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#861 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 12 June 2008 - 07:07 PM

Toll the Hounds. Ok, I ordered it. It won't get here until sept. 16. But still.

edit:change that to july 8-14, thanks to buying from the uk. Damn the exchange rate and damn international shipping charges.

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#862 Tif the Barber Boy

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Posted 14 June 2008 - 09:51 AM

Werthead;328598 said:

My ARCs of Paul Kearney's The Ten Thousand, Greg Bear's The City at the End of Time and Melinda Snodgrass' The Edge of Reason turned up.

Is 'City at the End of Time' related to his Eon/Eternity series?

#863 Bhurnae

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Posted 14 June 2008 - 12:47 PM

Just ordered Night of Knives and Cooks Black Company to see what all the fuss is about....

Mezla PigDog, on 28 September 2009 - 09:34 PM, said:

I have been entertaining tourists for many years now.... A girls gotta make a living.

#864 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 14 June 2008 - 07:26 PM

Bhurnae;330402 said:

and Cooks Black Company to see what all the fuss is about....

Did you get the omnibus? It's the way to go, they're short books. Only having one will do nothing but get you interested and then pissed you have to go back out and get the others.

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#865 Bhurnae

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Posted 15 June 2008 - 10:30 AM

Raymond Luxury Yacht;330535 said:

Did you get the omnibus? It's the way to go, they're short books. Only having one will do nothing but get you interested and then pissed you have to go back out and get the others.

Did I take the sensible option you mean?....of course I didnt

somebody had
"converted to the Black Company" or some such in their sig.....so when I was on Amazon ordering NOK I thought hmmmmm i'll order that at same time. Only after ordering did i read these posts and find out there was an omnibus:grrm:

Mezla PigDog, on 28 September 2009 - 09:34 PM, said:

I have been entertaining tourists for many years now.... A girls gotta make a living.

#866 Dag

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Posted 24 June 2008 - 04:48 PM

I.C. Esslemont - "Night of Knives"
Martin/Abraham/Dozois - "Hunter's Run"

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

#867 thesalus

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Posted 24 June 2008 - 11:12 PM

Hope I'm not spoiling anything or breaking too many IP laws, but I bought Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company (The Books of the North omnibus).

I don't think my copy was there for the equipment inspection... and... SPOILER ALERT At least that's the case for the first two images.

Guh. Forgot my flickr info.

#868 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 24 June 2008 - 11:25 PM

That's so weak. Refund!

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#869 QuickTidal

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Posted 25 June 2008 - 12:23 AM

The Last Oracle - James Rollins

Odalisque - Fiona McIntosh

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon

#870 Astra

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Posted 25 June 2008 - 09:15 PM

Toll the Hounds :shocked:

From Waterstone with a gift voucher I had for 1 and 1/2 year

Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm Not Sure About The Former.
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#871 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 25 June 2008 - 09:22 PM

Still waiting for mine, damnit. I've got a bunch of Waterstones giftcards. My in-laws give them to me, butt there aren't any near my house. I'm saving them up to go on a huge spree one day. That will be a good day.

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#872 Tremolo

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Posted 26 June 2008 - 04:59 PM

Actually it was a couple of days ago but what the heck...TOLL THE HOUNDS!!!

'We all have nukes, and we all know how to dance'

#873 paladin

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Posted 26 June 2008 - 05:58 PM

The Last Wish by Andrezj Sapkowski

#874 caladanbrood

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Posted 28 July 2008 - 09:29 PM

Bought Richard Morgan's Steel Remains today. The synopsis looks atrocious, but I'm ignoring that for now...

O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.

#875 Shurque's biatch

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Posted 29 July 2008 - 12:47 AM

TtH from Ch'arlz!! Woohoo. Arrived this morning. Yay us.

(and thanks Ch'arlz)

"Piss on Hood!" ~Roach

#876 ch'arlz

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Posted 29 July 2008 - 01:16 AM

Shurque said:

TtH from Ch'arlz!! Woohoo. Arrived this morning. Yay us.

wow, that was fast! they told me eta was wed or thurs.

enjoy!

Shaken, not stirred.

#877 Fist Gamet

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Posted 02 August 2008 - 01:58 PM

Steel Remains. Loved Morgan's other books so I hope he brings some of his great style and characters to fantasy with this one. Got to finish TtH first...nearly there...

Victory is mine!

#878 acesn8s

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Posted 03 August 2008 - 06:18 PM

received a few belated birthday presents:

Charles DeLint's Widdershins and The Little Country
Brandon Sanderson's Elantris
Jim Butcher's Captain's Fury

I've started Elantris

#879 stone monkey

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Posted 08 August 2008 - 03:18 PM

Anabasis by Xenophon

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. … So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. Bertrand Russell