[QuickTidal]

Serenity, on 16 May 2014 - 08:30 AM, said:

Masters of Rome Collection (Books 1 to 5 - er, sorry, I to V) by Colleen McCullough (£15 on Kindle)

I've never read her books, but I've been very tempted. Let me know how they are!

[Gabriel Chase]

A Patience box set, which included specially commissioned cards and a book called Patience, by David Parlett.



I bought it from a charity shop for a mere £3.

[HiddenOne]

bought The Blade Itself for $3 on Kindle

[Serenity]

QuickTidal, on 16 May 2014 - 10:27 AM, said:

Serenity, on 16 May 2014 - 08:30 AM, said:

Masters of Rome Collection (Books 1 to 5 - er, sorry, I to V) by Colleen McCullough (£15 on Kindle)

I've never read her books, but I've been very tempted. Let me know how they are!

Will do Hope you enjoy Cordelia's Honor. I thought Barrayar was very good.

[Baco Xtath]

Damnit. Just pre-ordered Cibola Burn and then browsed a little and discovered that the Revolutions by Felix Gilman was already out. Why I had to use my last credit for something that won't be out for a month is beyond me. Now I have to wait till the first of June before I can get it or maybe I'll buy the 3 credits for $35. However, the wife gets a little irked when I spend over $50 in a month on audiobooks.

[HiddenOne]

Loving the Blade Itself, stayed up way too late last night

@Baco - my library has a decent collection of audio books online for free download, so maybe you could get access to something similar there

[QuickTidal]

I'm a bit annoyed at some publishers lack of foresight with making eBook versions of some titles.

I've decided that for my honeymoon, since I will have to load up my bag with enough clothes for 14 days, that weight may be an issue (thus I didn't want to load up on physical books to bring). As such I was going to bring BROKEN HOMES (have the MMPB version)...and was going to bring my Kindle and load it up with stuff...so far I had planned on AUTHORITY by Vandermeer, SKIN GAME by Butcher (yes, I'm going to eBook a Dresden file!)...but the other book I wanted to throw on the Kindle was LATRO IN THE MIST, and it existeth not in Ebook form. It's kind of baffling that books like that, which are considered some of Wolfe's best work, are not transferred while other stuff is. Were I a publisher wishing to stay current and keep my finger on the digital pulse, I'd be converting the entire catalog to eBooks. Sure the front end work (especially with older titles) would be costly, but the end result would be less trees down, less waste, and generally less grumbly customers.

I'm just bitching. I'll probably grab THE DARWIN ELEVATOR for the 4th book to bring, but I'm annoyed I can't get stuck into LATRO yet...seemed like an ideal read when I'll be in Rome and its environs for days.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 20 May 2014 - 03:13 PM

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 20 May 2014 - 03:10 PM, said:

...SKIN GAME by Butcher (yes, I'm going to eBook a Dresden file!)......

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...btw on your packing issue, it sounds like you're going to be in places civilized. Consider halving your cloths and just doing a wash mid-way. Rome at a minimum has plenty of laundromats that will take your laundry, wash, fold and have it ready for you by end of day. In most smaller towns your pension/hostel/hotel owner can set it up.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 20 May 2014 - 04:08 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 20 May 2014 - 03:10 PM, said:

...SKIN GAME by Butcher (yes, I'm going to eBook a Dresden file!)......

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...btw on your packing issue, it sounds like you're going to be in places civilized. Consider halving your cloths and just doing a wash mid-way. Rome at a minimum has plenty of laundromats that will take your laundry, wash, fold and have it ready for you by end of day. In most smaller towns your pension/hostel/hotel owner can set it up.

We are going to be on a cruiseship and will not have any extra time in the ports we visit to do laundry and the ship does things by the item and it's costly enough that the Mrs. and I will be doing skivvies in the stateroom sink but for everything else we are packing as much as we can so we don't have to do laundry.

But yes, I've gone from being very nervous about doing Dresden in eBook form to being fully on board when I think about the space-saving / ease of holding Kindle aspect. This may actually be the book that makes me swing to more eBooks than physical books. You never know.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 20 May 2014 - 04:27 PM, said:

Abyss, on 20 May 2014 - 04:08 PM, said:

......btw on your packing issue, it sounds like you're going to be in places civilized. Consider halving your cloths and just doing a wash mid-way. Rome at a minimum has plenty of laundromats that will take your laundry, wash, fold and have it ready for you by end of day. In most smaller towns your pension/hostel/hotel owner can set it up.

We are going to be on a cruiseship and will not have any extra time in the ports we visit to do laundry and the ship does things by the item and it's costly enough that the Mrs. and I will be doing skivvies in the stateroom sink but for everything else we are packing as much as we can so we don't have to do laundry.

But yes, I've gone from being very nervous about doing Dresden in eBook form to being fully on board when I think about the space-saving / ease of holding Kindle aspect. This may actually be the book that makes me swing to more eBooks than physical books. You never know.

Yah if you're going cruisin' i agree the laundry prices are abominable, and anyways it's not like you have to carry your bags once in your room.

As for SKIN, hey, if you don't like it and still need a complete set, having read it you can always wait til Chapters clearances out the hbs for $4.99.

[Baco Xtath]

HiddenOne, on 19 May 2014 - 02:33 AM, said:

Loving the Blade Itself, stayed up way too late last night

@Baco - my library has a decent collection of audio books online for free download, so maybe you could get access to something similar there

Yeah, I've got two libraries that I hit up for free audiobooks all the time. Half of the books I listen to come from libraries. They just don't carry Felix Gilman, Vandermeer, or stuff like that. I get 2 audible credits a month and I usually buy at least one more per month (if you borrow an ebook from the library, audible assumes you've bought it and will give you the Whispersync price which is usually about $4).

[Coco with marshmallows]

Sworn in Steel - Douglas Hulick.

Sequel to the very good (bordering on great) Among Thieves.

Love the cant.

[McLovin]

THE MIDDLE KINGDOM (Chung Kuo #1) by David Wingrove.

EDIT - also picked up...

ALTERED CARBON by Richard Morgan

CAVERN OF BLACK ICE by JV Jones - another one of those fantasy series I always wanted to read but never got around to.

FIRST AND ONLY (Gaunt's Ghosts #1) by Dan Abnett

This post has been edited by McLovin: 26 May 2014 - 11:41 AM

[QuickTidal]

Books purchased for the forthcoming vacation/honeymoon:

SKIN GAME (pre-ordered eBook so it will drop into my Kindle after midnight tonight): Chances it will get read BEFORE honeymoon intentions? High.

LITTLE DEMON IN THE CITY OF LIGHT: A TRUE STORY OF MURDER & MESERMISM IN BELLE EPOQUE PARIS - Steven Levingston (Needed a non-fic read in case I get fictioned-out while away)

THE DARWIN ELEVATOR - Jason M. Hough (sci-fi aussie space elevator and aliens fodder)

AUTHORITY (2nd Southern Reach book) - Jeff Vandermeer (because the first one was batshit insane and riveting for the eyeholes)

BOSSYPANTS - Tina Fey (obligatory comedy non-fic read, always wanted to read it though)

[Baco Xtath]

Just bought, on audible, Hard Magic by Larry Correia and the Martian by Andy Weir.

[QuickTidal]

Another purchase for my kindle is THE BARROW by Mark Smylie. I couldn't resist. I've heard it described as: it's Erikson-level world-building, with a Joe Abercrombie approach to dialogue and grit, dashed with GRRM's penchant for offing characters at will. I'm in like flynn.

It also apparently contains sex scenes so scandalous that even stalwart readers of such things will blush.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 27 May 2014 - 04:25 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 27 May 2014 - 04:24 PM, said:

Another purchase for my kindle is THE BARROW by Mark Smylie. I couldn't resist. I've heard it described as: it's Erikson-level world-building, with a Joe Abercrombie approach to dialogue and grit, dashed with GRRM's penchant for offing characters at will. I'm in like flynn.

It also apparently contains sex scenes so scandalous that even stalwart readers of such things will blush.

Wow you sold that to me! Let us know if it stands up to such a reputation!

[QuickTidal]

Tisteon Simeonus, on 27 May 2014 - 04:36 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 27 May 2014 - 04:24 PM, said:

Another purchase for my kindle is THE BARROW by Mark Smylie. I couldn't resist. I've heard it described as: it's Erikson-level world-building, with a Joe Abercrombie approach to dialogue and grit, dashed with GRRM's penchant for offing characters at will. I'm in like flynn.

It also apparently contains sex scenes so scandalous that even stalwart readers of such things will blush.

Wow you sold that to me! Let us know if it stands up to such a reputation!

Will do!

[HiddenOne]

Bought Name of the Wind & King of Thorns over the weekend. Have finished NotW already (pretty good if a tad unoriginal) and am waiting a few days for KoT.

Also downloaded a couple ebooks for free that are probably so bad that I will have to delete them, time will tell. One is called "Regent" and in the first 2 pages, the character names are the same as D&D adventures I have played - I had to check & make sure the player didn't sneak and write a book in the last couple years. Always a bad sign.

[Baco Xtath]

Prince of Fools, fuck yeah.