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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1365 on: June 23, 2010, 07:44:14 PM »
House of Chains is next on my list.  Glad to hear it was awesome.

House of Chains involves one of my favorite characters.  Love it.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1366 on: June 23, 2010, 08:37:22 PM »
House of Chains is next on my list.  Glad to hear it was awesome.

House of Chains involves one of my favorite characters.  Love it.

Again, I'm happy to hear the positive recommendations.  I was a bit worried since I loathed Tavore and was tepid at best regarding the rest of Deadhouse Gates.  I almost stopped reading the series after that book.  If I hadn't already purchased Memories of Ice, I might have given up early.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1367 on: June 23, 2010, 09:28:21 PM »
Interesting.  Deadhouse Gates (especially the ending...and the Sappers) is what made me say, "This series is full of awesome."  Then Memories of Ice came along and became one of my favorite books ever.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1368 on: June 24, 2010, 04:20:20 AM »
@ Steve I'm assuming the character in HoC you referred to is Karsa Orlong.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1369 on: June 24, 2010, 04:09:31 PM »
@ Steve I'm assuming the character in HoC you referred to is Karsa Orlong.

Yes.  So.  Effing.  Awesome.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1370 on: June 24, 2010, 08:51:35 PM »
Reading China Mieville's The City and the City right now.

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1371 on: June 24, 2010, 08:52:53 PM »
I enjoyed that one.  Of course, I like everything by Miéville...
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1372 on: June 24, 2010, 08:53:47 PM »
Just picked up some light reading *cough* from the library yesterday: Les Miserables, Dune, The Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever series, and still reading The Three Musketeers.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1373 on: June 24, 2010, 10:21:24 PM »
I just finished Scott Sigler's books infected and contagious. They're both some very good sci-fi/horror mash up. The author also apparently offers up all of his books for free via podcasts, so if you arent sure if you'll like it, you can go listen to 'em, and maybe donate and/or buy one or both. I thought they were great, some of the best sci-fi i've read in a while.

Edit: also, his podcasts can be found via podiobooks.com, which is a site dedicated to audio books that the authors put up for free. That's how I find him (it was a "staff's choice" title i randomly chose)

that site is great, it even offers a way for you to donate to the site and the author at once.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1374 on: June 24, 2010, 10:36:10 PM »
Fair warning, if you can't tolerate rape and incest in the context of fiction, don't read Donaldson.  It's not gratuitous, but it is impossible to avoid.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1375 on: June 24, 2010, 11:37:38 PM »
Anybody read The Warded Man, b/c I'm thinking of picking it up.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1376 on: June 25, 2010, 12:07:58 AM »
I'm still waiting for Elitist Book Reviews' review of the Warded Man, since I know what Steve thought of it.

I found most of it mediocre at best, and there are specific things I hated.

It has sold quite well worldwide.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1377 on: June 25, 2010, 08:39:05 AM »
Anybody read The Warded Man, b/c I'm thinking of picking it up.

I liked it.  There are a few problems that are not unforgivable when you take in to account this is a 1st book by a new author.  It has a very interesting premise.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1378 on: June 25, 2010, 11:22:51 AM »
I'm currently reading I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green. A fascinating book.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1379 on: June 25, 2010, 03:50:21 PM »
I'm still waiting for Elitist Book Reviews' review of the Warded Man, since I know what Steve thought of it.

I found most of it mediocre at best, and there are specific things I hated.

It has sold quite well worldwide.

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People are trying to get me to read the second one too...there is no mercy in this world...

To be fair I prolly should.  Same with that second Robin Hobb novel.  It's just so hard to start a book you are pretty sure you are going to hate.  You know?  Especially when you've got all sorts of AWESOME novels just sitting there, winking at you suggestively. 

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