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wayfriend wrote:I just finished Iron Council. Now I know who you are, Spiral Jacobs!
That's one of my favourite things about reading more science fiction and fantasy. (I'd been away for... lemme see.. 20-odd years). I'm having loads of your Spiral Jacobs experience; so *that's* where that comes from/*That's* what that means... etc etc

However, having just picked up 2,800 words from the library - Deadhouse Gates/Memories of Ice/The Lightstone - I do sometimes miss my 300 page novels! At this rate, it'll be 3 years before I can safely venture into the Malazan forums.
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wayfriend wrote:I just finished Iron Council. Now I know who you are, Spiral Jacobs!
:LOLS:

Hey it was either this or Lorq von Ray.
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I'm re-reading ASOIAF.

Currently in the middle of A Storm of Swords.
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I took a little break from my own reread of ASOIAF to read the latest Terry Pratchett, and I am very displeased with the Kindle version, which omits the anecdotal footnotes that should be at the bottom of many pages. They don't usually contain anything overly essential to the plot, but they are an essential part of the book. :evil:

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WHAT!? It leaves out the footnotes? How can they do that?

(I'm waiting for my copy of Snuff to be delivered...in a proper paper book format. Footnotes included. :D )

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Spiral Jacobs wrote:
wayfriend wrote:I just finished Iron Council. Now I know who you are, Spiral Jacobs!
:LOLS:

Hey it was either this or Lorq von Ray.
Oh, he I for twenty years at least have known. You a Delaney fan also are? (That my best Pleiades dialect is.)
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Just finished the Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained duet.
A fairly good read, a number of interesting ideas...but certain aspects seemed like "Dune for Dummies," and the volume/attitudes/focus on sex-life pure copy of much Heinlein.
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wayfriend wrote:I just finished Iron Council. Now I know who you are, Spiral Jacobs!
:Hail: SJ!

How come, my favourite CM book is the only one I don't possess?
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Avatar wrote:WHAT!? It leaves out the footnotes? How can they do that?

(I'm waiting for my copy of Snuff to be delivered...in a proper paper book format. Footnotes included. :D )

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I'm thinking they might all be lumped together at the end, though I haven't jumped ahead to check. Still, context matters. :evil:

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Yeah, it's not like they're numbered or anything.... Is there some sort of hyperlink-looking thing where the footnotes might be? On the Reader, I could click on that and it would take me to the footnote. Dunno how your device would handle it.

Finally getting around to reading "The God Stalker Chronicles" by P.C. Hodgell. I'm more than 100 pages in and am still trying to get interested in it.... This is an omnibus edition -- two novels total. I think I'll finish the first one and decide then whether to read the second one.
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Looking like I'm going to finish up A Clash of Kings.
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An excellent choice. 8)
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aliantha wrote:Yeah, it's not like they're numbered or anything.... Is there some sort of hyperlink-looking thing where the footnotes might be? On the Reader, I could click on that and it would take me to the footnote. Dunno how your device would handle it.
Not that I've found, but I'm a n00b and I was sorta hoping that someone might say 'hey n00b, you just need to hit the <fill-in-the-blank magic button I haven't found>'. But I has a Google. And it turns out that they are linky things. Bleh. Now I am tempted to go back and restart at the beginning.

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wayfriend wrote:
Spiral Jacobs wrote:
wayfriend wrote:I just finished Iron Council. Now I know who you are, Spiral Jacobs!
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Hey it was either this or Lorq von Ray.
Oh, he I for twenty years at least have known. You a Delaney fan also are? (That my best Pleiades dialect is.)
Well, not so much a fan...I just like Nova and Babel-17 a lot. I also read Dhalgren, but towards the end I couldn't handle it anymore and copped out.
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Reaper's Gale. And I got Stonewielder yesterday. Hooray.

(Uh, where in the timeline does Orb, Sceptre, Throne fit in? I just ordered it. Can't wait. :D)

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I wrote:Finally getting around to reading "The God Stalker Chronicles" by P.C. Hodgell. I'm more than 100 pages in and am still trying to get interested in it.... This is an omnibus edition -- two novels total. I think I'll finish the first one and decide then whether to read the second one.
If you were waiting on a review from me for this book, you can stop now. I accidentally left it on the bus this morning on my way to work. :oops:

I'd have been more upset if I'd been into the story. As it is...meh. Maybe it's found a better home than it had with me. 8)
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The subconscious does not believe in accidents ;)

Makes me think. You know how some model citizens hand in wallets and money if they find them displaced on the streets. I wonder if anyone's ever walked into a police station with a book or an umbrella?

On topic, just about to start Deadhouse Gates.
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they don't take em to the popo shaun. they just drop em in a mailbox! :D
the postal service will deliver found wallets to the id inside!

on topic, is Lunar Park fantasy??? seems like everything brett easton ellis writes is fantastical in one way or another. anyway i didn't get to far in it.
ellis just wears me out sometimes!

i'm went back to Reacher (lee child, Persuader) cause Lunar Park just didn't hook me. i keep trying ellis but seems like American Psycho was his best thus far. Glamorama didn't do it for me either.
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