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#1821 Abyss

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 02:40 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 20 June 2011 - 03:51 PM, said:

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. :lol:

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

Second the reco' - that book is an absolute treat to read.

MWKarsa, on 20 June 2011 - 11:49 PM, said:

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.
...
Picked up Turn Coat by Butcher as a way better option anyways.

Fixed.

Love Mieville, but the dresdencrack, it rulez!

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Posted 21 June 2011 - 06:02 PM

Welp, pre-ordered A DANCE WITH DRAGONS from amazon.com with two day shipping so that it'll arrive (had BETTER FUCKING ARRIVE) on July 15. Only slightly less excited about this than I was the Crippled God.

Illuyankas, on 07 April 2011 - 08:37 PM, said:

How do you rape a cave? Do you ask, "You want to fuck, yes?" hear the echo come back, "Yes... es... es..." and get your barnacle-gouged groove on?

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Posted 24 June 2011 - 02:02 PM

Kindle books:
The Crippled God - by Steven Erikson
Cruel Zinc Melodies - by Glen Cook
Soldiers Live - by Glen Cook - I hope they add more Black Company Kindle books.

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Posted 24 June 2011 - 02:25 PM

Since my answer dropped off in the post disappearances...

BLOOD OATH - Chris Farnsworth

THE DEVIL COLONY (already read it) - James Rollins

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Posted 24 June 2011 - 06:33 PM

Dresden #4-6 box set.

Yeah, I'm hooked.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

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Posted 24 June 2011 - 07:03 PM

Rescued a couple of books from the multiple-family garage sale we're holding at our place this weekend: Madeleine L'Engle's A Wind in the Door and Michael Crichton's Next.

"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 24 June 2011 - 07:06 PM

McLovin, on 24 June 2011 - 06:33 PM, said:

Dresden #4-6 box set.

Yeah, I'm hooked.

You have NO idea.

But by the end of bk 4 you will.

...it growz! IT GROWZ!!!!!!...

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Posted 26 June 2011 - 12:24 AM

Angus and Robertson are having their going out of business sale ( :lol:

) so I stopped in yesterday. Most good stuff was either gone or only 40% off cover price, and when it's a $50 cover price in hardback I can afford to wait.

Still, picked up
Robopocalypse by Daniel H Wilson
True Blood comics 1-6 (self-contained story), as they were under the Borders/A&R/Ikon imprint and I think that'll be rare in years to come. Story wasn't bad either.

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Posted 26 June 2011 - 09:08 AM

Baudolino by Umbero eco
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jess Bullington. Heard good things about this one.

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Posted 29 June 2011 - 11:31 AM

Finally, after years and years (and years) of my friend telling my it's better than any other book I've ever read, I bought The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

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Posted 29 June 2011 - 02:01 PM

Serenity, on 29 June 2011 - 11:31 AM, said:

Finally, after years and years (and years) of my friend telling my it's better than any other book I've ever read, I bought The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

All i'll say is keep an open and patient mind.

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Posted 29 June 2011 - 03:14 PM

Abyss, on 29 June 2011 - 02:01 PM, said:

All i'll say is keep an open and patient mind.

Interestingly, that's what Rodeo said when he invited me camping.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

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Posted 29 June 2011 - 03:41 PM

No doubt for similar reasons.

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Posted 29 June 2011 - 04:04 PM

Abyss, on 29 June 2011 - 02:01 PM, said:

Serenity, on 29 June 2011 - 11:31 AM, said:

Finally, after years and years (and years) of my friend telling my it's better than any other book I've ever read, I bought The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

All i'll say is keep an open and patient mind.

Yeah, I'll certainly try to do so - I'm looking forward to it, although it will have to wait until after I've re-read A Feast for Crows and then read A Dance With Dragons.

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Posted 30 June 2011 - 01:26 PM

Behold: my UPS tracking status for my early copy of A Dance With Dragons:

06/30/20117:27 A.M.Out For Delivery

Lucky 180, bitches. #bragging

Illuyankas, on 07 April 2011 - 08:37 PM, said:

How do you rape a cave? Do you ask, "You want to fuck, yes?" hear the echo come back, "Yes... es... es..." and get your barnacle-gouged groove on?

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Posted 30 June 2011 - 01:59 PM

Ceda Cicero, on 30 June 2011 - 01:26 PM, said:

Behold: my UPS tracking status for my early copy of A Dance With Dragons:

06/30/20117:27 A.M.Out For Delivery

Lucky 180, bitches. #bragging

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Posted 01 July 2011 - 04:57 PM

Found Bakker's Warrior Prophet on clearance for $2. Now just to find the third one...

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Posted 01 July 2011 - 11:52 PM

After applying my Border's bucks and discount I just received my copy of White Knight by Butcher that I paid 41 cents for.

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Posted 02 July 2011 - 02:49 PM

McLovin, on 29 June 2011 - 03:14 PM, said:

Abyss, on 29 June 2011 - 02:01 PM, said:

All i'll say is keep an open and patient mind.

Interestingly, that's what Rodeo said when he invited me camping.

Abyss, on 29 June 2011 - 03:41 PM, said:

No doubt for similar reasons.

Especially Book 1. :no

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Posted 02 July 2011 - 10:04 PM

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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. … So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. Bertrand Russell