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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: February 15, 2011, 06:38:30 PM »
I'm on to Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks.
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Max is a Shadowblade, a supernatural--and supernaturally competent--warrior bound to protect her witch Giselle. As a Shadowblade, Max doesn't age. She is better, faster, stronger than any ordinary human being. And she hates it. Giselle betrayed her trust to make Max what she is, and though she is magically compelled to protect Giselle and follow orders, Max works against her witch in every way she can. Continue reading Bitter Night
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: February 04, 2011, 06:02:27 PM »Anyway I am looking for something good... I have been thinking on reading the Chronicles of Elantra
I really like the Elantra books and would definitely recommend them.
Right now I'm reading Among Others by Jo Walton. It's a very different read, and I like it a lot so far.
EBR was sent a copy of that as well--looked interesting. I was gonna read it, but then I remembered I had new Erikson, Esslemont, Matheson, Correia and Barclay to read...I wish it had actually been a tough decision, but it wasn't.
It's very . . . contemplative. I'm not really sure how to describe it. It essentially starts after the girl has saved the world and having to deal with "what happens now?" I don't think it's a book for everyone, and I know that if I had read this as a teenager, I wouldn't have liked it at all, but right now I find it fascinating.
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: February 03, 2011, 06:19:49 PM »Anyway I am looking for something good... I have been thinking on reading the Chronicles of Elantra
I really like the Elantra books and would definitely recommend them.
Right now I'm reading Among Others by Jo Walton. It's a very different read, and I like it a lot so far.
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 31, 2011, 07:22:37 PM »
I'm reading Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow. It uses the word 'sassy' more than any other book I have ever read.
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Books / Re: Steam punk research reading list
« on: January 26, 2011, 08:19:32 PM »
You could also try watching the movie Steam Boy.
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 21, 2011, 07:24:30 PM »I loved that novel. Once you finish book 6 you should read the first 2 Esslemont novels. You should also read the collection of three novellas that Erikson wrote about the necromancers. Pure comic gold.
I have them all in my to-read pile.
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 20, 2011, 05:39:14 PM »
If I have induced a yawn, then my job here is done.
I'm reading House of Chains and loving it.
I'm reading House of Chains and loving it.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Grumpiness in New, Seasonal Flavours
« on: January 20, 2011, 05:34:15 PM »
I have a cold, and the book I ordered has disappeared in transit.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Unpublished Books
« on: January 19, 2011, 05:50:42 PM »
One reason that Brandon doesn't post old drafts and books is because if they aren't workable, he'll cull stuff from them for later works and reading the earlier ones can act as spoilers.
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 19, 2011, 05:40:25 PM »
Fruits Basket is the name of a game where a bunch of kids sit in a circle and each choose a different fruit to be. Someone stands in the center of the circle and yells out a bunch of fruit names. The kids who are those fruit have to get up out of their places and run to a different sitting place while the person in the middle steals one of the sitting places making someone else the person in the middle. When I was little, we called the game Tip the Basket, because if you yelled that, everyone had to get up and change places. The manga is called that because the main character remembers playing the game when she was little and the other kids told her she was onigiri (rice ball) which isn't a fruit and so was never called so she didn't really get to play. It made her feel like she was an outsider, and part of the manga storyline is her becoming friends with a whole family of outsiders.
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Books / Re: Truly unique fantasy worlds
« on: January 11, 2011, 07:23:40 PM »
Lian Hearn's series is essentially Japanese, and it starts with Across the Nightingale Floor. Steven Erikson's Malazan books have a lot of different cultures, some of which are European-like and others which most certainly are not. Michelle West has something similar going on in her Sun Sword books. Martha Wells Ile-Rien books are set in a fantasy, kind of Edwardian time period (so European but not Medieval).
And I have to second the recommendation for Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet.
And I have to second the recommendation for Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet.
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 07, 2011, 06:31:25 PM »
I'm reading Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip. It was a Christmas present. I love Christmas.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Kaladin and Kalad
« on: January 03, 2011, 08:15:05 PM »
Kaladin's name wasn't originally Kaladin, you know. His original name was changed because it was too close to some WoT name.
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 03, 2011, 08:12:00 PM »
I'm reading Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser, and I'm finding it much more readable than I expected. I'm always hesitant when it comes to non-fiction because some of it is so dry.
I gave up on Pullman after the end of The Golden Compass. With the way that one ended, I knew I wasn't going to enjoy reading more.
I gave up on Pullman after the end of The Golden Compass. With the way that one ended, I knew I wasn't going to enjoy reading more.