine Empire"
Arnold Toynbee- Civilization on trial--The West and the World
Vasiliy Klyuchevsky-Historical Portraits

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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 21 May 2013 - 05:00 PM

Lovegrove's AGE OF VOODOO.
In the same vein as his other AGE OF ZEUS/ODIN/RA/etc 'godpunk' books, but a mythos i'm far less familiar with. Coming off of some heavy reading this is pretty tempting.

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