The Book I bought today is...

#3521 Maark Abbott

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 11:44 AM

Oh just you watch, it'll be very well maintained with me.

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#3522 McLovin

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 01:25 PM

Briar King, on 28 December 2014 - 09:14 PM, said:

McLovin, on 27 December 2014 - 10:38 PM, said:

With Amazon g/c, pre-ordered HEIR TO THE JEDI, LORDS OF THE SITH, and DARK DISCIPLE Kindle editions.

It's gonna be me LOLn at you in 25 yrs when Ep X is greenlite and all your new books get rebrand "Legends 2 Suckers". Lol I tell you.

Laugh at me right now if you want, I don't care. Laughter is good therapy, so you'll be pleased to hear I ordered the DARTH BANE trilo for Kindle (got a business trip coming up). To your health BK!

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

#3523 Puck

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 03:27 PM

Maark, on 29 December 2014 - 08:12 AM, said:

Look at the size of this bugger!

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Right? I've got the same one and am not yet sure about how to tackle it without seeing it fall apart at some point midway..

Also, more on topic, I bought the french translation of the first Black Company novel, and am thinking of getting the other two to complete the first trilogy. Going to touch up my french when I'm done with uni. Also, just one more excuse to reread the BC yet AGAIN.

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#3524 Gwynn ap Nudd

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 04:59 PM

Not really bought, but received Brent Weeks' "The Broken Eye" and the omnibus edition of "The Fionovar Tapestry" for Christmas.

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 05:22 PM

Puck, on 29 December 2014 - 03:27 PM, said:

Maark, on 29 December 2014 - 08:12 AM, said:

Look at the size of this bugger!

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How many pages is that?

#3526 Puck

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 06:27 PM

Around the ~1200 pages mark.

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#3527 worry

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 06:51 PM

That's actually a pretty cool cover but it's weird seeing it on this book. I have the baby blue omnibus where she's on horseback fighting wolf things in that old school fantasy style, and it fits perfectly.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#3528 Maark Abbott

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Posted 30 December 2014 - 11:59 AM

I quite like the cover. From the synopsis, it fits pretty well - armoured and armed, waiting for the storm to come. Oddly it's one of the few books that my cousin (Kez, on the facebook page for the forum) hasn't read.

Briar - I put a thread up about them asking if they were any good, the answers came back that they're solid and workmanlike, which is sometimes all I want in a book.

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Posted 30 December 2014 - 03:45 PM

"Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches"

No one said it was only fantasy books!

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Posted 30 December 2014 - 05:51 PM

Obdigore, on 30 December 2014 - 03:45 PM, said:

"Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches"

No one said it was only fantasy books!

quite.

I picked up "The origins of political order" and " Polital order and decay" by Francis Fukuyama as my holiday purchases last week.

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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.

#3531 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 30 December 2014 - 06:24 PM

Abyss, on 28 December 2014 - 12:16 AM, said:

Speaking of which, because if I have to suffer temptation then so do all of you...
https://digital.darkhorse.com/profile/5400.star-wars-farewell-megabundle/

HOLY SHIT

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#3532 McLovin

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Posted 30 December 2014 - 06:44 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 30 December 2014 - 06:24 PM, said:

Abyss, on 28 December 2014 - 12:16 AM, said:

Speaking of which, because if I have to suffer temptation then so do all of you...
https://digital.darkhorse.com/profile/5400.star-wars-farewell-megabundle/

HOLY SHIT

Indeed.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

#3533 Coco with marshmallows

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Posted 30 December 2014 - 11:09 PM

Well,

not so much bought as received on Christmas day:

Secrets of Kalis Illustrisimo
Wado Ryu Karate
The Secret Royal Martial Arts of Ryukyu
Research of Martial Arts

My hobbies are showing....

On a personal note, bought and started The Relic Guild by Edward Cox - enjoying it too.

meh. Link was dead :(

#3534 Maark Abbott

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Posted 31 December 2014 - 09:30 AM

Coco - if that book doesn't teach you to Hadoken...

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#3535 Coco with marshmallows

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Posted 31 December 2014 - 11:37 AM

Maark, on 31 December 2014 - 09:30 AM, said:

Coco - if that book doesn't teach you to Hadoken...

I already know how to Hadoken, thank you.

And to kamehameha.

Integral part of the training dontcha know

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 31 December 2014 - 01:22 PM

K.J. Parker's the Company, the Hammer, the Folding Knife, and Colours in Steel. I've only read Parker's Sharps but it was one of my favorites of 2014 so I'm looking forward to more.

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#3537 Maark Abbott

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Posted 31 December 2014 - 05:10 PM

Coco with marshmallows, on 31 December 2014 - 11:37 AM, said:

Maark, on 31 December 2014 - 09:30 AM, said:

Coco - if that book doesn't teach you to Hadoken...

I already know how to Hadoken, thank you.

And to kamehameha.

Integral part of the training dontcha know

I've trained myself to throw a Shoruken. As in, if I found myself in a fight, it's there. Very impractical, difficult to land and if it misses you're going to get hurt... but if it hits, no one would see it coming. High risk/reward sort of thing.

Failing that, elbow strikes for days.

Debut novel 'Incarnate' now available on Kindle