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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: February 08, 2011, 07:31:44 PM »
Quote from: Peter Ahlstrom on February 08, 2011, 05:56:26 PM
But I can't decide if I should donate it to the library or just tear out the pages and recycle them.

I vote for ripping the pages out and then burning them.  Put the ashes in your garden, and then he'll have at least contributed something to your life.  That book was horrible.  And I even bought it.  Ugh.  I have really enjoyed the Prince of Nothing books, but I'm not going to be reading any more of Bakker's stuff that lands outside the fantasy realm without some fairly hefty persuasion.

Finished The Dragon's Path by Abraham.  Really, really good.  Loved that book and can't wait for the rest.  Review up soon at EBR.

Started Esperanza by Trish MacGregor today.  The prologue didn't inspire much confidence, and after reading Abraham, whose prose is tight and efficient, wading through the morass of this one might end up being more of a chore than I'd anticipated.  Ah well.  More fodder for the cannons.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: February 01, 2011, 11:54:56 PM »
Quote from: Bookstore Guy on January 31, 2011, 10:40:55 PM
I'm going to tell you all what WriterDan is reading.  Preempting his gloating, so to speak:

Curses!!!  Taking my glory like that!  I'm so...well...so...I guess I have done that to you before, so scratch that one up to experience.  Don't take Steve's glory.  Check.

Still, spot on for what I wanted to say.   8)  It's really good so far.  Loving it.

Quote from: guessingo on February 01, 2011, 04:53:19 PM
Apparently Daniel Abraham has a new book coming out that he co-authored with George RR Martin's assistant.

I've seen the videos that were posted and they made me so stoked to get to that one, but as Steve intimated, I have a grundle of books that I have to get to before it, so the next two months or so are going to be literally killing me while I whittle the stack in anticipation of Leviathan Wakes.  From what I've heard, the series is five books though.  Not three.  Though the first three already do have titles.  As soon as I do get to read this one though, there'll be a review up on EBR.  Get ready for it, peoples.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 25, 2011, 07:45:06 AM »
Hawkwood's Voyage by Paul Kearney -- Bout 60% of the way through the book and it's finally started talking about the voyage.  Yippe gee willikers.

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Table-Top Games / Re: Dominion. Anyone played it?
« on: January 21, 2011, 05:47:57 AM »
My brother and his wife got this game for us for Christmas.  It's all right.  My only real complaint is that there is very little interaction between the players for the basic game box.  I really like interaction too.  So, it gets a midway vote from me.  Cool cards though.  And deck builds.

But it's "fewer cards".  Not "less cards".  Sorry, I'm just a freak for that one.

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Dan Wells / Re: Serial Killer book 3 release date?
« on: January 21, 2011, 05:41:59 AM »
Just ordered my copy tonight, and I haven't read it yet.  So they better not lose mine.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 21, 2011, 05:40:38 AM »
Quote from: mtbikemom on January 12, 2011, 07:16:11 AM
Thank you, thank you Elitist crew for the heads-up on Daniel Abraham.  Book four of The Long Price Quartet is waiting for me at the library and I can hardly wait.

Don't know if you've already realized this or not, but Abraham also writes urban fantasy under the name MLN Hanover.  I've really liked the series so far (three books).  So, if you ever swing urban, it'd probably be worth a look.

Also,

Quote from: mtbikemom on January 18, 2011, 09:28:56 PM
Can anyone explain to me what Fruits (sic) Basket means?

I must have been reading too much Abercrombie lately, because I so totally didn't think "kids game" when I read this one...

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Books / Re: Truly unique fantasy worlds
« on: January 11, 2011, 07:54:42 AM »
The topic of non-Medieval settings has come up on the board before.  So, a little searching would probably do you some good as far as finding a few options for stories with those kinds of settings.  I'll echo what I've said before though:  if you haven't read Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet (which has a decidedly asian feel to its setting) you're really missing out on great story-telling.

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Dan Wells / Re: Serial Killer book 3 release date?
« on: January 08, 2011, 10:59:09 PM »
Nothing at BookDepository for book 3 yet.  Really excited to get to finally read this one.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 08, 2011, 10:54:37 PM »
The Hammer, by KJ Parker.

Up Jim River ended like I figured it would.

Quote from: Bookstore Guy on January 07, 2011, 05:01:48 PM
My copy of Stonewielder finally came.

Jealous.  I so need to read me another Malazan book.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 06, 2011, 10:33:49 PM »
Quote from: guessingo on January 04, 2011, 04:59:34 PM
I also picked up a Daniel Abraham book. I had never heard of him. I don't know anyone who has. I am reading him due to reviews on the Elitist book review site...

This warms the cockles of my heart.

Whatever those are.

It is interesting though that experts of language don't even seem to know that one:  http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-coc2.htm   8)

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Recommend a book
« on: December 23, 2010, 11:50:40 PM »
These guys have some pretty good suggestions to follow:

http://elitistbookreviews.blogspot.com/

And I'll plug my favorite:  Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: December 21, 2010, 05:55:49 AM »
Recently:
Way of Kings (Sanderson)
Poison Throne (Kiernan)
Holes (Sachar)
Towers of Midnight (Jordan/Sanderson)
Writers of the Future 26
Hounds of Avalon (Chadbourn)
Stalking the Dragon (Resnick)
Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Robinson)

Now:
Up Jim River (Flynn) --  pretty standard sci-fi so far.  Not really my cup.

Next:
Hawkwood and the Kings (Kearney) --  Pretty excited for this one.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: October 08, 2010, 11:46:54 PM »
Finally into Way of Kings.  I'm a bit slow.   ::)  Or maybe just broke.

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Books / Re: Fantasy short stories
« on: October 05, 2010, 05:13:27 AM »
There's another anthology that GRRM's doing with Dozois, which is getting released in November.

Songs of Love and Death

Only reason I knew about it though is because Daniel Abraham (as M. L. N. Hanover) has a story in it called "Hurt Me" that he mentioned on his blog.  Abraham thinks it's the best short story he's ever written.  That's enough for me to be excited about getting my hands on the anthology.

I noticed that Abraham has another short in this anthology as well.  Even if we're not getting any more ASoIaF books from GRRM any time soon, at least he's doing stuff that gets Daniel Abraham's name out there more.  Quite possibly my favorite author.  And since you want short stories, why not his own collection...

Leviathan Wept and Other Stories

along with a review:

Leviathan Wept @ Elitist Book Reviews

by a reliable...uh...me.  :)

Again, this one is also not all fantasy, but it's pretty much all good.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: September 27, 2010, 08:02:16 PM »
Black Hill by Dan Simmons.

This is my first foray into a Simmons novel.  Very interesting experience so far.  :)

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