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Abyss, on 28 January 2013 - 05:11 PM, said:
yuna_anomander25, on 27 January 2013 - 03:10 PM, said:
finally got my copy of ALTERED CARBON - Richard Morgan, now i could start my read of his Takeshi Kovacs and then continue with his A Land Fit for Heroes, and then to purchase his other 2 books, Market Forces and Black Man/Thirteen,...
Just a caution - MARKET FORCES stands separate from his other books, has no connection of significance and is a radically lower level of quality... it was his first screenplay, never picked up for anything and when AC was pub's to mass acclaim, MF was converted to a book and released to capitalize on the rush. It's decent, but nowhere near his other work imnsho.
oh, thanks for the clarification, I know its separate from the TK novels, but didn't know about that,
Use Of Weapons, on 28 January 2013 - 09:57 PM, said:
yuna_anomander25, on 27 January 2013 - 03:10 PM, said:
Fugitive Prince - Janny Wurts, i know its book 4 or something of her Wars of Light and Shadow, but it is also book 1 of her Alliance of Light something,
Unfortunately, that's a publisher's marketing gimmick. It's one large (humongous) series, split into mini-series. Each internal miniseries starts numbering the books at 1, but you need to read them from the beginning to make any sense of them. Alliance of Light is the 3rd arc of the 5 arcs.
Mentalist, on 29 January 2013 - 08:42 AM, said:
"Curse of mistwraith" alone is Arc 1. Read that to see if you like Wurts' style.
books 2+3 are Arc 2, and then book 4 starts Arc 3, and so forth.
I think I have the first 4 at home. I read the first 2 a few years back now, I think. There are some neat concepts there, but Wurts' writing style isn't exactly my thing. It requires a serious time investment to get into, and i'm waiting till a tropical vacation where I can just chill on the beach with a book all day to get into that one. Couldn't keep up with it as a casual read.
books 2+3 are Arc 2, and then book 4 starts Arc 3, and so forth.
I think I have the first 4 at home. I read the first 2 a few years back now, I think. There are some neat concepts there, but Wurts' writing style isn't exactly my thing. It requires a serious time investment to get into, and i'm waiting till a tropical vacation where I can just chill on the beach with a book all day to get into that one. Couldn't keep up with it as a casual read.
I think I'll just go and do that, find her first book of Wars of Light and Shadow, I also saw her book To Ride Hell's Chasm, and checked it wasn't part of it, or any series of her,
Forgot to mention, I got the other day copies of:
Black Lung Captain - Chris Wooding & The Red Wolf Conspiracy - Robert VS Redick, planning to read this books back-to-back and if I could, I'll maybe include Nights of Villjamur, but I'm of two minds about it,
found in the 2ndHS:
Black Man/Thirteen - Richard Morgan, i got the Gollancz ver, so its Black Man, and while my AC copy is the Del Rey one, it doesn't look like a SF book, it looks more an urban fic, and this BM one, well it's just that, a shadow of a man,
-on an entirely different topic, I just watched Gundam Unicorn, and I'm a little surprised and happy, because, that series also have "SLEEVES" in there, though in a different usage and there is a character, a prof, whose last name is Bancroft, hmm, curious much,-
The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises , Mordant's Need: The Mirror of Her Dreams & Daughter of Regals and Other Tales - ALL Stephen Donaldson, slowly I'm getting all of his books,
-I could see where SE found his inspiration for the Crimson Guard, it parallels Donaldson's BloodGuard, which made me smile-
and don't know if I should post this,
Krondor the Betrayal - Raymond E Feist, i know, i know, it's one of his bad books, but since I got this on a very LOW, LOW price, it almost should have been FREE, haha,
