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so I watched that interview from this years SDCC where Patrick Rothfuss interviews Jim Butcher (a great video BTW, it's up at Pat's site) and one of the last questions he asks Butcher is what books/series does he really love. Now I am one of those people who feels that if I enjoy an author, then their recco's ought to jive with mine. He mentions Cook, Moon amongst others...
...and so it was that I picked up SHEEPFARMER'S DAUGHTER (Book I of the Deed of Paksenarrion) by Elizabeth Moon.
The Book I bought today is...
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Posted 03 August 2011 - 10:19 PM
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
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"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 04 August 2011 - 01:12 PM
King Kazma, on 03 August 2011 - 10:19 PM, said:
so I watched that interview from this years SDCC where Patrick Rothfuss interviews Jim Butcher (a great video BTW, it's up at Pat's site) and one of the last questions he asks Butcher is what books/series does he really love. Now I am one of those people who feels that if I enjoy an author, then their recco's ought to jive with mine. He mentions Cook, Moon amongst others...
...and so it was that I picked up SHEEPFARMER'S DAUGHTER (Book I of the Deed of Paksenarrion) by Elizabeth Moon.
...and so it was that I picked up SHEEPFARMER'S DAUGHTER (Book I of the Deed of Paksenarrion) by Elizabeth Moon.
Wow, I read the Pak's novels decades ago. Now I've got the itch to dig through some of my boxes and pull them out again.
“The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
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Posted 04 August 2011 - 01:39 PM
acesn8s, on 04 August 2011 - 01:12 PM, said:
King Kazma, on 03 August 2011 - 10:19 PM, said:
so I watched that interview from this years SDCC where Patrick Rothfuss interviews Jim Butcher (a great video BTW, it's up at Pat's site) and one of the last questions he asks Butcher is what books/series does he really love. Now I am one of those people who feels that if I enjoy an author, then their recco's ought to jive with mine. He mentions Cook, Moon amongst others...
...and so it was that I picked up SHEEPFARMER'S DAUGHTER (Book I of the Deed of Paksenarrion) by Elizabeth Moon.
...and so it was that I picked up SHEEPFARMER'S DAUGHTER (Book I of the Deed of Paksenarrion) by Elizabeth Moon.
Wow, I read the Pak's novels decades ago. Now I've got the itch to dig through some of my boxes and pull them out again.
They sound like fun tropish fantasy with the added soldiery stuff. I read the prologue in the store and dug it.
Also, I think the old cover for it is STUNNING classic 1980's Artish stuff.
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Posted 05 August 2011 - 08:19 AM
Keep Your Stffordshire Bull Terrier From Biting
(well, probably not thrilling reading, but useful...I hope:)
(well, probably not thrilling reading, but useful...I hope:)
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Being optimistic´s worthless if it means ignoring the suffering of this world. Worse than worthless. It´s bloody evil.
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Being optimistic´s worthless if it means ignoring the suffering of this world. Worse than worthless. It´s bloody evil.
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Posted 05 August 2011 - 06:05 PM
A Feast for Crows, a couple of days ago, but it hasn't arrived yet.
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Posted 07 August 2011 - 11:17 PM
HIt a couple of Half Priced Books stores and picked up:
Small Favor by Jim Butcher
Passage at Arms and The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glenn Cook
The Majors by John Feinstein
Great Expectations by Dickens
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Small Favor by Jim Butcher
Passage at Arms and The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glenn Cook
The Majors by John Feinstein
Great Expectations by Dickens
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
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Posted 08 August 2011 - 07:44 PM
Happened across a pristine copy S. M. Peters' Ghost Ocean at Half Price Books. That sucker's mine. Too bad I just started a new book last night...
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Posted 11 August 2011 - 12:44 AM
The only Glen cook I've read was half a ragged copy of SHADOWS LINGER which it turned out was missing pages...
So I thought it about time, with all these new swanky omnibuses on the shelf...I bought the first CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK COMPANY to read the first 3 books. Excited.
So I thought it about time, with all these new swanky omnibuses on the shelf...I bought the first CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK COMPANY to read the first 3 books. Excited.
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Posted 13 August 2011 - 01:19 AM
Just got Storm Front, trying out that Dresden Crack that so many of you talk about.
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Posted 13 August 2011 - 05:32 PM
Picked up THE BOOK Of JHEREG by Steven Brust today (which encompasses the first 3 Vlad Taltos books), and since I was really enjoying DRAGON by him I hope to enjoy this omnibus. 
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"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 15 August 2011 - 03:55 AM
I read Storm Front after all the Dresden on here, never did decide if I liked it or not so I picked up Fool Moon just to be sure. A Clash of Kings - GRRM so I don't have to wait till April to see WTF is up with those dragons. Then I grabbed Green Angel Tower part 1 - Tad Williams, which is actually book 3 of a 4 part series - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn.
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You live in a damned tower!
It's... expected of me. Isn't it?...
You live in a damned tower!
It's... expected of me. Isn't it?...
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Posted 15 August 2011 - 11:32 AM
Had a wander through the uni bookshop today, as I had some time to kill. Ended up going on a nerd-splurge.
As The Romans Did by Jo-Ann Shelton
A Companion to the Roman Army by Paul Erdkamp (ed.)
Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor by Frank McLynn
Invisible Romans by Robert Knapp
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis by Peter Needham (trans.)
As The Romans Did by Jo-Ann Shelton
A Companion to the Roman Army by Paul Erdkamp (ed.)
Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor by Frank McLynn
Invisible Romans by Robert Knapp
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis by Peter Needham (trans.)
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.
Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.
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Posted 15 August 2011 - 01:16 PM
King Kazma, on 13 August 2011 - 05:32 PM, said:
Picked up THE BOOK Of JHEREG by Steven Brust today (which encompasses the first 3 Vlad Taltos books), and since I was really enjoying DRAGON by him I hope to enjoy this omnibus.
Brust's Taltos novels are a lot of fun. After you read a few, try The Phoenix Guards (1st book in the Khaavren Romances) by him. Same world, bit it is basically a retelling of the Three Musketeers. I prefer his Khaavren Romances to the Taltos books.
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― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
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Posted 15 August 2011 - 10:55 PM
I bought Storm Front too, lol. I'd been pondering it for a while but then my brother also told me how awesome the series is so I figured why not? Oh, and I also got Paolo Bacigalupi's "Pump Six", largely based on how much I loved "The Windup Girl."
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 05:11 AM
For fun I bought "le diable et le bon Dieu" de Sartre (The Devil and the Good Lord); I do like " Goetz why are you doing bad deeds? Well, simply because Good was already done.
As serious reading, I also bought several Perry Rhodan (I try to follow since I am 13 y old, mean since 1974 ?!?!?!? ).
As serious reading, I also bought several Perry Rhodan (I try to follow since I am 13 y old, mean since 1974 ?!?!?!? ).
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 04:34 AM
Finally got a copy of DOCTOR WHO: THE WRITER'S TALE - THE FINAL CHAPTER by Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook...really looking fwd to it as my next non-fic read. encompassing emails between the two for the entire 4th series and specials. Been wanting to read it since 2008 when it first came out... but then heard they were going to do this revised edition that would encompass the specials and the end of the RTD/Tennant era (350 more pages!).
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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