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... I also quite enjoyed the Swarm
The Book I bought today is...
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Posted 17 July 2007 - 07:18 AM
The Great Gatsby
I've heard good things?
I've heard good things?
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Posted 17 July 2007 - 09:48 AM
Kitty and the Midnight Hour - Carrie Vaugh: heard good things, so here goes
Threshold - Caitlin R. Kiernan: had a blurb from Gaiman, so can't suck...right?
Blood & Rust - S.A. Swiniarski: like this guy, though he ain't exactly Shakespeare. Or Erikson.
Threshold - Caitlin R. Kiernan: had a blurb from Gaiman, so can't suck...right?
Blood & Rust - S.A. Swiniarski: like this guy, though he ain't exactly Shakespeare. Or Erikson.
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Posted 17 July 2007 - 04:59 PM
Just bought the new Garner Dozois "Years Best SF" collection - number 24, I think. And I came to the awful realisation that I've been reading (and buying) those things for two decades now...
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. … So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. Bertrand Russell
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Posted 24 July 2007 - 06:18 PM
HP 7 
Probably will start reading HP 1 after The Terror and Thirteen.
Probably will start reading HP 1 after The Terror and Thirteen.
Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm Not Sure About The Former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
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Posted 24 July 2007 - 06:59 PM
Well, I wasn't going to buy it yet but when I took myself out for walkies at lunchtime I stopped by my local B&N to see what's new, Tuesday being the day B&N has its new titles on display (my local Borders may get 'round to it by Friday, not quite grasping that they are turning away customers who may actually want books enough to purchase them with cash or cash-equivalents on the day they go on public sale). I can assert that I continue to maintain my steely self-discipline in limiting book purchases because, even tho I purchased Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein, and even tho my "to read" pile is well over 2 feet (that's .00061 kilometers for those who use such metrics) tall, I decided I rilly rilly rilly wanted it after reading the blurbs on the back cover. Some excerpts:
- Joss Wheedon: "Funny, inventive, and blithely appalling, this book is Dante on paint fumes."
- William Gibson: "Stop it. You're frightening me."
- Kinky Friedman: "It's also funny enough to make you shit standing"
-ch'arlz, aspires to "blithely appalling"
- Joss Wheedon: "Funny, inventive, and blithely appalling, this book is Dante on paint fumes."
- William Gibson: "Stop it. You're frightening me."
- Kinky Friedman: "It's also funny enough to make you shit standing"
-ch'arlz, aspires to "blithely appalling"
Shaken, not stirred.
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Posted 26 July 2007 - 01:33 PM
Pre-ordered the US hardcover of Bonehunters.
Plus got Elizabeth Moon's "Trading in Danger". I've heard mixed reviews, but I'm in a SFnal mood, so I'm indulging it...
Plus got Elizabeth Moon's "Trading in Danger". I've heard mixed reviews, but I'm in a SFnal mood, so I'm indulging it...
OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.
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Posted 01 August 2007 - 07:04 AM
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Puck was not birthed, she was cleaved from a lava flow and shaped by a fierce god's hands. - [worry]
Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]
Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]
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Posted 01 August 2007 - 06:32 PM
The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton.
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"Try standing out in a winter storm all night and see how tough you are. Start with that. Then go into a bar and pick a fight and see how tough you are. And then go home and break crockery over your head. Start with those three and you'll be good to go."
- Bruce Campbell on how to be as cool as he is
- Bruce Campbell on how to be as cool as he is
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Posted 02 August 2007 - 01:42 AM
"Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
‘Keep on like that and I’ll drop a rock on your head while you sleep.’
"I'm harmless, the non-violent kind of psycho."
'"If a tree falls in the woods and there is nobody there to hear it, does it makes a sound?"' the answer is an unequivocal "no." The falling tree simply produces waves of energy. The experience of "sound" is a phenomenon of the auditory system.'
"I'm harmless, the non-violent kind of psycho."
'"If a tree falls in the woods and there is nobody there to hear it, does it makes a sound?"' the answer is an unequivocal "no." The falling tree simply produces waves of energy. The experience of "sound" is a phenomenon of the auditory system.'
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Posted 09 August 2007 - 08:01 PM
Heartbrakingly...I, as a big fan of The Black Company series, must inform you all of the rubbish that is the Tyranny of the Night...oh dear Glen, what have you done!!! Not only are we quickly submerged in a mess of religions and holy sites and people and heretics and so much that it is near impossible to understand, but the characters (Cook's previous strong point) are flat and uninspiring, the plots are cliched and barely believable, and the dialogue...good grief...you simply cannot believe that these characters would say these things...
Glen Cook Broke My Heart
Glen Cook Broke My Heart
Victory is mine!
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Posted 10 August 2007 - 06:20 PM
Actually the book I *didn't* buy today is _Spook Country_, the newest by William Gibson and I still feel kinda funny about it. I've been a big fan for 20 years now, but his last couple have been so-so and this is supposed to be more of the same. I'll pick it up at the library or wait till it comes out in mmpb.
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Shaken, not stirred.
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Posted 10 August 2007 - 08:44 PM
You might have a look here for some opinions about the book.
Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm Not Sure About The Former.
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Posted 10 August 2007 - 09:48 PM
Fist Gamet;204239 said:
Heartbrakingly...I, as a big fan of The Black Company series, must inform you all of the rubbish that is the Tyranny of the Night...oh dear Glen, what have you done!!! Not only are we quickly submerged in a mess of religions and holy sites and people and heretics and so much that it is near impossible to understand, but the characters (Cook's previous strong point) are flat and uninspiring, the plots are cliched and barely believable, and the dialogue...good grief...you simply cannot believe that these characters would say these things...
Glen Cook Broke My Heart
Glen Cook Broke My Heart
<--- Disagree. Enjoy it. More than the Black Company series. Very very politically motivated, religion is politics, and stupid people rising to the top because of who their stupid relatives are to create stupid incidents (wars) with each other?
Also, if you take the time to READ it, instead of just buzzing through it, I found that the places/names/religions weren't that hard at all.
Plot is ok, better than much of the drivel I have read, and there is nothing wrong with the dialogue for being between people who have no reason to trust each other at all.
Monster Hunter World Iceborne: It's like hunting monsters, but on crack, but the monsters are also on crack.
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Posted 16 August 2007 - 06:52 PM
Obdigore;204423 said:
<--- Disagree. Enjoy it. More than the Black Company series. Very very politically motivated, religion is politics, and stupid people rising to the top because of who their stupid relatives are to create stupid incidents (wars) with each other?
Also, if you take the time to READ it, instead of just buzzing through it, I found that the places/names/religions weren't that hard at all.
Plot is ok, better than much of the drivel I have read, and there is nothing wrong with the dialogue for being between people who have no reason to trust each other at all.
Also, if you take the time to READ it, instead of just buzzing through it, I found that the places/names/religions weren't that hard at all.
Plot is ok, better than much of the drivel I have read, and there is nothing wrong with the dialogue for being between people who have no reason to trust each other at all.
Buzzing through it? Were you watching me while I was reading? Do you know me? Do you know anything about me? No? Then do not get arsey with me sunshine. I am as entitled to my opinion as you or anyone else (which, incidentally, is the entire point of these threads) Disagree all you like, I respect your opinion, but do not, for one second, think you have the right to insult me.
Victory is mine!
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Posted 20 August 2007 - 10:53 AM
The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds
Black Man - Richard Morgan
Now I have to decide which to read first.
Black Man - Richard Morgan
Now I have to decide which to read first.
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They'll drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience!- Anonymous
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Posted 20 August 2007 - 05:18 PM
Fist Gamet;204994 said:
Buzzing through it? Were you watching me while I was reading? Do you know me? Do you know anything about me? No? Then do not get arsey with me sunshine. I am as entitled to my opinion as you or anyone else (which, incidentally, is the entire point of these threads) Disagree all you like, I respect your opinion, but do not, for one second, think you have the right to insult me.
Well, I did not think I had insulted you. I was just attempting to point out that it is certainly a convoluted book, and not something you can just pick up and tear through.
Monster Hunter World Iceborne: It's like hunting monsters, but on crack, but the monsters are also on crack.
