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Dennis
Great Reader
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 Posted - 10 Dec 2013 : 17:52:57
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Originally posted by Alruane
It's not so bad Dennis, especially waiting when you don't know about the book. Or if you do, you only know snippets of information. Usually if I am interested, I will read small excerpts to see if I will like the book as a whole. 
Unfortunately, patience is the least of my virtues. Case in point, I almost promised to myself not to buy Godborn when I learned it's release date had been moved (many times, actually). Fortunately, my desire to know what happens to my favorite characters won, so I devoured said book. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 10 Dec 2013 : 17:56:21
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Too all Sanderson fans:
Any of you have read Steelheart yet? Care to share your thoughts? Bought a copy yesterday but promised to myself not to open it until Sunday, when I'd be relatively free to read (and, in case I'd love it as I did The Mistborn trilogy, re-read). Shame they couldn't release a hardcover. Oh well, trade paperback is still better than mass market. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2013 : 20:27:16
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My lunchbreak wasn't quite long enough -- I'm ten pages from being done with The Two Towers!  |
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Drustan Dwnhaedan
Learned Scribe
USA
324 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2013 : 21:55:20
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Finished reading Burning Chrome, and have started reading The Big U by Neal Stephenson, on the recommendations of a couple of my dad's friends. (So much for reading The Elfstones of Shannara before the end of the year. ) |
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Alruane
Senior Scribe
USA
434 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2013 : 23:36:57
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
My lunchbreak wasn't quite long enough -- I'm ten pages from being done with The Two Towers!
So close, so far, just isn't fair. x___x |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2013 : 01:30:53
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by The Sage
Since I finished up with the Green Lantern TPB, I've read the latest issue of No Quarter, and I'm now back to fiction novels with a re-read of The Way of the Clans... the first book in the "Legend of Jade Phoenix" trilogy.
I'll note that I actually can't remember the last time I read this BATTLETECH trilogy.
Been thinking of revisiting that one, myself.
Not even sure why I chose to re-read it, actually. It's just been sitting in my stacks for so long, that I thought it would be kind of neat to work my way through it again. [Even though I'm not really a fan of the Jade Falcons.]
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Those books, the Stackpole books, the ones about Wolf's Dragoons, and the two books about the Cappie Death Commando that joins the Northwind Highlanders are some of my fave BTech novels.
I generally try to re-read all the BT novels ... even those that weren't really that worthwhile. There's always some little gem or tidbit of information that I missed during a prior read-thru that I can usually file away for later usage in my games. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2013 : 01:32:37
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Originally posted by Dennis
Too all Sanderson fans:
Any of you have read Steelheart yet? Care to share your thoughts? Bought a copy yesterday but promised to myself not to open it until Sunday, when I'd be relatively free to read (and, in case I'd love it as I did The Mistborn trilogy, re-read). Shame they couldn't release a hardcover. Oh well, trade paperback is still better than mass market.
Not yet. But I still have so many other Sanderson books to get through before I reach Steelheart.
That, and the fact that I'm still not completely sold on the plot of this book, is probably keeping it a delayed read for me. |
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Richard Lee Byers
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
1814 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2013 : 13:01:22
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| Just read DEAD MAN'S CROSSING by Joe R. Lansdale. Now in OCCULTATION by Laird Barron. |
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2013 : 22:52:51
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| I'm on the second book in House of Chains. Does this section take place concurrently with Felisin's imprisonment on the otataral isle? |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 12 Dec 2013 : 13:18:26
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Originally posted by Dennis
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Upon reflection, though, I have to admit: I rarely wait for all of a series before getting into it. I prefer to read as the books are coming out, so I can decide whether or not to keep going.
Agreed. Besides, one to four years alone (the standard waiting time for each installment of fantasy series) is long enough. Imagine waiting seven (or more) times than that.
Yeah that is true enough especially since I am one of those types that once starts a series has to finish it! |
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Renin
Learned Scribe
USA
290 Posts |
Posted - 12 Dec 2013 : 14:25:52
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| Been waaay to busy to read as furiously as I want; but I just finished 'Moonwalking with Einstein' (about memory, recall, and world memory championships), and am going to start 'The Once and Future King', since I've been in disgrace as a fantasy fan and have never read it. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 12 Dec 2013 : 15:08:16
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Originally posted by Renin
Been waaay to busy to read as furiously as I want; but I just finished 'Moonwalking with Einstein' (about memory, recall, and world memory championships), and am going to start 'The Once and Future King', since I've been in disgrace as a fantasy fan and have never read it.
I've never read the latter book, either. I started it once, but was immediately distracted by something else. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 16 Dec 2013 : 13:10:19
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| Reading Victory of Eagles by Namoi Novak. I think I have become hooked on this series. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 16 Dec 2013 : 16:41:34
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I finished Return of the King last night. I started A Feast for Crows this morn. I shall likely need to read a couple light-hearted books after this one!
Edit: Holy mother, the typo demon had hit me on this post!  |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 17 Dec 2013 : 01:00:56
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| Starting The Cloudstone Key by fellow scribe Darren Patrick. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 17 Dec 2013 : 03:13:28
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Finished with Way of the Clans a few days back.
I've now moved on to The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel. It's a [so far] brilliant analysis of one reader's relationship with a [as well as his own] library, and the many different types of libraries that have been constructed through history. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 18 Dec 2013 : 11:24:55
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I finished Return of the King last night. I started A Feast for Crows this morn. I shall like need to read a couple light-heard books after this one!
No kidding.The Song of Ice and Fire novels are all pretty much downers. Still I hope you enjoy it. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 18 Dec 2013 : 15:08:02
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Originally posted by Thauranil
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I finished Return of the King last night. I started A Feast for Crows this morn. I shall like need to read a couple light-heard books after this one!
No kidding.The Song of Ice and Fire novels are all pretty much downers. Still I hope you enjoy it.
I read the first three in one go, and then put the series down for over a year! |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 18 Dec 2013 : 21:52:03
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The Hammer & The Blade, by some guy named Paul Kemp.
He's not too shabby... not too shabby at all. 
FR fans should definitely read it - if feels familiar.
Just finished How Firm a Foundation by David Weber just before that. Its book V of his Safehold series. I highly recommend it if you like ship battles. Its like Game of Thrones on the high seas. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 18 Dec 2013 : 22:16:02
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Just finished How Firm a Foundation by David Weber just before that. Its book V of his Safehold series. I highly recommend it if you like ship battles. Its like Game of Thrones on the high seas.
Except there's no incest and orders of magnitude less death. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2013 : 01:05:22
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Actually, he kills-off a lot of main characters - at least one in each book. Perhaps not as bad as GoT, but still, he does it.
Yeah - the 'sex' is all wholesome and pure (and pretty-much non-existent). Plus 'Merlin' is a major-league McGuffin.
Still, very enjoyable; looking forward to reading the next one in the series. Love his attention to detail with the ship-to-ship stuff.
As for my current read (Paul's novel), he has some very interesting takes on magic, amongst other things. Lots of cool things going on - not the Fafrhd/Gray Mouser knock-off I expected (the vibe for the characters, yes, but everything else, not so much). The good/evil thing is nicely ambiguous (not so B&W). |
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Drustan Dwnhaedan
Learned Scribe
USA
324 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2013 : 07:03:20
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Finished reading The Big U yesterday, and have no idea what I'm going to read now. I know I'm not going to be reading The Elfstones of Shannara or The Wishsong of Shannara, unless I get my own copies of said books. (Because I'm having a few... issues with my DM, I figure I should return his books before I leave my gaming group.)
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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Posted - 21 Dec 2013 : 12:54:58
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Thauranil
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I finished Return of the King last night. I started A Feast for Crows this morn. I shall like need to read a couple light-heard books after this one!
No kidding.The Song of Ice and Fire novels are all pretty much downers. Still I hope you enjoy it.
I read the first three in one go, and then put the series down for over a year!
Well my brother read the first one and then did not touch the rest for two years. I frankly read all of them in one go though admittedly I did not want to read anything serious for a long time after that. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2013 : 13:00:40
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| About halfway through the Gilded Rune by Lisa Smedman. I have been putting it off for a while but its actually quite a good book. Its also good to know not all the dark elves are gone. |
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 23 Dec 2013 : 20:36:47
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Finished The Adversary by Erin Evans a few days ago. Great book... So far I am really digging the Sundering books...
Now reading The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett |
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Drustan Dwnhaedan
Learned Scribe
USA
324 Posts |
Posted - 24 Dec 2013 : 00:44:16
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| Just borrowed American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, from one of my dad's friends. He's also going to write up a list of fantasy and sci-fi books that he has recommended to me (he's writing the list because I keep forgetting the titles of half the novels he recommends -__-'). |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 24 Dec 2013 : 01:06:34
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Just borrowed American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, from one of my dad's friends. He's also going to write up a list of fantasy and sci-fi books that he has recommended to me (he's writing the list because I keep forgetting the titles of half the novels he recommends -__-').
That one was okay, but I enjoyed the sequel, Anansi Boys, a lot more. |
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Yoss
Learned Scribe
USA
259 Posts |
Posted - 24 Dec 2013 : 06:45:22
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Now reading The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Nice!
I finally finished Masquerades. I read some non-realms non-fantasy stuff in between trying to finish that, I got to the last 60 pages to find that the copy I have doesn't actually contain the last 60 pages--it contains the last 30 twice. Derp. At least it wasn't the second to last 30 (without the ending) twice, because that would have been really annoying.
Now maybe I'll finally finish The Godborn. I put it off til i was at a point where i wasnt 1) crazy busy and 2) splitting reading time between a handful of books. I've been oddly compelled to tackle Les Miserables lately, though (although it will probably take me more than all of 2014 to do that). Given the massive guilty pleasure that the musical is for me, I know absolutely nothing of the book. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 24 Dec 2013 : 15:16:20
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I've been oddly compelled to tackle Les Miserables lately, though (although it will probably take me more than all of 2014 to do that). Given the massive guilty pleasure that the musical is for me, I know absolutely nothing of the book.
My wife absolutely loves the musical... She really didn't appreciate it when I referred to the recent movie as "that miserable movie" -- and then pointed out that it must be an accurate description, since "miserable" is in the title! |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 25 Dec 2013 : 02:35:20
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So I finished with The Library at Night, then went on to a Leonardo da Vinci biography, before now settling on the First Scroll of the "Clan War" series of novels for 'The Legend of the Five Rings' -- The Scorpion.
It's a re-read for me, going back to when it was first released for my last read. So I felt it was about time to hit this series again. |
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