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#681 wolf_2099

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Posted 07 December 2007 - 09:44 PM

Jim Butcher - Captain's Fury, Codex Alera Series
Walter Mosley - Devil in a Blue Dress
The Darkness That Comes Before
Stephen Colbert - I Am America (And So Can You!) [Best Bathroom Books Ever]

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Posted 13 December 2007 - 08:31 PM

Converted a gift card into The Name of the Wind and The Lies of Locke Lamora..

This forum better live up to all the promises of those titles being niiice. :folken:

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Posted 13 December 2007 - 08:38 PM

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"The Braided path" omnibus by Chris Woodings

What Kud said. Nifty looking Omnibus ed. based on forum reco's and spotting it in store with 40% off coupon in hand.

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Posted 13 December 2007 - 08:49 PM

Tremolo;217121 said:

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Laurell K. Hamilton - Guilty Pleasures
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A word about this... if you like it (which you might), if you obtain later books in the series (which you should bcs it gets better)...

After OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY, stop.

Stop dead. Pretend that was an entirely satisfactory ending to the series forever.

Pretend nothing further was ever written by LKM.

You have been warned.

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Posted 13 December 2007 - 09:18 PM

Abyss;234450 said:

I am going to quote this just to it sinks into your head. She completely gives up on writing anything resembling a novel after this, and don't bother reading the Mereidth Gentry series. All it turns into is several hundred pages of group sex for the next (4?) books.

Dan Simmons - The Terror
Richard Morgan - Black Man
Jack Whyte - Singing Sword

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Posted 13 December 2007 - 09:48 PM

wolf_2099;234460 said:

...and don't bother reading the Mereidth Gentry series. All it turns into is several hundred pages of group sex for the next (4?) books....

And just to be clear, wolf_2099 means this in a BAD way.

Seriously, as i understand, not having read these, a key plot element in the series is the lead character's efforts to get pregnant via four or fifteen of her closest guy friends, slaves, bodyguards, enemies... sometimes all at once.

- Abyss, feh, ew, and also feh.

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Posted 13 December 2007 - 09:52 PM

Abyss;234469 said:

And just to be clear, wolf_2099 means this in a BAD way.

Seriously, as i understand, not having read these, a key plot element in the series is the lead character's efforts to get pregnant via four of five of her closest guy friends, slaves, bodyguards, enemies... sometimes all at once.

- Abyss, feh, ew, and also feh.

Yeah, they're pretty awful. The only thing that made the first Anita Blake books good were the the facts she actually had to solve crimes, serial murderers, etc etc. Those plot lines disspeared after Obsidian Butterfly, and the books went to shit. When I said sex for several hundred pages, I meant the Anita Blake books after Obsidian Butterfly, sorry it wasn;t clear, I am tired. But the Meredith Gentry books are exclusivly about the lead woman trying to get knocked up by elves. She doesn't even try to cover it up with some semblance of a story. These books belong in the romance/smut section, not fiction.

Anyway, enough de-railing?

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Posted 19 December 2007 - 12:47 AM

The Magic Circle -Katherine Neville
A Game Of Thrones
A Sword Of Storms
A Clash of Kings -All 3 by George RR MArtin (They didn't have the 4th book)
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

Did I do well?

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Posted 19 December 2007 - 01:17 AM

hmmmm. Well, my post-exam book-buying spree (part 1) wasn't nearly as bad as I feared it would be.. only 7 titles
Warrior Prophet & Thousandfold thought By Bakker-- "Prince of nothing" 2&3
"Lord Foul's Bane" and "The Illearth War" by Donaldson--Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 1&2... I was too late and therest were gone...
Briar Knight by Greg Keyes--Knigdom of Thorn and Bone 1, recommended on several boards...
"Strom Front" by Jim Butcher-- Bok 1 of the Dresden files---decided to see what he fuss was all about..
"City of the Newborn" by James Barclay-- the back seems interesting, + recommended by SE on the front cover... fairly thick, too...

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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 19 December 2007 - 01:22 AM

kud13;235896 said:

Are you new to SRD? If so, enjoy.

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Posted 19 December 2007 - 02:34 AM

I will... eventually.
While in anticipation for the book-buying, I happened to start reading "The Chronicles Of Hjerward" by Nick Perumov.... and I am hooked. He drops more names then SE in GotM, his world, created back in 91feels like WoW, the implications and hintings at the scope of the story is MASSIVE, and the story gives us a PoV from the side that would be considered "dark" and "Evil" by the world.... well-delivering ont he moral ambiguity, which I adore...

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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 19 December 2007 - 02:08 PM

Raymond Luxury Yacht;235887 said:

The Magic Circle -Katherine Neville
A Game Of Thrones
A Sword Of Storms
A Clash of Kings -All 3 by George RR MArtin (They didn't have the 4th book)
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

Did I do well?

I can't speak to your first buy, but the other 4 i'd say yes. GRRM is mandatory for fantasy fans.

Crypto' is... different. It's not really sci-fi so much as modern techno-thriller/WW2 historical-drama with some humour mixed in. I enjoyed it, but many who were expecting another Snow Crash sf actioner type book were dissappointed.

- Abyss, would, however, not mind if NS wrote another sf actioner...

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Posted 21 December 2007 - 12:42 PM

Passage at arms :Glen Cook off the back of recommendations from here

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Posted 22 December 2007 - 03:48 PM

"Devices and Desires" by K.J. Parker. Bought it based on SEs Vandermeer interview. Although it would be some time until I read it as I'm still at Deadhouse Gates in my Malazan reread (haven't read Reaper's Gale yet). And then there's "A Blade Itself", a couple of China Mieville's, the two Hyperion books, and...

God, I'm a slow reader...

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Posted 24 December 2007 - 09:19 PM

Being an opportunistic buyer, I absolutely had to take advantage of my Chapters' "buy 3, get 1 free" offer, so
Post exam book-buying spree, part 1.5:
Stephen Donaldson's "The power that preserves" (beacuse God knows how long that'll still be in stock--and now I have the whole 1st trilogy)
"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman--because a friend of mine constantly tells me that I have to read it
"The sons of the Oak"--Book 5 of the Runelords by Farland, b/c I knew that i'd buy it at xmass
"Blades of the Tiger'--book 1 of the Taladas Trilogy of Dragonlance--because i'm a Dragonlance fan...

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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 29 December 2007 - 11:08 PM

kud13;237090 said:

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman--because a friend of mine constantly tells me that I have to read it...

That's what everyone says.

Finished it a few days ago.

Didn't like it.
Although, I don't know anyone who doesn't like it...probably something is wrong with me

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Posted 29 December 2007 - 11:27 PM

I love American Gods - one of the few books that has vast re-read value:)

Anyway, yesterday I bought Philip Pullman's Subtle Knife, because I want to re-read the series but I can't find my old copy, and Daniel Abraham's The Long Price: Shadow and Betrayal on Werthead's recommendation:)

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Posted 30 December 2007 - 02:15 AM

Picked up Hunter's Run by George RR Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham and Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley in a local shop, both half price in the sales.

Ordered The Warlord Chronicles Trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur) by Bernard Cornwell off Amazon. Supposedly his best series and I've had it recommended as the best modern retelling of the Arthurian legend.

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Posted 30 December 2007 - 02:19 AM

@ Wert - Winterbirth was odd... and I didn't like it it that much, although I am sure if there is a second and third book to round out what happens, it might be a pleasurable series. I am not sure if that was his first attempt at writing either, but it seemed like it to me.

Anyway, I picked up 'The First Swords' by Fred Saberhagen. Which is Book of swords 1,2,3 in one volume.

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