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Murrin wrote:Finally (finally!) finished The City and the City by China Miéville. Started it a few days before christmas...
Good book. A much more subtle fantasy, definately weird rather than fantastic.
I found his Bas-Lag books to be unreadable (or at least I found Perdido Street Station to be unreadable, which is the only one of the three I have tried) but I loved that one and his YA book Un Lun Dun.

The City and the City is very good. :) 8)

Still reading Flat Earth by David Williams, and still very happy with it. :biggrin:
The, um, SIZE of Flat Earth is putting me off at the moment! But I've got tomorrow off with nothing to do, so I may have to lie on the sofa and start it... dunno if my eyesight is good enough to read it at kitchen table where i normally read!
Heh. That's my fault. Not knowing how to format the bastard for paperback... Sorry 'bout that. I'm no publisher. The book itself's not that long--101,000 words; about 280 pages.
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How do I get ahold of a copy? I'm slogging through The Windup Girl and lookinf for something else after I finish that.
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Brinn wrote:How do I get ahold of a copy? I'm slogging through The Windup Girl and lookinf for something else after I finish that.
Foul Bookstore is Open! :biggrin:
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Phillip K Dick. A Scanner Darkly

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I read that quite recently, Av. One of his best books. My favorite, though, will always be The Man in the High Castle.
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Yeah, I'm really enjoying it. Hadn't read it before. Haven't read the one you mention either. Will have to keep an eye out for it.

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Um. Weird. I was sat here doing nothing and the page redirected to tell me I'd thanked your post. :???:
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You have to read The Man in the High Castle to really appreciate Dick (that never sounds quite right... :biggrin: ).
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danlo wrote:You have to read The Man in the High Castle to really appreciate Dick (that never sounds quite right... :biggrin: ).
I love me some Dick. Specially late at night when I'm laying in bed. I just lay back, hold it in my hands...and read the words.
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Murrin wrote:Um. Weird. I was sat here doing nothing and the page redirected to tell me I'd thanked your post. :???:
:LOLS: Weird.

Busy with Stephen Lawhead's Taliesin.

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Just finished Warriors edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, and it was pretty damn good. All killer and no filler in this anthology. :)

Check out the full review on the blog.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick.

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There's just no keeping up with you Av...I'm still working on book 1 of the Baroque Cycle. Although it's almost done now. :-)
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Picked the short stories of Robert Sheckley again. Some didn't age all that well but a lot of them are still gems.
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Spiral Jacobs wrote:There's just no keeping up with you Av...
:lol: It has its disadvantages. Lucky for me I'm a keen re-reader. :D

Reading Clive Barker's Everville. 2nd Book of the Art, and a little more accessible than he 1st, The Great And Secret Show.

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Wolfe: Shadow of the Torturer. Vol 1 of The Book of the New Sun.

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Avatar wrote:Wolfe: Shadow of the Torturer. Vol 1 of The Book of the New Sun.

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Oh, excellent. One of my favourite series of all time (although I find Wolfe quite difficult sometimes)
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Yeah, I love it too. Was overduefor a re-read.

On Book 2 now, Claw of the Conciliator.

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Just reviewed Guy Gavriel Kay's awe-inspiring Under Heaven. Should be the speculative fiction book of the year, and is definitely Kay's best work to date.

Check out the blog for the full review. :)

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Witches Incorporated by K.E. Mills. It's the second in a trilogy, and I have to say that it's every bit as badly written as the first book was. It's debatable whether I'll finish it....
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