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Posted 28 January 2008 - 04:17 AM

Xander;248965 said:

He takes too long because he is involved in so many projects. (martin)

That and he comes off a bit pompous sometimes...but I guess that might be the hate I have flowing through me for waiting so long for ADwD...yet if it is a great book I will forgive him.

@Kud...sorry man....*walks away in shame*

That's what makes me so irritated, they told us that AFFC was half of a almost finished book. Then over two years later he's still not done with aDwD? it wouldn't bother me so much if he wasn't working on other projects. Plus after reading Dreamsongs vol II and his little monologue in there about all the unfinished series he has I'm really worried that we'll never see the end of this one.

OT- I bought the new Bernard Cornwell novel, Sword Song. Typical Cornwell, short and sweet. Follows the Sharpe formula but in Saxon England.

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Posted 28 January 2008 - 04:22 AM

Supposedly, unlike RJ, he swears that if he were to die before finishing the series...tough cookies for all of us.

He spends too much time on his blog whining about Football (or in this rare case gloating) or getting angry because PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT TO READ HIS SHIT AND WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG.

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Posted 28 January 2008 - 09:11 PM

Renegade's Magic (The Soldier Son Trilogy) by Robin Hobb.

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Posted 29 January 2008 - 04:22 AM

Majestrum - Hughes
Lord of the Silent Kingdom - Cook
Sacred Games - Chandra
Traitor - Cisco
Paradise Lost - Milton

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 01:55 AM

Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East - Micheal Roaf

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 01:22 PM

Bought yesterday: Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe.

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 04:17 PM

Ok, so it was a few days ago, but I am ripping through it and it is really awesome.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which I just found out has three unpublished chapters because the writer who did all the interviews with Malcolm was a republican and an integrationalist and thus took out stuff that would show that MX stayed a black nationalist, though anti-racist and internationalist after his break with the Nation of Islam. This is according to interviews with Manning Marable on Democracy Now about his soon to be released biography on MX. I cannot wait to read that.

My man Malcolm was absolutely amazing in terms of intelligence, life and the courage to admit he was wrong, reassess and reinvent himself.

Can I also mention that he named his first daughter after Atillia the Hun!?

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 05:16 PM

Heads up guys, Iain M Banks' new Culture novel, Matter is half price in Waterstones, even though the official release date isn't until the 7th of Feb!

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 08:55 PM

Just picked up the 4th book in Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series. In both the Harry Dresden series and this one, I love the way he builds up to "holy crap, it can't get any worse than this" moments, and then it does. very pleasurable reads.

Shaken, not stirred.

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Posted 30 January 2008 - 09:38 PM

It's actually a couple of days ago, but I'm currently reading The Briar King after picking it up. I read it several years ago and recall having liked it, so I wanted to give it another try and see if it's as good as I remember.

I also bought Memories of Ice, because I want to read up on that one and House of Chains before starting on The Bonehunters.

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 03:35 PM

I got all three Black Company books by Glenn Cook, all in one volume, which is sweet. Also, the Lies of Locke Lamora. Score!

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 03:55 PM

I've just bought The Story of The Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen by Barry Hughart. They're books I owned (and loved) in the early 90s; the latter of which turns out to be somewhat rarer, and substantially more expensive, than I had imagined it would be...

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 04:07 PM

Dayne;250707 said:

What about Midnight Tides? Do you have no plans to read that in sequence.

I bought Storm of Swords Book 1 and 2 the other day.

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 05:08 PM

Isn't storm of swords just one book in the Fire and Ice series?

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 05:19 PM

It's split into two here in the UK. It doesn't usually happen this way.

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 05:49 PM

Dancer;251510 said:

It's split into two here in the UK. It doesn't usually happen this way.

Superlame. I hate it when that happens.

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#737 Dayne

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 07:15 PM

Dancer;251424 said:

What about Midnight Tides? Do you have no plans to read that in sequence.

I've already read Midnight Tides. I bought it as a re-entry the series(I had only read the first four books several years ago), and because it didn't seem that I needed to re-read any of the other books first. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but now I'm eager to continue reading the series. I just feel that there are too many things from Memories of Ice and particularly House of Chains, that I can't remember. So I want to re-read those before starting on The Bonehunters, so I know what's going on and who is who. It's not easy to wait though, but I'm sure it'll be worth it.

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 07:19 PM

Storm of Swords were split in two in Denmark aswell.

EDIT: I'm being an idiot, there's no danish translation, so I probably read the UK paperback aswell

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 08:16 PM

They just started splitting GRRM's books here in the US, before (at least as far as I had seen in bookstores) they were all published in one volume.

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Posted 31 January 2008 - 08:17 PM

Aptorian;251603 said:

Storm of Swords were split in two in Denmark aswell.

EDIT: I'm being an idiot, there's no danish translation, so I probably read the UK paperback aswell

I think it's available in both the original and the split version here in Denmark. As it should be. Splitting up books like that is annoying.