Kevin's Watch

Nah, only the first three in a day each. The rest are thick enough to last me 2, 3 or 4 days depending on how busy I am.

*shrug* They're easy reading, and I've read them all at least once or twice each before.

Enjoying them. Fun books, nothing serious.

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Oh, Half-Blood Prince now.

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I'm rereading (I don't know-I thought I had read this book-weird...) Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net, a book I've recommended in the past to cyber-punk junkies along with such classics as Gibson's Nueromancer, Shepard's Green Eyes and Williams' Hard Wired. Man, if I read this before I sure must have read it fast because it's not that familiar at all. I know I've read Heavy Weather before and that it was kickass. Sterling is already a techno-prophet in the first 20 pages: This book was written in 1987 and set in 2023 and he's using Skype phones, satellite TV, fiber optic channels, etc...It's, locally, a very ecological friendly outlook set in the Gulf of Mexico after major hurricane disasters, unfortunately it misses the mark on oil assuming we've conquered our dependency on it, and now look what happened. Still highly interesting-I'll press on.

Deathly Hallows

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OK, what will Av read next?

Hahaha, I actually got a whole bunch of second hand books the other day...Bakker's Prince of Nothing series, a few Fritz Leiber books, some other random stuff.

That'll keep me going for a while.

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But before I start those, it's back to Elric.

The Dreaming City.

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Anne Rice Blood & Gold.

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Assassin's Quest, Robin Hobb.

Winter Warriros David Gemmel.

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Almost done with the prologue of R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before (Av you have to read along with me ) I like the story and the way this guy thinks, so far. Recommendation by Erikson and comparable to Erikson and Donaldson? My, my!!! Might have to go grab the sequel from the used bookstore before it disappears. Actually, these newer books are the only things that entice me at the store-I think my pre-2000 Sci Fi and Fantasy days are behind me, but I am on call for King of the Vagabonds and The Farthest Shore. After that I'll have to buy Brust's latest Taltos mass market paperback and other things straight from the publishers.

Hahaha, ok, why not? Lemme just finsh Knights of Dark Renown, (another Gemmel book), and I'll re-read the Prince of Nothing series.

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....read sloooowly...

About a quarter into 'Transition' by Iain Banks.

This was the book I saw him talk about at the Literature Festival last year. It's weird, reading a book after you've heard the author's thoughts! (I've done it the other way round before)

So far, thumbs up! And I'm wondering why I let it gather dust so long on my to-read shelf.

danlo wrote:....read sloooowly...

Nearly finished Knights of Dark Renown. Been many many years since I read it...more years than I've been here. And now I'm kicking myself, because I've finally spotted where Cj's other online name came from.

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Ok, onto Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before. Here I come Danlo.

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I opened the super-massive Dust of Dreams, read that it was only the first half of a sort of final volume, saw the list of characters (of whom I barely remember half), and was dismayed. I closed it again.

Hahaha. It's pretty good. A reread of the whole series before you tackle it won't hurt...

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I hardly get to read one page a day lately...a project like that would take years!

A few decades in fact. Wow. Never looked at it like that.

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