[Not-So-Great-Raven]

Well, technically I bought it even though it'll arrive Q1/2022.. And that is The Witcher: Ronin -manga that's available in Kickstarter.
https://www.kickstar...nga/description
Also, going to pick up my copy of The God is Not Willing from the mail today!

[QuickTidal]

I know you guys hate it when I do this (Mac and TRB for certain), but Harper Collins has THE NATURE OF MIDDLE EARTH release in the offing (it's out in the States and the UK already) soon in Canada. I think these are widely considered Tolkien's "final" writings on Middle Earth from his notes before his death?

But yeah...it's the same size and design style as the recent re-released LOTR, HOBBIT, and SILMARILLION volumes...so you know...for completionists sake...

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Number of downloads: 1

[QuickTidal]

Um....there's also a new Hardcover UNFINISHED TALES....and it's already out...and available copies exist at the bookstore I walk by on my way home from work...I'm not...I'm not made of stone...

Fuck.

[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 17 September 2021 - 12:58 PM, said:

Um....there's also a new Hardcover UNFINISHED TALES....and it's already out...and available copies exist at the bookstore I walk by on my way home from work...I'm not...I'm not made of stone...

Fuck.

Oh great. Another QTb moment where I'm debating spending money on food Vs books. Thanks a bunch.

In other news, I was in a charity shop today and found the complete Ravens Shadow trilogy by Anthony Ryan. All in, cost me £2. So yeah I bought it.

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2021 - 02:45 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 17 September 2021 - 12:58 PM, said:

Um....there's also a new Hardcover UNFINISHED TALES....and it's already out...and available copies exist at the bookstore I walk by on my way home from work...I'm not...I'm not made of stone...

Fuck.

Oh great. Another QTb moment where I'm debating spending money on food Vs books. Thanks a bunch.

I'm mostly sorry...mostly.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Tales from When I Had a Face (illustrated novel, Kickstarter ending in 13 days):



"I once had a face. I can still picture it, if I try. But that surface always felt alien, a blank canvas that anything could be projected upon. Except the eyes. Something haunted those slate mirrors, a terrible purpose that waited patiently to reveal itself.

We are all just costumes that death wears for a season."

"You want to know about the Fallen? In a sense, they are angels. But not angels of Hallmark: brass trumpets, picnicking in the clouds. They are great swirling engines of wing and blood, fiery eyes that peer around the corners between worlds. Dark, radiant things conjured from fresh battlefields, a Frankenstein's Valkyrie, forever crashing to Midgard. What grief demands their hate, what vast, cannibal hunger."

Tales from When I Had a Face Kickstarter

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 17 September 2021 - 06:26 PM

[QuickTidal]

Grabbed Jay Kristoff's EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE as it sounded like a cool premise, and I like Kristoff's writing for the most part.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 17 September 2021 - 04:47 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2021 - 02:45 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 17 September 2021 - 12:58 PM, said:

Um....there's also a new Hardcover UNFINISHED TALES....and it's already out...and available copies exist at the bookstore I walk by on my way home from work...I'm not...I'm not made of stone...

Fuck.

Oh great. Another QTb moment where I'm debating spending money on food Vs books. Thanks a bunch.

I'm mostly sorry...mostly.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 06 October 2021 - 05:22 PM, said:

Grabbed Jay Kristoff's EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE as it sounded like a cool premise, and I like Kristoff's writing for the most part.

Help me out here QT... Jay Kristoff... i have this impression that he's dark-lite YA angsty vamps and chosen ones and forbidden romances... accurate or am i missing something here?

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 06 October 2021 - 05:49 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 06 October 2021 - 05:22 PM, said:

Grabbed Jay Kristoff's EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE as it sounded like a cool premise, and I like Kristoff's writing for the most part.

Help me out here QT... Jay Kristoff... i have this impression that he's dark-lite YA angsty vamps and chosen ones and forbidden romances... accurate or am i missing something here?

Nope, his last book trilogy was a murderous female assassin in a Venetian-style city.

His first series (Japanese steampunk) was a bit YAish...but not overly so.

But here's his Goodreads post for this novel describing it and how it's not for kids, which should give you a good idea:

https://www.goodread...m_review_page=1

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 06 October 2021 - 06:19 PM

[JPK]

QuickTidal, on 06 October 2021 - 06:18 PM, said:

Abyss, on 06 October 2021 - 05:49 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 06 October 2021 - 05:22 PM, said:

Grabbed Jay Kristoff's EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE as it sounded like a cool premise, and I like Kristoff's writing for the most part.

Help me out here QT... Jay Kristoff... i have this impression that he's dark-lite YA angsty vamps and chosen ones and forbidden romances... accurate or am i missing something here?

Nope, his last book trilogy was a murderous female assassin in a Venetian-style city.

His first series (Japanese steampunk) was a bit YAish...but not overly so.

But here's his Goodreads post for this novel describing it and how it's not for kids, which should give you a good idea:

https://www.goodread...m_review_page=1

I was curious about this as well, so I checked your link QT. I was in until the phrase "blood drinking blowjob scene". Now I'm slowing leaving the room.

[QuickTidal]

JPK, on 06 October 2021 - 06:56 PM, said:

I was curious about this as well, so I checked your link QT. I was in until the phrase "blood drinking blowjob scene". Now I'm slowing leaving the room.

This does not scare me off. It probably should because "Holy Hannah!". But I've seen enough solid reviews to be wiling to give at least this one a try. It all depends on how it's handled really, or what the context is. We will see.

[JPK]

QuickTidal, on 06 October 2021 - 07:26 PM, said:

JPK, on 06 October 2021 - 06:56 PM, said:

I was curious about this as well, so I checked your link QT. I was in until the phrase "blood drinking blowjob scene". Now I'm slowing leaving the room.

This does not scare me off. It probably should because "Holy Hannah!". But I've seen enough solid reviews to be wiling to give at least this one a try. It all depends on how it's handled really, or what the context is. We will see.

When you get to this scene you're going to have to share some context. I cannot possibly see a scenario in which that is essential to the plot or character arc, lol.

BTW I'm usually on mobile so please forgive me not trimming quotes.

[worry]

Not everyone is scared of ROMANCE, JPK!

[Tiste Simeon]

worry, on 06 October 2021 - 08:23 PM, said:

Not everyone is scared of ROMANCE, JPK!

Yeah for reals I won't read a book these days unless it can guarantee at least one bloody BJ in it. Just doesn't feel real otherwise...

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

I made a whole bunch of great finds at an estate sale today. There were MANY (hundreds) more books (spanning 60s–80s pulpy SF to 90s–00s literary SF with some fantasy thrown in), but I couldn't bring myself to purchase all of them while I still have hundreds of my own books sitting in boxes.

It was an awe-some collection.

Here's the list:
Hardback
- "Doc" Smith's Chronicles of the Lensmen, vols 1 & 2 (Set of 2 collecting the Lensman books)
- Cook's Garrett PI (Set of 4 collecting all of the Garrett PI books)
- Cherryh's Downbelow Station
- Cherryh's Rimrunners
- Cherryh's Cyteen
- Stross' On Her Majesty's Occult Service (I believe this is an omnibus collecting the first two books of The Laundry series)
- Stephenson's The Diamond Age (I think I have this in softcover somewhere, but I've definitely not read it before)

Softcover
- Brunner's Bedlam Planet
- Brunner's Interstellar Empire
- Brunner's The Stardroppers
- Niven/Pournelle's Inferno
- Niven/Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer
- Pournelle's Falkenberg's Legion (the back synopsis said this was a prequel to The Mote In God's Eye???)
- Norton's The Zero Stone
- Norton's Star Gate
- Heinlein's Methuselah's Children
- Vinge's Across Realtime
- Cook's The Dragon Never Sleeps
- Cook's Shadowline
- Cook's Stars' End
- Vance's Galactic Effectuator
- Zelazny's Lord of Light

That's a total of 11 hardbacks and 15 softcovers for $13.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 07 October 2021 - 09:44 PM

[Mentalist]

Was not a big fan of Kristoff's Japan debut.

Picked up "God is Not Willing" and Lawrence's "Holy Sister" last night.

[Tiste Simeon]

Mentalist, on 11 October 2021 - 03:47 PM, said:

Was not a big fan of Kristoff's Japan debut.

Picked up "God is Not Willing" and Lawrence's "Holy Sister" last night.

I really enjoyed the Sister trilogy, I love a good tale of magic/assassin schools.

[QuickTidal]

Needed something light to take my mind off current real life crap, so I decided it was time to go back to Kristen Britain’s Green Rider series. So I’m reading HIGH KING’s TOMB, and I bought:

BLACKVEIL
MIRROR SIGHT
FIREBRAND
DREAM GATHERER

And I am putting he most recent one WINTERLIGHT, on my Xmas list.

Light and classic epic fantasy is helping distract me.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Holy absolute editions, Sandman! This is L A R G E.




I think I need a book pedestal so this doesn't break my arms!

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 28 October 2021 - 12:21 AM