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The Book I bought today is...

#3201 User is offline   Kruppe's snacky cakes 

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 11:52 PM

View PostI Am Brian Blessed Not Brent Weeks, on 02 February 2014 - 09:13 PM, said:

The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey,


Was excited to see this for $0.00 on kindle, but it was just a free preview. Hopefully it's cheap when the full book comes out, because it looks kind of good. The "creepy little girl" trope is one of my favorites.
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Posted 02 February 2014 - 11:54 PM

It's one of my favorite realities.
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Posted 03 February 2014 - 05:37 AM

Finally reading Ex-Patriots.
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Posted 03 February 2014 - 06:23 PM

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire. Stumbled onto them on ebay for just 1 Euro each, and thought the fact that the first one's got a lot of 'omg, it's not a fairy tale, it's an adult's deconstruction of a fairy tale, so I'm giving it 1 star, just barely'-reviews on goodreads was reason enough to try it. I used to like The Wizard of Oz as a kid but got really tired of getting bashed around the head with it in popular media.. Also, the musical was wicked in all the kinds of sense, and I loved it for the underlying deconstruction of this kind of story, which many people don't seem to notice. All in all, for that price it was not a question of to buy or not to buy.
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Posted 03 February 2014 - 06:43 PM

View PostPuck, on 03 February 2014 - 06:23 PM, said:

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire. Stumbled onto them on ebay for just 1 Euro each, and thought the fact that the first one's got a lot of 'omg, it's not a fairy tale, it's an adult's deconstruction of a fairy tale, so I'm giving it 1 star, just barely'-reviews on goodreads was reason enough to try it. I used to like The Wizard of Oz as a kid but got really tired of getting bashed around the head with it in popular media.. Also, the musical was wicked in all the kinds of sense, and I loved it for the underlying deconstruction of this kind of story, which many people don't seem to notice. All in all, for that price it was not a question of to buy or not to buy.


Not sure about Book 2...but the original is mired in A LOT of politics and meta-stuff. Maguire allows that to kind of grind things to a crawl midway through, but if you can push on it becomes VERY, very good in the latter half.

And yeah, the first few pages with Dorothy and Co. talking nasty smack about someone they've never met (Elphaba) are REALLY entertaining.

Hope you enjoy it!
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Posted 03 February 2014 - 09:04 PM

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It's one of my favorite realities.


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Posted 04 February 2014 - 12:00 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 03 February 2014 - 06:43 PM, said:

Not sure about Book 2...but the original is mired in A LOT of politics and meta-stuff. Maguire allows that to kind of grind things to a crawl midway through, but if you can push on it becomes VERY, very good in the latter half.

And yeah, the first few pages with Dorothy and Co. talking nasty smack about someone they've never met (Elphaba) are REALLY entertaining.

Hope you enjoy it!


Thanks for the feedback. Politics, meta-stuff (which starts with Elphaba's name and seems to run with it as far as I can tell for now) and talking smack were what seemingly put other people off this book but what made me want to read it, so now I am indeed looking forward to doing so :)
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Posted 11 February 2014 - 01:52 PM

Picked up the Richard Morgan - The Complete SF Collection for Kindle. All five of his SF novels to date for £12.99, couldn't resist.

Also:

The Scent of Death by Andrew Taylor
The Unquiet Grave by Steven Dunne
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Posted 19 February 2014 - 03:04 AM

Finally made it to the one decent used bookstore in town and picked up:
The Starfishers Trilogy by Glen Cook (was pleasantly surprised they had all three books)
Colour of Magic Eric and Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
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Posted 19 February 2014 - 07:05 AM

View PostGwynn ap Nudd, on 19 February 2014 - 03:04 AM, said:

Finally made it to the one decent used bookstore in town and picked up:
The Starfishers Trilogy by Glen Cook (was pleasantly surprised they had all three books)
Colour of Magic Eric and Soul Music by Terry Pratchett


I really enjoyed the Starfisher Trilogy. In many ways I find Cook's sci fi to be superior to his fantasy works. If you enjoy the trilogy you should also try out The Dragon Never Sleeps.

Also, the Starfisher Trilogy, particularly the first book, gains several new layers if you have a least some rudimentary knowledge of Norse Mythology.
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Posted 22 February 2014 - 12:05 PM

My latest haul on ebay includes:

Elizabeth Bear - Range of Ghosts
Elizabeth Bear - Dust, Chill and Grail (can't remember what the whole trilogy is called)
Ian Tregillis - The Coldest War (yes, finally, I can't wait to read that one)
Steven Erikson - Crack'd Pot Trail (another one I'm looking forward to)
Alan Moore - From Hell
D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
..and some obscure stuff about art history and Rembrandt.

Thank all the gods for ebay, or I'd be starved for books.
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Posted 03 March 2014 - 08:31 PM

Amazon.de has been naughty again and sent me Words of Radiance on Thursday. ;) The other books I ordered are Promise of Blood and Sharon Kay Penman's A King's Ransom, the final volume in her series about the wonderfully dysfunctional Plantagenets.
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Posted 03 March 2014 - 09:41 PM

The Lies of Locke Lamora + The Warrior Prophet. I've already started the former, and damn it's addictive and catchy. as Hood. I hear Bakker's second book isn't so good as the first but I'm still eager to see what it has in store.
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Posted 06 March 2014 - 07:07 PM

View PostBriar King, on 06 March 2014 - 06:47 PM, said:

Just bought. Words of Rad, The Emperors Blades, and Blood Song. $90...



All three of those books are worth it...you are going to love BLOOD SONG BK!
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Posted 06 March 2014 - 07:52 PM

Blood song is awesome!
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Posted 06 March 2014 - 08:28 PM

$90?! Are the pages gilded?
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Posted 09 March 2014 - 08:58 PM

Today I grabbed THE MAGICIANS by Lev Grossman (always been curious about it), and also (because of my enjoyment of the latest 300 flick) I got Christian Cameron's KILLER OF MEN (a fictional retelling of the First Greco-Persian wars).
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Posted 09 March 2014 - 10:49 PM

The Magicians manages to bring together fantasy and "literary fiction" without condescension or overwrought look-at-what-I'm-doing-so-cleverly gaudiness. It's a real treat (if you don't mind a character that doesn't always earn reader sympathy).
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Posted 11 March 2014 - 02:48 PM

Picked up Working God's Mischief by Glen Cook for the Kindle the latest in the Instrumentalities series. It was released today.
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Posted 12 March 2014 - 08:34 AM

War Birds by R M Meluch
The Fading Sun Trilogy by C J Cherryh
The Yard by Alex Grecian
Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

Also 'had' to re-buy The Legacy of Heorot by Niven, Pournelle & Barnes after mentioning it in the Space Opera thread, deciding I want to re-read it, and then finding I didn't have it anymore :)
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