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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #915 on: September 21, 2009, 05:28:52 PM »
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #916 on: September 21, 2009, 06:24:16 PM »
Bookstore Guy, you'll be happy to know that I just picked up the first book in the Malazan series, Gardens of the Moon. I'm pretty excited to start reading it. I've heard many good things from you and many others about this series. Glad I'm finally getting around to it.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #917 on: September 21, 2009, 06:31:17 PM »
Bookstore Guy, you'll be happy to know that I just picked up the first book in the Malazan series, Gardens of the Moon. I'm pretty excited to start reading it. I've heard many good things from you and many others about this series. Glad I'm finally getting around to it.

I bought it too a couple weeks ago, but between writing, work, and finishing up The Blade Itself, I haven't had time to start just yet.  :(
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #918 on: September 21, 2009, 09:00:10 PM »
It's the worst of all the books and yet it still kicks *censored*! Yeah the series is darn good... if you can predict anything i give you props...it's seriously complex


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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #919 on: September 21, 2009, 09:03:06 PM »
Indeed.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #920 on: September 21, 2009, 09:37:47 PM »
The Malazan series is amazing. You just have to keep pushing through if you get confused in the first one. Erikson isn't a big one for exposition. He just drops you in and expects you to figure it out. Granted, it wasn't terribly difficult to figure out the setting stuff, but some people I know have been put off by it.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #921 on: September 22, 2009, 07:40:13 AM »
Just finished rereading WoA and decided to take a break and read something new before rereading HoA.  My wife bought me Dan Brown's new book The Lost Symbol and I am about 7 chapters in and to tell you the truth I am not that impressed.  It just feels forced to me.   Da Vinci Code was good but the 1st book Angels and Demons was the best book by him so far.  I couldn't even finish Deception Point or Digital Fortress.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #922 on: September 24, 2009, 10:43:40 PM »
Finished Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon.  Totally let down.  It was a sci-fi book in every sense of the genre.  Ugh.

Picked up a copy of the new WotF anthology (25) from Barnes & Noble the other day.  Starting up on that, and will probably get into Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay sometime soon.  Hoping for good things from both.  Debating on whether or not to try another sci-fi book anytime soon.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #923 on: September 24, 2009, 11:06:55 PM »
I just finished The Blade Itself by Abercrombie.  It. Was. Awesome.  There was a tad too much swearing for my taste, but other than that, I have no complaints.  I would recommend it too anyone who can handle their share of violence and brutality and who is not easily offended by swearing (I am easily offended by swearing, but the quality or the writing and the story made up for it, and it only got bad after I was completely hooked on the book). 

I'm going to pick up the sequels soon, but before that, I'll be reading The Lies of Locke Lamora first, more for research purposes than anything else, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it as well.  If I didn't already own Locke Lamora (and wasn't broke), I'd be going out to buy Before They Are Hanged and reading it first. 
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #924 on: September 24, 2009, 11:28:41 PM »
You can't do much better than Lies of Locke Lamora anyway, so that's not such a bad thing.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #925 on: September 25, 2009, 05:59:35 PM »
Finished Feast for Crows last week and this past week and contiuing through wed i'm cramming for mid-terms YAY TEXT BOOKS!!!


EDIT: it's not really mid-terms...what do you call it if its split into thirds not halves?
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #926 on: September 25, 2009, 06:24:35 PM »
Irritating.

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #927 on: September 25, 2009, 06:57:01 PM »
I'll be reading The Lies of Locke Lamora

You can't do much better than Lies of Locke Lamora anyway, so that's not such a bad thing.

Although, Lynch swears more profusely in the Gentlemen Bastard series than Abercrombie ever did.  Felt like I was back in grade school again when I read Lies.  I really liked the story in it, but his story-telling method (jumping between past/present/info dumps) mostly just bothered me.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #928 on: September 25, 2009, 10:13:06 PM »
I think that Lynch swears more than the First Law Trilogy, but not more than Best Served Cold. And as I recall, Lynch doesn't do the time jumping thing nearly as much in book 2. Maybe it would be more to your liking, Dan.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #929 on: September 28, 2009, 06:27:59 PM »
Lynch had too much swearing for me. I'm not even going to touch Abercrombie.

Right now I'm reading Passage by Connie Willis.
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