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I bought my first Mieville books today and just started "Perdido Street Station."
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....

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Cameraman Jenn wrote:I bought my first Mieville books today and just started "Perdido Street Station."
YOu'll be glad to know it's a bodice ripper!
ok...only in a weird
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"true love matters and the hot chick has a carapace" kinda way.
don't know if that's really a spoiler...but just in case.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
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Cameraman Jenn wrote:I bought my first Mieville books today and just started "Perdido Street Station."
try not to get disturbed when..... well, try not to get too disturbed!

just enjoy the wonderful story!
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Yeah, I was gonna say
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it's more of a carapace-ripper...
but you beat me to it. :lol:
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Nice job with the spoiler tag, ali. :mrgreen:
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Fist and Faith wrote:Nice job with the spoiler tag, ali. :mrgreen:
Quiet, you! I fixed it! :P
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Considering the book begins with the insect sex scene I expect Jenn's already got the idea.
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yep, already got to that... :lol:
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....

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Just finished GRRM's A Dance With Dragons and it's great!

Check out the blog for the full review. :)

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Ayup All...

Just finished Chapter three of Runes... And I want to kill both Roger and Joan Covenant SOOO much !
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pat5150 wrote:Just finished GRRM's A Dance With Dragons and it's great!

Check out the blog for the full review. :)

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You know, I vowed not to read anything in this series anymore until it is finished...but after reading this review I'm sorely tempted.
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feanor wrote:Ayup All...

Just finished Chapter three of Runes... And I want to kill both Roger and Joan Covenant SOOO much !
Don't you mean Linden! THOOLAH :biggrin:

I finished Chris Bunch's 'Knighthood of the Dragon' the second book in his Dragonmaster series. Not bad. A bit repetitious after the first book, but what the hell it has dragons in it.

Dragons!!! :yourock:

Any chance of SRD putting dragons in TLD? Please!!! ;)
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A fellow dragon fan!
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Menolly wrote:A fellow dragon fan!
Yay!!
Any good dragon books that you'd recommend?

The only ones that I know are 'The Hobbit', 'Magician' and The Earthsea books. I didn't try the Eragon ones as they seemed to be for kids (and I only like adult books about dragons :lol: )

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The dragons - Eleint - in Malazan are amazing. As in Earthsea, they're immensely important to the story.
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Fist and Faith wrote:The dragons - Eleint - in Malazan are amazing. As in Earthsea, they're immensely important to the story.
Thanks, Fist.

I read 'Gardens of the Moon' many moons :biggrin: ago. I didn't read any more after that. It might be time for me to revisit them.

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Well you sure met some dragons in that book! :D
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Menolly wrote:A fellow dragon fan!
Yay!!
Any good dragon books that you'd recommend?

The only ones that I know are 'The Hobbit', 'Magician' and The Earthsea books. I didn't try the Eragon ones as they seemed to be for kids (and I only like adult books about dragons :lol: )
Well first, if you read Earthsea, you need to come join us in the group read of the cycle over on The Hangar. We're up to The Farthest Shore, but feel free to start from A Wizard of Earthsea and share your own insights in the older threads.
I'll admit to being particularly proud of my own dissection of the chapter Iffish in AWoE.

Second, I can't let the request to recommend books about dragons to slip by without suggesting the series my Watch name, Menolly, comes from. Anne McCaffrey's Pern. I highly recommend you read the series in publication order, rather than chronological order. The time frame of the stories do jump around, but you discover Pern as McCaffrey develops it. If read in chronological order, by the time one gets to the original trilogy, I believe some of the enchantment of discovery is gone.

I also agree with the McCaffrey's recommendation on the list: read the Harper Hall trilogy (and discover Menolly and her fire lizards!) before you read the last in the original trilogy, The White Dragon.

Compared to what I have heard of Malazan, since I haven't finished GotM, Pern is an easy read, even if there is something like 25 books in the series...
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Fist and Faith wrote:Well you sure met some dragons in that book! :D
Definitely need to revisit it then. I'll have to pick up a copy, borrowed it from my brother when I read it first. I think I must have OD'd on fantasy around 2000 (sci-fi all the way for a few years!). I have no memory of the Eleint at all. Must have been before I decided dragons were cool :biggrin:

Menolly wrote:I can't let the request to recommend books about dragons to slip by without suggesting the series my Watch name, Menolly, comes from. Anne McCaffrey's Pern. I highly recommend you read the series in publication order, rather than chronological order.
I'll do as you suggest, Menolly. I've often seen Anne McCaffrey's books but never felt the urge to try them. Now's my chance! (It's unlikely I'll read all 25 though 8O )

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Well Silanah was the only true dragon in the book, and appeared along with five (IIRC) Soletaken Eleint, which included Korlat and Orfantal. They fought the Tyrant at the end.
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