[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 19 October 2011 - 02:29 PM, said:

But in any event if you don't like them you're clearly cold and dead inside and we can put you out of our misery like the zombie-hearted darkness that you know you are...

And with no cortical stack you'll be totally fucked for being shoved into another body.

[QuickTidal]

I was up early and decided to toddle down to the bookstore and scored.

DEATH OF KINGS - Bernard Cornwell (7th Saxon Story...out early! Woot!)

DRAGONFLY FALLING - Adrian Tchaikovsky (Shadows Of The Apt Book #2 - although I struggled a bit with the first one, I still want to keep reading them)

THE PLAYER OF GAMES - Iain M. Banks (This will be my first foray into Banks and I chose a short one, but I'm interested to see what the fuss is about)

[worry]

I ordered Everything's Eventual (Stephen King), What is the What (Dave Eggers), and If On A Winter's Night A Traveler (Italo Calvino). Dunno why, since I already have a big list of To Read books, but there was a 50% of sale, so you know.

[T77]

Added more money to Glen Cook's pockets, happily I might add. Purchased on the Kindle, Reap the East Wind, The Dragon Never Sleeps and Shadowline.

[Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast]

Oh boy. The Hyperion Omnibus just arrived.

[Salt-Man Z]

My past week (or so) in purchases:

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 25 October 2011 - 04:42 PM

[Abyss]

Salt-Man Z, on 25 October 2011 - 04:40 PM, said:

My past week (or so) in purchases:

^ pure win.

[Salt-Man Z]

I picked them up purely on your recommendation. I was actually looking up Stover (I always keep an eye open for copies of Blade of Tyshalle) and I saw The Jennifer Morgue sitting next to Heroes Die, and I remembered you had had that thread about how awesome they are.

[Orlion]

QuickTidal, on 19 October 2011 - 12:43 PM, said:

Maia Irraz, on 19 October 2011 - 11:33 AM, said:

or maybe Richard Matheson's Hell House, just because I loved I am Legend.

Sadly, according to my friend who's read most of his stuff, Matheson's work other than I AM LEGEND pretty much comes down to low budget porn...though I'm not sure if HELL HOUSE fits into that category. I just know that after he read I AM LEGEND he went out on a spree to read all Matheson's work and found it...er...wanting.

Say wha.....????? Blasphemy! Well, mostly anyway. Matheson is an excellent author whose works include great books like Stir of Echoes, What Dreams May Come (both void of low budget pornery), The Incredible Shrinking Man, Somewhere in Time, and HELL HOUSE!!!! THAT'S SERIOUSLY THE MOST INTENSE BOOK I'VE READ, I FORGOT TO BREATHE AT SEVERAL POINTS!!!! Whew! Sorry about the yelling, I will note that Hell House is for mature audiences, and people who think Matheson is some sort of goody Christian writer get shocked by it. Earthbound is advertised as erotica, so there should be no surprises there.

I haven't read his latest, but some of his more recent novels are meh.

[LadyMTL]

I bought The Night Eternal, Steel Remains and the first of the Codex Alera series...it was hilarious, the guy at Chapters who works in the fantasy section practically swooned when I told him I read Erikson (and Abercrombie and GRRM and etc). I guess women who read fantasy are still relatively rare in Montreal?

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[Abyss]

Maia Irraz, on 26 October 2011 - 04:25 PM, said:

I bought The Night Eternal, Steel Remains and the first of the Codex Alera series...it was hilarious, the guy at Chapters who works in the fantasy section practically swooned when I told him I read Erikson (and Abercrombie and GRRM and etc). I guess women who read fantasy are still relatively rare in Montreal?

Depends on which Chapters where i suspect.

[Abyss]

Jeff Somers' THE ELECTRIC CHURCH and Brent Weeks' BLACK PRISM.

Coles had a 20% off EVERYTHING sale so i had to buy SOMEthing and these have been on my radar.

[Salt-Man Z]

The stuff I ordered with birthday money showed up yesterday:

[QuickTidal]

Haruki Murakami's IQ84! Been waiting a while for this one. Cannot wait to get into it. Might actually start it tonight after I finish DEATH OF KINGS.

[ansible]

QuickTidal, on 27 October 2011 - 07:40 PM, said:

Haruki Murakami's IQ84! Been waiting a while for this one. Cannot wait to get into it. Might actually start it tonight after I finish DEATH OF KINGS.

Also picked up 1Q84 recently. VERY excited to read this...after my current pursuits.

[Use Of Weapons]

Got a series from the library, by Eric Brown: _Necropath_, _Xenopath_, _Cosmopath_. Anyone heard of this guy, or read these?

[Solidsnape]

Salt-Man Z, on 25 October 2011 - 04:40 PM, said:

My past week (or so) in purchases:

Death troopers is canny. Zombies and starwars. What more could you ask for?

[McLovin]

Bought 2nd-hand copies of Belgariad #3,4, and 5.

Gotta find #2.

[polishgenius]

UseOfWeapons, on 28 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

Got a series from the library, by Eric Brown: _Necropath_, _Xenopath_, _Cosmopath_. Anyone heard of this guy, or read these?

I meant to read those, but by the time I got round to trying to get them he'd brought out another bunch of books (he brought out four last year and one this year) and they'd dropped from the bookshop shelf space.
I've read one of his books, Kethani. It's quite brilliant, about first contact with mysterious and powerful aliens, where the focus is very much on the human reaction via a series of connected short stories and vignettes.

Can't really say from that how good his other work might be, though- apart from being all SF, his work seems to jump about all over the place. He's written as far as I can tell from what I know of them Clarke-style classic BDO SF (Helix), post-apocalyptic stuff(Guardians of the Phoenix), space opera (Engineman), romantic SF adventure harking back to the days of Verne and Wells (Kings of Eternity)... the ones you've got seem to be sort of future-noir type stuff, right? The quality seems to jump too; Kings of Eternity has got rave reviews, as did Kethani which as I say was great, Guardians of the Phoenix much less so, and most of the others somewhere in between, though all are pretty much positive.

I think I just decided to make Kings of Eternity or Engineman my next purchase, as my local bookshop has them right now. >_>

[Use Of Weapons]

After reading some of the testimonials, I actually remembered I'd read _Helix_, and enjoyed it a lot. _Necropath_ isn't really doing it for me so far, I have to say, though all the right ingredients are there. The protagonist is really hard to like, and he poisons the whole narrative when he's on screen.