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#3661 HiddenOne

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Posted 07 November 2015 - 05:41 PM

bought "Prince of Fools" and something by Django Wexler (1st of a trilogy?) while on the road earlier this week.

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Posted 07 November 2015 - 11:02 PM

HiddenOne, on 07 November 2015 - 05:41 PM, said:

bought "Prince of Fools" and something by Django Wexler (1st of a trilogy?) while on the road earlier this week.

The Thousand Names?

It's the first of a series that has 3 so far....

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 12:52 AM

Since I'm making good progress with "Eternal Champion" books, I figured it was time to order the remainder of the bunch (not given in order):

Behold the Man
Hawkmoon: Count Brass
Moorcock's Multiverse
The War Amongst the Angels
Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand
Elric: The Moonbeam Roads
Gloriana; or, the Unfulfill'd Queen
Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress
Elric: The Revenge of the Rose
Elric: Stormbringer! Elric:
Jerry Cornelius: His Lives and His Times
A Cornelius Calendar

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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 02 December 2015 - 04:33 PM

Am extremely enjoying LEVIATHAN WAKES, went ahead and picked up WAR and GATE. Library tells me it has the earbooks so i may get those too and move this series to that medium.

Anyone done these in earbook? if so how's the narration?

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Posted 03 December 2015 - 02:42 AM

I got the hardcover omnibus of Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster trilogy today. I remember reading this about ten years ago and absolutely loving it, but I really don't remember anything else about it. I think I'm going to be jumping this to the top of the TRP very very soon.

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Posted 03 December 2015 - 07:51 AM

Abyss, on 02 December 2015 - 04:33 PM, said:

I've read them and listened to them for my re-read. The earbooks are awesome though they change narrators for Cibola Burn for some stupid reason then switch back for Nemesis. Being that Cibola is the worst in the series, I would definitely read it.

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Posted 14 December 2015 - 07:20 AM

I got a few prepaid gift cards from work with expiry dates coming up. Dropped by Chapters to see what I can get for them.

I was incredibly happy to finally found an edition of The Silmarillion for under 10 bucks. Bought promptly.

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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 14 December 2015 - 12:49 PM

Got City of Stairs a couple of days ago (Robert Jackson Bennett). It was on the Kindle $1.99 list & sounded intriguing, and it is, so far anyway

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Posted 26 December 2015 - 01:28 AM

Received The Red Knight for Christmas. It's a lot bigger than I expected. But I love some Big Fat Fantasy.

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Posted 30 December 2015 - 09:20 PM

Just bought/read The Shards of Heaven by Michael Livingston. It takes place right after the assassination of Julius Caesar and focuses on the war between Marc Antony and Octavian, but the author adds in some mystical artifacts to give it a fantasy element. Very entertaining and I guess part of a trilogy, but I haven't found any information on the second book yet.

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Posted 31 December 2015 - 10:13 PM

End of Disc One, on 26 December 2015 - 01:28 AM, said:

Received The Red Knight for Christmas. It's a lot bigger than I expected. But I love some Big Fat Fantasy.

Good book, hope the editing issues i pointed out are absent from your copy.

IF you enjoy it, books 2 & 3 are out already, and there's a thread here

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 31 December 2015 - 10:39 PM

Finished Burn myself onward to Gate, but got sidetracked with this!!!

http://www.amazon.co...=one+year+later

I didn't realize their was a sequel it's so much fun in all its prepper-porn glory./yum

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Posted 10 January 2016 - 06:40 PM

She Wolves by Helen Castor and Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir. I said I was going to read more history this year - here I go!

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Posted 10 January 2016 - 09:13 PM

pre-ordered "Fall of Light". The nice people @ Indigo/Chapters topped up my reward points to 50 bucks, but I had to spend it tonight.

Also bough Paul Kearney's "Kings of Morning" and Alan Campbell's "God of Clocks". had to spend the "free" points, so I got the 2 books in the series I "have" to finish.

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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 13 January 2016 - 08:06 AM

Just bought Willful Child and dutifully added it to the TRP. That shit is getting waaaaay out of control.

Plus there's all the ebooks I've grabbed lately. Yeesh.

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Posted 13 January 2016 - 04:52 PM

Tsundoku, on 13 January 2016 - 08:06 AM, said:

Just bought Willful Child and dutifully added it to the TRP. That shit is getting waaaaay out of control.

Plus there's all the ebooks I've grabbed lately. Yeesh.

You're doomed.

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#3677 Tsundoku

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Posted 14 January 2016 - 09:30 AM

Thankfully not that bad, but it's at least 25' (7.6m) in length of bookcases that are 6' to 6'8" (1.8m - 2m) tall. Solidly packed as in mostly stacked horizontally rather than a nice conventional vertical left-to-right setup. The vast majority (I'd say at least 80%) would be SFF nerd candy.
I tried to take a panorama but either the phone or my skillz weren't able to do a decent shot. I suspect more the latter than the former.

One of my best mates was telling me his older brother finally split up with his harpy of a wife and moved into his own place so we was able to finally set all his books up. Reckons older brother has 4-5 times what I have. Not too shabby.

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Posted 14 February 2016 - 11:47 PM

Were they heavy?

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Posted 15 February 2016 - 02:47 AM

You got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire

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