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Which book are you reading currently? #7

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Enagonios, Sep 7, 2007.

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    Montresor, May 21, 2009
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    Charlie Wu. That is a big part to fill if it was ever televised.

    Pulp: Dragon below (Ebberon)
     
    Merlanni, May 21, 2009
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    Crooked Little Vein is awesome throughout. I followed it with Sapkowski's Blood of Elves, which is solidly above average.

    Now reading Monette's Corambis, which makes Hobb look sad. Or at least ludicrously bloated.
     
    AMaster, May 21, 2009
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    Been chomping through the lastest Dresden novels. They are all the same, they are not interesting, they do not make you think to put it simply; they are not good. But they sure are entertaining and that is more than most.
     
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    Santa Olivia - Jacqueline Carey

    I like it when really talented authors take on the urban fantasy thing and show the hacks how it's done :p
     
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    'Agent to the Stars' by John Scalzi.

    Very witty. Funniest 'first contact' novel ever.
     
    Latro, Jun 8, 2009
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    I just read Scalzi's "Zoë's Tale" which was quite enjoyable but it seemed that I had missed that there were other books between it and "Old man's war".
     
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    You should have read both 'The Ghost Brigades' and 'The Last Colony' before you read Zoes Tale. It would have given you a much better understanding.
    Actually ZT is telling the same story as TLC. Just from a different point of view.

    But very well done so that I liked it even better than TLC.
    Very witty and moving. Especially the poem ...
     
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    I decided to re-read some of Robin Hobb's stuff, so I am currently on Ship of Destiny. Lovely writer, she is.
     
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    So Santa Olivia ended up being as much a boxing novel as anything else. And I loved every minute of it. Which, y'know, I would not have expected.
     
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    Just finished "The Return of the Crimson Guard" by Ian C. Esslemont.

    Definetely a "must read" for all Malazan fans :)
    Could pass as volume 6.5 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen because it continues the story in Quon Tali after the departure of the Bone Hunters. Even the Crippled God is in it ...

    No difference of style to any of the other Malazan books by Steven Erikson:
    1000 pages full of different plots and settings plus an epic finale.
    Not as sophisticated as Erikson (yet) but very well done considering that it's just ICE's second book.
     
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    Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson
     
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    About half-way through 'The Night Land' by William Hodgson. Its got a rather Lovecraftian way of envisaging things. Pretty good so far, although not particularly what I'd call easy reading.
     
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    just finished toll the hounds and i must say i really disagree with it's detractors, because i felt that it was an awesome Erikson Malazan book. His attempts at being a "3rd person" trying to be cute with all the a) extensively wordy and b) corny jokes notwithstanding.
     
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    Order 66 by Karen Traviss was...okay. It contained a Dethroning Moment of Suck and was certainly the weakest novel by Traviss that I've read. Still, I really enjoy her take on why the Jedi are such Total *******s. The Republican Commando books, bizarrely enough, are a pretty good deconstruction of the Star Wars mythos. I prefer KOTOR2, but still.
     
    AMaster, Jun 23, 2009
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    The Night Manager -- LaCarre. Not as good as his earlier stuff, but not bad.
     
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    I'm about to start Warbringer by Brandon Sanderson. I loved his Mistborn series, so I figured I'd give this a try.

    And to anyone interested, he signed on for a 13th and 14th Wheel of Time books too (he wrote the 12th).
     
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    The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
     
    Enagonios, Jun 25, 2009
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    Back to the Fellowship of the Ring. I haven't read it since '86. After seeing the movies, i don't remember half of it, since Jackson chopped the 1st movie up so much.
     
    Blades of Vanatar, Jun 25, 2009
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    "The android's dream" by Scalzi and it is good. Scalzi is turning into one of the authors where I will actively keep an eye out for their new stuff.
     
    joacqin, Jun 26, 2009
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