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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #660 on: April 12, 2009, 02:39:43 AM »
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #661 on: April 12, 2009, 03:03:11 AM »
Because we all know...







                                   


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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #662 on: April 12, 2009, 05:25:50 AM »
I just finished Learning the World by Ken MacLeod. It's a first contact story where humanity is the aliens who have already been in space for several thousand years without encountering any aliens before, and the aliens they meet are early 20th-century bat-people types.

I liked reading it, but after the end, I'm not really satisfied that that's all there is and that there's no sequel. I'll have to check out his other work, but there may be less focus on character than I really prefer.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #663 on: April 13, 2009, 04:33:54 PM »
*dances on harperez's body* i was going to start reading Alcatraz evil librarians but my library had it checked out and I'm broke *cries* and please don't bring up books where as vampires and other creatures shoot off the rainbow like a disco ball else i go on a tirade of destroying myths i like watching on the History channel...
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #664 on: April 13, 2009, 06:51:34 PM »
Submissions if they ever arrive.  Some stuff from Reaves, I just picked up a copy of Elantris, but nothing epic.

Sigh.  At my age I should not be hoping for the end of year to arrive sooner.  Ookla steal me an ARC of A Rising Storm.:P
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #665 on: April 13, 2009, 06:54:25 PM »
we only have 2 and half years left!!!!!! then the incas say we are all screwed!!!!!
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #666 on: April 13, 2009, 07:20:20 PM »
They may well be right.  I could make an argument for that timeline agreeing with the NT and Daniel...

But we'll see.


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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #667 on: April 15, 2009, 05:11:08 PM »
*shoots mangled remains of haperez's body with rpg*

hehehe i can tell this book is a sensitive topic.... i'll keep quiet or not? hehehe kidding

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #668 on: April 15, 2009, 11:51:10 PM »
Yes. Silence would be advisable.

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #669 on: April 16, 2009, 03:26:48 AM »
I plan on forcing myself through the first chunk of Eye of the World tonight. . . hopefully I make it through. ha ha.

I started reading Eye of the World about 3 times over a period of a few years and put it away each time. I didn't get interested in it until the Trollocs attack. My advice would be to just force yourself to read it until there is an attack. After that I could hardly put them down.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #670 on: April 16, 2009, 06:08:07 AM »
Got through quite a few books recently as I caught the "kill-you-slowly-over-the-course-of-two-weeks" version of THE FLU.

Storm Front by Dresden -- Okay.  Not my favorite.  Kind of cheesy.  Made me chuckle a few times.  Have been told that things pick up a bunch by about book 4.  So, I might continue on with this series but not chomping at the bit for the next one by any means.

Snow Crash by Stephenson -- Decent.  Good writing, interesting characters, lots of speculative chaos.  Especially for a book that is as old as it is (17 yrs).  Totally different than what I thought it would be.  Can't say that I really much enjoyed the book though.  It was interesting, and I finished it...I just don't think I liked it.  <<shrug>>

Writers of the Future, Vol 24 -- Really disappointed in this one.  Just not a lot that grabbed me.  Bitter Dreams (Gold winner, by Ian McHugh) was decent, if simple.  One of the others just totally pissed me off that it was even in there.  Horrible use of "withholding information from the reader".  I don't know.  It was pretty much one let-down after another for me.

Currently reading Lamentation by Ken Scholes.  Pretty good so far.  About halfway through.  Interested to see where it is all going.  He's a WotF winner whose winning story totally had me lost.  Hoping for good things though.

Next up will probably by Unclean Spirits by MLN Hanover (Daniel Abraham).  Urban fantasy from an author that I think writes some GREAT fantasy (Long Price Quartet).  Really looking forward to that one.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #671 on: April 16, 2009, 06:51:08 AM »
Yeah, I've been really surprised at how low-quality a lot of the WotF stuff is.  Frankly, TLE is better much of the time.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #672 on: April 16, 2009, 07:31:04 AM »
I read the ARC of Lamentation and liked it a lot. I'll definitely be checking out the next four books.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #673 on: April 20, 2009, 11:10:18 PM »
So, I think I should have bailed on Lamentation after halfway through.  The second half of the book nearly killed me.  Everything that I liked about the first half of the book seemed to fall apart in the second.  Granted, it's the guy's debut novel.  But I just can't hack stuff like that.  Probably won't be continuing with the series.

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #674 on: April 21, 2009, 07:01:56 AM »
I'm curious about what you're referring to about Lamentation, WriterDan. But that would probably need its own spoiler thread or private messages.
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