The Book I bought today is...

#3881 Abyss

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Posted 06 December 2016 - 03:56 AM

End of Disc One, on 05 December 2016 - 10:10 PM, said:

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Hopefully my wife just gets me 1, and doesn't send the list to any family members. My TRP will hate me.

Pfft... My TRP has filed for divorce and is seeking custody of my tablet and external hard drive. I'm pretty sure it's dating a librarian just to make me jealous.

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#3882 Macros

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Posted 09 December 2016 - 02:41 PM

Damnit, made the mistake of opening the Amazon app to kill time at the airport.
Bam straight away in the recos, Invicta, the latest installment in the Eagle series by Scarrow. Purchased.

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#3883 Tsundoku

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Posted 11 December 2016 - 04:44 AM

Recent purchases:

A Crown for Cold Silver, Alex Marshall (plus the sequel A Blade of Black Steel)
Stiletto, Daniel O'Malley (sequel to The Rook)
Staked, Kevin Hearne

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#3884 Macros

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Posted 12 December 2016 - 02:24 PM

Let me know how you get on with A crown. I really didn't get the hype

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Posted 12 December 2016 - 11:25 PM

I just bought Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and I'm hoping it's good.

We sail in and out of Time, then back again. There is only one ship, the captain says. All the ships we hail between the galaxies or suns are this ship.

#3886 Macros

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Posted 16 December 2016 - 08:02 AM

It's so much better than the film

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#3887 Whisperzzzzzzz

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 07:55 PM

Just received my used copy of The Library At Mount Char in the mail. I did a quick flip through just to see what the typesetting was like, when a line caught my eye: "Two weeks later Jack shat on an old lady's bed and wiped his ass with her aging, yellowed wedding photos."

I think I'm going to like this book.

#3888 Macros

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 08:00 PM

let me know what you think of it, I've been considering purchasing for a while

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 08:24 PM

Macros, on 20 December 2016 - 08:00 PM, said:

let me know what you think of it, I've been considering purchasing for a while

I'll definitely post about it in the Reading At T'Moment thread when I'm reading it. It's toward the top of my TRP.

#3890 Macros

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 08:36 PM

excellente

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#3891 polishgenius

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Posted 21 December 2016 - 08:15 PM

I didn't like Mount Char as much as most people who have read it like it, and I thought it was frigging awesome.

I dunno if that gives you an indication of quality...

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Posted 21 December 2016 - 08:38 PM

At least two of us (myself included) put Mount Char on our best-reads-of-2016 list, so.

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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#3893 Macros

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Posted 22 December 2016 - 03:15 AM

Sonyiu're saying Macros should go on to Amazon, buy it and inevitably end up buying 4 more books?

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Posted 23 December 2016 - 08:39 AM

Ok, I went and bought the Library at Mount Char yesterday. Kindle tells me I'm 60 % through by now, and it's awesome!

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#3895 Macros

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Posted 23 December 2016 - 10:44 AM

Amazon tells me its £25 in hardback and doesn't offer a paperback.
I say fuck that

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Posted 23 December 2016 - 10:44 PM

I was gifted Blindsight and it's sequel today by my secret samta at work. These two have been on my radar for awhile, so I'm actually really excited by this.

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Posted 25 December 2016 - 04:04 AM

Macros, on 22 December 2016 - 03:15 AM, said:

Sonyiu're saying Macros should go on to Amazon, buy it and inevitably end up buying 4 more books?

Morgoth, on 23 December 2016 - 08:39 AM, said:

Ok, I went and bought the Library at Mount Char yesterday. Kindle tells me I'm 60 % through by now, and it's awesome!

Macros, on 23 December 2016 - 10:44 AM, said:

Amazon tells me its £25 in hardback and doesn't offer a paperback.
I say fuck that

Audible 30 day trial freebie is your friend.

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Posted 25 December 2016 - 05:54 PM

Powering through the last couple Amber books over the holidays and just got a Kobo as a gift. Now the question is, do I buy / start with The Gentleman Bastard or The Acts of Caine. I'm leaning towards the latter, because from what I can tell it's a finished series whereas the other isn't.

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Posted 25 December 2016 - 06:00 PM

Dadding, on 25 December 2016 - 05:54 PM, said:

Caine. Absofuckinglutely Caine.

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Posted 26 December 2016 - 03:03 PM

End of Disc One, on 05 December 2016 - 10:10 PM, said:

I haven't bought these, but I stupidly made an Amazon wish list of series I haven't started and sent it to my wife...

The Thousand Names by Django Wexler
The Emperor's Blades by Brian Stavely
Traitor's Blade by Sebastian de Castell
The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts
Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks
Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe
Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bankcroft
Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton
The Godless by Ben Peek
Colours in Steel by K.J. Parker

I ended up receiving the underlined ones as Christmas presents. The TRP grows...

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