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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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 Posted - 25 Dec 2013 : 09:08:03
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About halfway thorough Mr. Penumbra's 24 hr Bookstore.
Great book , a very entertaining and light reading experience.
Thanks for recommending it Wooly. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 25 Dec 2013 : 13:32:35
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Originally posted by Thauranil
About halfway thorough Mr. Penumbra's 24 hr Bookstore.
Great book , a very entertaining and light reading experience.
Thanks for recommending it Wooly.
My pleasure! Glad to see people enjoying my random discovery! |
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Drustan Dwnhaedan
Learned Scribe
USA
324 Posts |
Posted - 26 Dec 2013 : 00:10:30
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| I was going to start reading American Gods, but I kept getting distracted (various last-minute holiday preparations). Which has turned out to be a good thing, since one of the gifts my sister got me for Christmas is The Adversary, by Erin M. Evans. (I've got the greatest little sister in the world!) |
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 26 Dec 2013 : 06:46:54
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Originally posted by Drustan Dwnhaedan
Just borrowed American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, from one of my dad's friends.
This is a great book. The follow up, Anansi Boys, is even better.
I received an updated copy of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, with a new foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson, from my mother for Christmas, so I'm sitting down with a beer and some pumpkin pie to read it. |
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9thChapter
Learned Scribe
Canada
110 Posts |
Posted - 26 Dec 2013 : 06:54:45
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Just finished Fritz Leiber's Swords Against Death. Classic. Love Leiber's use of the language to give the story that gritty S&S feel.
Started Peter Brett's The Warded Man yesterday. Also going to finish Paul Kemp's Twilight Wars trilogy over the next two or three weeks (about halfway through Shadowbred already - loving it). |
Fantasy author of The Rithhek Cage series
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Volathar
Acolyte
Turkey
15 Posts |
Posted - 26 Dec 2013 : 15:23:28
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| Finished the whole "War of the Spider Queen" series. Now reading something old; "Spellfire". |
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 27 Dec 2013 : 12:53:30
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Finished reading The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. Great book!!!
Now reading 1 Dozen - Short Tales of the Strange and Spectacular a collection of flash fiction by Milo James Fowler |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 27 Dec 2013 : 13:08:44
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| Started on the Tongue of Serpents by Naomi Novak, not as good as some of the earlier books but still a pretty decent novel. |
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Euranna
Learned Scribe
USA
219 Posts |
Posted - 27 Dec 2013 : 18:37:25
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| I just finished an ARC copy of The Reaver by Richard Lee Byers, and now I am re-reading The Adversary for the 3rd time with the Goodreads Book club. :) And I am also reading the Haunted Lands Trilogy as well. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 28 Dec 2013 : 04:05:34
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Finished with The Scorpion.
And with the hype over the upcoming release of the first issue of Marvel's Wolverine: Origin II, I've decided to re-tackle the first Origin series this weekend.
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2013 : 00:43:37
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Finished reading 1 Dozen - Short Tales of the Strange and Spectacular a collection of flash fiction by Milo James Fowler. It was pretty good.
Then I read The Dark Tower: Last Shots a graphic novel set in Stephen King's Dark Tower universe.
Now reading Hazards the 4th book in the Chronicles of Lucifer Jones series by Mike Resnick. |
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Yoss
Learned Scribe
USA
259 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2013 : 09:14:24
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| Probably going to start Brimstone Angels in a few minutes. Although after finishing The Godborn, I have a strong urge to go re-read all the other Cale books... |
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9thChapter
Learned Scribe
Canada
110 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2013 : 16:57:05
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Originally posted by Yoss
Although after finishing The Godborn, I have a strong urge to go re-read all the other Cale books...
Highly recommend going back and making your way through the two trilogies and the two short stories about Cale's background (which I believe are included in the omnibus). |
Fantasy author of The Rithhek Cage series
http://darrentpatrick.com/the-rithhek-cage-trilogy/ |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 30 Dec 2013 : 12:03:44
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| Started the Strain by Guillermo Del Toro, a different kind of vampire novel Real horror, no sparkly vampires here. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jan 2014 : 02:27:30
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I generally don't do the New Year's Resolution thing... But I set one for 2013.
I have a bad habit of going to the bookstore, buying like three books, reading two of them, and then letting the other one sit for a while -- sometimes years. ^^;
So for 2013, I resolved to read more books that I'd not read before, as opposed to re-reading familiar ones. This was occasionally annoying, getting in the way of rereads I really wanted to do, so I shan't repeat this one. I will try to keep the ratio of rereads and new reads from getting terribly skewed, but I'm not going to sweat it to the point I did this year. Especially since there's a new book in the Dresden Files coming out, and I tend to reread the whole series when a new one comes out.
The tally for the year: 72 books completed, and 50 of them were ones I was reading for the first time.
My top ten new books for this year, in no particular order, and listing an entire series instead of each book in the series:
Ready Player One
The Rook
Ex-Heroes/Ex-Patriots/Ex-Communication
The Count of Monte Cristo
Year Zero
The Second Ship/Immune/Wormhole
William Shakespeare's Star Wars
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Princess Bride
the Codex Alera |
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Drustan Dwnhaedan
Learned Scribe
USA
324 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jan 2014 : 07:00:42
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| Finished reading The Adversary a couple days ago. I'm probably going to start reading American Gods next. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jan 2014 : 11:32:56
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| Reading Crucible of gold right now. |
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Yoss
Learned Scribe
USA
259 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2014 : 07:16:02
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Originally posted by 9thChapter
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Originally posted by Yoss
Although after finishing The Godborn, I have a strong urge to go re-read all the other Cale books...
Highly recommend going back and making your way through the two trilogies and the two short stories about Cale's background (which I believe are included in the omnibus).
Well, I have already read the first trilogy twice...I'll go back and read the twilight war again sometime. I've seen those short stories, I liked the third that wasn't in the omnibus better than one of the ones that was.
On an entirely different note, wound up with a copy of Georges St Pierre's The Way of the Fight for Christmas, finished that. Kind of repetitive and dull. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2014 : 08:15:47
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My reading's been kind of slow over the holiday break, but I managed to finish at least two "books" -- the first being a catch-up of about twenty or so Amazing Spider-Man issues I hadn't previously read from 2011/2012. And the second, which I'll finish today, is a short book titled What Jung Really Said. It's a reprint of an earlier 60's book I read some years ago, but there's some added material in this newer edition, so I thought it worth a re-read.
Not sure what I'll head into next. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2014 : 11:48:18
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| So I started on Blood and Bone , a Malazan novel by Ian Esselmont. Its definitely better than his previous work and not quite as ponderous as Steven Erissions books. Ian's stuff is a good intro into the Malazan series for newbies. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jan 2014 : 03:13:10
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| Back to comics... with the special Moriarty series published a few years back. It deals exclusively with the exploits of Holmes' arch-enemy in the years after the death of the Great Detective. |
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
1965 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 02:11:55
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| Wooly, for the steampunk lover in you I would highly recommend the Shadows of the Apt series. Kinda hard to find but well worth it. Just finished books 7 & 8. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 02:18:02
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Originally posted by Fellfire
Wooly, for the steampunk lover in you I would highly recommend the Shadows of the Apt series. Kinda hard to find but well worth it. Just finished books 7 & 8.
Oooo! I've got the first book in my "To-Read" stack. The Lady K's a definitive fan of this series, so she treated me to a special edition copy of the first book for Christmas.
It'll probably be my next read after Moriarty. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 03:21:51
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| Finished David Dalglish's A Dance of Cloaks. Roguish awesomeness. |
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
1965 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 12:26:50
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Fellfire
Wooly, for the steampunk lover in you I would highly recommend the Shadows of the Apt series. Kinda hard to find but well worth it. Just finished books 7 & 8.
Oooo! I've got the first book in my "To-Read" stack. The Lady K's a definitive fan of this series, so she treated me to a special edition copy of the first book for Christmas.
It'll probably be my next read after Moriarty.
Special Edition? Is it hardcover, is it tasty, precious? |
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Love is a lie. Only hate endures. Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.
"Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but.. blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me." - Bane The Dark Knight Rises
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 12:50:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Fellfire
Wooly, for the steampunk lover in you I would highly recommend the Shadows of the Apt series. Kinda hard to find but well worth it. Just finished books 7 & 8.
Agreed, Shadows of the apt is my favorite steam punk series. |
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Yoss
Learned Scribe
USA
259 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2014 : 02:41:52
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Originally posted by The Sage
Back to comics... with the special Moriarty series published a few years back. It deals exclusively with the exploits of Holmes' arch-enemy in the years after the death of the Great Detective.
I am intrigued. I have not heard of this. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36998 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2014 : 03:13:48
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Finally finished A Feast for Crows, and now I'm revisiting Ready Player One.  |
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Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 08 Jan 2014 03:20:27 |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2014 : 04:14:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Yoss
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
Back to comics... with the special Moriarty series published a few years back. It deals exclusively with the exploits of Holmes' arch-enemy in the years after the death of the Great Detective.
I am intrigued. I have not heard of this.
It was published by Image Comics between 2010 and 2012. There are two trade-paperbacks collecting the entirety of the series [nine issues] currently available too.
I won't spoil too much of it, should you wish to track it down and read it for yourself. But I will note that if you're expecting some great answers to the questions of just who Moriarty was, and what is ambition was truly aimed at, you'll be left wondering even more so after the end of this series.  |
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
731 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2014 : 09:32:59
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| At the moment reading three books, jumping from one to another The hobbit to refresh after watching the movies The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and The Necronomicon by Lovecraft |
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