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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1215 on: April 06, 2010, 06:05:38 PM »
Let's see I've read Before They Are Hanged (fantastic read), Caverns of Black Ice, Old Man's War (so incredibly awesome, if you like Sci Fi buy this book!), & Noonshade since i last posted. All of them were good, but Caverns took a while to draw me in. Also, I am about halfway through Nightchild right now....
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1216 on: April 07, 2010, 08:26:19 PM »
I really really liked Old Man's War. I read the sequels as well. the 4 book set was great.

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1217 on: April 07, 2010, 10:38:20 PM »
A couple nights ago, I read Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. The BBC did a mini-series based on it a few years ago, and it's really good. I heartily recommend it to anyone who is a fan of things like Pride and Prejudice (without the zombies, although I do need to read that one too). Only, North and South is a million times better than Pride and Prejudice in both story and characters. And complexity. It's just awesome. I stayed up until 5:40am to finish it. I only got 2 hours of sleep that night...miserable, yet totally worth it.

As for now, I am finally reading Way of the Wolf....Yes. It took me a really long time to start it, but oh well. I'm only 60 pages in and I already really like it. A lot. It's probably best that I waited this long to read it. I have more time available to spend on a relatively longer series.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1218 on: April 10, 2010, 05:46:30 AM »
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi.

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1219 on: April 16, 2010, 06:08:49 PM »
I'm reading Point of Honour by Madeleine Robins which takes place in an alternate regency England.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1220 on: April 16, 2010, 08:25:14 PM »
WINDUP GIRL.  meh.

On to Jim Butcher's CHANGES.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1221 on: April 19, 2010, 06:13:41 PM »
I started up on Infoquake (David Edelman), but skipped out for a bit to read The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray (Chris Wooding).  Both are pretty good so far.  Wooding seems to be jumping POV's a bit, and that's bothersome, but it's only infrequently so I'm able to push through it.  Definitely wondering where this one is going.  Pretty excited to get back to Infoquake too.  Interesting stuff.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1222 on: April 19, 2010, 07:33:44 PM »
Finished Nightchild and Last Argument of Kings (wild and awesome)!!!! Glokta is so crazed but he's a BA!
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1223 on: April 19, 2010, 07:52:55 PM »
He is so BA?

What is BA?

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1224 on: April 19, 2010, 08:03:14 PM »
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1225 on: April 19, 2010, 08:12:10 PM »
We posted a review of WINDUP GIRL over at EBR.  In a word?  Emotionless.

Almost done with Butcher's CHANGES.  Given how pissed I was about the quality of the previous book, CHANGES has won me back over absurdly quick.  Craziness.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1226 on: April 19, 2010, 08:30:15 PM »
Last Argument of Kings (wild and awesome)!!!! Glokta is so crazed but he's a BA!

Yeah, he became my favorite of the series by the end, too.

Reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. A repeat of the first book and I'm halfway through. It had better change the plot here pretty soon or I'm gonna be annoyed.

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1227 on: April 20, 2010, 05:09:18 PM »
Reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. A repeat of the first book and I'm halfway through. It had better change the plot here pretty soon or I'm gonna be annoyed.

I wasn't that big of a fan of Hunger Games.  Still, with all of the attention that it has garnered it's unfortunate that the sequel is anything near a repeat of the first.  I don't plan on picking it up anyhow, but for the rest of her readers out there it really is too bad.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1228 on: April 20, 2010, 08:25:41 PM »
We posted a review of WINDUP GIRL over at EBR.
Told ya it wasn't YA. ;)
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #1229 on: April 20, 2010, 08:29:13 PM »
We posted a review of WINDUP GIRL over at EBR.
Told ya it wasn't YA. ;)

lol!

Paolo does have a younger age book coming out soon, I think I was confusing the two.

Edit:  I also finished Jim Butcher's CHANGES.  It was awesome.
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