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#1301 Macros

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Posted 22 March 2010 - 05:57 PM

Heitz's first two "Dwarves" novels
Simon Scarrows first two gladiator novels
something about 100,000 empires, the books in the other room and im lazy

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Posted 22 March 2010 - 11:10 PM

Nice day off today spent pootling around second hand bookshops and managed to do rather well.

Picked up China Mieville's new book The City & The City for 3 quid (a bit dogeared but whatever). Then managed to get Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds, Woken Furies by Richard Morgan and Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch for the grand total of 6.50 !

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#1303 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 26 March 2010 - 06:05 PM

Swung by Half Price Books today, looking for Conn Iggulden's Genghis series for my dad. Found the first book for him, but also picked up (for myself):

Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
Old Tin Sorrows by Glen Cook
Giants' Star by James P. Hogan
Millennium Falcon by James Luceno

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Posted 26 March 2010 - 07:25 PM

The two Hatter M tpbs. Because you can never have enough men with razor hats vs gangsters.
Also, Butcher's Changes should arrive at my door any day now. SO HAPPY DRESDENCRACK FIX ANTICIPATION HAPPY NOW!!!!

Fist Gamet, on 17 March 2010 - 05:16 AM, said:

Chasm City is, imho, his best.

Funny, i thought it was his weakest. Neat setting but otherwise trite story. If i hadn't already read the genius Revelation Space i suspect Chasm would have put me off Reynolds.

- Abyss, would have called it 'Abyss City'... :wacko:

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#1305 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 26 March 2010 - 08:20 PM

While I enjoyed Chasm City, it didn't blow my mind like the trilogy and novellas did--though the Sky Hausmann storyline came close.

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Posted 26 March 2010 - 09:24 PM

just finished the first Dwarves book.

ok, nothing profound. Tolkien is clearly a massive influence on Heitz, and picking out the similarities to places was a fun side project.
I think he must have been an rpger as well, jsut from the way the story ran and the set out of the novel. Interested enough in it, I'll read the second because I have it

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 02:28 AM

I just picked up and started reading Tigana. I've been wanting to try out some Guy Gavriel Kay for a while, and since I'm about to spend a week in Italy with my wife on vacation, I figured this would be a good time to read Tigana.

I'm also holding a copy of Abercrombie's Before They Are Hanged that I need to get around to reading soon. I liked the first one, but perhaps not as much as I was expecting too from all the recommendations I've heard for it.

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 10:02 AM

Bought today:

Mean Streets anthology, for some pre-Dresden Dresden (and friends)
Malus Darkblade omnibus #1 (Warhammer fantasy, also by Dan The Man Abnett). I love Malus, he's such a prick.

Probably shouldn't have, since I'm going back to Darwin in a few days and my bags are full as it is. But Mean Streets was only $12 and Malus was just there in the GW store and ...

LATE EDIT:
Been eyeing off Jasper Kent's 12, and I see the sequel is out too. What are the thoughts on it (without me having to search the forum for it)?

LATERER EDIT:
Found the 12 thread, but there's not much comment on it. Gets a good verdict though. I guess it's now going on to the "to buy" list.

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 11:41 AM

Bought yesterday off ebay:

The Stand by Stephen King
Russian Spring by Norman Spinrad
an 1984 german edition of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, I already own one edition of the book as PB, but I really dig the cover of the '84 release
and, while I was at it, Open Art by Umberto Eco

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 12:15 PM

Got a copy of TP's Jingo. Cost me 25 bucks but so far it's worth everu penny.

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 12:36 PM

Puck, on 27 March 2010 - 11:41 AM, said:

Funny coincidence, I bought Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose the other day. Foucault's Pendulum is really good - like a thinking man's Da Vinci Code.

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 04:35 PM

@ Errant, let me know what you think of Tigana, I absolutely hated it, but seem to be in the minority on that opinion here

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Posted 27 March 2010 - 07:36 PM

CHANGES by Jim Butcher (Dresden 12)....2 weeks early....oh I am aware....my bookstore must have made a mistake. Thank god for vapid teenage stockboys who don't care about street date. Haha!

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 06:15 PM

Macros, on 27 March 2010 - 04:35 PM, said:

@ Errant, let me know what you think of Tigana, I absolutely hated it, but seem to be in the minority on that opinion here

I'm only 50 pages in at the moment (busy weekend) but I like the writing style a lot so far. That's about all I can comment on until I get further into it.

What did you hate about it? I think the biggest complaint I saw on the Amazon reviews was that it was just 'boring' and 'dull,' but I've learned to take those comments with a grain of salt.

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 06:51 PM

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 10:21 AM

_Tigana_ is my favourite of Kay's novels. Just carry on reading, the pay-off is superb.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 02:05 PM

Macros, on 27 March 2010 - 04:35 PM, said:

@ Errant, let me know what you think of Tigana, I absolutely hated it, but seem to be in the minority on that opinion here

jitsukerr, on 29 March 2010 - 10:21 AM, said:

_Tigana_ is my favourite of Kay's novels. Just carry on reading, the pay-off is superb.

i really didn't like Tigana much. By far my least fave GGK novel. It wasn't complete crap - i don't regret reading it, but if it had been my first that might've been the end of me reading GGK. Which would have been unfortunate because Lions and Sarantine are two of favourite books ever.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 02:11 PM

MTS, on 27 March 2010 - 12:36 PM, said:

Puck, on 27 March 2010 - 11:41 AM, said:

Funny coincidence, I bought Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose the other day. Foucault's Pendulum is really good - like a thinking man's Da Vinci Code.

I bought Foucault's Pendulum a short while ago, too. Just need to get around to read it somehow. As far as I've read Eco's books [which were more art related essays than novels so far], I'm really looking forward to it.

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#1319 Macros

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 05:31 PM

Just didnt like Tigana at all, the payoff was definately not worth it imo.
the characters irritated me and the storyline was, imo, pretty weak as well.

It just bothered me

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Posted 30 March 2010 - 12:56 AM

Picked up a copy of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn. I got a good deal on the other two books in the series, but I haven't been able to find the first book anywhere. Until now! Looking forward to finally getting to read the series.