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30th January 2009, 13:42 | #801 |
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I'm just reading SSR3. Finding it a little shallow and annoying, TBH.
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but if you pick an author and are starting from the beginning, their books are about 6 dollars cheaper. (eg. all paperback crime fiction books at borders are about 22-28 dollars, regardless of when they were published). also if you go to borders and they don't have it, they'll order it in and charge you extra. |
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30th January 2009, 20:59 | #803 | |
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Also: "Mr. Vinge is currently (early 2009) working on a sequel to this novel, set approximately ten years later."(wikipedia)
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7th February 2009, 14:35 | #804 | |
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I've just finished The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. It was so utterly absorbing that I devoured the whole thing in less than a day. Definitely the finest book I have read in a while. If you're a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction it's essential reading. Think Fallout 3, but even bleaker |
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7th February 2009, 17:47 | #805 |
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Finished New Moon and am reading Eclipse (both by Stephanie Meyer). These are parts two and three of the four books that start with Twilight.
The fact that I'm still reading should tell you I'm still enjoying them. It'll suck if part four is arse... [BTW these may well be chick books - they're intensely romantic. If you coped with Buffy and Angel it'll be okay, but approach with caution if you have a penis (or an e-penis)]
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Today, I finished listening to The Graveyard Book by Niel Gaiman. Probably worth an 8 or 9 / 10. And now, on with Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud. I get my audiobooks from audible.com (mainly), and of late, I've been listenting to them at 200% speed (using "similarlity" in GoldWave to do the speed conversion). Using "similarity" the speed gains comes (mostly) from removing the gap between the words. So, it sounds as it always did (same tone), but read faster. |
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7th February 2009, 22:01 | #807 | |
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7th February 2009, 22:25 | #808 |
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Good point. She does whoosie about. At least the mad mormon can write though.
I can't agree about Harrison. I think she's awful. She, like so many writers in the genre, writes badly and as though she were simply committing her own fantasies to paper, rather than writing an actual novel. Incoherent is probably the word I'm looking for.
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8th February 2009, 00:04 | #809 |
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The Business by Iain Banks - not really what I was expecting, but a good read nonetheless.
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8th February 2009, 00:17 | #810 |
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We The Living by Ayn Rand, pretty interesting reading about post-Revolution Soviet Russia from the perspective of the daughter of a private trader. Sorta sounds like what might be coming soon in america and here if the economy doesn't stop spiralling downwards =x
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8th February 2009, 01:05 | #813 |
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noticed in Borders the latest to the night watch series, Last Watch I believe its called, that will probably be my next purchase
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8th February 2009, 10:21 | #814 |
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Jalnyfen: My bad. I realised this morning that I was confusing Kim Harrison with Laurel Hamilton. Harrison is marginally better than Hamilton.
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8th February 2009, 11:38 | #816 | |
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8th February 2009, 11:49 | #817 |
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Right now I'm reading a bunch of Silver Age Green Lantern comics.
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8th February 2009, 11:56 | #818 |
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Just finished American Psycho (haven't seen the film, I imagine I would enjoy it more than the book, which was interesting and disturbing but vaguely unsatisfying), currently reading a Scott Adams "I'll print my blog entries for the last couple years and call it a book" book that I got given - amusing but it is always depressing to be reminded that we almost certainly don't have free will.
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8th February 2009, 12:54 | #819 | |
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8th February 2009, 13:13 | #820 |
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I read all 4 books over a 6 day period - including going to work as-normal (I don't take books to work) and one day of not reading anything at all. VERY easy to read
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8th February 2009, 19:23 | #822 |
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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and Down Under by Bill Bryson. I can see why the big sleep has been so influential on films and other books; the characters, plot, writing style and imagery are great. Its quite funny too.
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8th February 2009, 22:01 | #823 |
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Woken Furies by Richard Morgan... third in the series, but apparently readable as a standalone, won't have too much spoilerness about it. Will probably read the second one when it's available (Broken Angels)
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8th February 2009, 23:55 | #824 |
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Just finished 'Prador Moon' by Neil Asher. A lighter Polity novel which is like a giant gob of comfort food scifi. Lots of things blowing up, concerned AIs and implacably evil aliens.
Also finished 'Spitfire, portrait of a legend' by Leo McKinstry. Fascinating look at the development, use and eventual phasing out of the Spitfire along with all its variants. A much fairer assesment of the various choices that surrounded the plane and reveals a lot of the bickering and indecision going on behind the scenes. Well worth a read if you find history interesting.
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9th February 2009, 01:03 | #825 |
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Just finished Chart Throb by Ben Elton, and now doing the new Dune one.
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9th February 2009, 10:34 | #826 |
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^^ reading Gridlock atm
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9th February 2009, 10:35 | #827 |
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Yeah Gridlock is pretty good, as are This Other Eden(?) and Stark.
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9th February 2009, 11:10 | #828 |
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finally finished reading the Golden Compass tril. Dont see what the controversity was about.... decent story all the same.
What next on the list o' recomendations
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9th February 2009, 12:03 | #830 |
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Just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. Very promising new fantasy series. The guy's a good writer, the world is interesting and the characters fallible. Although I did feel the first book was better than the second.
Also, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is a decent page turner. I enjoyed it enough, but there's just something bugging me about it. Bit too much pathos perhaps. And regarding Hamilton's stuff: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/6/2/ says it all, really
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9th February 2009, 13:43 | #832 | |
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11th February 2009, 13:36 | #837 |
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Well, i'm not reading it yet however I will be reading it once it comes out:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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11th February 2009, 13:53 | #838 |
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Oh yeah!
That's all it needed
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11th February 2009, 13:54 | #839 |
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