[wolf_2099]

Greg Keyes -The Briar King
R Scott Baker - The Darkness That Comes Before
Tom Lloyd - The Stormcaller


Half an order from chapters came today, of course, the books I really wanted to read weren't there.

But, any recommendations of which of those 3 I should read first?

[Tremolo]

James Hetfield;217366 said:

I read Greg Keyes' Waterborn and Blackgod like 10 years ago and at the time I was still a teen, so they were a bit of a hard read for me. I should reread them though. Strange books, but then again if you like a world with really fantasic elements these are probably for you.

Cheers.

Do you experience the same problem as me then - a severe lack space in your book shelves?

@Wolf 2099: Dunno the other two but I really enjoyed The Darkness That Comes Before.

[Astra]

Tremolo;218241 said:

Do you experience the same problem as me then - a severe lack space in your book shelves?

Buy eInk reader. such as Sony Reader, iRex Illiad, Cybook Gen3...soon Amazon Kindle...

[Tremolo]

Are those e-book readers?

[Astra]

Yes.

But you do not feel/see much difference from paper book. All thanks to eInk screens.

[James Hetfield]

[/QUOTE]Do you experience the same problem as me then - a severe lack space in your book shelves? [QUOTE]

Yeah, big lack. Every book I read I buy. I have room in my house, just not the bookshelves to place them on. I hate buying the cheap $30.00 Walmart brand shelves that feel as though they are going to collapse with a load of books on them. Not enough $$ to go and buy solid oak bookshelves, or at least that is not what I want to spend my money on at this point in time.

Recently bought:
Glen Cook- A Shadow of All Night Falling
Jules Verne- Around the World in 80 Days
David Gemmell- Legend

[Banana]

today I bought "Arabian Nights" and am really looking forward to reading it

[Dag]

Tremolo;218241 said:

Do you experience the same problem as me then - a severe lack space in your book shelves?

After I got into that book-shopping frenzy three weeks ago (see previous page), Mr. B came rushing in like a hero on a white horse armed with drill and screws and set up four extra shelves on the wall above my bed. Him not really being a professional, those shelves do slightly invoke associations of non-euclidean geometry... But, it's OK - when people ask me what the hell those things are supposed to be, I just tell them that my interior decorator comes from R'yleh.

(And now I have space for maaaany many more books... Oh joy, oh joy... )

[Mort]

@Trem

I know the feeling. Back in my uni days I used to periodically dump a load of books at my folks' home. Since I've got my own placenow I've had to buy 4 7 foot x four foot bookshelves and they still don't hold all my books... (I should point out that 2 of the shelves are reserved for actual professional reading materials, 1 is for "literature and non fiction stuff, 1 is for my SFF and I have four boxes of crappy SFF)

Bought Name of the Wind and The Undercover Economist today

[Tremolo]

I buy shit loads of pulp fantsy and good fantsy and mediocre fantasy these days. I have stacks of books lying around everywhere. Only yesterday when I had left my job interview in Copenhagen I had to spend some time before my flight back home and ended up with:

Terrry Pratchett - Thudd
James Rollins - Ice Hunt
Katherine Kutz - Knights of the Blood
Charles Stross - The Jennifer Morgue

And I have stacks of books that I havent read yet already! It is like an addiction!

[Varunwe]

Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik. A fine christmas read methinks.

[QuickTidal]

The Dragon Reborn - RJ

[Dag]

Brandon Sanderson - The Well of Ascension
Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
Daniel Abraham - Shadow and Betrayal

[Werthead]

Got two ARCs this week:

Swiftly by Adam Roberts
A sequel to Gulliver's Travels, with the British Empire enslaving Lilliput and launching a pre-emptive genocidal war against Brobdingnag (the survivors of which team up with the French: curses!). Cool concept.

The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick
The opening novel in a trilogy billed as 'Phillip Pullman meets Scott Lynch'. Two massive empires stand on the brink of war and the inexplicable disappearance of one of the strongest warships belonging to one of the sides may prove the catalyst for the conflict. The novel then flashes back to the real story of what happened.

Both books have awesome covers, neither of which are online yet. Damn.

[Werthead]

My review copy of Joe Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings turned up today.

Sweet.

[Skywalker]

I ordered the B&KB novellae from PS Publishing. Yay!

[Falco]

Bought Day Watch but upon reading the first coupla pages seems like a dodgy translations...so! many! exclamation! points!!

[Mentalist]

hmmm. Loking at Russian edition.. prollogue--19 exclamation points. If that helps..

of Course, I dislike the blurb in hte back of the Watch books anyhow, and the fact that the books are ridiculously hticker than almost same format Russian editions does not quell my suspicions either...

[drinksinbars]

Werthead;229336 said:

My review copy of Joe Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings turned up today.

Sweet.

dude, get that review up soon, really looking forward to this :heyhey:

[Fid's Fiddle]

Okay, it's probably the last 60 days but they've been really good ones : )

"Shadowplay" - Tad Williams
The Lords of the North trilogy - Bernard Cromwell
The entire set of Black Company chronicles - Glen Cook
"Tides of War" - Steven Pressfield
"Gods and Legions" and "The Last King" - Michael Curtis Ford