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Posted 22 March 2008 - 07:32 PM

Back home, went to Chapters to buy books 5+6 of the Dresden Files.... since the internet told me they had them
Found book 6 no problem, but "Death masks" (vol 5) wasn't there

so, got hardback of "The Born Queen" by Keyes instead...

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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 27 March 2008 - 10:52 AM

Ordered a few of the Amazons today

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
I Am Legend
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Foucault's Pendulum
In Green's Jungles (Book of the Short Sun, Book 2)
On Blue's Waters: Volume One of 'The Book of the Short Sun' (Book of the Short Sun)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Return to the Whorl: The Final Volume of 'The Book of the Short Sun' (Book of the Short Sun)

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Posted 27 March 2008 - 11:02 AM

A bit retro some of those choices Hume. Foucault Pendulum is the thinking mans Da Vinci code, I swapped it at a travellers hostel for GotM in Peru and loved it. Then had to buy a copy of GotM to replace the one I had sacreligiously discarded.

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Posted 27 March 2008 - 01:47 PM

Cougar;280133 said:

Spreading the gospel to the heathens is never a sacreligious use of a book my friend.

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Posted 28 March 2008 - 03:27 AM

Ordered Small Favors and Personal Demonds from chapters, and Last Agrument of Kings from amazon.co.uk.

Be interesting to see how long it take for it to arrive.

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Posted 28 March 2008 - 03:40 AM

Shadowplay by Tad Williams...yeah yeah, I know, a lot of TW haters on this forum. I actually liked the first book of the series....pretty gritty for Taddy

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Posted 28 March 2008 - 04:40 AM

Xander;280631 said:

Shadowplay by Tad Williams...yeah yeah, I know, a lot of TW haters on this forum. I actually liked the first book of the series....pretty gritty for Taddy

hmmm... I read the synpsis for book 1, and then later for Book 2.... seems like a HUGE rip-off of ASOIAF.......
my acquaitance with his works so far is limited to vol 1 of Otherland.... I intend to pick up the other volumes eventually, maybe even soon...

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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 28 March 2008 - 09:03 AM

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I've no love for TW or GRRM but you can't say that something is ripping off a series which is a fantasy retelling of British history (war of the roses etc). It's not a valid criticism per se I feel.

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Posted 28 March 2008 - 10:03 AM

I've just ordered an insane number of books from Amazon. The best of which are Modern Manners by PJ O'Rourke which I originally read back in the early 90s - it's subtitled Etiquette for Extremely Rude People which says everything about its appeal to me; and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Star Maker and Sirius- which are sf classics that everyone should read; the last of which implies some quite extraordinarily dodgy things in the latter course of its plot (which didn't go unnoticed when it was first published and made it quite a contronversial book)

The last thing I bought at, like, a physical bookshop was The New Weird anthology edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer which, whilst it has some great stuff in, does come over as quite self congratulatary and smug in the non-fiction/discussion section.

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Posted 28 March 2008 - 02:30 PM

stone monkey;280793 said:

...Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Star Maker and Sirius- which are sf classics that everyone should read; the last of which implies some quite extraordinarily dodgy things in the latter course of its plot (which didn't go unnoticed when it was first published and made it quite a contronversial book).

Steer clear if you don't like self obessesed, tormented characters suffering perma-existensial crises..and dog sex.

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Posted 28 March 2008 - 04:45 PM

Well. there is that. Although the bestiality thing is only lightly implied...

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Posted 28 March 2008 - 04:52 PM

stone monkey;281137 said:

Well. there is that. Although the bestiality thing is only lightly implied...

The girl gets jealous because she can't get nailed by the talking dog, lightly implied my arse, 'Monkey

Sorry for going off topic

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Posted 28 March 2008 - 05:02 PM

Xander;280631 said:

Shadowplay by Tad Williams...yeah yeah, I know, a lot of TW haters on this forum. I actually liked the first book of the series....pretty gritty for Taddy

Heh, I like Otherland and War of the Flowers, but couldn't get into Shaodw-whatever at all. Put it down in the end and went on to read something else... strange.

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Posted 29 March 2008 - 04:41 AM

2nd book is better than the first. I didn't mind Memory, Sorrow Thorn either, though the end was a bit typical.

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Posted 30 March 2008 - 11:52 AM

So today I bought;

Drenai tales Volume Two - David Gemmell
Drenai tales Volume Three - David Gemmell
The Alteration - Kingsley Amis
Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Faded Sun Trilogy - C. J. Cherryh
Otherness - David Brin
Brotherhood of the Wolf - David Farland
The Gold at the Starbow's End - Frederik Pohl
Survival Kit - Frederik Pohl
Valentine Pontifex - Robert Silverberg
The Masks of Time - Robert Silverberg
Shadow Road - Sean Russell
Major Operation - James White
The Lost Worlds of 2001 - Arthur C. Clarke
The Shape of Further Things - Brian Aldiss
Selected Poems - Pablo Neruda

Now I need to find space to stack them....

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Posted 02 April 2008 - 07:25 PM

Just ordered Greg Keyes' finale "The Born Queen" and S. M. Peters' "Whitechapel Gods". The second one has been recommended here by certain Mr. A.Byss recently, and I thought I might give it a try...

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Posted 02 April 2008 - 07:41 PM

I bought 'Wrath of a Mad God' by Feist and 'The Briar King' by Keyes yestereday.

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Posted 05 April 2008 - 09:42 PM

today has been another Chapters run
ordered "Death masks" (Dresden files #5) and "On the trail of the black Wyrm" by Chris Pierson, vol. 2 of the Taladas trilogy--because I like my occasional Dragonlance fix, and Taladas is more adult then most.

bought
"Sailing to Sarantium" and "Lord of Emprerors"--the two books of the Sarantine Mosaic by Kay--Kay's take on Byzantium
Book 1 of the codex Alera series by Jim Butcher--just happened to see it + paperback, and I liked Butcher's Dresden stuff, so I'll give it a try
picked a classic --"Legend" by Gemmel, the first book of the Drenai series --I've read "Waylander" before, and it was pretty good, so I wanted to go back tot he beginning
Also, picked up "River of Blue Fire", vol 2 opf Tad Williams' "Otherland"

so, all in all, nothing truly exceptional, + it's exam time, so won't be reading much for a while...

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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.