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#1581 amphibian

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Posted 23 January 2011 - 08:29 PM

Just found out that my copy of The Windup Girl is now stuck in Nepal. Goddamnit.

Bought Blindsight, after reading the book online, and a few Alastair Reynolds books for dirt cheap. Rolling in the good stuff here now.

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 05:47 PM

Had a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for the Science Fiction Book Club, so I've preordered The Crippled God and The Wise Man's Fear. Can't wait.

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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Posted 28 January 2011 - 06:06 PM

amphibian, on 23 January 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

Just found out that my copy of The Windup Girl is now stuck in Nepal. Goddamnit.

You aren't missing much. TRUST me.

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 09:36 PM

QuickTidal, on 17 January 2011 - 04:10 PM, said:

Abyss, on 17 January 2011 - 03:23 PM, said:

... i complicate your lives because Flea just drew my attention to the fact that amazon.ca now has TCG a whole THREE WEEKS ahead of .uk!!!!!

Being greedy and compulsive, i pre-ordered it there too!

Amazon.ca are notorious at messing with release dates and you won't find out till they don't send it in time. Canadian Amazon=usually epic fail. That said, if you get it three weeks early I'll have to eat my hat...

I KNOW. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFk.

amphibian, on 23 January 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

...Bought Blindsight, after reading the book online,...

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 09:39 PM

QuickTidal and Abyss, do you guys think I should cancel my amazon.ca order for TCG, and switch to amazon.co.uk? I live in the US so I figured .ca would be faster. I don't really care about the price.

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 09:51 PM

Bought The Heroes and The Neon Court (the third in Kate Griffin's Urban Magic series) today. I think the latter's been released ahead of time by my local, but hey ho...

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 10:04 PM

End of Disc One, on 28 January 2011 - 09:39 PM, said:

QuickTidal and Abyss, do you guys think I should cancel my amazon.ca order for TCG, and switch to amazon.co.uk? I live in the US so I figured .ca would be faster. I don't really care about the price.

Here's the thing - both .ca and .uk will be faster than .com. Pick one and go for it.

In theory, .ca should be faster because it's closer.

Historically, .ca always had a release date about a month later than .uk, so the choice was easy, BUT .ca also had a habit of pushing its date back again after the .uk release... hence, people figured they'd wait a month and save some dollars, end up waiting two months and ordering it from .uk anyways.

This is the FIRST time .ca and .uk have had the same date.

If i were a betting man... actually, i AM a betting man, and i'm betting that .uk will still be faster...

...but that .ca Feb 23 date is KILLING ME.

- Abyss, ...is going to end up with six copies, just wait...

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 10:07 PM

End of Disc One, on 28 January 2011 - 09:39 PM, said:

QuickTidal and Abyss, do you guys think I should cancel my amazon.ca order for TCG, and switch to amazon.co.uk? I live in the US so I figured .ca would be faster. I don't really care about the price.

I recently got Stonewielder from Amazon.ca, and it arrived ridiculously fast. Like, ordered Wednesday, shipped Thursday, delivered Friday. Granted, it wasn't a preorder, and I'm in Minnesota. But still, I've never had any issues with Amazon.ca.

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 10:16 PM

QuickTidal, on 28 January 2011 - 06:06 PM, said:

amphibian, on 23 January 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

Just found out that my copy of The Windup Girl is now stuck in Nepal. Goddamnit.

You aren't missing much. TRUST me.

You misunderstand me. I loved the book.

I disagree almost entirely with your review of it.

I survived the Permian and all I got was this t-shirt.

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 10:16 PM

Abyss, on 28 January 2011 - 09:36 PM, said:

amphibian, on 23 January 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

...Bought Blindsight, after reading the book online,...

You.
Are the love of authors everywhere.

It sure doesn't hurt that it's a fan-fucking-tastic book too.

I survived the Permian and all I got was this t-shirt.

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 11:52 PM

this has been a good week to buy books

first, on Wednesday I paid a visit to the downtown used books store.

picked up the second volume of Donaldson's "gap cycle" (in hardcover)
and the out-of-print volume 10 of Michael Moorcock's "eternal Champion" omnibus edition

then, today I had to take my bag and jacket in for repairs at the mall that houses my local Chapters. and I also got student loan money yesterday

as such:
Joe Abercrombie "best served cold"--been meaning to get this for a while now
Glen Cook-"the Many deaths of the Black Company"==to see how the story ends
John Scalzi "Old Man's War"--im intrigued by the forum buzz.
"Nights of Villljamur" by Mark Charan Newton--I meant to get this, at some time a while ago, but never got arount to it then. so i thought "why not?"
Also, ordered "Brass Man", by Neal Asher, since the store didn't carrry the third Cormac novel.

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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 31 January 2011 - 12:45 AM

I've placed myself on an No-Buying-from-Amazon or other online companies ban because I spent waaaay too much buying books and CDs in the past few weeks so I went around to a couple of Half-Priced Books stores today to hunt their clearance sections and I got:

The Last King- by Michael Curtis Ford (I've read his The Ten Thousand a while back and so for a dollar decided to pick this up)
The Rising Tide- by Jeff Shaara (I've read all his books except this WWII trilogy- loved his previous works though I dunno when I'll get to this as I'm burntout on WWII books)
Red Rabbit- by Tom Clancy (was once a huge fan of TC but just sort of moved away from his books after The Bear and the Dragon- but with his new book I decided I might give the series a shot again)
Storm Front- Jim Butcher (Haven't read anything by him before but have seen him and his books mentioned here and from a work friend so I thought I'd give him a read though I was looking for the first Codex Alera book)

Got a L.E. Modesitt Jr. book in the Saga of Recluse series- have yet to read any but I have 3 of the first 5 books so I'll get the rest before trying this out. I got it for 25 cents so can't argue with that.

Overall not bad for paying under $8 dollars total.

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Posted 31 January 2011 - 03:46 AM

MWKarsa, on 31 January 2011 - 12:45 AM, said:

The Last King- by Michael Curtis Ford (I've read his The Ten Thousand a while back and so for a dollar decided to pick this up)

He did a book about the Fall of Rome that was (IMHO) his best work.

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Posted 31 January 2011 - 03:57 AM

amphibian, on 28 January 2011 - 10:16 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 28 January 2011 - 06:06 PM, said:

amphibian, on 23 January 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

Just found out that my copy of The Windup Girl is now stuck in Nepal. Goddamnit.

You aren't missing much. TRUST me.

You misunderstand me. I loved the book.

I disagree almost entirely with your review of it.

HAHAHA...of COURSE you do. In fact I begin to think that is your bloody purpose in life.

Hey everyone, don't have a different opinion to Amphibian...cause he will most certainly tell you how wrong you are...every day...and want the last word...every time.

Or do it, for amusement sake.

:w00t:

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Posted 31 January 2011 - 04:01 PM

MWKarsa, on 31 January 2011 - 12:45 AM, said:

...
Storm Front- Jim Butcher (Haven't read anything by him before but have seen him and his books mentioned here and from a work friend so I thought I'd give him a read though I was looking for the first Codex Alera book)...

The Dresdencrack, it calls....

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Posted 31 January 2011 - 04:16 PM

Abyss, on 31 January 2011 - 04:01 PM, said:

MWKarsa, on 31 January 2011 - 12:45 AM, said:

The Dresdencrack, it calls....

...and after Dresdencrack...it is only a hop skip and a jump to coCaine.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

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Posted 31 January 2011 - 04:27 PM

QuickTidal, on 31 January 2011 - 03:57 AM, said:

Please stop the disrespect.

I'm not sure if I've posted my thoughts on the Windup Girl here, but this review from Worlds Without End and Pat's are generally in line with my thoughts. I do give the book a bit more credit than Pat does for managing to pull off a very difficult task in making the book both post-global collapse and in a non-Western culture.

I'd say that if you like Neal Stephenson, William Gibson (Bridge trilogy style) or Mieville, you'll like Bacigalupi. Of course, Bacigalupi hasn't reached the heights the other three authors have, but the potential is there and the style is similar. He writes well.

I can't wait until a dragon shows up in the Dresden books, so I can jump up and say "Dragonfucknuts, yeah!" without betraying my appreciation for Caine.

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Posted 31 January 2011 - 04:48 PM

amphibian, on 31 January 2011 - 04:27 PM, said:

I can't wait until a dragon shows up in the Dresden books, so I can jump up and say "Dragonfucknuts, yeah!" without betraying my appreciation for Caine.

There was one in Grave Peril, wasn't there?

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Posted 31 January 2011 - 05:09 PM

QuickTidal, on 31 January 2011 - 04:16 PM, said:

Abyss, on 31 January 2011 - 04:01 PM, said:

MWKarsa, on 31 January 2011 - 12:45 AM, said:

The Dresdencrack, it calls....

...and after Dresdencrack...it is only a hop skip and a jump to coCaine.

One might speculate that the Dresdencrack is the gateway drug for the coCaine, esp considering that the coCaine is much harder to acquire and potentially more expensive.

- Abyss, supposes there's always Carey's Felix Castor if one needs a fix....

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Posted 31 January 2011 - 05:27 PM

I didn't buy the book (I almost did, but couldn't justify the purchase) but it's perhaps worth mentioning that the other day I found the Dust of Dreams mass market paperback at Walmart, of all places. The fantasy section was basically all urban fantasy and generic-looking Orbit stuff...plus the last Codex Alera book and DoD. Congrats, SE, you're on the rack at Walmart! I take that as an encouraging sign.