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Not sure he counts as "on topic", but just did Moore "The Stupidest Angel"
I like him...he's funny...but kinda like cotton candy, once I'm done with it I wonder if I actually had anything....
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After a Miltonic break, I am back with Julian May in The Adversary.
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Martin, A Storm of Swords: Part 1. (What's with breaking this and 5 into 2 books?)

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Never heard of book 5 being broken up. ASoS was because it was too thick for a paperback.
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Mine shows ADwD as being in two parts as well.

*shrug* Ah well. Will pick up 4 and 5 tomorrow probably.

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The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. Bit of a transition after Malazan. Short, snappy chapters with one POV character at a time, few hundred years history rather than hundreds of thousands.......tropes :lol:

But I'm about halfway through now, and enjoying the hell out of it. The plot crackles along, the characters are engaging, and the magic system is novel and well executed. Would recommend.
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Cambo wrote:The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. Bit of a transition after Malazan. Short, snappy chapters with one POV character at a time, few hundred years history rather than hundreds of thousands.......tropes :lol:

But I'm about halfway through now, and enjoying the hell out of it. The plot crackles along, the characters are engaging, and the magic system is novel and well executed. Would recommend.
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Finished PKD - A Scanner Darkly

Can now begin
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So, I'm up to date with ASoIaF.

Read Storm of Swords part 2, Feast For Crows, and A Dance With Dragons, Part 1 and 2.

Now busy on Gemmell's Hero In The Shadows.

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And not having much else to read, that launched me onto a Gemmell kick.

Waylander II
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Up next, King Beyond The Gate.

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Since Christmas Day I've read Pyramids by Terry Pratchet (enjoyed enormously) and Tapped by Lynne Cantwell (can't wait for the next one) both downloaded from my kindle. About to start on Daughter of Regals. Two books in two days!
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Haven't read anything for a while and wanted something to put my teeth in...so re-reading Time by Stephen Baxter. The hard science is mostly way over my head, but I like the big ideas.
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Iolanthe wrote:Since Christmas Day I've read Pyramids by Terry Pratchet (enjoyed enormously) and Tapped by Lynne Cantwell (can't wait for the next one) both downloaded from my kindle. About to start on Daughter of Regals. Two books in two days!
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I'm back to Runes... about 2/3 or maybe 3/4 of the way through...

...And also back to "1634: The Galileo Affair," by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis.
(What's up with me not finishing things in one go?!?)
Such an amusing "alternative sci-fi history," such an amusing cast of characters.
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I've read a couple of the "1634" books. One of my friends is really into it and was loaning them to me for awhile. They're pretty good. :)
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Finished Iain M Banks' Use of Weapons. Good book, lot of humour in it as well as some darkness. Not sure about the ending. It certainly has me thinking, but mostly about how it's supposed to work.
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I'm Murrin wrote:Finished Iain M Banks' Use of Weapons. Good book, lot of humour in it as well as some darkness. Not sure about the ending. It certainly has me thinking, but mostly about how it's supposed to work.
Bit of a brain-twister alright, a sci-fi version of The Usual Suspects.

I did a fair bit of reading over the Christmas period:
  • The Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb had me mulling over the soap opera nature of some contemporary fantasy series due to the need to stretch one book into three (or six :-x ). Hobb does it better than most though.

    Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card had me mulling over the same thing as one book has now stretched to twelve. This one seemed to have little point at all as just about nothing new happened or was revealed that hasn't appeared in previous books (or the first one :roll: )

    Stormcaller by Tom Lloyd is the first book in a five book series (who'd a thunk it :lol:). It's well written and interesting but suffers from one of my bugbears, too much magic. And the place it's set in is called the Land :-x It's like he took absolutely every element that he could find in the fantasy genre and put it in. Overstuffed.

    The Eternity Artifact by L.E. Modesitt Jr. A reasonably good standalone sci-fi novel. Not as good as some of his other ones but enjoyable all the same.

    The Broken God by David Zindell. It was odd getting used to the original Danlo after becoming so used to the real one :lol: Very enjoyable.
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ussusimiel wrote:Stormcaller by Tom Lloyd is the first book in a five book series (who'd a thunk it :lol:). It's well written and interesting but suffers from one of my bugbears, too much magic. And the place it's set in is called the Land :-x It's like he took absolutely every element that he could find in the fantasy genre and put it in. Overstuffed.
Every time I look for The Stormcaller, I find The Stormcaller. :lol: I have the first one, because it looked interesting enough for $.50 at the used bookstore. Maybe I'll read it in the next year or so.


ussusimiel wrote:The Broken God by David Zindell. It was odd getting used to the original Danlo after becoming so used to the real one :lol: Very enjoyable.
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It was odd getting used to the original Danlo after becoming so used to the real one Laughing Very enjoyable.

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Started reading Conrad Williams' The Unblemished. Creepy dark horror. Not my usual.
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