The Book I bought today is...

#1801 Abyss

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Posted 15 June 2011 - 01:53 PM

jitsukerr, on 15 June 2011 - 10:09 AM, said:

...Douglass is a terrible author. She, along with Ian Irvine, is responsible for the death of Australian fantasy's good reputation. I bet you bought it on the strength of the cover art

haven't read it, mostly because so many forumites whose opinions i trust have echoed this warning, but curiously the series remains in print in Can/US, so someone is buying her work.

THIS IS YOUR REMINDER THAT THERE IS A
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT

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Posted 15 June 2011 - 02:18 PM

Abyss, on 15 June 2011 - 01:53 PM, said:

jitsukerr, on 15 June 2011 - 10:09 AM, said:

...Douglass is a terrible author. She, along with Ian Irvine, is responsible for the death of Australian fantasy's good reputation. I bet you bought it on the strength of the cover art

haven't read it, mostly because so many forumites whose opinions i trust have echoed this warning, but curiously the series remains in print in Can/US, so someone is buying her work.

What's more concerning, someone is buying Goodkind's work.

I read the first Axis trilogy while in high school. It was so forgettable that I'd forgot it existed. I guess I should add it to my list of owned books on goodreads. I tried reading the second axis trilogy for completion's sake, but couldn't even get through the first book.

Irvine was boring. I tried reading his first book but stopped after a few chapters.

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Posted 15 June 2011 - 02:56 PM

I resent Ian Irvine even more for the awesomely promising title of his series, _The View From The Mirror_

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#1804 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 15 June 2011 - 03:15 PM

Popped into Half Price Books again yesterday, and picked up a couple hardcover collections I've been eyeing for a while, only this time they were on the clearance rack for $2 each:

The Jack Vance Treasury, and
Wizards, including short stories by Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, and Orson Scott Card (among others)

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"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?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

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Posted 16 June 2011 - 10:24 AM

Got home on Monday and had a little surprise...

1) Feist - Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire
2) Sanderson - Warbreaker
3) R Scott Baker - Thousand fold thought
4) Glenn Cook - Last compernium of the Black company

Ah many days ahead of decent reading ;o)

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Posted 16 June 2011 - 10:37 AM

The Empire series is fucking amazing, very jealous you're reading it for the first time.

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Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.

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Posted 16 June 2011 - 01:22 PM

I spoiled myself a bit yesterday. I stopped into the bookstore and grabbed a copy of Erikson's first collected tales of BAUCHELAIN AND KORBAL BROACH (which I had yet to read....I know...sacrilege), and a brand spankety copy of LEVIATHAN WAKES by James. A Corey (AKA Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck), and with THE DEVIL COLONY by James Rollins coming out on Tuesday and me wanting to re-read A STORM OF SWORDS, it looks like I might be set with reading material till ADWD comes out in July. Woot!

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Posted 16 June 2011 - 08:04 PM

Abyss, on 08 June 2011 - 05:33 PM, said:

McLovin, on 08 June 2011 - 05:11 PM, said:

I have caved to peer pressure and have taken my first hit off the dresdencrack pipe.

(That's Jim Butcher's Storm Front, if you don't speak Abysstalk)

the dresdencrack, it growz!!!

STOP SPREADING YOUR DISEASES!!!

I bought it too...

Screw you all, and have a nice day!

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Posted 16 June 2011 - 08:20 PM

QuickTidal, on 16 June 2011 - 01:22 PM, said:

You'll really like Leviathan Wakes. It's like part Event Horizon, part noir crime novel, part awesome space opera.

Justin

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Posted 17 June 2011 - 09:59 AM

Simon Green's _The Spy Who Haunted Me_
R Scott Bakker's _The White-Luck Warrior_

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
-- Oscar Wilde

#1811 Abyss

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Posted 17 June 2011 - 02:04 PM

jdiddyesquire, on 16 June 2011 - 08:20 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 16 June 2011 - 01:22 PM, said:

I spoiled myself a bit yesterday. I stopped into the bookstore and grabbed a copy of... a brand spankety copy of LEVIATHAN WAKES by James. A Corey (AKA Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck), ..

You'll really like Leviathan Wakes. It's like part Event Horizon, part noir crime novel, part awesome space opera.

I haven't read this, but that description makes me want to!

THIS IS YOUR REMINDER THAT THERE IS A
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT

#1812 QuickTidal

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Posted 17 June 2011 - 02:53 PM

jdiddyesquire, on 16 June 2011 - 08:20 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 16 June 2011 - 01:22 PM, said:

I spoiled myself a bit yesterday. I stopped into the bookstore and grabbed a copy of... a brand spankety copy of LEVIATHAN WAKES by James. A Corey (AKA Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck), ..

You'll really like Leviathan Wakes. It's like part Event Horizon, part noir crime novel, part awesome space opera.

Thanks Jdiddy, yeah I read the first page alone and was pretty much sold. Also it has GORGEOUS cover art.

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Posted 17 June 2011 - 08:20 PM

The last book I bought? Well it wasn't today - but The Hollow Earth & Other Stories (Annals of the Greyfriars Gentlemens Club) by Steven Savile.
It's an excellent romp through Victorian London - with derring-do, demons and the odd cigar...

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 11:39 AM

Embassytown - Mieville
The Painted/Warded Man & Desert Spear - Peter V. Brett
Gonzo (graphic novel) - Hunter S. Thompson
Sandman 2 to 5 (graphic novel) - Gaiman
How to win every argument: the use and abuse of logic - Madsen Pirie

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Noma - time and place in Nordic cuisine (which is just awesome photobook with recipes)

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 02:08 PM

The two Monarchies of God omnibuses.

Neverwhere

The Lies of Locke Lamora

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 03:44 PM

On the clearance rack today, I picked up Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind, as well as the first omnibus of the legendarily-bad Star Wars: Jedi Prince YA series (for $2 I couldn't not.)

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 03:46 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 20 June 2011 - 03:44 PM, said:

On the clearance rack today, I picked up Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind

Thus are you in for a treat! My favourite all time non-fantasy book. Such a great story! Enjoy Chris!

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

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#1818 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 03:51 PM

QuickTidal, on 20 June 2011 - 03:46 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 20 June 2011 - 03:44 PM, said:

On the clearance rack today, I picked up Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind

Thus are you in for a treat! My favourite all time non-fantasy book. Such a great story! Enjoy Chris!

Yeah, I saw your review when I added it to my GoodReads library. :apt2:

Don't know when I'll get to it, but I'm definitely looking forward to it!

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 11:49 PM

The one freaking time I've found any China Melville books at Half Priced Books this past weekend I standing next to guy who beat me there by seconds and I watched him snatch all 3 that were there. Jerk. :lol:

I've heard so much about him here that I wanted to get at least one- oh well maybe next time and perhaps I'll yell "FIRE!" to see if I can distract the person horking the books I want to buy long enough to snatch them.

Picked up Turn Coat by Butcher as a consolation prize.