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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1185 on: March 10, 2010, 05:10:28 PM »
The third book is at least 5 times as awesome.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1186 on: March 10, 2010, 05:12:36 PM »
The third book is at least 5 times as awesome.

Easily.  In every aspect.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1187 on: March 10, 2010, 06:48:08 PM »
The Blade Itself was AWESOME!!!! But a good deal of you already knew that.... Currently reading Bauchelin and Korbal Broach... which is a collection of 3 short stories about 2 characters you meet briefly in Memories of Ice.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1188 on: March 10, 2010, 08:31:58 PM »
The Blade Itself was AWESOME!!!! But a good deal of you already knew that.... Currently reading Bauchelin and Korbal Broach... which is a collection of 3 short stories about 2 characters you meet briefly in Memories of Ice.

This collection is awesome.  They are essentially 3 comedic novellas about the Necromancers and their manservant.  I had Erikson and Esslemont sign this for me at World Fantasy.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1189 on: March 11, 2010, 06:53:26 PM »
Yep just finished the Healthy Dead (last of the 3).... now I'm reading Before They are Hanged!
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1190 on: March 11, 2010, 07:13:04 PM »
Yep just finished the Healthy Dead (last of the 3).... now I'm reading Before They are Hanged!

That was my fav. of the Abercrombie trilogy.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1191 on: March 13, 2010, 12:29:29 AM »
Currently reading Bauchelin and Korbal Broach... which is a collection of 3 short stories about 2 characters you meet briefly in Memories of Ice.

So, let me get this straight.  B&KB are only in Memories of Ice?  With all this side-story love that Erikson had been giving them, I thought that they were going to become major players in the Malazan books.  Crazy.  I'm actually really intrigued now by the B&KB books, whereas before my interest level was only on par with the rest of the main series.  I'd like to see how Erikson handles a "smaller" story.  The main sequence books are just soooooo massively complex.  Dangit.  No copies in either library.  Maybe this'd be worth a Kindle-buy for me...  Based on Steve's opinion, probably.  :)
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1192 on: March 15, 2010, 01:18:33 PM »
I am about 100 pages into Gardens of the moon. I am constantly flipping to the glossary. Even his glossary is dense. Robert Jordans glossaries are more detailed.

There is a Malazan wiki on the web somewhere. I'll probably use that.


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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1193 on: March 15, 2010, 02:51:36 PM »
I was about a third of the way through Gardens before I felt like I really had a clue as to what was going on.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1194 on: March 16, 2010, 06:35:53 PM »
It takes time for the perpetual confusion to end... like 150 pages+
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1195 on: March 28, 2010, 06:52:50 AM »
I'm 25 pages into Markus Zusak's The Book Theif. I'm reading it on a glowing recommendation from my sister.

So far, not a lot has happened. The book is written with a circuitous narrative device that is already growing tiresome, and I'm wondering if that is ever going to change. I hope it does. It's written from the perspective of Death, who is telling the story from a little WWII-era-German girl's diary. So far this has mostly just served to distance me from the girl's story. The focus is on his Death character, who has, at least in the first 25 pages, mostly been less than compelling. But, hey, at least the language is pretty.

Is this what "Literature" is? Honestly, if it weren't for my sister's recommendation, I'd have put it down by now. I'm bored. I'll give it at least another hundred pages to pick up before I bail.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1196 on: March 28, 2010, 07:30:23 AM »
The Shadow Rising book 4 WOT by Robert Jordan..

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1197 on: March 29, 2010, 04:17:59 PM »
I just finished Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. It was very different. I liked it.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1198 on: April 01, 2010, 03:22:09 AM »
reading Cold Copper Tears by Glen Cook....

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1199 on: April 02, 2010, 06:17:21 PM »
I finally read BONESHAKER.  Meh. 

Almost done with MR. SLAUGHTER.  It is a great Historical Fiction--a little more streamlined than the two novels preceding it, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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