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Post by **Orlion** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:14 pm

Orb Sceptre Throne.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:32 pm

Ditto!

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:47 am

Bastards. Mine has not arrived yet.

--A

Post by **aliantha** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:21 pm

Decided to wait for the US release for this one. I'll live vicariously through you guys in the meantime.

Post by **danlo** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:10 am

May revert to The Diamond Age quickly - tried to start City of a Thousand Suns and quickly figured out it was the third book in a trilogy...whaaa!

Post by **stonemaybe** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:22 am

Ordered Emerald Witch from Lulu this week. The action takes place where I grew up so should be fun.

If Amelia Morgan’s life were a color it would be positively beige. Nothing of note has ever happened in the sleepy seaside town where she lives with her eccentric grandmother and she is a level-seven hypochondriac. Things pick up though, before her 18th birthday, when her boyfriend disappears, the rate of human combustion in the town goes stellar and a maniacal stranger purporting to be her long-lost father starts hanging around town melting people. It turns out Amelia Morgan is a witch, hidden in wild and windy Donegal by her mother’s people when she was just a baby. She is daughter to a mad man and granddaughter to the ancient Celtic Goddess of war, death and destruction – the Morrigan. And now her deadbeat Dad requires her blood to raise his corpse mother from the grave so they can rule the worlds. On an epic journey she battles headless horsemen, dark angels, the undead and her crazed family members to save the worlds above and below from the black shadow of death the Morrigan casts across the land.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:03 pm

Stonemaybe wrote:Ordered Emerald Witch from Lulu this week. The action takes place where I grew up so should be fun.

If Amelia Morgan’s life were a color it would be positively beige. Nothing of note has ever happened in the sleepy seaside town where she lives with her eccentric grandmother and she is a level-seven hypochondriac. Things pick up though, before her 18th birthday, when her boyfriend disappears, the rate of human combustion in the town goes stellar and a maniacal stranger purporting to be her long-lost father starts hanging around town melting people. It turns out Amelia Morgan is a witch, hidden in wild and windy Donegal by her mother’s people when she was just a baby. She is daughter to a mad man and granddaughter to the ancient Celtic Goddess of war, death and destruction – the Morrigan. And now her deadbeat Dad requires her blood to raise his corpse mother from the grave so they can rule the worlds. On an epic journey she battles headless horsemen, dark angels, the undead and her crazed family members to save the worlds above and below from the black shadow of death the Morrigan casts across the land.

That sounds amazing...

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sun May 27, 2012 9:50 pm

Today I ordered Osama by Lavie Tidhar. Seems like an interesting idea.

“In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...”

“Joe’s quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books is fiction? Chased by unknown assailants, Joe’s identity slowly fragments as he discovers the shadowy world of the refugees, ghostly entities haunting the world in which he lives. Where do they come from? And what do they want? Joe knows how the story should end, but even he is not ready for the truths he’ll find in New York and, finally, on top a quiet hill above Kabul—nor for the choice he will at last have to make...

“In Osama, Lavie Tidhar brilliantly delves into the post-9/11 global subconscious, mixing together elements of film noir, non-fiction, alternative history and international thriller to create an unsettling—yet utterly compelling—portrayal of our times.”

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:12 pm

The man with more money than sense: I just ordered the entire set of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. I've never read any of it before.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:54 am

WOW! Sure hope you like it!

Truly, one of the greatest comics.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:15 am

Murrin wrote:The man with more money than sense: I just ordered the entire set of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. I've never read any of it before.

Oh have fun.

My favourite series is The Season of Mists.

--A

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:03 am

Was in a big 2nd hand book store this weekend...picked up a couple of Gemmel books I was missing, and book 2 and 3 of Hamilton's Nights Dawn trilogy.

--A

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:23 am

And my copies of The Judging Eye and White Luck Warrior arrived last night...gonna go pick 'em up today. (And Cornwell's Death of Kings.)

--A

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:19 pm

Empire State by Adam Christopher
Locke & Key vol 1, by Joe Hill
The Unwritten vol 1, by Peter Gross and Mike Carey

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 10:50 pm

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (A Graphic Novel) - Lovecraft, I.N.J. Culbard
Blood-Stained Sword - Ben Templesmith (artist), Dan Wickle & Amber Benson (writers)

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 11:52 pm

Belated birthday book voucher bought:

The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss.
Riddle-Master, Patricia McKillop.
Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set, Brandon Sanderson.

And while I was at it, I 'accidentally' bought:

The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny.
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville.
Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley.

I haven't read any of them before.
And no I haven't finished the book food I already have on my plate.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 7:52 am

I've read three of those six, and they are all excellent. True greats. (Riddle-Master, Amber, Perdido)

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:17 am

I'm Murrin wrote:I've read three of those six, and they are all excellent. True greats. (Riddle-Master, Amber, Perdido)

Good to hear Murrin. Riddle-Master's been on my list for a long time. (If the Malazan books were a tad shorter, I would have read it by now!

200pgs to go in Bonehunters and then I'll think I'll take a break to allow for some other reading.)

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:14 am

I've read and very much enjoyed The Name of the Wind and The Chronicles of Amber.

But, of course...

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:04 am

Fist and Faith wrote:I've read and very much enjoyed The Name of the Wind and The Chronicles of Amber.

But, of course...

I'm assuming the

symbol is a zipped form of the text:

"... you simply must finish all ten volumes of The Malazan Book of the Fallen, the five Novels of the Malazan Empire, the five novellas and The Kharkanas Trilogy, by which time The Encyclopedia Malaz will be published and should be read immediately. Then and only then may you move on to lesser publications."

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